Which of your old toys do you wish you had saved?

[Cafe GroupAdmin]

 I found this on yahoo.com:

Old toys and cartoons return: Which favorite would you want your kid to play with?

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Frightened of failing in this rough economy, toy makers are relying on revamped old classics to win the hearts of today’s youths instead of risking time and money on the development of new toys. With a modern Strawberry Shortcake leading the pack, other characters to follow include Barbie’s little sister Skipper, P.J. Sparkles, and G.I. Joe. All will be receiving makeovers along with anniversary editions of Transformers and classic board game Candy Land.

Launching a new toy is expensive, and there's no guarantee of success,” claims the Wall Street Journal. “For example, Mattel is estimated to have spent more than $1 million on advertising and design for Flavas, a hip-hop doll line introduced in 2003 to compete with MGA Entertainment Inc.'s popular Bratz line. But the dolls never sold well, and Mattel discontinued them the next year.

Though I only vaguely remember P.J. Sparkles, the tiara-wearing doll that lights up and has a dress than transforms into pajamas, I love the idea of bringing back some of my old favorite toys and presenting them to a new generation. Perhaps toy makers are playing on such nostalgia in hopes parents will buy their kids the toys they once played with themselves.

Some favorites I’d love to see brought back: Rainbow Brite, Jem, She-Ra and Glo Worms.

 

Which of your old toys do you wish you had saved?

 

Which of your favorite toys would you love to see introduced to a new generation of kids?

 

 

[My_4_cuties_08]

I wish I would of saved all of my carebears and cabbage patch kids. 

[small_wonder]

My fisher- price record player, my kids have no clue what a record is. 

 

[nookers]

My 1959 Barbie doll. We were born the same year ~ My mom got me all the Barbie stuff. (My sis still has her original Barbie case) I still have my 45rpm records ~ sadly my record player was stolen several yrs ago.

[BabyRNandMom]

I wish I had saved all my Carebears, my little ponies, Strawberry Shortcake toys, along with a few others, that were simple toys made in USA.

[mrsfitzypants]

I DID save alot of stuff but wish I would have saved more !!! I saved all my Breyer model horeses. I have about 50+ and I'll never give them up. I wish I would have saved all my various babydolls. I had a "My friend Mandy' that i loved. I also had a "Joey Stivick' babydoll that was Gloria and Michaels son on the show 'All In the family" He was the first ever anotomically correct doll and was only available for a brief time ( too riske' for the 70's I guess) He had a penis and I was pretty fixated on that, lol ! I looked it up on ebay and he's worth ALOT damit. Thank you mom for being so cool for the times and getting him for me !  I have tons of Fisher Price stuff too like the Playhouse with the yellow roof, the farm , the school ( remember the merry go round and the swingset) the airplane, the yaht with the awesome pull out diving board, the circus train, the schoolbus and all of the people they don't make anymore cuz they are too small. I have all of this straight from the 70's. I also saved alot of my hard back books, lots of little golden books. I have the 'Sunshine Family" barbie type dolls. I loved them and made all the shit that the little booklet showed you that came with them. I thought the crib you made with the plastic strawberry container rocked !! awwww, memories. I was born in 69' and absolutely loved being a kis in the 70's. I remember the boys would always bring their light sabers  to school and that Stretch Armstrong doll.

[angelachristine]

My SS blow kiss doll was one of my favorites. I also would love all my carebears and cabbage patch dolls and my shrinky dinks. (I loved those things)

Also I had almost the whole collection of hugga bunch dolls, my furrever friends doll (they were the kitty cat dolls with the detachable tails I must have had about a dozen extensions for it. My garbage pail kids collection. I had a ton of toys back then that I wish I still had.

[Bedelina]

It's a great thing if I have saved my little organ. My son who is 10 months likes music. He sways whenever he hears sounds. It seems like he's singing, too whenever he says lala.. I bet he would really enjoy that little organ.

[singlegrandma]

my barbie dolls i had the original one

[CosmicMomma]

I wish I had my Barbie and all her clothes.  I've bought Solo Barbie, but still want the BBQ outfit, it was my favorite.  I still have children's records and 2 record players that belonged to my older kids. Yeah!

[justgrape723]

 My metal doll house with plastic family, I also had this really cool teeter totter and I had a gum machine that you put a nickel in and got a stick of gum...I loved that thing I thought for sure it would make me rich!!!