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 Teressa Hitt on December 1, 2008 at 5:45pm: I miss my Pogo Stick; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Suzanne Lavigne on December 1, 2008 at 5:59pm: Barbie, yuk. I had stuck with the etch a sketch, spirograph, lego and hot wheels. I did receive a Giggles doll once. You pulled her arms apart and she giggled. That still never interested me near as much as that hot wheels set. I also had a pogo stick.

This is great memories!!

I now have three boys (young men) and they had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, K'nex, Lego all the favourite building toys. Until of course Game boy came around.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by tyrone frederick on December 1, 2008 at 7:15pm: union 5 skates 1964 and cowboy boots and jesse james guns 1958 i was a real cowboy.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jon Clarke on December 1, 2008 at 7:28pm: Subbuteo Football Best ever Christmas morning when I was a kid.

Got some classic videos here of 70's and 80's Toy Commercials you'll all love too

The NetRetro.net site has all these and all the kids shows you remember too. So much is back in fashion; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gabrielle Ruvolo on December 1, 2008 at 8:22pm: Barbie doll in the early 60's from Santa; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alan Liew on December 1, 2008 at 8:44pm: Transformer is my favorite.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marie Tucker on December 1, 2008 at 9:37pm: A Mrs. Beasley doll in the early 70's :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alvin Joseph on December 1, 2008 at 10:05pm: I had a lot of fun with my friends playing with Hot Wheels; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Heidi Tourangeau on December 1, 2008 at 10:06pm: I am definitely a child of the '80's and I remember receiving our Atari, not long after we received our Comodor 64! I would have to say, however, that my most favorite gift was a stereo system complete with record player, radio, tape player AND speakers!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SUp.biz, COO on December 1, 2008 at 11:30pm: I remember how excited I was when I upgraded from the C64 to the C128. My how things have changed.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nelson Tan on December 1, 2008 at 11:43pm: From the moment I touched a 286XT computer at the age of 8, 9(?) I know it would be the greatest toy ever, and a 5 1/2" floppy disk holds power.

2nd favourite was the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

Come to think of it the classic Lego is simply amazing. A child playing with it won't realize its inherent power until s/he looks back as an adult and be surprised at what it truly is.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Julie C. Grooms on December 2, 2008 at 3:08am: I loved Barbie's and as a matter of fact, I still colect them. I have over 100 barbies and I creat my own such as a Harry Potter series. I created every character from the movies and books. I also created the characters from Xena Warrior Princess. I love barbies. I have a whole room devoted to barbies.; ▶ Reply to This