Memories Of Old Toys: Do You Have Any?

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This question was prompted by Brian's hilarious posts on the last thread of the Uncensored Forum. If you want to read that link, then find the latest Administrator post. We're still posting there...

Jedenfalls, I waxed mildly nostalgic regarding the toys of yesteryears.

Does anyone have or use any of the following *ancient* toys?

Hoola-hoop

Sticky Octopus

Pet Rock

What other toys are there that would be worth money on E-bay?

I don't have any to sell because, well, I don't have any.

There was this gray plastic rhinoceros which my parents bought for me years ago. I thought it was really keen. So did a visitor, a young boy, who nibbled on its nose. I was aghast at the discovery of the damage. Later I sold it off to a rural neighbor who paid one buck for it. I realize now I should have never offered it for sale, but, back then, being a kid with a thirst for enterprise, it was a necessary sacrifice...

Remorse gnaws bitterly on my memory...

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 09, 2000

Answers

Does Mr. Winkie count?

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), December 09, 2000.

Can Mister Winkie count to one?

I thought so...

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 09, 2000.


My 5 year old asked me for a hula hoop for Christmas. So I guess they are still around somewhere.

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), December 10, 2000.

Tonka Toys from the late 50's to the early 60's

-- Bill (sticky@2sides.tape), December 10, 2000.

Whiffle Ball. That invention saved many a window from being shattered in my neighborhood.

Super Pinkie. Played stickball, punchball and various off-the-wall games with it.

Nerf basketball & football.

Mini football made out of plastic.

Clackers. Two marble-like balls attached to a string, one on either end. More of a weapon than a toy, but very popular nonetheless.

EZ-Widers.

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), December 10, 2000.



Oh, clackers. Wow, I forgot out them.

Those were dangerous, sorta like the Kung Fu of toys.

A pair was prominently featured on the Fleetwood Mac album RUMOURS.

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 10, 2000.


Tinker Toys

I used to play with these things for hours on end.

I found this and many others on ebay.

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), December 10, 2000.


LOL! Rich,EZ-Widers.

Superman movie projector,it played short movies with George Reeves I think,you could even make it go backwards.I would sit in the closet for hours watching all three movies over and over.It's the 1 toy I wish I still had.

Though not a toy,one of my favorites was a multi-band radio,I remember laying in bed late at night listening to all the voices from around the world and the neat shows,like Macabre Theatre,hosted be E.J Cobb(I think?)

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 10, 2000.


I considered EZ-Widers as excessive and used by those without sufficient manual dexterity.

Multiple wrappings ruined the taste.

I liked regular ZigZag the best.

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 10, 2000.


I would have to go with the 1.0 JOB's,though a rolled doob is excessively wasteful,a dugout is extremely effective both in savings and result : )

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 10, 2000.


Uh-Oh,looks like another heathen thread.

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 10, 2000.

Oops, sorry.

OK, Unk, please delete my thread.

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 10, 2000.


Well damn Dino,so I'll look like the only heathen habitating this thread :\_

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 10, 2000.

Is there any subject that you stoners cannot relate to doobage?

Anyway, when I was about 5 years old I got a Lost in Space set for Christmas, it was so cool. It had a great big Jupiter II that opened up to reveal the interior, several monsters, Robby the robot, all the figures of the Robinsons and Dr Smith, and a missile shooting battery operated version of that tracked vehicle they rode around in. Totally awesome, I cannot imagine what it would be worth today.

Now I get socks and underwear, oh how the mighty have fallen.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 10, 2000.


Anyone remember Stretch Armstrong? Took my brother and I less than four hours to find the "goo" that made him so stretchy, and to deposit said goo all over the hair on our sisters' Cher doll.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), December 10, 2000.


GI Joe with the scuba gear..in the bathtub. Usually accompanied by a plastic shark and a Malibu Barbie or two. Sometimes I had them do Olympic style dives from the faucet, and then I would score them.

Jane and Jay West dolls with the Conestoga wagon, pulled by Pancho the horse. Epic treks were made across the backyard, fraught with peril. Usually it was a stuck wheel, or invading mini plastic indians. Every once in awhile, when I was lucky, the journey was made through the snow...so the wagon could sink and they would have to dig their way out...and dig a trail..that was fun!

Erector Sets..two of them..that we could never do ourselves, but my Dad would build something really cool with a motor in it for us, (like a helicopter or a merry go round)and then we'd have fun playing with it. When we were done, we'd take it apart, because that was fun too.

ColorForms - There was a Minnie Mouse kitchen, complete with cabinets you could open and put cups in, and a table to set. AWESOME!

Portable 45 Players - No child in the 60's could get through life without a 45 record player..and a box to keep the 45s in..and a set of numbers to catalog them with. We'd pile up the 45s and play DJ, usually with the newly introduced cassette tape recorder mike. I still have cassettes of myself at age 8, playing DJ..my kids get a kick out of those.

Rich, I remember Klick Klacks...or whatever they were called. They were cool too. The original glass ones are worth a lot of money, because they were quickly replaced by non-shattering plastic balls.

PS...I still love toys! :-)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), December 10, 2000.

capn, I had a little red Realistic radio which I used to DX at night on the AM band. No shortwave capability though. I wrote a piece about it many months ago on Uncensored. Truly a cherised item during my childhood.

The Dugout is most assuredly the single greatest 'head' invention - and there are a lot of them. I know because I owned most every type of paraphenalia ever invented at one time or another. ;)

dino, I used EZ's in grammar school because I was a shitty roller. Once I gained some ability I switched to Zig-Zags.

Anyone remember the card game Grass?

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), December 10, 2000.


slinky
silly putty
flubber
pogo sticks...

Now you've done it...I'm gonna go cry.

-- (yawn@scratch.stretch), December 11, 2000.


No Unk,I guess not.Today as I was working my mind went back to that damned old projector again,the thought that went through my mind was to catch a little buzz and watch it again,gonna hop on over to e Bay and have myself a merry little Christmas.

Rich,

Radio's were the window to the world before the internet came along,I for one am glad I didn't miss the chance to lay in bed,listen and let my imagination soar.

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 11, 2000.


Yes, I had a little grocery store, complete with veggie bins where you could stack the tiny produce, one by one into neat little stacks and shelves where you could stack the tiny cans of Campbells soup and I don't recall what else. A couple of years later I got my first Easy Bake oven complete with pans and mixes that you used to bake with light bulb. In between the two I got my first cook book... Huh, and I wonder why I like to cook? Brainwashed at an early age!! I'm not even starting with the Barbie doll thing. Hard to believe no one here has mentioned it, except for the replies are mostly from men. What does that tell you?

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), December 11, 2000.

Now I recall those bendable toys, Gumby and Pokey.

I believe that Gumby was my first gay toy.

I always thought there was something wrong with that green thing.

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 11, 2000.


capn,

You looking for something like this?

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), December 11, 2000.


I had a Chatty Cathy doll (which everyone said was exactly like *me* -- grumble). I lost interest (quickly) and went to the Tinker Toys....like Peg, for hours on end.

kritter, I used to do the same thing with my brother's GI Joe (and the Barbie doll)...then I'd catch hell for "ruining" his GI Joe. (It was payback for him sitting on my Puff the Magic Dragon record ;-).)

I remember Stretch Armstrong, but I was older by that time and didn't play with toys then (what was I thinking ?!?!).

I think one of my favorites was the Footsie. Hours of uninterrupted pleasure (except by passing "adults").

The most devastating loss of my childhood (by far) was my baseball card collection. It would make a grown man cry.

The best "toy" any kid could have growing up in Brooklyn was the empty cardboard major appliance box. It became whatever you wanted it to be.

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 11, 2000.


I forgot the Easy Bake oven!! How did we ever manage to bake anything under a light bulb? But we did.

Great thread, dino. Excellent timing.

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 11, 2000.


Patricia...aka Chatty Kathy ;)

At least your Barbie got to play with GI Joe...all mine had was Ken...sigh!

And the easy bake oven still uses a 100 watt clear light bulb, I...err..my girls have one :)

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), December 11, 2000.


My favorite toy was a Viewfinder. I could sit and look at "animated" stories through that thing for hours. I was always bugging my parents to buy me more of those films but now I get to make the animation. Life is good.

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), December 11, 2000.

Oh yeah. I also loved playing with those little books that had bodies cut in three pieces and you could put a fancy dress on a fireman, or put a pair of hairy masculine legs on a ballerina.

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), December 11, 2000.

Wasn't that called the View Master (or something like that)? I remember having "films" of the World's Fair in NYC (1965-1966, I think) and "films" of Disneyland (not that I'd ever been there). They were cool.

I also remember having this styrofoam building block set -- I used to make "snow forts" in the dining room.

Someone had mentioned Rock-Em Sock-Em Robots on another thread; I LOVED those things.

Does anyone remember those "football games" -- the metal ones with the magnetic players? It would vibrate to move the players. It always worked in the ads on TV, but once you got it home.....just kind of drove your parents nuts with the noise.

Oh wait a minute.....that describes just about EVERY toy ever made :-)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 11, 2000.


If I go on a hunt, I'll probably find a box in the storage room that contains a few things from my childhood: Etch-A-Sketch (all the silver is off), a mangled Slinkey, a gyroscope, several yo-yos. I gave away my Legos, Tinker Toys, and GI Joes to the younger relatives when I started college, and whatever else I might have save disappeared over the course of moving around, which is probably just as well since I have limited storage space.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), December 11, 2000.

Strat-o-matic Baseball.

Nock-Hockey (sp?).

Tether Ball.

A friend had the vibrating football game. It came with little foam footballs. You could kick extra points with it.

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), December 11, 2000.


I'm still big on simple stuff like marbles, bubbles, & flip books.

Patricia,

My sister would've died a thousand deaths for your Chatty Cathy - she has had her nose out of joint ever since she got a Saucy Walker doll instead.

Christmas is the time of year when my 'adult' siblings turn particularly diabolical. Some memorable gifts we've given back & forth to each others' young children have been: cheap but effective drum sets; battery operated megaphones { you can make your voice sound like a booming robot or alien!}; strap-on helmets with sirens & flashing lights; incessant macarena gorillas; and toy guns - the louder & flashier the better.

-- flora (***@__._), December 11, 2000.


Yeh,I had one of those football games too but a friend of mines' sister stole it,hehehe.

Peg,

That's close but the one I had was a little smaller,had a crank for manual operation and cartridges.I think it was made by Kenner.

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 11, 2000.


Dang Pat. You have a great memory! I think it was called a View Master and I had forgotten about the Disneyland film I had too. I can still see Goofy, Micky and Minnie Mouse just as clearly in my mind as if I had just looked at them last week. Whoa, this thread is a trip.

By the way, I also had a Chatty Cathy and a Shirley Temple doll. My grandma took them when I got tired of them and I understand they're worth a few bucks today. I suppose most of the toys we're discussing are because even though they're not antiques, they're collectable. Yea, I like that term "collectable". It makes me feel like I'm not so old :-D

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), December 11, 2000.


My JC Higgins bicycle was by far the best toy I ever got!

Next best was when my brother got a basketball hoop/backboard that my dad (illegally) nailed to the utility pole in the street outside our house. I must have spent 10,000 hours playing out there with the neighbor kids.

As for indoor toys:

Blocks! Fun to build. Even more fun to knock down what you built.

My sister gave me my first plastic model kit - the kind you glued together and painted with a little hobby brush and teensy bottles of enamel paint. It was a model of Rat Fink, by Big Daddy Roth.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), December 11, 2000.


>> I think it was called a View Master <<

Where I am sitting ow (at work) I am less than a mile from the old View Master factory. It is shut down now. It is being considered for listing as a Superfund site because of ground water contamination from solvents.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), December 11, 2000.


Hey, we're not "old"; we're "preserved" (some of us more than others, I think ;-)).

One of my most vivid memories was putting the "record" in the back of the Chatty Cathy doll. Funny how there are certain scenes that you replay in your mind -- no matter how long ago they occurred.

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 11, 2000.


Omigawd...the memories -- great thread, y'all...

I remember that a very well-to-do family on the next block had thrown away a Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set -- I mean it was practically new and it was in their garbage out front! Well, I wasted no time in grabbing it -- and spent untold hours constructing all manner of structures -- I just immersed myself in it.

And I LOVED Lincoln Logs.

And for the most part, girl stuff somehow never really was my thing -- most of the kids around us were boys, and although I had more than my share of teasing from 'em, I pretty much hung out with them -- got a bunch of toy soldiers and we'd go out to nearby construction sites and set up and execute all sorts of wild battles! Go figure! I dunno -- maybe I was a guy in a past life.

In fact, I remember ordering what was supposed to be hundreds of soldiers and military equipment from the back of a comic book -- the ad said they were supposed to come in a "footlocker" and the picture of the "footlocker was huge -- like a real one. Well, this "footlocker" turned out to be a hard paper -- like the old- fashioned hamburger boxes -- and about the same size!! Really! All the stuff inside was tiny and flat! Wow, was I pissed -- I thought it was a bad joke or something! Needless to say, that was the LAST time I ever mail-ordered anything -- well, from the back of a comic book, anyway.

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), December 11, 2000.


Thanks Patricia but I don't know which is worse..."preserved" or "collectable" ;-D

Heck, I'm so "preserved" and "collectable" I used to curl my hair with orange juice cans. (It was my most fervent wish to look like Jean Shrimpton.)

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), December 11, 2000.


When my friend was the international manager of sony's software division, she kept one of those small sets of Play Doh in her desk drawer. When the going got tough - she'd privately take out a container & just take a whiff...ahhh...

Hey - we might have something here. The next aromatherapy craze...we could synthesize the scents of Play Doh; Kool Aid; bubble gum; & the weird plastic smell of things like Colorforms and market them. Folks would immediately connect to a feeling of creativity, invinciblity, and that anything is still possible.

-- flora (***@__._), December 11, 2000.


Now I remember something I had where you would wrap wire in a circle, and dip it in a goo, and it would make a thin plastic flower petal. Does anyone remember that? What was that?

Also..the plastic bug molding sets, and car molding sets? They all involved melting some plastic goo and pouring it into a mold.

GI Joes...for some reason, at some point, some of the Joe's would get a purplish black "skin disease". Barbie's got it too,..but not as often. What caused that?

-- kritter (k@a.n), December 11, 2000.


Yes, kritter -- I had the flower-making thing and the plastic flower-making (and bug-making) things!! Can't remember the names of them (they'd probably be outlawed now anyway ;-)).

flora, I will never forget the smell of Play-Doh or Colorforms (another of my favorites). Or anything "new and plastic" that came out of the box...................

Netscape, I wouldn't worry about being "preserved" OR "collectible"; both are pretty good qualities. (Hey, we could do worse, right?)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 11, 2000.


Pat and kritter,

I had those plastic flower making thingies too...LOL...this thread is great.

Now for the bug mold making thing is was none other than...

And the smell was something else!!!

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), December 11, 2000.


Oh my God! I had forgotten about the bug mold until I saw that picture! What a trip!! I can't believe the flood of memories I'm having today. I just have one question though...what are Colorforms?

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), December 11, 2000.

Holy shit I just looked Colorforms up on a search engine. I had forgotten about those things more years ago than I care to remember. Thanks for the memories!

P.S. Thanks for the update Brian. If I were there I'd go root around that old building and see if I could find anymore films. Hey, I'd put on my old Wonder Woman warrior bracelets and no stinkin' solvents could hurt me ;-D

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), December 11, 2000.


Does anyone remember when they came out with the edible creepy crawlers?...no, I didn't partake...the commercial was enough to make ya hurl...LOL.

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), December 11, 2000.

I liked the candy Peg! I think they might have been the precursor to gummi bears but either way I think it's a good thing I never saw the commercial or I probably never would have tried them.

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), December 11, 2000.

but...but...they looked like bugs...yuk! ;)

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), December 11, 2000.

Incredible Edibles -

Yes, I am well preserved & it beats the alternative!

-- flora (***@__._), December 11, 2000.


Oh, creepy crawlers! We had some of the edible goop at one point. I make this terrible-tasting bug and pretended to eat it (I actually palmed it and ate a black gum drop). My sister nearly threw up watching me.

My poor sister! My brother and I used to fill her bed with all sorts of junk. One afternoon, we cooked up a whole bunch of creepy crawler crickets and left them under her pillow. We could hear her screams all the way down to the basement. I think we were grounded for at least a week from that one.

How about Creeple People? Remember those? I was just getting old enough to outgrow thing-making when those came in. I made up a whole bunch, (hair, heat, arm, feet) mounted them on pencils, and sold them for a quarter at school.

I remember that stuff in the jar -- smelled! -- that would stick to wires. My mom made a whole bunch of flowers like that once. I don't remember the name, either, but it was sold at Frank's Nursery in the craft department. Seems like my brother dumped some of the goo on an enemy's bike lock. I think his father had to saw the chain with a hack saw.

Ah, memories...

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), December 11, 2000.


Wow, memories are being triggered.

Easy Bake Oven: My cousin had one of these and it was a hit. She'd bake some little cakes down in her family's basement. When her mother realized how fast the Easy Bake cooking supplies were disappearing, she stopped the baking. Why didn't my sister ever get any cool stuff like that?

Creepy Crawlers: I remember the large thick needle which was used to lift the cooked creatures from the molds. One night I accidentally pierced one of my fingers down to the bone with that needle. I stared at it and freaked. So I pulled it out, and blood spurted. Creepy.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 11, 2000.


Nice to hear your memories. When I was growing-up, we were too poor to have toys. I remember when I was five, my father saved all year and bought me a dried bean for Christmas. It was a Pinto bean. I named it Ferd. I loved that bean and carried it everywhere. Sort of like Lennie Small carrying a dead mouse in his pocket and stroking it. I remember what happened to Ferd. It was in the fall when I was seven. That was the year that the flash flood washed away our house and we had to sleep in the back field all winter. Ferd got wet and rotted. I do miss that bean. Now-a-days, I could afford to buy another bean, but it wouldn't be the same.

Now I could tell you about my dog, Rags. He was really a wild rat, but my father told me he was a dog. I didn’t know any better; but that is a story for another time.

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), December 11, 2000.


Holy shit!!! look what I found,too tripy.I think I'm gonna have to bid on this and squash any one who would stand in moi's way.WooooooHooooo!!!

My new old toy



-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 12, 2000.


Um, (looks around while swiveling on stool) anyone say BARREL of MONKEYS yet? no offense Tarz. :-)

how bout the clippty clop things you put on your feet looked like hard paper cups w/string that went up to your hands so you could walk.

Also, CRAZY CLACKERS, damn near broke my elbow w/those sob's :-)

And the SPRINGS SHOES? They were like um 6 inches of springs and they looked like shoes and you put them on your feet?

Also the lil hoop that went on your ankle and it had a ball attached to a string, so you could hoop and break your damn neck all at the same time.

ohhhh so many memories. looks around for kleenex ;-(

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), December 12, 2000.


OH MY MAN CAPN,,,,,i ALWAYS wanted one of those, (snifs) but my mom never bought me one.

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), December 12, 2000.

BARREL of MONKEYS

My (now) sister-in-law gave me one of these for a gag Christmas gift a couple of years ago. It sat on my desk where I used to work :-)

clippty clop things you put on your feet looked like hard paper cups w/string that went up to your hands

Don't remember the name, but I remember those things. I might have had them; not sure. (The mind IS the first thing to go, ya know.)

CRAZY CLACKERS

Someone (Rich?) mentioned those above. They were one of those "you'll put your eye out" toys that wound up in all kinds of legal battles.

SPRINGS SHOES

Again, I vaguely remember these.

lil hoop that went on your ankle and it had a ball attached to a string

The Footsie, that I mentioned above ;-)

Pass the kleenex, please......

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 12, 2000.


*Geesh 'sumer* - you're makin' me think I grew up near Z's neighborhood. We used to make those stilt things from coffee cans.

I'm still caught up on the scent angle, as usual...

~

Ode To Play-Doh

By Chris Matthias

~

When I am in a bad mood,

Or when I am feeling low.

I get my ass in gear,

And whip out out my Play-Doh.

Oh my dear my dear Play-Doh,

How I love you so.

With your soft and enjoyable,

Non-toxic dough.

Your wonderful aroma,

Pours out after I open the top.

I love smelling my Play-Doh,

I just can't stop.

But other than smelling it,

You can play with it too.

I make worms and people,

And animals in the zoos.

If there was no Play-Doh,

I don't know where I'd be.

Because Play-Doh, oh Play-Doh,

You are so dear to me.

~

"A Look Back at the 40-Year History of One of America’s Favorite Toys"

http://www.hasbro.com/consumer/history/playdohhist.htm

Has anyone found that Slinky jingle on the web anywhere?

-- flora (***@__._), December 12, 2000.


Try this link to the Slinky jingle.

Couldn't find printed words (and I gots no sound here at work). All I remember is:

What goes down stairs,
Alone or in pairs
????????

A thing, a thing,
A marvelous thing
Everyone knows it's Slinky

It's Slinky, it's Slinky
For fun it's a wonderful toy

It's Slinky, it's Slinky
It's fun for a girl and a boy

Blah................

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 12, 2000.


Who walks the stairs

Without a care

It shoots so high in the sky.

Bounce up and down

Just like a clown.

Everyone knows its Slinky.

The best present yet

To give or get

The kids will all want to try.

The hit of the day

When you are ready to play

Everyone knows it's Slinky.

It Slinky, it's Slinky

For fun the best of the toys

It Slinky, it's Slinky

The favorite of girls and boys.



-- (no@oneyou.know), December 12, 2000.


Also the lil hoop that went on your ankle and it had a ball attached to a string, so you could hoop and break your damn neck all at the same time.

Wasn't that was called "Skip-It"? Or was that just what they said in the jingle?

-- kritt (k@a.n), December 12, 2000.


That's right, kritter....there were TWO toys like that. The Footsie, that I mentioned earlier, had a kind of plastic "bell- shaped" object at the end of the string.

The Skip-It came some years later.

And I see I blew the words to Slinky.

Like I said, the mind is the first thing to go :-)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 12, 2000.


I was really more of a fort building, tunnel digging, mudbomb making, jumping out of treetops kinda gal.

My favortie toy prolly was a bucket to do stuff with - from getting a closer look at tidepool critters & grunion, to mixing up secret potions with sage & honeysuckle.

That said, I bet most of us had a Frisbee.

-- flora (***@__._), December 12, 2000.


I have a border collie who has her own box of Frisbees.

-- (raven@never.more), December 12, 2000.

I still have my hand-me-down toy singer sewing machine like this one stashed in the garage:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=524755857

-- flora (***@__._), December 12, 2000.


I believe this thread offers some proof that adult toys do not hold sway over those we had as kids, as far as sheer ability to engross us. To this day nothing turns me on quite like a basketball did as a kid. Well, almost nothing.

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), December 12, 2000.

Sure Bingo, how do we know you wouldn't have one of those 'Seinfeld moments'?

"SUMMARY: Kramer is excited to find what appears to be the set of the old ``Merv Griffin Show'' in a Dumpster. ``This stuff belongs in the Smithsonian,'' he says. ``Yeah, or at least in the Dumpster behind the Smithsonian,'' Jerry offers. But Kramer somehow manages to get the set into his apartment and starts doing a fantasy talk show with Jerry, Elaine and George as ``guests'' whenever they drop by. George has romantic problems (``I'm gettin' nothin''') with animal-loving Miranda when some pigeons won't get out of his way and he hits them with his car. But he argues that it's not his fault. ``Don't we have a deal with the pigeons?'' he wonders to Jerry. ``Of course we have a deal,'' Jerry explains. ``They get out of the way of our cars, we look the other way on the statue defecation.'' Jerry, naturally, has his own problems with the gorgeous Celia, who owns a collection of classic boomer toys. ``The sex is wild, but she has this incredible toy collection and she won't let me near it,'' he complains. Elaine has problems at work with creepy new guy Lou Filerman, a ``sidler'' who appears silently and unexpectedly to share credit for something she's done. She devises a plan to sidle up on him, but it backfires when J. Peterman calls his work ``drivel'' and he's suddenly not around to share the blame. George attempts to miss another pigeon while driving but hits a squirrel. Miranda insists on expensive vet treatment instead of the ``putting to sleep'' option for the critter. He even has to take the squirrel home to recuperate. Frustrated Jerry has his way with Celia's toys when he gives her the wrong medicine, causing her to pass out. This brings a rebuke from Kramer. Elaine tricks Lou into carrying a box of Tic-Tac mints at all times in order to give audible warning of his approach, but their rattling sound reminds Peterman of the Haitian Voodoo Rattle Torture and he orders the noise stopped. Worse, he thinks Elaine has been making the rattle and wonders if she's ``undead.'' Elaine berates Jerry for drugging Celia, but joins in the subterfuge in order to play with an E-Z Bake oven. Kramer, short on talk-show material, changes format to scandals and animals and invites Jim Fowler of ``Wild Kingdom'' to guest. Jerry tells his Celia story on the ``show'' but is confronted by her, Jerry Springer style. George brings the repaired squirrel onto the show, hoping Fowler will take it off his hands (``It's not a pet, it's a wild invalid''), but Fowler's hawk attacks it instead, destroying the set in the process. Ultimately, the squirrel gets to recuperate in George's bed, while he sleeps on the couch. ``I'm still gettin' nothin,''' he complains. At the fade, Elaine is feeding Celia turkey and wine to make her sleepy so she can score some vintage gum for Lou so he'll stop with the Tic-Tacs already.

THE TRUTH: We find out that Jerry never had a G.I. Joe as a boy but instead had an Army Pete."

http://www.newstimes.com/archive98/feb1498/tve.htm

-- flora (***@__._), December 12, 2000.


Clackers!!! Did Someone mention Clackers???? I found a Cache of themat the Flea Market last year. If you want to see them go to my Web site www.geocities.com/smith999/trade/4clacker.html

-- Dean Smith (dr_bead@onebox.com), June 09, 2001.

Do not go there. You will be sorry.

-- (fake@out.yep), June 11, 2001.

Oh what memories, played with the Kenner Girder and Panel sets for hours. Recently found one on eBay and bought it for old time sake. Remember the farm setswith 100's of pieces. Now those toys allowed a child to use their imagination.

-- Ray Weber (raycubbieblue@aol.com), December 19, 2002.

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