Gallery of 1970’s Toys …
There is a fun galley of a more innocent time – toys of the 1970’s … some familiar, some not so much …
$1.88 for an action figure? That’s crazy! And I should put these in a temperature controlled storage, it’ll be worth $13,000? Hey, mister, are you that guy on TV who invented crack because I think you are smoking it – what a kook. Oh gum!
$11,47 for the sand crawler – that’s outrageous! I’ll buy it in 30 years for the exact same price (never mind the important zero on the end of the price).
Was this a popular playset? I have seen the Earthquake movie – didn’t seem very good but did this sweep the nation in the mid 1970’s – seismology was all the rage or maybe it was about dropping a building on play people?
TRU ad – I guess people-kids still played ‘cowboys and Indians?’*
* 1970’s reference not 2010 Politically Correct, I know.
I think this is still available …
And it’s good to know some things don’t change (very much).
From TOYS I HAD.
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28 April 2010
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john, that’s it, chutes away…thanks!!! mike
Did anyone have the Atari Stunt Cycle? It came out long before the Atari 2600 – I remember having friends in my basement lined up to play it.
hi there,
does anyone remember a toy (it might have been called bombardier) in which the board base spun and you would look through a site glass and drop a plastic bomb into a cup on the board?
thansk,
mike
Wow, I remember that game, not the name, but a friend of mine had it when we were growing up and I used to play it all the time. I remember figuring out that you had to drop the bomb before you could actually see the target or you would miss it, and then it wasn’t fun anymore.
It was some sort of parachute game.
Googling right now…
Chutes Away ==> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/thing/5790/chutes-away
Oh, I spent tons of money on Dragon’s Lair!
Wow! What a trip down memory lane. Especially the army men story. We did the same, but just threw marbles or something like that.
Here is one, it was cheap even back in the day. It was a plastic track with 2 or 3 plastic motorcycles or race cars, they had a silver ball placed in the bottom of the cycle or car and would roll down the track. First one down wins. Can anyone remember what it was called? Hopefully my description was good enough. I would love to have one of those cheap tracks again.
Slot cars were cool, but they had slot tracks were you could switch lanes. Now that was technolorgy back in the day.
Thanks for the memories.
Dude, my brother had that 6MM dollar man, he, GI Joe and Superman were awesome boyfriends for my Barbies! No lame-o Ken for them 😉
For me it was “Dawn” dolls. She was like Barbie only about half the size. And I think everyone had a set of Lawn Darts.
Yes good memories but none of these toys besides mouse trap and Star Wars are the popular toys of the seventies.Â
  If we are talking what toys kids were playing in the 70’s we have to mention such classics as  Rock em sock em Robots, Gi Joes, fisher Price and weeble figures, lite brite, perfection, electric football, stratomatic baseball, Demolition derby, jaws, great board games like: risk, payday, stratego and all the other fun games that we played before the 80s ushered in the video game era.
  Yes these were great games played with friends and family.
  I miss my plastic blowup clown man with the sand on the bottom that you could beat the crap out of but no matter how hard you hit him he still bounced back. Or how about a cap guns and the Cowboy and indian stuff they use to sell so we could play cowboys and indians.Â
  We also loved our matchbox and hotwheels Cars back then and would set up races by building our own track with the orange connecting hotwheels tracks.
  However the 70’s toy that we spent the most time on was army men. Oh the battles we would set up in Grandmas yard. Complete with trenches, bridges, forts and bases. We would set them up for hours just so we could have the war. Skittles through a straw made great bombs. Ha ha.
  Good times. Even if grandma made us drink the flavors like black cherry RC cola cans that were always on sale.   Â
I was a freshman at Butler University in 1977… living in the 3rd floor of a dorm. My roommate was into the slot car racing, as was one of the people across the hall. They got me hooked… we kept tracks set up in the rooms and every so often we’d run connecting track across the hall and join them as 1 large track – you couldn’t see the entire track… That was a lot of fun… they both transferred after our freshman year, and I sold my track and cars… and never did anything like that again until Cars came out, 29 year later…
I also remember playing Pac-Man and Missile Command at the arcades… I missed a lot of classes because I’d rather play at the arcades…
Talk about a trip down memory lane… I think I still have Mouse Trap somewhere…
I couldn’t tell you how many quarters — err, tokens — I dropped into Crazy Climber. Someday I will buy that for my basement.
Reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry and George “drugged” that girl to play with her 70’s toys.
Oh man, I miss my Evil Knievel Stunt Cycle!
The Earthquake Tower reminds me of my old Girder & Panel building sets.
I forgot about Gnip Gnop!!
Does anyone else remember marshmallow-shaped styrofoam toys that you could squeeze and then shoot it from your hands? What were those called?
We called them snapper – poppers. I forget the real name
What about Sea Diver? I still have mine and the box
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Six Million dollar man sound……
We used that board game to slide down the stairs with!!!
Those TRC Glo-chargers look A LOT like them Cousins of Mater’s!!!
DAG GUM!!!
It looks like the King in the lead with Trunk Fresh on his tail. Is that McQueen in third place? Not for long… When did the King change his number from 7 to 43?