And don't forget the games....

vainandy said:

I don't know if it's all still made the way it was way back when, but it's a smell you never forget.

I remember that smell. Silly Putty was a similar toy like Play Doh except you could take silly putty and press it down on a comic strip in the Sunday paper and the image would appear on it when you pull it back up.

vainandy said:

I had one of those!! That's just brought back a memory of the first time I remember using a swear word

florescent said:

omg! you could put your hand on the spinning arrow and scratch the vocals!

Acrylic said:

Cute! I never knew how to play with dolls Whenever I'd get one I'd give it to someone else. But I remember having two beautiful Barbie dolls that I really wanted to get during a short phase, but I was never really interested in playing with them. I'd just change their clothes and wash their hair every once in a while

It's funny how we got so much pleasure and hours of enjoyment from these SIMPLE toys. I always hear how kids today are so bored!!
I wish I had today's technology back in the 70's!!!

tricky2 said:

But because of it, they have less imagination.

You try to get kids to "make believe" now and they look at you like you asked them to pay the mortgage.

I was about to say the exact same thing. The toys were very simple and the rest was left up to us to use our imagination. Now, kids have video games that do things for them when they press certain buttons. And you didn't get no toy that costs $100 back then. Try $10 and if you were really good, you got one for $20. If I had asked my mama for something that costs anywhere near $100, she would have whipped my ass for even asking. My cousin who was younger, rich, and spoiled had every toy imaginable no matter what the cost but his favorite thing to do was something as simple as playing with my aunt's car keys on the floor.

The Six Million Dollar Man action figure.

Lincoln Logs

And the ever popular: Evel Knievel motorcycle/stunt bike toy! That was my far my favorite...and loud!!

vainandy said:

I used to turn shoe boxes over and play "school" with my dolls. I had a small chalkboard, and my mom would buy me chalk when she went shopping. I'd make my own worksheets and everything.

BTW- I had the same toys you had!

Speaking of playing school, we used to play school with crayola crayons. We had the big 64 color box and we would stand the crayons up on the floor in rows like they were sitting at desks. Then we had a box of 8 jumbo crayons and those were the teachers and principals.

vainandy said:

INCH WORM!!!!!

Barbies. Like Carrie, I was more into the clothes than anything, and I learned to sew by making Barbie clothes.

I also loved My Little Ponies, and basically anything involving horses.

Beyond that, mainly art supplies. The big box of Crayola with the built-in sharpener was like the fuckin' holy grail of awesome to me.

And I played outside a lot. Climbed trees, ran around with our dog, rode the neighbor's horse.

Once I could read, though, that was what I spent most of my time doing.

I have a shoe box full of Batman toys COMPLETE! The Michael Keaton ones are my favorite.

vainandy said:

my son has a shrek operation game

funkycat00 said:

I loved that! With the retractable belt!

* if my frikkin scanner wasn’t broken I could post old pics of me with these toys*

3: My last bicycle (dirt bike) I got Christmas 1985. It was a beautiful colored bike with a lot of racing logos and whatnot. Around 1988 I tricked it out in black and white spray paint and added black and white checkerboard foam pads to it.

2: All the Star Wars toys I got in Christmas 1983 after the ROTJ movie came out. Some of the toys I got were also from the ESB movie too.Off all the SW toys my faves were my green Luke Skywalker light saber, my Millennium Falcon and X-wing fighter, and my R2-D2 and C-3PO.

1: The baddest robot ever, my Matchbox VOLTRON/ LIONBOT that I got for Christmas in 1984!! I would take different lions out with me when I left the house, but NEVER all 5 together at the same time.

* with the exception of the Luke light saber, which I destroyed in battle in 1986 and the bicycle which I gave to my little cousins in 1991 I still have all those aforementioned toys. If I wasn’t a lazy S.O.B. I would post pics...but I’m a lazy S.O.B.*

Adisa said:

I couldn't believe it when I got one of the walkers for Christmas:




I still feel sort of guilty over having gotten expensive toys as gifts from relatives. That's the way I still feel about it when I see some of my old toys.

novabrkr said:

that's the scandinavian in you

That's probably the most truthful thing I've heard in weeks.