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seanan_mcguire

Toys that just don't cut it anymore.

Jan 27, 2010 07:45

When I was a kid growing up below the poverty line in California, I had a lot of toys that were "the hot new thing" about ten years before they wound up in my grasping little hands. This included the glory of the Creepy Crawlers machine, from Thing Maker. (Modern parents, prepare to be completely and utterly appalled.) It consisted of a small, ( Read more... )

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brightlotusmoon January 27 2010, 16:01:14 UTC

she probably figured it was cheaper than eating paste or sniffing markers until they dried out (big hobbies with the other kids on my block).

I remember when the big thing in the '80s (I was born in '79 and went to public grade school in Brooklyn, NY) was sniffing markers, sniffing and eating glue, and sniffing and chewing blue pens. Now its raiding Grandma's medicine cabinet for hydrocodone. Or did they do that too in the '80s

My childhood best friend, Brian, had a Creepy Crawler maker. Alongside our massive collection of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys. We made the Turtles fight the Creepy Crawlers. With My Little Ponies. It was awesome. I miss my 1980s childhood.

Just wanted to say thanks for the memories.

lapintada January 27 2010, 16:03:11 UTC

Wait! Where's the Easy Bake Oven so they could all eat cake after doing battle?

**grin***
THIS I did have!

seanan_mcguire January 27 2010, 16:04:47 UTC

The Easy Bake Oven: teaching us all why we don't want to lick the lightbulb.

brightlotusmoon January 27 2010, 16:19:23 UTC

I never got that, but my mom let me help her bake! I would have LOVED an Easy Bake Oven. I had a Fisher Price record player, though, so I could have a musical score and soundtrack to go along with my battles.

lapintada January 27 2010, 16:24:00 UTC

heeee... all these memories!

seanan_mcguire January 27 2010, 16:03:19 UTC

...that would have been the best battle ever. I just had the evil My Little Ponies over in the Dream Castle send the tide of Creepy Crawlers against the good My Little Ponies in the Paradise Estate.

Also, you and I are basically the same age, so I, too, miss your childhood.

brightlotusmoon January 27 2010, 16:17:43 UTC

It was always the best battle ever! Yours sounds fantastic too. Did you make the winged ponies be the first soldiers on the front lines too?

I was cruel to my Ponies. I drew on them and scarred them, and I made them battle-worthy (because I was disabled and "different from the other kids and stared at") -- but they were the most awesome Ponies ever. And when they teamed up with the Ninja Turtles and She-Ra, they were unstoppable. I liked to take blank cassette tapes and record my stories. I went on a huge Last Unicorn kick once and bought tons of white plastic horses and shoved broken skewers in their foreheads, wrapped in clear tape so the horns would shine. So the Unicorns would join the war, but I couldn't find a Red Bull, so I substituted with red Creepy Crawlers.

....man, I was an odd child.

And yet I can't watch horror films, or violent films, and I need other people to dispose of bugs for me.

Anyway. Thank you for letting me ramble.

seanan_mcguire January 27 2010, 22:20:37 UTC

I was scrupulously careful with my Ponies, and they ruled the house. Truly, their army was mighty, and all others were beaten back.

We are a ramble-okay zone.

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