I've always loved plastic and as a medium it seems to have attracted good designers in the Sixties and Seventies.
Companies like Casdon spring to mind. They made a very classy cash register that came with a kite mark of classiness on the box. They also made a rather neat football game made of plastic, which was endorsed by Sixties legend Bobby Charlton.
But I have never associated Tupperware with well designed toys. The wheeled manned vehicles above are Tupperware.
Did you have any Tupperware toys?
My grandmother was a Tupperware sales lady so she always had toys at her house for us grandkids.That picture really jarred my memory.I remember a set that let you build your own animal with mix and match heads, legs and tails.I also remember a set of building blocks that opened up to reveal a small toy inside.They were definitely "Tupperware Tough", lasted for ages.
ReplyDeleteTupperware tough! I like that Brian. I remember Tupperware parties in the sixties and seventies but never saw any toys. Just containers like the ones in the famous alien movie meals. Those containers were and are futuristic somehow. I think it was the fact that they were tall and thin. Wonder if anyone else recalls that animal set with mixable heads?
DeleteThe alphabet bricks are quite well known to collectors, the early' 'elf-nd-safty' people got to them and the sharp edges were removed from a second set/issue. I guess the autumn catalogue wiuld have contained some toys, for Christmas?
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what, plastic tupperware bricks Hugh? Don't remember them. I remember Galt toys, which were similarly child-friendly.
DeleteTupperware toys were classics that so many kids had. I had the smaller builder set seen here at ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tupperware-Toys-Set-No-101-BUILD-O-FUN-1969-instructions-Vintage-/142154713761?hash=item211914caa1:g:97cAAOSwA3dYB-gz
ReplyDeleteIt was fun, years later it was made into an airplane for my Micronauts. I believe it may still be over at my mom's. The only real problem with that building set was the white rectangle blocks that held the others together. Kids (myself included) would just push the squares into them and pull them out instead of sliding them together. This caused fatigue in the block and eventually one of the corners of the white block would give out and fall off.
Sounds like you had a great time with that tupperware Lance. I recall multi coloured stackable plastic cubes but they may have been another brand. I reckon my fave plastic building blocks were stickle bricks, a sort of spiney block that would fit together with other spiney blocks. I had a plastic set of nuts and bolts, rods and planks which I loved too, especially the plastic spanners for tightening the nuts!
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