Remember these toys from the 70's?

[Colleen Thomas]

I remember tinker toys, green plastic army men, Lincoln logs, red ryder bb guns, eich-a-sketch, light bright, playdough when it still came in the cans, lawn darts, and of course the easy bake oven.

Yeah, I'm older than dirt, but I can be a kid again in a minute when I open my lincoln logs or tinker toys

 

[Boxlicker101]

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.

I think it was in the very early fifties when I had a Red Ryder BB gun. I had a lot of Big Little Books but I don't remember having one about Red Ryder, although I did have his comic books. Back then, they were 52 pages long and cost a dime. I think Charley Chan was from the thirties.

 

[cantdog]

Then you know Little Beaver.

 

[yui]

I remember tinker toys, green plastic army men, Lincoln logs, red ryder bb guns, eich-a-sketch, light bright, playdough when it still came in the cans, lawn darts, and of course the easy bake oven.

Yeah, I'm older than dirt, but I can be a kid again in a minute when I open my lincoln logs or tinker toys

I remember most of these, too. We can be dirt together.

 

[maggot420]

I remember most of these, too. We can be dirt together.

that sounds like the basis of a beautiful friendship

 

[Boxlicker101]

Then you know Little Beaver.

I'm not sure if this is a double entendre or not but: of course I am familiar with Little Beaver. If you read a Red Ryder Comic book, you read about Little Beaver just as, if you read a Batman comic book, you read about Robin.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I remember tinker toys, green plastic army men, Lincoln logs, red ryder bb guns, eich-a-sketch, light bright, playdough when it still came in the cans, lawn darts, and of course the easy bake oven.

Yeah, I'm older than dirt, but I can be a kid again in a minute when I open my lincoln logs or tinker toys

I remember all those things and I also remember the painted lead soldiers that preceded the plastic ones. I'm not sure what light bright is or was. I thhink lawn darts came along a lot later and I don't remember much about the easy bake oven because I would have thought of that as being a girls' thing.

If you're older than dirt, then I must be older than the rocks that were broken up to make that dirt.

 

[cantdog]

I don't have BB guns and lawn darts inthe closet, because I live in town, and I don't have the Grosset & Dunlap book in there. So there's no Red Ryder in the closet at all. I did want an Easy-Bake for it. Grandkids come in all kinds. But my sister's got broken and thrown out, and the ones you can find now are priced like collectors' items.

The Etch-A-Sketch is magical, though. I've had some kids over, not grandkids. The Etch-A-Sketch casts a heavy duty fascination. The Lincoln logs are a crowd pleaser, too, though they need some orientation. That's where I get to play with them, you know, to show 'em how it goes...

 

[English Lady]

I love weebles! "weebles wobble but they don't fall down"

whimsies -mum used to buy one every year on holiday from a shop in Filey.

big yellow tea pot -my sister had one, my daughter has one now. she loves it!

buckaroo -what a silly game. fun though

strawberry shortcake-smelly!

connect four -i'm so bad at it, once lost to a friend 50-1 *L*

tiny tears -why? I had one though, loved how she cried and wetted. sad really *L*

I soooooooo wanted an a la carte kitchen. Santa never brought me one *sobs*

Top trumps..ahh cool. I played them in secondary school, i had a couple of different sets, they were well used.


Erm, but i was only born in 1978, i must have been seeing the re-runs *L*

 

[woodnymph_O]

I remember

She-Ra and Poochie the little pink dog, I owned a ton of Poochie,, I'm going to look for Poochie on ebay

 

[Guest]

I just emailed my parents with this list, and thanking them for a pretty good childhood.

From this list I had about sixteen of them as I recall.

They had my favorites like cross fire and walky talkies, 50 in one electronic sets, slot cars and rock em shockem robots, but did I miss their having match box cars and the whamo air blaster?

I am so old I had Lincoln Logs made of a radical material called wood. Have you seen them recently? They are made of plastic.

Most of these must have been from the late 60's, because by the time the 70's were but a year or two old, I had left toys behind for new interests.

http://ogonbat.brinkster.net/arkiv_farrah-poster.jpg

 

[cloudy]

Most of these must have been from the late 60's, because by the time the 70's were but a year or two old, I had left toys behind for new interests.

http://ogonbat.brinkster.net/arkiv_farrah-poster.jpg

Every single guy I knew had that damn poster!

 

[impressive]

Every single guy I knew had that damn poster!

Yup. It was on my brother's bedroom wall. MY bedroom walls, on the other hand, were decorated with posters of Kiss -- Paul Stanley, in particular.

http://www.strutter.plus.com/pics/pic1.jpg

 

[eric shawn listo]

Every single guy I knew had that damn poster!

Some married ones too.

Didn't make for a healthy relationship.

 

[Guest]

Every single guy I knew had that damn poster!

What do you mean "had"?

 

[mlady_france]

I love weebles! "weebles wobble but they don't fall down"


strawberry shortcake-smelly!

I loved weebles! I was such a puggy little thing that my mom called me her little weeble. My legs were so cubby I had to woddle to walk.

And I had all the strawberry shortcake stuff there was! Still had Perpermint Patty until about 2 years ago. Though the peperment smell had long since faded.

And http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/rainbow.jpg I had all the episodes and movies! Loved rainbow bright!

I remember a lot of these toys!

 

[eric shawn listo]

pop rocks

 

[mlady_france]

pop rocks

Those are fun!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I had Ker-Plunk......drove my mom nuts.

 

[Guest]

I had Ker-Plunk......drove my mom nuts.

Wham O Air blaster (not on list) was my most distruptive toy. A sibling sabotaged it.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Yo-yos are back again.

 

[eric shawn listo]

Yo-yos are back again.

The sales for them have been up and down for years.

 

[Guest]

I always wanted a litebrite but never got one.

Of course, some of those toys are making comebacks now. Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake. The Cabbage Patch kids have been around in some incarnation all these years, along with the LiteBrite, Etch-a-Sketch, etc.

 

[Guest]

I always wanted a litebrite but never got one.

Of course, some of those toys are making comebacks now. Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake. The Cabbage Patch kids have been around in some incarnation all these years, along with the LiteBrite, Etch-a-Sketch, etc.

And so are Furbies, and they are the work of the devil.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Out of those hundred toys, I had:

Weebles
Rubik's Cube
Viewmaster
Stay Alive (which I lost most of the marbles to when my birthday party got rained out and we had to go to Shoney's... I bet waitresses were finding marbles for days)

That's it... and I was a kid in the 70's for seven years, lol.

I always wanted an electronic battleship and a speak n spell. I now have the battleship game but I never did get a speak n spell, lol.