Tag: 1970s toys
Mini Wizzzer: When a Spinning Top Was All We Needed
Before we needed a screen to keep us occupied, Mattel could sell us a little spinning top and let us…
Flatsy Dolls: They Were Flat and That Was That!
Here’s one that really could only have come out of the late 1960s — Flatsy, the doll whose big selling…
Don’t Blow Your Top
Don’t Blow Your Top came out in 1972, and this is one of those wonderfully simple toy ideas that probably…
Carry-All Action Playsets
With four other brothers to keep busy, Mom and Dad scored big with all of us when they brought home…
Small Shots: Mattel’s Hot Wheels Dolls
Small Shots was one of those 1971 toy ideas that sounds strange now, but made sense once you see it….
Big Jim’s Rescue Rig: Backyard Adventure in a Box
This is the Big Jim a lot of kids remember: not just the action figure, but Big Jim’s Rescue Rig…
“Shoop Shoop Hula Hoop”
I remember my mom calling it the “Shoop Shoop Hula Hoop,” and for years I wondered where that came from….
Did you have Shark Pack?
I felt that changing the discs to make it do different maneuvers meant you might as well have pushed it…
Whenever I saw the Barbie Cut ’n Curl commercial as a kid, I always wondered if it really worked as smoothly as it looked on TV.
The idea was great: give Barbie a haircut, style her hair, curl it, and somehow keep the fun going without…