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Loved these kinds of games (with Stratego above)
I still have the Vertibird in the basement...don't know why!
We were quite poor and lived a nomad's existence living in a 20' trailer for 2 years from age 6 to 8. How poor? For their 25th wedding anniversary, they gave each other quarters - I shit you not. So all toys had to be sold, so I had a box of matchbox cars and that was it. But once we settled in BC and dad had a good job, I got stuff...like this:
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Its Revamatic grandstand (really just sounded like a distortion pedal) drove my parents mad! I remember that Christmas the neighbour came over and he and dad hogged it all day.
And, the Smash Up Derby set - I had these very cars:
https://youtu.be/jE6J3wWE2Pg
YeeHaw! Insultin' southeners like it ain't nothin'! Oh the politically incorrect 70's...
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Similar to Risk
Canadian Winter Toys
Krazy Karpets...they came rolled up and were just a thin piece of hard plastic that was like greased lightning on snow and ice :lol:
Number one cause of accidents on toboggan hills.
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Mini-skis
Hard plastic and even harder to get off if you were in trouble :lol:
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Super Slider Snow Skates
My cousin grew up on a farm in Strathmore and his Dad let him drive all of their snowmobiles from a young age. We would put these things on and tow the other guy behind the snowmobile with a 20 foot rope. We made a track and had snow jumps. Accidents were common wearing these death-shoes :lol:
https://i.imgur.com/reNWy0H.jpg
Oh yeah! Thanks for the memory jog - I had a Crazy Carpet when I lived in N. Sask. I actually used it to get to school quicker!!
AFX race car sets were the holy grail of kid-dom. I never had a race car set but played them everywhere.
And I had the SmashUp Derby cars too :lol: I remember losing the colored doors, trunks and hoods and that black zip-tie thingy that you had to pull to make them go :tup:
Prior to age 6, I had this bike...
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but in metallic red and a gigantic sissy bar.
My brother wanted to get me a bike for Christmas but dad forbade him as he didn't have the money to get it himself...so he took my existing bike and put parts on it - probably spending as much as a new bike and only retaining the frame! I was catwalk champion of Frankford, Ontario with this! :)
I have foggy memories of getting similar transfer sets out of cereal (?)
Lots of scenarios where you could put portions of smaller guys behind hills etc and I remember the wax-like paper they came on.
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Parents had this dinner set.
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Mom made this chemical concoction.
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I remember how the conditioner smelled (purple bottle).
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Waaay back memory. I had this doctor kit. It had 'pills' and I recall using the red microscope in the upper right.
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One of my best memories. My Grandpa was an engineer on the CN railway for over 50 years.
My Dad bought me an HO scale train set. I eventually added buildings, telegraph poles with wire, tunnels, bushes and grass to a simple floor level train table my Dad built for me. Some of the track and train engines were hand me downs and didn't always work, but I remember the look in my Dad's eye when I put little lights into some buildings and somehow got them working :thumbsup:
One of my fondest memories and I regret not taking better care of the stuff and keeping up with it. Some of the buildings I saved up for are not available anymore.
*not my set up
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And now the good stuff :lol:
This was a multicolored sticky chemical in a tube. Take out a little ball, put it on the end of the straw and blow. It would create balloon-like balls as it set.
You could smell the fumes throughout the house and if you inhaled it directly, it was a little trip to Woozy-Town :lol:
Banned!
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Lawn Darts or Jarts. Yup we had them :thumbsup:
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Clackers, Klik Klaks, Danger Balls
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My sister had this and I can't count how many little cakes we ate from it. A light bulb 'cooked' the powder when added to water and to this day, the powder remains a mystery :lol:
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