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post Mar 11 2009, 03:14 PM
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QUOTE(Thunder Horse @ Mar 11 2009, 04:12 PM) *
anyone remember the war that erupted when the sea monkeys invaded the ant farm in 1979 ?

what a mess
Yeah... They rode in those submarines powerd by pelets.
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post Mar 11 2009, 03:19 PM
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They're dehydrated brine shrimp. Some guy bought 100s of lbs. of what he thought was (eating) shrimp and got them and said "WTF am I gonna do with these?" Realized they came back to life when rehydrated and came up with the idea of selling them as pets to try to get rid of them. Sold millions.



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the guy made a million dollars
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post Mar 11 2009, 05:31 PM
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Too many boy toys.
time for some girl toys:
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Loved my Dawn dolls

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Best thing ev-ah!

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Could play with the tape recorder for hours!!!

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OK, I was a strange kid, but I loved my typewriter. would write up newspaper reports about my family.
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post Mar 11 2009, 05:46 PM
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Could play with the tape recorder for hours!!!




Also one of my favorite toys. Had that Panasonic one and a GE model that came with the TI 99/4a computer.

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post Mar 11 2009, 07:07 PM
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post Mar 11 2009, 07:23 PM
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post Mar 11 2009, 07:24 PM
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post Mar 11 2009, 07:28 PM
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Sounds like this?


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post Mar 11 2009, 09:51 PM
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But Fisher Price ADVENTURE PEOPLE was where it was at!!

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post Mar 11 2009, 09:54 PM
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Couldn't resist -- that parking garage in the top right was the absolute BOMB! I ran that tiny city with an iron hand back before I was in kindergarten!

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post Mar 11 2009, 10:15 PM
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But Fisher Price ADVENTURE PEOPLE was where it was at!!

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i totally fucking had the marine search team, i remember that octopus.

awesome!
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post Mar 11 2009, 10:37 PM
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QUOTE(His Daddy @ Mar 11 2009, 10:54 PM) *

Couldn't resist -- that parking garage in the top right was the absolute BOMB! I ran that tiny city with an iron hand back before I was in kindergarten!

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I think I had every single one of those growing up except for the train....the house I remember fondly as it was pretty close to the house we actually lived in.
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post Mar 12 2009, 07:52 AM
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post Mar 12 2009, 08:51 AM
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Even Gizmo was rockin' his very own Casio keyboard.

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post Mar 12 2009, 09:23 AM
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post Mar 12 2009, 09:37 AM
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did anyone ever actually have these?
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Being deeply disappointed in sea monkeys and x-ray spexs is a childhood milestone!
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post Mar 12 2009, 01:55 PM
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post Mar 12 2009, 03:23 PM
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Non stop fun!

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post Mar 12 2009, 09:07 PM
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Memba when they used to sell these things in Chinese restaurants?

"YOU HAVE NICE MEAR?! NOW YOU BUY SIPPY BIRRR!! ONRY FIVE DORRAH AND NINEY NINE CEN!! STUPID ROUNEYE!!!"
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post Mar 12 2009, 09:21 PM
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Non stop fun!

one of these was put to ingenious use in the movie Darkman (a forgotten sam raimi doozie)
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post Mar 12 2009, 10:50 PM
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Milton Bradley's Star Bird, baby. No idea where this thing came from or why, but it knew when it was going up, and it sure knew when it was going down, and it RAWKED!

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Also, I saw the "new" Weebles treehouse, but did anyone mention the original yet? This was the Weeble playland to have:

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post Mar 25 2009, 03:55 PM
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Not technically a toy, but of the era...
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