DE: Gotta Catch 'Em All

[bjornwilde]

 In honor of all the kids in bar right now, what was your pups favorite thing as a kid? Was it a toy, a game? Or a TV show or movie? A play or poem/song? And how about the mun?

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Charlie didn't really have a favorite thing, being raised in an orphanage. I guess his favorite thing was privacy.

Kirk no doubt had a toy rocket of some sort.

Howard had his grandfather. Here was this man who had his head literally in the clouds and who would come to visit some new story of flight, or a new invention to talk about, or even a new toy plane. But Howard didn't want anything from the man but to spend time with him.

Gibbs probably didn't have anything to call his own as a kid in that age before childhood mattered.

Cy had his baseball glove. His love of that sport has sadly diminished, but as a tot he wore that glove everywhere. It was easier than toting a football everywhere. And you never knew when you would need one.

Knox? I don't really see him being much of a kid. A city slicker in a cramped apartment with unhappy parents who probably just ran around on the street playing stickball, but not really having an attachment to anything. I think that carried into adulthood.

And me? It was a stuffed monkey named Rockefeller. Well, originally named Agnew (by my mother after that most apish of vice presidents), and then re-named Ford and Rockefeller by me, since the vice president changed. (Yes, I was that precocious. In 1972, at the age of four, when visiting Washington and being told "that was the Nixon White House," I asked where the McGovern White was. If only...) I held onto Rockefeller long enough than he was re-named Mondale, but that didn't stick. By the end, he was pretty battered and not really the sort of stuffed animal you could actually hug. But he represented something special to me, and he was the last of the many stuffed animals I owned as a kid to be tossed.

[street_sparrow]

...I still have a few of mine. I can't quite face getting rid of them.

[sdelmonte]

The interesting thing is that somehow, we've managed to accumulate them as adults. Don't let anyone tell you that you're too old for stuffed animals.

[street_sparrow]

I have a dachshund called George, an indeterminate dog that I think may be supposed to be a Labrador called Andy, and the Nameless Panda. They're all a bit threadbare these days, but they're mine.

[swankyfunk]

LONG LIVE OUR CHILDHOODS

[swankyfunk]

Pff, I still buy new ones. The most recent ones that live on my bed are an NYPD barking police dog and an FDNY dalmatian puppy wearing a little fire helmet.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN.

Seriously, at your tenth birthday party in Fallout 3, your best friend Amata- probably the only serious friend you have (although Freddie Gomez and Paul Hannon come close)- steals a comic book from her father's forgotten collection and gives it to you for your birthday present with a cheerful "Who's your favorite barbarian?".

[death_gone_mad]

There was a time when Amascut thought felines were the best things ever. Many terrible things can happen over the milllienia. D:

Fairy Fixit had an ivory and bone carving kit.

As for myself... well, I never attached myself to anything. There was a teddy bear, but that was "mine" just because it was a normal thing for a kid to have a teddy bear. I wasn't broken up whenever my siblings took my bear once in a while. I don't even know where it wound up.

My lack of personal affects and wall posters has disturbed and annoyed my roommates in the past. :D

[gavin62truck]

For Tommy, it would've been a teddy bear made by his aunt when he was a baby. He'd have clung to it until he discovered baseball, and then his favorite thing would've been his baseball mitt. His favorite TV shows were reruns of The Lone Ranger and The Rifleman.

For me, it was the Transformers cartoon and the toys. Hands down. I don't have as many of the toys as I thought I did, but I still have them all (minus one that was stolen), stored away in a box under my bed. Except for Optimus Prime, who resides on my bookcase.

[bjornwilde]

Ben Grimm: A cheap half dollar sized nickel coin enameled to look like Captain America's shield. He had to drink Ovaltine for 6 weeks to get all the points to send away form it and even had to use his own money to buy it since his family couldn't afford such a luxury as Ovaltine but he did it and loved that coin. This is totally my own head canon.

Jessica Drew loved spiders as a kid, seriously. Her parents research centered around them and so like most kids, she was fascinated by what took all her parents attention. She had dolls and stuff but spiders meant connecting or spending time with her parents, especially her mother.

Hank McCoy: Flash Gordon.

Val von Doom: Some sort of Spice Girls merchandise I think.

Andrea: Being left alone. Sunrise and sunset is another, as well as rain. She didn't get attached to things as that would give her tormentors something else to attack her with.

Brimstone: Dreams and hope.

Thalia, Anton, and Quinlan are giving me blank looks.

And as for myself: Micronauts! I loved those damned cheap toys, especially the Baron Karza

[sdelmonte]

We date ourselves by remembering such toys, don't we? I had a few, and I loved the mix and match approach (which was turned into some really weird crap in the Marvel comics). But I kept losing the parts.

[bjornwilde]

Definitely! And even funnier, I tried reading the newer Micronauts comics by IDW or Boom (can't remember which) and they just felt wrong since I'm so used to the Marvel.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Science Dog! He's the Dog of Science! Seriously, Mark's favorite comic, toys, t-shirt and TV show (when he was a kid, at least) all are Science Dog, who is sort of Doc Savage crossed with a schnauzer. He still has all his toys, though they're not particularly valuable to a collector, because he, you know, actually played with them.

[lady_bols]

Canon says that Alex's father used to read C.S. Lewis to her when she was little, specifically "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe". Also, she had a Rubik's Cube, a pair of roller skates, and her diary. She's always been one for writing things down, apparently.

[lady_mary]

LATE!! (but I couldn't resist)

Stiles: Star Wars

Carol: Star Wars

Lady Mary: Decidedly not Star Wars. That is to say... horses.