The Best Selling Toys of All-Time... What was your favorite?

Here's the list of the top selling toys over the past five decades...

Which one of these was your favorite and do you remember when you got it or who you got it for?

1960s

Grand Champion: The Barbie Doll

Honorable Mentions to:
Scalextric
Twister
Etch-A-Sketch
Spirograph
Action Man
Sindy
Hot Wheels
Thunderbirds
Dr Who and the Daleks figures
Corgi’s James Bond Aston Martin

1970s

Grand Champion: Legos

Honorable Mentions:
The Space Hopper
Klackers
Airfix’s Weebles
Movie spinoff action figures from Star Wars, Jaws, Superman and The Six Million Dollar Man.
Dungeon and Dragons board games
Atari’s Pong, the first-ever video game

1980s

Grand Champion: Atari Console

Honorable Mentions:
Fantasy toys like Sylvanian Families, My Little Pony, Care Bears and the Smurfs
Cabbage Patch Kids
Action Figures from Masters of the Universe and Transformers
Rubik's Cube
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Mattel’s Big Yellow Teapot

1990s

Grand Champion: The Gameboy

Honorable Mentions:
Buzz Lightyear action figures from the Toy Story movie
Thunderbirds’ reissued and revamped Tracy Island
Beanie Babies and Polly Pocket
Teletubbies
K'nex construction kits
Pokemon trading cards
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

2000s

Grand Champion: Wii

Honorable Mentions:
Bratz dolls
Ultra-lifelike dolls like Baby Annabell
Animatronic toys like Robosapien and Roboraptor
Hi-tech remote control toys like the Flytech Dragonfly
The ever-popular Top Trumps
Geomag
Kiddie computers like the Dora the Explorer Laptop
Electronic puzzle games like 20Q
Old-favourite board games like Scrabble and Monopoly
Merchandise from the Harry Potter films

What was your favorite?

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Permalink Reply by Kim Schmitt on December 1, 2008 at 2:20pm: My all time favorite .. was then, is now a TEDDY BEAR.

My dad and soon to be mom gave it to me when I was seven and I still have her. That makes her an antique.

Kim
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Permalink Reply by SUp.biz, COO on December 1, 2008 at 4:27pm: I used Winnie the Pooh as a hug pillow until I was 10.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Emily Wong-Ng on December 1, 2008 at 2:58pm: I would say "Guitor Hero" & X-Box360 will be the winner for this year!! You can buy them at wholesale price at: www.lowpricescenter.com. Check it out and buy them while supplies lasted.

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Permalink Reply by Tabitha Vinson on December 1, 2008 at 3:09pm: Sorry, but none of the above interested me when I was a kid. Mine was the Easy Bake Oven & Farah Fawcett Makeup Doll. After I did her hair and make up I'd bake us a cake. Oh such fond memories.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Joelle on December 1, 2008 at 3:18pm: I also was born in the 70's and had a few toys I liked one was my Big Wheel and I had an Inch Worm that you rode on and I think they are still making them today. My sister and I also had an Easy Bake Oven and I thought they were neat. We also had an Etch-A-Sketch as well alot of these toys brings back some memories. I love the fact that you choose a topic such as this to talk about. Good Job!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SUp.biz, COO on December 1, 2008 at 4:28pm: Taking the Big Wheel for the first spin. I can still feel the plastic wheels grinding against the concrete.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carmin Wharton on December 1, 2008 at 3:41pm: Okay, here's one from the 60s - the Susie Homemaker Oven. I received this as opposed to the Easy Bake Oven. I also received a Susie Homemaker washing machine that actually worked like a real washing machine! The oven helped me develop my love for baking and eventually professional cake decorating.

Honorable mention from the 1900s: Ninja Turtles. My son owned all of them and he is now 26 years old and
guess what, I did major improvements on the house and found an original Ninja Turtle figure toy!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Virginia Richie on December 1, 2008 at 4:08pm: Well ladies I believe my oven was before the Susie or Easy Bake, it was in the fifties and it worked like my mothers. I had to plug it into the electrical outlet and the coils would get red/hot many a cake did my brothers enjoy even though they had smart remarks as to the taste. You see I don't remember "boxed cake mix", I tried to copy what my mother did, sometimes I had success sometimes not. But the boys ate it anyway. My bicycle was the next favorite it gave me the freedom to explore the neighbor and pick black berries (as long as the snakes stayed away). What memories!!!!!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Hilary Johnson on December 1, 2008 at 4:07pm: Wow ... other than the Wii, the Bratz dolls and the "old-favorite board games" I know NOTHING about the entries for the current decade.

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Permalink Reply by Lil Baby Thangs on December 1, 2008 at 4:53pm: A little hand crank pink sewing machine that worked. 1961 when I was 5, given to me by my parents. It started me down my career path...lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by H R Ingram III on December 1, 2008 at 5:00pm: I was the fastest gun on th' block, w/either hand, with my matchin' double rig Fanner Fifties. (from Mattel) Bad guys BEWARE!
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Permalink Reply by Patti Walbridge on December 1, 2008 at 5:15pm: Breyer model horses. I've been a horse lover all my life even though I've been in the marketing (phone) world for $. I still have many of them in our unfinished (dirt) basement, hoping the mold hasn't gotten to them. :S; ▶ Reply to This