What silly, wacky childhood toy do you remember? - Page 9 - Big Big Forums

Princess4J · 08-28-2003, 12:38 PM

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Originally posted by Putermommy
I remember the mud pies. My cousins and I use to have mud pie fits and Granny never got mad. She just laughed at us. Most parents nowadays would faint if they saw their children throwing mud on each other.

I REMEMBER MAKING MUD WAFFLES.
ONLY I USED MY MOTHER'S BRAND NEW WAFFLE IRON

SOMETHING SHE NEVER GOT OVER

AT LEAST I HAD FUN.

Widgetsx3 · 08-28-2003, 11:18 PM

How about telephone can's....with the string.

Tadbit · 08-31-2003, 04:09 AM

I remember most of these toys as well,(showing my age.) One of my favorites was the metal Jack in Box. Can't hardly find them anymore, and when you do they are expensive. Those metal tops were so annoying. We use to buy those and those popper toys that looked like vacumn sweepers for our nieces and nephews and they got played with just long enough to annoy the parents and then were hidden or thrown out. I'd love to get my hands on one of those metal tops now. They are worth a lot of money because they make everything out of plastic any more. Does anyone remember Fizzies? They were like an Alka Seltzer, but they were flavored and you put them in a glass of water to make a soft drink or fruit drink out of. We use to put them on our tongues ad let them fizz and foam in our mouths. LOL

Gumball1960 · 08-31-2003, 04:45 AM

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Originally posted by Tadbit
Does anyone remember Fizzies? They were like an Alka Seltzer, but they were flavored and you put them in a glass of water to make a soft drink or fruit drink out of. We use to put them on our tongues ad let them fizz and foam in our mouths. LOL

Have I got a surprise for you.. I know where you can still get Fizzies tablets.

Another site I get in my mail mentioned them a couple of weeks ago so I backtracked on there and found the website
for you.

http://www.sweetnostalgia.com/fizzies.html

swan0002 · 08-31-2003, 04:46 AM

Chrissy and Velvet.... turn the crank on their back and their hair grew!! Chrissy wore the orange lace dress (my doll) and Velvet wore the purple dress (my little sister's doll)

swan0002 · 08-31-2003, 04:47 AM

I remember RAZZLES.... anything close, gumball?

Gumball1960 · 08-31-2003, 04:51 AM

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Originally posted by swan0002
I remember RAZZLES.... anything close, gumball?

Is this it?

http://www.sweetnostalgia.com/razzles1.html

Or if you REALLY like them, get 'em by the case.

http://www.sweetnostalgia.com/razzles.html

swan0002 · 08-31-2003, 04:52 AM

Sleeping Biddle's Castle!!

Gumball1960 · 08-31-2003, 04:55 AM

And since Jaybird said she was craving these the other day..

http://www.sweetnostalgia.com/pixystix.html

Angelwings51 · 08-31-2003, 07:36 PM

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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.

I remember those, I used to hurt my hands all the time trying to make them go fast,LOL

GinnyS · 09-09-2003, 01:19 AM

Etch-a-sketch!

Zim-Zam(A football shaped hard plastic ball, with 2 strings going through it, with 2 handles on each end of the strings. You had to open your arms to seperate the strings to send the ball back to the person you were playing with before it hit the handles and stopped!) It really hurt when the ball hit the handles.

Pop-Rocks!

Ohhh...who was that hotdog with the spring in the middle of him? OK, there he is: SLINKY DOG

There's a lot more, but it's way past my bedtime. G'nite!

Ginny