What were you really into when you were a kid?

  Comic books, riding my bike, climbing trees, telling jokes and riddles, doing croword crossword puzzles, watching old movies from to 30s and 40s, etc. 
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Music.

building model airplanes,
 boats, ships, jets...
you know plastic parts that you put together
Had jets and planes hanging all over the ceiling,
Boats and ships on all of the shelves.
oh and playing Guitar. This post was edited by Baba at November 26, 2017 1:52 PM MST

I was into science and inventions. I 'invented' the steel belted tire in the 50's before I ever heard of them. (too many flats on my bicycle) Then I tried to build a jet engine, (age 9) but didn't have enough money to finish it. Then a radio tower out of old ladders. I built a raft, but it sank. Then I built a wooden ramp and jumped my bicycle through a wall of burning newspapers like I saw daredevils do at the local county fair. I built earthen dams across the little creek that flowed across our farm, and then broke it so I could watch the sudden torrent of water blast downstream. I always had something cooking to make a summer day interesting. This post was edited by B.H.Wilson at November 26, 2017 1:52 PM MST

Playing with my friends and cousins.  And brothers sometimes. 

Ninjas

Thundercats

R rated movies

WWF wrestling

Skateboarding

Going to the arcade

Eating candy

Riding my bike

Playing sports with the other town kids

Calling girls in my class after school on the landline phone and listening to them talk on and on. LoL!

Then we moved to a farm when I was 10.

Fishing. golfing, nature stuff, baseball, football, reading science stuff. And of course, being an overall pain in the ass.

Movies, acting out movies seen on Saturday afternoons for family along with cousins that shared trips to matinees with me. Bike riding and exploring wooded areas, reading anything I could get my hands on, fishing, boating, skiing and playing board games.

Fishing, camping, Legos, Erector sets, and horror/sci-fi movies.

Watching cartoons, drawing maps of fictional places and writing about them, reading, going for bike rides and hikes, hanging out with my friends, listening to music...

Oh wait. I still do all these things.

Alright, so the cartoons I watch are now "Bob's Burgers" and "Adventure Time" rather than "Pokemon" and "Arthur", but even those latter two I will still watch on occasion!

I've added more interests and hobbies to my list now that I am older, but I really haven't lost interest in the things I loved as a kid, at least in the general sense. 

Downloading apps to my iPhone and ordering things on Amazon Prime.

Survival

playing football
playing with Little Red Spinning Wheel
Playing with Barbie
playing war
exploring the neighborhood
playing in the creek
playing badminton
running races

i read a lot

I loved swimming and playing pretend with my sister. I also loved toads. I used to have a toad hut in the garden that I would check every morning and find a bunch of toads huddled up in there. I used to call it The Toad Hotel. I liked to just pet them then leave them be.

In the dirt ditch along the quiet street, with my older brother and sister, building roads and houses and towns for our Matchbox cars.

Outside of studying Fishing was big. Baseball, WWF Wrestling big time. 

My childhood ended when I was 10 in 1945 and the misery and hardship came at and after the time of ending of World War II in Germany. There was only time for survival and for being an adult.   - - - Before that I always carried paper and coloring pencils around and played outside in nature.