Old Toys of Yesteryear
 

Pretty much like the Restaurants of Yesteryear Thread. But this involves toys you grew up with that may not be in production anymore, or at least to the best of your knowledge.

I'll start.

Tinker Toys

I had a HUUUUUGE set of these and ended up selling them in a garage sale.

CrossBows and Catapults.

Would never make it today....it's to 'violent'!

Lincoln Logs (I don't know if they're still in production)

Clackers

Tonka trucks made of metal....

One of my favorites was my Girder & Panel building set, I loved designing and building my own skyscrapers. I also had the Girder & Panel bridge set. Very cool stuff.

Actually they are, I bought some for my nephew for Christmas a couple years ago.

Teddy Ruckspin
Crash-Test-Dummies
Mighty Max

Cool. I think I'll buy my daughter some. Today's toys don't make kids use their imaginations.

Corn cob darts (whirlygigs?)

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6219/scan0002ni2.jpg

Johnny Express. It was a tethered remote control tractor trailer. I could park it in any tight spot. :)

erector set. Heh, my first erection

Gailord (sp?). Best dog ever. He was a battery operated Basset Hound (actual size). All 4 legs walked and he had a magnet in his nose that would pick up a magnetic bone. I LOVED GAILORD.

I wish they still made Stretch Armstrong today, I was looking for one last xmas for my nephew.

GI JOE. In the old days, he was big enough to **** Barbie.

I blew up my GI Joe with firec-rackers. He wasn't all that tough.

Lawn Darts

Buy my G I Joe collection...

and my transformers

and my star wars

and my spawn/marvel/xmen

and my knives

and my whiskey decanters

and my hot wheels

and my micro machines

and my tonka trucks

and my marbles

and my Derrick Thomas collection

and my football cards

and my basketball cards

and my baseball cards

Crocodile - Mile

Anything from this guy.
http://www.bobsakamano.com/photos/un...0/18/snl63.jpg

I would like to know more about your GI Joe collection.

He was tough! I used to set him up in a normal pose and then throw him down the stairs to see how contorted his body would end up. He would bounce back after each throw. He was the man!

thread over

Ooh another one I don't remember if they make still....Capsela

A great toy, banned from sale in the USA. People get so upset over a few skull punctures. :shake:

I've still got my set. They go over big at every family reunion.


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We have had this thread before...

Electric Football

Mattel Handheld Football

I still have scars on my knuckles from that ****ing thing.

Etch-a-sketch

Slinky

Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots

construx were fun.

Here is a cool sie when you can find alot of these things.

http://www.timewarptoys.com/gallery.htm

IIRC our set of Rock'em Sock'em Robots lasted about 20 minutes. That was the last thing you wanted to give to 3 rowdy boys.

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When I was I believe 9 y/o - 1968 - there was a toy I wanted so bad I just thought I would die. It was a case that folded open to be a fort. There were two versions. One was an old west army fort and of course all the figures were cowbys, soldiers and indians. That one looked pretty cool. But the one I wanted, no, the one I ached for, was an English castle filled with knights and their attackers, the Vikings. There was a Viking ship and a catapult and dude with axes and swords and bow & arrows and battering ram.....in short, everything a boy needed for a good time.

Every day after school the commercials would come on advertising (I thought of it as taunting) these things. Of course I asked for one for Christmas but from there I could only hope. I snooped around the house for a couple of weeks, looking in the closets and such but the stuff was well hidden that year. On Christmas Eve I couldn't sleep, I just laid in bed waiting. I could hear my mother in the living room putting out toys and I heard something that sure sounded like a metal case being opened. From that point there was no way I was sleeping and my mom could hear me tossing around. Finally, about 4 AM she hollered, "Oh, all right, you might as well get up. Merry Christmas".

The great thing about it was that this toy completely lived up to my expectations. The figures were all in great poses (the little green army man shooting from the prone position was very dull), the castle had great details, the Viking ship really looked like a Viking ship. The most fun toy I ever owned and probably my most fun Christmas until I had kids of my own.

I've tried over the years to remember the name of those forts. I've looked online but have never come across it. Any of you guys as old as me remember that thing?

When ya say "Old Toys of Yesteryear", do you mean toys that were even old when it was yesteryear?

That being the case, my great-grandpappy had this ol' hickory stick that he thought was truly amazing...

It was fort apache
it came with 2 guard towers
about a dozen horses for the calvary and indians

It fell aproximately twice a week to a terrible redskin masscre
only to be rebuilt on custers bones for the next time

yeah that was a blast
don't remember the vikings

I had a set before they outlawed them LMAO I rang my bell with a few times :doh!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers

Mom took the plastic bullets away from our guns. We thought we lost them.

I have mine still in a box in my garage. THey are a bit rusty though. They are about 30 years old though.

Yep, I had Fort Apache and it was awesome. But I don't think that is what RJ is talking about. It wasn't metal and it didn't fold into a case. At least the one I had didn't:

http://www.mardecortesbaja.com/FtApacheFull.jpg

Microbots

Six Million Dollar Man action figure

Big Wheel - never had one myself but wanted one for the first 10 years of my life.



Also remember a couple of big boxes, scissors and a roll of tape could provide a week's worth of entertainment. Nowadays kids don't have enough imagination.

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Creepy Crawlers

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/CreepyCrawlersBox.jpg

Spirograph

http://www.inthe70s.com/toys/images/...1203910706.jpg

Still have this set downstairs:

Heh, Dartgod grew up the same time I did.

Psyko, the name Fort Apache sounds right but I'd have sworn it was metal.

CD, did your Fort Apache look like that picture?

Christmas, somewhere around '69.

Very, very close. The brown walls of the fort, the guard towers, the ladders, are all exact.

All the accessories (teepees, totem poles, campfires, etc) look right.

I don't remember the cowboys and indians having so many different colors.

I don't remember the buiding of the fort. If it was made of cardboard it may not have lasted very long, so my memory may be vauge.

Hey RJ, I think I found your castle.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-MARX-TIN...QQcmdZViewItem

FWIW, the Fort Apache came out in tin too, before they switched to plastic.

Skittle Bowl and Skittle Poker

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/SkittleBowlBox.jpg

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/SkittlePokerBox.jpg

I remember those. I also remember one that was based on the "Guns of Navarone". That's what I spent many happy childhood hours with...until the day I blew up the guns with fireworks. :)

I was a skittle pool kid.

Damn, the face of the castle looks right to me - 40 years later of course. I notice there are no Vikings, which is odd. But that makes sense that maybe the toys were originally made of tin and then changed to a safer or cheaper material.

Thanks. Not sure if that's it but it's definitely on the right track and I do think it was a Marx toy. I gots to ask my mom if she remembers anything else about that toy. I doubt she would, it wasn't near as important to her as it was to me :)

http://www.prices4antiques.com/item_...24/81/68-1.jpg

this was mine
All metal for the fort itself

put marx toys in google the vikings, medeival, and all sorts of cool old playsets come up

Oh, ok, I see. That's it then, CD is right. I didn't notice it was tin. Thanks guys! Now I have to figure out where the vikings went.

I've looked for this thing several times over the years to no avail. Should have realized my best informational resource the whole time was ChiefsPlanet.

My dad had a circa 1940 Erector set with an electric motor when he was a kid. I used to play with it growing up. I just looked on Ebay and you can pick up similar sets today for under $50. I would have guessed they would be selling for 3 or 4 times that easily. I guess there were too many of them and that they held up well, being made of metal and everything.

Heh, just ran across Johnny West, another of my favorites. And I'd like to visit that Marx Toy Museum.

Anyone remember these?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/5...d3a5905787.jpg

Just went to that web site and saw a couple more old toys that I had forgotten completely about that either I or my brother had growing up.

Micronauts.
GIJoe
Star Wars
Big ol yellow Tonka Dump truck
Figure 8 slot car race track.
Madballs
legos
Brightly colored cowboys and Indians. Had a cool set that was more realistic had a cool wagon, water well and so on. My dad and I would pick either 'side' and set them up then take turns shooting the other persons figures with dart guns - good ol' fashioned spring loaded ones.
Always wanted Playmobil sets - never got any. :-(

Holy bat guano! I had this! Sold at auction for over 16K!

http://tomztoyz.blogspot.com/2007/11...l-utility.html

We had a plastic horse hung on a metal frame by 4 springs to give it rocking action. My mom and dad have kept it all these years. My 3 yo daughter loves it.

The Accomodator

Possibly, NSFW

http://www.vibrators.com/enlarge.htm..._2002_11496217

SST Racers

Bad choice for girls with long hair.

Stompers. 1AA battery in a small car or truck with big wheels. Unstoppable.

Slot cars. Haven't seen'em in a while.

Big Trak! Hell yea!

Had one when i was 10 years old. Loved it. I wonder how much a working one would go for these days??

What was the remote controlled arm thing called?

Johnny Human Torch...any of the toys in the Johnny line really

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77dconsumerprobe.phtml

These were cool...

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/EPK65.jpg

We had one of these too.

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/GiveAShowWoody.jpg

BTW, here is a nice listing of vintage toys and games. I had forgotten about a lot of these.

http://www.samstoybox.com/

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/HandsDownBox.jpg

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/In...lesBoxFoil.jpg (these things tasted like SHIT!)

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/KaboomBox.jpg

I was waiting for this one. 66 posts. :shake:

anyone remember Starcom?? I was pretty much obsessed and still have them in a box somewhere in my basement.

http://homepage.mac.com/knarley/.cv/...mb_273_205.gif
Weebles Wooble but they don't fall down.

Remember K'Nex?!?!?

I had a big set of those too.

I also has the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pizza Tossing Van. Used to scare the shit out of the dog with that. My dad used to get pissed when I did that though.

Dang, talk about Nostalgia, I played with one of those rascals for years, oh what a blast they were.........Good times............Good times....

STOMPERS!!!!

I burned the shit out of my fingers when playing with Creepy Crawlers.

Hey do they still make Nickelodean's Gak???? that gooey playdo type slimy shit?