Remember these toys from the 70's?

[cloudy]

The top 100 toys of the 1970's

Some of the ones listed I'd never seen, but looking through them sure brought back some memories!

Remember these?:

Some show I saw a couple of years ago had a hilarious skit featuring these guys
http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/rockem.jpg

We must've gone through at least 5 different sets...
http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/mousetrap.jpg

Little spiderman has one of these, and I still play with the damn thing...
http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/etchasketch.jpg

ahh...the infamous sea monkeys
http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/seamonkeys.jpg

 

[Guest]

sadly, yes...*sniff*
i want to be too young to remember them!
but
i do love me a slinky!

 

[minsue]

*sigh*

I never had Sea Monkeys until high school when I decided I'd been deprived and went out in search of them. I found 'em, I nurtured 'em, I loved 'em, I spilled 'em. Oops. They don't really bounce back all that well.

 

[Dar~]

I still Have this http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/mastermind.jpg
My mom got my daughter one of these for christmas last year. it came with one of the original episodes of the show.http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/rainbow.jpg
My daughter must have thirty of these running around the house.http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/pony.jpg

 

[ElizabethWest]

Did I miss the Lite-Brite? That and the Easy-Bake Oven were my favorites.

 

[Guest]

*sigh*

I never had Sea Monkeys until high school when I decided I'd been deprived and went out in search of them. I found 'em, I nurtured 'em, I loved 'em, I spilled 'em. Oops. They don't really bounce back all that well.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS THREAD?!
you dont belong, youngster!
now, get out before i hit you with my cane and dump my dentures on the floor again.

 

[minsue]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS THREAD?!
you dont belong, youngster!
now, get out before i hit you with my cane and dump my dentures on the floor again.

Hand me down toys?

They were all still around in the early 80s, sweets.

 

[Guest]

Hand me down toys?

They were all still around in the early 80s, sweets.

smartie pants. didnt anyone tell you that its not polite to argue with your elders?
bendover, its time for a spanking

 

[minsue]

smartie pants. didnt anyone tell you that its not polite to argue with your elders?
bendover, its time for a spanking

Hey, if'n you're gonna be running people out for being too young, start with Dar. At least I remember the 70s.

 

[SeaCat]

Damn, does anyone here remember such things as Lincoln Logs, Flexible Flyers, and Red Rider's?

I'm not that old, I can't be. I refuse to be old. I'm a damned Toys-R-Us Kid.

Cat

 

[cloudy]

Damn, does anyone here remember such things as Lincoln Logs, Flexible Flyers, and Red Rider's?

I'm not that old, I can't be. I refuse to be old. I'm a damned Toys-R-Us Kid.

Cat

Lincoln Logs were fun! I usually ended up approprating my two brothers' toys - they were more fun.

Anyone ever make tennis ball cannons?

 

[ElizabethWest]

Damn, does anyone here remember such things as Lincoln Logs, Flexible Flyers, and Red Rider's?

I'm not that old, I can't be. I refuse to be old. I'm a damned Toys-R-Us Kid.

Cat

I love Lincoln Logs. And Lego's.

 

[carsonshepherd]

You sank my Battleship!

 

[SeaCat]

Lincoln Logs were fun! I usually ended up approprating my two brothers' toys - they were more fun.

Anyone ever make tennis ball cannons?

We called them Beer Can Cannons but oh yeah. (My father refused to use lighter Fluid, he used Gasoline.)

Ever make Fire Crackers out of Sulfer Heads?

Cat

 

[cantdog]

Master Mind was a good portable game. We did a homemade variant which was about guessing a word instead of an abstract sequence of colors. Just as portable, and the same principles apply.

I saved a set or three of Lincoln Logs for my daughter, and they are now a part of my Grampie Closet. That's a closet full of toys for grandkids to play with. Open ended toys like Lincoln Logs and hardwood blocks are important to Grampie Closets. There's an Etch-A-Sketch in there, too.

 

[cloudy]

Master Mind was a good portable game. We did a homemade variant which was about guessing a word instead of an abstract sequence of colors. Just as portable, and the same principles apply.

I saved a set or three of Linclon Logs for my daughter, and they are now a part of my Grampie Closet. That's a closet full of toys for grandkids to play with. Open ended toys like Lincoln Logs and hardwood blocks are important to Grampie Closets. There's an Etch-A-Sketch in there, too.

You need some Legos. *nods* There's nothing quite like stumbling down the hall in the middle of the night, and stepping on one of those damn things.

 

[cantdog]

I got Legos, but to me, they are just fancified American Plastic Bricks.

I got lots of Legos just the same. Its a damn good Grampie Closet. I'm not a grandfather, and my girl tells me I am not going to be, but I've had the Closet for years.

 

[cantdog]

I got a SpiroGraph, too.

 

[cloudy]

I got Legos, but to me, they are just fancified American Plastic Bricks.

I got lots of Legos just the same. Its a damn good Grampie Closet. I'm not a grandfather, and my girl tells me I am not going to be, but I've had the Closet for years.

Tell the truth - you're just claiming that it's a grampie closet so that you can play with the toys!

S'okay - I end up playing with my kids' toys after they go to sleep.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

I use to have the Evil Knievel toys. Remember the Grand Canyon jump toys that were out? They jumped about as well as Evil did. Too bad I don't still have them. Or the baseball cards of Hank Aaron and others. I think those were used as spokes in my bicycle wheels for that clicking sound.

sighs

 

[cloudy]

I use to have the Evil Knievel toys. Remember the Grand Canyon jump toys that were out? They jumped about as well as Evil did. Too bad I don't still have them. Or the baseball cards of Hank Aaron and others. I think those were used as spokes in my bicycle wheels for that clicking sound.

sighs

We used Bicycle playing cards for that, with clothespins.

 

[SeaCat]

Well damn, do you remember the bycicles with the Banana seats and sissy bars? (I think mine went through one of the counties snow blowers one winter in New York.)

Cat

 

[cantdog]

Banana Seats Suck Ass. It was true then, and now it would be if anyone still made any. What a stupid idea those things were. Let's make the wheels smaller on the bikes to remove half the mechanical advantage! Yeah!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Damn, does anyone here remember such things as Lincoln Logs, Flexible Flyers, and Red Rider's?

I'm not that old, I can't be. I refuse to be old. I'm a damned Toys-R-Us Kid.

Cat

Of course I remember Lincoln Logs. I believe a more popular version was called American Logs and the logs were square instead of round. Made it easier to build. To me, Flexible Flyers were for sledding on snow, and they were the best brand around. To my second wife, who was from SF, they were wheeled coasters for riding downhill. Red Ryder was a cowboy actor like Roy Rogers and he endorsed a Daisy bb gun that was called a Red Ryder. By the way, all these things are older than I am.

 

[cantdog]

I have an old Red Ryder book, published by Grosset & Dunlap, and I used to own a Big Little book about him. Little Beaver was more interesting.

I remember seeing the BB gun "Red Ryder" thing advertised in the old comic books. By then, though, Red Ryder was already a thing of the past. He passed out of currency about the same time as Charlie Chan.

Those do go back, to the 40s at least.

I got my Red Ryder stuff from a nice fellow who died in the Nam, heroically, saving his platoon by falling on a grenade. He had, amazingly, already done the same thing, that is, already fallen on a grenade to save his fellows, on his first tour in Nam, right out of West Point as a second lieutenant. He gave me his old comics. Spy Smasher, Captain Marvel. I kept them and enjoyed them reverently. Clair was a hero in my young eyes.

They only give Silver Stars with clusters for that. I would have thought that a man who had already been through the medical hell of hospitalization after absorbing the first grenade would merit more if he then covered the second one with a helmet and lay down on it.

People don't realize, sometimes, how many genuine heroes live among us.

I looked into an Easy Bake Oven, by the way. They want a lot of money for those, if they still are in working order.