Thursday, November 21, 2019

Your Turn

A toy from your childhood, you wish they would make again.

49 comments:

  1. Magnus, thats called viagra

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  2. The original Hot Wheels Supercharger.

    And Creepy Crawlers, with glow-in-the-dark Plastigoop.

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  3. Found it 2 months back on Amazon....
    Steam Powered Tin Toy Boat Candle Powered.

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  4. Chemistry sets!! The dangerous ones!!

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  5. Chrissie & Velvet

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  6. Chatty Cathy, Thumbalina, the one where you squeeze the goo into molds and cook them while burning your fingers.

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  7. Not a toy, but I've been wracking my brain for years to remember what the stuff we used to put on ice cream was called so I could find it again. Stumbled across it yesterday online- PDQ. They don't make it any more. I kind of wish I didn't know that.

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  8. @Gator - that was the Creepy Crawlers I was talking about.

    You poured the green goop into metal molds, and dropped it in the square oven like contraption, and they baked into a rubbery form that you could then assemble into bugs, monsters, ...

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  9. Chrissie and Velvet were so appealing to me back then. I wasn't a doll girl, lots of younger siblings so real life babies but those dolls with that hair that would get all wacked out in half a day were everything. Thanks for the memory @B626

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  10. Click clacks loves those balls, if you messed up your arms are hurting

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  11. @Moose... Yes, some of the goos were edible like Gummy Bears, and others were just rubbery bugs & spiders.

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  12. I had the creepy crawlers because the store was out of incredible edibles. Image the lawsuits if these made a comeback!

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  13. YES! I had the creepy crawlers and flower maker. I had no idea there were so many different ones. One was creepy people. Don't think I'd want that one. See them online for 100.00 to 400.00.

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  14. there werent any specialyty toy when i was a kid. a red wagon, cowboy 6 guns. i think the hula hoop was the biggest "new" toy when i was a kid.

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  15. Merlin!!! Never got my own, but would steal my sister’s one all the time!

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  16. Did anyone ever have Beanie Boy from the Beanie and Cecil cartoon? Propeller on his beanie hat, pull the string and he talked.

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    1. no but i loved the cartoon that sounds cool. id like a cecil doll too

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  17. @Sd Auntie. I still have him minus the propeller and 1 foot :)

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  19. I can still smell those creepy crawlers burning. lol eeewwwwww.

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  20. Not a toy really, but I loved the Madeline cartoon and book series! Frances McDormand starred in the movie version. I'm not sure if it really still exists or not?

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  21. I actually had a lead soldier maker. Used real molten lead. Good times.

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  22. Stretch Armstrong

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  23. Anonymous1:01 PM

    Not a big "toy" type of kid. Maybe a few board games. From age 8, I played tennis- that was my thing

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  24. So Enty can use commas...

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  25. My Julia ( Dihann Carroll) Barbie doll . She was so cool !!

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  26. I love this blind. We got to go to China Town in Chicago in Grade school and we all came back with the glass clackers that could kill a person if they went wrong. I touched on Chrisie and Velvet due to a poster and my word, Cecil and Beanie. The only cartoon I remember before that one was Felix the Cat. I bet if you had a Cecil in pristine condition it would be worth a mint.

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  27. @MM. I looked up the beanie boy a few years ago and was shocked to find out he was only worth maybe 25.00 and that was in good shape. :/

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  28. "Growing Up" Skipper! You rolled her right arm around and she grew little boobies! I loved that doll. I wish I kept mine.

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  29. Either Colorforms or Paint by Numbers. Yes, I am old!

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  30. Dawn Dolls -- Perfect size for making a home for them in a bookshelf or tide pool. The Barbie Airplane -- so damn cool and had that Barbie Airplane plastic scent!
    Does anyone remember the Sunshine Family dolls? They were smiling hippies who grew vegetables and stuff like that.

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  31. MoreCowbell, YES! I had them, my sister and I played with them all the time!

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  32. My favorite was an educational robot thing called Socrates.

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  33. No contest: Vertibird
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhkRnjLxQBc

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  34. Sindy Valeria ... it was the argentinian version of BARBIE ... she was a ballerina ...

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  35. Lie Detector! Seems apropos for Cdan.

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  36. Irish Mail. Four wheels. Coolest thing ever. Steer with your feet. It moves with a lever that you push/pulled back and forth. They were based on the Irish Mails that ran on railroad tracks delivering, wait for it, the mail!

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  37. Dawn, Velvet, Dressie Bessie & Dapper Dan...Stratego...Perfection...

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  38. I still have a "Thing Maker" (creepy crawlers), Kenner, Big Bruiser, GI Joe, Major Matt Mason, Stratego, Beanie Boy, and a bunch of other stuff here. Sat in my parents basement. I still have to ebay most of it.

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