OT: Sports toys/games from your younger days. (Pics encouraged)

[CL82]

I had this Jeep and trailer. The action figures and the accessories were pretty cool. The launcher fired silver rockets which you can see in the jeep. Of course you'd inevitably lose some of GI Joe's limbs. I don't think they sold replacements back then, so you'd get a new Joe.

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I had the jeep too!

 

[B1GEast]

I remember having this figure

 

[B1GEast]

They made a lot of strange toys, but we still played with them

 

[87Xfer]

Gas plane on a tether. Saved up for it by selling Christmas Cards door-to-door as advertised in my “Boys Life“ subscription. (a magazine from cub scouts) Was a bear to control, and started a boyhood obsession with anything with an internal combustion engine. Amazing that we survived.

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This and slot cars were my obsessions for a while. Nearly lost fingers starting the cox engines many times. And that fuel was something else. With the right plane you could fly loops, then do forward loops to keep the tether chords from getting too crossed up.

Later we learned that you could use Estes rockets to create some nutty improvised fireworks. Get the biggest model rocket engine you could find, make a big 12-18 inch long tube from poster board, buy "cannon fuse" or improvise with tissue paper and gun powder and connect it to where the engine charge goes off to launch the parachute, then cram the tube with M80s, whatever else spliced to the "fuse". Epoxy fins on and add a nose cone. Launch when ready. I think we almost set South Windsor on fire once with that game.

 

[Kolumbo]

Even Letterman had a top 10 on this subject.

ain't got the baby batter on the brain

 

[oshkosh]

Featured on many car rides

 

[Deepster]

A bucket full of these guys and a dirt mound or area under a tree and it was hours of fun.

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Unfortunately my troop suffered many casualties during the great Battle Against The Magnifying Glass.

 

[Waquoit]

couldn't imagine childhood without one

Anyone else remember the original? The plucky underdog that was soon eclipsed by Big Foam.

 

[Spaceman213J]

I love this thread. It makes me think of so many wonderful memories.

1. Wiffle Ball- My dad actually built a wiffle ball field, complete with little American flags on top of the outfield fence posts for foul poles. I can't tell you how many hours my friends and family spent on our lot playing wiffle ball. It's one of the thing I miss the most about my old house in Morris, CT.
2. Jarts- These are still illegal now, yet some cities want to make it okay to walk around with heroin in your pockets. Never thought I'd see the day
3. Balsa Wood Planes- They remind me of Cape Cod. Every year my mom would buy me one from a store up there and I'd take it to the beach. She would also get me a cheap kite to fly.

I also grew up on Transformers, the new G.I. Joe figures and vehicles and if anybody remembers toys based on the short lived M.A.S.K. cartoon. I never really got into He-Man which also big when I was a kid.

I also miss the smell of the electric race car sets. It is funny how a picture or smell can take you back.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

1. Wiffle Ball- My dad actually built a wiffle ball field, complete with little American flags on top of the outfield fence posts for foul poles. I can't tell you how many hours my friends and family spent on our lot playing wiffle ball. It's one of the thing I miss the most about my old house in Morris, CT.

I played in a backyard whiffleball league in Ansonia when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school and the kid who ran it was a part time writer for the Valley Sentinel. He would write articles like it was a legit baseball league with quotes from players and all. I still have the articles saved in a binder somewhere.

 

[David54]

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Still made in Shelton Ct. right?

 

[Jmul760170]

I loved this stupid thing.

Yes same here. Used to run the score up on just 1 side to see what the high score I could get.
They had a version of it out the last 10-15 years, I played it a few times and tossed it......

 

[Jaydumo20]

These things always leaked water

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This was my jaaaaaam! Great call

 

[Spaceman213J]

I forgot to mention Key Cars. I remember one Christmas when I had opened all my toys. I was already happy with what I got, but then my mom took me to our wood stove and there were 3 little packages around the bottom of the stove, which was a few feet up on a cement block. She said they must have fallen out of Santa's bag, but were meant for me. They were 3 Key Cars.

One year, I also got this yellow wood construction set thing. You pumped it up with a handle which spun two saws, a puncturing device and sander that were all surrounded by clear safety hard plastic. You could build stuff out of popsicle sticks and thin pieces of balsa wood.

 

[husky8273]

Nok Hockey

I still have this game.

 

[Improviser]

I still have this game.

I built my own, though primitive, in my also primitive, woodworking shop in my basement.

I think it was in the 1960's. I still have it somewhere in my house.

 

[Improviser]

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For wannabe sluggers in small backyards.

1950's I think it started out.

 

[Improviser]

Never had one of these more than 10 minutes. Either, ended up on a roof or in a tree.

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I remember these. Made of balsa wood. The precursor of the drone, maybe?

 

[Improviser]

And, then there were these erector sets. This video and video presentation, was common then.

 

[mauconnfan]

For wannabe sluggers in small backyards.

1950's I think it started out.

Could play it anywhere. One on one or 3 on 3 didn’t matter. Bat righty or lefty be any major leaguer you wanted to be. HRs, triples or doubles off a certain part of a fence, house, roof, bushes didn’t matter it traveled to parks or family get togethers. The best!

 

[B1GEast]

One toy that I really really wanted but never got was the Planet of the Apes battle wagon playset.

 

[87Xfer]

Another one that was stupid simple but I really liked it anyway.

 

[NEforceUConn]

For rainy days.

 

[alexd]

Mid 1970s.... Sub Search. Sort of a 4 level cooler version of "battleship".

 

[Kolumbo]

 

[Kolumbo]

we had an early version of this

 

[CbbisGreat]

not a toy ,but when I was a kid the day the new marvel comics came out was the biggest day of the month .
Spiderman , Daredevil , Avengers were all great .

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

 

[August_West]

160-1 Electronic project kit when I was 9. Still have it. Best “ toy” ever.
I used to mess with that thing 14 hours a day and it shaped my life. 3 days after the XMAS I received it I hijacked the AM radio my parents listened to Bob Steele on before work every morning and broadcast myself.
It’s stuck with me through life, from giving me the knowledge framework to build my own guitar effects and rewire my guitars, to setting me up for understanding hardware computer components early in the game which led to my career.

Yeah, I was, and am, an egghead.

 

[AidanFan20]

Carrom Pool board

Couldn't seem to get it to link any other way... Versatile mini-pool and other games board.