TOYS TOYS TOYS!!!!
Elizabeth J Scherrer
I'd love to discuss toys we used to play with. Although I'm 40, I may
have played with toys from the 60s....so, if there's anyone out there
born in the 50's, I'd love to talk about our toys too.....
Games: Mouse Trap, Crazy Clock (similar to Mouse Trap), Bop the Beetle,
Operation, Beatles Flip Your Wig (60s), Mystery Date, Magic 8 Ball,
Racko, Sorry!, Pig in the Garden, Tip-It, Barrel-o-Monkeys, Hi-Ho
Cherrio, Chutes and Ladders(still around), Skunk, Game of the
States(still around), Easy Money,
Dolls: Barbie, Midge (w/freckles), Skipper (didn't she have a friend?), Ken,
Allen, Tutti (legs always broke), Tammy (I had her because my mom thought
Barbie was too sexy!), Pepper (little sister), Dodi, (poor Tammy never
had a boyfriend, that I know of), Penny Brite?....
....The Barbie Dream House, The School House, (Tammy had a house too, but
not as cool as Barbie's of course) Ideal wasn't as talented as Mattel.
Shrinky-Dinks! Creepy Crawlers (summer vacation instead of a lemonade
stand, I'd have a Creepy Crawler stand....kids went crazy!), Incredible Edibles (these
really tasted foul), Spirograph, "The fun never stops with the Fun
Factory", Wishnik dolls (these made a come back with a different name).
Slip 'n Slide.
Nobody has mentioned Colorforms..."there's more fun to play, the
Colorforms way"....not really, rather boring actually.
Anyone remember a pinto pony on springs you'd ride, his legs moved as you
bounced and he had a string you'd pull to make the sound of a horse
whinny?? His name was "Blaze".
Oh dear, I better get back to work...........
Hope to hear from you all.
Liz
Doran
Liz wrote:
> Games: Mouse Trap, Crazy Clock (similar to Mouse Trap), Bop the Beetle,
> Operation, Beatles Flip Your Wig (60s), Mystery Date, Magic 8 Ball,
> Racko, Sorry!, Pig in the Garden, Tip-It, Barrel-o-Monkeys, Hi-Ho
> Cherrio, Chutes and Ladders(still around), Skunk, Game of the
> States(still around), Easy Money,
In the '70s, I remember playing Candyland, Stay Alive, Life, Boggle,
Uno, The Last Straw, and Battleship. "You sank my battleship!"
Remember Electronic Battleship? Today, there's Talking Battleship.
We also have Milton Bradley's Hangman. Vincent Price is on the box.
Lori Suiter
Romper room toys, those cups you walked on with ropes you held onto
I think they were called Romper Stompers. I remember an inchworm ride
on toy that inched along. Anything Fisher Price, I had the farm, the
house,the airport, the village,the houseboat and the a-frame. I had
a doll baby with peach soft skin I think her name was Baby Sweet Dreams.
Baby Alive, Feely Meely, Flinch, Kiddie City (which was my brother's).
Lori
buck
'bout "Pick-up-sticks"? Lite Brite, Chinese checkers...we use to love to
play with the yarn...(2 person) Cat's in the Cradle..Jacobs ladder, etc.
Amy
Marie Walz
Along with Barbie and her friends, I also played with Little Kiddles.
They were small, maybe 3" high. I had a whole village for them,
houses, merry-go-round, etc, that folded up into a suitcase.
"Little Kiddles, Little Kiddles
They are all
Very small..."
I *think* that was their song.
Marie
Lori Suiter
I remember Little Kiddles too, I had the house that had an elevator in
it along with a pull string that played something(can't remember what,
maybe it was the jingle song). All the little kiddles are missing from
it, I guess they ran away. :)
buck
Little Kiddles jingle reminds me of another toy jingle that my brother use
to sing and he had this toy:
"Weebles wobble but they don't fall down". I call them miniature Mr.
Potato. Amy
gord klassen
Hi
You mentioned the Fun Factory last post,
This sounds so familiar...what was this thing?
peace
gordo
Trudi Marrapodi
In article <57e7p5$p...@top.MTS.Net>, gkla...@wpcusrgrp.org (gord klassen)
wrote:
I know what this was. It was a plastic thing that you could crank Play-Doh
through into different shapes. It had a lever you could press to make the
Play-Doh squish out through plastic holes of various shapes, and then you
could cut it and use it to...I don't know...make stuff.
spiel...@aol.com
How about these... Shrinky-Dinks, Creepy Crawlers, Gnip-Gnop, Rockem'
Sockem' Robots, Hi-Q, and Colorforms. Man, I feel like a little kid again.
Oh, and does anyone remember Dark Tower? It was a board game with a
sinister looking dark gothic tower in the center that played music.
Cacilie Griffith
Molly J. Fagan
Yes, I remember the game Dark Tower. I thought it was an '80s game
(at least I didn't play it until the '80s). I got hooked on it the first time
I played it (in '86) but couldn't find one to buy anywhere. Does anyone know
where I can get my hands on one?
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diva...@aol.com
Do you guys remember these toys??
Simon (that annoying blinking lights and beeps/boops game)
Lemon Twist (a plastic lemon with stuff inside that rattled which was
attached to a black hose-like thing that wrapped around your ankle)
Zim Zam (tennis ball attached to a string that you hit around a pole in
the ground)
Hippity Hop (the plain red ball or the snazzy horse version)
Green Machine
Big Wheel (mine had gravel in the tires)
Careers (a board game)
And my personal favorite, the Skipper doll whose arm you could wind
backward and her chest grew.
Martin Sagara
diva...@aol.com wrote:
: Do you guys remember these toys??
: Simon (that annoying blinking lights and beeps/boops game)
And what about all those noisy hand-held electronic games with
the LED "graphics" that where popular in the very late '70s?
Martin
msa...@rmii.com
Mark Schneider
On 4 Dec 1996 22:47:50 GMT, msa...@rainbow.rmii.com (Martin Sagara)
wrote:
Hell, who needed those? When I was 13 in 76, the first calculators and
digital watches came out. Those things were about as fascinating to us
at that time as a Nintendo game! However, I do remember having a Radio
Shack Pong game that I got for Christmas. That thing really blew our
Neanderthal minds. Man! I'm old.
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Mary Ann
I had Little Kiddles too. We used to play war with them against the
big, bad Barbies. We'd always let the Kiddles win of course :)
--
Mary Ann
Mark Schneider
On Thu, 05 Dec 1996 10:48:12 -0600, Mary Ann <pdb...@bisnet.net>
wrote:
Wow! That's an insight into the female psyche I didn't have back then!
Hobbs
Mark Schneider wrote:
> Hell, who needed those? When I was 13 in 76, the first calculators and
> digital watches came out. Those things were about as fascinating to us
> at that time as a Nintendo game! However, I do remember having a Radio
> Shack Pong game that I got for Christmas. That thing really blew our
> Neanderthal minds. Man! I'm old.
Yeah, that $200 dollar, four function calculator. I just about flipped
the first time I saw one and played with it in 1973. (I was in third
grade then, and having an especially hard time with math . . .)
TheInnerLight
i loved that thing!
helen
Remember Flatsies? I recently saw them at K-mart. Also saw Little
Kiddles too much small than I remember but then again I was much
smaller.
msde...@aol.com
In article <19961203033...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
diva...@aol.com writes:
>
>Do you guys remember these toys??
>
>Simon (that annoying blinking lights and beeps/boops game)
FRIEND HAD IT
>Lemon Twist (a plastic lemon with stuff inside that rattled which was
>attached to a black hose-like thing that wrapped around your ankle)
HAD IT
>Zim Zam (tennis ball attached to a string that you hit around a pole in
>the ground)
>Hippity Hop (the plain red ball or the snazzy horse version)
HAD IT
>Green Machine
HAD IT
>Big Wheel (mine had gravel in the tires)
>Careers (a board game)
>And my personal favorite, the Skipper doll whose arm you could wind
>backward and her chest grew.
Does anyone remember this pseudo Barbie Doll that could bend better than
Barbie and the commercial showed her doing splits and the song played :
She's Darcy, covergirl Darcy....
-Devane
LZeitgeist
How about Jokari? It was "raquetball without the walls". A small orange
sand-filled box with a blue raquetball attached to a long, thin rubber
band. I want to find one of those again!! !Does anyone have one they'd
like to get rid of?
(BTW, thanks for all the info on Socker Boppers - I'm looking for them
this Christmas, and if I find them, I'm going to surprise my older brother
with a set!)
LZeit...@aol.com (Patrick W. Heinske)
"...Those of you who turned your swords into plowshares will soon find yourselves
under the yokes of those of us who kept our swords..."
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"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."
Shane Hill
> >Hippity Hop (the plain red ball or the snazzy horse version)
My sister and I had hippity hops too. They were a red-ball Spider-man
design. We had alot of fun on these until one day when my sister put them
to rest too close to the wall heater. We were crushed :(
I still have my Big Wheel - It was a Incredible Hulk design. Ahhh! the
memories.
Anyone remember the game Hungry-Hungry Hippos?
DivaCarol
>>From: "Shane Hill" <sh...@inetp.com>
>>Anyone remember the game Hungry-Hungry Hippos?
I sure do. Our neighbors had it, until we got into some petty fight and
started throwing the marbles at each other. Their parents took the game
away, and that was the end of it. :)
Anthony G. Catalano
onb...@ma.ultranet.com (Mark Schneider) wrote:
>On 4 Dec 1996 22:47:50 GMT, msa...@rainbow.rmii.com (Martin Sagara)
>wrote:
>>diva...@aol.com wrote:
>>: Do you guys remember these toys??
>>
>>: Simon (that annoying blinking lights and beeps/boops game)
>>
>>And what about all those noisy hand-held electronic games with
>>the LED "graphics" that where popular in the very late '70s?
>>
>>Martin
>>msa...@rmii.com
>Hell, who needed those? When I was 13 in 76, the first calculators and
>digital watches came out. Those things were about as fascinating to us
>at that time as a Nintendo game! However, I do remember having a Radio
>Shack Pong game that I got for Christmas. That thing really blew our
>Neanderthal minds. Man! I'm old.
>***************************************************************
>* onb...@ma.ultranet.com *
>* *
>* Mark Schneider, WI1W http://www.ultranet.com/~onbelay *
>* Manchester, NH *
>***************************************************************
>.
You are old? I turned 16 in August '76.
3-4 years older and I could have went to Nam.
Think back..... back.....
For a short while there were watches that were LED where nobody
could sneak a peek at the time because you had to push a button!
I still have one in good condition on a plastic band. All my othe
watches had thos gosh awful wide-band snap on wristbands.
re. Games remember TROUBLE? <they had the first pop - pop dice dome>
- Tony Catalano WW2W
Doran
Shane Hill wrote:
> > >Hippity Hop (the plain red ball or the snazzy horse version)
> My sister and I had hippity hops too. They were a red-ball Spider-man
> design. We had alot of fun on these until one day when my sister put them
> to rest too close to the wall heater. We were crushed :(
Hilarious! My sister had a Mickey Mouse Hippity Hop. The ears were
handles. She could even go up and down the stairs on it.
> Anyone remember the game Hungry-Hungry Hippos?
Oh yes, Hungry-Hungry Hippos eating marbles. We still have Mr. Mouth in
perfect working condition.
Doran.
Jason LeBouef
One of my fave toys of the 70's was one called "Run yourself Ragged".
I still have it! You had to move a steel ball bearing through a
obsticle course. I'm gonna have to get it out of the attic and play
with it again (If I still have the Marble, I think I do)
and
Electronic Battleship.
Doran
Jason LeBouef wrote:
That was one of my favorites, too. I completely forgot about that one!
Wasn't it made by Tomy?
Mark Schneider
>>Hell, who needed those? When I was 13 in 76, the first calculators and
>>digital watches came out. Those things were about as fascinating to us
>>at that time as a Nintendo game! However, I do remember having a Radio
>>Shack Pong game that I got for Christmas. That thing really blew our
>>Neanderthal minds. Man! I'm old.
>
>
.
>You are old? I turned 16 in August '76.
>3-4 years older and I could have went to Nam.
>Think back..... back.....
>For a short while there were watches that were LED where nobody
>could sneak a peek at the time because you had to push a button!
>I still have one in good condition on a plastic band. All my othe
>watches had thos gosh awful wide-band snap on wristbands.
>
>re. Games remember TROUBLE? <they had the first pop - pop dice dome>
>- Tony Catalano WW2W
>
Yeah, I remember those. Remember the commercial spoof that was on
Saturday Nite Live back then? "The watch so complicated, it takes 2
people to operate". The most amusing thing we did with those things
was sit around in a darkened room with a slight buzz, waving the thing
across our fields of vision and enjoying the light trail caused bu the
multiplexing display. Hmmm, and I remember older people back then
saying OUR generation was jaded!
BTW, cool call!