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Favorite childhood toys and youthful memories

By Mr68

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#2451 3 years ago

Who's got a Sixfinger! Any toy that shoots dangerous projectiles is alright by me!

#2452 3 years ago

Sixfinger? Pfffft.

I've got a Johnny Seven One Man Army!

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#2453 3 years ago

I collected all 16 series of the original Wacky Packages. I ran into Jay Lynch (one of the original artists) and had a commissioned sketch done. He did two sketches for me. Hungry Jerk and Bean Ball. Here is the sketch. RIP Jay!!

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#2454 3 years ago

Had these at the tobacco/cigar shop near our movie theater. Always ended up grabbing them. Eventually moved up to the flavored chewing tobacco leafs and then the tobacco wrapped in betel nut leafs. We used to call them beteies. But eventually moved on to the stuff you smoke he didn’t sell. That was in California that place has to sell it now.

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#2455 3 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

Who's got a Sixfinger!

Ha! Check out post number one in this thread where it all began 4 years ago. (And please give me an upvote while you are there if you haven't yet)

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/what-were-your-favorite-childhood-toys#post-3088008

Thanks!

#2456 3 years ago
Quoted from Mr68:

Ha! Check out post number one in this thread where it all began 4 years ago.

Love that stingray bike! had one pretty similar with the banana seat, sissy bar and chopper handlebars. Rode it to school everyday. In 5th grade, took up the trombone and had to balance it on the seat and between the handlebars to get to school. After one year of that, I had enough of the trombone!

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#2457 3 years ago

Who is old enough to of had Metal Tonka Trucks?

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#2458 3 years ago

another favorite of mine

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#2459 3 years ago

Tomy Pocket Games were a favorite of mine. Still have a few...

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#2460 3 years ago

Loved Corgi cars, Hot Wheels.

#2461 3 years ago
Quoted from SBrothers:

Tomy Pocket Games were a favorite of mine. Still have a few...
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forgot about them,
this was my first "pinball" machine

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#2462 3 years ago

BTW. There is nothing wrong with posting duplicate toys or thoughts in this thread. There is way too much information here to track and its bound to happen. I just saw an opportunity to bust on my friend O-din about Six-Finger.

Let her rip guys.

#2463 3 years ago
Quoted from Mr68:

Let her rip guys.

I know a guy who got one of these for Christmas. But only one.

LTG : )

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#2464 3 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

I know a guy who got one of these for Christmas. But only one.
LTG : )
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Yeah, that was me. When I was twelve years old my mother was still trying to get an abortion.

#2465 3 years ago

Thats just scary for me, Lloyd.

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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#2466 3 years ago
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:

Thats just scary for me, Lloyd.

Wasn't scary for Mr68 . It is sad if you ask him if he ever found the long forgotten bicycle rusting away in a tool shed with the other walkie talkie still strapped to the handlebar that he never used his walkie talkie to find.

LTG : )

#2467 3 years ago

A few more from the childhood!

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#2468 3 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

Real early in this thread I posted those and how they got banned at school.

I remember those didn't have a pair. I miss Jarts. Played them as a kid and Cornhole has nothing on them!

See and Say pull the cord and the sound comes out. My brother had the farm animals and my sister the one shown.

#2469 3 years ago

Surfing the weekly auction and found this. I remember having this at one point. Must have been a gift because I'm pretty sure I never used it. Dad probably sold it at a garage sale

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#2470 3 years ago

Another weekly auction find. Here's another I had growing up. Found one at a yard sale in the early 00s for a couple of bucks. Sold it a couple years back for $100

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#2471 3 years ago
Quoted from dirkdiggler:

Surfing the weekly auction and found this. I remember having this at one point. Must have been a gift because I'm pretty sure I never used it. Dad probably sold it at a garage sale
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I like magic. I like to watch it being performed. I bought some tricks kits when I was younger, but I know I would never be good enough to perform; Once I learned how the trick was done I lost interest.

#2472 3 years ago
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#2473 3 years ago

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#2474 3 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

I bought some tricks kits when I was younger,

I bought some tricks from Disneyland.
I never found any magic shops from where I was living at the time; till much later.

#2475 3 years ago

One day when the family was at my grandmothers house in Los Angles,
a next door neighbor came by and shared this electric bear toy.
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But as I remember it, the bear in the bed was reading the book...
I could not find a picture of the one I remember, but these two pictures come close.

#2476 3 years ago
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:

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In addition to the Fuzzy Wuzzy soap, I abused a few bars of the similar Soaprize soap. These soaps had a crappy little toy prize hidden inside them. I had no patience to wait for the bar to dissolve over time. So at bath time, I would madly bash the new bar against the tub fixtures until the soap broke apart. My Mom didn’t appreciate that very much.

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#2477 3 years ago

Another bath soap memory— I remember an Old Spice Soap On A Rope hanging in our shower when I was a kid. It smelled good. However, I never used that soap and it seemed no one else ever did either. It just hung there.

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#2478 3 years ago
Quoted from BMore-Pinball:

Who is old enough to of had Metal Tonka Trucks?
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I had a friend when I was very young who had two of the Tonga dump trucks.
He would take the wire out of his dad’s tool chest and use the dump trucks like roller skates.

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#2479 3 years ago

Wow, I needed to have my memory jogged about magic tricks! We were big on magic in our family...cousin's grandfather was Frederick McElhone, a magician in the 1920s who wrote a few books on performing stage magic tricks.
I remember going down to Evanston, Illinois with my Dad to Top Hat Magic Company and buying all sorts of those 50 cent to 2 dollar magic tricks. Dad worked in Evanston and would take me to Top Hat a couple of times a year. They advertised in a lot of magazines and comic books and had an awesome thick catalog. This finger guillotine is from one of those visits in the mid-1960s. They still make these, but I bet they don't have steel bodies and wooden rods anymore . I still have the fake peanut brittle can that shoots three long snakes out when you open it. Works great, maybe I'll do a video
My parents were also very good friends with Jay Marshall, a magician and ventriloquist (he was on Ed Sullivan 14 times with his little rabbit, "Lefty" LOL). His specialty was close-up magic, and he could make piles of silver dollars and even a salt shaker disappear off the table while you sat right across from him and watched! He could have several people watching, and no one saw him pick up the dollars. He taught us a few little tricks and was generally a very cool guy.
I remember being pretty young, 8 years maybe, and going with Dad to visit Jay Marshall at his home, which was the warehouse behind Ireland Magic Company in Chicago. It was a big old cool, creepy building with giant stage props like sword boxes and snake charmer baskets and guillotines and the like. I was about 4-5 years too young to totally understand and appreciate what I was looking at, but it was amazing nonetheless. Marshall and his wife lived in the warehouse in a little area carved out of piles of stage props, which I still think is one of the coolest things ever.
Growing up with all this magic around us meant that we all grew up to be extremely wary and skeptical of anyone who claims to be able to do "magic" of any kind. Those skills have served me well my entire life.

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#2480 3 years ago
Quoted from mooch:

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I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff. But I am also cheap. I found one of these clocks in the Salvation Army Store for a couple of bucks.

Every minute, one of those little steel balls would clack as it dropped into its "one minute" parking place. For 4 more minutes, on the minute, 4 more balls would clack into the "one minute" parking place. When the 5th ball dropped in, all 5 of them would roll down a chute into the "5 minute" parking place where one ball would park itself and the other 4 would roll and clack on down to the bottom, making a racket as they went. This happened every 5 minutes.

Once 12 balls were locked into the "5 minute" parking place, the chute would tip and now you have 12 balls clacking their way back down to bottom. And one ball would fall into the "1 hour" parking place.

At midnight and at noon, it would be 5 balls clacking (minutes), followed by 12 balls clacking (5 minutes) , yet to be followed by another 12 balls (hours) clacking their way to the bottom.

Years ago, I did some trading and wound up with a grandfather clock; After two weeks I got so used to the hourly chimes that I no longer heard them chiming.

This ball bearing clock was not the way. That clackity clacking on the minute got annoying real fast. Not only that, if you were across the room you could not tell the time unless you had the eyes of an eagle. The clock lasted 3 or 4 days before I took it back and donated it.

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#2481 3 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

This ball bearing clock was not the way. That clackity clacking on the minute got annoying real fast. Not only that, if you were across the room you could not tell the time unless you had the eyes of an eagle. The clock lasted 3 or 4 days before I took it back and donated it.
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My Dad had a ball clock that he kept running in the living room for years. More of a novelty than a timepiece. He had a collection of little clocks all over the place.

#2482 3 years ago

Trippples is a board game my Dad patented in the mid-70s. Apparently, people actually still play it and sell copies on eBay. One of my first jobs as a teenager was working in the Trippples "sweatshop" making these games.

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#2483 3 years ago

Zeroid robot from 1968 called "Zobor". Somehow my sister saved a few of my old toys! He's still in pretty good shape but needs some TLC.

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#2484 3 years ago
Quoted from BMore-Pinball:

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hell ya..

I think I mentioned that one earlier. Stuntcycle has gotta be an all time top 10 greatest toy.

The thing was indestructible.. used to blow it up with M80s and it still worked.

#2485 3 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

I know a guy who got one of these for Christmas. But only one.
LTG : )
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Oh shit.. thats mean.

Surprised my mom didnt think of that one.

#2486 3 years ago

Not toys really, but favorite childhood things...1958 Encyclopedia Brittanica set. I loved the Locomotive pages when I was tiny (still do). I'm happy to be able to look at the actual books I enjoyed as a kid.
I'm the only one in my family that wanted the old family stuff, so now I'm stuck with it.

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#2487 3 years ago
Quoted from Grayman_EM:

I miss Jarts. Played them as a kid and Cornhole has nothing on them!

Jarts were made illegal as part of the pussification of americas kids years ago.

Some kid took one in the head and that was that.

My brother and I used to play dodge the jart and throw them at each other... ah the good old days.

#2488 3 years ago

More old favorite family books still on my shelves...Rudyard Kipling set from 1906 that was my mother's, handed down from her mom who had them as a child. I think I read most of them by the time I was 12. The picture shows half of them. Beautiful shape for 114 years old.

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#2489 3 years ago
Quoted from Elvishasleft:

Jarts were made illegal as part of the pussification of americas kids years ago.
Some kid took one in the head and that was that.
My brother and I used to play dodge the jart and throw them at each other... ah the good old days.

There's a pretty sad backstory behind that. Hard not feel bad for the dad of that little girl that was killed.

#2490 3 years ago
Quoted from xsvtoys:

There's a pretty sad backstory behind that. Hard not feel bad for the dad of that little girl that was killed.

Oh Im sure thats the case... not sure making them illegal was really the answer though.

pretty sure more kids get accidentally shot per day then felled by Jarts throughout all of history.

#2491 3 years ago
Quoted from Elvishasleft:

not sure making them illegal was really the answer though.
pretty sure more kids get accidentally shot per day then felled by Jarts throughout all of history.

Actually, a Wikipedia page shows that these were dangerous items.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts

"On December 18, 1970, a federal judge failed to uphold the proposed ban.[5][2]

" In April 1987, seven-year-old Michelle Snow was killed by a lawn dart thrown by one of her brothers' playmates in the backyard of their home...

"... on December 19, 1988 the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission introduced an outright ban on lawn darts in the U.S.[8] In the previous eight years, 6,100 Americans had visited hospital emergency rooms as the result of lawn-dart accidents. Of that total, 81% were 15 or younger, and half were 10 or younger. During the week when the commission voted to ban the product, an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee was hit by a lawn dart and fell into a coma.[6]

" In Canada, lawn darts caused at least 55 serious injuries.[9] They were banned for sale in the country from July 1989.[10][11] The sale of second-hand lawn darts is also illegal under the Hazardous Products Act."

#2492 3 years ago

I was really excited to get a remote controlled robot that even picked stuff up. Christmas morning and the thing didn't work. When we returned it to the store a couple days later there were stacks of them behind the desk. Seems even if you got a working one it didn't last long.

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Tobor is robot spelled backwards, what a concept. The commercial made it look like you had complete control but in actuality it would only go forward and turn in a circle. As for picking stuff up you had to perfectly ram the arm into the support module so that never worked either.

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#2493 3 years ago
Quoted from DCP:

Trippples is a board game my Dad patented in the mid-70s. Apparently, people actually still play it and sell copies on eBay. One of my first jobs as a teenager was working in the Trippples "sweatshop" making these games.
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I have this game! Picked it up on a garage sale, but haven't played it yet. Is it any good?

All the games were hand made?

Joe (joemagiera at ameritech dot net)
[email protected]

#2494 3 years ago

More from cleaning up

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#2495 3 years ago
Quoted from DCP:

Zeroid robot from 1968 called "Zobor". Somehow my sister saved a few of my old toys! He's still in pretty good shape but needs some TLC.
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My dad throw away mine.

#2496 3 years ago

Not a toy per se, but my local horror movie host, Dr. Madblood, just celebrated his 45th year with a Halloween special. The movie was 1964's The Last Man on Earth, featuring Vincent Price. Not a great film (Madblood's never were), but eeriely appropriate for the given global situation. I stayed up late on Saturdays throughout my youth to watch these B-grade movies and bungling skits. What a long strange trip it's been!

Here's a vintage pic:

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#2497 3 years ago

Here's another indoor activity we loved that would still be fun today. Some of the best origami books were written by another family friend of ours, Sam Randlett. Sam was a musician, magician, origamist, and overall talented genius.
I still have file folders containing copies of an obscure origami magazine called "The Flapping Bird" that Sam published in the 60s and 70s.

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#2498 3 years ago

Check out this sweet ride at yesterdays auction. Not sure on scale but pretty cool, imo. Someone paid $160 for it.

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#2499 3 years ago
Quoted from DCP:

Here's another indoor activity we loved that would still be fun today. Some of the best origami books were written by another family friend of ours, Sam Randlett. Sam was a musician, magician, origamist, and overall talented genius.
I still have file folders containing copies of an obscure origami magazine called "The Flapping Bird" that Sam published in the 60s and 70s.
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I was getting that for a brief time as a kid.

#2500 3 years ago

As of today, I am collecting all of this when I see them. Proceed with the collecting!

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