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Calling all 70's retro toy experts...

clinkalinks said:
Thanks FlyFish, I have contacted many retro stores....nadda!!! I wish I could get in contact with Duende who stated it was his Grandpas business..Maybe one day he will read this! Thanks again!:)
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yeah- too bad Duende does not seem to be on MR anymore and must not still be subscribed to this thread and has no email linked to MR either. Good luck.
 
Bayko ? Did this ever hit The States? Actually, it finished in 1967... (a building system)

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...or the similar Betta Bilda...
 
clinkalinks said:
Thanks FlyFish, I have contacted many retro stores....nadda!!! I wish I could get in contact with Duende who stated it was his Grandpas business..Maybe one day he will read this! Thanks again!:)
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I'm still here but I don't check the thread often. I'll try to dig up the rest of the pictures I had and post some more. Clinkalinks - I don't have anything clinkalink related except pictures. Good luck finding a cannister.
 
Clink-a-Links Photos

Here are the photos I have. They were taken around 1959. I'll add one more in a follow up post.
 

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One more picture from a trade show.
 

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That yellow chair brings back memories- Glad you still check the thread- see that you don't make posts very often so figure you had left the forum. You must have a Mac that is working perfectly! :D

Too bad you don't have any pictures of the later years with the canister. But thanks for posting- seeing those structures brings back memories for sure.
 
zelmo said:
Lawn Darts, anyone?:p
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I'm probably one of the reasons those are banned. At a friends birthday party while the adults were drinking inside all the kids were playing with jarts. Of course throwing them as high as possible. As I was walking towards the house..."thump" right off my head. The other adults were more freaked out than me. That was my 5-6th trip to the ER for stitches by the time I was 7.
 
Cannister

Duende said:
Here are the photos I have. They were taken around 1959. I'll add one more in a follow up post.
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Duende, if there is any possible way of digging up a cannister with my boyfriend as your Grandpas model I cant tell you how much I would appreciate it....Thanks so very much for your time and help!!! Happy Thanksgiving!
 
clinkalinks said:
Duende, if there is any possible way of digging up a cannister with my boyfriend as your Grandpas model I cant tell you how much I would appreciate it....Thanks so very much for your time and help!!! Happy Thanksgiving!
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I don't think they came in canisters when Duende's family was involved.....the package they came in was pictured earlier in the thread.
 
Fascinating Light Design Toy-Early 70's

I have been trying to locate a toy manufactured by, I believe, "Ohio Arts", in the late sixties/ early seventies. It is a geodesic dome with a translucent membrane (as with a drum) perched on a motorized pedestal, with controls that operate various interchangeable mirrors. The result is light designs reflected onto the membrane; the color. rotation and speed of the "Spirograph" like designs can be manipulated through the pedestal controls. It is white, and approximately two feet tall. An amazing toy. Any recollections?
Thanks!
 
mfranz said:
I have been trying to locate a toy manufactured by, I believe, "Ohio Arts", in the late sixties/ early seventies. It is a geodesic dome with a translucent membrane (as with a drum) perched on a motorized pedestal, with controls that operate various interchangeable mirrors. The result is light designs reflected onto the membrane; the color. rotation and speed of the "Spirograph" like designs can be manipulated through the pedestal controls. It is white, and approximately two feet tall. An amazing toy. Any recollections?
Thanks!
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absolutely no clue....reminds me of something I would have seen at the store Spencers though- so was it a room mood light disco type of thing?
 
Does anyone remember the video game Maze Craze?


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When I was skiing with some friends that I have known since Kindergarden one brought up the fact that I played that game non stop!:D
 
Marx

Hey, does anyone remember the Marx Shooting Gallery? - that used real bb's and it was a mini plastic enclosed game that you could put on the floor or table top, and allowed you to shoot at moving targets, ring bells, flip stuff over, etc etc - I think it even kept score... it was maybe my favorate game I ever had, since I always wanted a BB gun, but you know parents :)

This would have been out circa 1975ish... toy company is Marx

BTW - I remember my parents having wild drinking parties while camping, and then racing each other on our big wheels until they broke... good times - not sure if the big wheel was designed for 200 lbs adults and to be driven down rocky hills, but that's my parents :)
 
Klink-a-Links!

flyfish29 said:
So my son was asking me what toys I used to play with. I responded with Atari (2600 of course), Micronauts, Star Wars action figures (can you believe it is 30 years old this year!! Damn I'm old!), GI Joe, Stretch Armstrong, Big Wheel, Green Machine, handheld football, basketball, and baseball by Mattell, Smash em' up Derby, and SSP Racers among other things.

But one toy I couldn't remember the name of was this building toy that consisted of colored clear squares that were probably 3"x3" with a hole cut in the middle and notches on the sides (I think) They were about 1/4 inch thick. Does anyone remember what they were called?

Feel free to post your fav. toys from the 70's!
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I had these - they were pink, orange and maybe a lime green? I remember taking them to kindergarten Show and Tell - and I remember the boys making fun of me. I loved those things.
 
Clink a Links

Clink a Links were heavy plastic in primary colors. They were square with notches on the outside and a notched out circle on the inside. The reason I remember these so well is that they were originally manufactured and sold by my parents and some friends of theirs. They had this business for several years before selling out to another company. When they had the business they used to pay their kids (myself included) to box the clink a links. My mother still has a few at her house.
 
cacconsu said:
Clink a Links were heavy plastic in primary colors. They were square with notches on the outside and a notched out circle on the inside. The reason I remember these so well is that they were originally manufactured and sold by my parents and some friends of theirs. They had this business for several years before selling out to another company. When they had the business they used to pay their kids (myself included) to box the clink a links. My mother still has a few at her house.
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Please post some pics of the ones at your moms.
 
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I seem to remember having one of these around the house. Ignoring the fact that it was a gyroscope and using it as a spaceship or busting legos with it. lol
 
Clink a Links

I'm heading over there this weekend and will try to snap some pics then. They are no longer in the box and not even sure how many she has left. Sadly over the years they have disappeared. Never phased me until I got older and realized a part of our history had disappeared with the toys. I still remember going with my dad to the Milwaukee Romper Room because they were advertising the toy on the show. I was maybe 5 or 6 and thought I was a big shot because I got to meet Miss Barbara.
 
A friend and I were discussing childhood toys the other day and I ran across this thread while trying to find the name of a toy we both had but couldn't recall specifics other than it was a bunch of clear plastic globes with connectors to hook them together and that some of them would have gears and things inside so you could make stuff that moved.

Wow, was that really one sentence? Anyway, we were both fuzzy on anything beyond that. Anyone have any ideas?

And I *loved* Jarts! We were saying that it was nice to grow up in a time before people realized toys could be dangerous. Nowadays everything is so safe...
 
Flick2010 said:
A friend and I were discussing childhood toys the other day and I ran across this thread while trying to find the name of a toy we both had but couldn't recall specifics other than it was a bunch of clear plastic globes with connectors to hook them together and that some of them would have gears and things inside so you could make stuff that moved.

Wow, was that really one sentence? Anyway, we were both fuzzy on anything beyond that. Anyone have any ideas?

And I *loved* Jarts! We were saying that it was nice to grow up in a time before people realized toys could be dangerous. Nowadays everything is so safe...
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Wow- that IS quite a "sentence!" :eek:

I can't figure out what the toy is you wrote about. What year are we talking about? It sounds like a cool toy. There are some great retro toy sites with great pictures- you might search that way.

I agree on the Jarts- of course the toys now a days are not as obviously dangerous, but I would argue they are still dangerous as they often contain lead, cadmium, etc. which can cause serious longterm childhood issues/illnesses. Many of the toys I started playing with early on were wood and metal hand-me-downs....very little plastic, but probably plenty of lead paint on those toys too. I think the plastic toys I initially wrote about were the first plastic toys I owned. Probably those and my GI Joe's. Even the Micronauts were made out of metal mostly.
 
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