A toy you wanted...

[Doom Shepherd]

I remember as a kid seeing funny movies with grown-ups in bathtubs playing with toy boats. Battleships, destroyers, aircraft carriers, etc.

I never got any. At least, none that could actually be played with in the tub (plastic models? They don't do so well.)

I also had a TON of plastic dinosaurs, but I really wanted a Plesiosaurus, and never had one (but I do now.)

 

[Roshi]

The Odysseus, Ulysses 31's starship. I remember putting it into our cart (I was 7 y.o. I think) but it never passed the cashier...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Do they even make chemistry sets anymore? With the overly litigious society we live in nowadays, I'd be surprised if anyone does...

 

[Timewalker]

A couple of toys I've been looking for, for several years now:

These images are from the webcomic Fuzzy Knights, by Noah Chinn, in which a group of stuffed animals play Dungeons & Dragons-type games and go on other adventures, as well.

The characters, from left to right, are Mossfoot, Target, Violet, and Ben. I have Mossfoot and Violet (they are actually Russ Berrie teddy bears; there are no commercial toys of these characters). I've been searching for Target (the black and white cat) and Ben (the bunny) for ages. I keep coming very close to finding Ben - at any given time there are a dozen or two Benjamin Bunny toys on eBay, but I've never been able to find exactly the right version.

I've asked Noah Chinn if he remembers where he bought these toys, and what their tush tags say, but he's given me all the information he knows about them. It was over 10 years ago, after all, and he had no idea that years later other people would be searching for these as well.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Ben is approximately 8" tall.

 

[Timby]

Do they even make chemistry sets anymore? With the overly litigious society we live in nowadays, I'd be surprised if anyone does...

Six seconds on Amazon would give you the answer.

 

[HIjol]

Do they even make chemistry sets anymore? With the overly litigious society we live in nowadays, I'd be surprised if anyone does...

Pretty sure I saw chemistry sets being played with in a couple of episodes of "Sons of Anarchy"

They looked like pretty modern sets...

I remember as a kid seeing funny movies with grown-ups in bathtubs playing with toy boats. Battleships, destroyers, aircraft carriers, etc.

I never got any. At least, none that could actually be played with in the tub (plastic models? They don't do so well.)

I also had a TON of plastic dinosaurs, but I really wanted a Plesiosaurus, and never had one (but I do now.)

The Award for "Best Scene with Toy Boats Being Played With in a Bathtub" goes posthumously to:

John Lennon, "A Hard Day's Night"

Rule Britannia

https://video.search.yahoo.com/vide...e+john+lennon&fr=ipad&ei=UTF-8&sigb=12crmpat6

 

[Gary Mitchell]

The toy I want the most these days is one that I actually had for most of my life, but got rid of about 13 years ago because I was moving and couldn't take everything with me.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gKGW8lVLQPQ/hqdefault.jpg

I thought I could part with it because it wasn't in very good shape as it missing a lot of parts--and because I didn't know at the time there was this place called eBay where I could buy eventually all those missing parts.

Somehow I knew what you were talking about before I clicked on the link. I still have my original Eagle (with most of the parts missing ) and I bought one on ebay several years ago but I'm still missing most of the parts. One of my favorite toys ever.

 

[Mudd]

The battery-operated Lost In Space Robot.

 

[Velocity]

Do they even make chemistry sets anymore? With the overly litigious society we live in nowadays, I'd be surprised if anyone does...

Not like the one I played with in the 50's I'm sure. I think they wouldn't have glass test tubes or metal test tube holders at the very least. Everything would be plastic and the chemicals would be NaCl and NaHCO3 and Ca and mostly safe things. I have to look around to see what, if anything, is offered now.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The characters, from left to right, are Mossfoot, Target, Violet, and Ben. I have Mossfoot and Violet (they are actually Russ Berrie teddy bears; there are no commercial toys of these characters). I've been searching for Target (the black and white cat) and Ben (the bunny) for ages. I keep coming very close to finding Ben - at any given time there are a dozen or two Benjamin Bunny toys on eBay, but I've never been able to find exactly the right version.

That reminds me: I always wanted the Goofy Grape pillow (see my avatar). I got Lefty Lemon and Freckle-Face Strawberry, but it was my Sister who got Goofy Grape, and she refused to give him up, no matter what I offered for him. When she grew up, she agreed to give him to me, but when she went looking for him, he wasn't where she thought she stored him.

 

[HIjol]

Do they even make chemistry sets anymore? With the overly litigious society we live in nowadays, I'd be surprised if anyone does...

Six seconds on Amazon would give you the answer.

The Agony that is Me: I read Timby's reply to Le Beame du Lazure , and this is what instantly popped into my head.

Hi, I am Tim B, and this is "6 Seconds On Amazon", the show that gives each contestant clues to answers found by searching Amazon.com. The faster our Searchers find answers, the higher the points."
"This week we have with us, the Regional Finalists from the well known and highly regarded on-line Star Trek Board, "Trek BBS."
We will do introductions after the first round, so let's get started."
"This week's Clue Catagories are:

Before The Universe Was The Universe
God, Fact, Fiction or Faction?
How Many Nacelles Do You See?
American Politics, Please No
Who Really Is "The Man?"
How Many Bowls In A Gatling Bowl
Popular Klingon Baby Names
and
Red Shirts Who Did Not Die

Actually, "6 seconds..." could be a pretty fun game..

But, who would be our Contestants?

 

[think]

six seconds on Amazon = isn't that a game already hosted by amazon? we could start a thread ... nonononono,.
on topic I guess===
I had the chem set and get this even used the damn thing.. hehe - the set had a set of about fifty experiments to get done.. I would use like tannic acid and potassium nitrate et,.c.
i would use my microscope that worked best with direct sunlight reflected onto the slide rather than the built in light. the rock set with hammer and ,.. chemicals to mix on the rocks say the yellow sulfur rock .. in passing I would mix sulfur and other things to ... burn to see them burn mmm yeah I was a little pyromaniac,.. I am lucky that I did not burn the house down. later I moved to a Butane Torch and I would reshape all the glass objects in the whole house..

like the UFO tv series toys they rocked..

that blue toy on the bottom right was my favorite toy.,, can we just post the image from google to this post or do we put the link to the image there .. IDK..

so every possible thing was in my toy box..---the aforementioned microscope the endless lego sets (which i wish I had now.. to play with) the telescope In third grade the rocket launchers and rockets endless toys they must of felt so badly about what they used to do to me ?? There was nothing real I wanted for a toy as a kid because if I saw it I could get it. but happy my life was crazy and if I had known there were kids leading ,,, normal lives as kids,,, I probably would of wanted that too.. to put in my toy box.

Just watching mom shoot heron or dad fall down drunk was not the most exciting of lives.. I guess.,, cause the toys did not compensate for it.

 

[uniderth]

This was mine too. I ask for it for Christmas for years. The problem is if I bought one now I would never open it to play with it.

 

[cultcross]

I think we must have realised by now the thing about keeping things in their original packaging was just hot air. Have you seen how much sealed-in-box stuff goes for at conventions? Barely the original retail price plus inflation. Not worth it. Play with it!!

 

[BillJ]

I think we must have realised by now the thing about keeping things in their original packaging was just hot air. Have you seen how much sealed-in-box stuff goes for at conventions? Barely the original retail price plus inflation. Not worth it. Play with it!!

Agreed.

 

[LordMudd]

This was mine too. I ask for it for Christmas for years. The problem is if I bought one now I would never open it to play with it.

It was not a great playset. A lot of scenes happened on the bridge, but not much action. The Holodeck would have been the best choice. I even knew how to make it and told them I did, but they never called me back to hear me out. Their loss, and a big one too, but yours as well. Be sure to tell them how you feel about that every chance you get.

CCC.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ The holodeck would just be every other playset in the world.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

<searching e-Bay, et al., for an Annie Oakley toy rifle>

They're around. The 50's model I wanted was cream-colored and beautiful. I saw a much newer one online recently. It was pink and came with a pink cowgirl hat with rhinestone trim and other disgusting accessories. A prime example of the pinkification of girlhood.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I just thought of another toy I wanted when I was a kid: The Ark II.

(I don't know if it was ever offered AS a toy, but I damn well wanted one.)

Yes, I am that pathetic.

 

[Davros]

Kenner See-Action Football
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15944/see-action-football