32 Childhood Toys That Prove We Didn’t Need Wi-Fi to Have Fun

Sometimes I wonder—were the times simpler, or were we? You could drop me off at an empty parking lot back in 1985, and as long as I found a stick, I was set for the afternoon. That stick would become a sword, a gun, a magic wand, a lightsaber, and eventually… a broken stick. And you know what? That was a perfectly good day.

Now I can't even wait at a red light without instinctively reaching for my phone like some Pavlovian TikTok dog. What happened? Did technology dull my imagination—or did growing up just chip away at my inner child until he was replaced with a guy who needs three podcasts playing just to fold laundry?

It's hard to say. Maybe we had to be imaginative because the world was so mind-numbingly boring. Maybe our toys weren't "low-tech" so much as "the only option." But still, there was something magical about them. These 32 toys from our childhood may not light up, connect to Wi-Fi, or talk back (thankfully), but they were ours. And with a little imagination, they were everything.

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