What silly, wacky childhood toy do you remember? - Page 6 - Big Big Forums

jonette5 · 08-25-2003, 02:04 AM

I remember the "Baby Alive" doll. She had "real" baby food you fed her. Her mouth moved and everything. She even "pooped" the food! LOL!

Tether (sp?) ball. I had a pole in my back yard and would play for hours!

My brother had a shooting game called Tin Can Alley. Had a rifle and tin cans you shot down off of the "wall" thing that came with it.

The big Barbie head that you could style her hair and put make-up on her!

Easy bake oven, Snoopy's sno-cone machine, Mr. Peanut, peanut butter maker!

Going on a "hunt" for glass soda bottles so you could cash them in and get a TON of candy!

Gumball1960 · 08-25-2003, 05:09 AM

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Originally posted by jaybird
It's a shame we can't still buy some of those sort of toys like Wheel-o's! Hmmm, bet you could find them somewhere on the net! My Wheel-o and skates were always with me too!

Here you go Jaybird! Found this on eBay..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=19027

I had pogo sticks, stilts my dad made for me (I was fine on them until he raised them up another 6 inches), clackers (I think I still have those too), Silly Putty, a slinky, a spirograph, a spin-art machine (still have it too), plus more I can't think of right now.

That Dot Candy is still around. Big Lots has the kits to make them for under $5.00 here.

Quaker_Parrots · 08-25-2003, 08:19 AM

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Originally posted by cleaningla
They were two balls on a string and you would clack them together. I think they stopped making them because pieces would break off and go in kids faces.

I can still picture ours hanging from the telephone wires.

hehehehe, we called them knuckle knockers

slime, I was reminded of it watching I love the 70's on VH1

gemini26 · 08-25-2003, 10:34 AM

We found one of those wheelo thing s at a resataurant. Something with barrel in the name, I believe. They also had a little store next to the restaurant. My hubby went batty over it. I had never seen one before. We paid about $4 for it.

nosamiam · 08-25-2003, 10:56 AM

cracker barrel always found next to an interstate

nosamiam · 08-25-2003, 11:00 AM

My aunt had a game that was a big box with openings for your hands. You would put your hands in and find an object and have to figure out what it was with out looking.

squirt · 08-25-2003, 11:26 AM

I'm jealous!!! All those memories of toys you had when you were kids. I don't remember any toys I got when I was a kid, except when I was about 5. I was in the hospital for surgery and someone gave me a Kewpi doll. I had 6 brothers so when I got home it didn't last very long. Am I telling my age!!! Maybe so!!!

Princess4J · 08-25-2003, 06:23 PM

ANYONE ELSE HAVE A GROWING UP SKIPPER DOLL ??

YOU TURN HER ARM & SHE "DEVELOPES" BOOBS

REMEMBER HER ???

WHAT ABOUT TUMBLELINA ?

I JUST BOUGHT MY KIDS COLORFORMS;
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE & BOB-THE-BUILDER.

ImaGApeach · 08-25-2003, 06:48 PM

My sister had a doll that hair grew from this whole in the top of her hair and had a button on her back that you turned for her hair to go back in and you pressed her belly button to pull hair back out-I also had one of those barbie heads-you should have seen the hair cut I gave her lol

Princess4J · 08-25-2003, 06:54 PM

CHECK OUT THIS SITE.
HAS ALL KINDS OF CANDY THAT WE GREW UP WITH ;

http://www.peppermintpalace.com/pp20...3?category=all

08-25-2003, 06:59 PM

My favourite baby toy was "pound-a-peg". It was like a little wooden bench with six different coloured pegs in it. You used a wooden hammer to pound them all the way through the hole ... then you turned the bench over and pounded the pegs back the other way. I was very easy to entertain ... lol.

My kids have saved their lite brite, lego, G.I.Joe, Star Wars, Capsela, Mechano, Match box garage and a gazillion matchbox cars, and slinkies ... their fav baby toys were weebles.