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Wet Banana, the backyard danger with the banana-shaped sprinkler.

― jocelyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

My brother had this. It took forever to put together.

― jocelyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

my most nostalgic things are two toys that were kept at my grandparents, so I only played with them once a year on our annual trip to ohio.

1. Some sort of glow in the dark and/or backlit playhouse type thing that may or may not have been related to the Disneyworld Haunted House.

2. A really cool set of wooden building blogs with a wholes in them and grooves on them and you'd drop a metal marble on it at the end and it'd go.

vague, I know.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah, but i had #2 too

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

"holes".

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

Haha, Speak & Spell.

"Spell wkfjsdjfljdsf"

??? *Repeat*

"Spell wkfjsdjfljdsf"

― Madchen, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

ok i totally remember (but had totally forgotten!) girder and panel, but don't remember it being called that - was there a different name in the US?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

― gabbneb, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

i played with toys until i was like, um, 15. kind of embarassing, but true! anyway i remember when toys were no longer fun, it was really depressing. even like 5 years ago me and my sisters tried to play with barbies and it was just boring.

― homosexual II, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's true, it is depressing when you realize that toys are no longer fun. I remember my own breaking point: sometime when I was 12 or so, I interrupted my GI Joe playing session to see if there were any good songs on my favorite radio stations that I could tape. It felt like I was trying to hold on to the kind of innocence of playing with action figures, but the music won. I couldn't go back and forth any longer between the radio and the GI Joes.

― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― luna, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

Was your treehouse a Berenstain Bears one?

― Michael White, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― luna, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

To be technically accurate this thread would have no answers.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Simon was the best.

― dan selzer, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

(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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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.

i recall it being more substantial than this. but uh, no, it is made of light cardboard...

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

This thread is making me tear up a little.

Here are a few I didn't see.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

I was way into my Big Trak.

Also, ZOIDS.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think pretty much everyone my age had one of these.

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

OMG, I forgot about that.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have this one, too!

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

OH! I had that plane!!!

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

Looking back, Fisher Price pretty much had a monopoly on toddler toys in the late seventies.

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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