Topic: Name old toys you remember as a kid
HeyBeautiful88's photo
Fri 10/02/09 12:56 PM

How about Creepy Crawlers and Incredible Edibles


*Smile*
My Cousin had one of those... we ran outta the stuff to make em with... so we used Wood Glue!
You never knew where you were going to find a hidden Tarantula! Ha!!

Flarob's photo
Fri 10/02/09 03:54 PM
DUNCAN YO YOS AND OPERATOIN AND MOUSE TRAP AND COTTIES...........

Do you remember the Duncan Reps that used to visit the schools, showing off all the tricks you could do with their yoyo's bigsmile

rara777's photo
Fri 10/02/09 05:45 PM
Edited by rara777 on Fri 10/02/09 05:46 PM
ten cent wooden airplanes that used a rubber band to help fly the plane.

You would attach the rubber band to the propeller and a little hook on the plane. Twist the prop to make the band tight and let it rip.

TelephoneMan's photo
Fri 10/02/09 06:04 PM
My Huffy (brand) Cheater Slick bicycle, complete with banana seat and sissy bar, and those handle bars that were sort of like from a Harley Davidson motorcycle...

http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?musclebikeindex

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Fri 10/02/09 06:07 PM
I use to get a bag of plastic army soldiers for about 88 cents. Then I would set them up and shoot them down with rubber bands. laugh

Marbles was also fun to play. We would trade marbles or duel for them.

but most of the time it was sports for me. Someone always had a soccer ball, basketball, or football to play with.

TelephoneMan's photo
Fri 10/02/09 06:18 PM
Edited by TelephoneMan on Fri 10/02/09 06:22 PM
My Daisy BB Gun...

... my older brother had a Crossman air rifle, that you could pump up and load pellets in the thing...

... we had one of the very first "pong" TV video games by Intellivision...

... the Monopoly board game

... a card game called "Rack-O"

... several different chess sets

... had a small, portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, the reels were only about 3-inches in diameter

... my first stereo system was a Sears and Roebuck all-in-one, it had a turntable, an AM/FM tuner... and had an 8-track tape player on board... the coolest thing about the 8-track unit is that it was set up so that it also RECORDED 8-track tapes through a microphone... then the media became obsolete... used to have a blast recording my friends when I was a kid... it came with a cheap mono microphone... it is still at my parent's house, in the same place it has been since I graduated high school in 1980... still works, too... well at least some parts of it... I don't think it records anymore... you used to be able to buy blank 8-tracks at the department stores... or, you could put a piece of tape across the notch on store bought 8-tracks and record over them... not many people ever got to experience a recordable 8-track player I bet...

... in 1978 I had one of the very first guitar synthesizers... it was called an "ARP Avatar" and my sister loaned me the money to buy it... ARP was at one time a very popular analog synthesizer manufacturer... they put so much money into the ARP Avatar that they went bankrupt... they only produced 300 of the units, ever, and I just happened to get one... they looked like this:





One of my best musical "toys" ever was the electric guitar my parents got me for Christmas in 1976... I still play, I give guitar lessons, and have played professionally on and off all my life...


earthytaurus76's photo
Fri 10/02/09 06:30 PM

Earthy... I loved shrinkidinks !! loved making stuff like frogs etc.. then sticking them in the oven and wating them bend and shrink... those I forgot about.


Oh werent they awesome? lol

TelephoneMan's photo
Fri 10/02/09 06:32 PM
Silly Putty...

... you could stretch it out, and press it onto a newspaper, and it would attract the news print.



Superballs...

... there is most likely one of those still stuck on top of my grandfather barn roof... them things would just CRAZY bounce...

earthytaurus76's photo
Fri 10/02/09 06:41 PM
Anybody remember colecovision?


I had it.



earthytaurus76's photo
Fri 10/02/09 06:45 PM
Edited by earthytaurus76 on Fri 10/02/09 06:46 PM
Look at the awesome graphics on my favorite game on Atari.





On the left was the sword, and the right was the dragon, and in the middle, i guess that was the bucket we had to puke in, because the graphics were this poor.

metalwing's photo
Fri 10/02/09 06:45 PM
catfish telephones

earthytaurus76's photo
Fri 10/02/09 06:49 PM
Anybody remeber combat for Atari? That was by far the most diverse game optionwise of the all for its time.


If you wanted anything better you had to goto the arcade.


QUARTERSSSS!



68chevy's photo
Fri 10/02/09 08:03 PM
How about Battling Tops? I loved this game...


jasmine3922's photo
Sat 10/03/09 05:17 AM
Now I remember the name of the big doll that walked....


Patty Playpal! (but I didnt have one)

rara777's photo
Sat 10/03/09 08:24 AM
Edited by rara777 on Sat 10/03/09 08:25 AM

Now I remember the name of the big doll that walked....


Patty Playpal! (but I didnt have one)


Remember Chatty Cathy dolls?

I didn`t have one. :laughing: rofl

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Sat 10/03/09 08:26 AM
WIZZARDS..........

HeyBeautiful88's photo
Sat 10/03/09 01:15 PM
I Had a Blast Looking up these Old Pictures!!!

These are the First Toys I remember:







HeyBeautiful88's photo
Sat 10/03/09 01:18 PM
The Next Phase:








HeyBeautiful88's photo
Sat 10/03/09 01:21 PM
And Then There Were...







HeyBeautiful88's photo
Sat 10/03/09 01:25 PM
These Kept us Occupied at Gram and Gramp's House:








(They had a Wiener Dawg like that Called Cinnamin!!)