Back when it was easy to be entertained

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Those are all great. I had most of them,,, and it's a miracle that my sis is still alive after riding her big wheel down the steep roads we had in Hawaii.

I was also influenced by our local Japanese TV channel in Hawaii. This was my favorite show (it was sub-titled in English),,, and I had this remote control motorcycle... State of the art for it's time btw...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VqNFGDxiw[/youtube]

BTW,,, I can still sing that entire song in perfect Japanese. It's like singing "The Flintstones" theme song for me.

Oh shit - that reminds me of another toy I had.
It was really disappointing though, because it would NEVER - NEVEREVEREVER - go in a straight line.
And it sure as shit wouldn't do anything shown in the commercial.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwXAXw5WYE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwXAXw5WYE</a>

 

[LesBaker]

The Silly Putty commercial made my skin crawl a little.....that was a creepy looking dude.

I remember all of these between me or other kids we all had a chance to play with som many of these.

Remember building Estes Rockets anyone? Whenever someone in the neighborhood got one and built it all of us kids were there to watch it go up. It was like an big event lol.

 

[Selassie I]

Those are all great. I had most of them,,, and it's a miracle that my sis is still alive after riding her big wheel down the steep roads we had in Hawaii.

I was also influenced by our local Japanese TV channel in Hawaii. This was my favorite show (it was sub-titled in English),,, and I had this remote control motorcycle... State of the art for it's time btw...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VqNFGDxiw[/youtube]

BTW,,, I can still sing that entire song in perfect Japanese. It's like singing "The Flintstones" theme song for me.

Oh shit - that reminds me of another toy I had.
It was really disappointing though, because it would NEVER - NEVEREVEREVER - go in a straight line.
And it sure as shit wouldn't do anything shown in the commercial.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwXAXw5WYE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwXAXw5WYE</a>

Hahaha...

I had one of those Evil K toys. Pretty sure it was the motorcycle. POS

The Japanese were way ahead of their time with the toys we could get in Hawaii back in the 70's.