Too Late.
No kiddin' ... imagination was a key ingredient back then.Some string, and a ball or cup and we played for days. No electronics, video games, etc. Man I feel older now!
Don't recall having the ball & cup, but had several of the paddles with a ball attached by (an incredibly flimsy) rubber band. We (and my parents) called 'em bit-bat boards. But mine were plywood*, not particle board.
I still remember when I first saw the tin cans and string in real life. One guy had brought them to elementary school, and there were several of us standing around wondering why they wouldn't work. He kept saying "I made them just like in the picture."
The two guys holding the cans were about 4ft apart, with about 10ft of string lying on the ground between them...
EDIT: *FWIW... on second thought, I believe the little paddles were a solid piece rather than plywood.
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My niece, her husband and 2 small boys came from Indiana to spend Thanksgiving week with my mother. The boys played with my old black powder cap pistol all week. Some toys are timeless.
The aluminium powder in that Etch A Sketch mixed with some Ammonium Nitrate makes Tannerite!My first (only?) gaming console was an Etch A Sketch...
Those old "gaming consoles" were highly popular on ebay a few years ago so folks could mine the powder from them.
Too danged cheap now to just buy the product over the counter and be done with it.
IIRC, that powder was dampened with mercury (so it wouldn't dry out) to make it stick to the glass.
Lol, where was Ralph Nader when ya needed 'im...
I loved my etch a sketch. I got pretty good at drawing on it especially stairs.
~$1 Hot Wheels Cord from 1971. Opening hood...removable top...metal body and base, metal exposed engine, multi-piece wheels and suspension...candy like paint...
~$1 Hot Wheels Cord from "today"...plastic base, sealed hood/no exposed engine, blah wheels...no removable parts...enamel paint...solid axles...
~$1 Hot Wheels Cord from "today"...plastic base, sealed hood/no exposed engine, blah wheels...no removable parts...enamel paint...solid axles...
Some string, and a ball or cup and we played for days. No electronics, video games, etc. Man I feel older now!
I can't seem to find any photos of the "flip toy" I had as a kid that was like this. Instead of a "cup", the handle had a pet sticking up that was about 2 inches long. The "ball" part was in the shape of an oval and had a hole drilled in the bottom away from the string attachment point. That hole wasn't a whole lot bigger than the peg. Made it much more challenging to flip the "egg" onto the peg.
I only had a few Hot Wheels (probably late '60s?) and just gravity for power. But I did get some extra straight track and a 180 degree curve so I could stay by the starting point and they'd come back to me.
Ha! I still have the little plastic C-clamp that track attaches to, and it's currently clamped on a shelf frame by my indoor work table with jumper wires hanging on it.
I'm probably not the only one here that painstakingly cleared out a window large enough to see how the mechanism worked that moved the wiper (drawing point) around...
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