Every once in a while I wish I could play with my old Lite Brite. Or a slinky. I suppose if I really wanted them, I could still find those in stores, no? So I guess I must not want them that badly.
WOW. I still have my barbies, but they are not new, of course.I got my kids lite brites for Christmas and slinkies too. The loved the lite brite. Slinkies get bent too easily. But don’t they make them in plastic now?
Does anyone remember a toy that came out around the time of the Apollo missions.
It consisted of two parts. A hand held battery operated “fan” and a balloon with landing gear. You moved it around with the “fan” in order to make the lander land where you wanted it to.
@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities I don’t wish for my childhood sandbox….I buried my surviving colored Easter Eggs there to keep people from cracking them (killing them) and hid them in the box. A few weeks later I returned to the sandbox and dug them up. There were maggotts everywhere!!! Eew! I cried and never went back in there!
My Easy Bake Oven, Fuzzer Pumper Barber Shop and my Empire Strikes Back stickers (some still in the original packaging with a (now) stale strip of pink gum) are in storage at my Pop’s.
@susanc That’s so cute (your granddaughter, I mean ;). I have kept a lot of my books from childhood… maybe because books have always been such a big part of my life, I like to look and see the ones that my reading passion began with. I hope to share those with my kids someday.
I still do have some of my toys – primarily the teddy bear that I was given at birth, and a couple Barbie dolls. But mostly, I just kept the books.
My mother still has my original set of Tinker Toys in the original box. she is a pack rat and never lets anything go. set of the 50s. and, she may still my erector set from that era. she is 92 and does not remember a lot.
Yeah, there were a few that were pretty cool that I had. Pretty much all gone now. Not the super special things like my stuffed animals or my baby doll, but most of the other things have been gotten rid of. I loved K’nex, Legos, Hot Wheels, Lite Brite, EasyBake Oven, etc. Though I do still have board games that I got a long time ago. And I still play them. :)
I still do :D Legos and a Sega Nomad made up the bulk of my toys. Now the Legos are in the attic and the Sega is in my dresser drawer.
I wish that I’d had the kinds of toys that were available to my dad’s generation when I was growing up.
Oh man. I was thinking about this today.
I had some KICKASS Star Wars toys when I was little. I have NO idea where they are, now. I want my Fett action figures. :(
I still have a lot of my stuffed animals and this farm set. Other than that, nope.
I would love to have the toy dog I got for Christmas in 1955 for sentimental reasons, and the all metal Lionel train set we had to give to my grandsons.
I used to collect these naked little trolls. They sold for a dollar. I would get different colored hair. I think I still have them in a box somewhere. I dressed them in torn rag strips.
Did anyone else collect trolls?