3. Mr. Potato Head: Technically only food-related in the sense that a potato is food, this minor point doesn't really matter. Mr. Potato Head has been a staple of every kid's toybox from its invention in 1952, when children were give pieces of plastic shaped like facial features and told to stick the sharp, metal end of those pieces into a real potato to play with. Of course, that was the same generation that had fun with things like a hoop and a stick. Times changed and eventually a molded, hollow plastic potato was subbed out for the real potato, reducing the chance of injury and giving kids a place to store the little stick-in-able pieces.

2. Kitchen play sets: We never had a play set as a kid, and greatly envied the little girls (and boys) in our neighborhood who did. And we certainly never knew anyone who had as elaborate a play set as the one shown above, but we would have given them all the pudding snacks in our lunch box for a week just to come over and play with that bad boy if we had.

1. Easy Bake Oven: Sadly, we also never had an Easy Bake Oven as a child. Our mother was oddly indignant (it runs in the family) about the fact that the heating element had been swapped out for something that poses far less risk to an unattended child, and used to mutter things like, "When I was a kid, we would learn our lessons from toys - now they can't even hurt you anymore. If you were stupid enough to burn your finger, that was your fault and you probably never did it again." Nevertheless, the idea behind the oven was genius, allowing children to bake kid-sized cakes with glee since 1963. And we understand that the newer Easy Bake Ovens do have true heating elements once again, so maybe our mom will finally get us one for Christmas this year.