What is your favorite retro toy?

[Lorena B]

I am sooo happy, went today to the £1 and i found there were selling hula hoops, HULA HOOPS!!!! i still remember when i was a kid and was playing around with it!!! i didnt think twice and i got a very big and purple one.

It has got also little balls inside to make it rattle when you shake it!!!

£1.99, that is how much happiness and go back to my childhood cost me today!
This gave me the idea to start a nice thread where maybe we can remember those toys we were so fond of and are no more around us.

Does anyone remember those little dolls inside match sticks boxes???

 

[GWD]

LAWN DARTS!

Best most dangerous toy ever made!

 

[BegintheBeguine]

My friend next door was sent one of those adorable little dolls by her mom's penpal, from Sweden or somewhere. I coveted that little doll with the long blond hair. Her name was Lucifer. Can you imagine?
Toy lipstick. Mmmm, that tasted good.
It went into the toy purse along with the candy cigarettes, of which there is a thread.
Gumball machine toys made in Taiwan were cool. I still have a spit with a tiny fire and revolving pig, a baby bottle with fake milk inside, a fake Bible with a secret compartment, a Rat Fink, and his sidekick whose name I can't remember. All of these items measure less than an inch.

 

[moonlight]

Hey I remember the little dolls in matchboxes.

My favourite retro toy was the metal slinky. The plastic ones are not as good as the original. Hawkins Bazaar has some fabulous retro toys. An aladdins cave of nostalgia!

 

[MPicciotto]

I do like my windup tin zeppelin. But I'm from the generation that I quite like the ORIGINAL Nintendo Entertainment System or NES with Duckhunt and Mario Brothers. Yeah I know it's not Golden Era but neither am I. My Favorite though is my wooden tommy gun that has a crank on the side to make a clack-clack-clack noise. I do believe it to actually be from during WW2.

Matt

 

[LizzieMaine]

A little stuffed dog that had belonged to my mother. It had a small flap in the belly that pulled open to reveal three tiny puppies inside.

I dearly loved that toy, but it did leave me rather -- confused -- about certain matters.

 

[John in Covina]

Balsa wood planes, either gliders or rubber band wind ups.

Any kind of toy gun.

Real fireworks from firecrackers to cherry bombs to M-80's and bottle rockets.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Big Wheels!

 

[Miss 1929]

Thumbelina

The first truly newborn-baby-looking baby doll!
I still have mine. She is completely bald from being lugged around by her hair throughout the 60s.

 

[KY Gentleman]

Anyone remember "Major Matt Mason" or "Robbie Robot"?
Late '60's space themed toys were big at our house.

 

[ShooShooBaby]

my childhood favorite was My Little Pony. i had about 60 of them! not because i was spoiled, but because that was the ONLY thing i ever wanted for birthdays/christmas, so that's what everyone gave me

 

[Lady Day]

I was a my little pony girl too!

I still have mine, all zip locked up and boxed. I was obsessed. Had over 200. Have a lot of the homes too (except paradise estate, which I always wanted ). They were the only thing I ever asked for too!

LD

 

[Warbaby]

LAWN DARTS!

Best most dangerous toy ever made!

"A kid was pegged in the head with a lawn dart
Her dad didn't see her, that's the worst part
She was pegged in the head with a lawn dart
Now they're gone from the shelves at the K-Mart"

"Lawn Darts"
Ed's Redeeming Qualities
(One of my all-time favorite bands)

 

[Lorena B]

Yes, i was once almost hit by a dart, thankfully didnt reach me.

Wow, i also do remember the candy lipstick and the fake baby milk!!! the later always got me confused!!!

My nan has got few little ponies, i love them!! also she has this (really old, i cant date it) cushion with a dolls face in it, it is not a painted face, is actually a cloth made one with her hair and eyes....

Looks a bit freakish as how i mentioned earlier is old and is been losing chunks of cloth in the face.

I remember the game of operation (from the 80's) i always wanted it for Christmas but never got it.

Maybe my parent got the feeling that if i got into it ill start practicing for real on my brother, ha,ha,ha

 

[Minerva]

I never understood the My Little Pony attraction, personally. The funny thing is, I kept getting the things because "every little girl wants ponies". [huh]

 

[DerMann]

Red Ryder.

 

[Flivver]

My favorite toys were scale model cars..both the built-up ones and kits. I got my first one at age 3 and still have it...a 1954 Plymouth taxi.

From about 1950, into the 1970s, 1/25 scale models of most popular cars were introduced on an annual baisis, just like the real ones. The best ones were made by AMT, SMP, Jo-Han and MPC.

In Junior High I mowed lawns all summer and used my earnings to buy model cars. At times, I built them four at a time. I used car sales brochures to make sure I painted the engine and other details in correct colors.

I still have them all and still think they're really neat.

Did anyone else collect these?

 

[Nash Buckingham]

Red Ryder.

You didn't put your eye out did you???
gee how I wanted a Red Ryder, but alas, mom bought into the myth.........

 

[freebird]

Slinkys, not the plastic things they have now, but the metal ones. Also Evel Knievel stunt cycle...I had one as a kid, not sure what happened to it as it disappeared when we moved. I did retain my Evel Knievel sip n spin. It was a straw holder that when you drank the liquid would make the rear wheel of the cycle spin. I contacted the EK museum and was told that the sip n spin's were very rare and that they were working on finding information on them.

 

[BeBopBaby]

Slinkys, not the plastic things they have now, but the metal ones. Also Evel Knievel stunt cycle...I had one as a kid, not sure what happened to it as it disappeared when we moved.

Half the fun of slinky is the noise the metal ones made. I can hear it right now in my head. The plastic ones are a poor imitation.