I really enjoyed the show and found it quite interesting...but we need to see some toys with wheels on them
Yeah, I was a little disappointed too. I hated all those toys as a kid. { slinky's, silly putty, play douh, hulah hoops, ect. Yuck. I also didn't like board games. I told Santa, Mom, and Dad, That If it didn't have wheels, I didn't want It!!! my favorite toys were Tonka, Buddy L, Nylint Metal trucks and tin cars. Like DEUCES said, hope to see some maybe down the line. These are the Toys that built America!
This Sunday it's barbie and g.i. Joe action figures.... Sorry fellas... I never played with dolls.... Except live ones!..
I had a rocket when I was a kid, you put water in it, hooked up a hand pump to pressurize it, and it shot wayyyyyyyyyyy up in the sky! I had forgot all about that until I read this thread, thanks Deuces
One of the neighbor kids would take his sister's Barbie dolls and put G.I. Joe heads on them. As kids, we thought it was just funny...but I think he ended up being transgender.
This hardbound book, is a great addition to anyone's library, that is really into the rabbit hole of metal toy collecting. I had @hotrodjack33 and @Ron Funkhouser in mind when I dug out my catalog, to share a few shots of some of the contents of this book. The copyright date is 1988, and its got high quality paper and sharp, crisp photos as well. Its got a little bit of everything in it, not just automotive selections. Enjoy from Dennis.
It sounds like a re-hash of a documentary I watched a year or two ago. Lots of interesting history on the companies that made toys.
I missed it!.. No biggie... it'll be on again tonight at midnight... I already have it set as a reminder.....
Johnny Lightning cars kinda fell by the way-side. I think their big problem was too many odd looking "fantasy cars" as opposed to the Hot Wheels custom/muscle cars. Also, in the blister pack, JL car's paint was kinda dull compared to HW's much flashier Spectra-Flame paint. And, Topper only made Johnny Lightning cars for a few years.
Johnny Lightning came out with Aurora "pancake" style HO slot cars around the late 90s..... Then they got bought out by Auto World which is still making those chassis today... I started collecting the vintage Aurora slot cars in the early 2000s... I hope they do a show about Aurora Plastics in the future....
I didn't know that. Topper Toys were long gone by the 90s...were those pancake chassis something Playing Mantis produced?
I really enjoyed the show last night too. As I remember collecting Hot Wheels. The Custom Camaro was the first one that I found in a store. It was about a month before I started seeing the other 15. I do remember getting the Custom Corvette before I saw a real one at the dealerships. I had seen pictures of it in print, and it was supposed to come out for the 1967 model year. But Chevrolet had to make a few safety changes to the body, like { lowering the top of the front fenders, and adding a tee brace on the top. I fell in Love with the 1968 Vette, and got one in 1970 while in high school. { Thanks Dad! } I still have it. I've collected matchbox, then Hot Wheels, and Johnny Lightings ect. ect. as a kid every time that I went to the store with my parents. They would let me get a matchbox or HW, JL, ect. Then when I got married in 1975 I still kept on collecting them. Only now I'm was sticking the in the wife's shopping cart! lol I now have tons of them stored in totes. Way too many to ever display. I'm not a serious toy collector. But I'm just an old kid that never stopped collecting { playing with } toy cars, and trucks. Thanks for all your replies.
Ron, you're not a serious collector? Okay, but like the writer George Plimpton, you're a professional amateur.
I've got more than a handful of Johnny Lightnings but only because I got them for a dollar or so at discount toy places. The problem I found with them is that often they were out of proportion. Still, they were the ones that came out of the packaging and into Carney display cases. I got caught up in the 1/64 craze for a while but came to my senses. I never bought Hot Wheels as a kid because I was a Matchbox fan. The Superfast and Hot Wheels cars were too gaudy for me. Besides, I had a real '66 Nova, who had time for toys.
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