Ripcord Motorcyle

I can remember these toys and had so much fun with them but there is little info on them. I remember the ripcord part of the toy. I remember having this blue motorcycle and possibly a red car but not any of the pictures remain to what I remember in my head.

You would insert this plastic ripcord in the motorcycle and pull it back through really fast set it down and it would take off, I loved these toys because they such a noise when you pulled that ripcord.

Kerplunk

I was never really was never impressed with the game of “Kerplunk”. I did own the game as a kid and played it often against my friends. I just never got into it.
It consists of a plastic tube, a number of plastic rods called straws and a number of marbles. The plastic tube stands upright on a base that contains four separate trays and the straws are passed through holes in the side of the tube to form a "web". The marbles are then placed in the top of the tube and held in place by the web.
At the start of play, the entire tube is rotated so that a hole in the base of the tube is aligned with the active player's tray. Players take turns removing a single straw from the cylinder while trying to minimize the number of marbles that fall through the tube and into their tray. Once a player has committed himself to a particular straw by touching it, they must remove it. The player who accumulates the fewest dropped marbles wins.

Spirograph

I loved drawing as a kid and I had hours of fun with the “Spirograph”. Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. The term has also been used to describe a variety of software applications that display similar curves, and applied to the class of curves that can be produced with the drawing equipment.

Two Screen Legends

Two true movie icons when I was growing up were Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson. I watched a lot of theri movies they had out when I was growing up. But they both were best known for their roles were they where carrying these big guns.

These two actors made an impact on me as a kid and not only me but my friends too.  Their movies were action packed and both of these guys had true grit. Charles Bronson did not stay in the limelight as much as Clint Eastwood his impact on films remained.

Clint Eastwood

Charles Bronson

SLIME

I was staring at a gumball machine around 1978, trying to figure out if I wanted to waster my twenty five cents on something called “SLIME”. It was in the prize packaging but it looked all gooey and stuck everywhere to the plastic that it was encased in. I deposited my quarter and out popped my prize of SLIME. I had hours of fun with this SLIME and my mother possibly cringing on the inside.

This was my first encounter with SLIME and later on they came out with a small glowing green trash can packed with more SLIME  and more hours of fun. I think every kid in my neighborhood had a can of this stuff. The only downfalls this SLIME was the smell, the feeling it left in your hands and it got dirty quickly. But as a kid, I owned several cans of it.

The Weebles

Who did not love the “Weebles” in the 70’s? I had a lot of different Weebles growing up and their dwellings. They were egg shaped people or animals and they were weighted on the bottom so you could push them around and almost over but they would not completely turn over. The slogan was “weebles wobble, but they won’t fall down”.  I remember every kid having these and I remembered how confusing it got when we all got to playing with them, who’s was who.  I remember having certain dwellings for each one of these Weebles and if I didn’t have one someone else did.

The company had a relaunch of the “Weebles” in the 2000’s and they are still around today.

Lite-Brite

I do not remember when I was introduced to the “Lite Brite” but I do remember all the fun I had playing with this toy. I remember all the times trying to create really neat glowing pictures and hurrying up and turning off the light to see how they looked.

As a kid, we all tried to outdo one another’s picture. This was a fun but challenging game and loaded with hours of fun and possibilities. They are still around today and I actually still own one.