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The "Eight Ball" Ask any question and get your answer! My friends and I used to play with the Eight ball for hours asking about anything, especialy about that special guy! Circa 1978.
Peggy M.
Jarts
Klackers & the original lawn darts
mystery date
What fun "Winky Dink" was! That silly little green piece of plastic that just fit over the TV screen and allowed me to draw a bridge with my "magic pen" to get Winky Dink from one side of the water to the other!
My favorite was the Original Baby Alive doll. Now these these they have the second version that looks so tacky with the huge eyes. I would love to find my daughter the original one.
As a product of the 80's, the video arcade was the greatest fad that I ever experienced. There was nothing like playing Frogger, Pac Man, Dig Dug and Donkey Kong in an arcade.
This question is easy......my big wheel and sit and spin! My how the hours just passed by!
The synthetic goo in a tube that you would put on the end of a straw. You would blow into it to make odd looking balloons. Also Toss Across (the bean bags would always get stuck)
Fence Plowing. I'll never forget my first fence plow. It was two in the morning and I was wicked drunk and my buddies and I had been trying unsuccessfully all night and then WHAM! Break through. I was hooked after that.
My favorite toy was my sit n spin. I would spin forever I loved it.
Remember Chatty Cathy? My first talking baby doll.... 1964.....
I remember my brothers had creepy crawlers... metal pans you used to make rubber bugs?! My sister had her easy bake oven and Pebbles doll (from the Flintstones). I had my Miss Crumpet doll.
I used to have two pairs of the Clackers, one glass set (I think they used the same type of glass as marbles-they broke; luckily I wasn't hurt-then I had another pair that was made out of Cycolac plastic, the same type of plastic used for football helmets. The plastic Clackers replaced the glass ones after they were recalled. By the time I was in my 20's, I bought the Sears version of the Atari 2600, and was hooked on that...I owned almost 100 different games for it when I had it-including some rare titles, such as "Journey Escape" (based on the popular rock band), and the very rare, X-rated, "Custer's Revenge". (I sold that cartridge on eBay for $50 a year or so ago.) Back when I was younger, I had the Thingmaker toys as well, including Creepy Crawlers, Creeple People, Picadoos, etc. However, I used the Thingmaker so much that the heating element burned out on two of them-both of them replaced free of charge by Mattel. My mother was always buying me Plastigoop for it, and I eventually had hundreds of the little bugs and other creatures I made with it. I continued to use the Thingmaker until Plastigoop was no longer available-I loved that toy so much.
Lincoln Logs...played for hours and hours and hours with them!
Anonymous said...
The synthetic goo in a tube that you would put on the end of a straw. You would blow into it to make odd looking balloons.
That product was called Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. It made big bubbles, but when they broke it made a mess that was hard to get out.
Another thing I once had was "Disapero", which was a purple liquid that disappears when it is squirted onto fabrics.
What about Mr Potato Head or Slinky or Rubix Cube??
C'mon people....so many good ones are being forgotten!
I used to love Color Forms; you'd get a shiny cardboard backdrop and little flat pieces of floppy plastic to stick on there, usually to create a scene. I had a Barbie one and a "Welcome Back, Kotter" one. Good times. :)
I always used to play with my LightBright. Loads of fun. Then came the POG craze.
Mrs. Beasley, Snoopy, Holly Hobbie, Lite Brite, Ouigi Board, Pogo Stick, Bannana Seat bike, Lawn Jarts, battery operated pin ball machine
I liked He Man and She Ra....and also Jem
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Q-bert and Ladybug for Colico Vision. First and only video games I was able to beat and see the credits!
I loved Chutes and Ladders, as did my son, and now, my granddaughter. A true classic.
I remember Klackers and I remember when I got a VacUForm for Christmas, along with a Mattel Creepy Crawlers set, which we used to make our own fishing lures.
Whenever I think I can recall my favorite toy, I go down the street to Toys Time Forgot, which is a store in Canal Fulton which specializes in selling toys from a bygone era. I revel in my Mr. Potato Head and 80s action figures, but see lots of toys that I played with at my grandparents' house. I can easily spend an hour in there sinking back into a time gone by. By the by--an observation. I know the old toys are supposedly more dangerous, but the element of danger made them all the more fun.
HOT WHEELS WITH THE LOOPS OR HULA HOOPS FRISBEE PLAY DOH
We had this ghost game that fascinated me. Little ghost pieces that glowed in the dark and moved around the board. I have no idea what it was called. We also play Shenanigans which was a board game. And man oh man did I love my Romper Stompers from Romper Room!
Oh so many!
I loved my Etch-a-Sketch, and my Barbie. Does anyone remember "Lighning Bug Juice?" It was an Elmer's glue like substance, that glowed in the dark! You could brush it on your skin, clothes, or anywhere. I remember creating a skeleton on myself, and hiding in the closet, then calling my sister to scare her. It worked! I bought several bottles of it in Kresge's Dime store on Broadway in Cleveland. The small bottles sold for about 87 cents. Lots of fun for under a Buck!
I always loved Barbies and my name is Barbie. I still have and treasure my 1965 Bubble cut Barbie from my Dad & Mom. I was only 3 and will always treasure it. My grandmother bought me the Barbie Plane with United on it in 1974.
I still collect Barbies even though I am over 40, they are so cool!!! Generally speaking, I loved dolls growing up. I still have my original Raggedy Ann & Andy, Dawn Doll,Tubsy,Baby Walk All By Myself. The toys of the 1960's were the bomb!!! My Dad has passed but he always made sure we had a great Christmas!! Thanks Daddy!!!
Aurora Thunderjet 500 and TycoPro H.O. slot cars... the Mattel Verti-Bird helicopters... R.O.C.O. Minitanks... the Topper "Johnny Seven One-Man-Army" rifle with the "Anti-bunker missle"... the Tiger Joe tank... the Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster, radio rifle and snap shot camera pistol...
I loved my VacUForm and anything you could send away for from cereal boxes (my favorite was a set of 100 finger rings with gimmicks on them, like bugs and squirters) and Bazooka bubble gum wrappers (like spy kits). I can't believe that someone who posted had a Winky Dink! No one else I know ever heard of one! It was so cool!
For me it has to be a 3 speed bike with slick tire,Banana seat and Butterfly handlebars.
I LOVED Stretch Armstrong!!! That is until I accidentally stabbed a whole in him, and I thought I killed him. He was filled with red goo that very much resembled blood. Very traumatic for a 3 year old, ha ha.
Mine was my 5 speed lemon peeler made by schwinn I rode it all over. Rich
I loved yo-yo's. We actually had yo-yo clubs. (The Duncan's and the Royal's)
Major Matt Mason - Great figure and accessories including a giant glider!
Corgi Batmobile (original)!
I loved my troll dolls.
I was able to keep some of my orgional toys that I loved to play with and was able to give to my 7yr old daughter. Her favorites are the Speak n Spell, Charlie Angles dolls and van, Honey Bunch Dolls and the original Baby Alive Doll, along with the Orgiinal Merlin game. Holly 1972
we played pong for hours and hours.
"plink-ponk-plink-ponk-plink-ponk"
tinker toys....of course!!!
Magna Doodle, the Deluxe Set!
I would have to say the sit and spin. My cousins and I had a blast on that thing when we were kids.
I had several! Among my favorite was Mattel’s Wizzzer (a sort of high speed top). I also had SST smash up derby cars, and Ideal Race-a-rific slot cars!
I loved playing with my slinky plus a toy I don't know what it was called, maybe "jingle-jangle", you would strap it to your ankle and there was a rope with a compartment with these jinglebells inside it on the end of the rope, you would swing the rope around in a circle and jump.
The game Operation, that darn funny bone! Linda
It would have to be the orignal Tansfomers, He-Man and GoBots
Evil Canivel jump bike, silly puddy, big wheele, rock-em-sock-em robots, and electronic football.
Toggles. They were big before lego's.
My Barbie doll. When I was really young, my Tiny Tears doll.
I had a pink Huffy bike that I rode everywhere. I had a white Mickey Mouse record player that I would play 45's on and a "Lori Walking Doll" that I loved. Circa 1980
Hands down, bar none, I had a Saucy Walker doll that I could actually make walk. I will have her to this day. She is now 48 yrs. old and she has her original dress on. She weathered my brothers and everything.
My sisters and I got the original Candy Lane every Christmas. The current one out now isn't as good as the original but then what is.
I grew up in the 60's, My favorite toy was my Chrissy doll. Her hair would grow by pulling it up from the center...and you could turn a knob on her back and her hair would get shorter. She wore a beautiful orange lacey dress and brown lofers!!
G.I. Joe's ruled the day in the 70's.
Tudor Electric Football. I got it for Christmas 1968, Browns in their home whites and NY Giants. I still have it. I showed it to my kids and they were like "thats all it does?"It kept me entertained for hours. Kids are spoiled rotten today.
Colorforms and Etch a Sketch!
OK....does anyone remember the Whiz Wheel. Two really big wheels that you would have to turn by hand.
Mine favorite toys were Lionel trains and my Gilbert erector set. I had hours and hours of fun with them
Nobody voted for Shrinky Dinks yet? Those were the best!!!
Dark Tower. My friend George and I would play that for hours!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(game)
http://www.hotflashgames.com/darktower.htm
Also Legos, Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, any 80's arcade game, "Bruce Lee" and "Ultima ][" for the Atari 800XL computer, "Parsec" and "Munchman" for the TI99/4A. Can you tell I'm an 80's kid? :)
I can recall a few good ones...Matchbox cars that I stole from my 3 brothers and one toy I can remember spending hours on was the "Hoppity Hop"..big giant ball with a handle that you sat on and bounced all over the place with.
Ahhh. the good ol' days!
Please tell me that someone out there remembers the PogoBall? It was the ball that looked like Saturn. Fun times and skinned knees
I liked Raggedy Ann and Andy. Also, I don't really see anything related to the Peanut Gang and Charlie Brown. That used to be such a big deal when I was growing up.
My favorite childhood toy was the Fun Flower Factory and the Creepy Crawler Thingmaker. We could make flowers and bug of all colors-it NEVER got old. In fact, I just recently purchased one on ebay!
Mindy said...
My favorite childhood toy was the Fun Flower Factory and the Creepy Crawler Thingmaker. We could make flowers and bug of all colors-it NEVER got old. In fact, I just recently purchased one on ebay.
I see Thingmakers and Vac-U-Forms (which allowed you to heat sheets of plastic and mold them to make cars, etc.-they had the same heating elements as the Thingmakers) all the time at flea markets, antique malls, and eBay. Finding Plastigoop is another story. I know that Creepy Crawlers was re-introduced, in which the molds are heated by a light bulb instead of a heating element...whether the Plastigoop that is used with this new version will work with the old Mattel Thingmakers I don't know offhand. A company called Toymax makes Creepy Crawlers now. New old stock bottles of the Mattel Plastigoop might be harder to find.
Topper had a similar product around the same time as the Mattel Thingmaker, called "Johnny Toymaker" (for boys) and "Rings And Things" (for girls). Johnny Toymaker made cars, army men, etc., while Rings And Things made jewelry and flowers. Topper called its goop "Super Plastic", which also worked with the Thingmaker-Plastigoop could also be used with Johnny Toymaker and Rings And Things. I miss those toys.
Good luck with your Thingmaker, and good luck with finding Plastigoop.
dawn dolls, i still love them!
I started my lifelong love for Lionel Trains and all Trains very young. At 44 years old, I still collect and run trains. American Flyer and Lionel Trains were the bomb and always a thrill to get under the Christmas Tree from "Santa". The big thrill of Christmas as a kid was going to Halle's to see Santa and Mr. Jingeling. If you really want to go back in time, Sterling Lindner had the best tree and trains at Christmas. The downtown store fronts always had nice train layouts in them.
I loved spirograph- had all kinds of wheels with ridges on them and use colored pencils to make all kinds of pictures. my brothers had matchbox cars(hundreds of them, parents always stepped on them). my older sister had Mystery date. and another sister had easy bake oven(she would bake all kinds of goodies every Saturday), there was 8 kids and we would challenge each other with our new jump ropes. each one at 10yr old would get a bike.
I had hours of fun with colorforms. My favorite was Miss Cookie's Moon Kitchen. I also had a toy that made whistles out of tootsie rolls - Toot Sweet.
No one has mentioned the "Sonic Blaster"
It was pumped up with air pressure, and held over the shoulder like a bazooka...fired a ball of compressed air and was accurate to about 25 feet. Devastating against younger siblings and small amimals. :)
I would have to say my Mrs. Beasley doll. I also had to have the original Simon game. My mom worked hard to find that for Christmas for me one year. No ebay back then.
Tinker Toys and Mr. Potato Head. My Peebles Flintstone and Mrs. Beasley (the original) dolls. Candy Land and Tip-It games. Original Romper Room toys..epecially their colorforms. It wasn't a toy but I treasured the keys that Mr. Jing-A-Ling would give at Christmas from Halle's. (Yes...a 1960 baby was I.)
"Operation"
I harken back to the 70's... my faves were the 'ROCK EM SOCK EM ROBOTS', and my favorite bikes were the 'RALEIGH CHOPPER' and the 'SCHWINN PEA PICKER, ORANGE CRATE, CHERRY PICKER', etc. (with real drum and disc brakes no less)!!! Of course, those bikes were dangerous given the smaller front wheel.
My favorites were lawn jarts and roller skates! I also loved my original Nintendo (which I still have!)
"Tiny Tears" doll, you fed her a bottle with water and she cried, came with her own play pen. Still have her at my parents home for safe keeping!
G.I. Joe. We played with them until we were teenagers, then discovered how fun it would be to strap an M-80 to Joe and launch him high into the sky with a sling shot. At about 200 feet, Joe would be blown to bits and return to the earth in pieces.
Ah, the good old days.
My Etch-a-Sketch. It was like magic making all those wonderful pictures, and then they were magically erased!
Does anyone remember inch worm? I had one of those and loved that thing. I also had one of the original baby alive dolls. I sure wish the new baby alive dolls weren't so creepy looking.
Reading these really bring back fond memories. I really liked my Legos. We didn't even need a booklet full of directions to build something, we used something many kids are lacking these days...our imagination! I also remember Stretch Armstrong, Star Wars figures and Atari 2600.
Spirograph and Tiddly Winks. I still have my Chrissy doll after all these years and does anyone remember the doll "Tubsy" which came with a pink bath tub from the mid 60's?
i have a comment on the city streets why is cleveland streets are rocky or messed up the streets are tairing people cars up the tires the front end of cars we as a tax payer should not have to ride cleveland streets like this every one who live in the city of cleveland should not have to ride the streets like this so something got to be done about our streets every day car is getting messed up why? because cleveland city worker are doing nothing to make thing better out there the mayor is doing nothing to he sit in that big office downtown and do nothing about the people who put his in that office so we the people ask when our streets is going to get better i think the city should pay for people cars to get fix .one more thing why do people ride and drive with there bright lights on at night they should get a ticket driving with your bright lights on behind someone or in front of them is not rite at all so what is the police doing about it?? nothing at all sometime i the police be sleep or drunk or the just don"t care. is it a law about haveing your highbims on in a car while driving. thats my commet mike in eucild
Shrinky-dinks, Atari, Lite-Brite, Spirograph, coorforms, just some of my favorites.
My favorite toy or thing to play in my days gone by was Jack's and Jump Rope.
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