Comments on: Plastic fantastic

By: Jack Fear

Jack Fear — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:10:17 +0000

JESUS CHRIST. That Fred Weinberg is scarier than anything in your Halloween countdown.

By: bitterandrew

bitterandrew — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:14:10 +0000

Bill D: The mooing Fisher Price barn is what gave me the largish boomerang-shaped scar on left side of my head.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:05:28 +0000

My old ones are still at my parents’ house, and my great-niece plays with them. I had the safari set, the white ambulance thing, the parachute guy, the TV van, one of the Formula 1 cars, and the motorcycle guys. And maybe the two worker guys with the yellow ladder thingy.

The animals in the safari set were particularly well-made.

By: David Thiel

David Thiel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:14:46 +0000

I doff my B-movie-lover’s cap to you, sir. You may be the first person ever to acknowledge playing “Journey to the Seventh Planet” as a child. Did you also reenact the bridge scene from “Reptilicus?”

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:35:59 +0000

My kids still play with the helicopter, parachutist and some of the other toys in that picture over at my parents’ house. Other than some paint worn off the action figures, they’re just the same as when I was whipping them around my parents’ house.

By: Bill D.

Bill D. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:22:23 +0000

Old school Fisher-Price toys are shockingly durable, as evidenced by the fact that just about everything I ever had still exists in almost-complete form somewhere. Pretty sure there are still a few Adventure People in my parents’ attic, and my 4 year old inherited all my old Little People toys and that marching band kit that came in the drum. Most impressively, the Little People barn still moos when you open the door. Which my son did. Frequently.

Don’t know if their modern gear will hold up as well. The new Little People stuff looks cheesy, and as awesome as the Imaginext stuff is (what I wouldn’t have given for that Batcave set as a kid), I see a bunch of ways it can fall apart. But time will tell, I guess.