Stretch Armstrong!!! that dude was the shit. untill he broke then that white stuff came out... ewwww i miss the good ol' days
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.
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.
Anyone remember Barrel of Monkeys? You had to pull them all out of the barrel by having them grab each others arms?
Thanks, Ramona. I've been trying to remember what that thing was called forever it seems! Skip its! I had those monkeys too. They were a weird shade of orange.
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.
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.
Oh, we called 'em hoppy horses. I think they're actually simply called hoppity hops. They still make 'em.
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,,,,
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.
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??????
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!
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 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
Vertibird was a cool toy. Today we have RC helicopters that fly without a wire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertibird .
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.
