Childhood toys you wished were still around for your kids...

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When I was a young boy my favorite toys were clothes-pins.

There's two kinds clamping pin and the passive pins.

To me they were two grand oppossing armies battling for domination over various battlefields in my house.

The other thing I spend countless hours playing with was modeling clay. I have probably twenty pounds of the stuff and a near unlimited supply of it when I neede more, too.

My mother then worked for Binney and Smith and so she could bring home the seconds. Packages that were danmaged and unsellable.

Imagine the young editec spending hours modeling armies of different colored clay soldiers numbering hundred of clay men all armed with needles, pins, pencil for bludgeons and locked forever in eternal war to control the tables and floors, the stairwell and the basement that was their tiny universe.

i used to stage naval battles from ww2 using m&ms.

i got a really bad stomach ache after leyte gulf

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I kept them. They were a Kenner construction set and a Radio Shack 300 in 1 Electric Science Experiment kit. My kids despised them. I had to toss the construciton set. I still have the Radio Shack science kit.

 

[rightwinger]

I always look back fondly of the time I spent playing with my woody

 

[del]

I kept them. They were a Kenner construction set and a Radio Shack 300 in 1 Electric Science Experiment kit. My kids despised them. I had to toss the construciton set. I still have the Radio Shack science kit.

i still have my RS kit

 

[Conservative]

I always look back fondly of the time I spent playing with my woody

And I bet you're still the only one who plays with it (yeah, I went there)

 

[Douger]

Boy Scout knives, Red Ryders, Wrist Rockets. Those were made, sold and commonly toted everywhere in a country formerly known as America, currently a police state run by the Nazi's.

 

[rightwinger]

One of my favorites....Creepy Crawlers

 

[Mr Natural]

A Gilbert Chemistry Set

I used to love to mix the stuff up in the bathroom sink in an attempt to get it to bubble and smoke.

Usually, nothing much happened until I added that secret ingredient: Drano.

 

[manifold]

I tried to send "beat me to it" rep your way but got the USMB Software Heisman.

But whatcha gonna do?

 

[Mr Natural]

We were so poor that at Christmastime my mother would cut holes in the pockets of our pants so we'd have something to play with.

 

[Vengeance]

Nuclear Power in our Children

METAL Erector sets

 

[Zoom-boing]

I still have my stuffed animal Lassie dog from long, long ago. He's missing an eye and is a bit worse for the wear but there was no other toy that even came close to this one. Loved it and played with it to death.

Loved playing with stuffed animals and matchbox cars.

My aunts also gave me a "Mr & Mrs. Mouse House" set when I was little. That got many years of play. Here's a pic of one on ebay:

VINTAGE REMCO MR. & MRS. MOUSE HOUSE, 1967 | eBay


Uncle Wiggle. Books and board game. Loved the Uncle, still have the book.

Clackers. My mom wouldn't let me have one but the kid across the street did.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHftISLNHE]Clackers Original 1970s Ball Toy - YouTube[/ame]

My older brothers had some kind of disk shooting gun. Cripes those disks were everywhere, like the rubber bands used with braces. here's a pic @ :31 in:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yccbYwG6uWM]Best Toys Of 1970's - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Baruch Menachem]

One of my favorites....Creepy Crawlers

That got tossed only when they stopped selling the plastic.

That was one fun toy. Layered critters, rainbow critters, and the girls hated them.

 

[Conservative]

One of my favorites....Creepy Crawlers

kewl... I had a set like that that made little green soldiers.

 

[del]

We were so poor that at Christmastime my mother would cut holes in the pockets of our pants so we'd have something to play with.

we were so poor we couldn't afford pockets

 

[del]

 

[Shogun]

you all had shitty childhood toys.

 

[The Infidel]

I played for hours with these.


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[rightwinger]

One of my favorites....Creepy Crawlers

kewl... I had a set like that that made little green soldiers.

They used to sell extra molds to make soldiers, superheros we even had some where you could make dragons.

Problem was when you ran out of Goop

 

[strollingbones]

damn yall had nice toys...but i still love my wooden scooter