Those are not TOYS! They're MODELS! Toys are for kiddie-winkies!!
100 Classic Toys
- Thread starter Miss Chicken
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Don't know, but if the kids who owned them were maniacs then a disturbingly large percentage of my junior high school friends were seriously disturbed creatures. I played with them just once or twice and had my fill of the things.
Hula hoop - already mentioned
No board games using dice are in the book (if I remember correctly Mousetrap has a spinner?)
Raggedy Anne - YES - Inventor: Johnny Gruelle
Model Airplanes and other plastic models - YES - Airfix models are mentioned. The first Airfix models were sold to the public in 1952.
NO to the rest.
YES - No inventor listed. 1985.
CLUE - there are two toys in which you have to remove something in the hope that something doesn't fall.
Action Man - YES - Inventors: larry Reiner, Stan Weston and Don Levine (same guys who invented G.I. Joe). 1966.
Connect 4 - YES - Inventor: Howard Wexler. 1974
Top Trumps - NO
Battleship - YES - Inventor: Clifford Von Wickler. 1931
Operation - already mentioned
Roller Skates - NO
Kerplunk & Jenga?
IIRC, one kid was killed by a falling lawn dart in a freak accident and suddenly lawn darts were summarily banned. I mean, hell, you probably have a 1000 times greater chance of dying from being sucked up by a tornado.
Strip poker?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Hornby Trains - YES - Inventor: Frank Hornby 1920Only model train maker I know of is Hornby. Always wanted one; never got one
3 other brand of trains are included.
Brio? (Scandi wooden railway)
I loved Playmobil
Brio trains - YES - inventors: Victor, Anton and Emil Ivarsson. 1957.
My sons had Brio when they were quite young. I liked the way the wooden rails clipped together like jigsaw puzzles.
Jenga - YES - Inventor: Leslie Scott. 1983
Kerplunk - YES - Inventors: Eddy Goldfarb and Rene Soriano . 1967. EDITED TO ADD - I overlooked bbailey861 mentioning this toy earlier in the thread.
Clue: a generic flying toy
Clue: Cut-outs to make scenes with.
My sons had Brio when they were quite young. I liked the way the wooden rails clipped together like jigsaw puzzles.
Jenga - YES - Inventor: Leslie Scott. 1983
Kerplunk - YES - Inventors: Eddy Goldfarb and Rene Soriano . 1967. EDITED TO ADD - I overlooked bbailey861 mentioning this toy earlier in the thread.
Clue: a generic flying toy
Clue: Cut-outs to make scenes with.
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Paper airplane?
those rubber-band propeller planes
See and Say, or Johnny West?
I loved ColorForms as a kid. I had so many different sets and still own many of them. That was back when something with such a relatively simple and cheap concept could keep children engaged for long periods of time and didn't have so much competition from electronics and other more sophisticated toys and gadgets.
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