Show me yours and I'll show you mine meme
I was thinking it would be cool to make a meme about favorite childhood toys with pictures and descriptions. I found pretty much everything on Ebay and google images.
Do you remember these?
These cheap old tootsie cars were my favorite. They had character and weren't afraid of a little rough handling.
Blocks were an endless source of fun. Nothing better than buiding castles and knocking them down.
I used to have a huge number of Disney and Peter Pan records. My uncle who was 14 at the time gave me some 45 rpm records of Three dog night and Black Sabbath as well. My mom did not appreciate her 5 year old blasting hard rock on the old fisher price.
This was my favorite album as a kid. I listened to it over and over until it was worn out.
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down. This exact setup was my prized posession. I kept it at my grandmothers house so it would be safe from the shitty little brats my mom used to babysit.
I tag BBC, Slaghammer, Abby, Gunny John, and Jeannie with this one and anyone else who wants to do it.
posted by Bill Rowland @ January 30, 2007
27 Comments
27 Comments:
I never realized that the fisher price record player played actual records. I thought it only worked with the specified records that you had to buy to go with it. Hmmm...moms are no fun. I know this because I am a mom and I'm absolutely no fun.
Oh goodie. I'm in a funk too and needed to read about something fun! Forgot about those Weebles. After I finish a pot of coffee, my mind will be churning.
I had the old record player that was red and white. And I loved the read and listen books/records. I had a ton of them. Come to mention it, I kept hold of them. If we got the big one's we had to use the record player in the living room.
OMG I had weebles too. I had the treehouse and the family with it though.
Shitttt...... Hammer, we was poor, my toys were a dog and, umm, umm, umm.
Well, the dog was cool. Hey, ya ever jack off a dog? LOL
I remember having lots of metal minature cars... and transformers.
That's one clever: The playschool had the weird little colored plastic records.
nomas: happy to oblige:
burfica: I saw the treehouse when I was browsing for my stuff.
BBC: I'm sure you can find pictures of a dog, and his dick lol
jingoistic: I played with transformers when I was a young teenager. I always had to go find a kid to put one back together the right way.
Fun meme. I too had Weebles wobbles as a kid. I loved those things.
Ah. Thanks for clarifying.
The little metal cars in the top picture are the kind that I used to "drive" on the modeling clay roads and bridges I used to carefully construct. Modeling clay is a little bit greasy, so I didn't dare use my precious Hotwheels on it. Plus, the hard black plastic tires on these metal cars made nice ruts in the clay and after the first use, you could just kinda push the cars around in their own tracks. I had to build my clay roads on cardboard so I wouldn't get clay on the floor or table.
I'm just a bit too old for weebles but my younger brother had one, that I think was a Noah's Ark.
I had an older brother and sister and therefore never had the fisher price record player. From early on, I had hand me down "real" record players which were actually probably more delicate than the fisher price one.
I'll have to try to find some of the stuff I played with and do a post like this, but I did already write one post with nostalgic toys my older brother and I played with HERE.
When I was a wee lad, I desperately wanted a BigTrak.
I never got one though. I got sweaters. F@ckin sweaters.
I still have a shoebox full of Tootsietoy cars stashed around here somewhere. A bunch of old Matchbox cars, too.
My sister had a Weebles playset, also the Treehouse Family. The Treehouse set is still intact, stashed at my mother's house.
The record I played over and over was a 7-inch 33 1/3 collection of all the songs from H.R. Pufnstuf. I still have most of them memorized.
Oh, I should have added, I still have the record, too. It's a little scratchy, but it still plays.
what a cool idea! i might do it just for fun.
I recognize that record player. I still have it!
Sort of like BBC, things were tough at my house (not that tough). The first time I asked for a toy, my folks gave me a sister. She was pretty cool 'till I broke her... I still remember getting in trouble for that....
You were a lucky boy Hammer
Wow! You brought back a lot of great memories!
I used to love the blocks and the Lincoln Logs. I'd build them with my brothers and we had a blast.
Since I was the only girl, I pretty much played with the toys they had, and we had a lot of fun with the army men.
My favorite though - Lite Brite. I loved it!
Archeologists digging in the backyard of my childhood home would discover Tootsies like the ones in you picture, my Fanner 50, several Tonka trucks, and countless plastic army men – the nice ones, not like the crappy ones they sell today.
YES! The tootsie cars and the record player... I had those! Good ol' memories! :-)
I don't think I've played with any of your toys. I'm searching for some of my own.
rose: weebles rock!
JAM: good post, I just checked it out.
Stucco: I got to play with one that belonged to my friend. We could make it go under the kitchen table and avoid the table legs. Very cool. Yeah I hated friggin sweaters too.
AlanDP: I wish I still I had my cars. I think I'll ebay some so my kids can enjoy em. HR pufinstuf, dang that brings back memories. I just youtubed a couple episodes. they don;t make em like that anymore.
L>T can't wait to see it.
LBB: Those were the best. It's difficult to find a good working record player these days for under $300.
Ryan: Sorry to hear that, hope your sister mended up ok. Yeah before I got toys, I liked playing with refigerator boxes. That is before homeless people stole my idea.
kateykakes:Lincoln logs were good but I only got the 1/2 cabin expansion set so my options were limited. Lite Brite was the one I forgot. I ran out of black paper templates really quickly and had to invent my own.
Phosgene: I'm sure I lost lots of tootsies on the way. I was never allowed army men becuase Vietnam was still going on and my mom was not down with war toys. Maybe thats why I'm so into them now.
Dave: I credit that record player for my current love of music. I wish I knew what happened to all that stuff.
Jeannie: Can't wait to see em.
You keep rolling these childhood memes out, we'll all be showing pictures of "where we came from"...
Better slow down. There are some things better left in the dark...
i didn`t have a sister to break. my brother bore the brunt.
sabbath on a fisher price.........awesome.
i just got my tickets to the march show in toronto. geezer and iommi with the little dwarf dio and vinnie appice on drums.
i just listened to the reunion sabbath live on my mp3 player.
it is the antidote, my friend.
childhood toys;
hot wheels.
football boots (soccer.)
plastic model kits.
other people`s parents.
teachers.
Do you have to go on line to get these toys or can we use replicas of what we had as children?? I have a fewe things here at the house that I can use that are old enough to be vintage LOL.. Well some of them are newer but they serve the purpose of the idea.
tweetey29: I just grabbed em off the web. My toys are long gone.
Dr Alistair: I saw the original lineup in 2001. Great great show. I wouldn't mind seing the Dio version. He's pretty cool.
Scott: Nope not going that far back, after the tunnel of light...that's where my stories begin
i have ssen dio several times since 1983 or so and he absolutely rocks.
i`m glad that ozzie and dio have both had a chance to front the material. did you know that ian gillan and rob halford also did thier bit?
Dr Alistair:
I have the album with gillan, I think it has Zero the hero on it.
I didn't hear about halford. Since Priest is one of my favorite bands I bet that would be interesting.
I played. This was great fun - thanks for the idea.
MG
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