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,,,
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.
Ya, they are. I just remembered the episode of That 70's Show where Kelso steals the game from a church raffle or something.
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. =^^= .../\...
Damn, we must've been living in the same house! 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.
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
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....
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
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.
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.
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..
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.
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...
I was kinda into Cabbage Patch Kids for a while... my gramma hated them because she thought the dolls were hideous.
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.
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.
