Tag: Vintage Toys

Here’s one that really could only have come out of the late 1960s — Flatsy, the doll whose big selling…

As kids, we used to play army, and this commercial is a pretty good demonstration of what that looked like…

Don’t Blow Your Top came out in 1972, and this is one of those wonderfully simple toy ideas that probably…

As requested by a number of viewers, here is the Raggedy Ann Colorforms commercial I remember from childhood. I have…

With four other brothers to keep busy, Mom and Dad scored big with all of us when they brought home…

Small Shots was one of those 1971 toy ideas that sounds strange now, but made sense once you see it….

This is the Big Jim a lot of kids remember: not just the action figure, but Big Jim’s Rescue Rig…

I remember my mom calling it the “Shoop Shoop Hula Hoop,” and for years I wondered where that came from….

The Slinky was just a coil of metal, but once you put it at the top of the stairs, it…

The Johnny Seven O.M.A. was one of the ultimate “how did kids ever get this?” toys of the 1960s. Made…