yeah i think i had the construx, they came in a cardboard tube right? I never had the erector set but I think my cousin did.
Matchbox car ramps are/were still amazing too. My grandparents still have all the old toys my dad and all his brothers/sisters had as a kid, and I mean all of them. To this day when I go visit I get all my cousins together and we try to make the cars do a loop without falling/crashing. We've got it pretty dialed now.
**** etch a sketch but does anyone remember that little face with the magnetic filings and the magnet pen? That thing was cool as hell
also, lincoln logs. Jesus we had them for play time in the 2nd grade and my god it was glorious. Never enough time, never enough logs.
Also, **** spiralgraph so hard, there was nothing more frusturating than that thing.