Childhood Toys We Wish We Still Had

[TsgtRet]

Harry, I remember ones that predate the SSP......back in the early 60s they sold individual cars that weremade up of 6 parts: chassis, 4 quarters and roof. Impacting the front bumper the spring loaded mechanism and they would fly apart. Powered by a sping that you wound up with a crank on a rear wheel. My brother and I had these several times over the years. They were standard "dime store" items. Couldn't find a pic.

[ourwayband]

Sizzlers,Hot Wheels and Marx trains..I'm lucky enough to still have a lot of my ol' toys.My Folks were hard workers,but limited on funds.My mom,thru all of our moves ,didn't throw much away.When you work hard to get what you have,one tends to hang on to it. :)
I can still hear those Sizzlers flying around the track :D



And no the easy bake oven wasn't mine :naughty:
It was my sister's and she was throwing it away...
What I don't have are my BB guns,cap pistols,1st guitar......

Rusty

[nianticcardplayer]

I still have my Tyco Spirit of 76 Bicentenial train set (some still in original boxing) got for xmas in 76.

My dad up until power outage and huge flodd in the basement of his house (before he sold it) still had three sets of American flyer trains....All gone still fighting with insurance company on loss....

My HO racing set that I merged with my train set the Jeep CJ7 set with the "flexi" track that would bend and make crazy curves and hills no longer have it...Six Million Dollar man sets all givine to a cousin because my mother said I had gotten to "old" to keep it he blew them up with firecrackers....

A bevi of play guns that ratta tatted and made great noise while we all played outside in the nice weather and of all games WAR!!!!!!!! if it wasn't baseball with no umps no parents and no yelling from the stands...Tennis ball cannons using lighter fluid (wow I remember those days)

Taking Walter Payton's Rookie card (Because the bears were a horrible team back then) and using it to get the VROOM noise in you bike spokes....

[olskoolslotz]

...

[DHansen]

Both of my parents worked all of the time but we were still dirt pore for some reason, so most of my toys I had to buy myself with funds I got from mowing yards and selling night crawlers. But over Christmas I did receive some toys from grandparents and aunts and uncles. One of those toys was a remote controlled dune buggy with the wire from the car to the control that had a surf board on the roof with a steel ball in it that rolled back and forth so that would pop a wheely when it took off forward. For some reason I still have the box that it came in, but the car is long gone. I was one of those kids that usually took my toys apart to see how they worked. Wasn't much good at putting them back together though. Witch may explain why I still have the box and not the car. I had an Erector set that after I found my dads tin snips I started to make things that were not in the instructions. So that eventually disappeared. I had several model cars and trucks that I had bought from Ben Franklins Five and Dime store just 2 blocks from home. I still have about half of those. But for some reason I gave the other half to a neighbor kid when I was around 16. I had a hole bunch of Hot Wheels cars from the 1970's and the track to run the cars on that I no longer have. Don't have a clue what happened to all of that stuff. I all so had Tonka trucks [fire trucks, dump trucks ect], and a few metal tractors with plows and disk attachments and a bull dozer. People tell me that if had kept all of that stuff, I could be retired by now.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I can't help it... I have to ask- did you use a car battery to get the nightcrawlers? That's one of the weirdest things I saw as a kid.

[DHansen]

Nope, just a flash light and a coffee can. But you had to be quick. Just as the edge of the light hit the night crawler, it would slip back into it's hole. Dad would complain that when ever he wanted to go fishing, he had to buy bait from someone else because we kids had sold all of the night crawlers and kept the money, and he supplied the bedding and the fridge and paid the electric bill, but never got any night crawlers. So the next time it rained, out we went for more. Me and both of my brothers could each fill a 3 lb. coffee can in an hour. We would usually have a race to see who could fill theres first.

[gonegonzo]

Kenner Building set .

Fanner Fifty cap guns .

Metal Tonka Toys .

Fort Apache set .

Blue and Gray set .

I loved them .

Gonzo

[bkrownd]

Plain old plastic army men with plastic tanks and artillery. For Big Guns they had some Nerf tanks to pound the enemy lines.

[Dangermouse]

I had a lot of Airfix 1/32 soldiers - had a big pile of dirt in the backyard used to re-fight episodes of Combat regularly.

The comic books always had a massive collection of army men, tanks, trucks etc on the back cover I always wanted that.

Aside from my AFX Jackie Stewart Pitstop Challenge (which I still have bits of including the box) I really enjoyed the U-Fly-It had a plane with catapult launcher - the plane flew up fishing line and then turned around and you had to land it with out crashing

I also had a good Action Jackson collection - military figure like GI Joe and I remember the rip cord smash up derby cars.

[a110alpine]

i only remember the rin rin tin marx play set and some tin toys and .. those are long gone. but my dad stored my matchbox cars, slot cars and trains and put them away for safe keeping... how did he know i would want them some day???? anyway the rich kids up the block had everything. these 2 brothers went crazy on christmas day. corgi and dinky die casts all over the place.. military vehicles , fire engines, race cars and that prized ecurie race car transporter. they each got the same thing so that was 2 of everything. when strombecker was hot they got the big set which meant 2 of them!!!. this went on year after year.... several years later their old man was thrown in prison for cheating his business partners and the you know who.. and that is where he died. still though i can't forget those 2 kids.

[gonegonzo]

This is an enjoyable post .

Gonzo

[waaytoomuchintothis]

Not long ago, I came across a 45rpm record I got with 10 cents and a box top. Its Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, with his faithful dog, Yukon King. I loved that record, and I played it until it just wouldn't play anymore. But I still kept it, apparently.

[ElSecundo]

Ooh, I remember one. I had an original Corgi Batmobile that fired missiles out the back, and had a saw blade that popped out of the front. Loved that car! :)

[HomeRacingWorld]

Couple more I spent a lot of time with