I remember that one! I always wanted one but only ever got a cheap (and smaller, I think) knock-off with the claws permanently sticking out of the wheels and a wire connecting the truck to the remote.
I had some of those. And I had Oscar Orangehead- the head was plastic, but an orange- and Katie Carrot, among others (hand me downs from my sister, actually). And they all smoked (pipes).
Anybody have a U-Fly-It? I was less than 5 (given where we were living at the time) so only have vague memories of the ads and the toy itself, but damn it was awesome. Came (I think) with an airplane on a string (I was easy to impress at 5) and an airplane dashboard of sorts.
Or U-Sculpt-It? Whatever my fascination with U-do-something it’s lasted till today. But there were plastic statues encased in … wax? Who knows. They came with sculpting ‘tools’ that you chipped… chipped… maybe they were called Chip-a-ways and my fascination was with hyphenated toys. Whatever. I think they also came with paints.
ETA: You’d think I’d Google first. Short documentaryon U-Fly-It. Looks like the tool is as cool as I remember.
Yes, I had one it was set up in our basement. I was really into airplanes and had just about every aviation type toy available at the time.
Like:
Air Devils, great great toy unfortunately it only worked for one day before it broke, I’m still sad!
The Big GI Joe Helicopter, you could really get the rotor spinning!
Prop Shots, man those were great weapons when you aimed at a fellow kid!
Oh man, I remember that commercial–even down to the Buddha–and remember the painful longing.
Funnily and coincidentally, on the local news this morning was a player from Tampa Bay’s soccer team nicknamed “Dizzy Dan”. The reporter asked him how he got the name and he said “it’s from some game we used to play as kids; my brother has called me that ever since”. I shouted “Battling Tops! Battling Tops!” but my cat was not impressed.
My weirdest toy (apologies if I’ve mentioned this in the last nine years) was a kit to make shrunken heads out of dried apples. It came with the tools to peel the apple and carve out a face using a template. You’d hang it in this plastic cylinder that had a heat bulb and in a few days the apple would be brown and dehydrated and look like a shrunken head. It also came with beads to use for the eyes and teeth and fake hair.I think Vincent Price did the commercial for it. Of course, I always picture Vincent Price doing the commercial for all the weird 70s toys so I could be mistaken.
We had Click-clacks. They got banned from our junior high when someone managed to smash their’s into plastic shards and someone claimed injury. (Early 70’s).
you could make a tanning mom head.
twenty years from now someone will make an entry for the tanning mom action figure that has just been released.
We had Click-Clacks too, the glass kind. Banned from school almost immediately.
I remember them being more red in colour … but don’t remember how high they went. I was about ten the last time I saw one, about thirty years ago. They went hundreds if not thousands of feet in the air, right? Right?!
Tomy Pocket Games.
About the size of a deck of cards. Each one a little game like this:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tomy-pocket-game-Marble-Catch-1976-/280877781494?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41659ed1f6#ht_578wt_689
God they were fun. I still have few I’ve been carting around for 30 years.
I got my son a variation on one (it was actually a kit we built together with a 2-liter soda bottle + PVC pipe), but it was fairly authentic compared to the toy I remembered as a boy. It went up I’d say 60ish feet (remember, that’s a 6 story building-ish), and the general kid crowd was quite impressed: Do it again!! Do it again!! So probably about what you remember through kid-specs.
This ones a little esoteric: Ace of Aces books. They were kind of a proto flight simulator. Each player had a book consisting of what he sees from the cockpit of his biplane. You each choose a manuever and that determines what page you each turn to in your books to show you your new cockpit view. It’s kind of hard to explain, anyone else have these?
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A rocket that you’d fill with a little water and then pump it up and shoot it into the air (or at your friends).
Like this?
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My younger brother either had that or something close to it. Had an annoying tendency to end up on the roof.
I remember these things-I think it is an “urban legend” that people got injured from these things shattering-I never saw them break.
I remember that - I am pretty sure we still have the game out in the barn!
I grew up with a selection of my Father and Uncles childhood toys [from the 20s and early 30s] including a ride upon train engine [little hobby horse sort, no tracks, unpowered except by imagination, foot power not pedals] a non-HO train set [the cars are all about 4 inches wide and maybe a foot or so long, the engine somehow is supposed to generate smoke out of the smokestack] a wooden/horsehide and horsehair rocking horse and a selection of books, building blocks and stuff =) At the Grandparents summer house next to our summer house they had a corner of the living room with built in cabinets under the bookshelves that held these treasures.
Click-Clacks – Plenty of my friends got hurt by being whacked in the head, arms, legs with them. But yeah, I don’t recall seeing any shatters with mine own eyes.
Those pump up rockets were fun. They didn’t go hundreds or thousands of feet up, tho. Just seemed that way to the perspective of our untrained childhood eyes.
Now Estes rockets, those things REALLY traveled!
SSP Cars…lol
http://www.toynerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ssp12.jpg
I remember ripping the cord and putting my head next to it to listen to the whirrring…and then…
:smack:
:eek:
:mad:
This was in the later 60s and I think they might have been called “soda-pop” dolls? Each one was in a miniature bottle (dry) of soda. They were maybe 3 or 4 inches high and the bottom of the pop bottle had a tiny platform which held the doll up inside of the bottle. The bottom unscrewed and that’s how you got the doll out to play with it. The dolls had hair coloring, clothing, and IIRC even make-up that matched the flavor of the pop bottle. The strawberry doll had strawberry red hair, the lemon-lime doll had yellow-green hair and so on.
They were really cute.