Tag: Vintage 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….
Johnny Seven O.M.A. — The One-Man Army Toy
The Johnny Seven O.M.A. was one of the ultimate “how did kids ever get this?” toys of the 1960s. Made…
Henry Fonda, Jodie Foster and Peter Brady Selling View-Master?
This is one of those commercials that makes you stop and say, “Wait… is that who I think it is?”…
When Guns Were Fun
There was a time when a kid could watch a Saturday morning ad and immediately know what he wanted next:…
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…