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So I was browsing Amazon looking at what toys they have for offer and I came across this. Remember that? Man, it was like the thing to have for about five minutes in our elementary school. I can't for the life of me remember how old I was (cue: young'uns singing:"You're old, bitch!") at the time. I just know I didn't have it for long.

― stevienixed, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GS7NR6J2L._AA280_.jpg

Jon mentioned those skip-it toys from the late 80s. Well, I didn't have that - would be kinda silly for me to be playing that in high school - but I did have something similar and more prehistoric. I just remember it was orange, plastic and I was wearing fucking CLOGS when I tried it out. My parents suggested I wore shoes so it would be easier, but stubborn silly twit refused to wear anything but clogs. It took me, as a result of the clogs and my stupidity to master motoric things - a looooong time to do it successfully.

― stevienixed, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't remember those but I always wanted one of these:

http://www.sensationalbeginnings.com/images/p149B.jpg

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Hmmm, I don't think I had those either. I do remember friends having this.

They still fool kids with these:

http://www.christian-faure.net/wp-images/kinder.jpg

It's a chocolate egg and, woopeedeefuckingdoo, there's a crap toy inside.

I also miss Pong. I don't think any video game will ever beat that game. That sound.

― stevienixed, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/72/153065833_b5bf438603_m.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/70/153065834_c70ccd818a.jpg

― Jordan, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link

kinder eggs rule

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link

http://image.blog-24.com/358804.jpg

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Froebel blocks: http://www.personal.u-net.com/~lilleker/arlan/froebel.gif

Construx http://www.fnordinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/construx%2001.jpg

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Construx!

― Jordan, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link

TOMY HANDHELD WATER GAMES

http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/images/tomy/tomy-handheld-games/tomy-water-wizard-fisherman.jpg

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link

loved those games. . .

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.suburbanamerican.com/WeebleSuperHero.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.gamepile.com/images/game0402.jpg

http://giochinscatola.it/catalog/images/DarkTower_box.jpg

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link

I almost cried when I saw that 2XL thing! I was really young when that was hot.

Dark Tower!

oh man. Later on it was Crossbows and Catapults.

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link

the best part about 2XL: it's a giant hunk of plastic wrapped around an 8 track player

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link

I had Crossbows and Catapults!!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link

I had this GREBT clock from Disney World. It was Micky on a train and shouting, or rather screaming, to wake up and shit. I think I used it once. My parents flatout refused me to use it again. I still have it. A guy came into our shop once saying some kid (me!) had bought the last one at the Disney store. My mom begged me to sell it (to put herself out of the misery of having to hear the damn thing go off). He offered about 150 dollars which was a big deal at the time. I was a moron. I said no.

― stevienixed, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Crossbows and Catapults inevitably ended up with you just picking up the pieces and throwing them at your opponent yourself.

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link

don't know dark tower, but i used to love fireball island:

http://www.oaktreeent.com/web_photos/1-PPA/MB_Fireball-Island_4708_game_web.jpg

― negotiable, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I had one of these guys:

http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435/omnibot.jpg

After sitting in my closet for a few years I got interested in "how things work" and took it apart with a screw driver untill it was in a million pieces Then I felt really guilty because it had been an expensive toy, so I brought it out to the trash, it's innards spread out amongst many garbage bags brought out over time.

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

http://blog.smalldog.com/images/179.jpg

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

ha i was just going to post merlin

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.collectorsconnection.com/imagesg/36a210.jpg

http://www.gotdice.com/gamepics/kingdom.jpg

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― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.usmadetoys.com/dont%20break%20ice.jpg

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.mazeguy.net/articles/domino14.jpg

― Madchen, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000IWDO.01._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_V40824065_.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Skip It! The hula-hoop of the 80's.

http://i.s8.com.br/images/toys/cover/img8/1605058.jpg

― Caledonia, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link

I loved Crossbows & Catapults.

Other toys to get your kid to make sure he grows up into an engineering dork:

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/57/6c/pr-Toys-Education_Insights_Capsela_MX_Trooper_EI-5004-resized200.gif

http://www.roboticsandthings.com/robotix/rbx4000.gif

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/ErectorSet.jpg

And check this shit out, you can now use it to build your own mechs and lil' Patlabors:

http://www.robotshop.ca/Images/lynxmotion-servo-erector-examples.jpg

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/stretch.jpg

― Sara R-C, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.ece.uvic.ca/499/2004a/group08/images/armatron.jpg

― gabbneb, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Fashion plates!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/20060707-fashionplatesebay4pp.jpg

Miss Piggy puppet:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/image080.jpg

I Took A Lickin' From a Chicken:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/15345973_d563e23345.jpg

― luna, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Kingfish, how old are you?

I'm 32.

I had Robotix and Erector sets but that first thing, the one that floats, OMG that was my FAVORITE THING EVER! WHAT WAS IT CALLED!

And those fashion plates? I had the same thing but for monsters.

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=6273_1&v=z

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I had Fashion Plates for hot rods!

― kenan, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

OMG Fashion plates!!!!! Loved those.

― Sara R-C, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

OK, I acutally had genuinely forgotten about Fashion Plates until now.

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link

(look, I'm so overcome with nostalgia, I forgot how to type)

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link

I think I had the fashion plates for monsters. Or maybe my cousin did, since he also had 'em for hotrods (and vans!)

I'll be 31 in August.

that floaty thing is Capsela, which you can still buy. My fave capsela bit was the winch & hook thing, since grappling hooks are my fave toy accesory ever.

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link

searching for fashion plates results in this:

http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/images/fashionp.jpg

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link

There was also the Snoopy Playhouse, but I can't find a picture of it.

Plus I COVETED this thing: IMG][Removed Illegal Link]

Not nearly as cool once I got it.

― luna, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link

My nextdoor neighbor had the Snoopy Shaved Ice thing

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/western01.jpg

― luna, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

http://mollybol.50megs.com/Mollyweb/Book/Diary%20Pics/Lego%20pirate%20ship.JPG

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img.lugnet.com/display.cgi?set/new/upload/6090-1-995659677.jpg

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link

OK. I actually had this:

http://www.abitnice.com/archives/2.jpg

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0814/spread.gif

― Caledonia, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.kameramuseum.de/kurioses/playmobil-fotograf.jpg

― Caledonia, Monday, 14 May 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

i suppose the aerobie doesn't quite qualify

― gabbneb, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

wtf no Playmobil mentions yet?

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link

nicka: there are avatar legos.

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link

http://members.cox.net/sciatica/images/vinekset.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link

here

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link

no playmobil images are loading for me!

― dan selzer, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

WOW CONSTRUX!!

(multiple xposts)

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

I liked this thing as a wee one: http://www.toyzdollz.com/images/FP_Pla3_L.jpg

― luna, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link

This is it! http://thisbiochemicallife.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/7.jpg

― luna, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link

We had these and managed not to die:
http://www.markaelrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/lawndarts2.jpg

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link

http://smart.thorstenvanelten.com/smart/images/shop/product_images/724/ole%20million%20face.jpg

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mask/maskthawk2c.jpg

― jbsquared, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

pound puppies!

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link

GOLDEN GIRL AND THE GUARDIANS OF THE GEMSTONES

not bea arthur

― Yerac, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/IncredibleEdiblesBoxFoil.jpg

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 (sixteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/Burgerdierfront.jpg/180px-Burgerdierfront.jpg

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NK20.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― creme1, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― Ste, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:18 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/mtrakker85/images/mask2.jpg

― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:23 (sixteen years ago) link

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

http://img.lugnet.com/display.cgi?set/early/lego358.jpg

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.cocktaildistribution.fr/Images/Logos/Airfix.JPG
(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])

http://www.hotep.org/Supersoaker.jpg

I wish I could have done this with mine :(
http://www.caseyweldon.com/home/at-at.jpg
Luuuuust
http://www.zen77990.zen.co.uk/atat/at-at06.jpg
Also WTF?
http://www.ketzer.com/starwars/free_atats.jpg

http://www.nesplayer.com/tmnt/toys/mike.jpg

And last but not least:

http://www.tomsimpson.org/images/gijoe.jpg

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Ohmigod, I wanted but never had:

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/ErectorSetBox.jpg
http://www.brinq.com/workshop/images/erectorsets.jpg

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 (sixteen years ago) link

I had that treehouse! Oh man!

― stevienixed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link

this was my favorite toy when i was about 7

http://www.liketotally80s.com/images/hotlooksdolls-1.jpg

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Hur hur hur "Erector" hur hur hur

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, it goes with cooties/ Uh, I think.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/SpirographBox.jpg

― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link

I had that treehouse thing! And I *still* have fashion plates. . .

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link

We had Fashion Wheel in the UK, which was basically the same thing but round and you could twist it so the parts matched up with each other. After much begging, I finally got one (from a Jumble Sale).

― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link

MASK was SOOOO budget....hey it's a camaro, and when you open the doors, it flies!

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link

spirograph!

i loved the mask toys.

― negotiable, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.aliviastoys.com/popples/puffballt2.gif

― negotiable, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.travelingwithkids.com/images/YK--9_Frame--1.jpg

i think these were american. one shop in byres rd sold them, and i would pester my mum to buy me one. occasionally it worked! i loved the smell of the pens.

― zappi, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.areyougame.com/images/items/KN00920.jpg

I hated that you could only build the same thing over and over again. But I loved how the peices all fit together.

Those lawn darts bring back the smell of whisky and cigarettes on my Grandma's breath.

― King Kitty, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link

i swear to god that popple was dancing a minute ago.

― negotiable, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link

aww..i had that lickin' from a chicken game! just looking at that picture brings back exactly how those buttons felt.

most coveted in my neighborhood:

http://www.toyadz.com/toyadz/marx/greenmachine2d.jpg

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link

The Sunshine Family - and their van.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.irememberjfk.com/mt/graphics/whee-lo.jpg

― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link

magic slate
http://www.landofthelost.com/slate2.jpg

― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link

OMG so many things here that i remember... the evil knievel wind-up bike thing, the lawn darts, spirograph, merlin...

gotta rep some MECCANO action
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― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link

god DAMN
http://www.usmeccano.com/outfits/outimage/1938us4meccbig.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/00/250px-Meccano_model_Steam_shovel_excavator.jpg

― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link

i guess meccano broke ilx

― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/services/demos/demosd4/d4-25.gif

― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link

also loved GIRDER AND PANEL
http://www.toys-n-cars.com/images/images2/gpset.jpg
http://www.drtoy.com/images/items/4980.jpg

it's amazing i didn't wind up going into engineering or contruction...

― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.creativeplay.com.au/images/toys_big/c473.jpg

― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link

i was just thinking of elastics!

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link

This thread reminds me of the Swing Wing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlodeFptcMo

― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link

for the pool:

http://edge2.hotshed.com/images/649/649221_1_215.jpg

also "Sunberg" the rainbow colored floating beanbag

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link

which reminds me... FUN FOUNTAIN

http://static.flickr.com/44/126934091_1605f3b645_o.jpg

― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link

eww...john wayne gacy spraying all over your kids.

game and watch, people!! like OMG its a game that has a clock too!!

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― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link

damn

http://www.retrogame-shop.com/shop/images/game%20and%20watch.jpg

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link

holy SHIT I had that donkey kong. played it TOO MUCH.

― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link

I wanted Donkey Kong, but mum bought me Donkey Kong II. (still have it!)

I'm so glad y'all remember the chicken thing, too - I was so depserate to have it when I heard about it, but all I really remember doing was playing tic tac toe against the chicken.

― luna, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Also her: http://www.abundancetools.com/images/sscherself.jpg and a few of her friends (of whom I only remember Blueberry Muffin, Huckleberry Pie, and Lemon Merengue.)

― luna, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link

I was so happy when Nintendo released the DS...that nintendo would purposefully reference their old Game + Watch toys. Snoopy Tennis was the best.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Dan S - what's the red thing you posted yesterday? I'm talking about the one that looks like a telephone. I know that I had one and but I can't for the life of me remember what it was!

Also, anyone remember Herself the Elf? I had those dolls along with all the strawberry shortcake ones.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Merlin?

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes, that's it! Thanks.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link

i kinda wanted to punch strawberry shortcake in the face.

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Constructs, wow. and Fireball Island!! Here's another I loved, especially the robot voice that came out of it:

http://atlanta.metblogs.com/archives/images/2005/11/speak_spell.JPG

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link

and of course:
http://crzsound.com/image/smath.jpg

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

what is spelled with a # ?

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link

and whoever posted Ole Million Face brought back so many memories for me. thanks!!! (though i never knew that was what he was called)

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

one for the australians:

http://www.pospisil.com.au/vintage/wizzard/dswlogo.gif

http://www.1000bit.net/lista/dati/vtech/wizzard/Dick%20Smith%20Wizzard%20(3).jpg

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link

huge! sorry

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link

some might remember these:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/a2/250px-Pog_Collection.jpg

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

pog

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link

i know this isn't a physical toy, but i truly loved this game:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/games/drg000/g011/g01172b9e5b.jpg

http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/pic/eyeofthebeholder2-a.jpg

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.burncopy.com/pogs/

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link

http://classictoysoldiers.com/photos/ACC009.jpg

― Michael White, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Those spelling games I remember from visiting Houston when I was about 12. The kid (of the family we were staying with) had it.

i think these were american. one shop in byres rd sold them, and i would pester my mum to buy me one. occasionally it worked! i loved the smell of the pens.

We had'em here as well. Well, I think so. Some kid I knew used it during her exams. Had stolen some official exam paper and had scribbled everything on it for the next exam. hahaha

And Donkey Kong! I had that. My parents and I would play that shit for hours.

Anyone who dares to post a pic of My Little Poney, gets his ass beaten for 3093093 hours straight. Those things are evil. I know, my daughter got one for a present and that fucking thing leered at me from across the room.

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link

large_appliance_cardboard_box.jpg

― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.vidgame.net/Milton_Bradley/simon.jpg

― Rob Bolton, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg http://www.allthatstuff.net/Pony/mylittlepony.jpg

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

pony loves you!

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link

I only have a torso and one arm left:
http://www.toymania.com/columns/spotlight/images/s1micronautstitle.jpg

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link

http://tvcream.squarespace.com/storage/photos/dolls/big-yellow.jpg

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link

This, Luna?

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9gnMimvfktG15oAzzCjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=12ir74q7b/EXP=1179439151/**http%3A//www.world-of-collectibles.com/images/cartoon/pntpdh.jpg

― Michael White, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:1REvAUk6WnvqUM:http://www.spacejunk.org/80sblog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/wetbanana1.jpg
Wet Banana, the backyard danger with the banana-shaped sprinkler.

― jocelyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/RealGhostBusters1.jpg
My brother had this. It took forever to put together.

― jocelyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah, but i had #2 too

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link

"holes".

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Haha, Speak & Spell.

"Spell wkfjsdjfljdsf"

??? *Repeat*

"Spell wkfjsdjfljdsf"

― Madchen, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.hobby-city.ca/images/balsa1.jpg

― gabbneb, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

Was your treehouse a Berenstain Bears one?

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

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

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

To be technically accurate this thread would have no answers.

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

Simon was the best.

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

(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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

I was way into my Big Trak.

Also, ZOIDS.

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

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

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

OMG, I forgot about that.

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

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

http://stevegarufi.com/toys1.jpg

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

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

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

OH! I had that plane!!!

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (twelve years ago) link

ahahaha

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

Still available actually.

http://www.delivercenter.com/images/daddle_baby_shower_gift_idea.jpg

― everything, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link

It's called the "Daddle" now.

― everything, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link

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

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link

hahaha

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

Dyin' over here...

― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

VG irl lol

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

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.

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/CreepyCrawlersBox2.jpg

― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link

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

http://www.dicemaestro.com/graphics/ColditzMainImage.jpg

― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link

eleven years pass...

World’s last dedicated Meccano factory to close in France

Now the last dedicated Meccano factory in the world is being closed and dismantled. The Canadian company that owns Meccano has said the plant at Calais will close at the beginning of 2024, putting 51 people out of work. It blamed the soaring cost of raw materials and “a lack of competitiveness” for the closure.
Spin Master, which bought the brand in 2013, said Meccano toys would continue to be produced by its “network of partners in Europe, Asia and Latin America”.
“We have no other choice than to envisage the end of industrial activity at the Calais factory,” Spin Master said in a statement, adding that the factory had “never managed to break even” in spite of receiving €7m (£6.1m) in investment since 2014.
Jean-François Sandrass, who has worked at the Calais factory for almost 40 years, said the staff had not expected the shutdown. “We were stunned … some were even crying. We were expecting reduced working hours, but not the closure of the factory,” he said.
He said the company did not appear to be in financial trouble. “They’ve told us for the last two or three years that we were gradually getting back on track, and in 2021 we had a positive year. And suddenly the board says: ‘It’s been 10 years that money has been injected, and it hasn’t worked’. We are part of a major group that has made enormous profits.”

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 25 February 2023 04:18 (one year ago) link

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