Toys we had as kids

[KENTON]

Out of the schwinn krate bikes the pea picker would have been my choice.

 

[Coronet 14]

 

[Adam Nathan]

Ah happy times

 

[1962polara]

Had this switch a track when I was 5 back in '69.
Chain drive, you put a sticky prong under your matchbox cars .
They all went around together...geez I loved that car set.
I'm sure they where sold in the US also.

 

[69Runner]

I can still smell the ABS plastic...

 

[1962polara]

Found this ! Oh yeh.
http://youtu.be/Pgm2LzdjUZs

 

[Adam Nathan]

Then along came this bad boy. Hours and hours and hours of fun me and my two brothers had playing that.

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[kiwigtx]

We had these damn things hanging in every tree....

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I never had the real version....we used to make our own as kids. Used a man sized handkerchief , some string and a 'D' cell battery. We would launch them skyward using a tennis racket. Threw one at school one day, and it failed to open.....hit the Principal on the head. Happy days indeed.

Also, my best friend had one of these;


It took me another 40 years to get my own one.

And this was my favourite toy in the school sandpit as a youngster;



:hello2:

 

[khryslerkid]

Well this is as far back as I can remember...

 

[fratzog lover]

Pea picker was cool, but the Lemon peeler was coolest!

 

[steve from staten island]

What ever happened to "cap" guns? I remember walking to the candy store and buying caps all the time. We played a lot of Army in the fields and woods. --------No more fields,woods,cap guns -------I think we had it made compared to what the kids play with today

 

[Budnicks]

Here a good one, I was like 14-15 when I got the air pistol &
16 or so when I got the John Wayne Commemorative gun set
got a Schwinn Stingray & a Taco 22 mini bike too when I was like 9-10-ish IIRC
I had allot of slotcar stuff too

great times

 

[HT413]

What ever happened to "cap" guns? I remember walking to the candy store and buying caps all the time. We played a lot of Army in the fields and woods. --------No more fields,woods,cap guns -------I think we had it made compared to what the kids play with today

I remember the same thing. Now a days, I have to lecture my 6 year old to NEVER use the words 'shoot', 'kill', or God forbid he point a pretend gun at a kid at school. I swear to God, under today's rules, we'd all be in straight jackets.

 

[tommyg29]

Cap guns and bb guns were fun. Kids today are losing out.
I also spent countless hours playing with these back in the late 60s.
Hot wheels and tudor electric football. If I wasnt playing ball outside with other kids in the neighborhood, thats what I was playing for a couple years there.
I still have most of the little players, green bay, baltimore and oakland, all painted by hand.
Custom painted hot wheels too, and several different slot car sets.

 

[GetX'd]

Yeah - we had a lot of fun as kids playing with all the different things we had - and the variety was great. Now everything is so sanitized. Back in the day.....

 

[Bb70charger500]

I'm sure someone had to have one of these bad boys I found one the other day and looked it up could you imagine having a toy like this today


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I'm to young to have any good toys mostly junk a Nintendo that's about it for me

 

[Dibbons]

This Horrible Hamilton looked cool on the comercials. But the pull stirng got boring after about the first five minutes of play.

 

[Budnicks]

Yeah plastic Army men, GI JOE, TONKA,
Monopoly, Chance, Sorry, Parcheesi board games
Red Rider Model 94 Winchester Lever action riffles {Shooting plastic Bullets} &
Hot wheels stuff were big hits in my house...

I lived on my bikes as a kid

 

[Car Nut]

Loved playing with Hotwheels and Legos, the early ones where you had to think.