WillyBob Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 7 minutes ago, Ole Dollar said: My favorite toy was the Marx Shooting Gallery. Had to be the noisiest indoor toy I ever had - Internet picture. I was given a MrMachine. It was one that was made to disassemble. My dad never helped me put it back together. I know why.... Ding ding ding ding SQUAAAAAAAAK. Ding sing ding ding SQUAAAAAK My sisters found a slightly newer one and bought it for me, recently. The kid calls it "Grandpa's Robot". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Simple... yet effective. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Wow... I've forgotten many of these! Schwinn Bicycle (neighborhood favorite) it was green with banana seat Schwinn Unicycle (twice the fun as two wheels!) Estes Model rockets (preferred those with D engines) Always wanted to build the Saturn V since I was so enamored with space flight at the time. Various models (I generally sucked at building models, got the glue everywhere and couldn't paint for crap) Glider that Schu shows, plus the propeller version Crossman pump. We (stupidly) played find & shoot in the woods behind the houses. Those with pump guns were only allowed a single pump. Merlin (ala JC) (why does it not surprise me he had a Mr. Professor!!) Erector set, Lincoln logs (preferred the Erector set) Yamaha 60 cc "street/trail" (hahahahahahaha) Still...it got into my blood and later had a Yamaha YZ-465 and a 1983 Maico 490 Probably the most favorite thing I had growing up and can still utilize those skills today...... a pool table! everyone in the neighborhood came to play. Even on school days, a couple buddies would get to my house 60/90 minutes before having to leave (walk) to school so we could get some games in. Roger, I understand what you're saying about those tunnels. My Dad's cousin (in Bluffton, last name Carr) had a farm and when we'd come to visit, we'd go traipsing up into and then through the bails of hay. My biggest laugh there was doing the flinging. My guess is it was a manure spreader where you could regulate how far it would fling. It might not have been that, I never really knew...I was a city kid. I just enjoyed that time on the tractor with those doing it and got a laugh at how it would fling stuff. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TasDom Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 3 hours ago, TasDom said: i remember paying a quarter at the pizza place to play that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boom3 Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 In no particular order... Mattel ThingMaker Mattel Vac-U-Form German made "steam shovel" with hand-cranked boom and lift German made wind-up truck with a real transmission and electric lights and horn Wooden boats with electric motors. Some of these were so old they used iron horseshoe magnets. Lincoln Logs "Baking soda" submarines Rubber-band balsa planes Gilbert chemistry set Any camera I could get my hands on-a Box Brownie from 1910, a Kodak InstaMatic with Flashcubes, my bro's 35 mm Vivitar, our dad's Polaroid... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 gasoline, a match, and a tennis ball made a fun toy at night. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 My combination rocket ship and movie projector made out of an orange crate with clothes line "reels" [big pulleys] and with a little scooped out place in the wood to contain rocket fuel which was made by crushing my grandfather's Carter's Little Liver Pills, dissolving the mash in water, and pouring it into the scooped out well. I felt so guilty about stealing my grandfather's medication that I confessed to my mother, saying, "I took some of Grandpa's pills." The ensuing panic reminded me that "took" has multiple meanings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtmudd Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 8 hours ago, TasDom said: 4 hours ago, BigStewMan said: i remember paying a quarter at the pizza place to play that. N.i.b. Never played.... From Christmas past 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Full Range Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Board games 1) Backgammon ( yes everyone in the family played it ) 2) Monopoly 3) Card games mostly ones with partners Other 1) Yo-yo 2) And making my own paper planes and kites 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillyBob Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 my paper airplanes evolved into $200 helicopters and my kites grew to $20 ea [fairly inexpensive] nylon. Still have 10 or 15. still a kid at heart 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillyBob Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 1 hour ago, BigStewMan said: gasoline, a match, and a tennis ball made a fun toy at night. a coffee can [they had metal lids], some calcium carbide, some water, a piece of newspaper and a match Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Tie a bunch of plastic bags together lengthwise and light 'me off -- we used to call them "screamin' yellow zonkers'. Best to do this outdoors as they produce quite the odor in say, a basement. Not that I would have ever tried that -- 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 --- and what about those 3-4 inch tall plastic Army men. Had dozens of those and staged many a battle. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Probably my favorite toy Ive ever received was a used Montesa 125 dirt bike for my 10th birthday. Until my 15 year old brother and his friends decided to take it off some nice jumps and destroy it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtmudd Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Ceptorman said: Probably my favorite toy Ive ever received was a used Montesa 125 dirt bike for my 10th birthday. Until my 15 year old brother and his friends decided to take it off some nice jumps and destroy it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 WOW Mike, you're the king at finding old pics....very cool. That bike scared me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtmudd Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 15 minutes ago, Ceptorman said: WOW Mike, you're the king at finding old pics....very cool. That bike scared me! I would think a 10 year old ...should be scared of a 125.. That's a lot of bike.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Indoors was Legos (anything similar), GI Joes, TMNT action figures, hot wheels Outdoors was Hot wheels, Tonka trucks, sand, dirt or anything I could dig in. As I became a teen, bikes, bikes and more bikes, I usually had 3-4 complete bikes plus enough parts to build 1 or 2. My friends and I were always looking for a place to go race. When they weren't around I was crashing while attempting do any freestyle stuff (never really accomplished any tricks) but I truly enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtmudd Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Had a rollfast scoot 3speed in green... Now they call them muscle bikes.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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