Awesome kids toys that you play with

We have Nerf guns in the office and it's awesome when an all out gun fight breaks out every once in a while. Darts all over the floor.

I wish they made places like Leaps 'n' Bounds and DK Discovery Zone for adults. Those places were a blast as a kid. And I think I would still enjoy running through the tunnels, going over rope bridges and swinging on ropes.

Isn't that what paintball is? I've heard of companies getting the office together to go shoot each other as a team building exercise.

Anyway, I love water balloons. So few people tolerate them though. I give them to kids as my proxy war on their parents since it is considered unacceptable for me to throw them at people.

Legos are awesome, I usually can't stand entertaining my nephews, but I'm always down for some LEGO! And football/soccer whatever..

Adebisi_sl said:

Where can you buy just piles of the plain 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, and 2x4 bricks?

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Legos are awesome but nowadays they're all specialized pieces. You're basically buying build-them-yourself action figures. I miss the days when lego sets were basically just simple blocks and you used your creativity.

In the lego store here they have an entire wall of multi-colored blocks and then multiple bins with just blocks. Almost everything in the store is sets but they do have some normal blocks, also:http://www.amazon.com/toys-lego-cons...node=236510011

Legos are obviously awesome. The next best toy that my kids played with was the Thomas the Tank Engine sets. It was fun building new (and progressively more complex) tracks for the kids to play with.

I still fuck around with my Capsela collection from time to time. Wish they still made them.

Loved my Capsela set as a kid. Couldn't ever get the water-based machines I built to work worth a crap though, balance was always a major issue. Thing needed some longer pontoons or something for floating, rather than the little yellow balls.

I loved me some Capsela too. I built boats just fine with it, you just had to make sure they were long/wide/squat enough.

Nerf Guns, Legos, and any sort of water-fight munitions will cause me to revert back to my 10-year old self.

Lego's. My parents dropped off about all my toys from when i was a kid, i recently moved into a new house and finally had the room to store all my stuff. One night my wife comes home from work and on the dinner table was a huge pile of lego's and me sitting there with my tablet where i found a site that has all the building plans, building everything i had. My wife chuckled and said, "well i always wanted 2 kids" eventually sat down and started building too....


Which slightly ticked me off tbh.....it was my lego's.

Nerf guns are my other guilty pleasure...one day i brought my nerf sniper rifle to work, hid behind the vent pipes on top of the laser cutter and started shooting people that came out of the office....took them a good 30 minutes to find where i was hiding.

Would love to get my hands on this set. With the on going pussification of 'Murica, you can't even get a happy meal toy without some sort of recall because little Johnny can't resist swallowing the small parts.

http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/a...ertU238Lab.htm

Agenor_sl said:

Would love to get my hands on this set. With the on going pussification of 'Murica, you can't even get a happy meal toy without some sort of recall because little Johnny can't resist swallowing the small parts.

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I had a chemistry set as a kid. Highly doubt you can get those anymore either. Talk about something to get a kid interested in science at a young age.

Alex_sl said:

I had a chemistry set as a kid. Highly doubt you can get those anymore either. Talk about something to get a kid interested in science at a young age.

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Um, yeah they still exist. Maybe not at your local Toys R Us, but they still make them. I would say, hobby shops would most likely have things like that.
http://www.scientificsonline.com/sci...stry-kits.html

When the new thundercats came out I bought most of the retro versions that came out and played with them at my office, I also love the DC funco pop toys. I can't wait for the kid to be old enough for ninja turtles, go joes and legos.