Toys of old

[Rollo Tamasi]

Some old toys are still around today.

1. The yo-yo.
The yo-yo has a history of being simply great!
Why?
It will keep the kids busy forever without getting into trouble.
Yeah, right!
I use to get thrown out of school because I wouldn't stop bringing my yo-yos with me and playing with them all day long.

2. The hula hoop.
What a masterful toy.
A round circle, done, presto!
Instant fun.
Watch yourself make a fool of yourself trying to use it right and just laugh and laugh and laugh.

3. The slinky.
The slinky goes off and keeps tossing itself over, especially on a hill or on stairs.
Play with that slinky in your hands and think your doing something of importance.

4. The pogo stick.
This was the best of them all.
Show everyone how good you can use the pogo stick, fall off of it, and break your neck.
Great toy!

Can anyone think of any others?

 

[evenifigoalone]

Easy bake oven.

 

[evenifigoalone]

Lite Brite

 

[Claudya]

- stilts
- skip ropes
- rubik cubes (still have two if them here, both are in a disordered state)
- Lego

 

[evenifigoalone]

I have a booklet on how to solve the Rubik's cube, but I still can't solve the flipping thing.

 

[reba]

wagon
bike
ball just about any ball
@ 3 cents a bottle seems it took a million soda bottles to get enough $$ for a baseball... they do so well when ya have to use tape to keep them together

 

[TOG]

SuperBall! Just throw it once and break everything in the house.

The TOG​

 

[jasoncran]

hot wheels, since someone mentioned the rubix cube which came out in the 80's

 

[Shane Atkinson]

Lawn Darts!

 

[jasoncran]

Lawn Darts!

lawn darts? the dangerous kind or the "safe kind" I used to have a dent in my skull from the blunt version. I got hit when I was a kid, I still remember that day.

 

[TOG]

I don't know if they make it any more, but one of toys I liked when I was a kid was the Mattel ThingMaker.

The TOG​

 

[Shane Atkinson]

lawn darts? the dangerous kind or the "safe kind" I used to have a dent in my skull from the blunt version. I got hit when I was a kid, I still remember that day.

 

[jasoncran]

they first made them just like the throwing darts and kids died and blunted them later. I was hit by the blunted one

 

[Claudya]

I have a booklet on how to solve the Rubik's cube, but I still can't solve the flipping thing.

Theoretically I know how to solve them. Practically I'm too lazy. lol

It's not very hard, once you understood the basic principle you can solve every cube. You would be the star on every party.

 

[Claudya]

Wow never seen those before. I'd probably try to hit everything with them except for the lawn.

 

[Claudya]

they first made them just like the throwing darts and kids died and blunted them later. I was hit by the blunted one

Pretty sure more people are killed by blunt objects than through impalement on a toy spear.

 

[jasoncran]

Pretty sure more people are killed by blunt objects than through impalement on a toy spear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts

Lawn darts had been banned from being sold in the United States for many years. The ban was challenged in court in the late 1970s, prompting the Consumer Product Safety Commission to make a compromise ruling allowing their sale provided they were not marketed as toys. However, in April 1987, seven-year-old Michelle Snow was killed by a lawn dart thrown by one of her brothers' playmates in the backyard of their home in Riverside, California. The darts had been hidden in the storage room. Michelle's father, David, began a crusade to get lawn darts banned, claiming that there was no way to keep children from getting their hands on lawn darts short of a full ban.[1]

Due in part to Snow's lobbying, on December 19, 1988, the CPSC reinstated the outright ban on lawn darts.[2] In the previous eight years, 6,100 people had been sent to the emergency room due to lawn darts. Out of that total, 81 percent were 15 or younger, and half of them were 10 or younger. On the week the commission voted to ban the product, an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee was hit by a lawn dart and sent into a coma.[1]

Shortly after, in 1989, they were also banned in Canada.[3] Since then, alternatives have surfaced that are available for sale in Canada that are made of plastic.





Jarts with plastic tips for sale at Canadian Tire.
It is possible to import parts of a lawn dart - plastic flights, metal bodies, and steel spigots - as well as a complete set of replacement parts to repair damaged lawn darts, into the US and Canada. However, fully assembled individual darts, sets, and kits are banned from entry by US and Canada customs

only a few listed but its two.

 

[TOG]

Theoretically I know how to solve them. Practically I'm too lazy. lol

It's not very hard, once you understood the basic principle you can solve every cube. You would be the star on every party.

I figured it out pretty quick. All you need is a small screwdriver or something similar to pry it apart and then put it correctly back together.

The TOG​

 

[reba]

TOG

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

wagon
bike
ball just about any ball
@ 3 cents a bottle seems it took a million soda bottles to get enough $$ for a baseball... they do so well when ya have to use tape to keep them together

That comes to $20,000.00.
That's California for ya.