Heights2Bastrop Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 On second thought, my favorite toy was/is my Jet cabinet saw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Legos! Best toy of all time! Oh, and of course, I must not fail to mention my various science kits, telescopes, microscopes, insect nets, and gear, etc. Oh, and of course, my PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ V Lawrence Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Legos! Best toy of all time!OYE OYE OYE!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Yes, I had the 300 in 1 electronics kit. In fact it was a favorite for several months and led to more elaborate projects that I'd build from scratch components on a breadboard. Tripwire alarms hooked up to pezzo buzzers and lights were a favorite.It's probably a good thing that I didn't know what an electric match was.I was digging though some of my dads old stuff and found a Project Board Power supply from Radio Shack me and my pop's built in the early 1980's. Cant forget about drawing building's on a Etch A Sketch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2fatcats Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 I think they were called K'Nex. Little plastic girders to make a frame of a building, and then you would snap on plastic exterior panels to make a skyscraper or whatever. Even as a kid I had architecture fantasies! <<'Subdude' That sounds like the Kenner Girder and Panel sets (that was the name of them) from the late 50s, early 60s. They came in different sizes and like Erector sets, you could build certain things with each set. I deal in vintage toys on the side and had one of those sets a few years ago, thought it was a pretty cool toy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 i collect "qee's" they're from the bearbrick lineyou can get them herehttp://www.domystore.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 i collect "qee's" they're from the bearbrick lineyou can get them herehttp://www.domystore.com/I never heard of qee's before but i did see on that web site a movie called THX 1138 that was George Lucas's first movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Does anybody remember a Japanese show that channel 8 did reruns in the early 1980's. It was similar to the Godzilla movies. I think it was called Ultra Man? He had a Gold suit on head to toe and he flew with one arm strait ahead and the other by his side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston1stWordOnTheMoon Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 My favorite toy as a child was the Big Wheel. Started my fascination with driving. Being behind the wheel and experiencing the freedom and feel of the road, or in those days, the 8 car length long drive way of my parents house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Does anybody remember a Japanese show that channel 8 did reruns in the early 1980's. It was similar to the Godzilla movies. I think it was called Ultra Man? He had a Gold suit on head to toe and he flew with one arm strait ahead and the other by his side. Ultraman was real popular around 1974-75 I can never forget one show where he chopped off the tail of another monster and the tail was smashing up all of the busines district! Just flipping & flopping! seemed to go on forever! Still traumatized! Ultraman used to also squirt water out of his hand to turn out huge midtown fires. I bet the actor is aged-boozed up & slumped over in a bar as we speak! Probably never lived it down. Astroboy was shown afterward, another real parculiar toon. Now I'm scared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Legos & Tinkertoys for me,but I cant think how disturbed we must have been to get our cool metal train sets have them circle the track then EXPLODE them with real black cat firecracker's! Just like Uncle Fester used to on Addams Family. Sometimes we would make a bomfire in a ditch and burn our sister's dolls heads on a stick especially the Miss's Beasley doll in effigy ! We would be chanting something "witchy" and go in circles. Wow no wonder our neighbors slammed the doors on us at Halloween time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd Susan Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 I loved my Etch a Sketch, Slinky, my brothers b b gun, Light Brite, Odd Ogg, Pogo Stick, Jig Saw Puzzles, Feely Meely, Kabash, chemistry set and especially my first bicycle with a banana seat. But above all else... I loved the box my grandmothers new refrigerator came in. It was a playhouse for a while and then I cut it longways and ruined many a pair of socks running and sliding on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssullivan Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Legos! Those were the best. All my old Lego sets are still at Mom and Dad's house in the closet of my childhood bedroom. I really should get them out and bring them to Houston.I also had an awesome model train set. And of course the bike ranked up there pretty high too, since it was my mode of transportation around the neighborhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapillionWyngs Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Legos! Those were the best. All my old Lego sets are still at Mom and Dad's house in the closet of my childhood bedroom. I really should get them out and bring them to Houston.I also had an awesome model train set. And of course the bike ranked up there pretty high too, since it was my mode of transportation around the neighborhood.Anything Barbie, anything to play in the sand with, and my Water Wiggle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeybob2 Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I was in the 5th grade at St Mary's Parochial School in Galveston and daydreamed of a Matell Vacu-form.. I finally got one for Christmas and played with it for months and months.. The problem is that I can't remember what I made with it.. I know I put hard plastic sheets in it and closed the top and it made stuff.. but mostly I remember the fumes (most likely toxic).. I can still imagine the smell of the plastic melting to this day.. It was probably making me high..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I loved Creepy Crawlers. You poured plastic goo into a mold with shapes of bugs, and then cooked in on a hot plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I loved Creepy Crawlers. You poured plastic goo into a mold with shapes of bugs, and then cooked in on a hot plate.Ah, the good old days! Creepy Crawlers, wood burning sets, Incredible Edibles, Easy-Bake Ovens, chemistry sets with alcohol burners, Vac-U-Forms...my brother had a small steam engine which ran on Sterno. Were our parents hoping we'd get burned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Anything Barbie, anything to play in the sand with, and my Water Wiggle! Water Wiggle! Wow I miss mine. If I found it I would still take it outside and play with it in front of my neighbors! I recall my cousins having a new slip & slide. I really recall it hurting so much when your butt would hit it as you starting sliding, ouch! We must have got more bruises then fun. I remember my Mr Potatoe Head collection. Every time I went to the toy dept there was a new character potatoehead (friends) popping up. I recall a Mr Carrot and a Ms Potatoe head. Once I lost the plastic potatoe but only had the inserts left so I grabbed a real potatoe my mom had handy and I inserted the nose and eyes, etc each broke as I tried to make a new REAL Mr Potatoe! Bad results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 • Lincoln Logs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Spirograph was a bit frustrating to those of us lacking basic hand-eye coordination. I would always mess it up. One of my neighbors had this thing where you would put a piece of paper on a spinner inside a plastic frame, and then squirt paint on it as it spun. The result was strange blobby spun paint pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd Susan Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Spirograph was a bit frustrating to those of us lacking basic hand-eye coordination. I would always mess it up. One of my neighbors had this thing where you would put a piece of paper on a spinner inside a plastic frame, and then squirt paint on it as it spun. The result was strange blobby spun paint pictures. I still have my spirograph that I got when I was in St Josephs hospital when I was 11 and had fallen out of a tree. The only things missing are the pushpins and the pens. I still cant use that thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Spirograph was a bit frustrating to those of us lacking basic hand-eye coordination. I would always mess it up. One of my neighbors had this thing where you would put a piece of paper on a spinner inside a plastic frame, and then squirt paint on it as it spun. The result was strange blobby spun paint pictures. My brothers and I would make a "city" with blocks and then I would shout... Now! and my little brother would act like he was Godzilla and slowly crush and kick and knock down the buildings like in the movies. I was quite dramatic to us! cool fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Still hung up on Lego's always will be.This commercial tell's it all. Be sure to see the look on the kids faces. Still have them saved up somewhere.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paAUnZIE370 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west20th Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 "We were so poor when I was young. If I wasn't a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with"Rodney Dangerfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Ahoy!, Me favorite toy were me Pound Puppies arrr!~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 "We were so poor when I was young. If I wasn't a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with"Rodney DangerfieldI heard that one told in a much more graphic way, hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 A Boston antique dealer wants $998.74 for this rare 1989 Rodney Dangerfield talking bank. http://www.goantiques.com/detail,1989-poyn...ts,1166246.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holden Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 I did the same thing too what was i thinking edit; does anybody remember Black Star wasnt that some planet ship thing from star wars that luke skywalker tried to blow up or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Ahoy!, Me favorite toy were me Pound Puppies arrr!~ I remember seeing them at Toys R Us , they came with there own dog house. arrrrr I had a lot of these when I was a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holden Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 I remember seeing them at Toys R Us, they came with there own dog house. arrrrr I had a lot of these when I was a kid. My favorite toy was the cabbage patch dolls. They were so ugly that they were cute.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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