Remembering classic toys

[Doug28450]

I had this one, Agent Zero M. Transistor radio that unfolds to a gun.

 

[edporch]

I played with Match Box cars and trucks growing up. These preceded Hot Wheels. The day before my 15th birthday my little sister was born. Thanks Mom and Dad. Being the youngest and only boy wasn't to bad a deal up until then. The Match Box cars were used by my little sister growing up. On my 65th birthday, my little sister gifted me those original Match Box cars. Don't play with them anymore, but they do have a special place.

I still have the matchbox cars from when I was a kid, and they're in almost mint condition.
Like an idiot I didn't save the little boxes they came in.

I even have the semi with two trailers behind it.
I also have the drawered plastic box with little compartments they go in.

 

[mmpsteve]

Hot wheels and matchbox were always my favorites, I still have a few of them from the 70s.

It’s carried over into my adult life. I have around 10,000 Hotwheels now. I’ve been buying them for years.

I was watching one of those series, like "The Toys that Built America", or some such, and found out the origin of Matchbox cars was because the schools in England would not allow kids to bring toys to school unless it fit in the standard matchbox of the day. A diecast toy maker looking for the next big hit turned that into Matchbox cars, and made a lot of money.

I love those history shows that tell the success stories of how things get made.

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[edporch]

Remember the Mighty Mo toy cannon from the early 1960's?
It had a reloadable shell type thing that you would load into the breach and it would shoot plastic cannon balls.

I ran across the cannon part the other day in some stuff, and I'm sure the other stuff is around someplace.
(Picture isn't of mine)

 

[printcraft]

I'm not a collector or expert in any way, but I recently re-discovered this from a youtube suggestion....

Mom bought me one of these at a yard sale and I thought it was one of the most amazing toys I had as a kid.





Maybe you guys remember toys from days gone by....

Had one but it was the Enterprise.

 

[ZurokSlayer7X9]

Hot wheels and Johnny Lightning cars had the little metal button/badges that came with the cars.

I may not be as old as some on this site, but I remember Johnny Lightnings when Playing Mantis was producing them. They were higher quality than Hot Wheels, and were designed hew in Michiana. There is a locally famous pizza place in the South Bend area called Bruno's Pizza. The founder, Bruno, had a Johnny Lightning modeled after the car he drove (don't know what model it was).

My dad and I would collect these, as well as the Hot Wheels when they were doing the special series back in the 2000's (such as the "Treasure Hunt" for example). I always wanted to play with them, but my dad said no, and keep them in their packages. I'm glad he enforced that as we have several hundred in their original packages.

I also remember him having a few "red-line" Hot Wheels, which were Hot Wheels with red circles on the tires.

 

[bogus]

Had a Talking Viewmaster. Loved watching and listening to Snoopy take out the Red Baron when I was about 5 or 6 years old. Took the little reels to the right.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Got one of these in the mid 1970s from Kmart South in Muncie. We'd use the side of our street for a runway, and fly it over our neighbor's yard, since our yard had too many trees. We'd fly it, crash it, run in the house, glue it back together, and repeat.

 

[ancjr]

Got one of these in the mid 1970s from Kmart South in Muncie. We'd use the side of our street for a runway, and fly it over our neighbor's yard, since our yard had too many trees. We'd fly it, crash it, run in the house, glue it back together, and repeat.

I had this one:



Never got it started. I think there was a leak in the fuel tank.

I tossed the plane, put on a different fuel tank which wouldn't fit in the plane, attached it all to a 2x4 and would run tank after tank of fuel through it just to play around with it.

 

[CindyE]

I don't think I had a GI Joe, but I had Johnny West and Geronimo (and their horses).

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We had a bunch of Johnny West stuff. I think we had a boy, Jamie, and maybe another boy too. Jane. Horses Commanche (with moveable legs), Pancho Pony, and i think another horse named Thunder or Thunderbolt.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

We had a bunch of Johnny West stuff. I think we had a boy, Jamie, and maybe another boy too. Jane. Horses Commanche (with moveable legs), Pancho Pony, and i think another horse named Thunder or Thunderbolt.

Yep, IIRC Thunderbolt was Johnny's horse.

 

[littletommy]

Before posting this I will just apologize for the wasted hours of your life this rabbit hole link will cost.

Catalogs & Wishbooks

330 Vintage Christmas Catalogs & Holiday Wish Books with 295,775 total catalog pages from Sears, Montgomery Ward and JCPenney over the years.

christmas.musetechnical.com

Yep! I started out with the 1971 penneys Christmas catalog, THAT brings back a bunch of memories. I bookmarked that site.

 

[CindyE]

Yep, IIRC Thunderbolt was Johnny's horse.

I think maybe the other boy was Jay.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I think maybe the other boy was Jay.

I never knew all the other figures and accessories existed back then! I thought Johnny and Geronimo were all there was.

 

[Ingomike]

I never knew all the other figures and accessories existed back then! I thought Johnny and Geronimo were all there was.

You must not have drooled all over the Sears and JCPenney catalogs.

 

[stocknup]

I never knew all the other figures and accessories existed back then! I thought Johnny and Geronimo were all there was.

I had Johnny , Son Jamie ,( there was a girl too ) , Geronimo , Chief Cherokee, My brother had General Custer and Captain Maddox that were in that series . Could have been more ?

 

[armalitesheepdog]

Anyone who likes that sort of thing there is a YouTube channel called Recollection Road. It's very cool

 

[loudgroove]

There are a lot of Saturday morning cartoons from the 70's and 80's on youtube also. Sadly you have to go thru them because many are just the intros.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

We had a bunch of Johnny West stuff. I think we had a boy, Jamie, and maybe another boy too. Jane. Horses Commanche (with moveable legs), Pancho Pony, and i think another horse named Thunder or Thunderbolt.

One funny thing I remember with my little brothers and friends was that, when we were playing with Johnny West and/or GI Joe figurines and we would have our "guys" fighting with each other, one of us kids would be imitating the action music that ALWAYS accompanied those fights on TV. It didn't seem right for the figures to fight with no action music.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

I remember me and my brother had those toy guns that shot little plastic disks and the ones that shot plastic peas. Those were all over the house too.

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And if you could get your hands on some metal washers about the same size of those disks...

And this thread brings back lots of memories.