Originally Posted By Lisann22 Do you have stories or other toys from your childhood that bring back funny, painful or other type of stories? Eeeeeeeeeeeyowie! These suckers hurt when you didn't get them klacking properly!! I actually klaced my klacker so hard one time, it broke off the string, flew through the air and caught my cousin right in the eye. Woo boy did she ever have a shiner! <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=69" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=69</a> There she is. Well, she looks a ton better like this than the Tina Turner Private Dancer hair-do I gave her. LOL! <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=28" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=28</a> Loved my easy bake oven UNTIL my mom almost killed me for trying to bake baby frogs inside and having them explode inside the oven, yikes what a mess. I think that's about the time she sent me for counseling. LMAO! <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=34" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=34</a> My cousins and I would have tournaments with these guys. ;> <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=45" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=45</a> My poor poor sister. She got this for Christmas one year and never got to play with it. All our Christmas pictures from that year only have adult family members down on their knees playing with this. I think around Valentine's Day she finally got a hold of it. ;> <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=52" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=52</a> OH THE DRAMA, these little Wizzers caused. All the girls in my family had them. One time we were playing with them and my sister made me really mad. So I took mine and stuck it in her hair. It went straight to her scalp. Oh the screaming and crying. I'm still bitter that I had to get my haircut too to match the drama of my sister. <sigh> <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=82" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=82</a> Everyone else had a Big Wheel, I wanted the scream machine. I still have the scars on my knees from taking the curb a bit to sharply from the sidewalk. The asphalt of the street and me didn't get along. <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=88" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=88</a> I had many many more of the toys and games listed on this site. What about you?
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 I LOVED my Easy Bake Oven! I also had a Sit n Spin. I have pictures of me on it. <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=89" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=89</a> LOL.....I loved that inchworm.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I had the VertiBird Rescue Ship pictures here. <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=52" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=52</a> For a toy that didn't do a whole heck of a lot, I remember spending hours and hours with it, carefully hoisting the little out of his life raft and onto the deck of the ship. Unfortunately, the ship itself was made of a block of cheap styrofoam, so everytime the VertiBird's blades struck the side of the ship flying too low, little bits of styrofoam partcles went flying. Eventually, the sides of the ship looked pretty abused and decayed from the continuous onslaughts. Another favorite was Bing! Bang! Boing!, which sounds like the name of a nightclub on The Sopranos, but actually was a toy that had plastic ramps that you sent ball bearings down. They would bounce over a series of little disks covered with stretched latex tops. Kind of a Mouse Trap type toy -- you could set it up with various configurations. <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=39" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=39</a> I also had a similar toy called 'Cascade' that was very similar to Bing! Bang! Boing! except that it featured a battery-powered tower with a spiral inside that lifted the ball bearings to the top before sending them across the drums and down the track. This made it easy to set it up, then sit back and watch Cascade do all the work.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 That's how my sister's "WhirlyBird" was too! By the time she got it, the shipped looked like something out of a WWII battle.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden I had the Green Machine and loved it. Though looking at the ad on the link I was a little young to be riding it (6 years old). Other big wheels didn't stand a chance against that thing.
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Ooooooooooooo, Paddle Pool!! Ohmygosh, my brothers and I must have played this a zillion times. <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/in dex.html</a> Another of our favorites were these: <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=55" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=55</a> <----heads off to eBay to try to buy some childhood memories.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd Squirmles, my long lost buddy! I remember having one though you could never get it to do the tricks they showed on tv... <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=78" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=78</a> I also LOVED my Easy Bake Oven and my Barbies.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy This memory was added on: December 19,2006 I guess you have Christmas memories and then you have CHRISTMAS MEMORIES that won't go away! Every year I am reminded by my 31 yr old son of the Christmas I stretched HIS Stretch Armstrong until the arm broke. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! Well I thought the crying would be over in a day or two but unfortunately it has lasted over 25 years. Will they PLEASE come out with another Stretch just like the old one. PLEASE!!!!!! Tormented Dad! ------ LOL! (poor dad, lol)
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Well Tormented Dad sounds like he has indeed suffered for his negligence, LOL!
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Oh, and we also had one of the klacker things. Dang, those suckers hurt when they whack your wrist!
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 <<Squirmles, my long lost buddy! I remember having one though you could never get it to do the tricks they showed on tv...>> OMG! I had one of those too! I would have never remembered what it was called. I could never get it to do any of those tricks either.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan They used to have all kinds of stuff for sale inside the covers of comic books. Full page black & white ads jam-packed with a treasure trove of things like X-Ray Specs, Whoopie Cushions, etc. The first thing I sent for was THE AMAZING NO-BATTERY RADIO. The little drawing showed a kid with a buzzcut dancing with music notes all around him, and an illustration of a radio with dial settings, a built-in speaker, even an earpiece. Price: $1.00! A dollar for a radio, even in 1969 was too good to pass up. Many weeks later a small package arrived in the mail. The radio was about the size of two Tic Tac containers side by side. It was a hollow black plastic. The dials, channels and the speaker were simply printed stickers stuck on the plastic box. The earpiece was attached, and was the only point where sound came from the 'radio'. Another cord had a small alligator clip on it. You were instructed to attach that clip to the little metal piece on a telephone dial that stopped your finger when dialing (not sure the technical name for that part). When you clipped it onto the phone and listened very carefully, you could indeed hear faint, fuzzy distant sounds, sometimes muffled voices, sometimes muffled music. Nothing, however, that would make the illustrated buzzcut boy dance around the room, unless he was quite insane. And nothing that would emit ginat music notes like in the picture. I should have learned my lesson, but the comic book ad guys were good. For $1.00, I could get a SEVEN FOOT TALL FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER that GLOWED IN THE DARK! The ad showed the Monster, arms outstreched in a menacing pose. The ad copy promised that it would "TERRIFY YOUR SISTER!" if your secretly hung it in her closet or something. I don't have a sister, but I was pretty sure that a glow in the dark, 7' tall Frankenstein monster would terrify pretty much anybody no matter where he was standing. Many weeks later, the Monster arrived. I was expecting a three dimensional monster worthy of standing alongside the figures in the Movieland Wax Museum. What I got was one of those cardboard wall hangers, hinged with little brass brads at the knees and elbows. The kind you hang on the front door at Halloween. The kind that still sell for $1. The kind that doesn't scare anybody, not even a sister, not even hung in her closet.
Originally Posted By friendofdd When I was a boy, we played with sticks and dirt and, once in a while, a tin can. And we were happy to have them!
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka <<Nothing, however, that would make the illustrated buzzcut boy dance around the room, unless he was quite insane.>> LOL!
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Oh man, I was just talking about how my fingers used to HURT after playing Gnip Gnop with Ursula. We were vicious! <a href="http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=2" target="_blank">http://www.feelingretro.com/vi ew_toy.cfm?id=2</a>
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Hee hee hee... I love that web site (even posted out there a few weeks ago on a couple toys... ;-)
Originally Posted By alexbook I can't believe they've got Hot Wheels but not Matchbox cars, which were far cooler, IMHO.
