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Only a Boomer can name all these 1960s toys
Sorry, Millennials! These action figures were cooler.
We've turned over a toy chest to spill out some awesome toys from the Sixties! Who needed video games when you had talking dolls and molten "Plasti-Goop."
Here are some of the most coveted playthings from Boomer youth. See if you can name them all!
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This battle-ready hero came as an Action Soldier, Action Sailor, Action Pilot or Action Marine.
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Mattel captured the thrill of the space race with its sci-fi line Major…?
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The Colorforms company launched this line of seven alien action figures.
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This Mattel molding kit used "Plasti-Goop" to make Creepy Crawlers.
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Cartoon actress June Foray provided the voice to this iconic doll.
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Marx sold this cowboy line dubbed the "Best of the West." Who was the main character?
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This toy consisted of flat vinyl cut-outs that you could place on flat backgrounds. There were all sorts of licenses, including Popeye!
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These tiny dolls were called…?
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If you bought one of the three dolls seen in this Wishbook, you were getting a…?
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Giant monsters! This line of plastic figurines was like little Army men meets a Svengoolie movie. What was it called?
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These miniature cars had a distinctive red stripe on the tires.
Image: Mattel
Only a Boomer can name all these 1960s toys
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8/11... born in '63 so I'd have thought I'd do better. Johnny West toys were the greatest, if a kid broke one of them they were seriously rough on their toys!
I'm a babyboomer but the space/ alien characters and toys were not in my neighborhood. This is probably why Star Wars and other space series never appealed to me. I do like science fiction especially UFO flicks. Mars Attacks really was a parody of the "Eisenhower meets the Alien" case.
My era, but I was reading science books, not watching science fiction!
Apparently I was the alien...
9 out of 11 right! I had GI Joe, Major Matt Mason, Super Thingmaker, and Hot Wheels when I was a kid. And no, I didn't get seriously burned from using the hot "Thingmaker" set. My brothers and I worked with those under parental supervision (namely, my dad) because of that heating element. We had all sorts of those "Creepy Crawlers" toys laying around the house for years afterward....
9/11. And I AM a millennial (in some people's definition, anyway). Yeah, I know I didn't get them all, but in your point of view, MeTV, I betcha I got more than what you think a "typical millennial" would have gotten!
(sorry, I get a little testy with these things. But to put it in perspective, I also hate it when someone goes "OK, Boomer!" Can't we all just get along?)
(sorry, I get a little testy with these things. But to put it in perspective, I also hate it when someone goes "OK, Boomer!" Can't we all just get along?)
7 out of 11. I am at the tail end of the Boomers.
I even had a Liddle Kiddles coloring book.
What about Suzy Homemaker?
I even had a Liddle Kiddles coloring book.
What about Suzy Homemaker?
7/11
11 for 11. Eunic’s forte is 60’s toys evidently. Jonny, Hadji! How’s a trip to K-Mart sound boys?
6 out of 11. Mostly guesses. I'm a Gen X.
i would have gotten Mr Potato Head right.
Well, I'm old-ish, but I ain't quite a Boomer. 6/11.
4/11…not my era. 🤷🏽♂️
I totally guessed that all the answers…
You got 5 out of 11
Were you an action hero… or were these utterly alien to you?
You got 5 out of 11
Were you an action hero… or were these utterly alien to you?
7/11
5/11 I need to go play more attention🙃
What? No Billy Blastoff???
5/11 I am not a boomer. Born in 77’ so I am excused 😄
I should have known all the ones I got wrong because either I had it or one of my cousins.
That Hot Wheels car is The Python. I had a room full of Major Matt Mason toys. Still have them! Looking for a buyer, I guess. And the Thingmaker also made Fighting Men, which were the same size as the green army men, but rubber!
I thought it was Major Mudd.
I remember the Fighting Men! You had to put wire in their arms and legs before you poured in the "plastigoop," otherwise you couldn't pose them with their weapons. A wireless Fighting Man was just a khaki-clad "gingerbread man" molded in green rubber.