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That was pretty close. I'm 44.
show your age with a picture of a toy from your childhood
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That was pretty close. I'm 44.
i knew you'd have to be older then me.....i never owned one but remember the commercials, sorta...
I'm old enough that this was always my choice whenever Mom let us pick out candy in the grocery checkout line.
LOL, so your the ghost of children past?
wasn't something like this was it? lol
edit: i thought that's what you were talking about.....i tried to find the actual picture for the candy chew though, closest i got......
Check my post again. Are the candy cigarettes not showing up?
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OMG I totally remember the candy cigs!
I got in such trouble with those in 3rd grade. I didn't understand at all; I mean, Dad smoked like two packs of the real ones per day so that was the right thing to do, right?
i had a lot of fun with these when i was 7- 8....of course i know how to make my own black powder now.....
IVeladRiENtArtHeMaNaRMiTh
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Believe it or not, they still sell these now (had the same one when I was a kid).
Except the ones they sell now are "classic", where the cab and the frame are plastic, the smoke stack is rubber, and only the dump bed is some sort of stamped metal material.
Still, many fond memories of tearing up the sand box with one of these, so I'm going to drop this in for my picture as well.
Ogilthorpe2
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damn, i had a second hand coleco....
and man, i just had a birthday...sooo i want to feel young around you grampas! lol iremember one xmas, dad driving us to the long's and buying one of these!
i beat metroid SO many times i got her into a swim suit, damn right i did! 
edit: and if i already posted that, my memories getting bad....lol
edit: and if i already posted that, my memories getting bad....lol
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FloppyKnockers
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oh my god....this is the best emoji they have
(it gets better with the 6 months plus!!!)
MF'er, i'm not going to be able to sleep now! because this is going to be giving me nightmares!
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Radboud
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simpler times
I used to crank the elevator and watch the car go down the ramp for hours!
VApatriot
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Had a bunch of Corgi toy cars like these:
My life, basically, in a curio cabinet.
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GrogNerd
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our first gaming console
Yep, still have our Atari 2600 and a box of game cartridges. However, I see where creative folks use a Raspberry Pi to clone the game ROM and run the games using the RPi.
InspectorJon
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I think this came out when I was in Junior High (middle school). I remember hoping the girls would play. I saw this in a house I was visiting still in the original plastic wrap.
There's gotta be a Rule 34 of that somewhere lol.
My dorm in college had t-shirts made declaring us the champions of co-ed naked twister. It had the Twister dots across the back and looked pretty cool. I haven't noticed it in my closet lately though. I wonder how long it's been since my wife got rid of it...
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MountainHighYeast
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Good one! Brings back memories of before I discovered beer!
i remember how cool it was when i first emulated that on my PC! which would bring to something not from my childhood, but note worthy.....
Mine was green and yellow!
I had a blue one!
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Nokie
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Not my pic but I had the same bike. 1989 I worked all year long to save and by 1989 GT performer.
I had it about 2 weeks and pulled in to my buddies house to go ride the ramp we made when his dad came home drunk, missed the driveway by a foot or so and ran it over.... it was an awesome 2weeks tho
I had it about 2 weeks and pulled in to my buddies house to go ride the ramp we made when his dad came home drunk, missed the driveway by a foot or so and ran it over
.... it was an awesome 2weeks tho
Childhood toys hell, these are on my desk now! I might be old, but I refuse to grow up.
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GrogNerd
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me, on my StingRay
1969, Heather Downs Elementary (Toledo, OH) 4th of July Bicycle Parade.
my Dad was on his way home from Vietnam, he would get back in time to watch the first men walk on the moon
& that's a Mud Hens pennant
1969, Heather Downs Elementary (Toledo, OH) 4th of July Bicycle Parade.
my Dad was on his way home from Vietnam, he would get back in time to watch the first men walk on the moon
& that's a Mud Hens pennant
Mine was actually purple with sparkly metal-flake stuff in the seat vinyl. It came with purple and white streamers hanging out of the hand grips. First order of business was rip out the streamers and then clip an Ace of Spades to the seat support so it flipped in the spokes and made motor noise. Man... every kid that saw it wanted to ride it. My dad realized I had swiped his Ace and eventually made me give it back and switch to a Joker. But that was almost as cool.
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HA! Yeah. Candy cigs - which were actually crappy candy. Kinda pasty like sweet stale dough when you chewed em up - and those wax lips with some kind of kool-aid stuff inside.
Rock em Sock em!
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Mattel was great for teaching us hot things hurt. Closely related to this and Creepy Crawlies was the Strange Change Tim Machine.
"A Strange Change Toy" can mean so many different things in today's world.
