Well! Looks like we've opened the floodgates of Boomer memories!
I didn't have Creepy Crawlers or Incredible Edibles, but I did have the Mattel Fright Factory, which was in the same line. I remember one of the things you could make was a disgusting warty tongue, that you actually stuck in your mouth! Between that and the fact that the cooker actually heated up, it would NEVER be allowed on the market today.
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Making toys "safe" has taken all the fun out of them, I think. Look at all of us--WE survived.
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I did have the Johnny Toymaker set pictured. Well, not that exact one, but, you know what I mean. Seems that Topper always came up with toys that were a *little* cooler than the others, but they never seemed to work quite right.
Oooh. Power Shop. Never had one but always wanted one. Bet they go for plenty on ebay--like Creepy Crawlers and Incredible Edibles.
And how about the ORIGINAL Hot Wheels? All that orange track and those purple connectors! There's a whole generation of men who could see those two colors and not think of anything BUT Hot Wheels.
Motorific? It was cool then, and it's cool now. My dog likes to watch the car race around the track.
So do I!
I STILL (after 20 months) have some stuff packed away from when we moved in. I'll try to dig out my Tressy collection, my banks, my advertising radios...
Oh, and Robert, yep, I finally got the lytics replaced in Laura. I stopped when I hit the one that fixed the problem, as I am extremely clutzy and didn't want to tempt the fates.