Favorite toys from the past

[pipes]

Toys from times past are so cool, but now a days people give there kids iPads, like what the h*ll?

Ipads.?! No ****. Mom cut holes in my pockets so that I would have something to play with.

 

[Bnorth]

Tonka trucks and Ertl tractors in my sandbox.





My folks are getting ready to move so they've been sending all this stuff back with me. Found some old wooden cars and trucks too that are really cool.

 

[pipes]

Tonka trucks and Ertl tractors in my sandbox.

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My folks are getting ready to move so they've been sending all this stuff back with me. Found some old wooden cars and trucks too that are really cool.

you can't tell me that they are still in the condition pictured
above.

 

[eclipse1966]

I remember my brother and I wanted one of these so badly but contrary to todays world we had to wait for Christmas or our birthday to get it……. which we finally did. Hrs of fun!

 

[Bnorth]

you can't tell me that they are still in the condition pictured
above.

I think I have some restoration work to do. Missing lots of tires on the tractors lol.

I remember my brother and I wanted one of these so badly but contrary to todays world we had to wait for Christmas or our birthday to get it……. which we finally did. Hrs of fun!

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Those look super cool! I used to just build lego cars/trucks and smash them into the fireplace hearth.

 

[eclipse1966]

they were a hoot! We also played LOTS with lego blocks. We used to make space ships and fly them around (not kits but our own).

I think I have some restoration work to do. Missing lots of tires on the tractors lol.



Those look super cool! I used to just build lego cars/trucks and smash them into the fireplace hearth.

 

[eclipse1966]

we used to play with these all the time as well

 

[gibsons]

Like the Evel Knievel I use to have

 

[gibsons]

LOL. Forgot about this one!! Dad smashed it because we shot the babysitter and it hit her in the eye.

 

[Summitric]

i think i have some restoration work to do. Missing lots of tires on the tractors lol.



Those look super cool! I used to just build lego cars/trucks and smash them into the fireplace hearth.

we had a whole set of these... I think there was 4 different cars and parts interchangeable

 

[Summitric]

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i took this thing apart it never worked after that, it went forward and reverse

50 years ago or close to it

had one of these too.... Hours of fun, until it crawled into a grain hopper

 

[Bnorth]

we used to play with these all the time as well

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We had these in the 90's too but they were styrofoam and only provided minutes of entertainment before folding up lol.

 

[moyiesledhead]

Had one of these cork guns for about a day in 1960. Figured out I could fire a nail set out of it, and shot the Lone Ranger on the first TV we ever owned. Dad welded it shut after that. Damn he was a patient man!

 

[neilsleder]

I loved those snap together electric race car tracks. I still got it but one lane don't work.


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[neilsleder]

we used to play with these all the time as well

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I was just in Astoria Oregon and there's a look out tower there and you buy those same planes and throw them off the balcony. I think it was 50 meters high. It was pretty cool.


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[eclipse1966]

we were there last Aug but must have missed this. When we were younger living overseas we would go to the roof of our apartment and make paper planes from newspapers and throw them from the 25th floor. Our fun was always stopped by an adult telling us to clean up the mess on the road as we had paper planes all over the place LOL.

I was just in Astonia Oregon and there's a look out tower there and you buy those same planes and throw them off the balcony. I think it was 50 meters high. It was pretty cool.


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[eclipse1966]

I bought an RC plane made from styrofoam and powered by batteries. Flies awesome but crash landings are devastating

We had these in the 90's too but they were styrofoam and only provided minutes of entertainment before folding up lol.

 

[woody_tobius_jr]

My brother and I had gas powered airplanes, no remotes back then. 2 strings tied to them and you held onto string spool/handle and you could only fly them in a circle, more string, bigger circle. After a couple of minutes you couldn't stand up anymore cause you were standing going in circles. Pull on one string, up you go, pull on the other string down you go.


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[eclipse1966]

now that brings back some memories of crazy dizziness LOL.

My brother and I had gas powered airplanes, no remotes back then. 2 strings tied to them and you held onto string spool/handle and you could only fly them in a circle, more string, bigger circle. After a couple of minutes you couldn't stand up anymore cause you were standing going in circles. Pull on one string, up you go, pull on the other string down you go.


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[TROLLCAT]

My brother and I had gas powered airplanes, no remotes back then. 2 strings tied to them and you held onto string spool/handle and you could only fly them in a circle, more string, bigger circle. After a couple of minutes you couldn't stand up anymore cause you were standing going in circles. Pull on one string, up you go, pull on the other string down you go.


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dizzy enough to wander so my plane smashed into a fire hydrate