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I am a college freshman in need of some help for a research project for my Gender in Toyland class. I am interested in finding out more about people's favorite childhood toys in relationship to adult gender identity. To keep things confidential I have made it to where only people with the link can post here and give feedback. What is posted here will be used in my presentation, names are not necessary.

That being said, I would like you to list three of your favorite childhood toys and why they were your favorite. What color where they? Were they "boy" toys or "girl" toys? Also if you could indicate what you identify as in terms of gender (ex. FTM, MTF, female, male, bi, etc.). To respond to these questions double click anywhere on the padlet and a text box should open.

Lastly, if you know of anyone who would be willing to participate in this study please pass this along to them. I would really appreciate it. Thank you for your time.

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36 year old straight cisgender woman

My favorite toys were:

1) She-Ra Princess of Power dolls and play sets, especially the winged horses

2) traditional doll house, which I decorated and furnished with my mom and grandmother

3) American Girl Samantha (then known as the Pleasant Company, prior to its purchase by Mattel)

4) Barbies - both current to my childhood (1980s) and my mom's vintage ones (1960s) - we had tons of clothes and furniture for them, along with a car. My best friend had a Barbie-sized house that we played with constantly.

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34 year old gay man

My favourite toys were:

1. She-Ra and Bow from the She-Ra: Princess of Power toy line (girls toys)

2. Optimus Prime and Galvatron from the Transformers toy line

3. Michelangelo, Bebop, Rocksteady and Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy line

I would have owned far more "girls toys" if I had been allowed. But, even as a child I had to fight to buy the female characters in boys toy lines (e.g. April O'Neil in Ninja Turtles and Janine in Ghostbusters). I also really wanted female characters that they never made (e.g. Arcee from Transformers).

I'm not sure why the listed toys were my favourite. I regularly played with She-Ra and Bow not as those "characters" but as a variety of characters (e.g. The Doctor and Sarah Jane, James Bond and Moneypenny, Maxwell Smart and 99, Indiana Jones and Marion). I guess they seemed like the closest to regular "human" looking action figures and they were easy surrogates for other characters.

Their colours were white, gold and red for She-Ra and red, blue and gold for Bow.

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I still have 2 of the 3! (1) My baby doll Vicky that my great aunts gave me, because she was lifelike, but also soft and somewhat plump. I, too, was a plump baby. I dressed her in the dress I wore to my Baptism. (2) My beloved stuffed Panda, Teddy, who I slept with every night, and who warded off scary night things. Very stalwart. (3) My stuffed bean bag chair Occy, who was a plump red fuzzy octopus with big pleather eyes and short triangular tentacles. He's the only one I no longer have, because a dog peed on him. As for how they formed my gender identity, I think their appeal was gender neutral. I did not think Vicky was valuable because playing with her made me more girly. I just liked her for her, rather than what liking her said about me. They were my friends. I did not play with Barbies, although I did think her possessions were neat, ha! I did not have tea parties. I did pretend to be a real estate agent and take my stuffed animals on tours of our house--we moved a lot when I was a kid. I did not play dress up or play with make up or nail polish or pretend to be a princess or anything like that.

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Dolls were my favorite toys, especially Barbie dolls! Stuffed animals were also a favorite, and they had to be dogs. My Tiny Tears doll was very special. I still have all my dolls. In those days the dolls were all white, diversity was not acknowledged.

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Favorite toys, Hot Wheels, Big Jim, 12'' GI Joes, Micronauts, He-Man, Lego, Stuffed animals.

Favorite toy colors, Blue, yellow, and green

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I believe my favourite toy as a very small child (maybe 5 at the oldest?) was a digger, but I have no idea why, only that I've been told that and I have vague memories of playing with it. I think it was yellow.

My favourite toys from about 7 to 9 or 10 were Power Rangers action figures, because I was obsessed with Power Rangers.

My favourite toys from about

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My favourite toy was my teddy bear. My grandparents gave it to me and when we moved away I missed them. I always remember it was from them. My mum threw it away when it started to fall apart.

I also played with dolls a lot - Cindy mostly. Got together with friends and dressed them up and made up stories about their lives.

My other 'favourite toys' were books. I read all the time, loved history and myths and legends in particular. My reading age was advanced so I picked whatever was on my parents' bookshelves that was readable too. My favourite at the time was The Three Musketeers. I've loved adventure stories ever since.

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1) My favourite toy from my childhood is my 6 foot long green plush giant crocodile. My parents hid it behind the sofa until Christmas day, and I was shocked they'd found one. It still lives on my bed :)

2) My second favourite was probably my doll I took to nursery almost every day, called Helen. Apparently, every day it was either her birthday or she was ill! My Nan used to knit her dresses.

3) My third favourite was my plastic realistic-looking T-Rex, who was missing an arm. I used to play with him in the bath, and pretend to feed him things.

Good luck with your study!

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I spent my childhood riding my bike, building dens and climbing trees in the woods and playing with my pets (rats/mice/hamsters/guineapigs).

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48 year old bi sexual MtF

1) an action man horse. I asked my parents for a horse for christmas, I got an action man with a horse, never played with the action man but I really loved that horse

2) a dragster matchbox car, what I liked about it was it could go really far in a straight line but probably more importantly it was a gift from my grandmother and she was the only adult that I felt loved me.

3) a teddy/doll that I made myself out of denim offcuts.

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I'm a 42 year old straight male

My favourite toys were

Action Men, especially my BulletMan and Atomic Man

My stretch toys, especially my X-Ray and Monster ones

My Star Wars figures

And I still collect toys today.

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Favorite childhood toys (I would consider all of these "boys toys"):

1) 1984 G1 Transformers Megatron

2) 1979 24" Shogun Warriors Godzilla

3) 1980 Star Wars AT-AT Walker

1) Megatron was a favorite because he was the Decepticon leader and could transform into a gun.  I really liked Transformers and leaders are always the toys most children want to have.  He had plenty of airtime on the animated show which helped foster my fondness for him.  He was silver and black with quite a few attachments (visual scope, a stock, a chrome weapon).  I remember the Christmas I received him in 1984, I slept with him in my bed just like Ralphie from A Christmas Story and his Red Ryder BB gun (although I didn't shoot my eye out because Megatron didn't fire any projectiles).

2) I have always loved Toho's Japanese Godzilla movies and really loved dinosaurs.  So the 24" Shogun Warriors Godzilla toy really struck a chord with me.  It was oversized, had a lever on the back of his neck that you could press down and his flame tongue would stick out, had wheels on the bottom of his feet so he could roll around and a fist that would shoot out as a projectile for some reason.  Like Godzilla, this toy was green and great fun for a young child like me.

3) I loved and still love Star Wars.  The ultimate toy for me from the original Kenner toyline was the behemoth (for a child I mean) AT-AT Walker.  It was gray and battery operated.  He had lasers that would light up and make noise at the cockpit.  He had adjustable legs and could carry many Imperial Snowtroopers in his belly.  An excellent toy for me that provided many great memories.

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38 yr old gay male

Favorite toys were:
1) Starscream - Transformers gray, blue, red jet that turns into robot
2) Evil-Lyn - MOTU warrior witch with yellow skin, blue dress and blue crystal ball wand
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I am a 28 year old genderqueer femme-presenting person, with ovaries and a womb. My favourite toys when I was younger were playdough (in any and every colour my mother happened to bake for me). I wanted to play with multiple colours at a time, but wasn't allowed to mix them together after I turned it all brown once.

I also had both Lego and Barbie dolls. I liked both a bit but generally I preferred reading and making art to playing with toys.

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38 year old straight male.

I loved multiple action figure lines, especially He-man/MOTU. I was also obsessed with ninjas in any form. G.I. joe, Transformers, Go-bots, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Rock Lords, Madballs, Marvel Secret Wars, Inhumanoids, Visionaries, TMNT, M.A.S.K., Star Wars, M.U.S.C.L.E., Star-com, and others...I was in to it all. I also loved robots of all kinds. And Contrux were a big part of my childhood.

I wasn't encouraged to play with any particular type of type of toy. My imagination led me to be interested in these lines. I almost always altered them from the given story to a more serious and dark story line.

I also ALWAYS found myself much more interested in the "bad guys" of these lines. My favorite characters were always the villains. However it was almost always never the main villain, always the strong silent type character.

Strength, secrecy, and some kind of code of honor were three big draws for me. If there weren't a "ninja" type character in a line I would alter the story of a villain to make him one.

And I would add for your research that I DID NOT want the female characters from any of these lines. I think it was because I've always viewed females as symbols for sweetness, love, and happiness (in a positive way) so they had no place in my battles.

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I'm 34-years old gender variant human being. I was born with a body that is biologically classified as a male-sexed vessel. Thus I was guided to become a boy when I was a child. As an adult I went through a gender reassignment process and am now considered to be a woman. I personally consider myself to be a secret agent who is in deep undercover mission and works for an outside agency independent from either faction.

In my childhood I was encouraged to play with action figures and I ended up falling in love with Masters of the Universe. The Filmation cartoons and the toys had an huge impact on me. Later on I liked Turtles and started getting into action figures as collectibles. My parents were concerned about me for liking toys at an older age and forced me to part with toys. When I moved out of my childhood home I became an young adult toy collector. Nowadays I have a collection of video game figures, MOTUC figures, some Marvel Legends and Select figures. And various characters from tv series and movies. I also collect comics and art books. Comic books were as well an important part of my childhood.

I love fictional stories and especially the characters in those stories. I like having a good representation of the character(s) in a physical form and I prefer posable action figure forms.

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1. I am a 38yo straight male that played with boys toys.

2. Favorite 3 toys were: He-Man Masters of the Universe, Thundercats (especially Lion-O), and Centurions (especially Ace McCloud).

3. I still collect toys to this day.

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I'm a 48 year old lesbian trans woman. As a child I genuinely enjoyed playing with boys toys, especially sci-fi themed toys. I didn't identify as male, but I didn't let anyone know I was trans. I didn't even know what "trans" was until I read about Caroline Cossey, but I knew if I told anyone how I felt it would unleash a universe of hell so I did my best to conform to societal expectations for a male child. My absolute favourite toy was a Tonka metal dump druck in yellow. I really have no idea why I loved it so much. It didn't really do anything except move on wheels when you pushed it and its dumper could lift up. It was very symmetrical and angular, lots of straight lines and no curves. What I loved most about it was that it was metal. It was tough in ways that I wasn't. In the end I gave it to a girl at a party.

I also had a load of Star Wars toys. I had the figurines, guns, light saber, spaceships, vehicles. I loved my Princess Leia figure secretly. I pretended I only got her to complete the set because boys don't play with dolls, but she was the one I loved most. I also loved my shootout in space game. It was a rotating platform with some hollow rockets on it. As the platform turned you could aim your laser rifle in a small window. If you fired the laser at the right moment when a rocket was directly above it would launch into the air.

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30-year-old asexual cis woman here. I suppose I had categorical toys rather than individual ones: I really loved my 18" dolls (American Girl and others), and in fact learned a lot of skills in order to make them clothes and props. They were wizards or adventurers, and while I was never good at acting out their stories, I would set them up in tableaus, admire them, and come up with stories in my head. The next category was Nintendo consoles; my siblings and I used them for imaginative play as much as any "physical" action figures, making up silly scenarios within the games while we played them. (I never thought of video games as "boy" toys, though I did find it peculiar that in Mario Kart girls could elect to play as boy characters but boys seemed very reluctant to ever play as the princess. I also remember being pleased that I could get a raspberry pink Game Boy Color.) And lastly there were Legos--though I lacked the coordination and spatial understanding to build with them myself, my brother liked to build with them and I would act out crazy stories with the resulting structures.

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I'm a 40 year old woman (straight, cis). I grew up in Germany. I wasn't particularly into toys because I preferred imaginative play outdoors. I had a huge lego castle when I was perhaps 8-10. It was permanently set up on my desk, so I had to do my homework somewhere else. When I was very young I had one of those basic wooden train sets. I remember quite clearly that I liked joining up the tracks. We didn't have that many, so combined they just made a circle which was a bit boring. As a third 'toy' I guess I would count cardboard boxes. We spent hours and hours making box houses, cutting windows in them, making a roof. I think toys weren't as gendered then as they are now. My mother was keen on non-gender-stereotypical toys and clothes, but she did buy me a Barbie once because all the other girls had them and she thought I might feel left out, but the clothes were very difficult to change and I couldn't really see the point.

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I am a 41 year old woman who was born with a penis. I had three toys that I can definitely remember. I had a teddy bear that i called teddy. That was my favorite. I had him for what seemed like forever. I liked to hug him when I was sad and needed to cuddle with something. I had a record player with Star Wars and scooby do records and other silly kids songs. I liked those because I thought it was really cool that I could listen to music over and over againthe I also had a train set that I really liked as well. I liked the train set because it moved and I could set up the tracks in different orders, and my cat used to like to chase the train around and she would crawl into the little train tunnel. That and Legos / hours and hours of tons of Legos. And a lite Brite. I guess that makes five, but I can be a saucy chick like that :)

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I am a 34-year-old woman. I grew up in the 1980's when toys were very gendered and hetero-normative.

My favorite was Barbie and had many dolls, a house, and lots of accessories. The doll was almost ancillary. I enjoyed all of the miniature things because it was a world that I could control and manipulate. The pinks and purples irritated me, but not that much. There was no question that these were "girl" toys.

My second favorite toy was my dollhouse, which I loved because my dad built it for me. It also was a world in miniature (see a theme) that I could create all on my own. This was also a "girl" toy, but it was not for little girls, but older ones.

My third favorite were LEGOS, but these were "boy" toys. I outgrew these quickly, not because I stopped enjoying them, but because my brother played with them too and I didn't want to be caught playing with a boy toy.

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Toys

1. Action figures- He-man and MOTU, G.I. Joe, TMNT, boys toys for straight males

don't know what this research is for homosexuals are everywhere now. Sucks for us straight people. Funny how now if you want to raise your kids without any gay leanings its considered wrong. Straight anti-pc male 4 life

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I am a 40 something bi female.

My favorite toys

I have a picture of a 3 year old me hugging a blue nerf car. I think i loved it. Or maybe the picture. I never liked dolls as much as i was supposed to. I liked toys that did things.

I loved my big wheel and other kids sit and spin. I loves my easy bake oven. I dont remember fully identifying as a gender but more as my self. I loved books and puzzles and overall i would say i largely preferred gender neutral toys. As a little kid i had a bedroom decorated with planes and i always hated my mom for later giving me a room with pink and flowers. I was never really into things that were very obviously designated and marketed towards boys but i liked cap guns and things that were not designated as female.

I was a child of the 70s and remember much less gender marketing than i saw later in the 80s and beyond.

I had an averaion to the color pink for years and only let myself like and wear it after i had proved myself with accomplishments and physical feats.

I liked games. Once again in analyzing i think i was most drawn toward active doing or thinking toys that avoided gender categorization.

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I am a gay male.

1) Transformers - I loved that they could change shape and turn into realistic vehicles and other objects. I particularly loved Megatron because of his alt mode as a gun and elbaorate transformation, Devastator for the same reason and Wheeljack because of the car he turned into.

2) He-Man and She-Ra - I collected She-Ra dolls first and then started with He-Man too. I basically started collecting the toys because each of them were unique and different, but the main reason was that I loved the cartoon show.

3) I really don't have a third toyline I am fond of. I had both boys and girls toys like Barbies, Gobots, cars, Popples and some teddy bears. But I rarely played with other toys other than Transformers, He-Man or She-Ra.

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Identify as male (gay).

(1) "He-Man, and the Masters of the Universe"/"She-Ra, Princess of Power" - Though technically speaking these were two separate lines, catering to boys and girls respectively, I was fortunate enough to collect and play with both. I enjoyed the mixture of fantasy (sword/sorcery) and powerful characters. In particular, I always gravitated toward the strong female characters in both (e.g., the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, Evil-Lyn, She-Ra, Shadow Weaver, Queen Marlena).

(2) G.I. Joe - 3.5" (ish) toy line catering to boys. I focused on the storytelling angle and the interpersonal relationships between the characters far more so than the military angle that we were likely "supposed" to prioritize as boys. With the exception of the lead male villains (Cobra Commander and Destro), I again found myself drawn toward the female figures, and those characters always made their way into my adventures.

(3) X-Men/Marvel - I was primarily focused on collecting the X-Men figures (this was circa 1992, when the animated series was on Fox), but I did collect the occasional unrelated character to spice things up (e.g., Spider-Man, Galactus, etc.). As with the other lines, I focused on the stories I could act out more than the action/violence angle, and I gravitated toward strong female characters. Jean Grey/Phoenix and Rogue were (and continue to be) my favorites! :)

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1) A She-Ra action figure doll and her friend Glimmer. She-Ra was awesome and unstoppable and together with Glimmer they could conquer the universe. She-Ra and Glimmer were definitely female, and they were definitely toys geared toward girls, but they were muscular and powerful, not like the obviously unrealistic Barbie.

2) My Little Ponies. They were pretty and they smelled nice. Definitely geared toward girls.

3) Legos. You could build anything and create any kind of world you wanted. I even had the kit to make a giant castle with a working drawbridge and everything. It was awesome. There were knights on horses and the knights and little detachable helmets, swords and shields. But you could also build cars, houses, robot-type things. Very engineering-oriented.

I identify as bi cis woman.

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My favorite toys were teddy bears. I had two that I took everywhere. One was rainbow striped, though he eventually acquired a pair of green knitted dungarees that I brought with my pocket money from a church sale. The other was a beige colored bear with one eye missing. Neither had an obvious gender I guess, but I was amendment that the rainbow bear was a boy and the other bear a girl (so brother and sister). The rainbow bear was a gift from an uncle, the beige bear I found face down in the road one day and felt sorry for, so I brought it home... In retrospect my parents were probably a bit disgusted by it. But I really loved that bear!! My siblings and I also played a lot with lego, and we did a tonne of craft or art projects as games -- we were always glueing, painting, making stuff out of things we found about the house. We made stuff out of cardboard and legos like shops or cars, that we would then use in play with our teddies. I don't think I ever thought of the toys as gendered, with the one exception of when my brother wanted to play army games -- which he had to bribe me into doing. Otherwise we all played the same games (I have both brothers and sisters) with the same toys together. I'm a straight cis woman.

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My very favorite toy was a stuffed Mickey Mouse toy. I got it for Christmas when I was three and seriously never let go of him, he was the super best. I don't think that is a toy with a gender.

Along with Mickey, I had a blanket I had been given at birth that I called Green. Green was a quilt my grandmother sewed for me. Mostly Green got drug around on the adventures Mickey and I took, but didn't really participate in them. I don't think you could really genderize a quilt.

Finally, I had my Kirsten American Girl Doll. I honestly think American Girl dolls are huge action figures (most kids seem to use them to act out stories!), but if you're making me, then sure, it was a girl toy.

I'm female.

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1. Baby doll: as a kid I apparently had this one water filled baby doll (to give it more realistic weight) at pre school and I wouldn't let anyone else play with it. I liked to play with it in the context of house. It's a pretty feminine toy, and when I played house I took on specifically feminine roles.

2. Matchbox cars and planes, like the kinds you get when you go away on vacation. I had London cabs, a red Chevy pickup, smaller matchbox size cars of al styles. I played with them like you might play with dolls, there were societies and the cars were anthropomorphized. This was probably masculine, though I'll say my use of them feels stereotypically feminine.

3. Legos. I never had the specific sets, but I played with a ton of legos as a kid. I didn't have tiny lego people, so I generally made houses or things for my other toys. These are gender neutral.

I'm a heterosexual woman (cis).

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1. Toy trains: I had a set of secondhand Thomas the Tank Engine trains that were well loved! At the time, my family lived near a train hub outside of Chicago and near to a train museum we visited frequently. Gendered for boys, though in the early 1990s, I feel like toys were less gendered.

2. Dolls: I loved my dolls, so much so my mom had to sew arms back on or send them off to be repaired. Playing "house" was a favorite activity. Most of the dolls were white, although I had several Black dolls made for my mom by my great grandmother. Gendered for girls.

3. Legos: from 8-13, I was a Lego architect extraordinaire. My sister and I would build complex houses and cities with Legos, complete with gardens and upper stories. Some of my favorite memories are of building houses and creating stories with Lego people during the long winters. Gendered for boys, I suppose, but I never felt like I was excluded from playing with them as a girl. This was probably bc 1) we only watched public television and 2) my mother didn't believe in gendered toys, so to speak. We played with what we liked.

4. Lesbian woman.

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1. Action figures. Especially my Star Wars ones. I would consider them gender neutral but they are generally thought of as a "boy" toy. Plenty of my female friends played with them with me.

2. American Girl dolls. I had two of them and I loved dressing them up and playing with all the accessories and taking them on adventures with me. Generally thought of as a "girl" toy.

3. K'Nex. They were a building kind of toy. I had a ton of the playsets and you could make all kinds of things out of them from dinosaurs to buildings. They all came with instructions on how to make specific things but it was also easy to be creative with them and make your own creations. Advertised as a "boy" toy but pretty gender neutral.

4. bisexual cisgender woman

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1. Baby dolls. I practically had sextuplets, and played with and dressed them and such off and on from really little through high school (and I still have a few that I pull out when I want to cuddle something humanoid). Gendered for girls, I suppose, though I didn't notice any of the packaging and a lot of them were secondhand. They were all white, if it matters (as am I).

2. Legos. My brother and I pooled our kits and collections into a big box of Legos that got used for building everything--houses, cars, airplanes, ships...well, lots of mechanical/vehicular things I suppose. I always thought of them as gender neutral, and this was before there were many ties-in to movies/themes, and long before Lego friends.

3. Action figures. The "people" we called them, figures from Star Trek (so many of these), Star Wars, Jurassic Park, anything that had ~6" figures could be added to the people. They always went on long traveling adventures, and sometimes got renamed to be new characters. Gender neutral again, I think--packaging mostly just showed scenes from whatever movie/TV show--though I had many more female figures than my brother did. I'm not sure if it was my choice or parental choice when I was younger, but by 12ish I was picking out women (if available) preferentially.

4. I am cis female (and het).

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1. Playmobil. Most of my toys were playmobil because I loved it so much. I tended not to have the overtly gendered pieces, but did have one or two from the Victorian Dollhouse range. my favorite were the hospital and vehicles (school bus, ambulance, plane, holiday camper, boats etc). I think of it as gender neutral, but slightly male.

2. Dollshouse my grandfather got me. I was often frustrated because most of the furniture didn't fit. It is only as an adult collector than I realize that it was an unusual scale. It was too big for my playmobil but too small for my Ken doll (I didn't have barbie - I only wanted Ken). I still have it and still love it. Very much a girl's toy.

3. Fuzzy Felt Farm https://www.etsy.com/listing/242787616/1980s-fuzzy-felt-farm-set

I lived in a farming community, but we didn't have a farm. This was one of my earliest toys and I still enjoyed it when I was older. Again, gender neutral, maybe slightly male.

4. Cisgender lesbian woman. British.

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1. A Rabbit stuffed animal who was so loved by the time I could name things that I called him "Odes" as he was old and grey and no longer white. I still have him.

2. These fantastic french paper dolls, all faerie tales and rennasiance awesome that I had to super carefully cut out. There was a sheet of color-your-own in each set too.

3. The orange patchwork hobby horse my dad's Junior Achievement guys made me. I called him "hobby" and pretended I was in the wild west.

4. Cisgender heterosexual woman

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1. American Girl Samantha. Very much a girl toy I think! She was my favorite because of the stories that she came with and the connection to history. I liked that she was a suffragette and worker's rights advocate just as much as I liked her clothes. 2. Lincoln Logs. These were kind of a boy toy - I inherited them from my brother. 3. Dress up clothes. These are hard to describe as 'toys' but I played with them a lot. I pretended to be various historical characters, mostly women. 4. Cisgender lesbian woman.

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1. Lego. I got a *huge* box of Lego for Christmas when I was 4 (I now know it was a huge amount of money, and am very impressed that my parents got this for me!), and I would build houses, gardens, dinosaurs, all sorts of things.
2. Farm set. Stone walls, fences that didn't quite slot together, toy cows, ducks, horses, etc. The roof of the farm house came off and I could put Lego men in there as they were nearly the right size. I lived next door to a dairy farm so this was part imaginative play, part re-enacting things I saw.
3. Action Man. (UK version of GI Joe.) I had dolls but when my brothers were old enough to play we wanted games we could play together. Since they had Action Man, I asked for one too, and I got one. He was my favourite "doll" for years, and I still have him, along with lots of the clothing my mum knitted for him! (I'm a knitter and I'm seriously impressed with her skills. Fair Isle for small dolls is HARD.)
Cis straight woman. And British.

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1. Cabbage patch doll. His name was Bradley, which was the name he came with. He was one of the "preemie" line so he was smaller and more baby-like. I liked putting him in a basket and carrying him around. My favorite version of this was that we were pioneers traveling west.m because I loved the Little House on the Prarie books.

2. Lego sets. I had a lot of Legos. I liked a bucket of space themed Legos the best, but I also collected a lot of the medieval sets.

3. A stuffed bear named Snuggle Bear. He was just a plain brown bear but he was my absolute favorite stuffed animal (I had a lot of stuffed animals!) I slept with him most nights.

4. Bisexual, cisgender female.

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1. Tammy doll (1950s)

2. Erector set

3. Stuffed dog I named "chan"

Female

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1. Mickey mouse doll with a cabbage patch tshirt.

2. SNES

3. Legos

Mtf

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1) Stuffed animals - I always had stuffed animals as a kid, and would regularly talk to them or play with them. There were no expectations with stuffed animals, so I could make them whatever I wanted. I also grew up in a rather rough home, so I liked animals better than most people as a child. I didn't see my stuffed animals as particularly gendered, but a guess most people would consider playing with stuffed animals more for girls than boys.

2) Books - I spent a lot of time reading by myself as a kid. I loved being able to escape into another world for a while. My parents did not appreciate how much I wanted to read, and I remembering being punished for reading too much when I was a kid. I loved reading books about animals, historical fiction, the Babysitter's Club series, the Boxcar Children series, Encyclopedia Brown, a book of Shakespeare's plays, and pretty much anything I could get my hands on.

3) Ball in a Cup game from a colonial village recreation educational site. I spent a lot of time trying to get that ball on a string to go into the cup on the stick. It was a simple, quiet, task-oriented game that made me feel like I was living in a different time period.

I identify as a female to transmasculine person.

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1. Barbie dolls. I liked being able to dress them up and create stories about their lives. Every day they could be someone new.

2. On the more masculine side of things, I was also obsessed with beyblades. They were the in thing during elementary school. Collecting them, building them, using them; it was all a thrill. Not only did I enjoy playing the game, but this was a toy that for me promoted a sense of inclusion, because it was one of the things that I had in common with all of the "popular" kids if you will.

3. My gameboy. I loved pokemon. The sense of adventure, discovery, and accomplishment in each of the games is probably why I still play them to this day.

4. I suppose technically I am a gay male. To be honest though my gender isn't something I think of when I begin to describe myself. That is probably why I have been so open to performing in drag, and experimenting with the genderqueer side of my makeup artistry.

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1) To be honest my favorite toys was GI Joe toys. Honestly I feel these had to do manly of me coming out of the closet and me finding my sexuality. Due to playing with these male dolls I had pretended these were just like barbies and I thought this was normal two army men having a house together. These toys were manly for boys and such, but the way I attended them was more for the matters of a gay relationship.

2) My second favorite toy has to be a yoyo I really don't have a reason to liking this toy so much it just every time I played with it it created a huge smile on my face. The ones that lit up in all bright colors that made your eyes glow from the excitement. I think there really isn't a gendered choosing.

3) Finally my last favorite toy had to be legos. Legos were one of those toys where the creation was in your imagination. They had lots of vibrant colors and millions of things you could build. These little pieces generally were made for guys to built what they wanted, but as this toy progressed I believe it was for all genders.

4) I consider myself a gay male.

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1) Kitchen set that my grandfather made for me. It wasn't plastic, he made it out of wood and it was painted white and green, the same color as my grandmother's kitchen. It was a favorite because it was handmade and it reminded me of them. I guess it would be considered a girl toy, but I just thought of it as my toy. Nobody else had one like it.

2) Play-doh. I liked this because I could make whatever I wanted out of it. I don't think of it as gendered.

3) Raggedy Andy doll - this is the first toy I remember and I took it everywhere when I was little. I'm not sure, I guess it is a girl toy because it's a doll, but it was a boy doll, so?

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