The 5 Best Toys of All Time

[benefactor]

You'd be surprised. The list is actually pretty accurate.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/01...all-time/all/1

[baseline bum]

I was disappointed to not see stick with dog on end on the list. You can torment friends, rub it up against the house, throw into traffic, and so on.

[baseline bum]

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]

Cardboard tubes FTW!

[benefactor]

Sheet or large towel should also be ahead of mud. Not sure if mud is top 10 tbh.

[benefactor]

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]

No love for rock? Rockfight is pretty much how every day should end.

[resistanze]

sticks, besides geting my ass whopped with one I never interacted with them as a kid.

[benefactor]

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]

My top 5 would be

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

[LnGrrrR]

I ing love Wired.

[Dex]

I'm a kid of the new generation. My top 5:

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

[coyotes_geek]

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]

Ball should be #1 (no ). 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]

Ball should be #1 (no ). 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]

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]

Army men and anything to build flaming projectiles to kill them with.

[baseline bum]

Forgot about the lighter. I might have to put that at 6.

[DAF86]

Ball should be the undisputed number one.

Then videogames, then an action figure.

all this romantic .

[DAF86]

Greatness.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Legos

[Spurminator]

Household bedsheets and pillows. Great for pillow fighting, being a ghost, being a human burrito, and (obviously) kick-ass forts.

[Sisk]

that list is gold

[baseline bum]

Greatness.

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

[Fpoonsie]

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.