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Arlene Dallas · 10-30-2008, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweetcaroline

Ok, So I'm 'old'... I had a Baby Ricky doll (I Love Lucy show)
Footsie
Tip-It
Tittly-Winks
Pogo-stick MY FAV...
Play-Doh pressed onto the Sunday Comics
Barbie... Had the one with the button in her back, press and her hair grew, well you had to pull it...

I forgot all about Tip It---I ROCKED at that game! And when you mention the Sunday Funnies that reminded me of Silly Putty...you can actually still buy that stuff online

EZMONEY · 10-30-2008, 10:36 PM

Oh yeah..."stretching" the Sunday funnies with silly putty

etherence · 10-30-2008, 10:54 PM

I loved my little pony and Lady Lovely Locks...and She-Ra.

EZMONEY · 10-30-2008, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by etherence

I loved my little pony and Lady Lovely Locks...and She-Ra.

You must be around the age of my kids! 25-27

evilwomaniamshe · 10-30-2008, 11:31 PM

Ooh Can't Forget About Ants In The Pants! That Was Sooo Much Fun Anybody Remember That One, Getting The Ants Into The Blue Pants?

10-31-2008, 12:21 AM

Anyone remember the Tennis Shoe Roller Skates?

lizziep · 10-31-2008, 12:36 AM

i remember that Melanie song about the roller scates. my aunt used to sing that all the time to me when i was a little kid.

my favorite game when i was little was kerplunk because i could play it by myself. :C my parents liked to get me games & then never play w/ me.

i wasn't allowed legos cause i had a baby brother, and wasn't allowed play dough because well- it's messy. a couple weeks ago i bought myself a lego set to build a lego trebuchet! it was awesome.

oh! colorforms were one of my faves too. i had a micky mouse one and a smurfs one. <3

oh! i thought of another one i had this gray square math game- it was like speak and say or something? so much fun i dragged that thing around forever.

grneyedmustang · 10-31-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by lizziep

oh! i thought of another one i had this gray square math game- it was like speak and say or something? so much fun i dragged that thing around forever.

I had a Speak n Math and a Speak n Spell. They were so much fun! The voice was funny, though.

ANOther · 10-31-2008, 11:28 AM

Ah, now I remember another doll I had when I was little: Hedda Get Bedda! She had a head with three faces (one with measles spots and a little hole in the mouth to put a toy thermometer; one sleepy, and one awake and smiling) and a little knob on top that brought one face into view while the other two were hidden in the bonnet

LindseyLouWho · 10-31-2008, 08:02 PM

LindaT, the toy you were talking about reminded me of a Skip-It, although apparently it's just a more modern (late 1980s) Lemon Twist.

alinnell · 11-01-2008, 11:05 AM

Skip-it. Is that the thing you put around your ankle and swing it around and skip over it? It had a weighted ball on one end. I LOVED those!

happy2bme · 11-01-2008, 12:06 PM

Going back to the time when the caveman first invented toys...

- A Lassie dog
- Tiny Tears Dolls
- Venus of Paradise Colored Pencil sets - there were pictures you'd color and each part of the picture corresponded to a colored pencil so even a little kid could make these pretty pictures
- Paint on Velvet picture sets
- Tinker Toys building sets
- Chemistry sets. Now that was brilliant - give a little kid unsupervised access to a bunch of chemicals. The things my brother did with a bunsen burner in the "lab" he created in the basement under the stairs.

EZMONEY · 11-01-2008, 12:06 PM

I remember being in 5th grade ...1965...and listening to the World Series between my DODGERS and the Twins on my pocket transistor radio...way

cool

FreeSpirit · 11-01-2008, 12:19 PM

I forgot to add:

Pokemon! I didn't play the game, just collected the cards, haha.
Cabbage patch dolls.

I did so much playing outside that most of my toys were just stuffed animals and barbies, I had a few games here and there but really not too many.

LindaT · 11-01-2008, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by LindseyLouWho

LindaT, the toy you were talking about reminded me of a Skip-It, although apparently it's just a more modern (late 1980s) Lemon Twist.

Lindsey.. that's what it looked like. I had mine in the early late 60s early 70s so no idea what it was called then. .. neither of those names ring a bell but that may just because I am senile.

Thanks for finding this.. yup.. this is what the girls used to use on the play ground. I seem to remember some girls having one on each ankle sometimes and having them both going at the same time. This was so much fun. Hey I bet using this would be good exercise now

I found mine.. the search is over.. it was called the Footsie!!! http://www.timewarptoys.com/footsie.jpg Now I an stop trying to figure out what the darned thing was called... it was giving me a headache!