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benefactor
12-01-2011, 12:45 PM
You'd be surprised. The list is actually pretty accurate.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/01/the-5-best-toys-of-all-time/all/1

baseline bum
12-01-2011, 12:51 PM
I was disappointed to not see stick with dogshit on end on the list. You can torment friends, rub it up against the house, throw shit into traffic, and so on.

baseline bum
12-01-2011, 12:54 PM
Also, ball is way more fun than string. You can't smash people in the face with string. You can't go kick the neighbor kid's string over the fence or into the river. Rock should have been on the list too. Dirt is too weak for breaking out windows and stick puts one too near the scene of the crime.

Viva Las Espuelas
12-01-2011, 12:54 PM
Cardboard tubes FTW!

benefactor
12-01-2011, 01:00 PM
Sheet or large towel should also be ahead of mud. Not sure if mud is top 10 tbh.

benefactor
12-01-2011, 01:05 PM
Also, ball is way more fun than string. You can't smash people in the face with string. You can't go kick the neighbor kid's string over the fence or into the river. Rock should have been on the list too. Dirt is too weak for breaking out windows and stick puts one too near the scene of the crime.
Agreed...ball should make the list. And box should be specified to cardboard. My revised list:

1. Stick
2. Cardboard box
3. Ball
4. Cardboard tube
5. Sheet/large towel

baseline bum
12-01-2011, 01:08 PM
No love for rock? Rockfight is pretty much how every day should end.

resistanze
12-01-2011, 01:09 PM
Fuck sticks, besides geting my ass whopped with one I never interacted with them as a kid.

benefactor
12-01-2011, 01:10 PM
I'd put rock at 6. Sheet/towel edges it out just barely. If I had a dollar for every one that draped over my arms and pretended I was a bird or tied around my neck to pretend I was Superman I'd be retired right now.

baseline bum
12-01-2011, 01:10 PM
My top 5 would be

1. Rock
2. Ball
3. Wood (stick is obviously a subset)
4. Box
5. Hammer

LnGrrrR
12-01-2011, 01:50 PM
I fucking love Wired.

Dex
12-01-2011, 01:55 PM
I'm a kid of the new generation. My top 5:

1) Nintendo
2) Nintendo
3) Nintendo
4) Nintendo
5) Ninja Turtles

coyotes_geek
12-01-2011, 01:57 PM
According to my 2yr old son:

1. Rock
2. Ball
3. Dirt
4. Box (includes all types of containers like laundry baskets)
5. Plastic cap (like on nasal spray)
6. Towel / sheet
7. Stick
8. Toilet
9. Daddy's iphone
10. TV remote control

cantthinkofanything
12-01-2011, 02:11 PM
Ball should be #1 (no homo). If I had a ball, anykind of ball, I'd make up some kind of game, prentend I was in some kind of pro league, and play for hours.

I'd also have rolled up pair of socks on the list.

benefactor
12-01-2011, 02:12 PM
Ball should be #1 (no homo). If I had a ball, anykind of ball, I'd make up some kind of game, prentend I was in some kind of pro league, and play for hours.

I'd also have rolled up pair of socks on the list.
Sock inside of a sock was a pretty kick ass toy.

RGMCSE
12-01-2011, 03:27 PM
I agree with the list. However if I had to add a toy that was the best of all time, it would have to be TONKA TRUCK!!!!

DMC
12-01-2011, 03:46 PM
Army men and anything to build flaming projectiles to kill them with.

baseline bum
12-01-2011, 03:51 PM
Forgot about the lighter. I might have to put that at 6.

DAF86
12-01-2011, 04:35 PM
Ball should be the undisputed number one.

Then videogames, then an action figure.

Fuck all this romantic shit.

DAF86
12-01-2011, 04:37 PM
http://www.confusereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/100715-10.jpg

Greatness.

DeadlyDynasty
12-01-2011, 04:41 PM
Legos

Spurminator
12-01-2011, 04:42 PM
Household bedsheets and pillows. Great for pillow fighting, being a ghost, being a human burrito, and (obviously) kick-ass forts.

Sisk
12-01-2011, 04:51 PM
:lol that list is gold

baseline bum
12-01-2011, 05:59 PM
http://www.confusereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/100715-10.jpg

Greatness.

Toys that can't be smashed automatically lose 100 points. The lone exception is the hammer, since you can use it to smash shit tbh.

Fpoonsie
12-01-2011, 06:35 PM
Pretty sure "one's own penis" should at LEAST get an honorable mention.

Before I knew what to do with it (and to some extent, I still don't), it provided hours of entertainment just by mashing it up against stuff.

The Reckoning
12-01-2011, 07:39 PM
Black Cats and M80s

creating mega bombs and waging WW3 with ant piles was EPIC

also, styrofoam and gasoline :tu