Chanukah Giveaway #3 | LeapPad Explorer Learning Tablet (Retail Value $119+)

My family is a big fan of the LeapFrog brand.

From the fridge magnets and Letter Factory videos to the Explorer personal game system, my kids have used, loved and learned from these toys for the last eight years.

I have consistently found that LeapFrog’s toys are not only educational AND entertaining, but they are also priced right – and provide tremendous value for the dollar.

Which is why I have been so intrigued by LeapFrog’s latest offering – the LeapPad Explorer. A tablet for little ones, the LeapPad is THE toy of 2011.

In fact, it’s so popular that there have been almost no sales on the LeapPad, and it’s been virtually impossible to find it in stock anywhere.

So imagine my jumping-up-and-down excitement when Leap Frog offered to send me a LeapPad for my review… and then, sent me a second LeapPad to give away to ONE VERY LUCKY KOAB READER!

Now, before we get to the giveaway, I want to tell you a little bit about the LeapPad:

  • The Leap Pad is targeted to the 4-9 year old set. And while I have no doubt that it can hold the attention of this entire age range – and even older – I also suspect that today’s tech savvy kids (seriously, my two year-old knows how to get to the Dora video on my iPhone) will probably be able to access much of the fun, too.
  • The LeapPad is lightweight, but solid – and well protected – so I think it will stand up to some little kid “love” (aka abuse).
  • The LeapPad has a built-in camera, which can store thousands of pictures, and a video camera, which can store up to 120 minutes of video. Pictures and video can be uploaded to your computer, as well. The quality of the camera is fine – good even, in decent lighting. It’s not going to rival your 12 mega-pixel SLR, but for a kids’ point-and-shoot, its better than most.
  • The LeapPad comes with five preloaded apps – and hundreds (literally, hundreds) more you can download from the Leapster site. Some are free, and some cost a few bucks.
  • There are also “readers” for the LeapPad – digital read-along books, including a preloaded one from Cars 2. And, of course, you can download more.
  • There are even full-length Leap Frog videos you can download onto your LeapPad – and happily it comes preloaded with The Letter Factory (The A says ah, the A says ah, every letter makes a sound, the A says ah).
  • And then there are games. Like the Leapster game systems, the games for the LeapPad must be purchased separately. They run around $30 – $40 retail, or $10 – $20 on sale.
  • One of the very best things about the LeapPad is that it uses the same games as the Explorer. So if you already have the Explorer, like we do, you can get started with those games immediately. Too often new technology makes the slightly older stuff obsolete. I’m thrilled that the games we invested in for my son’s Explorer aren’t redundant. Thanks, LeapFrog!
  • While the tablet is touch-activated, it also comes with a stylus (which conveniently ties onto the tablet) – and a back-up one as well, for when your kids inevitably lose the first one.
  • As for the graphics, I think the LeapPad definitely rivals the Leapster Explorer, and of course, this tablet can do SO much more than the Explorer. Which means, if you’re looking to purchase just one toy – I see no reason not to go straight to the LeapPad!

So… who wants to win a brand new LeapPad??!!

There are six possible entries. The first one is mandatory – leave a comment on this post with your favorite toy as a child.

The other five entries are optional – but the more ways you enter, the better your chances are of winning. To enter, simply follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter below. (Note, if you are reading this post in your email or RSS reader, you will need to click through to the post to enter.)

This giveaway is open only to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years or older. Entries will be accepted until Thursday, December 15th at midnight EST. The winner will be selected and notified on Friday – hopefully giving me plenty of time to get this mailed out in time for Chanukah!

This post reflects my views and opinions and was not reviewed or edited by a third party. I was provided with a complementary Leap Frog LeapPad Explorer Learning Tablet to facilitate my review, and a second copy to give away on my blog. No other compensation was received. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”.

Comments

  1. Miriam Leah Schwartz says

    my fave toy was a kid “computer” with all sort of games etc. my mother STILL has it and one of my babies was playing with it when we were there for succos. too funny!

  2. I think my favorite “toy” was a plain old fashioned ball. Once I was a little older I had a collection of those small super bouncers 🙂

  3. My favorite toy as a kid was an old school desk our neighbors had given us. My sister and our two best friends and I would spend hours playing “school” in our basement!

  4. my markers

  5. My favorite toy as a child was my Game Boy! It took 13 years to con my parents into getting me one so once I had it I barely let it go!

  6. My fave toy as a kid was a bead bracelet maker. You had to put the bead through the side and turn the crank, I think it broke everytime we tried to use it. My mom must have bought me a few.

  7. My favorite toy as a kid was my “All-Star Baseball” board game. I’m a baseball nut and early riser and I would sit in my room and play this game for hours by myself.

  8. Charna Schubert says

    My kids have been begging for this! But I have already bought them all the other deals you have posted! I hope I win this contest!

  9. My favorite toy was my barbie dolls. I built them a dream house out of shoeboxes!

  10. My fave was the computer and the games we played on it. I’m still addicted today 😉

  11. Karen Rubin Brown says

    My cooking and kitchen sets were my favorites.

  12. Barbies. I played with those forever!

  13. I LOVED Raggedy Ann!!

  14. Definitely light brites. I wonder if they still make these? I still remember the sound of the vacuum cleaner sucking up the pegs from the green shag carpet. (Am I giving away my age here?)

  15. blimi solash says

    i loved the gameboy .

  16. I used to love my little ponies and barbies!

  17. My favorite toy as a kid was a Dolly Maker. It came with goop that was put into molds and then baked in a special mini oven and it make little dollies.

  18. I loved playing with our commodore 64 computer which was set up through the TV monitor

  19. My favorite toy as a child was BARBIE – she could be anyone/anything!! she always kept my imagination alive!

  20. I loved my Fisher Price schoolhouse so very much!

  21. sorry, my favorite toy as a child…. i can’t remember! i recall liking holly hobby, barbies, madame alexander dolls, legos, fisher price weeble-wobbles, the fisher price hospital…. oy! (can you cancel the post above so i don’t enter this way twice? i wasn’t trying to cheat!) happy chanukah!!!

  22. Does a baby sister count? 🙂

    OK, probably our old-school Nintendo with Mario 1 and the track meet game. The power pad was awesome!

  23. My favorite toy as a kid was Rainbow Brite.

  24. Hard to think of one specific one, but I was always a fan of any kind of baby dolls.

  25. Rivkah Tuttle says

    I loved my Fisher Price schoolhouse so very much.

  26. My favorite to y as a kid was my mini record player that i had a disco disney album and the grease soundtrack for. Did i just date myself? Its interesting that record player was so high tech then it was the Ipod of the seventies. I wish i still had it like my friend “CE” still has hers and her record collection.

  27. my fave toy as a child was a stuffed rabbit my mom made me that was taller than i was. it was my other person in games on sundays when everyone else in our tiny town was in church.

  28. Tara Deserio says

    My favorite toy as a child was definitely my fisher price record player! my sister and i used to dance to whatever was playing…

  29. My barbie doll that came with a camera. I also loved my record player.

  30. barbie. gotta love the barbie – my grandma knit me clothing for them!

  31. My favorite toy growing up was spin art – I was amazed at how many different combinations and designs I was able to make just by putting drops of paint on the paper!!

  32. its a toss up. i loved my kitchen set and old-school barbies.

  33. My favorite toy was a stuffed (giant) cat my grandma made for me.

  34. I really don’t remember, dolls perhaps. But I really liked books.

  35. my cabbage patch! still have it…

  36. Would love to win for my kids!!! Great giveaway!! I loved to play with my barbie dolls and cabbage patch kids as a kid.

  37. Natalie Yakov says

    My favorite toys were barbies (I’d have beauty pageants) and my first Apple computer which had simple and fun math games and mazes! I’d also type stories! I also loved cabbage patch kids!

  38. Dawn Dolls!! I’m old:)

  39. my favorite toy as a kid was an imittation cabbage patch doll my aunt made me but gave me with a real carrier . I didn’t know it wasn’t real till I was a teenager

  40. Ed Abramovitz says

    Legos

  41. My favorite toy was the Speak and Spell!

  42. My parents got a me a Tonka dumptruck (the metal ones from way back when) for my 4th birthday.

  43. cabbage patch kid

  44. esti reichman says

    speak and spell & lite bright

  45. My favorite toy as a kid was the skip it! Wow! SOooo much memories!

  46. Can’t pick just one. My favorite toys as a kid were my Rainbow Brite, She-Re, Jem, and He-Man toys.

  47. My favorite toy as a kid was my bike, I used to ride it all the time out in the sun!! Miss those days!!!!!

  48. My American Girl Doll was my favorite toy 🙂

  49. I loved my cabbage patch dolls and my little ponys.

  50. I loved kerplunk

  51. my favorite toy growing up were board games (any)

  52. my favorite toy as a kid was the fisher-price dollhouses. We had the old ones! the brown house, blue/yellow house, sesame street house, classroom, garage, airport, and more. I wish they still made it. those now sell for about $200 each on ebay.

  53. Barbies, I played with them till I was 13!

  54. My favorite toy was the Game Boy we got for Chanukah one year. All the older kids fought over it.

  55. My favorite toys were Barbies and all the fun clothing for them.

  56. Barbies!

  57. I loooved Barbies – could play with them for HOURS on end!

  58. It depends on what age you refer to, but going by the 4-9 range of the LeapPad, I’d say my favorite toys were dollhouses and my science kits. (I was both a girly-girl and a nerd.) 🙂

  59. I loved playing with barbie, I also loved the light bright too. As I got older I enjoyed playing with Atari and later Nintendo.

  60. I loved anything you could build with. Favorite was Lego but anything works – Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs, cardboard boxes…

  61. I loved my cabbage patch kids.

  62. I loved my fisher price record player 😉 I would sit in my room and read book and listen to the record read it to me all day

  63. I had this doll named Snuggles that my aunt (OBM) gave me. The doll had a string in the back and her head moved when you pulled it. It was supposed to be as though she was snuggling into your chest.

    I LOVED that doll. She’s still in my parents’ basement and she’s a right mess because I loved her to near-shreds.

  64. My favorite toy was a stuffed lamb called Baby Ba-ba

  65. barbies

  66. my favorite toy growing up was the lite bright and the strawberry shortcake dolls that really smelled like strawberrys… I loved those!!!! and my little pony

  67. Also a barbie gal.

  68. I loved my My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Dolls.

  69. matchbox cars

  70. Also Barbies.

  71. Celeste Woodside says

    My favorite childhood toy was the Pogoball I got for my 9th birthday!

  72. Matti Lederman says

    My favorite toy was good ol’ fashioned PLAY DOH! I still love it… the smell brings back childhood memories!
    I also loved my cookie lovin’ oven 🙂

  73. Barbies!!

  74. My favorite was a doll that I could cut her hair and then it would “grow” back

  75. Lauren Gladish says

    My favorite toy as a kiddo… it’s a tossup between the Pogo ball and my cabbage patch kids. I still have the cabbage patch kids.

  76. matchbox cars!

  77. Definitely Barbies, although I am sure I was not my Barbies’ favorite person. I thought that if I wanted them to have “no bangs” then that meant that I should literally cut their bangs off.

  78. My favorite toy was a doll’s house.

  79. My favorite toy as a kiddos were board games! My sisters and I played them off and on all day long!

  80. Spin Art!

  81. My favorite toy was ‘Barbie’ and my Red Rider Wagon. 🙂

  82. Faigie Walter says

    My favorite toy as a kid was Barbie dolls!!!

  83. I loved anything “crafty” but aside from that I clearly remember loving a paper cut out doll book that I had, with all sorts of clothing to dress them with- funny yet odd memory thanks for that:)

  84. My favorite toy as a child was my baby Heather doll

  85. Daniella Adar says

    my favorite toy as a kid was my stuffed animals/dolls…I loved to play school with them all. I would line them up on my bed (sitting) and “teach” them.

  86. I loved my bicycle!!

  87. My favorite toy was Barbie! I would sit for hours playing with my sister, dressing up and setting up all the Barbie dolls and sets. Imaginations ran wild while we played!

  88. Fisher price little people

  89. I had little plastic animals – all different kinds. Probably about 40 of them. I loved playing with them.

  90. Ruth Sternglantz says

    Battling Tops!!

  91. Libby Wakeman says

    My favorite toy as a child was when I got my 1st cabbage patch kid. I hauled her everywhere.

  92. playdough – we were so rarely allowed to play with it – it became a real treat and highlight of my childhood!

  93. Barbie for sure!

  94. Steven Weiss says

    Hotwheels

  95. My favorite toy was a stuffed turtle – he even had a beret with a pom pom on top. When he ripped, I sewed him up (that’s where I first learned and practiced sewing). And I still have him here with us, to play with the girls.

  96. Raggedy Ann and Strawberry Shortcake. Those girls came with me everywhere!

  97. My dolls and all their clothes and cradles, strollers, the whole shebang.

  98. I used to love playing Candyland!

  99. My cabbage patch doll.

  100. My kid size accordion

  101. I loved my ‘stilts’

  102. We had one of these years ago for my oldest child, but we lost it when our flooded in Katrina and never replaced it. My little one now would love it. My favorite toy when I was a kid was my Cabbage Patch Doll.

  103. The original Mario games on our nintendo

  104. Lauren Rosen Gerofsky says

    My favorite toy as a child was a doll, a dog I named Tina. She had no batteries, moving parts, et.c but I loved her for a long time. In fact, I believe to closed off bag in the back of my closet today holds my Tina.

  105. For some odd reason, I adored my cabbage patch doll and my little ponies.

  106. LOVED my Barbies 🙂

  107. Isadora Yazdi says

    My favorite toy as a child was our “Easy Bake Oven”! My sisters, our neighbors and myself would spend hours inventing new recipees. Even thought our inventions were barely edible we would imagine becoming world famous chefs.

  108. Lite Brite, definitely. But Spin Art was a close second!

  109. My favorite toy was probably my Game Boy – that big grey clunky one!

  110. I loved light bright!

  111. Jayme Hafford says

    I loved playing with Tinker Toys. I could sit there and build things for hours.

  112. Building houses out of Legos…I should have been an architect! 😉

  113. All things Rainbow Brite! What can I say? I’m a child of the 80s!

  114. My mom’s baton from when she marched with the band from when she was in high school.

  115. I loved Barbie!

  116. My favorite toy was a battery operated monkey who held a small bowl in one hand (paw?) where bubble soap was placed. In the other hand was a bubble wand, and his arm moved up and down while the bubble wand came up to his mouth and softly ‘blew’ a bubble.

  117. Chavi Cohen says

    my favorite toy growing up was a magic nursery doll… if anyone can remember those…

  118. Chaya Phillips says

    I played with Tonka Trucks and Matchbox cars on our gravel driveway for hours with my brother. We created roads, tunnels and bridges with the Trucks. We also used GI Joe and Barbies to act out many senerios. I miss those days.

  119. My favorite toy as a child was my Etch-A-Sketch or maybe Play Doh.

  120. I loved remote control cars… asked for one every chanuka!

  121. babies, wooden blocks, anything arts and crafts…I loved those shrinky-dinks things you colored then baked, and they shrunk!

  122. My favorite toy as a child was my container of Lincoln Logs. Always the best!

  123. My favorite toy as a kid was my walking doll (she could walk with me)Karen. She was as big as me (though I was tiny) and I dragged her with me everywhere.

  124. I had an American Girl doll that I still treasure

  125. Rebecca starr says

    Favorite toy was for sure was pogo stick and stilts! Hours of fun!

  126. I’ve been a Barbie girl since birth! At age 49 I still have the dolls I played with as a child. Definitely my all time favorite toy.

  127. spirograph

  128. Biggest Barbie fan- I had like 100 dolls and would play with them all day.

  129. any and all kinds of dolls. i was born to be a mom ;0)

  130. My favorite toy as a child was my stuffed Dino.

  131. cabbage patch kids

  132. This is the only thing my daughter has asked for for Christmas! My fingers will remain crossed until the drawing. 🙂

    My favorite toy was Barbie!

  133. etti mermelstein says

    My ABSOLUTE. favorite toy (s) to play with was Barbie,Ken, and all the other dolls and accessories. I could literally play for hours…

  134. I was a doll girl- started with cabbage patch dolls, my dollhouse & then my American girl dolls. saved them for my kids!

  135. ruth bernstein says

    My favorite toy was my set of Little People, with a schoolhouse, a school bus, and a two-story mansion.

  136. Brocha Sauber says

    My fave was for sure my Barbies. I could never get enough of them

  137. I loved my lite brite. 🙂

  138. I loved designing clothes for my barbies.

  139. I loved fashion plates and barbies.

  140. I love my cabbage patch preemie doll I had a cradle for her next to my bed and shlepped her everywhere in her carrier or stroller and even to school in my backpack

  141. favorite toy – a stuffed Shamu doll my oldest brother and sister in law bought me while they were dating. I was 6

  142. I used to love to play with colorforms and lite brites

  143. corgi and hot wheels cars

  144. i loved my building blocks! my parents still have our original set and my girls now play with them!

  145. My favorite toys were definitely my Barbies.

  146. My favorite toy as a child was a toss-up between legos and Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. I loved building new things with Legos. It was also a tradition in my family for my sisters and I to get a new Cabbage Patch every year…still have them to this day. My nieces are getting their first Cabbage Patch doll this Christmas.

  147. i loved my cabbage patch doll

  148. Fisher-price people and wood blocks.

  149. julie friedman says

    The fisher price hospital.

  150. My “Veronica” doll. She had a short bob hairstyle, but you could push her belly button and pull her hair out to be long (past her tush). She had a knob on her back that you could turn to adjust the length of her hair. I spent HOURS working on different hair styles!

  151. I had a raggedy anne doll that was taller than me. Loved it after I got over being afraid of it.

  152. I loved my beautiful baby carriage and a huge stuffed frog whom I used to make “jump” down the steps. thanks!

  153. judith solomont says

    I was a child so long ago it’s hard to remember what my favorite toys were, but I know that I used to make clothes for my dolls. My mother taught me to use my grandmother’s treadle sewing machine and i made clothes on that. I can’t remember the name of my doll, but you could give her a bottle and then had to change her diaper. She had really soft curly hair that couldn’t be styled, but felt good to touch.

  154. I was a girly girl … Barbies

  155. I loved my cabbage patch dolls…and I just passed one of them onto my two darling daughters!

  156. My Barbies….I could play with them for hours!

  157. i loved playing w paper dolls!!

  158. my favorite toy was popples!

  159. My favorite toy was probably my dolls. Each stage had a different favorite from Raggedy Ann to Barbie.

  160. Mine was “little people” that my mom collected at garage sales. We still have them.

  161. My favorite toy was my mom’s Revlon doll. It had real hair – which I trimmed.

  162. Nintendo..Sega

  163. I loved my Barbies!

  164. Kim Kastilahn says

    Matchbox cars

  165. i had a portable nintendo donkey kong game and i loved it.
    it was pretty cool for back then.

  166. my very favorite toys were my cabbage patch dolls. my little girls now play with them and i love that i was able to pass them down.

  167. I loved cabbage patch kids! I hope my kids love this!

  168. Meghann Schwartz says

    POPPLES!!! I loved them and I had them all!

  169. I loved my dolly named Lolly.

  170. I really liked my American Girl Doll Samantha…now she’s my daughter’s doll 🙂

  171. Favorite toy would be either my stuffed monkey Monk Monk or the home made Cabbage Patch kid my mom made me, Cabby (I know, I was not the most creative namer).

  172. Tinker toys!

  173. Elisabeth M. says

    My favourite toy as a child was probably my ‘fashion plate’ drawing set (I think it was Barbie!), I spent hours designing and colouring outfits.

  174. My favorite toy growing up was my teddy bear. I grew up in Russia, so did not have a ton of toys, but this was my favorite…

  175. My favorite toy from as early as I can remember was a monkey who sucked his thumb, I sucked mine too, we were such a cute pair 🙂

  176. My cousin’s Lite-Bright!

  177. ok – so I’ll sound really girly but, hands down it was my barbie dollhouse set. I remember being 3 or 4 and playing for hours with friends.

  178. My favorite toys were the Fisher Price Little People. The old version that they don’t make anymore. They are still my favorite and I have a few vintage sets for my kids. The Sesame Street Clubhouse is the best and never fails to entertain!

  179. My favorite toy as a child was the Barbie “fashion plates” to rub the design a barbie’s clothing/ outfit/ hair-do.I could do this for hours! i wish they still made them for my little girl 🙁

  180. Hands down, my favorite toy was a stuffed monkey, whom I called George. I was obsessed with all the Curious George books, and he went everywhere with me.

  181. Chatty Cathy..loved her.

  182. My favorite toy was probably my beautiful “walking doll”, she was a special gift from my uncle & I treasured her.

  183. Goldie Litvin says

    My favorite toy was a red headed doll with hair that got longer and shorter. I think her name was Chrissy. for a kid with straight hair she was the bomb!

  184. My blue truck.

  185. Devorah Simon says

    My favorite toy was Barbie. I was so sad to she was tattooed this year.

  186. Chatty Cathy. I think my parents still have her somewhere. 😉

  187. Tamar Epstein says

    my favorite toy was barbie and ken 🙂

  188. my doll house

  189. Regina Weisel says

    my favorite toy as a kid was cabbage patch dolls

  190. I loveeedd my Polly Pockets. I had a whole Polly Pocket land set up in my room!

  191. I”m getting old and I really dont remember my favorite toy! I know I had a lot of barbies

  192. I guess my favorite toy as a child was my dolls – especially my Cabbage Patch Kids ones (that my mother drove all over the state and waited on insane lines to get!) and then my more “realistic” babies 🙂

  193. My favorite was books. I would read anything and everything. I still love to read, though I don’t often have the time. However, my kids seem to have the same love of books.

  194. basket ball

  195. My favorite toy was the playhouse my dad built for me in the woods.

  196. I loved my brother’s Etch-A-Sketch!

  197. Lite Brite.

  198. I loved my Lite Brite. When I was a little older, I thought Shrinky Dinks were so cool!

  199. Greg Greenberg says

    Legos

  200. B”H
    Mr. Potato Head

  201. My favorite toys were legos

  202. My favorite toy as a child was the Lite-Brite! I used to sit in my grandma’s basement with all of my cousins playing with it and making new designs. It was probably the best toy ever!

  203. My favorite toy was paper dolls.

  204. Cabbage Patch Dolls! I had several!

  205. Barbie dolls!!

  206. Elana Fendelman says

    My favorite toy was the Lite Brite and Speak n Spell. It’s a shame they don’t make the Speak n’ Spell anymore!

  207. Tiny china dish set was fun.

  208. Model horses!

  209. My favorite toy was the doll Jem. Jem & the Holograms was my absolute favorite cartoon! The only downside was that none of her clothes were interchangeable with Barbie!

  210. My favorite toy was my dollhouse. My dad and I spent hours shopping for the furniture. It now resides in my parents’ house waiting until my niece gets old enough to enjoin it.

  211. chani zweig grunberger says

    i liked my barbies and lego..

  212. Margo Strahlberg says

    My favorite toy was legos. And now my kids love them too!

  213. barbies!!!!!!

  214. My favorite toys were legos! I spent hours building with them.

  215. Jennifer Marie says

    My favorite toy as a child were cars. I had an older brother and he had lots of these. I actually liked them too!

  216. Liat Shyken says

    My favorite toy as a kid: view master and slinky

  217. I loved my Cabbage Patch Doll!

  218. I was a huge outdoors person and tomboy – so I loved my bike and my baseball bat.

  219. Susan Atlas says

    Dolls!

  220. My favorite toy as a child were arts and crafts kits, like origami, beads, etc.

  221. Lite brite

  222. Matchbox cars… didn’t matter which ones, as long as they had 4 wheels. I used tons of imaginitive play – created a scene depending on which cars I decided to play with that day.

  223. My favorite toy as a child was my Cabbage Patch doll.

  224. Juli Guthrie says

    My favorite toy was a giraffe bike I had.

  225. My cabbage patch doll and Alphie

  226. Barry Cohen says

    My favorite toy growing up was the Lite-Brite. I used to make a menorah every year and light the candles in my Lite-Brite. One year I made an Israeli flag and left it up for months (during the 6 day war in 1973) Ah the memorable times of my childhood!

    Happy Hanukkah to all!

  227. My favorite toy as a child were blocks. Not leggos or fancy things that attached together. Plain old wooden blocks. Hours of entertainment!

  228. My favorite toy was my cabbage patch dolls!!

  229. lego

  230. no questions it was lego!, thanks!

  231. cabbage patch

  232. I think my favorite toys when I was a child were my mom’s vintage Barbie dolls. Barbie, Ken, Midge. I would sit for hours playing with her dolls, loving how well made the clothes were. I can still remember the smell of the cedar chest they lived in. How I miss that chest, those dolls and my grandma’s house.

  233. LIGHT BRITE

  234. I LOVED Barbies as a young girl…between me and my two sisters, we must have had hundreds!

  235. My favorite toy as a child was my cabbage patch doll

  236. A spinning top! They just don’t make them like they used to!

  237. teresa mason says

    matchbox cars

  238. bianca roman says

    my favorite toy as a child was tickle me Elmo!!!!

  239. Veronica Ward says

    As a child I loved BARBIES!!! They were my favorite, and now my daughter is to the age of loving them too!

  240. My favorite toy as a child was my light brite. I loved it!

  241. As a child… i loved dolls – barbie…or rainbow bright…(depending on the year)

  242. My favorite toy as a child were my Barbies and all of their accessories. 🙂

  243. i loved my rainbow brite dolls

  244. Tricia McColgan says

    Barbie was my all time favorite toy as a child. I think I played with them from age 4 until I was 11….and now I will pick up my daughters and brush their hair and all my memories come back! Very Nostalgic!!

  245. My sons favorite toy is “Scout”. My nephew who this would be for loves his buzz lightyear.

  246. My favorite toy was my Rageddy Ann and Andy record player.

  247. My favorite toy was also Barbie. I used to braid their hair for hours! I would change their clothes and act out stories!

  248. Without a doubt, Star Wars figures.

  249. etch-a-sketch

  250. The original big grey gameboy! No color screen, the square discs, and of course the battery cover that never stayed on!

  251. David Waghalter says

    Leapy.

  252. Favorite toy as a child (and older) were definitely barbies…my mom would buy bags of clothing from ebay or yard sales and my sister and I would spend hours dressing barbie up in different themes or for different occasions

  253. esty hoffman says

    Barbie —- i could play with them for hours!

  254. My favorite toy as a kid , was a balance beam from toys r us………

  255. Definitely My Little Ponies – I passed them on to my daughter!

  256. Seems so long ago, but I think tinker toys, so long as it was played with my older sister.

  257. I loved my baby dolls – dressing them up, feeding them, putting them to sleep, and pretending I was a “mommy”

  258. My favorite toy was a red headed original Cabbage Patch Doll! I still remember the day I got it!

  259. My favorite toy was cabbage patch doll!!! That’s all I remember!!!

  260. My dolls

  261. I loved my cabbage patch doll!

  262. My art supplies

  263. I loved books. All kinds.

  264. Mommydoll13 says

    my MY child

    i took her everywhere

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  265. My favorite toy growing up other than candy land, was a plastic doll I had that named Babybabe

  266. CHiPS action figures. I am from CA 😉

  267. Ali Rosenthal says

    My favorite toy as a kid was probably my electric police motorcycle that I would ride around the block.

  268. Strawberry shortcake

  269. As a child, I loved my barbie dolls and also my bike!

  270. My favorite toy as a child was little ponies. I was surprised to see that little girls still play with them today, I thought they were obsolete.

  271. my favorite toys as a child were my stuffed animals and children’s books. i liked to read aloud to my stuffed animals and pretend i was a teacher

  272. I loved the magna doodle (drawing board) and a handheld tetris game.

  273. Do books count as toys? I LOVED books 🙂

    I also liked my My Little Ponies. And Care Bears. So happy my childhood is considered retro and is popular now.

  274. Sharon Feiler says

    My favorite toy was my Barbie doll. I loved dressing her up in the different clothing and shoes.

  275. dolls were my favorite. my kids would love one of these.

  276. My favorite toy was playing with the dishes set, now my kids love them too.

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