The Evel Knievel toy should have been ranked way higher. If it is the one I am thinking of - where you put the cycle in a contraption, turned the crank, and let him go. That was just an awesome toy.
The Evel Knievel toy should have been ranked way higher. If it is the one I am thinking of - where you put the cycle in a contraption, turned the crank, and let him go. That was just an awesome toy.
I burned my finger more than once on the Thingmaker.
There's also something called the Martian Matter Alien Maker set (my son got that as a present two years ago). It's pretty cool, but his then 2-year-old sister got ahold of it. Whoops. http://www.amazon.com/Martian-Matter-Alien-Maker-Playset/dp/B000XTPNTQ
BWAHAHA!!!!!
I remember that Creepy Crawlers thingmaker.....
I had one of those Evel Knieval wind up toys. I wound it up and stuck it in my sister’s hair. Man did I get in trouble for that one.
I had one of those Creepy Crawler ThingMakers when I was 6 years old. I don’t remember playing with the bugs, I was just fascinated by the process of them hardening to rubber when they cooked.
I can’t imagine any modern parent getting something like that for a kid that age.
I also had a small wood saw (it fit my 6 year old hand), which I would use to cut slots into the edges of wooden furniture. We had a table in the den with slots all along its front.
When I was 8, I got a woodburning set. By then, I had tired of altering the furniture... although I *did* use my pocketknife (which I got when I was 11) to carve faces into the headboard on my bed.
Kids these days just don’t get fun toys.
Yes, a true classic. I had a cousin with one and man what fun. That must have been about 1978.