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BamBam
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 Posted: 02/19/04 - 10:34 Post subject:
Metal Fort Apache and Metal Castle
a lot of die cast soldiers
battling tops and rockem sockem (most people had these)
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elkid
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 10:38 Post subject:
| BamBam wrote: | Metal Fort Apache and Metal Castle
a lot of die cast soldiers
battling tops and rockem sockem (most people had these) |
Didn't your parents let you play with the plastic thingies that go in electrical outlets? 
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BamBam
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 10:43 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | BamBam wrote: | Metal Fort Apache and Metal Castle
a lot of die cast soldiers
battling tops and rockem sockem (most people had these) |
Didn't your parents let you play with the plastic thingies that go in electrical outlets? |
no metal ones that do--didn't you see my hair
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RangerG
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 10:56 Post subject:
| msparks wrote: | | RangerG wrote: | | Wooden blocks |
What? No Lincoln Logs? No Tinkertoys? |
My dad made my blocks on his table saw. I got the lincoln logs and tinkertoys somtime around 1963 from relatives.
To be honest, I would still play with that Erector Set if I had it
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thegman
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 11:05 Post subject:
| RangerG wrote: | | msparks wrote: | | RangerG wrote: | | Wooden blocks |
What? No Lincoln Logs? No Tinkertoys? |
My dad made my blocks on his table saw. I got the lincoln logs and tinkertoys somtime around 1963 from relatives.
To be honest, I would still play with that Erector Set if I had it |
My sons got an erector set for Christmas from their uncle. I didn't realize you could still get them.
I'm still trying to figure out who has more fun with it, me or them. 
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RangerG
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 11:07 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | BamBam wrote: | Metal Fort Apache and Metal Castle
a lot of die cast soldiers
battling tops and rockem sockem (most people had these) |
Didn't your parents let you play with the plastic thingies that go in electrical outlets? |
Oh heck...in the old days we never had those plastic things...
I used to shove the bulldozer blade from my matchbox bulldozer in the slots. Burned myself a few times. Did the same with coathangers.
My dad got tired of replacing fuses, and had a breaker box installed. He gave up trying to punish me... Of course when I got to be about 10, I was building tesla coils and zapping myself with 40 thousand volts...
And NO, it does not explain anything about me! 
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msparks
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 11:17 Post subject:
| RangerG wrote: | | battling tops and rockem sockem (most people had these) |
Always wanted the Rock'em Sock'em Robots...never scored them, though. Not sure if any of my friends had them, either.
| Quote: | | I used to shove the bulldozer blade from my matchbox bulldozer in the slots. Burned myself a few times. Did the same with coathangers. |
Keys - they'd fit into the slots....<shudder>
| Quote: | | My dad made my blocks on his table saw. I got the lincoln logs and tinkertoys somtime around 1963 from relatives. |
Two x fours and a table saw = endless possibilities. And it didn't even matter if the cut pieces were coated with a layer of lead-based paint, you could do just as much with them.
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genie
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 11:59 Post subject:
Come to think of it, the best game of all involved seeing how many different objects would actually flush down the toilet before it overflowed. Got rid of a lot of stuff I didn't like that way
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 12:46 Post subject:
I had Chrissy, she was the coolest thing evah. Also I wanted Dancerina, but my mom wouldn't let me have her b/c she danced better than I did and MoGo only wanted positive messages for her little girl. I also loved (but did not own) Stay Alive and Which Witch? From afar, I thought Mystery Date would be great.
And I can't forget the smell of Super Elastic Bubble Plastic.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 13:04 Post subject:
Shrinky-Dinks and the Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper Barbershop
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gretriever
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 13:10 Post subject:
American Bricks. The next step up in housing from Lincoln Logs.
Also still have my Matchbox cars, from the 60s, my American Flyer train set, and (maybe) my Strombecker race cars (with figure-8 track).
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ShannonG
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 13:29 Post subject:
Silly Putty!
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Cappy
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 13:31 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | | plus we had action jackson action figures....witness? |
We did?
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 14:59 Post subject:
| RangerG wrote: | | elkid wrote: | | BamBam wrote: | Metal Fort Apache and Metal Castle
a lot of die cast soldiers
battling tops and rockem sockem (most people had these) |
Didn't your parents let you play with the plastic thingies that go in electrical outlets? |
Oh heck...in the old days we never had those plastic things...
I used to shove the bulldozer blade from my matchbox bulldozer in the slots. Burned myself a few times. Did the same with coathangers.
My dad got tired of replacing fuses, and had a breaker box installed. He gave up trying to punish me... Of course when I got to be about 10, I was building tesla coils and zapping myself with 40 thousand volts...
And NO, it does not explain anything about me! |
RangerG that is frightening. i used to take my fathers claw hammers with the rubber handle cover and touch it to exposed wired, darken the whole house. used to make pins glow red from 9 volt batteries. My buddy Eric and I (never a good sign of intelligencewhen i start a story with) Found a live wire on a sewage plant building. we used to see who cold hold on the longest.  Nope explains nothing 
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 02/19/04 - 15:01 Post subject:
| roughausen wrote: | Ok, if klipity klops were the things that you walked around on, what were Romper Stompers?
My Barbies had full size GI Joe dolls for companionship. Ken was such a wuss. Should have saved those GI Joe dolls, though - saw one in a antique store for $400 in the original box. Man, that just made me feel old  |
Romper Stompers same things. Hell might be the same exact thing, that' is what my mother always called them.
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