Back when it was a "new" color, a coworker of mine bought a Mustang in "Grabber Blue."
I referred to it as "Playskool Blue," and warned him to keep it out of the sun lest it melt.
Posted on 08/31/2025 12:38:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yep, spend a little time with an Evel Kneivel Stunt Cycle and you’ll get a pretty good feel for Newton’s laws of motion:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uHDNOlY9GEA
There was no Fisher-Price when I grew up, but my two sons had the Fisher-Price Farm.
The candy is not anything special, but kids these days are missing so much with those toys.
Give me back my Jarts, damnit.
I remember lining up army men an the fence rail and plinking them off with my bb gun. Got to be a pretty good shot
I had a see and say, the googly eyed telephone. And I remember the Johnny Eagle guns.
YES! My grandparents gave my brother and I and a cousin this great multi-ammo super gun for Christmas. We’d unload at each other in the basement and then argue over whose bullets were the ones we couldn’t find later, which led to another hilarious battle.
Back when it was a "new" color, a coworker of mine bought a Mustang in "Grabber Blue."
I referred to it as "Playskool Blue," and warned him to keep it out of the sun lest it melt.
They could go right into your foot or somebody's back. Now that was a game. Plus if you had the correct arc on it, the dart floated like “in coming”.
Mine was second hand from my neighbor around 1968 or so.
We had the Tonka construction equipment with sharp corners and edges tha could possibly cut you. Plus if you had to whack someone with one, it really hurt. We also loved our Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars.
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Yeah - That’s before the feds took the fun out of everything....
Lots of great YT videos showing restoration of old Tonka toys, makes you really appreciation the way they were originally built.
“Yeah - That’s before the feds took the fun out of everything”
I grew up in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Our toys were way cooler than FP. Remco, Kenner, Marx, Gilbert, Tonka; some of them bordered on “Bag O’ Glass” territory.
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