My Favorite Toy I Got for Christmas Was.....

I had this! Love it

 

ME TOO!!!!! Until he met his death when GI Joe came around to the neighborhood. Cut off his right arm and clear crap went everywhere.

 

Remember the Clackers? 2 plastic balls on a string that you held on your finger and made them click together. My brother was good enuf that he could get them going on top and bottom clacking.

 

I had those and drove my parents crazy!

 

I had completely forgotten about the Clackers! If I remember correctly, they were part of a product recall because of the balls shattering? In any case, here's the Clackers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHftISLNHE

 

Oh yeah - we had the Clackers too!
I also remember spending hours with a jump rope type of thing, I think it was called "skip-a-rope'? but didn't come up when I googled it. It was a hard plastic circle that you slipped over your foot and there was a short rope attached to it with a bell at the end. It swung around your ankle, kinda like a small hoolahoop, and your skipped or jumped over the rope with your other foot as it went around. anyone else remember that?
found this - this is a newer version:

 

This one deserves another look.

 

I had those, the only difference was that mine were glass. Eventually they decided that they were unsafe and started making them out of plastic. I remember with the glass ones everyone had bruised elbows.

 

I remember that toy, it was called a Lemon Twist because it had a plastic lemon on the end of it that you skipped and it made this "shoop shoop" sound like a hula hoop. I wore out a couple of those. You know, that was probably really good exercise, hmmmm, maybe I should get one again? these holiday goodies are going to be tough to get rid of in January...

 

I loved my lemon twist! Ofcourse... my mother said don't go down that driveway with that thing and your clogs on.... and I did...and we had a really long driveway that sloped downward....and I can say I probably still have a scar on my knee from that day!

 

Jean - I was thinking the same thing! what a great leg workout and excercise....maybe we can start a new excercise craze! :lol:

 

My favorite thing was spending hours with my Lego's.

 

Fun fact: Lego is the largest producer of vehicle tires in the world!

 

I am Jewish and as a kid I couldn't understand why Santa Clause wouldn't come to my house. My dad had one of his friends dress up as Santa and come to my house.

 

My brother and I were just talking about Stompers last night.

http://www.ilovethe80s.com/toys_toys_stompers.htm

They were one of his faves.

 

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