Here it is again, back by popular demand, the National Toy Hall of Fame Nominees thread!

The twelve choices this year have been announced and it is once again an eclectic bunch. If you were to vote which three would you pick?

National Toy Hall of Fame Reveals 12 Finalists

Battleship

C'mon! Why isn't this already in? I think that Battleship has been on the ballot for at least three years now. I have three classic sets on my game shelf plus Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean variants.


Catan

This is a pretty cool game, especially with people who aren't into the "kill everybody" type of games. It's a competition to build the best place and there isn't any combat. It can be quite competitive even so.


Connect Four

I'll let you in on a little secret on how to win this game every time! Always go first.


Cornhole

Horseshoes Junior is definitely easier on the rotator cuff than it's Iron Age counterpart.


Furby

I hate these things. My daughter had one and it freaked me out. Worked in the restaurant business so would get home at 2-3 in the morning sometimes. Creeping through the house trying not to wake anyone up and that beast would start chirping. I was so happy when it's batteries died.


Scooter

Never got into the skateboard with a steering column as I graduated straight from Big Wheel to Bicycle. No Tricycle, no training wheels, straight to a Schwinn.


Slime

What a waste of ... huh? I watched some Nickelodeon when I was younger but I never felt the need to play with any slime. Gross.


Snow

This is another one of those ridiculous nominations like sand, the stick and a cardboard box that were nominated and got in. I mean, why not nominate "Imagination" as a toy already?


Spirograph

We had one of these as a kid. It was a'ight. Little monotonous. But the circles, oh the circles!


Star Wars Light Saber

I love how they specify that this is the "Star Wars" Lightsaber. That will make sure you don't get it confused as the Buck Rogers Lightsaber or the Eight is Enough Lightsaber or the Baywatch Lightsaber.


Tickle Me Elmo

Not the creepiest muppet. Looking at you Grover.


Trivial Pursuit

OK, I'll come clean. As a kid I read all the cards one time. Took a couple of days and in all honesty I didn't remember all of the answers but I did get a lot of them. Hey, I was learning though! My brothers and sister learned too. Not to trust me.


So what do you think? Gimme three!

Battleship - Loved playing this. I thought it was already in.

Connect Four - Fun for little kids.

Trivial Pursuit - Great game.

Battleship was always a favorite growing up.

Slime was a distinctly 80's phenomenon that was everywhere in my childhood.

Scooter was not a toy--it was a child's means of transportation.

Spirograph was another staple for pre-seven-year-old me.

I honestly have never heard of Catan.

Trivial Pursuit--I always liked trivia as a kid, and really wanted to play this game. In 5th or 6th grade, a friend of mine had this at home, and I convinced him to play it (he knew better). Much to my dismay, I hated the game, because all the trivia was stuff only adults would know. Finally I got excited because I got a question I knew the answer to: What was the first live death to occur on television? Since the 25th anniversary of the JFK assassination was the year before and was on all the talk shows, I knew the answer: JFK.

Wrong. It was Lee Harvey Oswald that was shot live on tv. The Zapruder film wasn't even leaked to the public until the seventies.

Deflated that I couldn't get one answer right, we put the game away. Maybe to play with snow.