Kids toys from the past

1967 FAO Schwarz Christmas catalog. Xanadu for this 8-year-old. There are too many things to mention, so I'll just mention one, page 138, a kid's military uniform. I thought that would be so cool, but I bet it probably wasn't as great as pictured. Who knows if it would have fit.

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I had a Hot Wheels when I was a kid. Loved it.

The Evil Knievel motorcycles were cool. Dogs used to go nuts about them.

Did anyone have the Stretch Armstrong? I had one in the 80’s and I remember when it got old his arm burst open and some syrup looking stuff came out and it never came out of the shag carpet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYEslLMZjE

Polly Pockets. I loved them when I was little. Before 2000, they were small and made of hard plastic, and they lived in these little clamshell-like pods you could open up, and there was an entire house or world inside. I had a thing for highly detailed toys. Some of the most lovely, elaborate toys I ever owned were these imitation "Polly Pocket" castles (though not made from that particular company), but made for fairy-tale figurines, like mermaids, Cinderella (Disney), and a generic Beauty and the Beast set. I had so many little figurines that I had to get one of those plastic boxes normally designed to sort things like beads.

Nowadays, Polly Pocket is 3 inches tall, has doll hair, and rubber clothes. While I would have loved her as a kid, the originals were what I remember.

Isn't technically every toy from the past? How would we have them in the present otherwise?

My favorite toys: early 1970's action figures and playsets The Ready Gang by Marx toys, old West bandits, like Sergio Leone movies