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Friday - TOYS - get off my lawn edition
I don't know if the ones around when I was a kid had the same name but I used to really like these transfer books. Creating your own comic book scene or what not.. For a kid who couldn't draw very well they were pretty great.
Shoot Out at the OK Corral. What a game. I loved this thing. Shooting BBs at the enemy cowboy. Great great time. Do kids today even know what The OK Corral was?
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Sagrilarus wrote:
RobertB wrote:
That was just an exposed hot plate. My dad liked it so much that I never got to play with it,
This is the one I had. Mine was creepy crawly creatures, spiders and bats and the like. Had a great time with it until you couldn't get the goop anymore.
And once you couldn't get the goop anymore, you didn't experiment with other stuff to find goop substitute? I am disappointed in the child-Sag's lack of creativity.
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Also, Lincoln Logs and Girder and Panel playsets .
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I wish these forums had a markdown plugin. I would make so many bulleted lists.
- green plastic army men, that we would melt with magnifying glasses. When I look to the side I can see a burn caused by staring into that white dot of death.
- we would dip grasshoppers into melted candle wax
- My dad brought home these red cedar 2 x 4s and cut them into giant blocks with his radial arm saw, then made a giant pre-jenga tower
- In kindergarten we would fight over the big,hollow play blocks that could be used to build forts
- We would take our GI Joes and stick them on the cross beam of our delta kites. Then they would fall off and hit the asphalt, and the internal rubber band would break, turning them into quadraplegics
- We'd dig these dirt pits and put ledges and bridges made of sticks, and put army men all over, then huck D batteries at them
- Yoyos were big for a while. The Duncan yoyo expert would come to 7-11 and do tricks. He was our god.
As I look back at what I remember of my childhood forty years ago, it seems like we spent so much time just trying to not be bored to death. Also, my dad would do all sorts of stuff that would be deemed too risky or dangerous now. He was constantly building things. I guess he would have been in his mid-thirties. Later in life he discovered computers and spent all of his spare time online, chatting, creating drama, and probably hooking up with some pretty nasty women, if the box of photos I found after he died is any indication. When he was quite old he used to copy movies from Blockbuster DVDs, and never watch them. He was like a poor Howard Hughes. We never did figure out exactly what was wrong with him. One of his old friends posted on the obituary wall that he was the smartest person he had ever known.
Sorry for being a downer!
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