Medieval Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) The sounds of home dollhouse for $800 got me thinking to my toys back in the day. I wish I still had this one: My gram bought me a Barbie sized doll that when you rotated her arm around one way she would get taller and grow a bust. When you rotated it the other way she would shrink and her bust would disappear. I was 9-10 and thought it was the most awesome thing in the world. My mother had a fit, so it was something that stayed at gram's house. Guess where my favorite hangout was? Dollhouse building, crocheting and knitting, sewing. And puberty dolls. Who could compete with that?! I really miss my gram, and I think about her a lot when I work on my house. She's been gone 33 years. Edited March 31, 2021 by Medieval Found it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mid-life madness Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 What a great memory! I loved my Barbie's...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzagpipixcan Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I always wanted Mattel's Thingmaker/Creepy Crawlers and Vac u Form. By the time I got old enough to get one for myself, they were gone and we didn't have ebay, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medieval Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 What's a Vac u Form? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Back when our boys were small we used to get the Creative Playthings catalog and I lusted for (but couldn't afford) the Sasha & Gregor dolls. Now they're collector items and I still can't afford them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzagpipixcan Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 16 hours ago, Medieval said: What's a Vac u Form? It is a Mattel toy similar to the thingmaker, except it was a mini vacuum former. They had molds like cars and boats that you could form the plastic around. The old commercial - only about 30 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvgvWiZNe8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medieval Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 Wow! I didn't know about those! Those days had cool stuff...until people decided it was too dangerous for kids most likely. And you could get cool stuff for free by mailing in a certain amount of proof of purchase. Now a days I don't think cracker jack even includes cheesy tattoos anymore. I guess it's just happy meal toys.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thimble Hall Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 I never owned a Barbie..not quite sure why. I loved microscopes and scientifiic things. I was fascinated by how the microscope could take me into a tiny world. I remember dolls and dolls prams, I had a small but identical copy of a grownup coach built babies pram, they are deifinately collectible now. I also loved fabrics as a child, I was fascinated but the feel of different ones.. I got a decent sewing machine quite early on, not a toy thank goodnss as they were useless, it was a treadle. I had it for many years, it crossed the Atlantic with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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