Wood Jigsaw Puzzles

Suds Buggy Soapster

I had a Suds Buggy Soapster when I was a little kid but I haven't been able to find much information about it. It looks like it was made by Kenner sometime in the late70's. Anyone else have more information?

Mr. Potato Head

Mr. Potato Head is an American toy consisting of a plastic model of a potato which can be decorated with a variety of attachable plastic parts such as ears and eyes to make a face. The toy was invented and developed by George Lerner in 1949, and first manufactured and distributed by Hasbro in 1952.It was originally produced as separate plastic parts to be stuck into a real potato or other vegetable. A plastic potato body has been part of the kit since 1964.

Mr Potato Head was the first toy advertised on television and has remained in production since its debut. Over the years, the original toy was joined by Mrs. Potato Head and supplemented with accessories such as a car and a boat trailer.

Here is an 80's commercial for Mr. Potato Head!

Mattel Baseball Handheld Game

Mattel Baseball Handheld Game was released in 1979. It featured...

• 1- or 2-player option
• a score key that gave inning, outs, balls, strikes and score;
• computer-controlled defense;
• 2 play speeds;
• unique sounds for runs scored, outs, base hits, strikes and game end.

Disney Read-Alongs

Disney Read-Alongs were a series of illustrated books for children with accompanying recordings of the books being read. The first Read-Alongs, book-and-record sets, were released in 1965 by Disneyland Records; several hundred titles have been produced.


The books were typically adaptations of popular Disney movies, cartoons, and other stories, running 24 pages. A narrator (or in some titles, a character from the story in first-person) read the story, and dialogue and songs from the original source were included. The sound of Tinker Bell's chimes was the signal for the reader to turn the page. The books always contained the tag line "SEE the pictures, HEAR the record, READ the book." The first editions typically had this introduction:

"This is a Disneyland original Little Long-Playing Record, and I am your story reader. I am now going to begin to read the story of [insert title here]. You can read along with me in your book. You will know it's time to turn the page when Tinker Bell rings her little bells like this: (sound of 'chimes' ringing). Let's begin now."

1960's Crayola Crayons Commercial

Here is a 1960's commercial for Crayola Crayons...

They work on brains, not batteries!

Snoopy Sno-Cone Maker

Do you remember enjoying the fun of making and eating sno-cones at home with the ever-popular Snoopy Sno-Cone Maker, circa 1979!?! It came with a metal ice shaver, syrup bottle, package of unsweetened drink mix, cups, shovel scoop and instructions on how all that works together.

1980's Clear/Transparent Phone

Does anyone else remember these clear/transparent phones that were popular in the 80's? I had one when I was a teenager and I remember that it lit up when it rang. It sure brings back a lot of good memories of spending hours on the phone!

Winnie the Pooh

I loved Winnie the Pooh when I was little. I carried around a stuffed one like this and cried when mom would put him in the washing machine. I think the thing eventually fell apart from being dragged everywhere I went. Poor Pooh!

Baby Alive Doll

Baby Alive was a baby doll made by Hasbro that eats, drinks and wets. Its mouth moved and was supposed to be lifelike. It was originally made and introduced by Kenner in 1973.

1976 Baby Alive Commercial

Tri-Ominos

Tri-Ominos was a game we often played when I was a kid. It was a variant of dominoes using triangular tiles. Each triomino was in the shape of a triangle, each point of the triangle had a number (most often from 0-5), and each triomino had a unique combination of numbers.

Valid play of a triomino was similar to that of a domino in that the sides contacting each other must have matching numbers; the main difference was that two numbers must match instead of just one, and the number in each corner must match the corner it faces; a side with a 1 and a 2 may have the two numbers on opposite corners from the side the player was attempting to match. Points were scored based on the numbers on the tile played and when special placements were made.

Lawn Dart Set

We had this Lawn Dart Set when I was a kid. In doing a little research on them, I found that in they were actually banned in the US after a little girl was killed by one. Luckily, we played with our set for years without a single injury.

Silly Putty

Who didn't have Silly Putty when they were kids?!? Silly Putty is the Crayola owned trademark name for a class of silicone polymers that is marketed today as a toy for children. It was originally created by accident during research into potential rubber substitutes for use by the United States in World War II.

It is sold as a 13 g (0.46 oz) piece of plastic clay inside an egg-shaped plastic container. It is available in various colors, including glow-in-the-dark and metallic.

Barbie Styling Head

Barbie Styling Head was released in 1976. She started the trend when her oversized (child-sized, actually) head was recreated and made into a portable beauty center. The plastic head and neck ended at the top of the shoulders, which turned into a tray to hold all the styling implements. Barbie’s luscious blonde locks could be brushed, curled and styled thanks to the accompanying mini plastic curler (spring-loaded via a rubber band), and clipped into submission with a pink barrette. Her face gleefully awaited a sweep of pink blush, blue eyeshadow, or red lips from her handy pink compact.

Slinky

Slinky is a toy consisting of a helical spring that stretches and can bounce up and down. It can perform a number of tricks, including traveling down a flight of steps end-over-end as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum.

The jingle in the Slinky 1962 commercial became the longest-running jingle in advertising history.

Everyone sing along!!

"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?
A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing! Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky. For fun it's a wonderful toy.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky. It's fun for a girl or a boy."
It's fun for a girl or a boy!"

Yahtzee

Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (now owned by Hasbro), which was first marketed by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe in 1956.

The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. The dice can be rolled up to three times in a turn to try to make one of the thirteen possible scoring combinations. A game of Yahtzee consists of thirteen rounds during which the player chooses which scoring combination is to be used in that round. Once a combination has been used in the game, it cannot be used again.

The scoring combinations have varying point values, some of which are fixed values and others of which have the cumulative value of the dice. A Yahtzee is five-of-a-kind and holds the game's highest point value of 50.

Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit's popularity peaked in 1984, a year in which over 20 million games were sold. The rights to the game were licensed to Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro) in 1988.

The object of the game is to move around the board by correctly answering trivia questions. Questions are split into six categories, with each one having its own color to identify it; in the classic version of Trivial Pursuit, the Genus edition (pictured above), these are Geography (blue), Entertainment (pink), History (yellow), Arts & Literature (brown), Science & Nature (green), and Sports & Leisure (orange). The game includes a board, playing pieces, question cards and a box and small plastic wedges to fit into the playing pieces.

Playing pieces used in Trivial Pursuit are round and divided into six sections. A small, plastic wedge can be placed into each of these sections to signify when a question from a certain category has been correctly answered.

Jenga

Jenga is a game of physical and mental skill created by Leslie Scott in the mid 1980's, and currently marketed by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. In Jenga, players take turns to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a taller and increasingly unstable structure as the game progresses.

The word jenga is the imperative form of kujenga, the Swahili verb "to build".

Etch A Sketch

Etch A Sketch was launched in the United States in 1960 by The Ohio Art Company.

It is a thick, flat gray screen in a plastic frame. There are two knobs on the front of the frame in the lower corners. Twisting the knobs moves a stylus that displaces aluminum powder on the back of the screen, leaving a solid line. The knobs create lineographic images. The left control moves the stylus horizontally, and the right one moves it vertically.

Pictionary

Pictionary is a guessing word game first published in 1985. The game is played with teams of players trying to identify specific words from their teammates' drawings.

There are five types of squares on the board, and each Pictionary card has a list of five words printed on it. Players must draw the word which corresponds to the square on the board on which the team's marker is:

P - Person/Place/Animal
O - Object
A - Action
D - Difficult (words which are difficult to represent in a drawing)
AP - All Play