Gift Idea: U.B. Funkeys™ Speed Racer Starter Kit | Gift Giveaway: U.B. Funkeys Speed Racer Starter Kit

Gift Giveaway: U.B. Funkeys Starter Kit

July 11, 2008
Posted by: Laura S.

One of the biggest toy trends to explode this year is web based collectibles. They allow kids to interact with virtual worlds and give parents the peace of mind with safe web play. One of my favorites is the U.B Funkeys collection.

These vinyl pop collectibles are full of personality and come in all different colors and themes. It's a great birthday gift for kids who are computer savvy and have big imaginations. Using a central hub that plugs into a USB port, each "Funkey" connects to the hub and appears on the screen. After loading the game software, kids can trade and collect different characters to unlock more of their Funkey worlds and deck out their virtual "cribs".

We're giving away the U.B Funkeys Speed Racer Starter Kit which includes a hub, two U.B Funkeys character figures and PC software. Join Speed and his gang and race the Mach 5 online with your friends.

Want to win? Post a comment below and tell us about your favorite childhood toy by 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday, July 17. One comment per person please, multiple comments will be discarded. Click here to read the official rules.

U.B Funkeys Speed Racer Starter Kit starting at $18.90

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I wasn’t a tom-boy or anything but I loved to ride my brothers Green Machine (big wheel). Also Hippity Hoops were cool too!

Posted by jwolf | July 11, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

By far, my favorite childhood toy was my Barbie dolls and all their accompanying accessories. My best friend and I had hours of fun playing make-believe with them.

Posted by greenyourdecor | July 11, 2008 @ 1:54 pm

The best toy by far from my childhood would have to be good old-fashioned, Lego’s. I remember spending hours, sitting on my floor building animals and flowers and little houses. Now that I have my own kids, I buy them legos…and sometimes still play with them. Genuine classic.

Posted by nicnicole80 | July 11, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

I loved playing with my Barbies and their homes. Over the years, I had set up the ski chalet and then they would go cruising, camping and then take the sports car home. I still collect barbies, but they live in their boxes (for now).

Posted by thebean00 | July 12, 2008 @ 3:56 pm

I absolutely loved my Krissy doll. She had a turquoise dress and reddish hair that extended when a button on her back was pushed. If pushed again, her hair would go back to being short. It was the best doll ever!

Posted by blueviolet | July 12, 2008 @ 4:14 pm

My favorite childhood toy was not this cool! I played a lot outside on sidewalk with my Barbies *gasp* and I loved to scribble with chalk all over the neighborhood walkways!

Posted by mannequin | July 12, 2008 @ 9:14 pm

Hello! I had a “Casper the Ghost” game that I loved when I was a child. There was a mini Casper that was magnetic and the wand moved him along. I think your rolled dice to see where you could take him along the route to win. He glowed in the dark.! No one I ever knew had the game and I have never seen it since I had mine. Please enter me in your delightful contest drawing. Thanks, Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com

Posted by windycindy | July 13, 2008 @ 3:32 am

My favorite childhood toy was my electronic pinball hand held game.

Posted by randoltl | July 15, 2008 @ 5:43 pm

I had a stuffed animal that I slept with till it was completely worn out. I wasn’t sure if it was a bear or a dog, so I named it “Teddy-Dog”.

Posted by fangirl | July 15, 2008 @ 7:29 pm

fave childhood toys were star wars dolls, we had lots and lots of them

Posted by chromiumman | July 15, 2008 @ 7:31 pm

Love your site for one thing! My favorite Toy was my poodle dog doll called petina. She had white cotton hair and a human body with a poodle tail. I tell ya its been 35 years and i still have her. I will never get rid of that doll.

Posted by MCJunkie | July 15, 2008 @ 8:00 pm

My favorite childhood toy was a weird Jaws shark game. It’s mouth was rigged with a rubber band. It’s stomach held various plastic stuff that a shark might swallow. You had to reach inside it’s mouth to remove th stuff without triggering the shark’s teeth to snap closed. My sister andI played that game for hours and hours.

Posted by tmf315 | July 15, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

My favorite was incredible edibles. Lord knows how many toxins we ingested but we loved every bit.

Posted by ky2here | July 15, 2008 @ 8:49 pm

i’d have to say my favorite childhood game was hide and seek. My sister, the girls next door and the kid down the street would play this all the time. My family had a big back yard and a whole bunch of junk in it! So it was easy to hide and not be found to easily!

Posted by doozercries | July 15, 2008 @ 9:29 pm

Had to be a toss up between my Curious George or my Sunshine Family. I still have both. I also have my Cabbage Patch Dolls. I really loved them too. My favorite was a premie whom I named Kirk Michael after Kirk Cameron of Growing Pains

Posted by ksh123 | July 15, 2008 @ 11:13 pm

My favorite childhood toy was my lifesized doll called Walking Wendy.

Posted by sl1038 | July 15, 2008 @ 11:25 pm

I loved my “Speak and Spell”.

Posted by jashelep23 | July 15, 2008 @ 11:52 pm

Probably tinker toys or lincoln logs… or maybe matchbox cars. I loved those things.

Posted by ghostamongyou | July 16, 2008 @ 12:57 am

My fav toy was my Alphie. It was this computer robot toy that you played games on and he talked to you. He was the only thing i wanted for christmas one year and I loved it!

Posted by MCosumano | July 16, 2008 @ 1:59 am

My favorite childhood toy was my Barbie Doll - thank you for the contest

Posted by berwyn | July 16, 2008 @ 3:00 am

My favorite childhood toy was the Fisher Price Little People sets- lame compared to this :/

Posted by freakdujour | July 16, 2008 @ 3:28 am

My favorite childhood toy was my glow worm stuffed animal. I used to take that little guy everywhere!

Posted by super3natural | July 16, 2008 @ 3:42 am

We didn’t play with lots of toys when I grew up, we played outside, sure, all the girls had dolls and barbies and the boys had their trucks and soldiers but it was Mother Nature we played with most so does that count?

Posted by sabb266 | July 16, 2008 @ 4:16 am

my favorite childhod toy was barbie. I only had one and I felt that she was my most treasured possession. I imagined that one day I would lead the life of barbie. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and able to work in many different career fields. The result? Well I never had barbies figure

Posted by teechbiz | July 16, 2008 @ 6:32 am

my stuffed monkey he was the best

Posted by toughturtles | July 16, 2008 @ 7:33 am

this looks so fun and cute.

Posted by vboackle | July 16, 2008 @ 8:27 am

I loved my basketball, but also my Barbies.

Posted by coachsusie | July 16, 2008 @ 8:32 am

This is cute. I’d love to win!

Posted by myntric | July 16, 2008 @ 8:52 am

My favorite childhood toys were my Barbie dolls!

Posted by bfox74 | July 16, 2008 @ 9:58 am

My family loved to play board games and my favorite was Stock Market.

Posted by idahomom | July 16, 2008 @ 10:16 am

I would have to say my smurf collection, teehee!

Posted by k_cook30 | July 16, 2008 @ 10:28 am

My favorite childhood toy is Barbie Doll

Posted by llinda29 | July 16, 2008 @ 12:33 pm

A small farm set, complete with barn and animals.

Posted by Sunnyvale | July 16, 2008 @ 1:05 pm

I had a red haired Madam Alexander doll that I just loved.

Posted by arvard | July 16, 2008 @ 2:24 pm

My favorite toy of my childhood was my Cabbage Patch Kids. I would play with them for hours. Also my Crystal Castle and She-Ra Figurines. Ahhh the memories.

Posted by mogrill | July 16, 2008 @ 2:25 pm

My favorite toy growing up was my Easy Bake oven

Posted by susan1215 | July 16, 2008 @ 3:47 pm

my sewing machine, I spent alot of time making dresses for my Barbie dolls

Posted by bison61 | July 16, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

Major Matt Mason and his spaceship station!

Posted by saturdaynightfever | July 16, 2008 @ 5:44 pm

Major Matt Mason and his space station!

Posted by saturdaynightfever | July 16, 2008 @ 5:45 pm

I had a Mrs. Beasly doll like the one Buffy had on “Family Affair”.

Posted by Bakersdozen | July 16, 2008 @ 6:04 pm

My favorite was a Barbie Doll

Posted by neneelynn | July 16, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

I had a stuffed animal that I slept with till it was completely worn out.

Posted by dhunt | July 16, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

Mine was a stuffed rabbit!

Posted by loki | July 16, 2008 @ 10:04 pm

Enter Me !

Posted by ktgonyea | July 16, 2008 @ 10:12 pm

I loved any kind of board game!

Posted by nesta67 | July 16, 2008 @ 10:24 pm

my brothers and I use to love Lincoln Logs. We use to make Fred Flintstone style cars out of the smaller ones and build great little towns.

Posted by typhi | July 16, 2008 @ 11:50 pm

Sad to say, but my favorite toy was the ones my brothers (and there were many!!) were playing with at the time. Being the only girl for many years made me learn to stand up for myself very quickly. My mother gave up on the dolls and frilly stuff and eventually caved and got me the cars along with my brother. On the other hand, my son and I have been fans of UB funkeys since the beginning, but I hadn’t seen the racer set as of yet. This would be awesome for us to play with! Thanks

Posted by pauline15 | July 17, 2008 @ 12:13 am

paper dolls with real hair !

Posted by jmahurin40 | July 17, 2008 @ 5:48 am

i had a mrs beasley doll she was a little old lady with glasses with a blue and white polka dot dress

Posted by klp1965 | July 17, 2008 @ 7:42 am

my fave childhood toy were the fisher price little people and the weeble wobbles

Posted by dementeddoll | July 17, 2008 @ 11:12 am

I loved my ‘Growing Hair’ Barbie that had a kind of retractable pony tail

Posted by ShellyJ | July 17, 2008 @ 12:53 pm

seems a little funny now because i haven’t really thought about it but playing jacks was my favorite. don’t know why because i had barbies that i played with. jacks just stand out as the favorite.

Posted by oldchix | July 17, 2008 @ 12:53 pm

I spent hours and hours with my LEGO collection. I miss it!

Posted by Nesie | July 17, 2008 @ 1:23 pm

Barbie dolls!

Posted by mrstrooper | July 17, 2008 @ 1:58 pm

definitely Barbie! i always made up the weirdest stories for my dolls, i think that would explain my behavior now, hahaha! oh yeah, i also made clothes for them, i loved doing that!

Posted by samanthapayntr | July 17, 2008 @ 3:55 pm

i really loved playing monopoly with my family, i loved it so much that i would play it with myself, hahah! now i have the computer game so i don’t have to play alone, hahah!

Posted by anniehall4000 | July 17, 2008 @ 5:55 pm

My favorite was my barbie doll and her closet.

Posted by sohamolina | July 17, 2008 @ 6:38 pm

I had a big teddy bear that I loved very much!

Posted by lilyk | July 17, 2008 @ 6:59 pm

I loved little people the old fashioned kind. I had the farm the school house the plane… I loved that you can carry them everywhere also had my flatsies as I got a little bigger LOL thanks for giveaway and reminding me of my favorite toys.

Posted by jo1brat | July 17, 2008 @ 8:08 pm

slinky garrettsambo@aol.com

Posted by garrettsambo | July 17, 2008 @ 8:47 pm

I loved Barbie dolls. My friends would come over with their dolls and we’d play for hours. I also loved My Little Pony!

Posted by mommyof3inva | July 17, 2008 @ 9:35 pm

My favorite were my Barbie dolls. My other favorite was lemon twist. It goes around one foot and you swing it around and jump over it. We use to have lemon twist races, it was so much fun.

Posted by pinkadot | July 17, 2008 @ 9:42 pm

I loved my baby dolls.

Posted by donnak4 | July 17, 2008 @ 10:30 pm

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