The 1960s were HERE
1970 – Nerf Ball
1971 – Weebles
1972- UNO
1973- Shrinky Dinks
1974- Skateboards
1975- Pet Rock
1976- Stretch Armstrong
1977 – Atari
1978- Star Wars figurines
1979 – Simon
Top Christmas Toys – 1970s
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Had most of those, I think I gave Shrinky Dinks a couple of years ago as a gag gift.
Skateboarding was huge in my neighborhood, everybody did it and several pro skaters. I still have a couple of boards.
Let’s face it, GI Joe, Barbie & Hot Wheels roared into the 70’s as well.
Adventure Team for GI Joe was epic.
I do believe the Sears Catalog of 1969 was the best ever, though.
Imagine going back and being able to order from that Sears catalog!
OMG!
I would get:
Captain Action: Captain Action & Action Boy, all superhero outfits, the Silver Streak vehicle. Fun fact, all the heroes were from various intellectual properties and no company will ever get that kind of agreement again.
GI Joe: All the space stuff, Deep Sea stuff, etc.
Hot Wheels: Every fucking car they made and all the different colors.
Major Matt Mason: The entire set and all the White astronauts. (Doh!)
Cap guns & Chemistry Sets: Because God gave you two eyes just in case…
BTW, all that radioactivity AND I’M STILL FUCKING HERE!
Fisher-Price & the little peoples were epic sets as well.
The Castle playset was really cool.
The House that folded open, station wagon, etc.
My younger siblings had the F-P sets and I played with them with the sets, I was only a few years older.
I got an erector set that had parts missing…sigh*
I had a great 70’s toy. I don’t think it would be cool to mention her by name.
I know train sets had been around since 1910 but the HO scale was popular in the 70’s.
As well as slot cars.
I was always excited for Christmas because that is when Dad brought out the slot cars.
Simpler times…
“I wanna go back…to the 70’s”
(Apologies to Jimmy Buffett)
Brad, you gave your blow up doll a name? 🤣
HA!…Brad got one of those stand up Barbies that were first rumored to exist (for me) around 1968…..
Diogenes Sarcastica
LOL, it was like that Bob Seger song. Except we had to walk where ever we went.
Diogenes wins the thread, but it can’t count without current pictures…Zonga too….Hell, anybody female that’s willing….That been my motto for 20 years now….
I bet he did Diogenes, and that name was “Veronica”…
Ginger? Mary-Ann?
Jan, thanks for setting me up for the only two virgins on IOTWReports. Wut were you thinking? LOL
“Jan”!
Damn Brad just outed or perhaps dead-named Diogenes?
Yes Brad, a virgin asshole I have… gonna stay that way too!
I’m still holding out for a pic of a 70’s toy that was as distressed as the Easy Bake Oven.
I mean…MY GOD!
“Damn Brad just outed or perhaps dead-named Diogenes?”
You stupid fucking cock sucker. Visit her place. Everyone calls her Jan. A good woman. And you just can’t help being a dumb ass.
Speaking of the 60’s -70’s… on Batman rerun right now, from 2-23-1967 on MeTV has Julie Newmar as the villian-ness.
I would have named my blow-up doll… Julie…sigh*
Well you skipped over being a dumb ass rather quickly didn’t you. Have another drink. You need to look into a program. I’m hardly joking.
Weebles wobble BUT THEY DON’T FALL DOWN was often heard at keg parties back then.
Brad, in your irrational zeal to absolutely despise me, my sarcasm, snark, and just good old goofing off is lost on you.
You are indeed Adam Schiff!
So sad…
*Sigh…
Poor Bradley, I have no words.
Loco
I actually hate your guts. No lie. I’ve seen your personality before. So we now under stand each other why not just leave me alone? And I’ll do the same.
You can’t quit me Brad…
Have another drink. YOUR SO SPECIAL. Stop addressing me. I’ll do the same. NOBODY HERE ENJOYS THIS.
Did any of you know that Alan Napier played the butler ‘Alfred’ Penneyworth’ on the TV Batman show….Yeah, I didn’t either…He never had an action hero figure that I’ve heard of….so sad on so many levels….
The great thing about iotw is that it ISN’T full of humorless scolds who can’t take a joke, discern purely anodyne statements or understand snark or sarcasm.
Yet here I thought only liberals spent their days incessantly hunting for that obscure offense to stew their panties in a wad.
I pity those that live in that dark, windowless world, bereft of humor yet full of angst.
I see, so now you’re a comedian. I’m not. Shove off. I’m the humorless asshole. I’m good with that. You win.
Well, don’t ever let it be said that I have to get the last word in…
(Hence the ellipsis, I’ve always got more shit to say…)
Got my youngest an Atari for Christmas. He mastered most of the games. When Pac Man came out – maybe 5 years later- he was champ of his den and his pack. Now he’s a suit for big micro computer/phone co. (name with held to protect the innocent.
His sheepskins are Physics not Computer Science; but the $ was in programing – today coding.
Apple fall close to the tree. I became a “bean counter” not an economist for the same reason!
I don’t remember getting any of these items for Christmas in the ’70s. It may have been that by then I was past toys. I do remember a guitar, record albums, a typewriter and a Raleigh ten speed bike (which I bought myself with babysitting money).
Uno and Atari.
Daisy BB guns were the best toys an eight year old boy could ever get! Still are.
The Pantyfag is on the next thread.
Question for the Class
Anyone here graph paper map out the Atari Dungeon Quest?
That’s how to find the thing in the tranporter room.
That learnt skill payed off in the early 80s
And it was a Spoon. N.S. Not NSFW Shaped either.
Paid Quadruple later at this school in this place.
Tron Multi-Pass Machine Forever Quarters
Mile High High Scores
Island hopping over time since 20 and 17.
Before and after and just keep aiming higher and higher.
Spaces and Places.
Columbia single speed bike with banana seat, no sissy bar. Helped my dad put together 7 bikes for my other siblings that Christmas Eve. I’ll never forget it
I hated that SIMON thing.
Really Fn Irritating!
We used to play “Nerfminton”, using a Nerf ball with badminton racquets. it was far more fun.
Who didn’t damage / cut Stretch Armstrong to find out what was in it.
We had a Simon. I was able to win at it several times and gave it up. I think it lasted about 6 months.
If you ever bought toys from ‘Little Tikes’, the plastic they were made from came from the polyethylene plant where I worked.
The Cannabis plant was illegallized by congress in the 1930s to destroy cheap rope and make a market for newly patented plastics.
Smoke that you box winos.
Cannabis has always been here.
Alcohol is the poison.
Tobacco is not either.