  Little_buddy Member Username: Little_buddy Post Number: 77 Registered: 03-2006 |
I remember some toys from when I was a kid. One was some kind of lego bricks, not legos, they were red and didn't stick together as much as they just stacked and looked like red bricks on houses. Another was this thing called a Big Ear I think, looked like a satilite dish that you used to listen in on what other were saying. Rubber balls that looked like hardballs, white, we used to play strike-out against a building or curb ball in the streets of Dearborn and Allen Park. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1825 Registered: 08-2006 |
I always liked toy cars, I had matchboxes, the plastic Amloids and Gay Toy vehicles, and dealer promos. I was building MPC and AMT car kits by age 9. The one non automotive toy I had and enjoyed very much was my Hop-A-Roo. | ||
Little_buddy Member Username: Little_buddy Post Number: 81 Registered: 03-2006 |
I had lots of matchboxes, used to take one once in awhile and hit it with a hammer like is was in an accident and they study it from all angles to try to understand what happened. weird | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 138 Registered: 02-2008 |
I loved Weeble Wobbles, and I had this toy I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. It was family of little animals (something like squirrels-I forget) that lived in a cloth house in the shape of a log. The log velcroed shut, and you could open it and arrange the furniture inside for the animal family to live. Anyone remember this toy and what it was called? I also loved my Pogo Ball and Hello Kitty | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1826 Registered: 08-2006 |
Yeah, I had a similar fascination with twisted metal. Do you remember that metal sculpture at the DIA that was all wrecked car fenders? I could have stared at that for hours. I would leave my cars out on the street and watch them get flattened. I also had a process for making my model cars look like they'd been in a horrific crash. Boiling water was the key. On your other thread about slot cars. Check out Larry's Performance RC in Sterling Heights, he has a slot car track. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 139 Registered: 02-2008 |
the Woodseys! man, I have been trying to remember that for years  | ||
Bongman Member Username: Bongman Post Number: 1559 Registered: 12-2003 |
I had some favorite toys too. Hot wheels, op-yops, spirographs, dino the punching bag, but I liked my ding-a-ling best. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 2103 Registered: 07-2004 |
Shrinky dinks? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5916 Registered: 10-2003 |
I had this very early "video game" thing. It ran on a ton of C batteries. it was pretty much all mechanical. These planes were flying by on tracks, and you had to shoot a missle up. If the missle hit a plane, somehow the thing knew and flashed and your score ticked up a few points. It made a ton of noise because of all the gears. I really wish I had that still, it was something else. I also had a baseball type game that was based on LEDs. Weird. | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 202 Registered: 02-2008 |
I was pretty excited when Super Balls came out. I wanted to drop one off the top of the Ren Cen to see if it would rebound higher than the tower. Never did get to test this theory. | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 1210 Registered: 08-2007 |
Paper dolls. Had all kinds of different sets of them. Mostly the movie stars, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Marylin Monroe, etc. A beautiful blue and white China tea set. I only have the tea pot, lid, and a saucer left and it sits on a shelf in my kitchen now. A bride doll, that I still have. My 1953 American Flyer train set that I still have and it works. Had a hula hoop too! | ||
Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap Post Number: 983 Registered: 01-2005 |
Now I will tell you a true story that will make you even sadder about your lost toys. I had a co-worker once whose husband was a little obsessive about things. he was in a specialized sports field and she told me that he always bought two copies of magazines in his field - one to read and one to put away untouched. He was an only child and he had saved all his childhood toys. They were in his mother's house, all in the original boxes. His toys would date from the 1950's and I can't remember the list, but I thought how much DuMouchelle's would like them - Mr. DuMouchelle once told me that Baby Boomers want all their old toys back. Once when they needed a new furnace and didn't have enough money, he sold off one or two toys and paid for the new furnace. This was before the internet, when people still had to use catalogs and ads to sell things. So, why didn't we save our toys? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5920 Registered: 10-2003 |
For example: http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Wars- 12-Back-Jawa-Vinyl-Cape-AFA-80 -Punched_W0QQitemZ150231568538 QQihZ005QQcategoryZ50270QQssPa geNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewIte m You could have this $5,000 Star Wars figure. | ||
Mozeewink Member Username: Mozeewink Post Number: 54 Registered: 03-2008 |
Shrinky Dinks. Holy crap, I loved those...even though they never came out right. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 1828 Registered: 08-2006 |
My toys were all used pretty hard, nothing to save really. Wonder what "punched" means JL and why it adds to the price so much? | ||
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain Post Number: 217 Registered: 04-2005 |
Remember this game?  | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5922 Registered: 10-2003 |
I don't know Cam. Clearly it is some sort of Star Wars toy collector lingo that a normal human could never comprehend. Mille Bornes rules, I have it. Just picked up Water Works off ebay too. Been playing it the last few days. http://richard_wilding.tripod. com/waterwrules.htm | ||
Steamaker Member Username: Steamaker Post Number: 64 Registered: 03-2007 |
Hey Bongman, I had an op-yop but can't remember what it was. I just remember the name. Was it the two balls that clanged together or the sideways yo-yo thing. Please enlighten. | ||
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite Post Number: 488 Registered: 06-2007 |
I have fond memories of a red metal gasoline can, a zippo, and a bloated dead cat I found on 13 mile road. Also, my dad's Playboys he always hid under his bed, an old telescope that I used to look into the Gatward girls' windows next door, and about a dozen ninja throwing stars. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 2104 Registered: 07-2004 |
There were all sorts of weird games, or games that are out now but have been modified. Mouse Trap was my favorite. Sometimes I'd just set up the "mouse trap" and let it go. (It was basically a Rube Goldberg "machine" with enough little pieces to choke 15 5-year-olds.) We had the Game of Life back when it was based on true avaricious American culture. (Now it's been gussied up into some socially responsible game that's totally boring.) We had the Rockem-Sockem-Robots and Tinkertoys and an, um, Erector Set, and something called Gnip-Gnop. We even had a weird board game based on the television show "Dark Shadows," which I've never heard of since. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 2105 Registered: 07-2004 |
Oh, and, neat thread. Thanks, Little Buddy!  | ||
Ltdave Member Username: Ltdave Post Number: 128 Registered: 09-2006 |
my sister had the dark shadows game! you had to spin a spinner and then reach into a casket and pick the correct part of a skeleton. the catch was you had to start at the skull and work your way down. you couldnt start with a femur and add to it... i have (still) 4 all steel tonka trucks, the game of life, the game of happiness, sub search (a 3 dimensional version of battleship) and a million matchbox and hot wheels cars... i had a plastic Marx brand M-1 garand rifle that had little red plastic bullets but i didnt ever fire any of them for some reason... | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 4924 Registered: 10-2003 |
it's all on ebay: http://toys.listings.ebay.com/ Matchbox_Vintage-Pre-1970_W0QQ fclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ19046QQ socmdZListingItemList | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 2106 Registered: 07-2004 |
Yes, Ltdave. Thanks for jogging my memory! Those skeletons were so cool ... | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 19 Registered: 03-2008 |
Ltdave- Zat you, Dell? Jack from Pt. Hope & BWSA | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6613 Registered: 08-2004 |
Those red brick building toys that didn't stick well together were known as AMERICAN BRICKS...  Another popular construction building toy was the KENNER GIRDER & PANEL SET:  And then there was America's most popular building toy, as seen in this 1961-65 LEGO TOWN PLAN SET:  | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 205 Registered: 02-2008 |
Little Buddy, I too spent hours playing curb ball and strike out. Played strike out in a doctors office parking lot with a tennis ball, but played in the backyard with a wiffle ball. You could really throw some wicked curves with that wiffle ball. Played 500 too. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 487 Registered: 02-2005 |
i had an Art Linkletters surrey with the fringe on top. I was the hit of the neighborhood. | ||
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni Post Number: 982 Registered: 05-2007 |
Aurora slot cars, Hot Wheels, Johnny Lightnin, and GI-Joe. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 246 Registered: 01-2008 |
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