Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 4:25 pm
Monopoly was based on something called The Landlords Game.
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Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 9:46 pm
Lego-- Danish word for leg godt " play well"
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 4:48 pm
Mr. Potato Head was the first toy ever advertised on TV
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 4:44 pm
Remember in 1983 trying to find a Cabbage Patch Kid.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2025 7:21 pm
The wooden staircase leading down to the basement was perfect walking territory for Slinky.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2025 7:46 pm
I own 4 Super Toe Field Goal kickers.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 11:15 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 11:18 pm
Is there anyone on here that remembers anyone working the elevator in Barbie's Dream House?
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 8:04 pm
Mrs. Beasley a doll that wore a blue polka-dot-dress was introduced in the 1966/71 sitcom Family Affair.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:16 pm
Madame Alexander Dolls...introducing Cissy from 1955 the first fashion doll in the U.S.A.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 10:47 pm
Raggedy Ann and Andy- the starting point here was when cartoonist Johnny Gruelle found and old doll in his mother's attic. Ann was made in 1915, and Andy was started in 1920
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2025 5:32 pm
If you owned a Stretch Armstrong doll you had a rubber man filled with gelled corn syrup.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2025 10:16 pm
Mattel introduced Chatty Cathy in 1960 became the second most popular doll next to Babie.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 12:47 am
In the late 60s and early 70s we had Evel Knievel and in 1973 for Christmas, Ideal Toy Company put out the Evil Knievel Stunt Cycle play set.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2025 5:58 pm
1974 Mattel put out the Sunshine Fun Family
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2025 11:06 pm
Operation hit the stores in March 1965.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2025 9:21 pm
1981 Trivial Pursuit Was launched
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2026 4:24 pm
Toymaker Milton Bradley brought Snakes and Ladders to the U.S. in 1943, renaming the game Chutes and Ladders.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2026 10:44 pm
The game of Monopoly has been a board game going back to 1935.
Re: Classic Toys and Games
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2026 6:13 pm
The game Clue was first called Cluedo invented in the early 40s by British game designer Anthony Pratt.