Vintage toys...what do you remember??

[manchurianbrownbear]

I didn't realize "Gnip Gnop" was ping pong spelled backwards until RickinNYC pointed it out on the DIS!

 

[kejoda]

Transparant, oh my God! Clackers! DUCK!

Who remembers Don't Break the Ice, Kooties, Ants in the Pants and Gnip Gnop (yes, I didn't realize it was ping pong spelled backwards until someone pointed it out... when I was in college).

I had no idea that it had a meaning. We would just sit there and say it over and over. Drove my Mom nuts. Gues you know why we did it.

I must of been spoiled we had most of this stuffed mentioned. At least the 60's and 70s toys.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

What was the play set that had animals with numbers on their shirts and a pop up tree house? They also had a cartoon. They were not Weebles. I had one of those sets and played with it forever. Mom gave it to the daycare she worked for and never saw it again.
DB and I had train sets that had a u shaped track and the train would flip the tracks over as it rode over the tracks.

 

[RickinNYC]

Wow! So we have a number of Gnip Gnop ignorant people here. Let's start our own board.

 

[always quiet]

I remember so many of these toys!! I had a Chrissy doll, loved by Squirmles , adored Baby Alive...............and my youngest DD has Hands Down (and yes, it still causes fights! ).

Anyone remember Tricky Trash Truck?? I was heartbroken when my mom gave it to my nephew when I outgrew it.

 

[dwmlaf]

My sister had the Crissy doll (I pulled the hair out too far once - I swear it was an accident).

My favorite game was Mystery Date. It had a door that you opened to show some really cute guy and one geeky looking guy. That game was a lot of fun

 

[RickinNYC]

The one toy that I thought was cool for about five minutes was Lite Bright. I looked at it, thought "Hey neat!" until I started poking all those stupid colored pegs in.

 

[cynsaun]

Ok, is anyone else just a little sad that these toys we loved so much when we were kids are now considered "vintage?" I was in an antique store and saw a toy similar to a toy I had as a child. I almost started crying right then and there. Worse yet, I took out some of my old records and my girls had NO clue what they were.

 

[ckmommy]

What was the play set that had animals with numbers on their shirts and a pop up tree house? They also had a cartoon. They were not Weebles. I had one of those sets and played with it forever. Mom gave it to the daycare she worked for and never saw it again.
DB and I had train sets that had a u shaped track and the train would flip the tracks over as it rode over the tracks.

Were these "Shirt Tales"?? I think I had a folder with them on it...

 

[RickinNYC]

Ok, is anyone else just a little sad that these toys we loved so much when we were kids are now considered "vintage?"

I feel the same way. I remember one year, I must have been four or five or so, I got a plastic Noah's ark for Christmas. You pulled the top off and inside were all the animals in different colors. It was pretty cheaply made but it was the one toy I treasured that holiday. I played with it constantly. My Mom would always yell at me, "RICKY! Pick up your animals!"

Several years back, my parents were visiting Joe and I and we happened upon that very same toy in a little store in SoHo. I practically jumped out of my skin when I saw it and immediately started playing with it on the shelf. Immediately, I launched into the "Hey Ma, remember when...?" "Dad, remember when you had to help me figure out how to put all the animals back inside?" Such a simply little toy that brought back so many memories for my parents and I.

Nicest thing to happen was that same year, a few months later, on Christmas day, Santa brought that very same toy for me. Mom went back to the store during that trip and bought if for me.

 

[mrssmh]

Add me to the list of recently enlightened gnip gnop players!

I also had an inchworm that I wanted really badly and I guess my parents had to go everywhere to find one. I just sent my mother the picture to bring back some memories for her. I got Mrs Beasley when my sister was born--my father had showed up with all kinds of gifts for the new baby and I, formerly his only child, looked up at him with big blue eyes and said "nothing for me?" Back to the store he went.

In the late 70's, I had the Honey Hill Bunch and their treehouse. They were small stuffed dolls with velcro on their hands so they could stick together or to toys they came with.

Another of my favorites was an orange vinyl-covered Barbie camper van. I loved it!!

 

[ckmommy]

I just looked up the "inch worm" toy on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11746&item=5980154228&rd=1

If that did not work, this toy is going for $152. I still think that the are cute.


RickinNYC--I felt the same way about Lite-Brite. My DD was given one for Christmas this year. After DS2 came downstairs with a peg up his nose, I decided it would go in the trash.

I am still thinking of some other "vintage" toys.

 

[cynsaun]

I feel the same way. I remember one year, I must have been four or five or so, I got a plastic Noah's ark for Christmas. You pulled the top off and inside were all the animals in different colors. It was pretty cheaply made but it was the one toy I treasured that holiday. I played with it constantly. My Mom would always yell at me, "RICKY! Pick up your animals!"

Several years back, my parents were visiting Joe and I and we happened upon that very same toy in a little store in SoHo. I practically jumped out of my skin when I saw it and immediately started playing with it on the shelf. Immediately, I launched into the "Hey Ma, remember when...?" "Dad, remember when you had to help me figure out how to put all the animals back inside?" Such a simply little toy that brought back so many memories for my parents and I.

Nicest thing to happen was that same year, a few months later, on Christmas day, Santa brought that very same toy for me. Mom went back to the store during that trip and bought if for me.

What a great story! I think I remember that toy. I don't think I had it, but I can vaguely remember playing with one.

I did have one of those Lemon Twist (was that it?) things. I always had bruises on my ankles from that stupid thing!

 

[ashjohnson80]

The one toy that I thought was cool for about five minutes was Lite Bright. I looked at it, thought "Hey neat!" until I started poking all those stupid colored pegs in.

The only part of the lite bright that I liked were the pegs. I wouldnt' even really play with the light bright itself because I would always run out of the black paper. But I had a box full of those pegs and I would just go down into the basement and start throwing them all over myself b/c i thought they were jewels. But then again I also ate play doh and toilet paper as a kid so I was kind of weird.

 

[RickinNYC]

The only part of the lite bright that I liked were the pegs. I wouldnt' even really play with the light bright itself because I would always run out of the black paper. But I had a box full of those pegs and I would just go down into the basement and start throwing them all over myself b/c i thought they were jewels. But then again I also ate play doh and toilet paper as a kid so I was kind of weird.

OH MY FRIGGIN' GOD! Thanks for the absolute BIGGEST laugh of the day! Were you also the kid that ate the paste in art class? LOLOL!!!

 

[ashjohnson80]

OH MY FRIGGIN' GOD! Thanks for the absolute BIGGEST laugh of the day! Were you also the kid that ate the paste in art class? LOLOL!!!

 

[RickinNYC]

You DID! AND you were the one that swore it tasted like mint, didn't you?

 

[ashjohnson80]

You DID! AND you were the one that swore it tasted like mint, didn't you?

Well it does! I can also tell you what meow mix and dog biscuits taste like too...

 

[RickinNYC]

Well it does! I can also tell you what meow mix and dog biscuits taste like too...

 

[Regina]

You're making me feel ancient. Almost all of you are from my kid's generations and you're calling the toys "vintage."

I have a big box of My Little Pony's" from when my DD was little. A few years ago she mentioned how sad she was that she lost her favorite, the Strawberry Pony. I went to a store that specialized in old toys. No Strawberry Pony but the owner's little girl showed me her Kiddles collection.

I went back with the Spaceman and Monkey Kiddles that I had. The little girl looked at them like they were the Hope diamond. (They were pretty cool and in perfect condition.) When she went to hand them back to me, I told her to keep them but to please keep an eye out for a Strawberry Pony.

A few months later I went back. They had lost my contact info but had a slightly battered Strawberry Pony waiting for me. With a bit of a scrubbing and some TLC, it turned out fine. My DD was thrilled to get it that Christmas (and yes, she was a teenager at the time.)

I have my Kissy doll, and she still works. I also have my "Bubble Hair" Barbie and the Ken with the fuzzy hair. I remember using a real potato for Mr. Potato Head, and he had a pipe, the nasty, smokin' little spud.