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― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:07 (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
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
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
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
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.”
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