Heh, cool Annie. My banana seat bike was the same colour as the one you posted, except that I had an orange sparkly seat on it. I loved that thing.

Dennis

Well I'd have to say I had those brick blocks and legos. Also had matchbox cars from England. I had one of those hippty hops too. Anyone remember the pogo stik. You stood on it like a bike pump and jumped up and down on it. It had a spring loaded center. Everyone in my family played with that one. Oh and thoses hula hoops. I also played with my sister dolls too. he he.


Owen
love being female

Annie Social,
           I can't see the pictures you posted.  I just see 4 little red x's.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Pam

Oops! My fault... they were hosted on my website, and it is down! It'll take a couple of days for it to come back up, probably Thursday night. Sorry about that...

Annie

Hey Owen,

I loved my pogo stick!!  I used to see how many times I could jump without having to fall off. I remember getting up in the hundreds, and then not too long ago I found one at a yard sale and could not jump 10 times on the thing! LOL

I loved Hot Wheels too. When wrecked and banged up I was the guy that painted them back up, I had my own repair garage at the kitchen table.

Peace,
Taylor

Did anyone have a My Puppy Puddles?  That was one of my all time favorite Christmas gifts!

I had to order them out of the back of a comic book back then, and you only got the packets, so you had to put them in a Mason jar. I loved wathching them "come alive". Bunch of brine shrimp. Anyway, the few times I had them, I had one sea monkey one time that lived for almost 2 years. So his name was Jeremy specticle. Now a days you can get them in alot of different stores, and they have all these cool habitats for them without having to do mail order   Maybe I will go get some more today. See what you have stated with me now?

                                                  Marco
Posted on: September 17, 2006, 10:58:21 AM

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Ginger,
    Never heard of Puppy Puddles. 

Oooooooh......Sea Monkeys, Evel Knieval dragster racer with parachute, Six Million Dollar man, GI Joe action series with Helicopter and buddha, never had an atari but we were the first to have the "Original Pong" video game (all it played was pong), Lincoln logs, erector sets, too much too list......I would have killed for a Barbie and an easy bake oven but I had to settle for playing with my sisters when she wasn't home

I had a Easy Bake Oven. I think of that as a unisex toy. My brother played with it. Mine was sea foam blue. But I also had Mod Hair Ken. And Big Jim. I still have some of those dolls.
Had GI Joe with Kung Fu Grip. Used to swing him from the forced air vent in the playroom in the basement.

                                                          Marco

I taught my little neighbor girl friend how to use her Easy Bake Oven without the little expensive packets you had to buy for it.  We used real recipies scaled down.  What a dweeb I was. We would also play Monopoly and Risk all the time. My friend Stacy would kill me in those games. She was extremely aggressive. She also played by her own rules.  And she was always the banker.  It was very educational..... so much like real life.

I had this erector set that had a monorail you could hookup to go through the buildings you put together. 

Legos came along but we were too poor to buy them.

Daddy let me use his power tools though.  And I made some things.  I made some doll houses and furniture for my little sister.

By the seventies, I was a teenager, so my interests were ever more focused in girls, girls clothes, being with girls, and being a girl.

cindi

  When I was young I played with the Johnny and Jane West dolls and my sister's Tom Thumb typewriter. And some times Barbies with the girls.
  A neighbor girl and I played with cars now and then.

  Tiffany

I was made to play with Hot Wheels car sets and Thomas the Tank Engine train sets.....

I would have loved an easy bake oven like Marco had.

Buffy

  I had a Hotwheels set too but I think that in a sense I may have been blessed with being raised around only girls. My one male relative and I played with the Hotwheels and Tonka trucks and cars and an old Crusader 101 remote car.
  The time spent with the girls though and the Thumbelina doll and putting dresses on the Chihuauah puppy were more fun.
  Tiffany

I had tons of Barbies and one "ken" though he wasn't a real Ken - he was Donny from New Kids on the Block and he had a rat tail of real hair (not real real, I mean not hard plastic like the rest of his hair).  I thought he was hot  man.  I mostly had the Barbies so I could have gril friends come over and play as ALL the girls, and I'm be Donny.  Oddly I usually pretended he was a surfer and was descended from the composer Tchaikovsky.  He had all these amazing talents that he was kind of embarrassed about but when he fell in love with Jasmine (from Aladdin, she had the longest hair so of course she was the one who always got the guy) she would see him doing stuff like surfing or whatever and she'd be like "Oh my god, I can't believe he can surf like that, he's so amazing!  AND he plays the violin, he's so sensitive..."  And of course she always had her hair up and then one day her saw her take her hair out of her ponytail holder and like, he'd never seen how long her hair was and he thought she was so beautiful and he fell in love with her!  (my best friend from back then and I always joke about that now - letting the hair down was always the deal clincher)

My cousin and I used to play Lost Boys all the time too, and we'd build litte treeforts out of cardboard and booby traps out of yarn.  He always wanted to be the main kid fromt he real world and I'd be Rufio.  Rufio was ubelievably hot.  Wow.

My brother had Battletech and MechWarrior - those games were awesome.  I loved the books with the diagrams of the mechs.  Oh, we had Battleship and this two-person hand-held game called Zip Zap,  and Hungry Hungry Hippos.  I always wanted Crossfire so bad...  I had a lot of Hot Wheels too.  I liked building cities for them out of cereal boxes.  Oh, and Moon Shoes, they were like trampolines you strapped onto your feet.  Those were fun.  Our cousin had all the Ninja Turtles - they came with tons of weapons they could hold in their hands, they were so cool.  Anything mutant was cool.  X-Men were freakin awesome.  I know Gambit wasn't around til the 90s, but I remember being so in love with him when I saw him in the cartoon.  His costume accentuated his hips and thighs in such a sexy way...  I had a Gambit action figure with a real cloth coat but I didn't like how the coat fit him - that action figure pissed me off cuz it was too small to be with the Barbies and it was just not as hot as the "real" Gambit was supposed to be.
Posted on: September 19, 2006, 06:15:52 PM

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I guess Aladdin and Hook weren't until the 90s either.  Dang it.  I'm not old enough for this thread.

Quote from: Cindianna_Jones on September 18, 2006, 07:51:14 AM
I taught my little neighbor girl friend how to use her Easy Bake Oven without the little expensive packets you had to buy for it.  We used real recipies scaled down.  What a dweeb I was. We would also play Monopoly and Risk all the time. My friend Stacy would kill me in those games. She was extremely aggressive. She also played by her own rules.  And she was always the banker.  It was very educational..... so much like real life.

I had this erector set that had a monorail you could hookup to go through the buildings you put together. 

Legos came along but we were too poor to buy them.

Daddy let me use his power tools though.  And I made some things.  I made some doll houses and furniture for my little sister.

Now that sounds like a fun childhood.  Actually, I was similar, except I never bothered to scale down easybake recipes.  See, I find fun in everything, so I was happy with either boys or girls toys.  Heck, I still think boy toys are cooler.  Also, my daughter is the same way.  She loves both boy and girl toys.  In a way, I think the stereotyping is stupid, but I digress.

Quote from: Tinkerbell on September 17, 2006, 08:03:28 AM
...two of my favorites were the famous Rubik's cube and the sea monkeys!.

Well, I had both of those things and I'm definitely younger.  By the way Tink, we all know how old you are based on timeframes you've stated in previous posts.   Anyway, I still like playing with the rubiks cube and I don't remember whatever became of the sea monkeys.

Melissa

I just bought some sea monkeys last night, and they will hatch tonight, and start swiming around. Now they just give you more cool containers for them than before.

                                         Marco

I've noticed the horrific decline in the quality of the toys we sell to kids these days, as well. I suppose it's largely to do with inflation, but the plastic and paint jobs nowadays seem really sub-par compared to a lot of the toys available when I was a kid. It's so... Cheap. Easily snappable, painted outside the lines, no love and care put into it just 'stamp' and it's done...

My favourites were the Jurassic Park dinosaurs, with the heavy duty plastic and PVC. They had a great line of toys, bright colours and interesting faces with working movable parts and sometimes even sound.
They're virtually indestructible; I have a velociraptor toy from the JP line I got when I was a kid and he's still ready and raring to go. Has a few chips of paint off his nosetip and tailtip now, but... Hey. He's had a lot of love.