  Ongowwah Member Username: Ongowwah Post Number: 46 Registered: 03-2008 |
I have Hubley "Rifleman" flip special cap rifle and "The Rifleman" lunchbox w/thermos. I even have an actual cartridge fired from Chuck's flip special Winchester! What a great show. | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 239 Registered: 02-2008 |
Raise your hand if you had a pea shooter. Got in big trouble for hitting the neighbor girl in the eye. | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 1060 Registered: 11-2007 |
Every corner candy store had those and cracker balls. And I saw cracker balls at a $1.00 store recently. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 5029 Registered: 12-2005 |
The Creepy Crawlers "Thing Maker" appears about 2/5 of the way into Laurie Kedrick's "I Was Milton Bradley’s Love Child" Part 1 webpage. They also had glow-in-the-dark goop to make the bugs even creepier. After that became such a success, they came out with an edible version called Incredible Edibles. The tutti fruity flavor was horrible, but still fun. Laurie says "I seem to remember it tasting like ass." TMI! Laurie Kedrick's "I Was Milton Bradley’s Love Child" Part 2 The best toys are the ones you make yourself. I gutted and old telephone handset and packed it with electronics so it would make a wawawawawa sound when you picked it up. It had a battery so no cord was required. It had a mercury switch to detect when it was picked up. Great gag item! (Message edited by Jimaz on April 07, 2008) | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 5030 Registered: 12-2005 |
 The Incredible Edible Oven | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 1063 Registered: 11-2007 |
Jimaz, I want to see your Tape Measure. (2/5ths),(5/7ths)? You must have had too much glow in the dark goop.  | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 5031 Registered: 12-2005 |
quote:I'm just trying to help folks position their scroll bar out of respect for their time, although I think most of us would want to read the whole page anyway. Another toy I made was a rubberband gun. Not just the simple clothespin design. No, no. That's not good enough. I cut the two big parts (outlined in black) out of a 1/8th-inch-thick nylon sheet. The small circles are pins stuck into a 12-inch ruler (in gray) that was the barrel. The top brown rectangle is the rubber band to be shot (hooked around the other end of the ruler). The other two brown lines represent a weaker rubber band that resets the whole mechanism after each shot.  | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 1067 Registered: 11-2007 |
What Cad system are you using? And don't say Etch-a-sketch. | ||
Jgavrile Member Username: Jgavrile Post Number: 64 Registered: 09-2005 |
Does anyone remember an accessory that was basically an aluminum tube with a flapper valve built into one end,that had a tab that stuck out. Looked like a tail pipe.This tube had a bracket that allowed you to mount the thing to the stud on the rear wheel of your bike. When the tube was mounted and the flapper tab was oriented into the spokes of your bike, it sounded just like a motorbike when you pedaled it. Worked on the same principle as the playing card and the clothes pin, but more robust.Seems like I bought a few at Western Auto supply back in the 50's. The flapper didn't last al;l that long ,as it was made out of some plastic/nylon material that eventually snapped off. End of motor noise.Could not be repaired.It was really neat though. | ||
Classicyesfan Member Username: Classicyesfan Post Number: 33 Registered: 04-2008 |
Besides the Playmobile, Deluxe Toys had others listed in their catalog. I recall other children having the "Suzy Smart" desk, "Jimmy Jet", "Mighty Mo" or the hair dryer.  | ||
Bongman Member Username: Bongman Post Number: 1567 Registered: 12-2003 |
 My favorite G.I. Joe. Mom used to get pissed because I always had the slop-sink in the basement filled to the brim so I could play with it. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 285 Registered: 01-2008 |
My younger sister had the Easy Bake Oven, made "pancakes" with it on the first try, and asked me to try one. Not certain but I think the mix was included with the oven...most awful tasting pancake ever!!  | ||
Carolcb Member Username: Carolcb Post Number: 4160 Registered: 11-2006 |
Kathleen - that thingmaker with the bugs and the flowers was one of my favorite Christmas gifts ever - and I could remember what that plasticgoop smelled like until just a few years ago. | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 247 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hope to put some new life into this thread. Here are a few things I have held onto.  Tin Trucks  Spacemen  Wonder Bread Premiums and Safety Patrol Belts  Matchbox BP  Matchbox Police  Michigan State Police Flanders_field, I have fond memories of the Easy Bake oven. One of my best friends had a sister that I liked very much, and she had the oven going one day while I had her brother tied to the clothes line pole. The reason he was tied was because we were seeing who could escape the bindings quicker. I was enjoying Oatmeal cookies with her on the back porch and only leaving her company only long enough to recheck his knots! Life was good! lol | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 248 Registered: 09-2006 |
 I loved my Verty-Bird, and I guess Sis lover her Snowcones! | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 249 Registered: 09-2006 |
 Everyone loved Twister. | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 250 Registered: 09-2006 |
 I still have the two cars that came with this set. A Gold T-Bird and a Red Cougar. Walkie Talkies are long gone. | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 251 Registered: 09-2006 |
 Electric Football | ||
Rid0617 Member Username: Rid0617 Post Number: 67 Registered: 03-2008 |
I had the snow cone machine but it didn't come with enough syrup. | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 162 Registered: 10-2003 |
I LOVE this thread My dad flew outta selfridge, the bx there had a german toy called fischer tecnique, it was a lego on steroids. Motors, gears, only the deiters could come up with something so intricate, it was truely awsome. I got a new set every year. Johnson an smith, thanks for the link. I always was asking my mom to take me to mt clements so I could go to the "presumed" store they had there. I loved thoes catalogs and just ordered my new one through the link provided earlier. I inherited a vibrating football, what a racket that thing made. Bongman, awsome GI JOE, he was a favorite. I had the command tower, unfortunately I threw it down the stairs in a temper tantrum. I regretted that day so much, im still in anger mgmnt. Im 39 yrs old but was lucky enough to have had the original metal mold creepy crawlers. The later plastic versions creatures shrank after a few days. With all the lawsuits these days, could they even make a verte bird as a childrens toy?? that was definately a fav. Igota go, check e bay. | ||
Classicyesfan Member Username: Classicyesfan Post Number: 94 Registered: 04-2008 |
Did anyone have a Johnny Express? I had the tanker, it was 2 feet long. The remote really sucked down the batteries! These were beauties, with removable wheels for flat-fixing, the tanker actually held and dispensed fluids....I had the fork lift too.   | ||
Dtctygrl Member Username: Dtctygrl Post Number: 30 Registered: 03-2007 |
Now that Ragtoplover has posted our childhoods on this thread! lol I really did love my Snow Cone Machine! I agree that it did not come with enough syrup and it was a lot of hard work to grind out even a small snow cone! We did love the electric football, but it sure made a lot of noise! I don't think mom appreciated it nearly as much as we did. I'm sure she was glad when we turned it off! | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 2202 Registered: 12-2005 |
Friends of mine are in a comedy sketch group called "Stunt Johnson theater", they perform at local comedy clubs. They have a bit where they spoof all of the toys we had as kids. When they get to electric football one guy stands in position, his arm bent like he is going to hurl a pass, the buzzing sound effect comes on and he just twirls in circles. | ||
Dtctygrl Member Username: Dtctygrl Post Number: 32 Registered: 03-2007 |
One of my favorite toys/possessions was my transitor radio of which I would like to CKLW while riding my bike (3-speed Free Spirit from Sears) up and down the sidewalk. | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 254 Registered: 08-2007 |
ever hear of Pulsar the action figure, i got one in my moms basement. he coulda been from the land of forgotten toys, yet when i got older i heard the story of how my mom got him and i was more thankful at 25 then at ten. but then again Pulsar might have just been too creepy in the 1st place. | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 254 Registered: 09-2006 |
I had a friend that had Merdel Skittles, Pre-video game era It was the most fun as a kid. I liked it so much I bought one on eBay a few years back.  | ||
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks Post Number: 1238 Registered: 11-2006 |
Thanks for all these memories. I keep wanting to say, "yeah, I had that one and loved it", and then I see the next post and same thing happens, so I'll just say thank you to all of you. I guess it isn't that strange that we all played the same games, is it? What is awesome is that Ragtoplover's pictures could be my family pix, also. We really aren't all that removed from each other, are we? Jimaz, thanks for the Milton Bradley's Love Child links. I enjoyed them. Now, I'm going to wonder all night whether my childhood was 38 years ago, or just yesterday. (Message edited by kathinozarks on May 02, 2008) | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 5270 Registered: 12-2005 |
Kathinozarks, you are most welcome. Laurie Kedrick knows how to write an attractive webpage. Even if this thread dies we can be sure it will be resurrected some day. See you then! | ||
Sharms Member Username: Sharms Post Number: 57 Registered: 07-2007 |
I had the electric football game...the one that had a vibrating "field" which caused the "players" to run wildly all over the board. It was fun though. | ||
14509glenfield Member Username: 14509glenfield Post Number: 1562 Registered: 05-2006 |
Ten-cent paper kites with a ten-cent ball of string wrapped around a stick or.... with whatever concoction used as a "tail" for the kite. Life expectancy minimal, crash and burn, re-fabricate. Buy another with your allowance when this one ended up in the trees or power lines without using "For everything else there's Master Card". |
