Its too soon to talk about the Big Day so I won't but the onset of the dark month of November has got me thinking about the promise of day-glo party favours and Hong Kong novelties. My childhood was chock-full of little plastic toys and vending charms, so here are a few that have been picked up by that big claw in my mind:
Plastic pipes: the classic Dad shape and the three-pot bubblers: blub!
Plastic pea shooter: tchooom!
Ball floater: pfffft!
Plastic catapult: Yeoooow!
Skull key rings: Yikes!
Skeleton key Rings: dem bones!
Top Hat Skull: the Bone Daddy!
King Kong figures: Grrrrrr!
Super Balls: zzzzzooooom!
Strange Change Lost World cubes: plup!
Which plastic toy thingies do you recall readers - from Birthdays, parties, holidays, Thanksgiving or trips out?
Plastic figures Woodsy... I remember enjoying dropping my Bugsy Backbone and Miss Venus down the redundant ink well of my school desk sometime back in the early 70s. Bugsy and Venus were Crater Critters... quirky little plastic aliens found inside boxes of Kellogg's breakfast cereal. I remember trading these plastic figures with other kids, but Bugsy was my childhood favourite... good ol' Bugsy.
ReplyDeleteha ha! Think I had Crater Critters too but I'm amazed I don't recall those great names. Bugsy Backbone! As for those ink wells, I used to sit at the desk and pull out whatever was stuffed in them - usually a mixture of chewing gum and photostatted letters home all screwed up! I'd imagine which poor sod in the past had to sit at that desk actually dipping a pen into ink!
DeleteFunnily enough I've been photographing tat like this (!) for the last three weeks, but I'm going to run it in December as a festive 'season'...I had one of those skeletons and several skulls hanging from the breast-pocket buttons of my 'Greebo' cut-off once upon a time....Nazareth!
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Filthy Animal Taylor died? It's like my own existence is starting to disassemble... :-(
Greebo...now that's a word I'd forgotten Hugh! I was a hippie so I'm unsure of that qualified. Greebo's were greasy bikers weren't they?
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