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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums70's toys and stuff we had! (pic heavy)
The early 70's were great when I was a kid.
(I was 12 in 1972.)
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libodem
(19,288 posts)I love old toys and dolls. I've collected quite a bit of stuff. None of it is in great shape or too fancy. Just more dust collectors.
denbot
(9,901 posts)Klackers, LOL, I may still have a bruse or two from them.
Archae
(46,358 posts)They were anti-personnel weapons.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Why they survived toy purges over four decades, I have no idea...
Mine are blue:
I wonder what I could get for them on Ebay ...
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)Can you imagine them even being on the market today?
OWWWEEEEEEE!!!!
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)we had that in my 2nd grade classroom for rainy day recess - loved it!
I stall have my etch-a-sketch, clackers, and barbies.
Archae
(46,358 posts)Nowadays there is a videogame of that old board game!
I played it, it is fun.
Ah...memories!
eShirl
(18,505 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Yavin4
(35,450 posts)Our toys were nice, not great like they are today, which I think is a good thing. If your toys are great, why grow up?
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)benld74
(9,911 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)because I am 74 years old and remember them from my childhood.
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)could sit like that.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)hibbing
(10,110 posts)Hey,
Anyone remember those things? Gosh they could take a lot of abuse and still worked great, of course there wasn't much to them. Plastic cord dealio you pull to get the wheels going and set it down?
Peace
Rob H.
(5,352 posts)We even had the "Smash-Up Derby" version that had spring-loaded doors, hoods and trunks that would pop off when you ran them into things (or each other). All you had to do to get them ready to do it again was snap the pieces back on. Ah, good times....
Edit: added another photo and misremembered the name initially.
Hey,
I forgot about those ones, I just had the strait up rather phallic shaped ones. I think the ones I am thinking of were called SSP anyways, that is what the almighty google machine told me.
Peace
Iggo
(47,577 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)Archae
(46,358 posts)Don't forget these also!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I spent New Year's Eve 1969 making as many designs as I could, while watching "Farewell to the '60s" programs and innocently thinking that the '70s were going to be better than the '60s.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)I asked my good friend Bubba what toys he got for Christmas when he was a kid.
Bubba grew up in the Alabama boonies during the back end of The Great Depression.
He is a self proclaimed redneck.
"Hell? Toys? We didn't have no toys. I had a ol' syrup can to play with.
It was a truck or a fire engine or a tractor. Whatever I wanted it to be, I guess.
Daddy was too busy tryin' to earn his keep and ours for no damn toys.
I don't guess I ever actually had a 'toy'."
rurallib
(62,465 posts)edit -typo
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)I had many of those, also my prized Mr Peanut Peanut Butter Maker... you put the peanuts in his hat and cranked it and peanut butter came out.
And a kick ass EZ Bake oven that wasn't *pink*.
And a Light-N-Go Puppy... with a flashlight shaped like a bone that you shined on a sensor on his collar and he moved around.
Bigleaf
(2,050 posts)Evil Knievel Stunt Bike
Big Jim Sports Camper