Comments on: Pop What?

By: Kristy

Kristy — Sat, 19 May 2007 00:08:47 +0000

I liked board games mostly, but I LOVED Operation, Anna! I was never a Barbie girl, I didn’t dislike them, just couldn’t muster much interest. I wanted an Easy Bake Oven in the worst way and never got one, until two years ago when my husband got me one for Christmas Sold it at a yard sale a year later, but am still wildly touched that he got me one.

I was a major outdoors kid, lots of running around pretending to be either Starsky or Hutch (lots of forward somersaults with fingers cocked like a gun) or a Charlie’s Angel (Jaclyn Smith, of course), so I don’t remember many toys that captured my heart or imagination. Stuffed animals, I guess. Those were my thing. I had deep conversations with them at three in the morning. They didn’t talk back (I wasn’t delusional, people) but they were excellent listeners!

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:00:04 +0000

I loved the Easy Bake Oven. Also was a big fan of Candyland and later Clue. Always hated Operation — far too stressful. And I loved my Snoopy – particularly in his flying outfit…

By: Tish

Tish — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:35:32 +0000

I had a doll called “Swingy” and she danced to this tiny plastic record. Ever since, I’ve searched for that song – I swear it was a great song. I should haunt ebay for an original Swingy.

I also loved my enormous stuffed Snoopy, made for me by a friend of my mother’s. Snoopy was my favorite being on earth, I even had Snoopy sheets.
Jennifer, I’m very jealous you had the Snoopy snow cone maker. All I had was the rubber Snoopy floating bathsoap holder. Sniff.

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hank Phillippi Ryan — Fri, 18 May 2007 04:35:13 +0000

Winky Dink. No question.
Do you remember the show “Winky Dink”? It was a cartoon, of some weird creature, I couldn’t even describe it–him–her now.
But you took this screen, a sort of poly/plastic/saran wrap type thing, and smoothed it over your TV screen. Then when Winky Dink needed, say, a bridge to get over the chasm to save the day, you drew the bridge with yellow crayon on the Winky Dink screen. And then, Winky went over on the bridge you drew.
It was great. No matter how you drew the bridge, or the train tracks, or the ladder, it always worked and Winky Dink triumphed. Sometimes my sister and I figured we didn’t even need the saran wrap thing, and it would be just as successful to draw with our crayons right on to the TV screen. That led to some interesting discussions with our Mom.

By: Holly Kennedy

Holly Kennedy — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:53:33 +0000

We were dirt poor, so I spent my time gazing through windows dreaming of an Etch A Sketch or a Barbie Dream House. Instead, my dad rigged me up a rock polisher that I still have in my garage — although I’d never start it because it runs on diesel gas and 1/2 the neighbors would come at me with fists flying if I ran it for 2-3 days straight!

By: Lisa Garner

Lisa Garner — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:30:11 +0000

How funny! I had a Barbie dream house too but mine looked a little different. Mine was pink and 2 stories high but wider. It had a porch swing that Barbie just loved. (: My mother refused to get me an easy bake oven so I missed out on that one.

By: Jennifer McMahon

Jennifer McMahon — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:23:32 +0000

I had a Snoopy snow cone maker that I was quite proud of. Also both the Bionic Woman and Six Million Dollar Man action figures — LOVED them!

By: Larramie

Larramie — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:23:16 +0000

Two favorite toys were Etch-a-Sketch that I patiently tried to master well into my preteen years and construction building blocks. Although the blocks were similar to Legos, they weren’t the same. I spent hours that turned into days either building a “mansion” or small homes to create a town….one ready made doll house just seemed to limit my imagination. Hmm, now I wonder why?