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Quoted from swampfire:"Let's mix up some stuff and see if it burns!"
Set my desk on Fire at the age of 11 with this!
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I have a magic window right in front of me now!
I have lots of old toys everywhere!
Quoted from MustangPaul:What does it do? does it light up or something?
Lots of cool stuff that lights up here, Paul!
Sorry, the fidgit is an assortment of bad chemicals and oils that move around with finger pressure...but no lights...
remind me to add one to your next package.
I think youd like this one Im working on.....
I am trying a Slimer Bank, controlled lighting inside, in front of a large plasma disk,
with EL wire wrapping around Slimers arms, and lower controlled foot lighting for a topper on GB!
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:They have a newer version of this type of toy, the line is called Perplexus. I have the "Epic" on my desk at work and people love to mess with it.
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Love these John! Oh youll have to see my collection when you come down!
Heres a Brand New Toy, for my Birthday that came in the mail.
I have waited 2-1/2 years, like some pins for it!
It relates to my childhood collection of wooden mazes, and the early Japanese Puzzle Boxes.
(Sorry its off topic by age, but I am loving playing with it, and had no where else to share)
OK...but theres too many!
Heres a New favorite, and I am clueless! This falls under the category of puzzle locks.
Heres a link: http://www.popplock.com/
You Can try and get on his list.
They usually sell out in a few hours, and not only weigh a ton, and are fun, but hold value or appreciate.
Heres a better site:
http://www.cubicdissection.com/html/purchase/discont/discontindex.html
Some pieces are made unlimited, some only 20-30 for the Globe.
There are auctions, forums, and shows. Prices can go from dollars, to around $100K
http://puzzles.baxterweb.com/archiveSummary.asp
Heres my good friend Roberts work:
http://www.stickmanpuzzlebox.com/stickman-puzzle-gallery.html
Ten thumbs up for that exact Super Ball memory, TED...
I used to take Super Balls, and a Core Drill/drill press, and in the 70's make rubber pinball posts out of Super Ball material!
Awesome Bounce!
I spent years as a kid writing to Whamo and all the pin companies to implement....what else is a 9 year old going to do at school except draw pintables and mail them to Chicago?
David Gottlieb, was the only one who ever answered...I think it was the Senior.
Fast forward, I made silicone rubbers that all failed...Thanks, Matt!
and went back to Whamo in person 5 years ago and met to try to make sling rubbers, etc out of Super Ball material.
They werent interested, but one "chemist" at the table actually made a couple and sent to me.
Worked amazing.....Lasted 10 games...oh well.
Good dream to have.
Quoted from Mr68:That reminds me. My favorite game was playing Doctor.
I learned everything I needed to know
About women from this......no wonder I'm a failure!
The monster magnet, I have mine from when I was 8. I lost it for 10 years, at a relatives, and found again when I was 18.
I keep it stuck to a pin leg today, and use it to pick up dropped screws in the cabinet! My family thinks I am crazy!
When I was around 7, I lived in a dead end, where all the kids my age were girls.
I spent more time then I care to remember playing this:
But my revenge Came soon, as for the Holidays, I got this:
Well, my older brother had to get one too....had to fight "fair" with me,
so I beat him back for my Birthday, by getting this and throwing my bat-a-rang at him.
ahhhh, sibling rivalry....... 
We celebrate 56 and 58 this weekend with a Sunday Family dinner, I usually bring him an old toy just
to keep him quiet.
Loved My Radio Shack Lab Kit.....but didnt retain anything!
The Tool kit was a big hit when I turned 6.
I needed wood, and had the set taken away from me, when the wood I got came from cutting the legs off
the New Couch!
Im still hurting 50 years later from that Spanking!
Oh, I did more....I got a toy cannon with a spring loaded shooter. Maybe 8 or 9, and I lost all the brown, plastic
cannon balls.
I happened to discover a cotton cylinder in the bathroom with a string at the end that fit so nicely and shot far
from the cannon, and the box seemed to have an endless wrapped supply.
I made it worse by learning I could set the end on fire and launch from the sink at my soldiers in the Bathtub,
with flaming Tampon Bombs!
Oh, that one hurt too.....
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Bumper Cars and Steam Engines!.....Doesnt get any better then that!
My brother and I took out our sibling rivalry on Bumper Cars on Rockaway Beach.
I can smell the salt, hear the transistor radios playing Yankee games, and the added small of
Cotton Candy, Coppertone, and grilled Dogs.
Somewhere we went had unlimited Bumper Cars...I think we almost killed each other doing it all day!
Steam engines! Sadly, I didnt get my first one until I was 40.
My father was afraid they would explode, after one did injuring a kid.
Boy, are these fun, and I watched my son grow up with them around.
Of course, Skee Ball, Pinball, and the Amusements on the Boardwalk were great summers as a kid.
Anyone have one of these?
Another favorite brother "battle" toy.
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ohhhh the memories, and a TRS-80, and an Osbourne.....
When these came out I was on these babies:
Takes me back to building 8088's and Beta Testing Windows for Bill.
A small Bragging point, I sold the methodology to add images to a PC in a payroll code in PC Cobol,
to IBM and Wang.........long time ago...1979? 80?
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Just picked these 4 up, NIB. I had one as a kid, but never got to build it.
A Rube Goldberg Fan, I hope to do one at a time on a Rainy Day!
With a Hurricane possibly coming, it may be the end of this week!
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Quoted from AlexSMendes:I'm still looking for a die-cast!
Lke this:
ebay.com link: JL MUNSTERS KOACH FRIGHTNING LIGHTNINGS GREAT FOR HALLOWEEN REAL RIDER
Quoted from jb3d:Viewmaster was expensive and uncommon in England when I was a child. A Canadian aunt sent me a viewer and a pile of reels when I was about 7, in 1958. I now own every model of viewer, several thousand reels and can make my own reels with my Viewmaster camera.
When we had these in the 60's and discovered girls, my brother and I always wondered why there were never any viewmaster wheels from Playboy! 
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Heck yes!
My brother and I, arpund 1965, inherited boxes of Army men, tanks, buildings, etc.
The relatives crom the kids then older, gave us more than we could ever use!
We took over the finished attic, sometimes up to 4 of us, and with Lincoln logs, city blocks, and anything else set up armies.
Lincoln log catapults were our weapons.
Wed play all weekemd taking "shots" at each other until someone one.
It lost its fun after a few years, to be replaced with aurora race tracks, estes rockets, and baseball.
So what to do with old army men?
Burn them, blow them up, launch them in a rocket, run them over!
The m80 brought it all back.
Green army men abuse!!!!
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Quoted from Azmodeus:I tried searching online and I found a lot of pictures of things I wanted to show you all that I no longer have. I can't get the dang pics right, so here is what I Remember most:
For a short time 7 eleven made bad ass monster cups. Very cool art. I had about ten long gone.
I had an amazing electronic pinball game that was actually fun.
I loved rubber monsters, really loved them. And mad maverick stickers. And micronauts baron karza and acroyear?
My house burned down when I was 16 and I lost everything including vintage hot wheels which I still love.
Then I had a stroke and 3 brain surgeries. Now I'm still discovering what is left after these disasters. Someday I'm still going to get a strange change machine.
Love my Strange Change Machine, and take it out when younger family comes by....Sometimes the action of squaring and melting a monster, reminds me of pinside! 
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Dont know what was in this, but in the 60s, We got it all over our clothes, face, carpet, walls, sink, toilet....got in big ass trouble, and 15 years later, the toilet bowl was still glowing green, as were lights switches, and other areas, even after cleaning!
Loved the stuff! 
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I think a modern derivation, remade, of this would sell.
Theme it Star Wars....if needed, cut a strip of Newspaper, roll it up, and get 100 "shots" or "bangs"
out of it, like a cap gun, but regular newspaper!
My son enjoyed this as did the neighborhood kids....its got legs!
(Other than PC, that its a gun....so it need to be a "Space Blaster" to pass PC)
We dipped our rolls in gasoline, and then smacked with a hammer!
I cant believe I survived all the stuff we burned and blew up! 
Quoted from nicknack66:Electronic Quarterback! Hours of fun moving those LEDs around!
I used LEDs from a TI calculator, and Coleco games in Williams Jackpot Pinball in the 70's.....who would have known?
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Quoted from TimBoch:Legos. Made a lego pinball machine to try and get my partents to buy me a pinball machine when I was about 13. It worked and I still have it. Still like legos too
Thats just Beautiful!
I played that game for 9 months in my Senior Year of High School.
We had a Party Good Store across the street from a Convenience store, and just couldnt get enough!
Glad you have it, and still Enjoy!
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Played 2 day Battling Top Marathons with the friends in the neighborhood during the winters!
It was easier than arguing over the rules in Risk!
Somehow my brother always had a "rule" that led him to World Domination in Risk, so we kicked his ass in battling tops!
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Went to a estate sale this weekend and found these oldies but goldies.
Hey kids, here's a tube of sticks. Enjoy!
Only 1 thing worse than a tube of sticks......
I lived with the Girder and Panel set, but never saw the Water Hydraulic one.....
We would build cities, my brother and I, during the Winters in NY.
White city Blocks, Lincoln Logs, Girder and Panels....
In the true nature of opposites, Id build all day, and my brother would bring in his
Army men and Tanks, and destroy my city, and we would get into a fight requiring mediation
and punishment from Mom!
I advanced on to Thimble City......Who wouldnt want this toy after seeing this commercial by Remco!
( I have been cleaning up around home and have a couple hundred old toys....Old golf, board games, etc,
if anyone is interested in purchasing, please reach out.....the would be priced more than fairly)
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Quoted from Rdoyle1978:Post some pics!
As we are clearing things out for a new roof, Ill grab them and post pictures....Mostly Toys and Games in really good condition from the 60s....
Should be a couple weeks.....
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:I collect Monster stuff; aurora kits, figures, games, etc, If you have any stuff like that!
Sorry, thats my older brothers closet!
Theres a full collection of Golf Toys...from the automaton table top, to arnold palmer.
a couple hundred puzzles, if I dont end up putting these in a museum.
Board games, construction stuff, strange change, tric trac, ...its a mix, and 90% is in good shape and likely $20 ish or less.
buts heres a quick pic of the first closet. Gotta run for the day, now.
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Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Don't know why they bothered making any other toys after this one was invented.
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In case you didnt know, O-din invented the Hula-Hoop, with beads inside.
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Quoted from pacmanretro:Fun to hit with hammer... like a giant roll of caps all at once
Kids, don't try this at home.
SERIOUSLY, if you did, wear gloves,safety glasses, and HEARING protection!
Quoted from vec-tor:My brother would take our dads matches and use some lighter fluid and burn his and mine
plastic car models. I had an Aurora "Witch" model and of course he had to "burn the witch".
Well we put lighter fluid on Caps, AND THEN hit them with a Hammer!
I still have a Strolling Bowling....it was a favorite of my father.
Look forward to sharing Bins of old Toys with my Granddaughter.
This one, Paul? Good choice!
We went from Bottle Rockets, to Roman candles, to Flashing Thunder, until we caught a Car on Fire!
Brooklyn was a War Zone!
Here is another favorite of mine! Time Bomb!
I remember bringing it on our first Plane trip, and playing with it on the Plane.
Think that would work today?
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I had bought a Gas Dale Earnhardt Go Kart for my son when he was young.
He had experience with Go Karts.
Fired it up and he went around the neighborhood, only to crash!
He never rode again.
Forgot to check if the brakes were working! They werent...stupid me.
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Quoted from VectorGamer:I used to smash the entire roll of caps with a hammer on the driveway. Used to make a big bang. One time I did this on a spot of oil on the driveway and it caught fire. I think this started my fascination with fire.
Dunked it gasoline first!
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You have a late 70s, early 80s Automatic, the upper end of Pachinkos, as the middle tray allows the balls to recycle. The more common ones, the balls, drop into over flow cup at bottom.
Everything appears to be there. First maintenance is cleaning, open the glass, then a push down plunger to open metal ball rack, that swings out.
The shooter path is white, in a clear housing that opens by pinching two tabs, clean all that up well, and make sure the gravity feed white piece moves freely.
in the back open up brown tray cover dead center and work to clean all ball feeds to payout window.
This ensures all balls travel cleanly through all paths.
You dont want to put new balls in a dirty game.
When tuned, its really fast! You may want to replace the rubber bounce back. I sometimes made mine out of superball rubber for a crazier bounce....kinda different.
You can wire up the lights with LEDs, and make the game quite cool looking too.
Be careful cleaning the playfield not to soak with spray cleaner. It gets behind the playfield through the brass nails, and can discolor or create rings.
I use to work for Pachinko House out of Georgia, in 1975 doing tech on these, and restoration.
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Quoted from Agent57:I'd bet I'm not the only person in here who was obsessed with these things while growing up in the 70's:[quoted image]
Whizzers Meant the World to me!
All the cub scouts in our pack, would battle, trade, collect them!
Quick old man story about toys.....I love them!
As a child in the 60s, I felt everything revolved around my toys!
I would get hand me downs from older relatives, Id garage sale with my Mother, and Id swap, and sell/buy with friends.
I kept whatever I could that my Mom wouldnt toss.
Fast Forward to my kids being young, and Ebay being only 3 pages long. I worked early on with Pierre and Margaret real early and Ebay was the place to restock my childhood toys and ones I dint get for my children. Early on, everything was only a couple dollars.
The Kids are grown and I have bins of these games, and last year I was getting ready to unload them all.
Then this year, I had my first Grandchild, so they are all staying to share with her!
My Holiday gifts to family, and friends, all adults has always been to share a toy as a gift.
In fact, I ramble on that this Holiday the ONLY presents should be toys to all Adults, and we all take a week off to play with them!!!
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Quoted from pacmanretro:Both those gear games look cool! I can SO see more creative thought process type learning out of something like that than so many things today...but maybe thats just wishful thinking because it's neat?
I think it depends on the children today. My youngest is 24, and wasnt plugged in then.
But whether we played it as a game to win, by raising your flag, or simply the cause and effect, in a puzzle way,
We all found joy.
But hell yeah, it looks cool!
Fortunately thet are under $20 on Ebay.
Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:I just remembered how much I liked playing badminton when I was like 6 years old.
By the time I was a teen I was fed up with the birdie always getting stuck in the racket so I used a tennis racket to smack the hell out of it and not get stuck.
Anyone that has ever played badminton has to have memories of the birdie stuck in your racket, dig it out, then straighten out the strings or whatever that was, so you could continue on.
I actually have a brand new set still in the box that I purchased maybe 20 years ago and never got around to taking out in the yard and setting up.
These Guys?
pasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngStarted with these I think in 1966, when I was 6. They were one of my favorite toys!
My brother was 2 years older, and many fights occurred over playing with it,
until my parents split all the pieces, and we had 2 magnetic pads.
It took many years, for this to turn into the magnetic neodymium toys of the last 2 decades.
More toys from my past....I guess I really was spoiled!
I had a rich Uncle from Venezuela, that would visit twice a year.
He didnt speak English, but was kind, and loving, as well as generous.
He would hand my brother and I a Hundred dollar bill in the 60s, to Toy shop!
TSS (Times Square Stores) was loaded with everything, and most Toys were $2-$5.
I remember the days well, running up and down the aisles, and grabbing toys, and throwing them in the shopping cart.
If we spent more, it was OK.
But whether it was 007 Spy case, or the biggest Aurora race set, it came home.
I was just as bad with my kids, adding many of my toys to theirs, and now with around 20 bins of games and toys,
my granddaughter is in trouble! First, is Pinball, of course.
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I have a quick story on the flying disc....We were vacationing at a small hotel on Casey Key at the North end.
It is the only Hotel among exclusive homes, Stephen King, owning the largest estate at the end.
I had brought the ring to play with my 5 year old daughter, and lost it in the ocean.
Some 7 years later, we found it in the surf, covered with barnacles and growth....I thought that was pretty cool.
Actually he is pretty cool. He likes pinball and is friendly to small chat at the Supermarket. Look at some pics of Casey Key....you might want to visit! 
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Just dug this out, to play with the granddaughter. At 1-1/2 years old, she was thrilled with the concept of
moving the levers, and watching the balls drop.....next up Avalanche! Love seeing her eyes up, and laugh!
My Joy has been revived, as I have been cleaning out closets and Bins, that stored my kids childhood toys, as well as my own from the 60s!
ill post a pic when done, but Ive managed to reduce 15 bins, to one closet!
The Best part is not only the flood of memories to see them again, but I now take them and share with my Granddaughter!
So, I must play Facebook, and share my Pinball Loving, 1-1/2 year old Granddaughter, Discovering what a Pumpkin is.
She hauled this around Target for 1/2 an hour, proud of its size, and her strength!
She is only walking 2 weeks now, but beamed a grin, as everyone stopped to watch her balance her walk and her prize.
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Call Him, Arnie on a Stick! (or club)!
There is a trigger on the club that makes little Arnie swing away!
I have maybe 10 golf games, as I was helping a store that was interested in decorating/selling
near the Winter Park Golf course and Rollins College.
Golferino is another.....Too big for the shelf.
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You made my day!
Here is another.....I dont own one...
Jungle Hunt, by Hubley
pasted_image (resized).pngGood Eye! Ill grab some other pics. I should have taken more.
Today we pulled out a bin with Etch a sketch, Hulk hands, a Lock Box, 2 Slinkys, some Transformers, Dragon Ball Z Pinball,
Ghettopoly, Bang Box, Hoberman Sphere, and Quick Silver.
But you are right, that is BoltenStein!
The game plays great, and a lot of fun!
This is also on the shelf on the right. Trik Trak! Check out this toy!
While still my childhood at 60, This Rheoscopic Spinning display came in from England after 4 months.
Pretty Cool, Lava Lamp like, not as cool as a sisyphus table though.
Quoted from pacmanretro:I think I saw those snap circuit things a couple years ago and wondered about them (I think it was at one of those places called RadioShack).
Are they kind of cool?
As a kid, I personally REALLY liked the feeling like I was wiring up my own electronics when I used all the little jumper wires (even though I had no concept of cable managment till later on and it was always a rat's nest); I could see snap together components being a lot more simple for parents and kids, though.
I'd say they are a great way to introduce electronics to kids. Large colored pics, snap pins, to connect, and fun projects.
I'd say boys and girls 8 and up, less technical and intimidating
Small kits to test a child too.
Between the Ages of 2 and 3, I played with this, and was pushed around by my Aunt and Cousins.
This was my Aunts old Stroller....I believe from the late 1920s-30s, By Taylor Tot.
Up and down the Driveway, in Far Rockaway, in an Old Victorian Home, that was holding in the 60s, 3 families.
The Houses were all residences, of Politicians, and Prominent New Yorkers, who moved a bit further out from Coney Island,
for the Then Remote Rockaway Beaches. It went to the Boardwalk with me as well.
Fast Forward, 1981, and I am with my wife, we are 21, and Antique Hunting in Reading, PA.
We come across a rusty one, and look at each other, and say this would be good for our Baby, sometime in the future.
By the Time our first child came, I was moving cross country, and never had the chance to restore, as my daughter grew too big.
It hung from the Garage ceiling for 30 years, and with my Granddaughter here, I felt I should restore.
A project that would take a week, with a sandblaster and a bench, took 3 months, doing on top of garbage cans, poor health, and all hand tools. Extra Holes, Wrong Bolts, Rust everywhere, and Roach cases. What a PITA!!!
But, for little Alex, it was worth it, and Ill post a Pic later, here is a Childhood toy, Restored after about 100 years, for the next generation!
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I restored the handle, but this one didn't have a floor board.
My Grandaughter is ready to scoot.
20201018_162624 (resized).jpgIm almost done! Some 37 Bins of Toys! Throwing away whats gone, cleaning up, checking batteries.
Its a collection of around 10 kids in my family, they ended up all here when they moved.
Heres one we played all summer!
And My sons Favorite.
Jake the Snake, from (Snake Farm)
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I don't have any left, as they rusted from outdoor play, and tossed.
I do find how different plastics and rubber
have decayed. Some get yellowed, brittle, or gummy, and need to be tossed.
Some metal cameras from the 80s. The rubber is just worthless.
But even Tut had his toys.
Sennet....from 3500ish years ago.
Reminds me of my college days and Bong gammon.
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Ill share. Since the age of 5, and maybe now only once a year, I have a reoccurring Dream/Nightmare.
I am playing tag/ hide and go seek, in the boardwalk and lockers on Atlantic Beach, NY where
I spent summers. As we move away from the area I know, as a 5 year old, to the outer parts,
of course, this is a bit scary.
Im motivated though, not only to hide from my friends, and older brother, but one has a walkie talkie,
and shares he lost one about a week earlier.
I follow a boardwalk path, that ends at a chain link fence, that runs the length of the beach property, to the ocean.
Hanging over the fence is a large beach towel. On the side, is the missing Walkie Talkie, a bit rusted after a week in the salt.
I run over to pick it up, thrilled with the find, and a Monster leaps out from behind the blanket, and scares the crap out of the 5 year old me!
I have had this nightmare, thousands of times, and I always have the same image of a Walkie Talkie.
I have never seen a picture of it until now, and Likely I did see as a child, but never recalled.
All these years, I thought it was my imagination.
Thanks for the Shrink Session!!!!
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I havent seen that before! Nice!
I grew up with this one.....
pasted_image (resized).pngWell My Uncles and older Cousins use to show me this as a kid.
They came it different sizes, and were made in the 40s, to the early 60s.
My brother and I wood pick our numbers, along with the fashionable cigarette smokers, who would light the race.
A Toy I looked forward too, when we visited relatives.
Of course it was a Scripto Vu Lighter!
I have a bunch floating somewhere.....I wanted to reproduce in color with more timely graphics.....
pasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngFor many years, My Father Drove from Texas to Indiana, and NC to Florida, All over the South East.
When I traveled with him, Many of the Stops had Mechanical Servant Vending.
Perhaps, this is why I started collecting Puzzles! (That and the little animals that smoked little cigarettes....Loved those!)
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Glad you tried!
When you light the star or start, there is a squiggly trail of light burning powder, between two sheets glued.
All cross the finish line, but one gets there first.
In other versions, only one burned past the finish line.
I tried to get them reproduced overseas, but I couldnt reach anyone to understand, or accomplish.
All my "70 year old" onesburn like yours, and not correctly.
I dont know what the powder was.....
Ill try to find mine for some pics....
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We must be lost twins, Mooch....You keep posting all the same toys I had! That Cassette Player was
the exact one I had...68-9. I still have the audio tapes. Scooby Doo, Elvis, Dinner table conversations!!
The coins were a great give away! One would think with all the Cheap Imports, someone in the last few years would have created a free promotion to collect with prizes.
The coins kicked ass on the steak knives from shell!
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We filled our drawer when we followed all these Pedro Signs
pasted_image (resized).pngAnd I just cleaned my power hitter from the 80s, for the first time since then in storage!
......Last used on the Road Trip to Live Aid! 1985!
Quoted from cottonm4:This thread should be named "Taking a walk down memory lane". I have stuff going thru my brain that I forgot about years ago.
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Quoted from mooch:When I was about 3 or 4 years old, my Mom got me these Snippy electric safety scissors for cutting paper. I’ve always thought these scissors were supposed to look like a bird, but I see now 60 years later that it’s a fish!
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This was next to the scissors in my house growing up. Both had magic and adult warnings!
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This one
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pasted_image (resized).pngSo A story based on Lloyds Super Ball Golf Ball.
Its 1974, Im 14, and recently moved to Florida. Im lucky to have the Neighbor across the street be my same age.
Its summer, and most of the time is spent on our bikes, or in the pool. We werent allowed yet to Bike to play pinball.
But a Home show came by locally, and we went and saw this Table Golf Game. Steve, and I were hooked.
Took some saved money and we walked quite a bit to Handy City, and came back with a Large piece of Plywood, and a
Door Hole Drill, as Paddle bits werent as large as we needed.
Spent a whole summer, laying out the shots, sanding by hand, and cutting holes for the puck.
We had to chisel out the wood, which left a rough bottom, so we filled with countless layers of New Polyurethane.
We cut Aluminum Rods from Skycraft, a surplus store still here, stained the woods, and added some paint.
We thought we did an amazing Job! Im sure we didnt now, but boy were we proud.
Now we needed a Puck, and a wooden puck didnt slide....we didnt know to sand between urethane layers.
Metal didnt work, shuffle board Wax didnt work.
So we bought Super Ball Gof balls. Sliced the top and bottom off, and cored the center to Epoxy a slider "puck" in the middle. It worked!
We spent a Whole summer stealing beer where we could, shooting Giant Roaches with BB Guns, and Playing Table Golf, when a baseball game wasnt on the Radio.
The Puck bounced so well, I wrote a Bunch of letters to Wham-o, to make Pinball Rubbers out of Super Ball Rubber!
(I still think its a Cool idea, and Matt, the former owner of Titan and I often joked about this before he went from colored rubber to silicone)
Here are Pics from the web. I dont have any that survived. The following year, we biked to play pinball every weekend, and started to learn to Drive. The Game went to University of Florida Frat house in 1978, last I saw.
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I started playing these in 1971-2 at Fortunoffs on Long Island.
I was there for so many hours and days, I learned to unjam and fix them.
This lead to a Job at Pachinko House, out of Georgia, in 1975......anybody work with them?
I still have 2-3 games from that time.
pachinko.gifWhile we are reminiscing, I saw this story on CBS Sunday morning.
I felt this thread might appreciate it.
Great Story, Youtube has lots on how this came to be:
Seniors, Being Young!
Quoted from Rezdog:My 5lbs of Silly plan...
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Here's my 5 lb!
Every pinhead. Needs 5 pounds of silly putty!
20201224_181241 (resized).jpgQuoted from CubeSnake:OK, here's a test for you guys and unfortunately I don't have the answer...back around 1972-74 I got a birthday present that consisted of these tiny (1") cars that would speed around on a track. I believe gravity was the fuel, but I could be wrong. It had elevators to bring the cars to the top of the track, Rube Goldberg-style set up. Think the game "Mousetrap" but adapted to cars....man, if any of you answer this, I'll be spending the next week on Ebay trying to find it!
Was yours set up like a Rollercoaster, with a single revolving lift, or was it more hot wheels size, which were both battery and manual?
I picked this up for my then 1-1/2 year old grandaughter. It has been her favorite toy for 5 months. No batteries, 3 cars, and his learned lots of words and hand actions.
Aliexpress. Awesome for young Ones!
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I only ever heard and saw Richie Havens in the movie Woodstock. The Five Stairsteps, as well as Mel & Tim, do not ring a bell. But every other artist had songs on the radio that I would sing along with. For bragging rights, I did get to see Janis Joplin in concert.
Ill help with my bragging rights, as I remember the day well, but recently heard a new addition from my Mom.
In 1965, on my 5th Birthday, our next door Neighbor on Empire Avenue in Far Rockaway, NY, were Phil Ochs parents. I guess he lived there too for a time. My Mom shared he would watch us a bit as a kid, but his mother arranged for him to play at my Birthday Party. He didnt show, but apparently in reading, Janis was to visit from Texas, as she became engaged to a New Yorker
I dont know if she came to NY or not, she had issues, but Mom shared that Phil was going to bring a friend, Janis, for my Birthday. It would have made for some great pictures!
I just chatted with Mom, and asked her again, if her name was Janis, and she said Janis, or Joan....So maybe it was Joan Baez.
I remember Phil playing his guitar inside as well as on the Porch.
The neighborhood was alive that summer with his music.
Shit! Binary! I had no idea how I passed that and Assembler in College.
I didnt get it, was partying way too much, and never went to class.
I guessed on all the answers in the Final Exam, like 10 minutes, ignored the coding example questions, and got a solid B!
Doing this on Punch cards, was a ball buster!
Quoted from Mr68:BTW. I was that pain in the ass kid that always had questions and adult answers to them only caused more questions. I hate those kids.
They must have loved you at Sunday School!
I am like that, and still get kicked out!
pasted_image (resized).png$75 Bucks on Ebay. down from a $95 ask.
ebay.com link: GORGAR SPEAKS Rare 79 FlexiDisc Re Williams Electronics Gorgar Pinball Ad
1 week later
From a friend In Gower, Wales.
He restores old toys, and his history is motor cross and inventing the skateboard.
His Toys speak for themselves. He is helping me restore this German Horse Horse.
IMGP0916 (resized).JPGIMGP0919 (resized).JPGIMGP1360 (resized).JPGIMGP2811 (resized).JPGpasted_image (resized).pngs-l1600 (resized).jpgQuoted from ZooDude:cool toys but everyone knows that Eli Whitney invented the skateboard, story goes he ripped off a part of his first cotton gin with wheels on it an used it to roll around his shop, there is a somewhat famous woodcutting of him on what looks to be a skateboard.
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Dont know...heres his story...
https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/hobbydb/subjects/pete-atkinson-designer
I guess the toy company giving him a fortune for it, is how he sees it.
Im not here to argue what happened 60 years ago in England, with his revenue.
Are you OK with that?
Quoted from cottonm4:Not really a toy but if you were a kid who liked to play with your food it might qualify as a toy
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I was in 6th grade when a sample box of CC came in the mail in 1963. CC arrived when Elvis was still King. It must have been summer time. I recall the weather being nice. The Beatles were still a few months away.
And I recall falling in love with CC. I remember the sample size box said that Captain Crunch would be made for 1,000,000,000,000,000 and on and on for entire small page of the ad flyer that was in the box. It was a lot of zeros.
Capn Crunch is the GOAT!
I spent a whole year dreaming of this!!
Now I watch Oak Island!
( I actually made a time capsule with my Capn Treasure, and buried it under a tree 47 years ago....)
pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from mooch:That thing looks awesome! What did you put in it? Only thing buried in my backyard was a deceased hamster in a cigar box coffin.
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I Threw In some Baseball cards...Shouldnt have put a Mickey Mantle in there, Some silver coins, like Lloyd,
Pictures of my family and Dog, A love letter from my Girlfriend then....Her dad was on Oak Island with Kellyco,
and I note about me.
The Hollow under a tree, was dug by a wild rabbit, that had lived and nested there.
Concrete got poured over it later...
Capn Chest went in a clear box, and that went into metal box and duct tapped to hell.
Heres one for the memory check.
I received mine in the 1960s, for the Bronx zoo.
An Elephant Key, for Talking Storybooks!
In looking this up, I just learned, other zoos had them too!
$.50 was a lot back then...a kids lunch, for a key.
While my older brother and I would race to the Box, to see who could put their key in first, and hear the audio,
we soon learned other kids were doing the same.....A bit of chaos would occur.
It was worse on a school field Trip, where a whole class, everyone with Keys, would attempt to be first.
I can clearly hear my teacher yelling all day, STOP RUNNING!
pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from mof:I'm proud of you brave souls, that just now dug deep to find "just one more toy" -- when this could have easily devolved back into "yet another boobies thread."
/salute
-mof
We haven't gotten to those "toys"..........yet.
Quoted from onemoresean:I had a 70’s party back in the 90’s.
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Gosh, I love that pic!!
Lots of smiles around this house sharing it!
The Shrunken head Apples worked just great, but stunk, and got moldy no matter what instructions said!
Quoted from mooch:I remember that orange plastic thing! You stuck it into an orange to supposedly drink the juice right out of it. It was called an OJ Squeater. I got one in the early 70s, I think from some mail-in offer. I was so excited to try it, but the damn thing just didn’t work at all for me.
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I first saw one in 1969 on a trip to Florida
from NY. Weekee Watchee was the stop.
It worked great on Florida Oranges, but not the thicker ones imported into NY.
As 14 year olds, they allowed us to core, wrap a large firecracker in tinfoil and stuff in, light, and hit the orange with a tennis racket.
Exploding Sky Oranges with Orange Juice Rain.
Oh Yes.....Feely Meely....
In first grade, after finishing with the Plastic spiders, and feathers, we started playing this with things around the House.
A cactus, food, dog poop, super stuff, spoiled grapes, dead frog.....You name it, if it fit in the box, we could always find a sucker kid to freak out and send running home.
That was before I set my desk on fire, and got a whooping! On the things we could do with a Chemistry Set!
Looked Great on TV.....Never got it work.
The Kennedys.....pretty weird. I have a sealed one to sell....if anybody was actually looking 
When Funny Finger Ads were on TV, my Brother, 2 years older, and I would make fun of the game calling it
"Smell My finger"....Sticking our fingers somewhere.....
I guess a few of us were quite spoiled. I had 4 wealthy Uncles, that showered us with toys every time they visited.
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https://www.creativecrafthouse.com/martin-s-menace-puzzle-stewart-coffin-design-217-difficult.html
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Interesting you chose that puzzle? Any specific reason?
Stewarts a great designer.
The Packing puzzles that fit peoples hobbies, are great gifts and challenges.
This is also on the site, if one likes a mechanical, "Ice Cold Beer".
(if anyone is into puzzles, feel free to reach out)
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I used to sell these little critters are James Strates Florida State Fair.
I was literally standing on a soap box, and demonstrating, while another collected the money.
Nothing like Carnival Barker Experience!
I also sold Pachinko Machines, Floor Cleaner, Water Insoles, and an Occasional Barker at the Freak Show.
pasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from cottonm4:Were you also one of those guys who would guess my weight for a dollar---and if you were wrong you would give me a small trinket that costed you 10 cents
I remember the banners to the freak show. Lobster Boy, Popeye, the Tattooed Lady, the Lion Man with hair from head-to-toe. One year, there was The Giant who was something like 7 feet tall (from Norway I think); I bought one of his replica finger rings that you could slip a half-dollar through.
Do you remember watching that mouse carousel gambling game that handed out cartons of Camels and Pall Malls win someone "won"?
I took me a long time to get the right words to locate this on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZG9ZBWiV3k4
I honestly never saw the mouse/rat betting!
Definitely caught me off guard on that.
I took a few hours of filling in at weight guessing. I had made friends with a girl my age, whose family ran a bunch of games
so trying my hand at playing an announcing came with it.
The 3 Busiest games were the Booths filled with glasses and dishes, that first were a nickel, then a dime to win.
I watched people blow hundreds to get a cheap Far East set of plates.
Next was win a goldfish, with a ping pong ball. Poor fish, I remember the Trash bins filled with bags of dead fish, as they were
carried for hours in the hot sun.
Last were the cranes, and Dale Parker is still doing them with his children. A Codgy old man, he has hundreds of them still at his property in Florida. He shared with me tricks including gluing down valuable prizes, or setting the swing range on the old ones.
1 week later
Last Day of Big Puzzle Auction....
https://market.cubicdissection.com/
(Shameless Plug)
I have a bunch of stuff up, but this baby hasnt found a home yet.
20210118_143754 (resized).jpgQuoted from cottonm4:One memory begats another. I had this little King Tut magnet toy. If you tapped the head of sarcophagus, the internal magnet would push King Tut out of his sarcophagus and if you tapped the feet he would stay put. There was nothing to it at all, but I remember I played with it a lot.
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I played with my Tut a few weeks ago, and showed it to my granddaughter!
OK, do you have a box, or jar....even a drawer at home that seems to collect stuff for years?
Well, I have one that mostly froze, when I was 18. My kids would get a kick out of it.
Some of these things Ive mentioned, or have been posted, sometimes some have suggested Im making this up!
LMK if you want a Tour!
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Remember those hidden Picture Puzzles?
Well you have a Magic Knife, a Civil War Bullet, Gumby, A jar of Mercury, The coolest miniature cigarette lighter, and a Circumcision Kit.
ZOTZ are it! I cant wait till My granddaughter is a bit older!
Each of my kids around 3 had faces that were Priceless!
I loved these soooo much!
When my son was about 11, he discovered the small stack I had left.
His laughter lasted for days, and the play on words.
It didnt make sense to buy a stack of cards...these things got expensive,
so I bought him a book, with full size pictures of them all,
It was like his bedtime book for a year!
We recently found the book cleaning up, and the bad puns fly regularly, making new names up for
the products we now have. A really funny game around this house as we all need more laughter these days.
pasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from cottonm4:I asked him if he would bring me back a Mexican switchblade.
Ahhh. Mexican Switchblades! That was like THE Taboo thing in NY.
I was afraid going into Junior High, I would have to deal with switchblade Gangs.
from West Side Story Days influence. Getting a coveted Mexican Switchblade was a big deal.
Cost a brick of Firecrackers, or a dozen M-80s. Sometimes a couple of Playboys!
I just shared this with my son...the 24/7 online gamer shooting on every planet, alien and time period, and he fell on the floor hysterical.
The Gong at the end, I never noticed.
Heavy as Hell for a 5 year old!
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... couldn't find one with bra hooks...
When guys have trouble unhooking bras… This is probably how they see them!
Warning Label!
pasted_image (resized).pngI started at the age of 9, delivering NY Daily News. Up at 6 AM, 1-1/2 hours a day. Snow and rain, then walked to school.
I made $3 to $4 a week. Christmas got me ,25 cent tips, and I reached $10.
Worked a whole year for a Trumpet.
Next 2 years was a pinball.
Baldwin Harbor.
Quoted from Rezdog:8 years old - Middle of the week in school daydreaming bout sitting in front of my tv for those Saturday morning cartoons.
54 years old - Middle of the week at work daydreaming bout sitting at the bar for a few Saturday night drinks.
Kinda depressing : |
Ill add to that.
8 years old, waiting for the school Bell, so I can run over to the candy store, and get to play Shangri La.
52 years later, Lying flat with a Heating Pad, wishing I could play some Pinball.
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I grew up with these, first in Freeport, NY.
and then Local here in Winter Park. In High school, we actually spent weekend building it!
Both my kids grew up on this massive maze of wood, jumping from embedded Truck tire to another, bouncing on the rubber mats, or challenging
the high flying swings....
Now its time for the grand daughter, who says play-GROUND, and at 2 , all this is the most amazing thing for her.
What do you guys see more of today.....Wood or Metal?
pasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngTheres a close up picture of the Bulova Tower in the pictures before of the fair.
I just happened to, Today, After 45 years cleaned and started restoring our Bulova clock issued to our Retail store in Brooklyn.
So an old neighborhood, not where I lived, but where my grandfather and Uncles did. We had the Corner candy Store/Soda Shop, with the Elevated Train, like from The Natural,
New Italian wealth, as the Gotti Family and others were on the Block, and Saturday Movies next door, for the kids.
This clock hung for many years in the family biz.
haber clock2 (resized).jpgpasted_image (resized).pngSorry for the delay (Vaccine day!).....But thanks for the guesses!!!
Heres the original Tag. Its Called a POPKANE!
You would cut squares of newspaper as "Ammunition", and when the hinge is opened and the Paper placed in, you
would slam the bulb end into the ground for a "Pop", equal to a cap gun.
Because of the Distance, and size of Kane, along with being a kid, you could slam it down near a friend or adults feet from a bit of distance....Just enough to be out of reach of an older brothers awaiting slap!
I have another type in this genre, Ill share later.....Thanks for playing!
popkane (resized).pngpopkane2 (resized).pngI was reliving a bit of my childhood this weekend, with my older brother.
Perhaps it started with Star Trek, or being the right age in the 60s, but he took off on Space Models.
Building the Big Saturn 5, Gemini, the Lunar Model pictured before, (He made a Plaster of Paris moon Base that clogged the sink trap),
and other model Rockets.
The two of us, like many others wanted to be Astronauts. Didnt Happen.
But the Next Generation, my Nephew, he grabbed the Bug. So he is now Lead Flight Engineer, for the Dragonfly mission to Titan.
Spending time with the family can be surreal. One talking about Old Star Trek episodes, and in the Next Second, the Drones on Titan.
This hits me, the old man, with a flood of emotions.....
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My first thought was also for egg dying.
Quoted from LTG:Wow Art. I knew you were old, but I didn't know you practiced Zoroastrian Faith.
I liked Zoro. But I didn't believe in him.
LTG : )
Zorro, huh? Lmfao
pasted_image (resized).pngHere is mine I built on an IBM 8088, in 1980-81. 5-16 MHz. 30 Megabyte HD
I stunned my Teacher with a NEC Multisync monitor running CGA, and an NEC Color impact printer, one of the first.
Everyone made fun of me...."why do you want or need a color monitor or printer?"
I was doing graphic work, so of course. It took a betamax borrowed from Broadway, an ochorus capture board, and SEVEN-5-1/4 floppies and 15 minutes to load a small color picture.
I sold this to Wang, and IBM, but sent info to Bill Gates, who replied with a job offer....Didnt take it.....Stupid me.
1 week later
I have learned a lot about myself in this thread. Lately, its been the stories of young age, finding that first beer, or first smoke earlier.
I was so hyper, as a toddler, that my father would give me "cough syrup" or "cough pills" to get me to quiet down and sleep.....I was always on high speed.
I ran most of my life that way.
3 Years into retirement now, and I cant fathom how I got up each day and did all that crap.
I learned years ago, the cough syrup, and the speckled pills, both had codeine in it.......must explain lots of my past!
pasted_image (resized).pngIm looking for the name of a Water Ball gun. It was made about 17 years ago, and may have had the word "Hydro" in the name.
Memory says it was mostly white with orange. I dont remember if it was battery or manual, but it would shoot a larg ball of water.
My searches only show water gel ball guns of today....Anyone else remember or have the name?
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