Help Me Find Vintage Toys! [I Love Toys]
Hello. Am looking for some vintage toys from the 70's and early 80's. I should have told my parents and brother and others back in the 1975-1981 period that I liked these toys and absolutely loved the first couple. Those should have been set aside and kept indefinitely in a trunk or chest. Then we could have passed them on to children, grand-children, and other descendants.
I sent this message to care@melissaanddoug as they occasionally create products that emulate vintage toys.
Hello.
I know you make educational toys many of which emulate those that were available around 40 to 60 years ago. After having studied the vintage toy market for about 45 years I have settled on several, including a couple that are just about impossible to find now but were moderately common in the 70's and very early 80's when I was a child. Will share descriptions of a couple below with the hope that there is some interest in bringing these back into production. I know there would be some demand for such among boomers and x'ers who are parents and grandparents of kids.
Hello.
Am looking for these toys of the 70's and very early 80's .
I. There was a small flat yellow bird with a sliding switch in a groove. It had 2 parallel faces. The switch enabled one to select from among several recorded songs: chirps, wharbles, tweets, whirs, whistles etc. This cannot now be found even in pictures.
II. a weather prediction tool for 7 regions of the country, 8 sky types, 8 wind directions, and warm and cold seasons. The housing was plastic and there were 8 paper strips that could be inserted into it. This cannot now be found even in pictures.
III. a photo-building toy with 3 prints: red, green, blue or red yellow and blue ... Through the combination of these filters, screens, plastic sheets one could produce a photo-like picture of a car with occupants etc. This cannot now be found even in pictures.
IV. Noah's Arc... Am not sure who produced this but believe it is still available.
V Various walking sound-and-light-producing robots and such figures as pulsar man and a figure with a projecting possibly flashing "head lamp" Do not know the availability status of these.
I sent this message to care@melissaanddoug as they occasionally create products that emulate vintage toys.
Hello.
I know you make educational toys many of which emulate those that were available around 40 to 60 years ago. After having studied the vintage toy market for about 45 years I have settled on several, including a couple that are just about impossible to find now but were moderately common in the 70's and very early 80's when I was a child. Will share descriptions of a couple below with the hope that there is some interest in bringing these back into production. I know there would be some demand for such among boomers and x'ers who are parents and grandparents of kids.
Hello.
Am looking for these toys of the 70's and very early 80's .
I. There was a small flat yellow bird with a sliding switch in a groove. It had 2 parallel faces. The switch enabled one to select from among several recorded songs: chirps, wharbles, tweets, whirs, whistles etc. This cannot now be found even in pictures.
II. a weather prediction tool for 7 regions of the country, 8 sky types, 8 wind directions, and warm and cold seasons. The housing was plastic and there were 8 paper strips that could be inserted into it. This cannot now be found even in pictures.
III. a photo-building toy with 3 prints: red, green, blue or red yellow and blue ... Through the combination of these filters, screens, plastic sheets one could produce a photo-like picture of a car with occupants etc. This cannot now be found even in pictures.
IV. Noah's Arc... Am not sure who produced this but believe it is still available.
V Various walking sound-and-light-producing robots and such figures as pulsar man and a figure with a projecting possibly flashing "head lamp" Do not know the availability status of these.
51-55, M
