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From: hotwheelscollectors.com
You either had no pegs of the right color or too many (because they were all over the place). From: Wikipedia.org
From: Wikipedia.org
From: Time.com
A "solid liquid," the new, stretchable material was a marvel of science — and of absolutely no use to the American war effort. From: time.com
From: time.com
From: www.old-computers.com
From: time.com
Just add sugar, water, and ice cubes to enjoy! From: perpetualkid.com
All I remember from it is there was a spool of puzzles on a paper roll that you would turn to move to the next puzzles.
There were only one per team, making them relatively uncommon but the quality of the photo was obviously bad. A team has a lot of players, and each face was less than 1/4 inch.
You can pick up a replacement today. From: Getting Older Stinks Tags: fun |
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Hot Wheels are die-cast model vehicles manufactured by Mattel introduced in 1967, originally approximately 1:64 scale cars and trucks. The multitude of varieties of vehicles were designed to be used on associated Hot Wheels track sets.
Lite-Brite is a toy created by Hasbro in 1967, creates fantastical glowing designs through a light box with small colored plastic pegs that fit into a matrix of holes and illuminate to create a lit piece of art.
The Slip ‘n Slide manufactured by Wham-O was first introduced in 1961. The toy is a long sheet of thin plastic, flanked lengthwise on one side by a heat-sealed tubular fold. If it wasn’t wet you’d end up with a nice big rug burn on your belly.
In 1970, Parker Brothers introduced the world’s first indoor ball with its original "Non-Expanding Recreational Foam" material, or NERF. Fun name for aerodynamic projectile device.
During World War II, chemists concerned about America’s threatened rubber supply began researching synthetic substitutes and stumbled upon one of the greatest materials in toy history.
"A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing! Everyone knows it’s Slinky!" Though its popularity can’t be called into question, "everyone" may not know that the Slinky was an accident. Created by mechanical engineer Richard James in 1943, it was the unintended by-product of a new line of sensitive springs that would help keep fragile equipment steady on ships.
As early as 1974, Atari started to design a home version of PONG, A miracle of modern technology the PONG machine let 1 or 2 players bang a virtual ball back and forth.
Marketed solely to boys, the kit was designed to teach basic chemistry skills, but by today’s standards, it was nothing short of a homeland-security breach.
Introduced in 1979 the Snoopy Sno Cone machine was the perfect way to cool down on a hot day if you could get someone else to crank the crank. If not you were the unlucky sod with the sore muscles making cones for all your friends.
Ever wonder what was in those "toys" before they "stopped working". Check out info about our old friend, the Mexican Jumping Bean.
It’s the wind up novelty you wear like a ring… The joy buzzer. You can also read the great article from the 
Concentration was one of those funky games based on a TV Show. 
Baseball team cards were the most amazing of things.
Remember the mood ring? Conventional wisdom says that violet blue means happy, romantic, blue is calm or relaxed, yellow/amber means you are tense or excited, and brown/gray means you are nervous or anxious.