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Yes, Michael! Haha - I forgot they had a beanbag!

― luna, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Was your treehouse a Berenstain Bears one?

― Michael White, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

No, it was the Little People one that I posted the picture of.

― luna, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

To be technically accurate this thread would have no answers.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Luna, I had Fashion Plates! And I had Strawberry Shortcake and her friend Orange Blossom. Also those little plastic Smurf figurines!

Anyone remember Sweet Secrets?

― franny glass, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was slightly obsessed with the Sunshine Family - and their van.
I also had the West dolls - they were horseback riding dolls, and they were all blue except for their heads. And they were jointed, and plastic, and the horses were ginormous.

I too recall the disconnect between playing with toys and, um - smoking pot? because i remember promising myself when i grew up i was going to watch cartoons and play with barbies ALL DAY LONG! Unlike the stupid adults in my life. (This is because I wasn't allowed to watch cartoons and only had one Barbie and no accessories.)

― aimurchie, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://peebucket.com/sitebuilder/images/mr_1_.mouth-172x144.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://supermario30.googlepages.com/simon_screen1.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Simon was the best.

― dan selzer, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

i am so sorry this is the first time i have looked at this thread

i freakin loved fashion plates!
and i think i still have western barbie in a box somewhere! (not here)

i also had barbie's dream kitchen, which smelled like cookies if those cookies were made entirely of melted plastic and vanilla

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

omg haha - they even say 'it smells like cookies'!!
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/1359/

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

(that was the year we lived with our grandparents aka the year of actually getting ridiculous toys we wanted incl cabbage patch kids)

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

we also had this at my dad's - hours of fun knocking people into the pit. kind of terrifying tbh. but fun! we even painted the 3d game pieces. jabba was particularly ugly in plastic green form what with uneven red blobs of paint for eyes. i remember being pretty adamant abt getting the green mixed right so it wld be the perfect green-yellow-brown colour.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/502846246_578411a8d7_o.jpg

i recall it being more substantial than this. but uh, no, it is made of light cardboard...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/502846280_c65085440c_o.jpg

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

haha wait all the pieces were already pre-painted - but look at jabba, all pale and not gross enough. why did we get to paint jabba?? i think we were also going through a model-making phase.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

I was in two toy shops yesterday sadly enough. I stood in front of the Revell kits thinking sad thoughts about when and where I could find the time to make them. Still though, it was nice to see all the packaging etc was the same! I was shocked when the first one had Academy brand, imports howya? Madness!

― kv_nol, Friday, 18 May 2007 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Dominic had a Starship Enterprise that flicked counters. I was so jealous!

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/2606_6939_3.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://journeyguy.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/kenner_stretch_armstrong.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

This thread reminds me that my in-laws have an old Fisher Price Little People house that features an open-fire cooking situation in the kitchen and a color television in the living room. The kids like to play with it; the adults like to laugh at it.

― Sara R-C, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://toegristle.com/collab/bigtrak/images/bigtrak.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

stretch was already posted Joe!

But that BigTrak thing is ringing some bells. Did you program it on the back?

― dan selzer, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is making me tear up a little.

Here are a few I didn't see.

http://static.flickr.com/41/92738125_b1afc238b3_m.jpg
http://www.feelingretro.com/toy_img/inchworm.jpg

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, BigTrak was programmable. It also had a dump truck like trailer too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

My kids have a Sit and Spin! But the new models come with a button that you can hit which plays obnoxious music (it seems like all modern toys are obnoxiously noisy).

― Sara R-C, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

My cousins had one of these. I wonder if it's still in my Aunt's basement, somewhere.

http://www.mykey3000.com/cosmicteams/jla/img/collectibles/showntell.jpg

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I was way into my Big Trak.

Also, ZOIDS.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think pretty much everyone my age had one of these.
http://www.fpclub.org/dog2.JPG

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I forgot about that.

http://www.collectorsconnection.com/images9/22a717.jpg

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, you beat me to it with the phone -- but found htis instead:

http://www.fmft.net/archives/gunphone/South%20African%20Nokia.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

BANDAI! I still have a couple of these. I have this one:

http://www.figures.com/databases/news/cooljt/12/1.jpg

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/53/165898461_80f6baa10d_o.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I have this one, too!
http://moshi-moshi.com/osc/images/untitled.bmp
http://www.wildtoys.com/shogun/ShogCol/Dragun_150.gif

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://stevegarufi.com/toys1.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bagofnothing.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/splane.jpg

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

OH! I had that plane!!!

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Looking back, Fisher Price pretty much had a monopoly on toddler toys in the late seventies.
http://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images/images-ok/2000s/FP2205-EB248938595-B.jpg

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

We should have a separate thread: "at what age did your pyromaniac tendencies take over and you destroyed those forgotten toys w/ fireworks or BB gun"

― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I owned more FP little people sets than I remembered. The plane, garage, the city, etc.

Nearly everyone I knew owned the farm.

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

the first x-mas i can consciously remember i got a little people zoo playset with animals and zookeepers and stuff

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I still have this childhood toy (the submarine):
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/af222/WEEBLES/SETTINGS/SUBM.jpg

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

at what age did your pyromaniac tendencies take over and you destroyed those forgotten toys w/ fireworks or BB gun

Funny I was just mentioning this yesterday

― Michael White, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

there's also a picture of 2-year-old latebloomer with birthday cake all over his face and carrying his brand new little people toy helicopter

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone remember Sweet Secrets?

Yes! My sister and the neighbor girl were into these, sort of a charm bracelet version of Transformers. Neighbor had the house which was pretty cool. No one else remembers them though. It's funny how you kind of assume the toys you played with must have been the really popular ones of the era, even though it just ends up being what caught your dad's eye at Service Merchandise or whatever. But for a simple twist of fate you would reminisce about entirely different toys that occupied endless weeks of childhood.

For me, it was as much yard-sale Playmobil as could possibly be attained, populating a world of wooden blocks and miscellaneous plastic monsters et cetera. I was talking the other day with some people about this and discovered that to many, this kind of toy integration was considered some sort of sacrilege - to me it was just so natural!

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

I had a matchbox car version of that parking ramp thing, folded up into a little suitcase.

― dan selzer, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

do kids still play with toy cars ? i assume they do, so have the toy cars come along in any advanced way like do they have any steering mechanism yet? i always hoped for some kind of pressure sensitive side doors that would control the front wheels.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:13 (sixteen years ago)

I am too old for the toys in this thread, but the most badass toy I ever owned was probably Horrible Hamilton:

http://thegalleryofmonstertoys.com/60swing/hambug.jpg

― Aimless, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/53/165898461_80f6baa10d_o.jpg

one of these has passed through like 30 years worth of children in my family.

― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/1965_catalog_daddysaddle-781x1024.jpg

― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

ahahaha

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 18:49 (fourteen years ago)

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