Top 7 Childhood Toys Ever (vanity)

PA Times | 9/28/05 | Dr. Pissant

[pissant]

And let me guess.....short shorts! LOL

[pissant]

Or empty all the powder from the whole roll into a jar and throw a match in it!

[PaulaB]

Me too..me and my kids

love board games and mexican dominoes :)

[logician2u]

Several of my favorites are already listed, but somehow we've overlooked one of the best-sellers of all time:

[zook]

My list, in no particular order:

Crash Cars: Little plastic cars you put together with a spring inside. Roll 'em against the wall and they explode. Put 'em back together and repeat.

Tricky Walkers: Pull the string and they walk up the wall with suction cups.

Rockem Sockem Robots: Nuff said.

Kenner Bridge and Panel Building Set: Build roads, bridges, buildings, etc.

Slinky: Nuff said.

Mattel Varoom Engine: Put it on your bike and pretend it's a motor cycle.

"The Rifleman" Rifle: With that big ol' round cocking thing. Just like Lucas McCane's.

Give a Show Projector: Show chincy movies in your basement.

Auroral HO Racing: Nuff said.

After I sign out I'll think of 10 more.

[pissant]

Still un-degraded Stretch Armstrongs in landfills throughout the US! ;o)

[hiredhand]

oh Silly Putty!!!

The most fun and amazement came from pushing the silly putty into the comic page of the newspaper and getting a print!!! wow it was awesome...back then... no color copiers.. only mimeograph machines. LOL

Yep! Remember the T.V. add? After we saw it, we HAD to have some! ...and as soon as we had some we tried out it out on the comics and it worked!

My brother went to bed with his though and woke up with it in his hair. Mom called her friend, and she said peanut butter would get it out. It worked. :-) Mom rubbed it in, and the SillyPutty mixed in with the peanut butter and she combed it out. My brother was out of SillyPutty for awhile though. :-)

[zook]

Did you know that Silly Putty will no longer pick up pictures?

Forgot one more. The Mattel deringer in the belt buckle that sprung out and fired a Greeny Stick'em cap when you flexed your stomach muscle.

[pissant]

We made a monster slingshot between the branches of an old peach tree. Major Matt Mason almost made it to orbit!

[hiredhand]

Or empty all the powder from the whole roll into a jar and throw a match in it!

Yeah...that too! Or spend an ENTIRE Saturday afternoon with your buds, hiding so you can scrape the "stuff" off match heads that you stole from the kitchen....so that you could light the whole big pile all at once! :-)

[pissant]

My daughter has tns of Weebles. She loves them.

[hiredhand]

Did you know that Silly Putty will no longer pick up pictures?

Forgot one more. The Mattel deringer in the belt buckle that sprung out and fired a Greeny Stick'em cap when you flexed your stomach muscle.

WHAT?! SillyPutty no longer picks up pictures?! WHY have the stuff then?! :-)

We had a really cool toy...I can't find a photo of it anywhere. It "looked" like a camera, but when you pushed a button, the correct parts popped out in the correct places and it turned into a handgun! I seem to remember it being part of a James Bond 007 "spy kit" or something like that. :-)

[pissant]

#1. Swords and trash lids. Great stuff!

[fortunecookie]

Well just so you know... Samantha fought Barbie over Ken.... Samantha won...LOL

Well, I'm not surprised! Barbie is emaciated. It's lucky she can pick up a hairbrush! And way too self-absorbed. Jokes on Samantha, though, they say Ken is gay! LOL.

Remember Malibu Barbie and Stacie? Everyone had to have one. That's the phrase I use for Hollywood's finest, all the ladies, want to be like Malibu Barbie, really tan, really blond, straight hair, and so thin ribs show.

[js1138]

Any kid who did today some of the things we did in the 50s would find himself in Gitmo.

Think October Sky with the zinc dust and sulpher, minus the science.

[fortunecookie]

You might have liked Chrissy (not that you played with dolls!). Very hip. I wanted red hair for years after that!

[Young Werther]

The ping pong ball gun.

The baking powder activated frog men and nautilus submarine. (My Mom didn't appreciate it when I tried them out in her beta fish tank!)

[fnord]

Creepy Crawlers and Incredible Edibles ...

[Young Werther]

Be careful or you'll shoot your eye out!!!

[pissant]

Words to live by!!


Goodnight To all!