Old Fisher Price Toys

[OhMari]

I have old Fisher Price toys that were made out of wood. Most of these are in excellent condition. Digger the Dog still looks like the day I bought him. My MIL gave me my husbands Hickory Dickory Clock made by fisher price when our son was born. That toy is over 40 years old and plays the nursery rhime and looks really good yet. We have a wooden phone, xylophone, barn, house, airport, gas station and all the wooden "little people". Some more but I can't remember all of them.

I think around 1984 they started making Fisher Price toys out of plastic. Also Tyke came out with plastic toys. Anyway we are trying to organize our basement and trying to decide what to do with all the toys and everything else. The plastic toys look horrible. We washed some up and used bleach on some, but the plastic reallyabsorbed it's environment, plus many of the pieces dried up and cracked. We ended up recyling almost all the plastic made toys, what a waste. It was so sad seeing some of their favorite toys going to the garbage.

We bought some better rubber made totes today, and decided we will distribute the old wooden Fisher price toys to our kids when they get married and have kids.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

Gotta chime in here - I am a HUGE collector of old Fisher Price Toys! I also a member of a Fisher Price Collector's Club (yes, such a thing exists!). I even been to a Toy Festival held in East Aurora NY (Fisher Price factory town) each year, where they celebrate old Fisher Price Toys. The Little People toys from the 1960's to late 1980's are my favorite! I have over 400 of those little people at home! You got the gas station?? Is it the one with the white or blue ramp??

I never had any of the older pull toys, but they could be worth good money to the right buyer. Fisher Price even made many Disney wooden pull toys many years ago. I totally agree about the plastic toys made, they don't hold up as well or have much sentimental feeling to them as the old wood ones. That is great that you'll keep the toys safe and sound for the enjoyment of the next generation!

 

[DisMN]

Mmmmm big fan of the older Fisher Price toys too! I've sold quite a few on my online store and am down to very few now. Guess I got too old and needed to get rid of instead of collecting more.

They are fun toys though aren't they? Such bright cheery graphics and some of them are just so dang cute!!

 

[Sleeping~Beauty]

I remember playing with the old version of the Little People in the 70's.

Those things were so dangerous, you could definitely swallow it. Also, my younger brother used to eat the foam off the toy beds.

 

[mtblujeans]

We have the barn with the double doors that open and one door makes the 'moo' sound. We still have the people, the trucks they ride in, the fence, the animals, the silo....my grandson plays with it now, when he comes for a visit, because DD does not want "that stuff" cluttering her house!

 

[OhMari]

I have over 400 of those little people at home! You got the gas station?? Is it the one with the white or blue ramp??

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, works gets in the way sometimes. I had to go look, we have the white ramp. It has a ton of skid marks on them, from my son sending his match cars down the ramp.

 

[missbehavin]

I just pulled some of DH's out today to put around the Christmas tree. He still has his circus set up he got his 3rd Christmas - he has the platform, circus wagon, carousel, ferris wheel, the little ladders that can hook together, the ringmaster, and lots of little animals. Each year we put toys from our childhood and some of our DDs favorites around our "family tree" - the one with ornaments from our childhoods, those picked up at special places/times in our relationship, and all of the handmade ones our 4 DDs have made through the years - oh how I love that tree!

 

[MinnieM3]

My mom has the old FP circus. I love it!

 

[MinnieM3]

Mmmmm big fan of the older Fisher Price toys too! I've sold quite a few on my online store and am down to very few now. Guess I got too old and needed to get rid of instead of collecting more.

They are fun toys though aren't they? Such bright cheery graphics and some of them are just so dang cute!!

Can you post your online store site? I'd love to have a look!

 

[crz4mm2]

I have my old Hippo and my old train. Both are pull toys. I used to have a weiner dog, but don't know what happened to it.
Mine are wooden too

(ps, I am 46...)

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I used to have the pull toy telephone and the dog. Those are long gone.

But my mom saved some of the Little People toys. DS9 has my old house and village, even though he is getting too old to play with them.

My parents recently divorced and my mom lost her house. In the downsizing she got rid of a lot of old toys - the castle, the school, and a McDonald's that wasn't Fisher Price. I also had the airport at one point but she gave it to some cousins or something a long time ago.

My cousin and I were talking about all of our old Fisher Price toys not too long ago. She said she always wanted the hospital. I am 35, she is 36.

There is a good selection of the toys on eBay.

 

[justjulie]

Have you thought about donating them to the Fisher Price Toy Museum in East Aurora, NY?