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100

I want the whole kit.  There is a “Real Sewing Machine that Really Sews”… not to mention, a doll, a dress pattern, metal scissors, spools of thread, a needle in a needle book and a thimble.

Jr. Miss Sewing Kit

100

I want a Dam Doll with funky hair that stands only inches high and in twenty years can give me luck at the bingo table.

Troll Dolls

Fun Fact:

Troll dolls were originally named 'Dam Dolls' after their inventor a Danish woodcutter Thomas Dam.  The dolls were first created in 1959 and became one of the United States' biggest toy fads in the early 1960s. They became fads again in brief periods from the 1970s through the 1990s and were copied by several manufacturers under different names

100

I want that flashing light memory tester toy my Mom said she saw at Studio 54.

Simon

Fun Fact:

SIMON was introduced at a glitzy Milton Bradley release party held at Studio 54 in 1978.

100

I want a gross set of balls… like Screaming Meemie, Dustbrain and Crackhead before he got his name changed to Bashbrain.

Madballs

100

My sister has her stupid Malibu Barbi and convertible so I want my Michael Knight and the KITT car that talks.

Knight Rider Knight 2000 Voice Car

200

I want the freckle-faced boy puppet with 48 freckles, one for each state of the union.  I watch his show with Buffalo Bob.

Howdy Doody Puppet

Fun Fact:

He gained another freckle on January 3, 1959, when Alaska became the 49th state.

200

It's more than just a toy, it's a kit that creates rubber spiders, cockroaches, worms, tarantulas, scorpions, lizards, snakes, and other critters by pouring "Plastigoop" into heated molds.

Creepy Crawlers Bug Maker (64)

200

I want to release aggression with my Red Rocker and Blue Bomber by taking out my opponents head.

Rockem Sockem Robots

Fun Fact:

Rockem Sockem Robots were first manufactured by the Marx Toy Company in 1964.

200

My Mom wants this game but I know my Dad won’t get it for her.  He says it’s too prestigious and complicated and too expensive for a trivia game.

Trivial Pursuit

200

We’d have the most popular house on the block if we had this in our living room and played it on our television. You can actually shoot a gun at your tv screen to hunt ducks.

Nintendo

300

I want the first toy to be advertised on television.  It's the "Funny Face Kit" with pushpins of silly eyes and silly mustaches and silly ears and silly smiles.  I don't need potatoes since I can use my Mom's.

Mr Potato head (52)

Fun Fact:

The toy was originally produced as separate plastic parts with pushpins that could be stuck into a real potato or other vegetable. However, due to complaints regarding rotting vegetables and new government safety regulations, Hasbro began including a plastic potato body within the toy set in 1964.

300

Static charges hold a mixture of aluminum powder and tiny plastic beads to the inside of the screen.  Turning the knobs scratches through the powder to draw a line.

Etcho Sketch

300

I want that smart toy put together by a group of Texas Instruments engineers that is first in a series of three educational toys teaching children language, spelling and math.

Speak and Spell

Fun Fact:

Between its release and 1983, the Speak & Spell was redesigned twice under the name Speak & Spell.

300

I really wanna scare my sister with this octopus when it slowly creeps down the wall.  There was a free one in our Apple Jacks but it disappeared when I tried throwing it at a city building.

Wacky Wall Walkers

300

I want that tiny doll set in the tiny little doll house the size of my mom’s powder compact.

Polly Pocket

400

It's some kind of modeling compound that my Mom said is non-toxic, non-staining and reusable.

Play-Doh

Fun Fact: The product was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s.  The product was reworked and marketed to Cincinnati schools in the mid-1950s.

400

My older brother had this toy but he had to use a real potato.  I want this new one with a real plastic body.

Mr Potato head (52)

Fun Fact:

The toy was originally produced as separate plastic parts with pushpins that could be stuck into a real potato or other vegetable. However, due to complaints regarding rotting vegetables and new government safety regulations, Hasbro began including a plastic potato body within the toy set in 1964.

400

I want the game only four of us can play, eating marbles… and doing nothing more.  "It's a race, it's a chase, hurry up and feed their face!

Hungry Hungry Hippos

Fun Fact:

The idea for the game was published in 1967 by toy inventor Fred Kroll and it was introduced in 1978.

400

I have Matchbox cars but I want those fast cars with the key for speed.

Burnin’ Key Cars

400

I have the rest of the Ninja Turtles but I want the one with the orange eye band.  I can never spell his name right.  I tried asking my Mom how to spell it and she thinks I’m talking about an artist from the old times.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Michelangelo Figurine

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