Not exactly a toy, but I rally loved building forts with other kids from the neighborhood. There was an empty field near out house, with a beat-up old olive tre

Not exactly a toy, but I rally loved building forts with other kids from the neighborhood. There was an empty field near out house, with a beat-up old olive tree that was the base for a series of forts. After a while we moved to making forts in ~3 foot deep pits, and lining them with old carpet and covering them with discarded plywood scavenged from construction sites. I'm just starting to build forts with my own kids. They are excited about it, but not as excited as, say, playing video games. It's kind of weird, but I hardly see any kids making forts any more. In ten years or so I've seen maybe one place that would qualify as a fort. Nothing like when I was a kid.