Non-toy Toys

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>>5514676
robot pterodactyl!!

>>5514676
I used to use hangers as bows.

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>>5514676
This motherfucker was like a poor kid's Sixshot

>>5514753
More like swords.

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Autistic storytime.

I had a cheap shitty mini telescope on a tripod (kind of like pic related, but only about a foot high and tall when unfolded). It wasn't very good at telescoping, though, so I mostly treated it like a little boss mech for my miniature figurines to fight against.

The first 'phase' was the telescope itself, which could unscrew from the tripod. I would pretend it was a huge laser cannon or something, and when my figurines 'attacked' it enough, the telescope would spin around and eventually unscrew and fall off. The second phase was the wingnut underneath that, which fired construction paper electrical arcs. Once it took enough damage, it'd also spin and eventually fall off. The final phase was the ball and socket screw that the wingnut attached to; a long flat screw underneath the center of the tripod held that in place, and tightening or loosening it would secure or loosen the angle of the top screw (and, thus, the telescope). Anyway, the final phase was that ball and socket screw flopping around spewing a hail of bullets while the tripod tried to frantically stomp on the heroes, who shot the lower screw to loosen it until it fell out and the tripod toppled over and died.

I know it sounds stupid in hindsight, but the posability of that junky little telescope made it such an expressive and fun contraption to play with. I kind of wish I hadn't misplaced it now.

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When i was a kid, i had a bed that could be used as a couch with 2 backrests similar to pic related, but with a slightly more fitting shape for what i used them to play with: i used them as Space Ships for my star was kenner figures back then, i just turned them with the short end pointing up.

>>5515143
i dont think that it sounds autistic, its just shows how creative you were as a kid.

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I used to play detective or something with my dad's planner a lot. I was generally a lot into office supplies.

>>5514826
Fuck. Yes.
You mah nigga.

>>5515143
10/10 Would play with.

>>5515681
>I was generally a lot into office supplies.
I know that feel.

i also used both
>>5515676

with a basket, a chair and two jump ropes to build my own 1:1 pod racer. shit was so cash.

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We had a bunch of these for some reason and I used to make spaceships out of them

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here's mine. the paper cars are from Ruby's Diner. havent been there in decades, but they served kids menu meals in fold-out paper cars. it was pretty cool

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I used to drag a washcloth underwater in the bath tub and pretend it was a jellyfish type of creature. The way it flowed through the water looked so organic.

>>5515718
>fuse as mutagen canister
>sword toothpicks
I used those too, also automotive fuses as data storage.

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>>5515718
>fuses
Fuck yeah. Best use for 'em

My dad was a mechanic so we always had odd tools lying around that got repurposed as toys. I loved using pop rivets as swords/rapiers

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>>5514676
This bad boy right here.

You could fit at least 4-5 GI Joes in it. Made an awesome flying saucer. Plus, it had the fun play feature of unfolding.

>>5515716
>spaceships

most of these can be used as a pipe, i bet you went to space with these, you druggie.

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>>5515718
>that entire top row
Mah niggest of niggas.

>>5514676
used this on my girlfriend the other day, got an action figure out of it but the joints were all fucked up.

1/10 would not abort again.

does using your penis to have a sword fight count?

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My dad made me a wooden stool so I could get to the high cabinets in the kitchen. It looked mostly like pic related, but with the longer sides open. I would turn it on its side and use it as a doll room. It even had little struts in the corners that worked as little triangular shelves.

>>5516004
This Anon knows what's up. I stuck little Toy Story aliens in mine. And dinosaurs, for some reason.

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surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet.

>>5514676
I used to use those as a bow.

>>5516004
Also a portable communications array, or death ray reflector dish.

>>5518744
Oh yeah! That was an instrumental part of my Super Spy Barbie play time. I'd have one of her friends in this salon chair I had, lean it against a wall, and put this thing on her head. Spy Barbie had to go through an obstacle course to save her and I'd slowly turn the screw down to amp the drama.

My Barbies went through a lot of trauma.

>>5518744
>take this thing out to the sandbox
>drill it into the sand just enough to make it stand up
>have Power Rangers and Transformers race to stop the "earthquake machine"
Good times.

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Back when we had a house with a pool, we had these boogie boards to play around with. I'd actually use the boards for my toys and have my toys have some sort of "sinking island/melting iceberg" balance type battles. not all of my toys could stand up though, so it was slightly inconvenient cuz of the water.

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Motherfuckers

Who here played with eraser?

I got in trouble once in elementary for bringing Pokemon toys. Huge fiasco.
Toys in general weren't allowed.
So I used erasers.
I would draw faces on them and hair and their body and the sleeve would be clothes

I had about 5 erasers in each pencil case
Pencil case was the spaceship/house
And each classroom was a new world
Pens were swords/rakes
And in the back of textbooks I would draw farms
It was the ultimate crafting game
I self inserted and practiced polygamy and had kids
Back when I was 10-11 I was a fan of big tits so I drew them nice and big
Which prompted me to make sure my teachers didn't find them out
Teachers were like colossi

Then some other kids started picking up on the trend and I had about 5 dudes join me in study hall and we played

>>5515789
Holy shit I did this too with my pokemon figures!!!

In elementary school I would get really bored in the cafeteria after I was done eating. I played with the plastic spork and straw I got every day. I would bend the straw so he had a small "head" and I would bend the middle tongs of the spork so he had "hair". Spork and Straw had a lot of adventures. I would punch little holes in my Styrofoam lunch tray with Spork and sometimes Straw would get trapped in them like pitfalls. They would interview random lunch items like my milk carton for a fake TV show. They would have rivalries and romances. I always wondered later if my teachers took notice of me furiously talking to myself as bits of plastic for half of every lunch period. I would sometimes do the same in my desk cubby during class using my mini stapler and one of those triangle shaped erasers that sticks onto the end of your pencil.

>>5515789
I did this too! And when my family got an above ground pool I would drape a wet towel over my head above water, listen to the echo, and pretend I was in a submarine.

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I used play with the door by holding onto both of the knobs and moving it from side to side, pretending it was a motorcycle

>>5514676
let's pretend abortion.

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Clip these together to form Spaceships, robots, weapons, etc.

>>5515718
>table
i feel my kids wont have as cool a toy bar and and lounge set as i had, i havent seen pizza places use tables anymore
>swords
given
>car
#1 reason i love Ruby's, little cousin didnt want her car so i took it.

this thread needs more alligator and hair clips.

>>5518755
There are two kinds of little girls.

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SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>5520042
never mind, these were my evolved staple removers. the binder clips were a sub-species

>>5515718
>Rudy's car
I'm almost glad I never knew about this. My mom would never have let me bring it out of the restaurant on grounds of claiming it was soaked in food waste and handled by dirty hands.

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>>5515789
>>5519363
God damn. The best nostalgia is consistently the shit you haven't thought about in a decade.

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>>5520042
i hope that's a babylon 5 reference

>>5519229
in my school, bringing an eraser out is like bringing a golden coin out. Leave it for a few seconds and it's either stolen or muddled by dirty hands or someone using it to erase colored pencil drawings.

>>5520042
My nigga.

Only thing is, those hurt more than I enjoyed them.

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It was tradition to use these cardboard tubes as swords after we were done wrapping presents at Christmas.

>>5520073
yeah. i always made sure to take out the food first so that i could keep the cars clean. even the servers were careful preparing it .

>>5515789
>>5519363
>>5520087
THIS

Who here used just their hand as a little action figure? For mine, the pointer finger is the head, and the other fingers are its legs and it would run around like a horse.

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>>5514676
Banshees from Halo.

Anyone else fuck with clay and pipecleaners?

When I couldn't get a toy of something, I made my own.

>>5524811
I made an onahole out of clay when I was 10 or so.

>>5514676
blu tak was my all purpose action figure.

>>5525061
>action figure
>not shoggoth

>>5525061
>blu tak
Shit yes.
My mom had an office job, so there was never a shortage of blu/yellow/grey-tac around the house.
I had this massive-ass blob of it about the size of a softball that I called "The Motherlode" that would birth out little "biomorph" drones to attack my lego dudes.
In my head, sticky tack and legos were polar opposites.

>>5519229
Holy shit.
Same. I'd just get lost in the eraser-based world I created. Surprised I didn't fail math class. Did the same thing with rooms being worlds and the pencil case being their ship.

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I used to make characters out of bunches of leaves. Like in pic related, I'd break off the top little branch and the small side leaves would be hands and the two at the end would be pigtails or other hair styles.

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>>5514676

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>>5520042
Tied a bunch of shoestrings with that.

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Grab two of these and you're a zebesian space pirate now! (Or whatever other crustacean-type monster you want to be)

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>>5527642
I almost misread this as a lesbian space pirate. Now I'm kinda disappointed.

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Zipline/grappling hook.

>>5527762
Or a noose.

>>5515718
Hell yeah staple remover monster mouth.

I made chains of paperclips to be a collar and leash and tied myself up to table legs to pretend I was a dog.

>>5524699
I used my middle finger as the head.

I put upside down laundry baskets on my back and crawled around pretending I was a turtle.

My sister and I found the dog's shock collar and took turns zapping each other with it.

I used to cut out outlines of toys from department store catalogues and use them as paper doll action figures.

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>>5524699
My left hand was an overpowered main villain, because i was poor and right-handed. Now i have a toy for that

>>5518744
This was some deranged, giant robot who would fight my Lego men and Disney's Hercules figures. I'd always push the screw down so that the 'arms' flailed and demolished little lego structures

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Is Seki-Kun the patron saint of this thread?

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I remember going around the backyard or park to look for Y-shaped branches. I'd use it to look for treasure or something. i just remember getting it from a Looney tunes cartoon i think

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Makeshift surfboard, snowboard, hoverboard whatever. Used them to reenact the Sonic Adventure 2 opening with my Ronin Warriors. I had a huge swingset in my backyard that I used to pretend was a space station

>>5519378

>Got about 40 pegs
>Put them on my trampoline, and arrange them in fleet formations
>Pretend they were alien invaders, and I had to bounce them away from the circle in the middle, which was Earth
>My mother got PISSED OFF when all her clothes pegs ended up in the neighbour's yard or broken.

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Cartoons influenced me to try parachuting off a high-enough place with an umbrella. Didn't really work, didnt get hurt at least.

jenga bricks/vhs cases were for main structure building,(easy to destroy too)
blu-tak,+ string zipwires
kinder surprise pods became ideal bomb/treasure containers, plastic carry bags became action man/gi joe parachutes,
and if the weather was good, dig a small hole outside, fill with water and crash hotwheels etc. into the 'mud flood'

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Used to swing one of these around while reenacting Robin Hood swashbuckling.

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I cant be the only one who used twist-ties as webs for my Spiderman toy, can I?

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>>5520131
>Presents done wrapping
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnFcArSTmD8

>>5529860
People use it to find water

>>5535023
yeah. i also remember wanting to see it vibrate, but that never could happen

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Come on guys, you're falling down on the job here.

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I used this julienner spinny food slicer thing as a carnival ride/boat/spaceship for my Polly Pockets and smaller toys. My mom kept the blades and crank somewhere else so I didn't shred myself. Fun times.

I also put my rubber spider on the paper roll of my mom's printing calculator to make him skydive as the paper printed out and tipped him over the edge. I made him a little Post-it note cape and everything.

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Used these little guys as graboids/snake monsters that would attack my plastic army men.

>>5515678
Yeah, isn't that the opposite of being autistic.
Autistic children are really methodical instead.

>>5516037
>lol weed
Those are coaxial cables you clod.

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>>5524811
I did that. I always wished I could add joints somehow. You had to be careful to pick a pose that could be for action and standing still.

Maple seeds would be helicopters if they were single and if they were still connected, they'd be gliders.

>>5515143
I used to have a lot of "Boss fights" like this too.

>>5540525
"Autistic" has completely lost any meaning on 4chan.

>Hey guys, I know this is going to sound a little autistic, but does anyone else here think attractive naked females are enjoyable to look at

>>5543339
That's not autistic, it's just gay.

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>>5515678
>as a kid
He never said it was a story from when he was a kid.

>>5527901
>I put upside down laundry baskets on my back and crawled around pretending I was a turtle.
I would pretend to be a pokemon and that was my cave and my friends were trainers trying to catch me.

>>5537111
I had a pet rat as a kid who loved to play with these things.

>>5540516

Oh hell yes. If there was still a badge or ID clipped on it, it would be a little flying dragon or pterodactyl.

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These. Pop a toy in them and you had a car.

Also made toys out of paper and made legit houses and beds out of cardboard and a hot glue gun. Later made clothes out of paper and cloth. I guess it's obvious why I got into theater.

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Empty cicada shells make great aliens for your army men.

Pliers. I used to pretend they were pterodactyl heads.

>>5548340
I spent a few years where I had a group of stuffed animals that I would basically play Redwall with. I'd take them in the backyard and build them little houses out of plywood, or dig them burrows or little treehouses made out of cloth. Fun times.

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this long no caulk gun??

>>5550182
eat them

>>5535023
>>5535807
it happened in pokemon

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Its a minigun, fuck you.

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My sister had a ton so I would take a bunch and use scissors to cut the balls loose for energy crystals, power balls or whatever else. Thinking of buying a ton of them for old times sake. They were scattered around the world/my house/backyard and each one had elemental powers. If you had the matching set you got a huge power boost.

>>5550233
lol fucking weirdo

>>5514753
how old ru

>>5550233
I always hated these fucking things they're so uncomfortable. I'm impressed you managed to salvage them into something cool, Anon.

>>5519229
Had eraser wars with other students. Used any kind of toy weapon we could find at home and bring them in. Also used little mint boxes as recon shuttles with those dollar store pencil top erasers, and brought in dental floss things as space fighters. I always won because my mom was a secretary and always had a lot of erasers, and I had a lot of figurine toy guns. Also, what kind of a stupid 10 year old takes on a 25 year old?

I also used to jam one of these (with an ocean floor design) between the top bunk and bottom bunk on my bed, then threw a blanket over any other holes. Sometimes it was a store to give my brother ammo/new guns, sometimes it was a hideout.

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>>5551827
Shit, forgot pic.

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>tie the handles around the arms of a figure
>throw it
>instant parachute.

>>5550182
you were either the cool kid or the gross kid to tolerate those things

I grew up in a farm in a third world country, my only toys were a stick with a wheel nailed to it, and cows

>>5555489
>cows
Did you tip them?

>>5555498
No, all my friends were animals and there was no internet so I didn't even know cow tipping was a thing until like 10 years later.

I mostly just hung out with them and ate soap with them. I don't know why I ate soap, I was a weird kid.

Used to wear my dance leotard with a sock for a tail and drink milk from a saucer pretending to be a cat, didn't have much in the way of toys but I'm a huge autist so I just read a lot. Funny because my autism wasn't picked up until my teens because it manifested itself in a way incomparable to my textbook autist of a big sister, I studied folklore, fairy tales and myths, correct etiquette for different occasions (because princesses) the origin of ballet and its conventions and took other girly things to very extreme levels, people overlooked it because my reading a midsummer nights dream at 8 obsessively was just 'oh fairies'
(or at least it was to my autistic family)
Filled the woods and fields behind my house with tiny 'fairy houses' I made from leaves and sticks etc and left traditional Celtic offerings to Brownies and other little people.
I didn't grow out of most of it.
The thing that stuck with me most is building dolls houses and miniatures, I filled any drawer or shelf unoccupied with tiny rooms I made.

Most of everyone here sounds like their childhood imaginings were more social but I'd just sit and imagine for hours so I usually didn't project much onto objects. We couldn't afford toys.
Ok blog over.

>>5515143

Sounds awesome dude, glad to hear people used to play with w/e the fuck they had on their hands, loved to use non toy stuff as part of my toy stories.

>>5527777
Why has no one checked these quads?

>Checked

>>5534896
I just used to actually play with plungers. I was big into Super Mario when I was a kid, and on the old cartoon they were always referencing the fact that he was a plumber, and he was always using "plumber's helpers" as weapons or tools.

I'm pretty sure I had an aunt who painted one up for me that had my name on the handle, and I know I still have the damn thing. Have to search for it when I get home.