show your age with a picture of a toy from your childhood

[GrogNerd]

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[grampamark]

These cost a dime in the late 50s. I probably went through a couple hundred of them. I was fascinated by airplanes as a kid. 60-some years later, I guess I still am.

 

[schmurf]

Something like this...

 

[3 Dawg Night]

 

[Bramling Cross]

I grew up in Oregon.

 

[Immocles]

I would legit weep for joy if I ever came across this guy again. It has to be somewhere out on my dad's overgrown, abandoned farm site.

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

Fuzzy red hair GI Joe

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

These cost a dime in the late 50s. I probably went through a couple hundred of them. I was fascinated by airplanes as a kid. 60-some years later, I guess I still am.
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Must have had those in the 70's still - I remember them

 

[Immocles]

Must have had those in the 70's still - I remember them

80's too. I don't recall them in stores, but I remember bringing home several from church/town festivals and county fairs as game prizes.

 

[Bramling Cross]

These cost a dime in the late 50s. I probably went through a couple hundred of them. I was fascinated by airplanes as a kid. 60-some years later, I guess I still am.
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Same story in the 80's. I actually carved bucks to steam the wings over to create a proper air foil. I got real deep into those things. Scary deep.

Since my department was moved to the overnight shift and it's impossible to get into my factory until it's 10mins prior to the start of your shift, I spend a lot of time hanging out at Ace hardware. I was stoked to see they recently started selling Guillow's Starfires at the register.

Can you believe they want $15 for three? The whole point of Starfires is that they were disposable!

There's no decency in this world of ours.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

On the list of dangerous dumb toys.

 

[Yooper]

On the list of dangerous dumb toys.View attachment 689908

I had those! This was the worst game ever:

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Yeah, didn’t the pieces just haphazardly move as the thing vibrated?

 

[Chorgey]

Not the safest toy

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

This was better.

 

[rossi46]

Here's a couple of my favorites that I had.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

 

[NTBeer]

 

[RCope]

Amongst others like the creepy crawlers house burning down toy

 

[shetc]

 

[Ki-ri-n]

I had a clone but you get the idea.
Played the knobs off the 1st christmas I got it. Simpler times......

I had the Evil Kinevel bike and drag car too. God I feel old.

 

[GrogNerd]

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I had a clone but you get the idea.
Played the knobs off the 1st christmas I got it. Simpler times......

I had the Evil Kinevel bike and drag car too. God I feel old.

SKY CYCLE!

 

[bracconiere]

my dad built me something like that in the 80's....i think mine was better! (he was an old dad....)

 

[Bilsch]

 

[FloppyKnockers]

 

[bracconiere]

" Out of all the lies I've told "just kidding" is my favorite. "

and here i thought we'd be serious in drunkin rambling......lol. although from my teens...

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Is this thread just a moderator's attempt to wait until someone posts a picture of an iPad, and then they get booted for not being 21?

 

[bracconiere]

been a while since i've been carded......

 

[camonick]

I remember the day I got one of these from my great grandparents from California when they visited us when I was 5. Mine was brown and is still at my dad’s house

Had one of these too at about the same time and it hauled a lot of dirt around the farm. Wore out a lot of knees in my jeans too.

Both were all steel except the wheels and windows.

 

[matt_m]

I’m actually in this picture.

 

[camonick]

I’m actually in this picture.

I had one of those cars on the far right when I was a toddler ca. 1977-78

 

[Cyclman]

 

[passedpawn]

That's me on left. Wonder who here knows what we were doing there.

 

[bracconiere]

you let your little brother be the master? damn my older brother always just picked on me.....

 

[bracconiere]

lots....days of BBSs, i thought i was cool when i went from 2400 baud, to 4800.....when i hit my late teens and was shotgunning 56k....i had no idea how much my mom loved to pay the phone bill.....

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

days of BBSs, i thought i was cool when i went from 2400 baud, to 4800.....when i hit my late teens and was shotgunning 56k....i had no idea how much my mom loved to pay the phone bill.....

I hosted a BBS as a teen. Even paid for the phone line for it out of my earnings selling computers at best buy. That's what a nerd I was.

 

[bracconiere]

I hosted a BBS as a teen. Even paid for the phone line for it out of my earnings selling computers at best buy. That's what a nerd I was.

i had my BBS too, at 13....i remember how fun it was to setup Fido(?) Frontdoor, and start my own little message group....(with the secret pirate part)

wish i could find a screen capture of dialing up and having to press esc how everymany times or what it was.....

edit: i wasn't that nerdy, i had stupid hair down to my ass, smoking pot, and thinking it was cool to look destitute.....thank god i found homebrew!

edit #2: of course around here thinking looking destitute made me look cool, probably makes look like a kid.....

 

[Deadalus]

 

[bracconiere]

had a lot of fun with one of these too.....it could or couldn't of been porn magazines....

 

[Dimax]

That's me on left. Wonder who here knows what we were doing there.

D&D