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Nostalgia 🕰 That one special toy

MD Planner

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Did anybody else have one of these?


This was probably one of my all time favorite toys. I had the stunt cycle and the chopper. Obviously the stunt cycle was a better jumper. I remember the Christmas I got it. Christmas evening the whole family went to my grandmother's. There was a big room in the basement where everywhere ate and hung out. I was in the more unfinished part of the basement creating stunts and jumps for my new toy. All my cousins and even my aunts and uncles kept coming out to watch. I felt so important!
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MD Planner said:
Did anybody else have one of these?


This was probably one of my all time favorite toys. I had the stunt cycle and the chopper. Obviously the stunt cycle was a better jumper. I remember the Christmas I got it. Christmas evening the whole family went to my grandmother's. There was a big room in the basement where everywhere ate and hung out. I was in the more unfinished part of the basement creating stunts and jumps for my new toy. All my cousins and even my aunts and uncles kept coming out to watch. I felt so important!
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I particularly loved the Matchbox city set which was interchangeable and presumably set me on the path to our profession.

Also:
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This 1996 Buick LeSabre sits in my parents driveway. It is my current favourite toy, and its grown-up size! The toy was manufactured in 7/95, around the time I was playing with actual toys. Sadly old toys sometimes need restoration work, so I wont be bringing up this toy to WNY until Thanksgiving, just in time to sit in its toy chest all winter.
 
I don't know that I'd call it a toy, but I had a personalized Louisville Slugger baseball bat, probably around 1970 or so. (Emblazoned with my name, not my actual signature.) Beautiful ash, with really nice graining in the barrel. I actually used the bat (why else would a 10-year old kid have a Louisville Slugger?!?) but during a LL game, one of my teammates used it (while I was on base, maybe) and .... cracked my bat!

I was heart-broken.

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(No, he didn't snap it over his knee, at least - it cracked on a pitched ball.)
 
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