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This is the dumbest toy I can think of off the top of my head :LOL:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memW8V7GgQ0&sns=em

 

Kids I know LOVED IT! These were all over the place in my neighborhood!

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My tricycle I had when toddler age was like this Western Flyer...

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Rubik's Cube came right out of nowhere back then, and its impact was immense at the time.

Didn't take long till I found out how to dismantle the bastard. :madra:

 

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Rubik's Cube came right out of nowhere back then, and its impact was immense at the time.

Didn't take long till I found out how to dismantle the bastard. :madra:

 

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Totally. I was always good at taking things apart.

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HotWheels, of course, came out in 1968, and this was my first. wwPYN9e.jpg

I had this one. :)

Mine was orange.

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More HotWheels stuff...

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The first pic is my Boss Hoss Silver Special I got when I joined the HotWheels club. The next is my first Collector's case, and the next are NOT my first 12 HotWheels, the rest are in a 48 vehicle case. I have a LOT of those...

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I had the WOOD versions of both of these toys. The only plastic part were the 'vains' in the tinker toys sets for the farm windmills. light green plasic...

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Rubik's Cube came right out of nowhere back then, and its impact was immense at the time.

Didn't take long till I found out how to dismantle the bastard. :madra:

 

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Totally. I was always good at taking things apart.

 

Just crank it 45 degrees, pop out the middle block with a knife, and the whole thing came apart. I was more fascinated by how it all went together than I was in trying to solve the f***ing thing.

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I grew up in the '60s...this was my 'stuff'

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ORFie, that 3 level station is great ... I love that

 

I'm looking at pics of it now

 

In the 70s, there was a store called The Wisteria House .. It was more of a gift shop than toy store, but they had a locked glass display of Corgi cars ..

 

The women who worked there were like the women in Suspiria, but a bit nicer :LOL:

 

Anyways, you'd have to tell them which car you wanted, and they;d come over with keys and unlock the drawers below and find the car in its box ..

 

I loved that store ... I still have a bunch of these

 

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I had to go into Ann Arbor to get to a place that had Corgis and Matchbox style toys...Models of Yesteryear[Lesney] etc. Hobby Center was at Arborland, a newer Mall of stores just east of U.S. 23 on Washtenaw Road on the east side of Ann Arbor.Where I bought my First Aurora Thunderjet HO slot car in the late ' 60s

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Another great toy from my childhood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STOTekK7vhs

 

Never seen this...hmmmm. Guess I was outside doing stuff....I even used to build models outside at this time, in the summer...this was one of the models, I liked models that were odd...had funny looks...

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You can see this model being made in the Models Thread in the Turn The Page sub forum, 'My Hobby, Models'

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Here's the other two photos of 'Der Beetle' that still exist.

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The first and second day of work on this model

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When I was 8 or 9, my uncle gave me the coolest toy for Christmas.

 

It was called Schaper U-Fly-It.

 

It was a Piper Cherokee airplane on a line that you could control and try to land on a six foot landing strip.

 

So cool!

 

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