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No, it wasn't the Snoopy Snocone maker (which I also coveted and never got), it was this little soft sided house thingy.

― luna, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah, I don't know about monsters, I was guessing, I DEFINITELY had fashion plates for hot rods and vans!

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

OK. I actually had this:

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

― Caledonia, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

― Caledonia, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

thing where they use letraset/presstype rub-downs so you can place characters on a back-ground. Know what I mean?

Not colorforms, this was permanent. Sort of.

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

i suppose the aerobie doesn't quite qualify

― gabbneb, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

I actually broke out the box of LEGOS with the lego pirate ship pieces in it this weekend past, me & my son pooled our efforts to build a LEGO SPACE PIRATE SHIP.

― nickalicious, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

wtf no Playmobil mentions yet?

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

There have been at least 3. Two of them images!

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

nicka: there are avatar legos.

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

here

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

no playmobil images are loading for me!

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Aww, I wanted that Avatar lego to have something to do w/ Ultima.

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

the only game my brothers and i loved to play forever and ever was crossbows and catapults. my mom used to get mad because we always had to move the fridge to get the pieces out from underneath.

― Yerac, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

thing where they use letraset/presstype rub-downs so you can place characters on a back-ground. Know what I mean?

Not colorforms, this was permanent. Sort of.

You are referring to Presto Magix, my good man.

― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ooh, and the treehouse thingy - I forget if it was Fisher Price, but it was a treehouse, and you pressed down on the top of it, and it opened up and the family lived inside, and outside, there was a little bush that was the dog house. I loved that thing.

― luna, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

My sister's supersized Barbie doll with a silver spangled sequined bathing suit or dance costume, i.e., leotard

― youn, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

My Hollie Hobbie dolls - the big one - the mother - and her three daughters - although I do not remember their names

― youn, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

My yellow lab Sparkie which I gave to my niece Sabine because I am too big for toys

― youn, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yes, Presto Magix indeed! I actually have some, my sister bought me some at some hipster vintage store in chicago years ago and I've held onto it.

The treehouse sounds familiar.

One specific toy of mine was a floating gilligans island. It made bath-time fun!

And then there's Crazy Foam! All the stuff I found online is too vintage for my memories though.

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

WOW CONSTRUX!!

(multiple xposts)

― the next grozart, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

I liked this thing as a wee one:

― luna, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

This is it!

― luna, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

We had these and managed not to die:

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

when i got back from vacation, i emptied my suitcase to reveal i had unwittingly carted my (and maybe my sister's) apparently acid-influenced mid-80s Empire Strikes Back Presto Magix all over California

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's kind of alarming how many of the products on this thread that my kids actually have right now. (Not to mention that my husband continues to buy old LEGO sets off Ebay...)

― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

surely it's comforting -- these are pretty classic toys (yay hasbro!)

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

― jbsquared, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

I should probably try to enjoy the toys more myself. Time to get the Shrinky Dinks out...

― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

pound puppies!

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

GOLDEN GIRL AND THE GUARDIANS OF THE GEMSTONES

not bea arthur

― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

luna, that was one of my first Barbies.

And Fisher Price Little People! I am so annoyed that they changed the design, stupid so-called "choking hazard".

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 01:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

I had this. It came out in 1966, so I was 10. You made your own candy spiders and centipedes by squeezing sugary goop out of a tube into a mold and baking it. I can still remember the smell and taste.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

i think these were the best idea for an action figure line ever

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/foodfighters/foodfighters.html

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

― creme1, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

this is just reminding me of looking through the toy section of the sears catalogue at all the toys I never got because I was the third child and my parents just kind of got tired of buying toys.

― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

ok luna, that chicken game stole hours of my time if i remember.

― Ste, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

omg Lego set #358 from 1973!! How I loved that one.

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

(As a kid their little soldiers, growing up their kits before I realised how bad they were and moved on to other brands [/nerdy teenager])

I wish I could have done this with mine :(

Luuuuust

Also WTF?

And last but not least:

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ohmigod, I wanted but never had:

I had to make do with my brother's mechano.

I was never good at gender appropriate toys.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

I had that treehouse! Oh man!

― stevienixed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

this was my favorite toy when i was about 7

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

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Still available actually.

― everything, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's called the "Daddle" now.

― everything, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

I began to say that I rode my Dad bareback and thought better of it. :/

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

hahaha

― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Dyin' over here...

― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

VG irl lol

― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

So the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was Creepy Crawlers (and the Creeple People, Fun Flowers etc. variants.) Evidently there's a version of these plastic-molding things still being made.

― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.dicemaestro.com/games-articles/retroactive-escape-from-colditz.asp

― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

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