Toys from the Past!

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Quote: also forgot to add spirograph.. think that was what it was called lol
    You got it, I had one of those too. For younger chicks not in the loop, it had a drawing board, paper and pins, and gears of different sizes, two were rings, with little holes in them for a pen: you pinned one ring or gear down and placed another gear so that the teeth meshed, and then pushed off from point A drawing with the pen, and if you were lucky and the gears or pen didn't slip, when the pen got back to A you had a pretty design
  • Anyone remember POGS?!. I have like 2 garbage bags FULL of pogs. Sweet game!.
  • 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!
    • Jem, she's truly outrageous!
    • Transformers
    • Voltron, duh
    • He-man
    • Shrinky Dinks
    • My Little Pony
    • Pound Puppies
    • Remember that 'Get in Shape Girl' exercise stuff for little girls? I never had that. If only I would have, I can blame this weight thing on Santa and my parents, huh?
    • Poochie. I loved Poochie, wanted one with all of my heart and never got it. I still want one, do I need therapy?
  • Quote: Anyone remember POGS?!. I have like 2 garbage bags FULL of pogs. Sweet game!.
    YES! I saw some at the goodwill and it brought back so many memories.

    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)
  • 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