If you could bring back a toy or toys from your childhood, what would it be. Mine is my Schwinn bike that I jazzed up.

[debm55]

[Jeebo]

1. I remember American Bricks.

You can still find Lincoln Logs, but when I was a kid in the late 1950s/early 1960s I used to play with another construction toy called American Bricks. They were plastic bricks, doors, windows, etc., that you could use to build toy or model houses. I cannot find American Bricks anywhere now, not even with searches on the internet. I've tried to find them.

-- Ron

[Ocelot II]

2. I remember those, or something like them.

They were pre-Lego, IIRC the bricks were white plastic and there were other pieces (green?) for window and door frames and roofs. They were fun, but maybe Legos took over that market and they disappeared.

Added: The set I remember was called Block City.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/532902568378686986/

[Jeebo]

7. American Bricks were red.

I never saw any white ones.

-- Ron

[debm55]

16. Did you try American Bricks 1956 on amazon. I don't know it that is the year or product.

[rsdsharp]

15. Those are exactly what we had when I was a kid. Right down to the cylindrical storage unit.

[Bayard]

155. Same here

Played with them for hours. White blocks, green trim pieces.

[debm55]

3. I will keep an eye open for them. I know exactly what you are talking about as my brother had them. My husband gets all

these old toy catalogues, I'll see what they have.

[LisaM]

29. We had American bricks!

We also had Lincoln Logs and we sometimes built hybrid houses with both.

I loved the little windows and doors.

[Efilroft Sul]

4. Micronauts. Always Micronauts.

[stopdiggin]

5. yoyos were big for a while

(wonder how many front teeth were lost .. ?) But, anyway - hours of fun - some level of art and skill (with practice) - and, at dirt cheap cost, available to most kids.

[debm55]

9. Duncan yoyos? I could never to the tricks like rock the baby, etc.

[Diamond_Dog]

34. Back when Mr. Diamond was a kid

Someone from the Duncan Yo-Yo company would come around to school playgrounds and give kids $ for how many tricks they could do with their yo-yos. (granted, it wasn’t very much). If you were really good, you could win a brand new Duncan Yo-yo. Mr. Diamond still has the one he won.

[debm55]

48. WoW. I lost interest in it because I could only do up and down.

[Beartracks]

68. Ha, same! And not very well even at that, before it would just bounce and spin and tangle.

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[debm55]

70. It was a waste. It, I supppose got tossed but I didn't care.

[electric_blue68]

123. Ohhh, a part exercise in frustration for me! 😑😄

I could never do any of the tricks!

[Lunabell]

6. My beloved hobby horse.

I could ride and bounce on this for hours!! I need one for a BBW adult!!

[debm55]

10. Beautiful, I had one and my son had one. Thank you for the memories.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

51. I would have killed for one of those!!!

[Lunabell]

53. Seriously.

If it had been a real horse, I could have ridden across half the US with that bad boy. Mother hated the noise it made, but it sure kept me out of her hair!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

58. My hobby horse was just a horse head on a stick, but I also pretended she was real!

I can still do a mean neigh and whinny, LOL!

[Lunabell]

61. I still neigh and whinny.

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But, that's a private matter between me and my wife, lol.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

63. ROFL!

[calguy]

8. Lincoln Logs

https://m.

&pp=ygUMbGluY29sbiBsb2dz

[debm55]

11. Loved those.

[cachukis]

12. My table top hockey game. 1959.

1959 Eagle Toy Limited NHL table | eBay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234079522799

[debm55]

18. OMG, 250 dollars. We had one of these

[cachukis]

50. In 1958 I got a real wooden Ft. Apache with

lead soldiers and Indians from FAO Schwartz. The tepees has real cloth. Can't find a picture except for the plastic ones.

[debm55]

73. Sorry, cachukis, do you still have it?

[cachukis]

77. I think I have ladder in a box somewhere.

The lead soldiers were hand painted. The Indians were very cool. There are pictures one of my sister has of the fort all set up with wagons and tepees.
Saw a set for sale some years ago when I had my antiques shop. Very expensive.
I was very lucky as a kid. Grew up in a triple deckah that my grandparents owned. My uncles left lionel trains, an erector set, old sports equipment, stamp collections, an old wooden toy bowling alley, dollhouse from my mother and various and sundry metal and tin toys. They also left behind war memorabilia that they eventually retrieved when my grandparents sold the place and we moved to the suburbs. When I think of playing baseball with mitts from the thirties, I have fond memories.

[debm55]

81. Thank you for sharing with us cachukis. Your house sounds like an antique shop. You were very lucky to have experienced

all those old toys.

[Bristlecone]

84. Loved that game. It has stood the test of time

You knew you were getting good at it when you could one time it from wing to center or center wing - and in one (2 really) quick motion.

[cachukis]

86. I was the oldest of 6, four of whom were boys and wore out the first game.

It had its peculiarities and you refined your skills accordingly. Other households had different versions and the home team had its repetition going for them.
Younger brothers got a more modern set, but the games were great rivalries. We would broadcast as we played.
The original was Montreal and Toronto.
Second version was Montreal and Boston.
Guy LaPointe to Cournyer to LaFleur, broken up by Dallas Smith passes to Hodge on the right and shoots tipped in by Esposito. Score.
A blast.

[homegirl]

13. Ideal Toy Co

lifelike baby doll. Looked so real. My mother bought it at the Toy Co. factory outlet, never did find a flaw and she bought an outfit for the bare baby doll.

[Silent Type]

14. Got a fancy Schwinn bike for Christmas. Within a few months, I removed the fenders, chain guard, and everything else I

could strip off. My dad was really ticked because he spent a lot of money on the bike (early 1960s). But I road it for years and loved it.

[debm55]

20. Did the same.

[rsdsharp]

17. Defender Dan, because every ten year old needs a .50 caliber machine gun.

&pp=ygUYZGVmZW5kZXIgZGFuIG1hY2hpbmUgZ3Vu

[debm55]

25. It didn't actually fire, did it? You had one? The directions look like you would need to be a brain to put it together.

[rsdsharp]

38. Yes, I had one, and yes, it fired plastic bullets.

They were two piece. The actual bullet was red plastic, and slipped into the end of the shell casing. Then the shell casings were inserted into the belt, which was secured into the action. The belt held ten or twelve rounds. You pulled back on the cocking handle, and when the triggers were depressed, it would fire four rounds, at which point you had to recharge it with the cocking handle. Endless fun until the bullets were inevitably lost.

I got one for Christmas 1964. If my father were still alive, he’d still be cursing over the headache of putting it together.

[debm55]

49. Same with my dad and the metal dollhouse. Never heard the end of that.

[rsdsharp]

64. My Dad's last Christmas was 1968. He was recovering from lung cancer surgery.

Despite that, he put together my little sister’s kitchen set; stove, refrigerator and sink. The man was a trooper. With a colorful vocabulary.

[debm55]

65. I am so sorry rsdsharp, May all his memories be a a blessing to you.

[sanatanadharma]

31. That machine gun looks familiar, but what I remember was a rifle that shot plastic bullets ...

That machine gun looks familiar, perhaps a cousin had one.
However, I remember a Christmas when I got a rifle that shot plastic bullets from reloadable shell casings with springs within.
I killed one of Mom's Christmas ornaments that morning.
This is vintage toy tech whose marketing time has past.

[jpak]

41. We had one and shot out a tree ornament with it

Didn't get it back until the tree came down

[rsdsharp]

45. Those are Mattel Shootin' shells. I got some with a snub nose .38 and a shoulder holster.

I put them together, loaded the pistol, went out to the dining room while everybody else was still opening presents in the living room, and fired them at the wall. A couple went down a register, never to be seen again.

The Defender Dan also used two piece rounds, but I think the red projectile was fired by air pressure instead of a spring.

[debm55]

46. Agree. It wasn't one on those fancy vintage glass ornaments was it?

[sanatanadharma]

59. Por supuesto, claro que si.

Of course, clearly yes.

[debm55]

62. I bet you got in trouble.

[Jrose]

19. The Red Raven Magic mirror spinning toy record ...

https://images.app.goo.gl/gW7vEKyqkLrSGdef8

This toy was a mesmerizing, spinning musical 45-size record that used a spinning mirror to reflect images on its surface as it played. Was a Hanukkah gift I got from granddad when I was about 10 yrs.

It's no longer sold.

[debm55]

21. That's a neat toy. TY

[electric_blue68]

122. Woah ... that seems vaguely familiar!

Although what I'm remembering I think it looked like a ? little carousel with mirrors?

[Jrose]

131. Yes, the faceted mirror reflected the series of images on the turning disc,

creating the illusion of a character running, or, my favorite, which was of a tugboat continuously rolling on waves.

[justaprogressive]

22. My Erector Set -An awesome present.

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/April2017_Gilbert-Erector-Ferris-Wheel

[debm55]

23. Do they still sell them?

[justaprogressive]

32. no.

The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest in the world. Gilbert originated the Erector Set, which is a construction toy similar to Meccano in the rest of the world, and made chemistry sets, microscope kits, and a line of inexpensive reflector telescopes. In 1938, Gilbert purchased the American Flyer, a manufacturer of toy trains. The Gilbert Company struggled after the death of its founder in 1961 and went out of business in 1967. Its trademarks and toy lines were sold to other companies.

One Possibility

[Conjuay]

67. Having an Aunt in England

We had a similar product called either Mechano or something.

Of course the screws and nuts were metric, so we couldn’t find erector sets that could be added to it.
The parts were all painted red or green, which was also different.

[justaprogressive]

79. Yup I remember Meccano

Was over in England a couple times in my childhood; relatives

[cachukis]

78. I had one in a wooden box that my uncle gave me.

Had to have been from the thirties.

[Bayard]

156. I still have the one that belonged to my older brother,

In the same metal box. He would make really cool stuff. He let me watch.

[petronius]

24. I always wondered what happened to my Weeble Wobble Diver Man

There's a bunch on eBay, but I want mine back...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203947219655

[debm55]

27. I missed the Weeble Wobble era. Too old. Yes, what happened to all of our toys.Maybe now they are on the island of

misfit toys.

[AnnaLee]

26. Comic books and pickup sticks. ntp

[debm55]

28. Yes to both, Never got into playing jacks.

[thatcrowwoman]

30. Paper dolls.

Seems like there was a tear sheet of them in a women’s magazine, maybe McCall’s?
I’d make them new outfits with paper and crayons and scissors.

Also
My roller skates that clamped onto my sneakers, with a key to tighten them up. We’d skate all around the neighborhood. On rainy days, I could skate on the carport or in the basement. My dad’s shop was down there but it was a separate room that he kept locked unless he was there. There was a chest freezer and a washing machine and not much else. That left an expanse of cement floor to skate around. And around. And around.

I had a Schwinn, too, Deb. Mine was turquoise blue with a wire basket in front, and the thumb-operated metal bell on the handlebars, Multicolored streamers poked through the end of the handlebar grips. 10 years old and I felt so grown, such a delicious taste of freedom.
🕊🩵tcw

[hedda_foil]

33. Betsy McCall was the name of the magazine paper doll.

[thatcrowwoman]

74. That's the one. Thank you.

🕊thatcrowwoman

[debm55]

40. Thank you for those memories. I had the skates that were on the white shoes your had to lace up. My bike was blue also.

I had feet brakes. I could never get used to hand brakes. Thank you for the memories, thatcrowwoman. PS, I had the cut outs from the book of cutouts for various people. We didn;t get McCall's magazine.

[marigold20]

89. Yes - paper dolls

My sister and I bought a set of "southern Belles". They had long skirts which wrapped around and fastened in the back.

As for the skates, my knees were always covered in scabs. I did love skating.

[debm55]

92. Yes to both

[WheelWalker]

35. Those Real Deal chemistry sets for kids

[debm55]

42. WheelWalker, what did you make with them? You didn't blow up anything, did you?

[bucolic_frolic]

36. GUMBY

And Fred Flintstone.

Where did it all go?

[debm55]

43. I had the Gumby and Pokey.

[Archae]

109. I have, (as in have them now) small Gumby and Pokey, along with Prickle.

Treasures.

[debm55]

110. You still have them? Wow

[Archae]

111. Yeah, they were from a store in the 1990's...

About $4-5 each.

Small, and they don't bend like the larger ones do.

The store is long gone, now.

[jpak]

37. Johnny Seven OMA

It'll put yer eye out....

[debm55]

162. hahahahahaha

[sanatanadharma]

39. Alpha One Ballistic Missile, powered by baking soda and vinegar

Alpha One Ballistic Missile, powered by baking soda and vinegar

For the growing-up space-age generation

[debm55]

44. Did it work?

[sanatanadharma]

54. It went up and it came down

Musk is doing the same.

[debm55]

66. HaHa--Maybe he had the same toy when he was a kid

[PJMcK]

47. I've out-grown the toys from my childhood

As an adult, I've found new (and more expensive!) toys! My latest is a cruising sailboat we bought a few years ago. It's so complicated I've needed to take a few courses in Diesel engines, electronic navigation and nautical electrical wiring! Still, it's been a wonderful experience.

[debm55]

52. Thanks PJMcK

[debm55]

55. Did anyone have Troll dolls?

[thatcrowwoman]

76. Yes. Made them all kinds of outfits from felt. Built them cardboard caves/troll homes.

When I was teaching 6th grade, students would tie them to their backpacks. Trolls and keychains. The more, the better. All kinds of swapping going on at lunch. One fledgling goth child had about a dozen Barbie heads tied to hers. Cracked me up and creeped me out at the same time. Mission accomplished!
🕊🩵tcw

[debm55]

82. I did the same with the outfits and the houses. Had a whole community of them. The babies you could buy in a gum ball

machine. Oh yes, made furniture for them too out of little boxes.

[IcyPeas]

95. Oh yes. I had a tiny one sitting on my desk in 4th grade and the nun stole it.

I wasn't playing with it... it was just on the desk. I asked her days later, when I found some courage, if I could have it back. She said she already gave it to the missionaries.

She was a fuc*ing sadist.

[debm55]

97. Most were, I took mine to school everyday,

But I kept in my bookbag and waited for recess when the nuns weren't around.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

56. My 1961 ponytailed Barbie doll, all her amazing outfits and accessories, and her first car.

Tie between that and my Breyer plastic horses.

[debm55]

69. My mother gave all my Barbie stuff it my cousin, without asking me. That included the clothing I made and the outfits I

bought out of my own money. The Breyer plastic horses were beautiful.

[AllaN01Bear]

57. mine would be a number things including swhinn bike that i tricked out with a steering wheel

. horn. headlights and tail lights . had the tall sissie bar w wheeli bars. my old gi joe . not the awful cobra one but the large ones .

[debm55]

71. I put a banana seat on mine and those high handle bars. We would go to this gravel road , speed up and then it the

brakes. Goal was to see how far you could skid without falling off.

[AllaN01Bear]

72. had the bannana seat too also. would love to se a modern version to trick out.

[debm55]

75. The different thing is we put them together ourselves. Now, kids buy them all put together.

[czarjak]

60. Six Finger, Six Finger

Man alive,
How did I ever get along with five?

[LeftInTX]

125. Most annoying commercial...ever!

[czarjak]

130. Not sure

You should see some our local ads.

[debm55]

133. I don't remember that one.

[czarjak]

171. The sixties.

[debm55]

172. I should remember it. TY

[bullimiami]

80. Creepy Crawlies and Incredible Edibles were pretty fun.

Plenty of burns but that’s the price for fun.

[debm55]

83. Did you eat the Incredible Edibles.?

[bullimiami]

100. Of course!!

[yardwork]

166. I loved those! Fingers covered with burns.

Can you imagine them selling those now!

I also had a chemistry set that I'm sure would be illegal to sell now. It had all kinds of elements in glass test tubes - sodium, manganese, magnesium sulfite...

[debm55]

168. Not to be snarky, but why didn't you use pot holders to get them out of the mold. Did you make anything with your

chemistry kit???????

[yardwork]

174. Pot holders wouldn't really have helped.

You had to tease out the critters from their metal molds after they baked. Little insect legs and antennas. Very hot metal molds, molten liquid - fun times.

I was actually very intimidated by the chemistry set so I never did much with it....

[debm55]

175. Thanks , yardwork.

[Mr.Bill]

85. Slot cars.

Really had a ball with them for a few years.

[debm55]

134. I used to play with the small cars that had ramps. Started at the top of the steps and had them go down. Sometimes would

but the ramps in a circle at the bottom. I don't think they were slot cars. Mattel made them.

[Mr.Bill]

142. Sounds like Hot Wheels.

Gravity powered.

[debm55]

143. That's it!!!!!!! Thank you.

[Ziggysmom]

87. The Mattel Thing Maker sets! You cooked liquid plastic goo in metal molds to create bugs

or flowers or monsters! I can remember the smell of the hot plastic like it was yesterday. Amazing they could even sell toys like that.

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[debm55]

93. I remember!

[GP6971]

88. The frogmen from the cereal boxes...50s/60s I think.

Fill the base with baking soda and off they went.

[debm55]

94. That sounds neat

[applegrove]

90. We had a green plastic bat that was filled with air and about

5 inches in diameter at the top. It was huge but little hands could hold it at the base. It was easy to be good at baseball with such a liteweight colossal bat.

[debm55]

91. That sounds fun.

[Conjuay]

96. speaking of Schwinn

I have an old “Schwinn Twin” ( the infamous tandem) and even more unusual, a Schwinn unicycle. Haven’t been on a unicycle in twenty years, but I still have it kicking around.

[debm55]

98. that is neat TY

[Rastapopoulos]

99. I wanted an Easy Bake oven

But my sister got it. Guess it wasn't a "boy's toy."
I got a chemistry set instead.

[debm55]

103. Easy Bake Oven--it stunk. "cooked " by using a light bulb. Nothing I cooked in it was edible.

[bullimiami]

101. I did love our home brew chopper bikes.

Banana seat
Sissy bar
Rear slick
Extend forks
Almost impossible to steer

[debm55]

104. And we did it ourselves. Mine was blue, But I painted it silver metallic.

[bullimiami]

106. Can of spray paint and bam!

[debm55]

107. Got that right.

[MOMFUDSKI]

102. I really did like my tinker toys. And a 20" bike

that my parents got for me at age six. I was always quite small so this bike was built in England and had thin, reddish/orange tires and a thin frame so I could handle it. It was a real pretty light aqua/blue. Loved that bike. Because it was so fast the neighborhood kids would pay me with candy to ride it once around the block! Ahhh. Memories.

[debm55]

105. Did it come with training wheels or did you have to learn to ride without them?

[Archae]

108. I have my favorite, but would love one other.

I have several of the Marx "Johnny West" toys.

Link to tweet

/photo/1

Wouldn't mind having Matt Mason toys again.

https://vintageactionfigures.com/major-matt-mason-the-man-in-space.html

[debm55]

113. Have you looked on e-Bay? Better buy would be Thrift shops.

[OldBaldy1701E]

112. Dark Tower!

I still have it and we still play it. She has seen better days, but still works okay once it gets going. Now before anyone says anything, yes, they did finally release a sequel to the game a few years back, but it was the difference between a bicycle and a Porsche. Some of us really don't need a Porsche...

[debm55]

114. So you would like another of the old version. My friend collects old lunch boxes made for kids, He buys them at Thrift

shops.

[OldBaldy1701E]

115. My fave lunchbox was one that looked like a US postal box.

I loved that one. I had it in the 5-6th grades and someone stole it. I found it five years later in the ceiling of my old classroom. (Don't ask why I was up there.)

[debm55]

116. I won't ask. My friend,Chris has all kinds of stuff he buys from Goodwill and Salvation Army

[Takket]

117. My 1989 Hess firetruck............

I loved that thing.........

[debm55]

118. You might be able to find at a thrift shop. 1989 is fairly new in my world. Good luck trying to find one.

[Takket]

119. i just looked on ebay. there are a ton of them brand new for $20!!!

[debm55]

120. That's not bad--actually very good. Takket, buy it for yourself for Christmas

[electric_blue68]

124. Magna Sticks, Hi-Gear...

Magna sticks was in a box that had a double set of two about 2"x2" metal plates with magnets underneath. There were square rods short, and longer, flat triangles, ?flat rectangles, ?washers, and other shapes that you'd build w on the metal plates; the magetism holding them in place.
.
Hi-Gear.
A ?15" x 15" big plastic base where on a centered slope a bunch of gears of different sizes were connected together. Each had a holes around the "ring" part that colored pegs would fit in. You threw a dice? Whatever the number you got you'd move the gear your peg was in (a set of 4 or 5?). You could only advance to the next gear when your peg landed next to the corresponding hole of the next gear.
.
Chutes & Ladders board game (with dice). You land on a ladder your piece(s) would advance up to top of the ladder's square. Conversely your piece would slide back down when you landed on the top of a chute.
.
I looooved my Tinker Toys! 😄 Occasionally think of buying a set.
.
Wooden tracks, bridges, and trains.🧡
.
While I never owned a bike I learned to ride one at my cousin's house in the they (still) live(d) in. 👍

[debm55]

135. Loved playing Chutes and Ladders as a kid and with my kid.

[electric_blue68]

144. I"d still play it if I had it. It's a fun idea w a bit of extra interactiveness.

[debm55]

145. Me too, I am going to ask my friend who does wooden clocks to find one for me at the thrift shop. It was a neat game.

[electric_blue68]

146. Cool. Good luck. 👍

[lapfog_1]

126. lawn darts

always loved the nice parabolic flight path.

What's not to love about a deadly missile thrown around by 5 to 12 year olds?

[debm55]

136. You won't find those anymore. Thank goodness

[LeftInTX]

127. Redd Foxx talking doll

Nah..I never owned or heard about it until recently. Too bad you can't understand a thing the doll says..LOL


There were also Flip Wilson and Rodney Dangerfield talking dolls.

You can understand Flip Wilson at least

I bet the Rodney Dangerfield doll was expensive. They apparently broke easily and are difficult to repair.

[debm55]

137. Never saw that before. Wow. I must have been in college. Did you have one?

[LeftInTX]

141. No. I was in college too. I saw it on facebook a few years ago.

It was just an oddity that I had never heard of before.
Thought I would throw it in for a few laughs.

[madamesilverspurs]

128. Ukulele

It was blue with white palm trees painted on it, and Mom got it with green stamps. It went everywhere with me, and I learned to play along with the songs around the campfire at summer camp. A few years later she used green stamps to get my first guitar; it was black, with a big white music note painted on it, and I think the strings were made from extruded razor blades. Painful as it was, I played that thing until I could save enough babysitting money to upgrade to a very nice classical guitar that didn't shred my fingertips.

[debm55]

138. Green stamps--remember. Glad you got the Classical guitar. Were the strings on the ukulele made of nylon?

[hydrolastic]

129. Columbia unicycle

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Destroyed the one I had as a kid and was really good at it. Couple of years ago I found one on the internet. I wouldn't even try to ride it today. but its exactly like the one I had. https://postimg.cc/0zyt3GVZ
[url=https://postimg.cc/Fd4CTM8k][img][/img][/url]

[debm55]

139. Good! As a kid, I tried my friend's unicycle. I couldn't do it then. You must have been pretty good.

[TlalocW]

161. One Christmas

I got a unicycle from Sears. I pretty much destroyed that while learning to ride then got a Schwinn for my bday.

[debm55]

163. Schwinn bikes are better and can be "modified"

[TlalocW]

177. Well, we were ignorant of unicycles in my small farming town in Kansas

But those were the days when we still got Christmas catalogs, and it was in the Sears.

[debm55]

179. Did you circle the item or dog ear the page. We got Sears, Penneys and Spiegals.

[TlalocW]

181. Dog-eared, definitely

We got Sears, Penneys, and Montgomery Ward.

We lived on the edge of town with wheat fields past our backyard. We weren't farmers, but we had a big barn full of crap including some old pool sticks that I used like ski poles to hold myself up as I learned to ride it. Our driveway looped into the backyard to the attached garage that opened to the backyard as well. Very proud moment when I was able to ride it from the concrete, onto the dirt part with all its bumps and dips to the street without falling off.

[debm55]

182. Thank you. Congratulations on learning to ride it.

[gibraltar72]

132. Marx Flyer 027 train set.

[debm55]

140. Wow,do you still have it. Do you know what happened to it.?

[Harker]

147. I think I'd have months more fun with my Matchbox cars and trucks.

And my Corgis.

[debm55]

148. Loved my matchbox cars and building ramps for them.

[Harker]

149. I'm still a Jaguar E-type fan.

[debm55]

152. Oh you.----------

[sakabatou]

150. Optimus Prime G1 toy

[debm55]

153. Pardon me for asking-but what is it?

[sakabatou]

158. It's from the Transformers series

[debm55]

164. Thank you. You must be way younger then me.

[sakabatou]

170. Probably

[Wicked Blue]

151. Comic books, MAD Magazine, yo-yos

I disliked dolls. The worst was Betsy Wetsy. You gave her a bottle of water. Then she peed. Big whoop.

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154. I loved my Betsy Wetsy.Did you have the magic milk bottle that made it appear that Betsy was drinking it. She wasn't so

so no pee.Yo-yo for me went up and nothing else. I love my cars, bike. blocks. Loved to build things. But I did have a special place in my heart for my dolls that I could mother.

[Bayard]

157. For xmas one year,

Santa brought me a white toy poodle, that came with a remote control. He stood on his legs, wore a little red vest, and carried balloons in one paw, and a bell in the other. If you pushed the remote button up, he walked. If you pushed it down, he barked and rang his bell. It was dazzling, until my brother walked it across the kitchen table, and let it nose dive into a cherry pie.

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165. Oh Bayard. that sounded so cute. I'm sorry it went into the pie. Were you able to clean it off and get it to work?

[Bayard]

173. My Mom did

She was pretty pissed.

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176. I can imagine. Glad everything was fixed.

[TlalocW]

159. Mego Superheros

They didn't last long it seems.

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169. Sorry.

[TlalocW]

160. Speaking of action figures

I never got my Johnny Long Torso

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167. HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH----

So true.

[CrispyQ]

178. I spent hours with a lightboard, paper dolls, & colored pencils.

If I hadn't hated to sew so much I might have been a fashion designer. I also loved my trolls & I had an old boy's 3-apeed bike that had what we called butterfly handles & I loved that bike!

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180. Yes, I know butterfly handles are. I never road on a 3 speed because you had to use hand brakes. I always use feet

brakes. They are very hard to find now.