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Saturday, August 18, 2007
The Saturday Seven: Retro Toys I Liked as a Kid
The Saturday Seven: Retro Toys I Liked as a Kid
#1 Evil Kenievel Stunt Action Set
#2 "It's Slinky, it's slinky..."
#3 Stretch Armstrong
#4 Rock'em Sock'em Robots
#5 The Six Million Dollar Man Action Figure
#6 METAL Tonka Trucks (not those wimpy plastics ones today)
#7 Lincoln Logs
Bonus item: Merry Go Round Boats
So what were YOUR favorite toys as a kid? Go ahead, leave a comment, its FREE!
-Rick Rockhill
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18 comments:
baby beans, barbies, cabbage patch kids, rainbow bright, strawberry shortcake, smurfs, lincoln logs, lego's,
this post just brought me back to my childhood days.
thanks!! :)
Always,
Crusty~
I still remember hours and hours spent playing with our Barbies. We had a Barbie corvette and Barbie pool. Barbie was such a cool chick and she didn't need Ken to make her happy...she could have pool parties whenever she wanted and she didn't have to work for a living..lol. We had a pretty cool house for her too...lol. We also had a doll that you could feed to make her cry real tears and pee. Somehow it wasn't as much fun when I had kids...lmao.
Cabbage Patch kids for sure. Oh and silly putty too.
i loved barbies and legos and the game of life. fun stuff, great topic there.
I remember the day that Evil K. jumped the Snake River Canyon near our house.....he was all the rage! And i would stretch that little guy out until he was all skinny.....(the Armstrong dude, that is). But i did have a set of Lincoln Logs that I wore out. I played with them all of the time.
Big Jim with the Winnebago!
Also, my Lite Brite
I loved the Steve Austin doll when I was a kid!!!! The skin on his right are that rolled up to reveal his bionics!!! And how you could look through the hole in the back of his head and "see" through his bionic eye!!! Brilliant!!!
Loved the Lincoln Logs and Slinky like you and the Barbies like some fellow posters, but my favorite "toy" was an old Royal typewriter.
Most of your top 7 were some of my favorites, too!
But, I never had #1
so I'll substitute the USS Enterprise playset (with my Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock action figures -- let's just say that "beam me up" took on a whole new meaning...)
And I never had a Merry Go Round Boat, so I'll substitute Ants In The Pants. I loved that game!
cheers!
mo
Oh lemme think...I usually was out building forts and riding bikes with my seven boy neighbors of various ages, but indoors I played with:
Legos
Strawberry Shortcakes
My Little Pony
Barbies
Monchichis
Smurfs
Cabbage Patch Kids
--snow
Hmmm.....I loved my Star Wars action figures, Legos, Matchbox cars, and My Little Pony. And Rainbow Brite too.
I remember the ads for a lot of those! I enjoyed my Slinky and Silly Putty, and of course my Barbie.
For the most part, though, I was a books and jigsaw puzzles girl. And crayons and colored pencils! And skates. And "Chinese" jump rope. Sometimes I wonder if I imagined that game, since it seems I'm the only person who knows what it was! :-)
losing my shoes in the mud - GI Joes - FLASH GORDON - (Plays- I played MING? - I don't even remember who he was anymore) - LEGOS - but the BEST was was the new refridgerator box - HUGE - that we rolled down the hills by my house - and pretended it was a spaceship.
I had a stretch armstrong. I also had Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. Remember them. I had the original Creepy Crawlers maker. I played with barbies too.
I had these one's though, they weren't barbie, but I also collected like the Bryer Horses. But this one was a big plastic horse you could buy, and you could buy Indians (not slurpie indians, but casino indians) that went with the horse. I always had them go kidnap the barbies. hehehehe
I can't remember what they were called, would like to find the name of them again so I can tell people.
Great post! I loved play-people :)
I sorta borrowed your saturday seven idea yesterday...hope ya don't mind. I linked you so if someone comes and says I sent them...I did..lmao.
a few more:
Holly Hobby
Raggedy Ann and Andy
sigh...I wanna be a kid again instead of being this stuck at home stay at home mom with three boys all under the age of 6.
Always,
Crusty~
Just think if Tonka made those toys today. They'd have so many lawsuits on their hands. We were taught to just grin and bear any injuries/cuts from sharp corners and the like back then. My lincoln log sets grew for years.
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