What were your favorite toys of the 1960s and 70s?

Lite bright

Easy Bake Oven. I made killer cakes.

Lite Brite, dear, and yeah that was a good toy.

I had a lot of fun with this until the chemical smell from melting plastic started to make me feel lightheaded. Then I'd have to put it away for a while.

Operation

my sisters 'easy bake oven'. My horrible father quickly put an end to that- gave me a football instead. Bastard!

dildos

anal beads

Hot Wheels.

Of course, I'm a lesbian.

Mego Batcave - and most things Mego.

Barbie Perfume Factory

Monopoly, Battleship, Operation, Masterpiece, Clue

Slinky, frisbee, hula hoop, super-ball

With some of the neighborhood boys, we'd always say "wanna play 'cars' or 'guys'?"

Cars: bring all your cars (matchbox or other brands) to someone's house, bring all your cool car accessories like playsets, racetracks, some new thing you got. Then you'd set up the tracks & playsets, one of my friends had a huge roll-out playset mat that was a bunch of streets and some rural area, then you'd decide what the scene or whatever was, like a road heist. This was the 70s so we made up like drug transport routes and one of us would start out driving the sheriff's vehicles and would confront the transporters. Then they'd cut the deputies in in exchange for cover 😆

Guys: essentially the same idea as Cars. Usually it was GI Joes and other battle-adjacent dolls, like there might be a team-up of several GI Joe's, a couple Star Wars characters, some other characters. One of our friends had every GI Joe playset, and we always wanted to go over to his house. He also had a cool backyard with a small pond & one day his parents let us set up the playsets outside in the fish pond area because there was some new boat toy thing that came out, and we had this big scene where we infiltrated some castle on an island, it was a lot of fun.

My Barbie Dream House, the cardboard one.

My Mom worked for Mattel Toys in the 70s, at their Hawthorne headquarters…when many/most toys were made at the adjacent factory.

My brothers and sisters, and I, were toy testers. My Mom had access to the employee store.

If Mattel made it, we had it! It was a glorious time at Christmas ;)

Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture. Unfortunately, my brother had attached the plastic "kiln" to the lamp and it caught fire and almost burned our house down.

Nintendo 64

Incredible Edibles was bizarre. We had one.

Creeple Peeple

Peteena

Rude Ralph — although it was the 80s.

R14, that’s so cool! And I thought I had it good because my mom worked at K Mart.

R21 where I grew up, most everyone’s parents worked for an aerospace company or a military contractor. Having a Mattel parent was considered *cool*—I had Sizzlers months before any of my friends…and my sisters had a Malibu Dream House before any girl saw the first tv ad.

The Strange Change Machine

Shaker Maker mold kits

King Arthur’s castle with and knights and a working drawbridge (Marx toys, I think)

All cars, trucks, motorcycles and racetracks

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The Green Machine!

From the Popular Mechanics list, I had Legos, the Tonka Dump Truck, G.I. Joe ('Secret of the Mummy's Tomb' set), Spirograph, ViewMaster, and Lincoln Logs.

One of my favorite toys was the Marx Krazy Kar.

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Shrinky Dinks

R24 = Wednesday Addams

Klackers:

Little Miss No Name wasn't macabre, r29, she was beyond pathos.

The Big Jim/Big Josh family of gay stereotypical male action figures.

The “Outer Space Men” by Colorforms. The were bendy like Mattel’s Major Matt Mason, and came out around the same time in the late 60s.

I don’t remember the name of it, but we had this kit that essentially an electric hot plate that you could put lead molds in & then squirt plastic goopy stuff in the molds & make bugs & things.

It would never be allowed to be sold to children now - we were always burning our fingers on it - but we loved that fucker.

Also - monster models (complete with nasty glue & little bottles of paint.)

That was the Thingmaker by Mattel, R34

Stretch Armstrong, but I had the 70s version that was filled with a liquid gel, so when he tore (or got stabbed as mine did), he bled out and died. ☹️

Lord knows what toxic substance was inside him back then but I think the later ones had a solid gel that stretched but wouldn’t ooze out if he got punctured.

I was somewhere under 10 years old but I was already thinking I wanted to have sex with that Stretch Armstrong even if I didn’t know what sex was yet or if two men could even have sex. I just knew I wanted a life size Stretch Armstrong and that I wanted to do bad things with him.

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots

Superball

Spirograph

I loved the Thing Machine/Creepy Crawlers, Spirograph and Lite Brite.

R30 i’ll bet all parents hated those things! They made such a racket!

Someone was throwing away one of those Pitchback nets used to play catch by yourself. I took it home and fixed the netting and used it for years. I could amuse myself for hours with that thing!

R34 R35 there was also Creepy Crawlers. I seem to remember there was even glow in the dark goop.

I like all the spooky, monster-themed toys and games of that era, especially the 3D board games like Voice of the Mummy, Green Ghost, and Which Witch.

Flesglight for men

I loved that thing, as did all my siblings, that was rubber and you put one end, a loop around one leg, and then you would spin the rest which was attached to a plastic lemon, that was kind of a maraca, and you'd jump the lemon. I wish I knew what it was called. I'm probably fucking up the description but how to you describe something like that? LOL. We all loved Spirograph and Etch -a- Sketch too.

OMG I found it. A lemon twist. All five of us kids were fucking OBSESSED with these. Kids were just easier to please back than.

R44 Lemon Twist?

You beat me to it, R45. Jinx!

Yeah LOL

Mister Machine

Kenner Give-a-Show Projector.

Mouse Trap

Kerplunk.

A doll made from a hot water bottle.

My Easy Fuck Dildo

Liddle Kiddles.

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I LOVED my Matchbox and Corgi cars- I guess I was gender appropriate in that regard

The fact that I like to strip my GI Joe doll completely naked and popped a boner over him was NOT gender appropriate.

Matchbox was lame, compared to Hot Wheels.

[quote]The fact that I like to strip my GI Joe doll completely naked and popped a boner over him was NOT gender appropriate.

GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip… ah the memories.

As a very young boy circa 1970, I loved the Fisher Pricel Little People and their accessories (farm, bus, etc). Then, moved on to all things Mego action figures, from the original Action Jackson, to the DC and Marvel superheroes, and then the Planet of the Apes. Guess I loved the equivalent of boys’ dolls.

Lie Detector game

The blond boy in that ad played Walter Cunningham in TKAM.

The King and Me?

Yes, rocket scientist 61

You're always the smartest one in the room, aren't you, r62?

When I’m with you—yes, of course.

We were really into board games. Which is why I'm thrilled that someone else remembers Masterpiece. We were big on Clue and Yahtzee too.

Jesus Fuck. I went to Amazon to see if they still made Masterpiece. You can buy it for $199.00. And it sells. I should check out eBay.

The version of Masterpiece that we played with featured paintings that were all in the collection of Chicago’s Art Institute.

Did that change depending on where you lived? Or did every version featured those paintings?

These are my FAVORITE toys for little girls and boys- from the 1960's

Yes in Biloxi you could get the version with Cionfederate Art.

In Mendocino you could only get the version in macrame.

I liked Cootie.

In 1967 my parents took me with them to go visit my aunt ,uncle and cousins that lived on a farm in rural Florida. It was right after Christmas and my cousins had just gotten lawn darts as a gift. At the time I was 8 years old and my cousins were 6 and 7. We were left ALONE to play in the yard which had chickens running about. To this day I cannot eat shish kabob or anything skewered after that visit....

[quote]I liked Cootie.

People tend to like what they're familiar with.

R66 Masterpiece is no longer manufactured. Prices are for old games, used or not. So prices vary widely.

I got a lot of my Girl cousin's hand-me-down toys. My favorite was the TXL learning robot that played eight tracks. And the Inchworm.

Mille Bornes

Pirate and Traveler

Careers

Farm set! My brother had this fancy one.

R77 After P&T, my other favorite board game.

Mystery Date

I am dating myself. One of my favorite toys were: Weeble Wobbles (but they don’t fall down). I used to love their song, too.

Shrinky Dinks

I posted this before but my Farrah Fawcett Barbie doll.

The Play Dough Fun Factory. In my mind it was way more complex than it is in the pictures I found when Googling it. I think of it as a very tall, multistory factory that produces a wide variety of Play Dough shapes. My mother got it for me at a department store called The Bargain Center, because it's not like we were going to pay full price for anything.

*Doh

the playdough barber shop was the best.

The Play Dough Mop Top Hair Shop

G.I. Joe and MEGO Marvel and DC action figures.

Not that you asked about the 1980s but the Kenner Super Powers action figure line was and is the best.

Flubber

King of the Hill

I see Weebles walking all over the place now.

I not only undressed my G.I. Joes, I made cocks and balls for them out of Silly Putty and penciled in large patches of pubic hair with my colored pencils, hair color correct, of course.

Bartender, you need to cut r91 off.

Plastic horses about 10" high. We had a bunch of them and I would make corrals for them and invent stories. Sometimes I'd sneak my sister's Barbies to ride them.

Wow R90 - that awakened a very dim memory - I think we visited someone who’s kid had that game when I was very young.

And that box art! - the photomontage creates a space with absolutely no depth - somewhere between Cubism and Giotto.

Exactly, r95. I remember seeing it at someone's house and never played it. I thought the box made it look like it was fun.

Clay…from the river!

[quote]I see Weebles walking all over the place now.

Walking without legs? How does that work?

Sticks.

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R97 if it's any compensation, I grew up in a wealthy leafy 60's built suburb that had a huge clay deposit left undeveloped. It provided years of free activities and fun, even though we had every pricy kid commodity in our homes.

Fisher Price castle set with the knight, horse, pink dragon, and princess. I played with that for hours!

Weebles! I had the submarine which ended up getting the figures wet and the paper that was inside the egg part would start to come off.|

Inch Worms

Electronic Battleship game.

Stop! Thief! electronic game.

ANY Star Wars toys.

I always wanted the Six Million Dollar Man action figure with the skin that pulled back revealing the bionics in his forearm but my parents wouldn't get it for me. I'm a girl so they probably thought it was for boys. Not sure why they let me get into Star Wars. I still have all my vintage Star Wars toys.

Pick Up Stix

creepy