The toys that made a difference to you...

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Seems like '66 or '67, I had to have THIS one with the mountains ... But 55 years ago or so today, it wasn't to be. It was another set (can't remember the brand ..) that didn't have mountains.

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BTW ... $19.99 in 1966 money is about $190.00 in 2022 money. not really cheap. could be why i didn't get it.

I had this Sears set, I think I've posted it before, plus we had a bunch of other combined sets when several of us got together in the neighborhood. I ended with a whole bunch from trades/swaps/yard sales.
I got some money for the cars and kits but the haggling really wasn't worth it as many were modified for drag racing to do wheelies, bigger rear tires, rewound armatures, drilled and cut for cooling. Same with the comic books, Mom had put them in the Church Christmas Bazaar many times and had numbered/initialed the covers (small in corner) which freaked out the collectors but one collector that paid $450.00 for a first edition told me that the ink can be removed by a restorer, not only that the whole cover can be redone. The one he paid $450.00 for had a book/guide of $1,500.00 if it was grade A mint condition at the time.


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Welp after another day of wasting time scrolling through FaceBook Marketplace getting sidetracked from checking my auto & motorcycle for sale bookmarks, recently I've seen a ton of old trains & train track setups coming from kids selling off their dad's estate, some of the train setups are as 'come and just take it away' like the swip/swap leave it on the curb Yahoo forum of day's gone by.

I just seen this one, a decade or so later after my Aurora HO car days being the AFX version plus the warning "CAUTION: ELECTRIC TOY" that this one gotta be from almost the 90's.

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[Big_John]

I forgot these. Remember when?

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I just found this in the back of a closet. It's empty... Or I'd probably build something just for fun.

 

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I got one for xmas in the 50's. Now THERE was a chemistry kit.
I remember spending all my time trying to make a bomb.
Now all kids have to do is go on the internet and they can make nuclear bombs, pressure cooker bombs, fertilizer bombs, suicide bomb vests........
Just a few key words in the search box.
Imagination, curiosity, and motivation has been totally 100% sucked out of our youth in the crucial learning years.

Heh ironic, I came across this in the endless FB scroll after reading all this thread and finishing up my bookmark updates, bring back memories Stan?

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[live4theking]

I forgot these. Remember when?

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I still have mine somewhere.