Toys

[wyldwynd]

These wouldnt be considered board games, soo i started a new thread for toys, which some of the toys i remember are:

Knock your block off ( i think that is what it was called two boxers would box each other until the head popped up)

Drowsy Doll

Dont spill the beans

GI joe (which had real beard)

these came later but i i think the first doll they made after a person was Cher there was also a six million dollar man and a bionic woman doll too,,,

[TheLizardQueen]

Knock your block off ( i think that is what it was called two boxers would box each other until the head popped up)
I think they were called Rock em' sock em' robots

and i remember don't spill the beans. in fact, i was cleaning out my old crap from the basement on the weekend, and found it.

[pita225]

I think they were called Rock em' sock em' robots
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yea i think ur right but im not posotive:confused:

[TheLizardQueen]

Ya, they are. I just remembered the episode of That 70's Show where Kelso steals the game from a church raffle or something.

[Meagain]

When G.I. Joe came out no one would believe that boys would play with a doll!!!!

[themnax]

mine were erector set (american mechano, sold by a.c. guilbert if i rember rightly),
linkon logs, there was a plastic modular skyscraper system that i forget the name of that was 1/8th scale. tonka trucks (all metal in those days, and seriously heavy gauge metal at that, dump trucks and back hoes, bulldozers, end loaders that sort of thing, MADE for playing with in the back yard or sandbox), those were my favorite kind, and any kind of a little train that actualy ran on some sort of a track. there was something like what brio is now only i don't think it was called that then, and those little plastic puzzle pieces with the winding track that the little wind up gizmo fallows didn't exist yet then either, but i do remember a little wind up metal mouselike car that the front wheel was like a pully that would follow a piece of heavy gauge wire. i wanted one of that but never did get one and the didn't stay on the market very long, this was back in the mid 50s, probably because they didn't resemble anything anyone in the u.s. then would have recognized.

but for me, anything that ran on or fallowed any sort of a track interested me and still does. there were slot cars of course, but those didn't very much interest me, because they didn't come with any kind of switch tracks or coupling and uncoupling arraingement. all you could do was race the stupid things and then they wouldn't stay on the track very good if you did, which just seemed kind of dumb to me.

those transformers and action figure movie and animation spinoff kinds of things didn't come along until i was in my 30s. and collecting for it's own sake was never my thing. but i do remember in grade school there were matchbox cars and minitanx. a couple of friends of mine and i used to play with them in the bushes next between the school yards during recess when i was in grade school. staging miniature roll playing battles before anyone ever heard of rpg's like d&d or any of that. this was when i was like in the 3rd through 5th grade or so thereabouts. the main other 'toy' we ever played socialy with like that were marbles. although i also remember some of the other kinds played pick up sticks and tiddly winks.

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[Skip]

mine were erector set (american mechano, sold by a.c. guilbert if i rember rightly),
linkon logs, there was a plastic modular skyscraper system that i forget the name of that was 1/8th scale. tonka trucks (all metal in those days, and seriously heavy gauge metal at that, dump trucks and back hoes, bulldozers, end loaders that sort of thing, MADE for playing with in the back yard or sandbox), those were my favorite kind, and any kind of a little train that actualy ran on some sort of a track. there was something like what brio is now only i don't think it was called that then, and those little plastic puzzle pieces with the winding track that the little wind up gizmo fallows didn't exist yet then either, but i do remember a little wind up metal mouselike car that the front wheel was like a pully that would follow a piece of heavy gauge wire. i wanted one of that but never did get one and the didn't stay on the market very long, this was back in the mid 50s, probably because they didn't resemble anything anyone in the u.s. then would have recognized.

but for me, anything that ran on or fallowed any sort of a track interested me and still does. there were slot cars of course, but those didn't very much interest me, because they didn't come with any kind of switch tracks or coupling and uncoupling arraingement. all you could do was race the stupid things and then they wouldn't stay on the track very good if you did, which just seemed kind of dumb to me.

those transformers and action figure movie and animation spinoff kinds of things didn't come along until i was in my 30s. and collecting for it's own sake was never my thing. but i do remember in grade school there were matchbox cars and minitanx. a couple of friends of mine and i used to play with them in the bushes next between the school yards during recess when i was in grade school. staging miniature roll playing battles before anyone ever heard of rpg's like d&d or any of that. this was when i was like in the 3rd through 5th grade or so thereabouts. the main other 'toy' we ever played socialy with like that were marbles. although i also remember some of the other kinds played pick up sticks and tiddly winks.

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I had Lincoln Logs (remember he grew up in a log cabin, like the one you could make with the set), an erector set, and the plastic skyscraper kit too! That one I loved. I remember the red plastic pegs that were supposed to be girders - Ah I just remembered the name! Girder and Panel Building set! Cause you also had panels that snapped onto the girders with windows and walls on them. I think there were also pieces of roadway, and you could design the roadway to go thru the building if you did it right!

I also got interested in the track toys. I had a small train set, until one day I was at summer camp & my dad needed the piece of plywood it was set on, and just tore up the tracks (bending them all). The set was useless, and I was pissed off for a long time about that (even tho I rarely played it anymore).

I also got those small slot cars on a race track - they were all the rage when they first came out. But then they opened up one of those those slot car places with 3 tracks down the block and I was there a lot with a nice orange manta ray car that my neighbor bought me when he got back from 'Nam.

[Gyva02]

As did I, Lincoln logs, eractor sets, legos, and one you didnt mention Constructs they were grey straight pieces with little blue cubes that were the connectors.... I'm so glad I was given those kinds of toys as I'm now a hot rod/monster truck/engine building/fabricator... for hobby. Sure does beat watching tv... lol :)

[Gh0sTiNnyc]

two words.... Teddy Ruxpin

also My Pet Monster, My Buddy, and Teddy Ruxpin's sidekick Grubby....

oh yes, I loved those toys.......i really wished i had a My Pet Monster but he gave out about 2-3 years ago... sad man, why good toys have to die....

[dilligaf]

baby alive,,, the one ya fed the "food" too and then it would go "potty" for ya,,,,i got her when i was 2,,,,n the easy bake oven,,,
i wasnt privileged enuf to have linkin logs but instead had been given a giant box of blocks n chunks of wood...
also had flinch , the card game
and had some real old (haha) cardboard type dolls that had paper outfits and houses of cardboard... grannies house,,,,
tonka trucks(before they became plastic) were my favorite tho,,, musta driven atleast 400000371 miles withum ...pickup stix, cootie, n yahtzee were round too, n metal slinkies

[denimstar]

Does anyone remember "THE THING MAKER"? It was an open faced oven and you baked rubber in it. There were all sorts or forms, I mainly remember the bugs & flowers. It would never pass for a kid safe toy today.

[fylthevoyd]

I think it was called "Creepy Crawlers"...the hot bake plate deal with molds of insects and shit....that you poured the goop into the molds and baked them.I remember this from my younger brothers....I was already passed the age of the coolness of this thing...I guess.I know if it was around today...there would undoubtably be endless class-action suits over burnt fingers and shit.
If I ain't mistaken...they later came out with the edible kind as well.

[dilligaf]

i remember them,,,, didnt have any tho,,,, ,, we used to have the "stained glass " kits tho that ya put in the frames , painted n melted etc,,,,
i just didnt have the need to use them,,,, family did real stained glass with lead... ,, much safer n all..;)

[wyldwynd]

does anyone remember shrinky dinks?? they were thin flimsy plastic then you color them and baked them and they would turn reallly small and thick.

[Gyva02]

Yessss I do remember those.. I forgot all about shrinky dinks.. awesome, a brain cell of information in my heads functions again!!! thank you...



Mike...

[cerridwen]

I was kinda into Cabbage Patch Kids for a while... my gramma hated them because she thought the dolls were hideous.

[mynameisjake07]

[QUOTE=wyldwynd]
GI joe (which had real beard)

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lol yes I have like 3 still....not beard though but hair on top lol its kinda fuzzy but getting old

[Skip]

I think it was called "Creepy Crawlers"...the hot bake plate deal with molds of insects and shit....that you poured the goop into the molds and baked them.I remember this from my younger brothers....I was already passed the age of the coolness of this thing...I guess.I know if it was around today...there would undoubtably be endless class-action suits over burnt fingers and shit.
If I ain't mistaken...they later came out with the edible kind as well.
It was called the "Vacuform" in my days. I had one, and it was great. I even made a boat that floated! But the fumes were toxic, no doubt. Ever since I got exposed to those fumes I felt bad for all the ppl who have to work in plastic factories. I bet most are dead by now. Even shrink wrap machines give me the willies.

[jerry420]

i remember creepy crawlers lol,
i miss my toy proton pack:(...

[Meagain]

themnax,
There was a slot car set out in the early sixties by AMT, I think. It was 1/24th scale as they all were that or 1/32 at the time. The cars were locked to the track by a swivel pin, so that you could oversteer through a turn and spinout without flying off the track. You could do 180s and 360s and stuff. If you got stuck on a rail or half off the track you could throw them in reverse and try to work your way back in the clear. Used to smoke the tires on those puppies all the time.

I still have my American Flyer S gauge 4-6-2 Steam engine set from the fifties. Had the engine rebuilt a couple years ago as the smoker had a torn bellows assembly. I think the set of engine, tender, two box cars, gondola, tank car, and caboose with track and transformer ran $20.00. The engine alone was worth over $100.00 about ten years ago. I found out S gauge is making a comeback and I can now run The Flyer by digital control, I think. Cool.

My cousin had two Lionels that we would take up to full speed and run them head on into each other.
My Flyer was just used to run down plastic cows.
And oh yeah, it would freak out when that lead tinsel would fall off the tree at Christmas and short circuit the track. :)

[ashbury1500haight]

Stretch Armstrong!!! that dude was the shit. untill he broke then that white stuff came out... ewwww

i miss the good ol' days

[Kinky Ramona]

I have soooo many Cabbage Patch Kids. Well, not a ton, but a lot for how much they cost. And Beanie Babies! Haha, I was into the whole Beanie craze...and those damn Tamagotchis and Giga-Pets. Yeah...I still have a lot of the toys I had back then...I'm a hoarder, lol.

My parents never let me have Lincoln Logs or little Lego sets. I resorted to playing with my next door neighbors' sets. I loved them so much, too. It makes me sad they never let me have them.

I also loved play food when I was a kid. I still love it, lol. And those play kitchen sets. I was kind of a spoiled kid before my brother was born, so I had a huge set, little stove, little sink, cabinet, little plastic dishes, a washer and a dryer...ahhh, if only doing real chores was that fun... But I decided I don't want my kids having anything to do with talking toys...takes away from imagination in my opinion. I had a few talking toys when I was a kid and I really didn't like them, so I don't think my kids will be missing out on much.

[fritz]

Let's see, some of the older toys we had were..

lincoln logs
soldiers in a bucket
marbles
leggos
& some weird thing you ran with around one ankle and hopped over with the other leg..
Lite Brite
Etch a sketch
That's all that's coming to mind right now.

[Kinky Ramona]

& some weird thing you ran with around one ankle and hopped over with the other leg..

Skip-Its! Ahhhh! I never had one...and I'm sure I would have killed myself on it, had I owned one.

[Skip]

Anyone remember Barrel of Monkeys? You had to pull them all out of the barrel by having them grab each others arms?

[Kinky Ramona]

I had a Barrel of Monkeys at my grandma's! I bet I still do!

[fritz]

Thanks, Ramona. I've been trying to remember what that thing was called forever it seems! Skip its! :D
I had those monkeys too. They were a weird shade of orange.http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/cool.gif

[wyldwynd]

yes i had a barrel of monkeys too,,,and one of those skip-its,,,does anyone remember that ball that was made of rubber and had a handle on it and your would bounce on it,,,i dont know what it is called,,,i dont know if they still make them anymore.

[fritz]

These?

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=paddle+ball&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title

[wyldwynd]

no not those,,,i had one of those paddle balls too lol
im talking bout these big rubber balls that you sat on,,,then hopped around on them,,,,,,they were pretty big,,,and made of this rubber that was textured,a reddish color,,,they didnt break easy,,even tho you sat on them and hopped around.

[fritz]

Oh, we called 'em hoppy horses. I think they're actually simply called hoppity hops. They still make 'em.

[wyldwynd]

cool! those got me thinking about pogo sticks too,,,,and too how much bicycles have changed,,my brother had a bike which had gears on it,,,,i think it was threee speed,,,we would put cards in the spokes to make noise,,,and also be able to sit on the handle bars,,,,the seats were like bananas too and even had the really high backs on them,,,called sissy bars,,,,

[denimstar]

Skip it or hop & skip. Hop & skip was a ring that went around the ankle. The kind I had in the mid 60's strapped on the heel. It had a little bell in a box on the back but was the same concept.

[HonorSeed]

Wyldwynd, I had a question back in my art post that I posted Morning Dews painting in..........anyways does anyone remember the Kenner electric hydro dynamic kit? The ystill sell em on ebay. They had a little electric pump and pumped colored water thru aquarium tubing to various japaneses like clear plastic thingies that hung in these little red girders. You could start off a couple different colored waters in these and watch em mix. The whole thing sat in a grey plastic tray??????

[MattInVegas]

these came later but i i think the first doll they made after a person was Cher
BUZZZZZ Wrong answer. You don't win the new car.
Before Cher, they made the Beatles, and lots of others.

I think my most prized toy was this Plastic motercycle I had.
The tires were real rubber, on a plastic rim. It came with a rider molded in color.
He was also made of plastic. (Duh.) I recently saw one on the Antiques Roadshow that was valued at $1200.
Take CARE of your toys kids!

[wyldwynd]

BUZZZZZ Wrong answer. You don't win the new car.
Before Cher, they made the Beatles, and lots of others. there ain't no coupe deville hiding in the bottom of a cracker jack box :) awww i was really hoping to win the new car :)

[fylthevoyd]

there ain't no coupe deville hiding in the bottom of a cracker jack box :) awww i was really hoping to win the new car :)
awww shit baby:( you didn't win the car:p hahaha ...you mentioned the old bikes..yeah the 20" stingray bike made by schiwwn...complete with the banana seat apehanger handle bars and the ever famous "sissy bar"......I wore many of those bikes out..and when the chopper craze hit we started customizing our bikes.....we would take the metal legs off of old tables and hammer the ends flat to attach the front wheel and slip them over the front forks.....wa-la instant chopper..bicycle style......and when I think about the millions of dollars worth of baseball cards that I shredded in the spokes of bikes...it about kills me..we never used playing cards...always old baseball cards...damn if only we would have known then what we know now

[optitom]

i think your taalking about a hoppitty horse or something like that..i had one..it was blue...lol

[shaggie]

Vertibird was a cool toy. Today we have RC helicopters that fly without a wire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertibird

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[wyldwynd]

I don't remember the vertibird,,,but my brother had a airplane that he put together and it had a rubberband,,,,dont know what it was called.

[shaggie]

There was one called Sit and Spin, which was like a phonograph turntable you would sit on and spin. The commercial had a guy singing 1920's style, "Kids just love to sit and spin. Sit and spin."

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[Michaela]

Okay kids, we're going way back now; but I remember a bunch of toys. Two toys that I really loved were "Magic Rocks" and my Kalaidescope. I had an original Slinky - they were originally made out of metal, and the metal ones just seemed to do their 'Slinky-thing' much better than the plastic ones they sell nowadays. I'd climb all the way to the top of the stairs that went up into our attic, and then position my Slinky just right, and it would crawl half-way down those stairs! I betcha some of you older-timers like myself remember this next thing - how can I describe it - well, you'd hold it in your hand and it was comprised of a wheel on the front with red, blue, and green cellophane windows around it (3 of 'em, I think). Underneath the wheel was like another kinda wheel with sandpaper or some sort of abrasive surface on it - you'd push up and down on the handle under the wheel, and the top of the handle was like a striker that, when activated, would rub on the abrasive surface and create sparks that would show thru the colored cellophane! Are you with me? It would also make a lot of noise as you sparked it - I loved that one. And this next item, I had to send away for - I waited with excited anticipation until the package finally arrived - Sea Monkeys! The "Sea Monkey Kit" contained several envelopes of stuff - first, you'd "treat" the water for 24 hours with one of the envelopes of stuff - then, the next day, you'd put in the envelope of the actual Sea Monkeys, and they'd come alive, the moment you dumped the monkey envelope into the water! You'd actually see them swimming around! And, they'd grow! Mine lasted for several months. And, there was some kind of special feeling in receiving my first package like that through the mail - just seeing my own name on that package made me feel real special - it was like a confirmation that I really existed or something.

My older sister had an Erector Set, but she would only let me watch her play with it; but she did make working things with it - hers had a motor. What about those things that had a magnet and iron filings you could move around with the magnet? Of course, the "Slip 'n Slide" and the "Etch-a-Sketch"; we didn't have either; but they were neat. I got to play on our neighbor's Slip'nSlide.
I had a Raggedy-Ann and Raggedy-Andy dolls that I carried everywhere with me when I was really small.
One of our favorite playthings was a giant cardboard box that a refrigerator gets shipped in. We'd take it to the top of this hill made of sand in Florida and all get in it, then start it down the hill and roll all upside down and stuff as it rolled down the hill. When we'd go to New York in the summer, we'd get a toboggan and take it into the pine woods and position it at the top of our favorite hill. We'd all get on it, one behind the other; then slide down the hill covered with pine needles, and man, that thing would fly with all of us on it! It was great! I could think of a lot more, but I've gone on too much already.

Oohh, to be a child again .......

Regards, Michaela

[shaggie]

Speaking of toboggans and card board boxes, there was a cartoon in Mad magazine a long time ago of a dad who bought his son a really expensive shiny red toboggan. He was asking his wife why the son wasn't playing with it. The wife pointed to the kid who was riding down the slope on the cardboard box of the toboggan with a great big smile on his face.

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[shaggie]

I betcha some of you older-timers like myself remember this next thing - how can I describe it - well, you'd hold it in your hand and it was comprised of a wheel on the front with red, blue, and green cellophane windows around it (3 of 'em, I think). Underneath the wheel was like another kinda wheel with sandpaper or some sort of abrasive surface on it - you'd push up and down on the handle under the wheel, and the top of the handle was like a striker that, when activated, would rub on the abrasive surface and create sparks that would show thru the colored cellophane! Are you with me? That's going way back. :)

I have a handbook of vintage toys. I think that one might be in there. I'll post a pic if it is.

I've always considered the 60s to be the most creative era for toys, especially the mechanical ones. People had to rely on mechanical genius before all the electronics stuff hit the scene.

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[shaggie]

I'm vaguely familiar with magic rocks. I think you put them in water and they would start growing.

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[shaggie]

Anyone remember Rudy the Robot?

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[seaofgreen]

one thing many of the toys mentioned have one thing in common which is NO BATTERIES NEEDED! nowadays, toys need batteries which means constantly having to buy more batteries making toys more expensive.

[hotwater]

Well we know that Al Quida suicide bombers practice their deadly art with Milton Bradley's Time Bomb http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/newsmilies/icon_bs.gif (http://www.hipforums.com/forums/misc.php?do=getsmilies&wysiwyg=1&forumid=0#)



Hotwater

[shaggie]

There was a board game back around late 70s early 80s where you would spend all your money and put youself in debt buying things. The first one who would get out of debt was the winner. It came with its own credit card machine. I don't remember the name of the game. The commercial targeted kids. Talk about sordid capitalism. :)

One of the kids in the commercial would blurt out joyfully: "IT EVEN COMES WITH ITS OWN CREDIT CARD MACHINE!"

It's on one of my vintage TV commercial tapes. You can find stuff like that on Ebay and Youtube.

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[wyldwynd]

recently in a store i saw a re-make of a classic toy,,,the fisher price wind-up radio, that played hickory dickory dock, and had a story board picture that moved as the song played,,,

[E-Rocc]

Knex and Ninja Turtles, and the ghost buster car