Toys In The Attic

[TurkeyVolGuessnMan]

Dec 14, 2017 13:54:40 GMT -5 crowschmo said:

I had a Fischer Price or Playskool McDonald's. It was like the Fischer Price Little People set, like the house or the barn or the school, though I think the people were more square shaped than rounded. It sat on a mat that was the parking lot, with a play land or whatever you called it off to the side with the French Fry Guys and a merry go round thingee. It had the drive-thru painted on the mat, so you positioned the building just right. The people had areas under their chins where you could attach the trays of food. It came with a couple of families and a couple of cars and some employees. Don't remember what else.

I forgot all about that McDonald's playset! If I remember correctly, there was a slot in the wall to put trays through and the cash register would make a little bell sound if you pushed on it.

My favorite toys were:

Spiderman Web-shooter (1975)

I remember getting this at a local grocery store, Fazios, and they had them in the checkout aisles. My dad let my brother and I each get one and all I could think about on the way home was how I was going to shoot my web at the peak of the house and swing from the front yard to the back yard. After all, it came with 6 feet of string! It actually shot about 2 feet out and wouldn't stick to glue. I still liked to play with it though.



Secret Sam Super Spy Set (1965)

Got this at a garage sale for $3 when I was 9 or 10. It didn't have the bullets that shot out, but everything else was there. It was a plastic briefcase with parts of a gun, spy camera, and a little periscope. You could assemble the gun like a sniper...I mean, spy, and it also had a little camera that could take pictures when the storage case was closed.



Battlestar Galactica Space Station (1978)

I got this from sending in box tops from Crazy Cow cereal (loved that stuff!). It was just a cardboard cockpit of a space ship, but I would play with this a lot.

 




It's weird that I can remember how and where I got these toys as a kid, because now I have trouble remembering what I had for dinner the night before.

[crowschmo]

I'm seeing Christmas things in stores already, so it made me think of this thread.

For bath time: As mentioned, the Weebles with their boat. Anyone remember Sea-Wees? They were little mermaid dolls with foam flotation devices.
Taking baths with "Mr. Bubble" bubble bath.
Using Wella Balsam shampoo, as well as Agree and Tame. (Of course there was also Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific).
Fuzzy Wuzzy soap - shaped like a bear, that just became a lump the more you used it.
Tickle Deodorant - it came in these big, colorful containers (mostly a rip off, because it was thin in the middle, the outside was just mostly all container).




Lip balms in those little metal tins.
And weren't there bubble baths that were different colors?

[crowschmo]

Thing Makers! You pour some goop into molds and heat them on this little burner and they become bugs or flowers.

(Hey, yeah, let's give young kids unsupervised heating elements!)

Also those Dip a Flower things where you form stems and petals from wire and dip them in this - substance - and the stuff hardened in the looped part.

[crowschmo]

Went to an estate sale today, so I saw a couple of things that brought back more memories: The Barbie case I had to hold dolls and clothes, and also the Barbie Friendship plane! I'd forgotten that one. My cousin had it.

[sol-survivor]

I am old enough to have had a Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head that were plastic pieces you stuck in a real potato instead of the plastic body they have now. Instead of an Easy Bake Oven I had a Suzy Homemaker Oven. Still made cake with light bulb technology. For my 6th birthday in 1966 my Grandma bought me a Barbie's best friend Midge doll. I had my choice of her or Barbie and I chose Midge because we both had freckles. Eventually Midge was no more, but in 1998 Mattel came out with a Midge 35th Anniversary set with a replica doll and two outfits. I bought it for myself and still have it in the box. I was able to show it to my Grandma a few years before she passed away at age 98. She still remembered buying the original for me.

My brother had one of the bigger GI Joe dolls that had movable joints. He played war with the neighborhood boys who also had one and Midge was the nurse.


A few years later my sister had one of these:



The 70s were a weird time...

[crowschmo]

My cousin had Skipper.

She also had Baby Alive. Remember those? The mouth moved and you could put a bottle in her mouth and it looked like she was drinking it. I think it came with a bottle with fake milk in it that if you turned the bottle upside down it looked like the volume of milk was going down. I THINK Baby Alive was what came with that, I'll have to look up a commercial.

But, it also had a bottle where you could put real water in it and the doll was rigged so the water went down the other end and it was like she had wet her diaper. Great idea for a doll, eh? It also came with fake food. I think it was in bags in a powdered form and you added water and it came out like a baby food, and when you fed the doll with a spoon, the food really went in the doll. Problem was, how do you wash such a thing? You had to flush it periodically and they didn't apparently. My cousin's family threw away the doll because: it got REAL worms!! Yuck. I guess that fake food was sitting in there too long. Edit: Might've been maggots.

[sol-survivor]

This is me, Christmas 1964, when I was almost 4 1/2. The doll is Pattaburp, and she was my favorite doll until Midge came along a couple years later.



I haven't really been able to find much about Pattaburp online, other that she, in fact, burped after I fed her. I don't remember how it sounded. I think I have a couple pictures of me with Midge but I couldn't find them. This, however, is a photo of the 35th Anniversary Set I mentioned above. It isn't my set, just a photo I found online since I didn't feel like dusting mine off:





I apologize for not resizing these. I was in a hurry. Maybe I'll resize them later. EDIT: My photo editing skills are not very good, but I resized them a little. If the size is causing a problem let me know and I'll try again.

[crowschmo]

I had the collectible animals you'd get in packages by the pairs every week or so from Arco, and also the Noah's Ark to go with it. (And Noah). The Ark had a little hut on the top and a ramp, and it opened up so you could store the animals in it. My grandfather worked at the gas station, so he would pick up ones every week for me and my sister. I had ones that I opened, and I also have the sets that are still in their packaging.

View Masters. Remember those? And lots of different wheels of pictures to go in them. Did that really keep me occupied as a child? I guess so.

Dawn dolls. They were like Barbie dolls, but smaller sized. There was Dawn, Dale, Angie and Glory that I can remember.

Magic Rocks! Super Elastic Bubble Plastic! Magic Sand!

Liddle Kiddle dolls, which were in little plastic containers shaped like perfume bottles and that smelled like perfume for like two years after you got them. And Kozmic Kiddles which were in containers shaped like little flying saucers. And I'm pretty sure there were tinier versions of these that you could carry around like charms.

Flatsy dolls - which...were flat

Also, I had, I think they were called The Electronic Wizard and another similar thing called Little Professor, which were hand held electronic games that asked you questions and you pushed buttons to answer them.

Jeez, my poor parents. They'd probably be millionaires if it hadn't been for buying their bratty kids all those toys. Sorry, Mom! Sorry, Dad!

Hey, let's not forget the PlayDoh Fun Factory!

[crowschmo]

I used to have Wizard of Oz dolls. Don't think they were the Mattel ones because I just looked those up and I don't remember them looking like that. I saw another brand of them on Ebay - Mego? maybe? That might have been it.

They were a little smaller than Barbie dolls. I had Dorothy (she came with Toto), Glinda, the Wicked Witch, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion. Never had The Wizard for some reason.