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What was your favorite toy?

by Kurt
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I was surfing the other day and came across something that took me back to when I was 6-7-8-9 years old.

Anyone remember the "Thing Maker"? It was the toy were you cooked creepy crawlers and creeple people with the plastic goop. I loved creeple people...

But it wasn't just cooking the "Things" that was fun, I'd stage wars with the creeple people and creepy crawlers against those little green army men. Man did those army guys have some battles defending "good" against the giant creeple people and bugs.

Other than balls (like baseballs and kickballs) I probably had more fun with creeple people and the army guys than anything else.

Anyone else make creeple people? Or have a favorite toy?

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  • Profile picture of the author ThomM
    Wow I had to check the link to see what you where talking about.
    I was 11 when they came out.
    At 11 I was totally wrapped up in my drum lessons, rudiments where a bitch and took up most all my free time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
      I remember the Creepy Crawlers. Never had people, just bugs. The goop was edible, so we made and ate bugs.

      The toy that popped into my mind was an Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger. I used to play with it all the time. The ejection seat worked, so did the bullet proof shield and the guns. (The guns just popped out, they didn't actually work).

      I was eight or nine at the time and hadn't seen the movie, but the toys were flogged like crazy on TV. I got mine for Christmas.

      James Bond Aston Martin DB5 instructions, Corgi Toys, 1965-8 [image 1 of 2]

      I had the gold one. The text says it's now a collectors item. Wish I still had it.
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      • Profile picture of the author White Dove Creative
        Originally Posted by Lawrh View Post

        I remember the Creepy Crawlers. Never had people, just bugs. The goop was edible, so we made and ate bugs.
        Edible, really? I remember (1960's) the goop being do-not-take-internally. Maybe they changed it, and made it edible. Around what year were you eating goop? : - )
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        • Profile picture of the author KimW
          Originally Posted by White Dove Creative View Post

          Edible, really? I remember (1960's) the goop being do-not-take-internally. Maybe they changed it, and made it edible. Around what year were you eating goop? : - )
          Actually if you read the thread you would see that he probably got creepy crawlers mixed up with incredible edibles,which was eaten.
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  • Profile picture of the author virtualwhispers
    My favorite toy was an insect, looked like a big ant but I cant remember what it was called lol. You had to take it all apart and put it back together.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
      Originally Posted by virtualwhispers View Post

      My favorite toy was an insect, looked like a big ant but I cant remember what it was called lol. You had to take it all apart and put it back together.
      That was the "Cootie Bug". I remember it well...:p

      Here's a link...

      The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE Build A Cootie Bug Game


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  • Profile picture of the author Laura B
    My favorite toys were Lincoln Logs. We also had a red plastic brick set, sort of what came before Legos. I loved to build houses. But as an adult, I have absolutely no home-building skills.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aperio
    There were so many favorites... still are (seeing as though I still refuse to grow up)...

    Tinkertoys
    Green Machine
    Stretch Armstrong
    Vertibird
    Tonka Trucks

    And of course the things that go without saying like lincoln logs and legos.

    I want to go play now!
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  • Profile picture of the author gareth
    I used to like freezing insects in blocks of ice & eating them

    So I elect grasshoppers as favorite toy

    But I was only like 4 man
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    • Profile picture of the author Kurt
      Originally Posted by gareth View Post

      I used to like freezing insects in blocks of ice & eating them

      So I elect grasshoppers as favorite toy

      But I was only like 4 man

      Hey Gareth...

      Be sure to remind me if you ever offer me a glass of ice tea, to have you hold the ice.
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        Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

        Hey Gareth...

        Be sure to remind me if you ever offer me a glass of ice tea, to have you hold the ice.

        Yeah, and if he calls to invite you over for some cricket, don't assume it's the sport either...
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    HAHAHA Gareth that is Gross!!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Here's one that was very recently mentioned on another forum I frequent:
    Hake's - "SIXFINGER" ELABORATE GUN TOY
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    • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      Here's one that was very recently mentioned on another forum I frequent:
      Hake's - "SIXFINGER" ELABORATE GUN TOY
      Good Grief! Childhood nostalgia, I had a six-finger. They were popular in my neighborhood. Gotta wonder about teaching kids the benefits of concealed weapons...
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    I was always into computer games. Atari Lynx and Sega Game Gear. Handheld games consoles. They were both far better than the game boy yet it the game boy was the only one that survived
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    For the life of me I can't come up with any reasons now why I thought this was so cool when I was a kid, I just remember that I HAD to have one:
    BATS in the BELFRY your with box ORIGINAL haunted VINTAGE gothic CASTLE monster GAME
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  • Profile picture of the author eSeM
    i believe i had a thing maker as well

    toy wise, a super nintendo with super mario world and zelda:link to the past. spent a lot of time on that
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  • Profile picture of the author ThomM
    Originally Posted by sgtwhite View Post

    Marbles, kites, yoyo's.
    You forgot checkers Sarge
    That was one of the first games my father taught me, never did beat him now that I think about it.
    About 5 years ago I gave my marbles to a friend who collects them.
    He was going to sort through them and keep any he didn't have, which wouldn't be many as his collection is well into the thousands. The rest and the original cloth sack I keep them in he was giving to his grandson who was just starting his collection and learning the game
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    Anyone have one of these?



    Mr. Machine would would kick some little green army men butt.


    PS...Sarge...Not kick the can or hoop and a stick?
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    Here we go:






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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    For me, it was...

    Jay J. Armes

    and...

    Toys You Had Presents Hugo

    and...

    Toys You Had Presents Shogun Warriors

    and (of course) all things Star Wars. Star Trek, not so much.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I still have my favorite. When my sister was 2 she got a little stuffed dog and never really cared about it...then as soon as I could grab, I grabbed Frisky. I took him everywhere for the first 7 years of my life. I still have him. He's bare of fur in many places and quite ragged but I've never been able to retire him completely.

    Other than that I had a great jack-knife that I found when I was 4 and loved to whittle. I had an erector set that was a metal and screws version of lincoln logs but had a motor so you could make stuff that would run (like Farris wheels). I also had a little oven that put easy-bake to shame that we used to make cinnamon apples and grilled cheese with up in my tree house.

    Other than that I had pets and the neighbors had horses to play with.
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  • Profile picture of the author Domainoutlaw
    Does Sega Genesis count as a toy?
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
    Originally Posted by sgtwhite View Post

    Catching lightening bugs at night by hand and keeping them in a jar...
    My Dad told me back in the '30s he and his buddies used to do that and then take the jar with them into the local theatre and let them go.

    That must have made for some interesting 3D effects back then...

    "That light's coming right at me..." :p

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    My favorite toy was a small stuffed mouse, creatively named Mousie, that my grandmother made out of some grey corduroy fabric. He had tiny stitched-on eyes and nose but no ears, and was essentially flat. I would carry him in the front pocket of my overalls. He went EVERYWHERE with me.
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    Sarge -

    Red Rover Red Rover and pick up sticks...used to play a lot of pick up sticks.
    But for swimming...we just went to somebody's pool or a lake to do that.
    We used to catch fireflies, too, but I never saw anyone just squash one on purpose. Our parents taught us to let them go when we came in for the night.
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    Here's another one...Check out Henry Fonda and Jodie Foster.

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    I started another thread a while back about how we really don't have a lot of things in our homes now that we didn't have back in the 1950's-60's, they've only been improved.

    But this thread shows just how "far" as a people we've come...There's been a lot of innovation with toys. When toys are a leading element of change, not sure we can complain much about our life-style.

    Not to get too side-tracked and hijack my own thread, but one of the things about the "Wild West" that they don't show in the movies is how BORING it was for the settlers. In their journals, they'd often write about how BORING life was for the settlers. Other than plowing the "back 40", there wasn't anything for them to do.

    Now look at our lives today and how much of it is spent on entertainment?
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  • Profile picture of the author dorim
    My Easy Bake Oven was my favorite toy when I was child. That and an assortment of Barbie dolls!
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    I'm old school. Most people my age didn't have toys then or at least I did not think so . But we did cut up a toy shaped gun and glued a clothes pin to the top to make guns to shoot rubber bands at each other. We also made a toy with spools by putting a rubber band through them attached to a match stick that when you wound it up it would move all over the place. That was fun then. Now it would be a boring toy. And lots of people played marbles and jacks. Marbles was a favorite of mine back then even though I lost most of my marbles doing it. Most people think I still have lots of them missing today.
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      my favorite toy was a bolo bat...they are called paddle balls now...
      that and my hoola hoop were my 2 fave toys
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    That's icky. I know they sell green slime to kids. I guess they play with it and make weird shapes out of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author StacyHolmes
    Ahhh. As soon as I read your post, I instantly got a memory that came flooding back.

    When I was 10, I got an electric typewriter. There is a picture of me at the table ripping open the package and subsequent pics taken that day of me spending hours getting familiar with my machine and beginning to use it. I don't even think I got out of my pajamas that day.

    That picture was quite prophetic (is that the word?) because several years later my boyfriend got a computer and I did the same thing to it. He thought it was a stupid gift and ended up taking it back - I taught myself programming in two days. That was back in the old, old days and the programming was simple, but still it was very telling.

    I've been hooked on computer ever since and now I'm hooked on the Internet. :-)
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    Spud guns,anyone?
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    • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      Spud guns,anyone?
      Been shot by them, but never owned one.
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      Spud guns,anyone?
      The red and black plastic kind were cool... but we used to make our own variety that fired whole potatoes. Lighter fluid was involved.

      Ahh, the 1970s... it's amazing any of us survived.
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        Originally Posted by Lawrh View Post

        Been shot by them, but never owned one.
        Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

        The red and black plastic kind were cool... but we used to make our own variety that fired whole potatoes. Lighter fluid was involved.

        Ahh, the 1970s... it's amazing any of us survived.
        Actually the ones I meant were not mass produced items but hand made. I honestly can't rememebr how, I just remember that we took ink pens apart and used the tube to make them.

        Update:
        WOW
        I tried to find something that showed what I was talking about and I found a lot of examples of what you two meant.
        Those things look dangerous!
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    Matches & lighters. I'd better not say more than that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    I had a doll that walked and talked but it could only say one word "Moma" funny how someone has taken our memories back to our childhood and it also make you think of all of your friends that you had then and wonder what happened to them. Has this happened to anyone else?
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  • Profile picture of the author White Dove Creative
    I loved creepy crawlers.
    When I was young (1960's) I saw a skit on the Tonight Show where someone (Johnny Carson? or the guest?) rolled up his sleeve to check the time, and he was wearing multiple watches up his arm.

    Then he'd open his trench coat, and there'd be watches (stolen ones of course) hanging on the inside of his jacket, all for sale. Holding his coat open, he'd say... Pssst, wanna buy a wrist watch?

    So I made a bunch of Creepy Crawlers, and attached them to the inside of my coat. Then during recess at school, I'd open my coat and say... Pssst, wanna buy some creepy crawlers. I made them every day, and sold them every day. Good memories.
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  • Profile picture of the author darren1
    Hey i don't remember what was my favorite toy. But when we will give our child a toy we should give such toy which is educative. like word making games. It will help them in future.
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    • Profile picture of the author Aprimo
      I like McFarlane Toys, the details was so great!
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  • Profile picture of the author mercava
    Well my favorite toy was Lego.
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  • Profile picture of the author alica
    My favorite toy was Teddy bear.It's all time favorite toy.every child like this toy
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    My favorite toy was different types of dolls.
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  • Profile picture of the author chlmortgagebankers99
    my favorite toy would be my pick up truck matchbox with two motorbike at the back... it's kinda small but it brings a lot of memory of my childhood every time i see one.. too bad i lost that toy years ago.L
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    A Tron game.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Wow, what memories.

    At age 6 it was a ukulele. My father taught me how to play chords so I could sing along. At age 10 it was a Fender Duosonic, short-scale electric. That was late 1950s - man that thing would be worth a fortune if I still owned it today!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Duo-Sonic

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  • Profile picture of the author LogoNerds
    Can I list more then one?

    GI Joe (and Cobra)
    Transformers
    He-Man
    Thundercats

    Oh and I can't forget the WWF figures - Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Captain Lou Albano, King Kong Bundy, etc.

    and the best video game of all time... Mike Tyson's Punch Out
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  • Profile picture of the author WD Mino
    CORGI TOYS!!!!!!!

    Batmobile db5 db4 citroen safari etc etc they don't make toys like these anymore and I have made a nice tidy sum from them too
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