What was your favorite toy when you were a child?

my favorite memories of childhood was the summer time and my younger brother and I rode our bikes to almost every creek in town and collected tadpoles and crawdads.  We dug worms and fished at the local park.  We often made believe that we would runaway some day to far away place.  Our main goal was to make enough money and leave my strict, abusive parents.  Well it was our way of dealing with the problems at an early age.  So I was the leader and we collected cans from dumpsters, mowed lawns and thought of ways to join the circus.  The funny thing is that this make believe got us into more trouble than if we had just surcome to the torture.  My brother rode his bike off the garage and made high pitch noise and said "sister I dont think this will get us into the circus while holding his nuts. " We only made enough money to get some candy or soda and sometimes  comic book or two.  But these memories lasted forever in my mind because my brother  died before he was 30yrs old of drug addiction.  I still today see him calling out "sister......look at this tadpole its bigger than yours as he daggled off the bridge into the creek at the park."
My brother was a father and i often see him in his son.