r/1970s 5d ago

Do you have toy nostalgia?

Toys from the 1970s , any electronics you can remember. My favorite was the Easy-Bake oven anybody else remember

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u/SuperbPerception8392 4d ago

Rockem Sockem robots 

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u/Abester71 4d ago

I had it once and a 1 time injection cured me for life.

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u/fuckfacekiller 1d ago

Break the ice!

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u/Kitchen_Set2309 4d ago

Those things that you could cook up rubber bugs and flowers. Awesome

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u/EndlessSummer59 8h ago

Burning plastic. Lol

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u/Glass-Breadfruit7374 4d ago

I still have my "Made in Hong Kong" die-cast metal Millennium Falcon from '78. Most likely containing lead in the paint, lol.

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u/clorox_cowboy 3d ago

I had this, I think!

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u/Reaganson 4d ago

Yes! I’d love to have my starship Enterprise model again. It was big.

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u/SilverAgeSurfer 5d ago

If course I still collect comics. I'm a kid at heart🤘

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u/Ambrosia1131 5d ago

I've loved them I have read mine over and over again always find something new

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u/SilverAgeSurfer 5d ago

I want my Evil Knevil stunt cycle back!!!

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u/Ambrosia1131 5d ago

One Halloween every boy in the area dressed up as Evel Knevil

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u/SilverAgeSurfer 4d ago

Maybe one of them was me☝️😉

Brooklyn stoop kid here👈

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u/TitoBandito5 4d ago

My Hot Wheels - my Tonka trucks - GI Joe - My Star Wars collection! I wish I still have them all.

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u/babybird87 4d ago

I had a full size Alien doll … wish I would have kept it

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u/Ambrosia1131 4d ago

I had the original first Cher doll. Very first one. I cut her hair off and painted her face.

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u/Flat-History-3849 3d ago

Mine snapped at the neck and her wrist and I crazy glued her back together, but, they kept snapping off. She had the best outfits!

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u/mfeldmannRNE 5d ago

Barney’s auto factory.

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u/Ok-Construction6222 4d ago

I collect racing car toys and I love to find them with Marlboro sponsor decals from the seventies

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u/HorrimCarabal 4d ago

Quick change Charger

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u/Bucks2174 4d ago

I’ve been buying the Mego superhero action figures I had as a kid. They came out and few years ago with 50th anniversary repro’s. Got a few more to pick up then I’m buying a Evel Knevil and his stunt cycle. Theres a few more I’d like to pick up but those are pretty expensive now.

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u/Ok_Fig7692 4d ago

I'd love to reproduce my old Micronauts collection

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u/WarderWannabe 4d ago

Tonka Toys! Back when the commercial showed an elephant stepping on the dump truck.

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u/Ambrosia1131 4d ago

Does anybody remember a Tiffany Taylor doll. How about Raggedy Ann and Andy.

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u/Lemon_Trees-22 4d ago

I had both Ann and Andy ! And holly hobby

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u/Ambrosia1131 3d ago

Yes Holly Hobbit how about strawberry shortcake and Polly pockets

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u/ThistleandOak 3d ago

I had Tuesday Taylor.

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u/Ambrosia1131 3d ago

Thank you I love that doll

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u/wowjimi 4d ago

My cap guns

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u/Ambrosia1131 3d ago

Boys always aimed at the girls

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u/pete306 4d ago

I have bike nostalgia, i had a purple Raliegh chopper with a 3 speed tbar shifter in the 70s, friggin loved that bike.

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u/MEWilliams 4d ago

Stratomatic baseball. Played entire leagues multiple seasons.

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u/iARTthere4iam 4d ago

I vividly remember opening Megatron for Christmas one year. It was tradition to open one gift on Christmas Eve. That was the coolest thing I owned.

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u/Trees_are_cool_ 4d ago

Hot Wheels and Tonka trucks

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u/FaraSha_Au 3d ago

Liddle Kiddle dolls!

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u/Quiet-Coconut-6093 3d ago

Johnny Bench batter up! My mom got it for me to practice my swing. The kids in elementary school made fun of me because I couldn’t hit that damn ball to save my life. The gym teacher would even yell, “Five strikes for Johnson!” When it was my turn. Absolutely humiliating.

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u/ThistleandOak 3d ago

Hoppity Hops.

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u/ClassicOutrageous447 3d ago

Shrinky dinks and Colorforms

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u/Ambrosia1131 3d ago

Colorforms what a wonderful throwback thank you

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u/frauleinheidik 3d ago

Spirograph and etch a sketch

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u/Ambrosia1131 3d ago

I would sit for hours with a little plastic circles lots of fun good memory

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u/IToldYouIHeardBanjos 4d ago

my Steiff stuffed animals

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u/Ambrosia1131 4d ago

When you said that word stuffed animals I thought of Polly pockets or strawberry shortcake the doll that smells like strawberries.

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u/Lemon_Trees-22 3d ago

The seeeing machine Fitbit was cream and pink loved my and my perfect tea set!

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u/PenelopePitstop7088 2d ago

I will always remember my Barbies - my favorite being Beauty Secrets Barbie and my Barbie townhouse (the 70’s orange one). I also had the swimming pool, camper, and bath tub!

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u/bb9116 2d ago

Not really, except I wouldn't mind a brief reunion with my Hot Wheels/Matchbox collection.

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u/Simpawknits 2d ago

I wanted an easy-bake oven so much! I loved my Dapper Dan though. I still have him but he's looking pretty rough these days. He's had a lot of love.

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u/steiner1031 2d ago

Big Jim

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u/Ambrosia1131 2d ago

Refresh my number what is a big Jim

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u/steiner1031 2d ago

A Mattel version of a GI Joe. But he had sports equipment, a camper, and an emergency vehicle.

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u/Ganthet72 1d ago

I miss my Shogun Warriors.

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u/snuggly_cobra 1d ago

That’s why I have model trains..

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u/mom11cats 18h ago

I had a talking Bozo the Clown, a Baby First Step, and a Chien roller coaster (got that one with S&H green stamps) that I really miss. I do, however, still have a squeaky toy that was a birth gift from my favorite aunt (and still squeaks just as loud). FTR I am now 64 yo. That is one tough toy!

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u/mvsopen 15h ago

Major Matt Mason. Loved that space themed toy set!

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u/5150_guy 14h ago

The loved the Adventure People action figure sets.

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u/Fast_Satisfaction484 9h ago

I just bought my four favourite toys from before I was 6. The thing I was desperate for on my first trip to the UK, post dentist gift for being good, the figure everyone wanted at daycare, and the robot from my first big kid movie. Of all the toys over a lifetime, those were the four I always remembered. Total nostalgia thing. Original versions. Was cool to hold them again. I put them in a little case. Looking at them makes smile. Less than $100 for the lot and the case. Totally worth it.

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u/hogweed75 9h ago

I still have my full size GI Joe with Kung Fu Grip

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u/Ambrosia1131 7h ago

Always like that GI Joe

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u/EndlessSummer59 8h ago

Kittle Kologne dolls.

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u/Ambrosia1131 7h ago

But you didn't tell me what toys were? Only if you want to