Toys of the 70's

• Baby Alive
  Doll that ate food.  When you turned its head it chewed
   

• Banana Seat Bikes
  These were especially popular for the girls.
   

• Big Wheel
  The Big Wheel was a small plastic tricycle with a large front wheel.
   

• Clackers
  Two glass, often glitter, balls on a string with a key in the center and you banged them together.
   

• Growin' Up Skipper
  Barbie's little sister.  When you crank her arm her waist would lengthen about a 1/2" and breasts would pop out!  Crank the arm backwards and she shrinks back.
   

• Hoppity Hop Ball
  A big rubber ball with a round handle that you can sit on and hop while holding the handle.
   

• Inchworm
  It was a green worm with a yellow seat and wheels.  You would sit on the seat and kind of rock up and down and roll it around.
   

• Pet Rock
  These rocks came in carrying cases complete with food and instruction manual.

• Mrs. Beasley Doll
  From the 70's TV show Family Affair.  A cloth doll with yellow yarn hair and a blue dress with white polka dots.  She has glasses that are drawn on her face.  Pull the string on her back for one of several messages..."my what a sweet child" or "let's get some ice cream" or "how 'bout a little kiss?"
   

• Rock'em Sock'em Robots
  A red and a blue robot fought in a boxing ring.  On the commercial when the on kid lost he said, "Hey! You knocked my block off."
   

• Super Elastic Bubble Plastic
  Gooey substance squeezed from a tube, when blown through a small straw, large colorful balls are formed.
   

• Totem Tennis
  Played with a metal pole with a tennis ball connected by a piece of string.  Hit with wooden bats round and round.
   

• Weebles
  Cute little plastic egg-shaped people that wobbled but could not fall down.  Came with many accessories...weebles tree house, hauted house, etc...

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