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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

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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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