Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

My pet rock died

Not enough love...

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Hey thanks Art. Slimer Bank. Sounds interesting. here's my Slimer GB sort of topper that will be lit and mounted on a flat black painted board and will have 4 white led strips to light it up. The teeth and eyes are painted with black light paint. In this picture it's lit by sunlight. Total cost $20

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Hell yeah, Speak and Spell, if you had one you could spell and play some bad ass hangman! Too many great old school toys that bring back lots of memories. Thanks.

King of all toys

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I loved my Dukes and Chips play sets!

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These kept us busy on a memorable road trip/vacation.

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How many of us tried to get it to say cuss words and racial slurs?

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One year I got BOTH of these.
It was a great Christmas!

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OK gotta tell a couple stories related to those two toys

So when I was a kid I found a car like this in a box in the basement (belonged to my dad as a kid)
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I never could make it run so in my young mind it was a worthless POS. One day a "friend" offers to trade me that for a Cox Baja bug like the one you posted.
OMG a RUNNING toy, well hell yes. So I trade it off without telling my dad ... only to find out some time later that I traded a $100+ antique for a $10 toy (that got busted in the end)

So years go by and I'm in my early 20's and engaged, for a birthday or xmas my German father-in-law-to-be (a machinist) bought me this (like your steam engine):
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go ahead a few years and I have a son. As he grows up I bring it out of the pkg, fire it up and let it run around on the floor. I end up getting divorced but let him keep it in his room. One day I ask about it and turns out he took it out to the sand box to play and then left of out in the rain and it is ruined I guess what goes around comes around

Silly Putty fans. Do you remember Flubber? For get Robin Williams. Fred McMurray was the original.

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Anyway, a toy spinoff of the movie Flubber was a big glob of bouncy stuff that acted like Silly Putty. I bought a bubble pack at T.G. & Y. A couple of days later the newspaper came out saying kids were having allergic reactions to Flubber. And my mom threw mine away.

Here are 2 of my all time favs. Ebay has the complete bazooka kit for $650 and just the machine gun box for $50. Oh how I wish mom would have saved these. I also had the mortar.

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Isn't that kind of the whole idea behind being a kid? Doing stupid shit?

I would be doing back flips if either of my kids played with a toy tractor in the sandbox, instead of playing Nintendo.

What the heck.....Besides, I'm pretty sure you can still get parts for those Wilesco tractors.

Great story!
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And don't forget (okay, maybe forget) the 1988 T.V. movie remake with Harry Anderson:

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Oh yeah stupid shit was my middle name as a kid ... that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger
I would have restored it but it was given away by his mom (ex's being ex's and all)

Certainly is but I'm fortunate that overall my son isn't my punishment for being a kid . I wish I had the chance but things being what they are he passed away before we were ready to laugh at those things, so it never came up.

If your name wasn't Paul I'd asked if you used to live across the street from me, that kid had a ton of cool toy guns.
He had a similar bazooka with rubber rounds and the mortar. He had a tripod mounted 50cal that looked similar but had a short belt clip that would feed through when you pulled the trigger. He also had the M-16 that you could slide back the charging handle it it would make noise:
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His mom hated the noise so we always played army at my house.
Two more in his collection that I thought were cool, Agent Zero camera cap-gun
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Johnny Eagle was the best and instead of the Red River I used to wish my parents got me this :
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but getting to play with it was just about a good

Not mine but...

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A Spy briefcase!!!!!!
This one was so unbelievably cool. I didn't even bother asking for it.
My Mom was anti gun. No way it was ever going to happen.

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So was mine after she found me with my dad's Winchester when I was three.

Never saw one of those before.

I think that one would kind of creep me out.

I know it would freak out the dog.

I saw the ad when I was young and that was it. It had a catchy song. Sort of...

I remember having a "Secret Agent" type briefcase with all kinds of gadgets in it. I think there was even a knife that popped out of a secret compartment! ....now I gotta go look for it!

Here it is! ....secret knife and all!!

The Multiple Toys James Bond Shooting Attaché Case
The black plastic case measures 18” by 12”, and contains the following items:

A pistol, complete with a shoulder stock, viewing scope and silencer which converts it into a rifle
A ‘Code-o-Matic’ code machine, code book and pencil
A wallet with paper money
James Bond, 007 business cards
A passport
12 red plastic bullets
The case also contained a hidden black plastic dagger concealed in the side, a mechanism which would fire one of the plastic bullets from the case itself and a lock which could be set to explode (by firing a cap) if the case is opened incorrectly.

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Kids today would get shot if they had that toy in public. Where have all the good times gone?

Yep!! .and HOLY CRAP!!!! ....

ebay.com link: James Bond Attache Case Multiple 1965

HOLY CRAP X2

Anyone else have one of those toys where you'd set the timer and distance, then take off running and it would launch a nerf football? I'd post a pic but can't remember name. Circa 84

The Whee-lo is cheaper!

Ya'll remember this thing? I spent hours on the Tomy Turnin' Turbo Dashboard.

It was also my favorite thing to take apart and modify as a kid. I wish I still had it, I'm sure it looked all hacked up but I have some cool memories of that thing.

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Now THAT'S funny. We always played army in the big field and wood across the street from my house. Also back there was an old earth and grass covered water resevour that was about 25ft high and the size of a football field. I had the perfect Leave it to Beaver childhood, except mom didn't wear a dress.

Had a couple of Spacewarp sets (similar to what is below) that I LOVED when I was younger. I ended up buying a big box on ebay a few years ago (I mean BIG, it was over 60lbs when it arrived) that I will install when I get a bigger house with more space.

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wow I read though the thread and it seems like I have forgotten more than I remember
Spirograph, it was great but I think my mom got pretty sick of hanging the "artwork" on the fridge.

I was reminiscing with my brother and he reminded me about this
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it broke fairly fast but planted a seed that eventually got me into aviation

We also talked about how with all boys my folks/grandparents got us toys that played together and I just realized nobody else brought up Tonka trucks:
I had the crane, one brother got the dump truck and another the bulldozer
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I'm not sure how that idea would fly today.

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But I agree, so many things we could do or buy back in the day that would never be allowed now

Who had these as a kid?

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Loved it to death.

I had nightmares after playing with this puppet at my aunt's house.

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Major Matt Mason! Where do you think they got the idea for Star Wars!

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... The Hidden Fortress.

Anyone remember Secret Sam? I found the Secret Same attaché case at my Grandparents house that my uncles used to play with. This gun fired little rubber bullets!

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I still have a Green Machine, but had it's strange cousin, the Blue Max when I was a kid.

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Does anyone remember Sectaurs?

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The Green Machine was too "fancy" for me. I was a Big Wheel kinda kid.
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