Show your Age, Toy's you Grew up with

Durandal25 · Jul 18, 2021

WileERobby said:
View attachment 1140311Weapon ? We used a plastic drinking straw, got a bag of peas at the grocery store, and away we went, looking for targets... maybe YOU !

Lol, that stuff was awesome

Durandal25 · Jul 18, 2021

hemi71x said:
Army Men.
I had shoe boxes full of these things.
Wonder what ever happened with them after growing up, and leaving home.
Dad, most likely thru them out.

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Still great today……I think I still dig my sons out from time to time at Christmas for the Monopoly game

Durandal25 · Jul 18, 2021

Ghostrider 67 said:
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Combination spear, rifle, sword, magic wand, club, shovel, and fire starting material. Rare. Hardly ever seen these days. We had a zero cost, never ending supply too..lol.

Lol…..

YY1 · Jul 18, 2021

Durandal25 said:
Team America stuff was super hot from about 1977-81 .

I'd love to know the timeline.

Sounds like it could be parallel.

Durandal25 · Jul 18, 2021

kiwigtx said:
A game we used to play at school and afterwards was Conkers. Using horse chestnuts with an old bootlace through the middle, the idea is to smash your opponents conker - various methods of cheating were deployed, including (but not limited to) boiling said nuts, and coating with clear nail varnish in an attempt to harden them up.

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Since the town I went to school in had dozens of these old Chestnut trees, the game could go on for months each year.

Skip to about one minute mark to see the action start....

My wife is from Cheshire, and got this instantly…..wow, I want to try this myself

kiwigtx · Jul 18, 2021

Durandal25 said:
My wife is from Cheshire, and got this instantly…..wow, I want to try this myself

Just be careful.....they hurt if you catch one swinging.

69a100 · Jul 18, 2021

Durandal25 said:
Team America stuff was super hot from about 1977-81 .

YY1 said:
I'd love to know the timeline.
Sounds like it could be parallel.

Wrong time line, Team America, **** Yeah!!

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mrhemi · Jul 19, 2021

mrhemi said:
I've still got my Wilesco steam engine around somewhere as well. Put a lot of fuel and water through that as a kid. I always had interesting school science projects because they were "steam powered". Too bad the government wouldn't let me count all that steam time towards a Stationary Engineer's license, lol.

Found my steamer!

mrhemi · Jul 19, 2021

mrhemi said:
I still have all my old Tonka toys. I have to get a photo and post. They are on display somewhere in the house.

The Tonka Display Window.

I've got the hook and ladder fire truck around somewhere as well.

mrhemi · Jul 19, 2021

Found this old relic while I was searching for something else. Hasn't even been opened yet.

69Coronetrt · Jul 19, 2021

Budnicks · Jul 19, 2021

Ghostrider 67 said:
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Combination spear, rifle, sword, magic wand, club, shovel, and fire starting material. Rare. Hardly ever seen these days. We had a zero cost, never ending supply too..lol.

or pulling up long grass (like fescue) with huge dirt clogs
& having a wargame with the neighbor kids
out in some field somewhere

Budnicks · Jul 19, 2021

ricks_RR · Jul 19, 2021

we where so lucky all these toys . now i know why i love life i have alot of these toys still as i have been collecting over the years so i can remember how happy it was to be a kid

ricks_RR · Jul 19, 2021

Budnicks · Jul 19, 2021

this era was after me,
I was 16 by 1975, I was driving the damn truck :poke:

but applies to the times

Smiley Kids 1975 & Today - riding in the back of a truck having fun & in car seats.png

Yeah I think my generation was lucky
we had a crapload of cool toys
never inside, always out playing or in the pool
until Mom called us back in for dinner
then back out again until the streetlights came on

you couldn't hardly keep us indoors, ever

(not all but most)
we weren't all plump lumps on a couch
staring into a lil' screen or playing video games
rarely going outside

Smiley Kids of a different era - before technology took over their life.png

Ghostrider 67 · Jul 19, 2021

Budnicks said:
or pulling up long grass (like fescue) with huge dirt clogs
& having a wargame with the neighbor kids
out in some filed somewhere

What are those weeds that have a 1" ball at the top? Green. Those were good for lots of things...

Ghostrider 67 · Jul 19, 2021

ricks_RR said:
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Us and the neighbor boys had those guns that shot those little discs. We had hundreds of them. Played for hours.... Chasing each other all over creation..

Richard Cranium · Jul 19, 2021

Ghostrider 67 said:
Us and the neighbor boys had those guns that shot those little discs. We had hundreds of them. Played for hours.... Chasing each other all over creation..

You mean they aren't adapters for 45 records?

Ghostrider 67 · Jul 19, 2021

Richard Cranium said:
You mean they aren't adapters for 45 records?

oh! You may be right!

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