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Toys from the Past!
i was watching a show on tv about some older toys and it got me remembering what i used to love to play with as a young child.. im 44 now.. but here were some of my faves:)
1. close and play record player 2. ker plunk 3. jacks 4. big ole yellow tonka dump truck lol 5. barbies (wish i still had some of those.. would be worth something prob) 6. dont break the ice 7. dont spill the beans 8. cinnimon( doll with red hair and if you pushed in the belly button you could make her hair longer with a pull lol) 9. clackers 10. pet rock when i was 11 lol any of you have any fond memories of toys from your past?? |
Pet rock - - lol I remember those cause I had one!
Rock'em Sock'em Robots Mouse Trap Matchbox cars (my all time favorite toy as a kid) Rubik's cube - couldn't do it then, can't do it now GI Joe - I never had a Ken doll so I used my brother's GI Joe (w/duct tape to keep the arm on) instead Easy Bake Oven and Incredible Edibles |
she-ra and he-man are my faves lol my daughter has my moms midge, ken and skipper dolls but they def aren't worth money after being in my kid's hands lol
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I loved Barbies (never had a Ken doll so we used my brother's GI Joe)
Rock'em Sock'em Robots Troll dolls Jacks esp. at school Chinese jumpropes Hot Wheels Monopoly Mousetrap Easy Bake Oven Lots of dolls CandyLand Chatty Cathy (my favorite) |
Oh funny. I just flashed back to spending summers at my grandmother's place and the things we used to play together.
Mousetrap LiteBrite Pickup Sticks Lemon Twist Chinese checkers And anyone remember that marble game - similar to a Chinese checkers board with marbles, but the goal was to get just one marble left in the center? I used to play that for HOURS. My grandmom could win it every time. |
thanks photochick for reminding me about litebright.. cant believe i forgot that one.. used to spend hours doing the pages that came with, as well as making up my own....
also forgot to add spirograph.. think that was what it was called lol |
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Anyone remember POGS?!. I have like 2 garbage bags FULL of pogs. Sweet game!. :)
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Oh man,
Jacks (I still have my set!) spirograph, litebrite Stretch Armstrong and Stretch Monster Growing up Skipper (if you cranked her arm, she grew an inch and also grew boobs!) Tiffany Taylor doll, you could spin her scalp around to switch her from a red-head to a brunette The Barbie Dream House Hot tracks and match box cars Lincoln Logs and Tinkertoys! |
Oh! I am such an '80's babe! I loved my Voltron!
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Barbies. Beanie Babies. My little Pony Shoots and Ladders Those little electronic animals that you fed and stuff... Legos |
I had 2 Barbies (one blonde, one brunette) but never a Ken, Skipper (Growing Up or otherwise) or Midge, or any of her peripherals; I had a Charmin' Chatty which was a talking doll with records you could change. And I had Tinkertoys and (all this in the 60s mind you) some toy cars and a toy wild-west gun (!) Hmmm, after all these years I've kind of forgotten most of the toys I had (I think a lot of them went unopened)
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My dolls were my favorite toys...barbie, Ken, Midge, Francie, Skipper, Tammy, Ted, etc. I still have all of my dolls at my moms house along with my multiple cases of clothes. Other faves:
1. Spirograph 2. Hula Hoop 3. Roller skates (remember the ones you strapped onto your shoes and adjusted with a key?) 4. Slinky 5. Easy Bake oven 6. Sorry, Parcheesi, Tip It, Monopoly, Life All of my toys are still in great shape in my moms basement, along with my other two sisters toys. I try to convince my mom to sell them on ebay...some of them are worth a FORTUNE |
Kiddles - little tiny dolls that came in all sorts of things.. tiny soda bottles, jewelry lockets. etc
Barbies - I still have a bunch of mine. Green Ghost - a glow in the dark board type game Chrissy - yank the blonde hair out the top of her head to make it longer and then use the dial on her back to make it shorter. Operation - i hated that game. You touched the sides of the game the wrong way and it made this Gawd awful BUZZZ The game of Life Clackers Dawn dolls Legos The Masterpiece Game - you bought paintings? I liked this game.. cant remember why There was this toy - cannot remember the name. It was a small yellow hoop you wore around one ankle. Attached to the hoop was a long line and a red bell shapped platic thing at the end. you spun this thing around one ankle and hoped over it with the other foot.. The really coordinated girls had one going on each ankle.. not me |
Linda,
I remember something called Lemon Up that sounds similar but I guess the plastic thing had to have been yellow. This was a hit, along with hopscotch. Clackers - oh gosh, I saw a set recently and they were dangerous. I can still recall the bruises on my hands. My favorite Barbie had painted on hair and three wigs you could use - blond, brunette and redhead. How about Mystery Date, Twister, etch-a-sketch, hula hoops - maybe I'm too old. ;) Katie |
Barbies
My Little Ponies Trolls play food Mall Maddness Dream Phone Cabbage Patch dolls Furbys Giga Pets Light Bright Pogs & Slammers Easy Bake Oven this one doll that crawled..lol this other doll that would light up Rainbow Brite Carebears the McDonalds toys..especially the Barbies!! |
Wow Linda-you brought back even more memories so I am guessing we are about the same age. I LOVED Kiddles..especially the ones in the perfume bottles and locket necklaces and I had all of the Dawn dolls and their outfits-I am going to have to look at mine when I go home for Thanksgiving. And yes, I had Velvet and Chrissy too...I loved the Orange lace dress that Chrissy came in. And I almost cracked our living room TV with my clackers! I had that hoop and bell too but I cant remember the name of it for the life of me..
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lite brite!!! i loved that! =)
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my mom had that Chrissy doll I used to play w/ it when i was little. it was weird. she said she always wanted a Chatty Cathy but I saw once once and thought it was terrifying! lol.
I was of the Cabbage Patch generation. I wanted one SOOOOOOO bad. When I finally got it I was just a little too old but I still have her! Also for dolls there was the Strawberry Shortcake doll that blew strawberry scented kisses- I got rid of her a couple years ago when she started blowing moldy kisses instead. I loved rainbow bright, she-ra and he-man, anything thundercats (hoooo), and I would have given anything to have a pound puppy, a popple, or legos. I loved the spirograph. I think if I could find one now I'd still love it. :) |
Ohh ya..I had a Pound Puppy and legos!! I wasnt really into legos though..lol. I had a play kitchen too.
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OH man! Do I ever remember my best friend..... Laurie Walker Doll! Being so tiny (still a short thing) my family used to kid that she was taller than I was! I got her the same Christmas my brother got his first Tonka truck!
Cars/trucks in the backyard dirt villages we used to build! Rubiks Cube and snake! a loom weaver we made potholders out of! those plastic strings we made key chains out of! Jack in the box (when I was little) Sit n Spin! The GREEN MACHINE! (Those were the bomb!) Operation! Now mind you, in those days we didn't spend much time in the house in front of the tv... we spent it outside playing... Cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, building forts, hide n seek and as you got older who can forget the nights spent at the beach flirting with the guys!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: |
One of the reasons I look forward to having kids is so that I can play with THEIR toys, lol. |
I was born in the mid70's, so I had a 70's and 80's childhood:
~Cabbage Patch Kids (I had about a dozen of them!) ~Lite Brite ~Charmkins (do you guys remember those? Little figurines that smelled like flowers, I had a little display thing for them, too. ~Monchichi ~Spirograph ~Colorforms (I remember my cousin had the KISS rock band Colorforms...) ~Lincoln Logs ~Bristle Blocks (Anyone remember THOSE?) ~Strawberry Shortcake (I never got over that fetish...I have some from the 80's still sealed in the box in a display, including Purple Pieman!) Drum roll please....my FAVORITE when I was a kid: Milky The Marvelous Cow!!! Here is the commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxkJ_mLpcA |
What?! No one else had a Mrs. Beasley Doll?!
Come on now, 'fess up. She was my favorite. I wonder what ever happened to her. :chin: http://www.tias.com/cgi-bin/google.f...Key=3923240602 |
Oh. My. That has to be the UGLIEST doll I think I have ever seen.
:rofl: Honestly, I would rate it up with ventrouliquist dolls....I wouldn't have slept with that doll in my house! :lol: |
Katie! I remember Lemon up!!!
I am going way back on these toys.... Remember the little metal hand held contraption that had the wheel that spun up and down either side? I forget what it's called but I loved it. Baby Beans? (She was pink and white polka dots with yellow hair - and filled with Beans - I know because my brother cut her open to see) Betsy Wetsy Chinese Jump Rope Silly Putty Stretch Armstrong!?! Evil Kneival motorcycle that you zipped with the plastic zipper on the stand and made him go? Big Wheels (2nd to the green machine) Holly Hobby and her sister Heather Toss Across Total Nostalgia! Great thread.... |
I've got a brand new pair of roller skats, and you've got a brand new key." Anyone remember that song? We heard it on our trip and I had to explain it to my daughter (although didn't explain the sexual connotation!).
I loved clackers!!! I had the bruises on my forearm to prove it! Chinese checkers Monopoly (for hours and hours in the basement on a hot summer day) cards games like War and Canasta I loved the Game of Life and bought it for my kids--I can't remember it being that BORING! |
Check out the Vermont Country Store website, they revive a lot of old-time products including toys. This year they have the clackers (with plastic balls so they don't break), Mrs. Beasley, Easy-Bake and Lite Brite, among others
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Yep.. we are close in age. I still have the Chrissy doll and she still is wearing the orange lace dress too. She is buried in a shed someplace with the rest of my dolls. Yes clackers were dangerous, but what fun! Did you have a toot a loop? That was the radio shaped like a donut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panason...t-a-Loop_Radio I still have mine.. in bright yellow! My mother made me give away my Kiddles when I was younger because I had too many dolls. It was either keep the barbies or the kiddles. Have you ever checked Ebay and seen how much those little dolls are worth? I should tell her how much she made me thorw away!! I'm going to keep looking for the name of the hoop and bell toy..it is making me nuts that I cannot remember it |
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I had Barbies which all ended up with lovely short haircuts!! |
Hey what about slinky ( is that how you spell it ) remember it would climb down the stairs... I thought it was soooo cool
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I had a portable "record player" that played plastic records w. grooves in them.
also ... ballerina barbie-you pressed a crown on her head & she would twirl .... another barbie that you pulled her pony tail to make her hair longer and...what about the barbie make-up head? lots of fun :D + PONG!!!! |
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For fun it's a wonderful toy It's Slinky, I's Slinkly It's fun for a girl or a boy.:D BTW: Boys are Stinky!!!!!:p |
I could never get my slinky to do the stairs thing. Probably because of the carpet!
I had an AM transister radio. How cool is that? |
I used to collect matchbox cars LOL.
I guess that's what happens when you are a female only child with lots of male friends. |
We spent hours and hours every day playing jacks-outside,inside anywhere there was smooth cement or floor. Hours and hours on your butt-can't do that now! Also does anyone remember Tuesday Taylor doll-like Barbie her scalp twisted-one side blond w/bangs, other side brunette w/ no bangs. No one seems to remember this doll. I was obsessed with her. The style hair now that the girls have with blond on top and black or brunette underneath totally reminds me. Also Cher doll? The Bob Mackie style dress with big puffy-Diana Ross style hair-that I had to cut to tame. Good Times.
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I had the yellow panasonic AM radio that looked like a big circle until you twisted it and then it was a speaker on one end and the dial on the other...I wore it like a big heavy bracelet...LOL. Does anyone remember the Barbie that came in a diamond patterned bathing suit with "magic wands"? If you wet one of the wands and swept it over her her it turned another color...that was so cool to me
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Heidi Doll
Battleship game Happy days game twister Clue - Cornel mustard in the library with the candlestick! jack in the box mr potatoe head hi ho cherrio life candyland trouble- loved that game! dominoes sea monkeys growing them. remember? trading cards of charlies angels if I remember right, I used to put them in my bicycle spokes to make the coolest sounds when I rode my pink bike horse (basketball game) |
my size barbie
baby alive easy bake oven walkie talkies care bears |
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