johnart said:

they still hurt when they fly at you.

johnart said:

It was supposed to be!

Nikademus said:

LMAO! You edited the title!

Nikademus said:

I had the fisher price castle!!! my son plays with mine and its over 30 years old..but the weebles are in the bathtub..

StephaniePlum said:

We used to do the wagon thing at my grandparent's house. My grandpa even customized the wagon so more of us could fit on it at a time.

johnart said:

Better safe than sorry around here!

This thread makes me think of a commercial I recently saw for Chuck E. Cheese, with those two spazzy mothers spying on their kids playing on a playground. They were all paranoid that their kids were going to be injured in some way, playing outside!!!!!

So they decide to instead take the kids to Chuck E. Cheese where it's safer, and where they can eat lots of greasy, fattening and artery clogging cheese pizza.

bluesbaby said:

My castle eventually got handed down to one of my younger nephews who used it in lieu of a real Castle Greyskull with his He-Man figures.

I think I saw the pink dragon out in the garage a few months back

Nikademus said:

Your grandpa sounds cool! My dad used to yell at us about how that wasn't what the wagon is meant for, and if we get hurt or break the wagon riding it down hills like that, well don't come crying to him! lol

johnart said:

or that ridiculous paddle ball thingie - heck, even the Slinky (a Slinky) could cause injury if someone stomped on the durn thing for not going down the staircase right (instead of the slinky going down the staircase, they did - LOLOL). I got a knot or two on my head from the monkey bars.

bluesbaby said:

Wow my nephew loves to play with my playskool toys. I've asked him so many times why he likes the playskool stuff so much better than his, which i think are amazing, toys and he just says their cool. I was a major playskool freak, I had the airport, the town the farm, the castle, the garage, the house and the ferry's wheel, and the boat that floated. I will say those suckers held up.

Nikademus said:

Many a Star Wars doll lived in the Sesame Street brownstone or the Weebles Treehouse.
My action figures (Star Wars/He Man (the last before I "outgrew")) were never who they were supposed to be in my games. Often the mutants/villains were the good ones.

StephaniePlum said:

Oh, my grandpa was the shit! He encouraged the tomboy tenancies of my sisters and I, much to the chagrin of my grandma He taught me how to use my first pocket knife and how to shoot a rifle too

johnart said:

That is where I drew the line, all of my star wars collection is off limits. No one plays with them but me.

johnart said:

The Weebles Treehouse would be PERFECT for Ewoks!

Nikademus said:

I want all my toys back.

johnart said:

Me too

Heck, if I had my brother's Millennium Falcon now, I'd be rich!

johnart said:

Click Clacks!

I thought I was he only one on here who knew what this was. That shit used to *click* and *clack* on my fingers if I didn't do it right, so when I got tired of the balls hitting me on my knuckles I started to bite on them.

StephaniePlum said:

Chuck E Cheese was better when it was Showbiz My family used to go there one Sunday a month for pizza and video games. Before all the ticket redemption crap took over, it was one of THE places to go for the newer arcade games (besides Aladdin's Castle in the mall)

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FunkMistress said:

damn you!! I'm getting all misty-eyed...

ahh the searing touch of the all metal slide... those were the days!!

KidaDynamite said:

yeah i remeember those when i was 6 or 7 i had em.

I miss the fireman poles in the playground, and proper tire bridges. Not those bolted things kids have now, but those ones where the tires were suspended vertically and swinging freely and you had to take your chances not to fall between them. Those were awesome!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jarts (or lawn darts).

The original metal ones were outlawed because of how many people got hurt or killed. Even gently thrown, they could go through anything.

NMuzakNSoul said:

Click-clacks remind me of a toy you'd get in your Easter basket. Yeah, I had 'em too . . .

johnart said:

it's TRUE!

Nikademus said:

I actually had the Ewok Village - basically 3 plastic trees with a platform between them. It had an elevator and a winch too. What I liked about that is that it was all plastic and nearly indestructible. I used to hate when toys have cardboard components like backdrops or flooring.

That exact same toy was rebranded for Kevin Costner's Robin Hood movie.

I was feeling nostalgic and did a search to see what those tree villages looked like and found this. Quite interesting!

http://theswca.com/images...i/recycle/

Remember the Sit and Spin? The only sit and spin anyone offers me to ride now is this

at first glance, he doesn't look like he could hurt much...but imagine getting one of these, being told "Don't break him because that stuff inside will get all over the place!", then tying one of his arms to a door knob and the other to the bed post , closing the door, breaking the arm, getting the stuff inside all over the place, your mom seeing it and using the really long,streched out, broken off arm to spank you with...that shit hurts!