And I ain't talking about little Chocolate Godzilla so keep it clean there Chocolate Godzilla.
Life was simpler when you were a kid. You dad would come home from a business trip and bring you a toy and you couldn't wait to play with it. You took it out of the plastic wrapper and played with it for days on end. Until you got tied of it. Of course if you had left it in the wrapper it would be worth around $1,000 now but what did you know? You were just a stupid kid.
Your choices:
GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip
Slinky it's Slinky oh what a wonderful toy!
Mr. Potato Head who needs at least one vote in this poll.
Green Army Men.
The Easy Bake Oven (for the babes and the babes trapped in the body of a dude so to speak)
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I had the transformers that weren't transformers and looked like crap and one small box of Legos.
Oh, also some stuffed animals other people gave me and my parents made me throw away when I was in kindergarten(still pissed about that!).
Rocks is missing from the list.
You left out blocks.
So smooth. So hard.
No wise comments, Jason.
Hey remember this blog is all about me. I only pick things that resonate with me and my childhood.
Like the time I was playing soldiers with Nicky Zanzonico and we combined the Green Army soldiers, the souviner figurines my mother got when she went to "Fiddler on the Roof" and the Easy Bake Oven for some historical reinactments that are so politically incorrect that I will not talk about them in any detail.
Let's just say we got our asses kicked for that one.
But we were kids what the hell did we know.
Well, you missed my two most favorite toys..
Erector set. So cool to make buildings and mechanical things that could move.
Chemistry set. I did a 'magic show' in the garage for the neighborhood kids.. Used pheonthalein and turned the clear mixture pink by pouring liquid into the clear solution...nothing up my sleeves....ooooh aaaah.
What a nerd. Especially for a girl in the early 60's.
Also had an easy bake oven but soon gave it up for the real thing at age 9. Stupid thing only made one serving. How good is that? Not.
Let's just say we got our asses kicked for that one.
LoL. Reminded me of when my brother had a Zorro cape and sword with chalk in the end of the sword. 1950's sometime. We lived in Ypsilanti.
He took his Zorro outfit and put chalk "Z"s all over the outside of the house, the neighbor's house, the car and anything else.
ZORRO!!!!!
My Easy Bake oven was from the year prior to the turquoise; it was pale yellow. I loved that toy so much.
My mom gave it to the neighbor girl next door. *sniff*
The G.I. Joe with Kung Fu grip was a gender confused impostor!!!!! The only real G.I. Joes wore regulation uniforms and were equipped with M-1s and M1911 45s. Everything after was ashallow imitation. Sorry.
Crap, you guys got all the good toys. All I had was a Shetland pony and a Collie.
And a single shot 16 ga shotgun for my ninth birthday. That was cool.
I had a Chatty Cathy doll I loved. And Paint by Numbers! Think I really loved the smell of the oil paint.
Marx also made "Johnny West" action figures which I had. I even had the Circle X Ranch house which I was never satisfied with and had to augment & improve: I baked dough in bottle caps to simulate baked pies; I cast molten lead bricks using a metal cigarette lighter as a mold- they made perfect "silver" bars. I equipped the cook stove with a minature red light inside to give it a realistic red hot glow at night.
Odd, when I think about it now.
Trooper York: Hey remember this blog is all about me. I only pick things that resonate with me and my childhood.
Really? Then I would have expected rock, stick, and maybe fire.
My favorite toy was one of those old Gilbert chemistry sets. You know, the kind that would make a modern liability lawyer's heart go pitter-pat.
I just have to say that I always thought that Dust Bunny Queen was a really cool chick but now I am really impressed.
Even as a girl she liked playing with erections.
What?
That's not what she meant?
Oh sorry. I appolgize to anyone I offened with my stupid shit.
Carry on.
@Theo: I had the Skilcraft chemistry set which I quickly exhausted of supplies and samples. There was a hobby stote near us that sold glassware and replacement chemicals- Ehrlenmayers and florence flasks, and real beakers- perfect for playing Jekyll and Hyde.
I always wanted a train set! Still think they're so cool.
Had the EasyBake oven for sure, but it was kind of boring.
My favorite toys were toy horses - came with saddles and stuff. I'd set up stables and try to seat my Barbies on them. The dolls that really worked for that were called "Dawn" dolls.
Endless fun. Endless dreaming of the horses I'd own someday, and never have. Yet. :)
Ooh! Just realized I called one RAA's favorite toys boring. Crap.
Uhh...the brownies were good! :)
What about Mattel's "Thingmaker" series: Creepy Crawlers, Fright Factory, and Incredible Edibles?
Who could forget Mattel's Beatnik Bandit, Hot Heap and other Big "Daddy" Roth-inspired Hot Wheels?
What cracks me up is what everyone loves to talk about.
Childhood toys bring everyone a smile.
We all need one on this day.
Just sayn'
I had the Incredible Edibles, chickenlittle! Sort of gummy things.
lol!
Thanks for the reminder. ;-)
Sort of gummy things
Yeah, kinda like DIY gummy worms.
These toy posts are great, Troop. Also, perfectly timed.
My favorite things were my stuffed chimpanzee, my Colorform sets and four 250 piece puzzles that I must have put together hundreds of times.
The two things I always wanted and never got were an etch-a-sketch and a chemistry set. My parents thought the chemistry set was too dangerous.
Slot cars. Matchbox cars.
Yet, never was a car guy as an adult.
I had a mold that made soldiers; used some kind of toxic plastic. Very distinctive smell. Dangerous toy.
Dangerous toys are the best. There were these guns that shot out tiny plastic discs, 20-30 yards or more. Stung if you got hit by them close up.
Best toy gun ever.
Computers, of course. Great toys. Well, back in my day. Not so sure about now.
@Blake: Do you mean these? They were a little after my time.
When I was a kid, a company called Topper made a series of realistic guns under the name "Johnny Eagle." There were three sets, each with a different theme: western (Red Rider); military (Lieutnant), and big game hunter (Magumba). Here's a photo of the western Red Rider set like I had: link. Each set also came with a gun rack that you could hang on your wall in your room.
These guns had realistic bullets and shells that were spring loaded. Of course the bullets would get lost outside or get vacuumed up by your mom.
Totally cool.
CL,
Yeah, those exactly, but not with the Star Trek branding.
Those were great.
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