Posted on 12/21/2017 10:08:52 AM PST by bgill
1. 1963: Easy Bake Oven
2. 1964: G.I. Joe
3. 1965: Operation
4. 1966: Twister
5. 1967: Battleship
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I had one of those. We called it a Catalina Racer.
1946-dirt
Ours were back in the 50's. I was born in '47. My siblings were born in '40, '42, and '44.
Not rich, but my kids thought I was back then...and still do all these years later.
I used to give the Wish Book to my kids, and tell them to put a mark next to what they wanted Santa to bring them. It was so much easier buying for them when they were little. I just give them money now that they're old farts like their mother.
My mother used to peel a potato and let me put the Mr. Potato Head attachments on that. I had the whole toy, but for some reason I liked to use a real potato.
A woman who worked in a store at the time said that when Cabbage Patch dolls first came out but, she saw them sitting on the shelves gathering dust because no one was interested in them. And then the craze hit.
I’ll never forget that one special year, when I tore open the Christmas wrapping to find what I really wanted for a change. No generic knockoff toys, no crummy boring school clothes. Nope, there it was, my own Mr. Patriarchy White Privilege Playset. The Deluxe Edition too, with one free grope!
Irwin Mainway, now THERE was a toymaker!
Yes, I remember that commercial well. Today, when I clicked on your link, I saw it for the first time since 1960. It's amazing what resides in one's long-term memory.
I also enjoyed playing Cootie—a game in which contestants competed to be the first to put together a plastic model of a louse, aka a “cootie.”
Effanbee? I married one.
I feel so spoiled because I had almost every toy listed through my youth...and we were not rich.
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Me too. We had almost all of those toys, and I didn’t think we had any toys. Gumby was great, twister usually ended with a fight. 95% of our games ended with a fight. good times.
Yepper, welcome to the club of Old Farts (I have the ID Card!) When we were kids, there was no demographic and thus no commercial thrust for toys that we would buy! I remember the "Gerald McBoing, Boing" book by Dr Suess, why, I really don't know! We were exterior, as an US Army Family, to Zone Interior (USofA) and as such were insulated from the machinations of MADison Avenue.
The one toy I do remember desiring as a child, came from the Sears Toy Catalog, and was the shoe with springs that would enable me to leap tall buildings with a single bound. My Dad sat me down upon the umpteemth expression of this desire to inform me that the shoes would not give me such ability. I regret to say that I willingly believed the ad copy over his sound advice. I still, however, did not get those shoes! Alas!
Born in l939 we were so poor that if I hadn’t been born a boy.....I wouldn’t have had ANYTHING to play with......sigh.
pffft! .. nothing earlier than '63How lame.
+1 
I’m still looking - but that “Skyline” building set looks pretty close to what I used to play with. I spent hours and days with that. All of the various flat panels, windows, etc. I don’t recall having Legos when I was a kid.
One year my parents splurged and I got an electric slot-car set. I still have it, and some day I’m going to fix the transformer. Although I’ve been saying that since we had kids. The youngest is 20. Well - perhaps for the grandkids.
Me either but, who needed toys as a newborn?
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