Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head

From Georgia To Duluth

The Key To Fun

The Addams Family Card Game

1965 Filmways TV Productions and Milton Bradley.

It's always nice when someone else does the hi-rez scans of something you already own! Just as I got my original box out of the Addams Family Card Game to scan and post, I found these posted on line. Nothing creepy or kooky about it!
Thanks to this guy over at flikr.

You pull me by the hair your head I crack

The Caveman Song. A mean man. A mean woman.

This guy is having A LOT of fun!

From Wiki: Silly Putty (also marketed by other companies as Thinking Putty, Bouncing Putty, Tricky Putty and Potty Putty), is the Crayola-owned trademark name for a class of silicone polymers. It is marketed today as a toy for children, but was originally created by accident during research into potential rubber substitutes for use by the United States in World War II. The company's manufacturer is based in Easton, Pennsylvania.

No Fuss No Muss Shrunken Heads For All Occasions

Another fine product from Pressman Toy makers.

Found by Christian Hell

Blåvinge och Snöroboten

Mr. Dante Fontana has 2 prodigy nieces. If they were older they would be millionaires, living on a tropical island running the world. They are song writers, artists, pirates and design engineers among many other things. Luckily they are still kids living under their parents roof. This is good because their dad is Dr. Manta. Since he is a Doctor he knows how to doctor things.
So when my nieces showed off their abilities in Lego design about a year ago Dr. Manta "doctored" fake Lego boxes (complete with building instructions) so that they could give away them as gifts this last Christmas.

So, here they are: 'Blåvinge' (Blue argus) and 'Snöroboten' (The snow robot).


'Blåvinge' (See also photo of front and back)


'Snöroboten' (See also photo of front and back. Don't miss the close-up of the instruction how to build the snow robot captain Lars from the manual)

Check out the complete set of photos from this awesome project here.

1970s Advertising Dolls

Atomic Toys

Found here.

For about one year, 1950-51, the A.C. Gilbert Company of New Haven,
Connecticut (maker of the erector and chemistry sets for youngsters),
marketed a sophisticated toy, the "Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab." The
lab came with "three radioactive sources, a Geiger counter, and cloud
chamber where atoms could be split," according to a Univ. of Wisconsin
site. Although selling for the high price of $50 in the '50s,
production costs still outran its price tag, whereupon the atomic
energy lab was integrated into its chemistry sets for kids throughout
the '50s (google answers)

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The little train

Le petit train - A photoset on Flickr uploaded by pilllpat (agence eureka). (Via han josephzohn)

Marilyn: Tested in Europe. Now shipped to America.

Click Marilyn for bigger view at source.

"That's right!!! Marilyn is the ONLY human-like ACTION DOLL available in America. Her success in Europe has been so overwhelming that we brought Marilyn to America. Let her American, Greek and French life-like reproduction female qualities astound you as they have others."
(via Goof Button)

Is there a doctor in the house?

As of late, the looming illness that has been sucking the life from my body since my pre-teens took a turn for the worse. Two weeks ago, I ended up in the emergency room then was promptly transferred to a hospital room. I am deeper in debt yet I am alive.

At this point, I am not in the clear. No where near it…

I posted these items, these images for I adore vintage children's toys and stuff - but also as a homage to the doctors and nurses who helped me when no one else that I'd seen in the past (a "professional") - would.

Dolly's Nurse Kit {Hasbro/early-middle 1960s}


{1954}

Little Play Nurse toy set {Transogram Company, Inc./1945}

Toy Symphonies

"... All these pieces were written lovingly, with imagination and with care and, given the built-in pitch limitations of the toys (cuckoos are rather single-minded), they contain delightful music. The parts for the toys are always written out very specifically. Nothing is ad libitum or left to chance. The players are expected to follow all the rhythms and markings with scrupulous attention and the works only really sound well when played with the same care with which they were written. ..."
Raymond Lewenthal - Toy Symphonies. Available thanks to A Closet of Curiosities.


Toy Symphony (Kindersymphonie) in C, Op. 169, (for piano, violin & cello with quail, cuckoo, nightingale, triangle, toy trumpet & drum - composed by Cornelius Gurlitt)

Wibbling, Anyone?

A million laffs, terrific at parties....I'm not convinced, and probably no one else was when it came out, who's ever heard of the Wibbler?

Moon Goons

You can tell it's Mattel

I did have toy guns myself as a child, but I didn't get them from my parents. Uncles and aunts gave them as birthday presents. My dad hated toy weapons, because of what they represented and when I had hit my brother on the head with a plastic riffle he took the opportunity to throw them all in the water, with the words: guns don't belong in kids hands, not in anyone's hand. Nowadays I'm very proud of him because of that, but of course his action was less appreciated by me at that time.



If you like this, don't forget to watch this one as well.

Worm Wrestle

Gumball Machine Treasures

Great collection of vintage gumball machine charms, displays, machines, packaging....it is indeed gumball charm Nirvana. Amazing to remember a time when a penny still bought you something...as John Waters says, the only thing pennies are good for any more is for insulting waitstaff.

How I Got This Way

Or, the Wham-O company and their effects on a toddler's mind.

Coop Kaiju Pr0n

I am in awe of the marriage between excess wealth and geek boy obssession. I have a passive interest in Kaiju toys but when I stumbled upon Coop's Flickr account I was stunned by the magnitude of his collection. Between the Japanese rubber monsters and the Alternative nude models (which he often combines with depraved glee), the man leads a decadently delicious lifestyle - and still manages to find the time to paint. Please be aware many of the images on his Photostream are definitely NSFW!