Loved these kinds of games (with Stratego above)
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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:
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:
YeeHaw! Insultin' southeners like it ain't nothin'! Oh the politically incorrect 70's...
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Similar to Risk
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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
Number one cause of accidents on toboggan hills.
Mini-skis
Hard plastic and even harder to get off if you were in trouble
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
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!!
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Prior to age 6, I had this bike...
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!
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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.
Parents had this dinner set.
Mom made this chemical concoction.
I remember how the conditioner smelled (purple bottle).
Waaay back memory. I had this doctor kit. It had 'pills' and I recall using the red microscope in the upper right.
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
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
And now the good stuff
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
Banned!
Lawn Darts or Jarts. Yup we had them
Clackers, Klik Klaks, Danger Balls
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
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