Vintage Toy Nostalgia

Vintage Fisher Price chime ball, record player, toyland radio, jumping jack

Being an avid toy collector, custom toy designer and a new mommy makes me nostalgic because motherhood automatically makes you reflect on your childhood experience, then compare it with your baby’s. Seeing all the neat toys being sold nowadays makes me think of my favorite toys growing up which back then seemed nearly indestructible. My favorite toys were definitely the above Fisher Price classics, play-doh, shrinky dinks, legos…. I also loved the popular My Little Pony, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, She-ra/He-man, Thundercats (yea…Thundercats…haha) dolls/action figures from the ’80’s too. That makes me think of my favorite afternoon and Saturday morning cartoons – Dungeons & Dragons, Muppet Babies, Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors, Jem,…. I digress… 🙂

You can still pick up old toys on eBay but be prepared to pay up for the really well loved ones like the Fisher Price wind up record player! I did some damage on eBay but instead of getting the original 1971 red wind up record player, I got a 1987 blue version which works the same but was cheaper. There is a re-release of this record player on the market now but beware it is not really the traditional, manual wind up toy of yesterday. It is an electronic toy that does not actually play from the records’ grooves.

I hope the little one will enjoy some of these oldies (but goldies!) and wonder when my baby grows up if he will find some of my favorites among his toys!