You may remember me talking earlier about my brother Pinata. You may recollect that I call him Pinata because sometimes I just want to hit him with a stick. Well, today he went to the doctor for a physical. When the doctor asked him if there was anything she could do for him, he asked, "Have you got anything I can take for acute hypochondrism?" Now you know why I call him Pinata.
I heard a topic on a radio station lately that got me thinking about growing up in the 60's and 70's and the toys I wanted and usually didn't get.
I thought it would be a fun topic for a blog: Toys that didn't live up to the way they were portrayed on the commercials or on the front of the box.
Here are a few I came up with, but I would like for you to add some in the comments:
Slinky-Did anyone you know ever get a slinky to go more than one step. On the commercial they showed it going all the way down, but when you tried it at home, it just went plunk! And if you had carpet, forget it! If it ever got tangled up, it was worse than a Rubik's cube. The sad thing is, we all bought them for our kids too (didn't you?)
Boomerang-Oh yeah, they looked cool. You could just throw it and it would come back to you, just like in Australia. More realistic, you would throw it and it would slice off into the neighbors yard and land on their roof. Or it would hit the ground at mach speed, ricocheting off the pavement and hitting Timmy in the back of the head. (where was brother Pinata when I needed him?)
Electric Football-I put this on reluctantly because I spent hours playing this game even though it didn't do what it was supposed to. I would take the little cotton football (when I ran out of footballs, I used the ends of Qtips or belly button lint) and watch the player vibrate up and down and sideways on the field, with no order at all. I wished even at ten that the game would've came with cheerleaders to watch.
Now it's your turn. What game do you remember being a flop?
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PaddleBall! stupid rubber ball on a rubberband attached to a wood paddle. anyone who could make that thing work was just strange.
Did anyone ever use a whole bottle of bubbles without spilling it?
one more Lab Kits! Moms hidden chemicals were much better, Like baking soda and vinegar now that was fun.
Good ones Glenn
Do you remember that Cabbage Patch doll that ate food... and then it was recalled because it was eating kids hair in their sleep... yeah, that one was pretty bad. Ha!
I guess the Rubik cube. Twist, turn, always a rainbow of squares for me. Until I took all the stickers off and placed them back on correctly.
Micah(the human toy)...he always cried and told Dad and Mom when I "played" with him. Well, he did happily eat the puppy chow.
I have been trying to think if toys that I had in the 70's and
80's as a child that sucked. I think I ran into the other end of the spectrum on this. I loved toy trucks, cars, and airplanes (still do). If you remember "Tonka" toys back in the 70's, well they were built with 99.99% metal, tough. We use to throw these off of our deck onto the pavement below, indestructible! Also, Hotwheels used to be made of mostly metal too, same thing, tough, and die-cast airplanes too. Get the picture!
I guess there is one way that these toys SUCKED. The tail-wings on these airplanes, when stepped on, really hurt. My father made that very clear, audibly, and this has been confirmed many years later, by me, now that Cruz likes these die-cast airplanes. They are like landmines in a room obscured by clothing and other toys. OUCH! That SUCKS!
Sea Monkeys!
They didn't smile at you. They didn't build cool underwater coral cities.
Actually, I don't know what they did. Maybe because that's because I just dumped them in the ocean. (They were my brother's and I was mad at him.)
Word Verification: ingical
I actually thought of sea monkeys too. They were just some kinf of larvae
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