Tag: 1970s toys
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…
Probably no toy gave me more joy than Hot Wheels.
It was great the first day you got the track, but the fun didn’t stop there. A new car didn’t…
Who had a Farrah Doll?
The Farrah doll was part of full-blown Farrah Fawcett mania in the late 1970s, when her feathered hair, red swimsuit…
Mouse Trap Game
I remember wanting Mouse Trap so bad because it looked so cool in the commercial. What kid wouldn’t want their…