lost & found vintage toys

happy birthday lost & found!!

Hi & Welcome to the Lost & Found Vintage Toy Blog!

i'm bren & this is the lost & found's 7th birthday post ~

i'm a collector of vintage toys, books & pop culture items, including holiday, retro or even contemporary toys that i particularly like. i host a website called gumbyland that i've maintained for 20 years, as my biggest collection is of the 50's character gumby! all the items i have up at gumbyland link back here to show off the collection in detail for my fellow gumby fans, but there's much more here to interest vintage kids & collectors.. i've posted a toy, children's book or collectible every day since i started this site ~

my bucket list is to try to find all the toys & books i lost in childhood, & whenever i mention the nickname 'toxic' i am referring to my own inner child (yeah i am a little bit dysfunctional.) i've also been known on the web for years as 'ghost' in part because i like to photograph old cemeteries.. & i also paint & write & create art installations, dollscapes, miniature houses & digital art so i have a ghost gallery of my art up at gumbyland for anyone who's interested.. there are links in the sidebar & footer to all my different sites & pages ~

if you're looking for a particular toy or item please try the search box & the categories list in the sidebar, although i've found it doesn't always work to find all of the items i've posted, so if that doesn't work you might want to peruse through the archives.. each archived month has a page with 3 posts & you can click at the bottom to continue through all that month's posts.. there's even an inventory album in the sidebar with thousands of item thumbnails.. & you can ask a question anywhere using the comments, i am usually able to answer by the following day.. i try to go back & update old posts where appropriate so check back ~

vintage kids & nostalgia buffs please feel free to comment on any of the posts new or old & share your memories here.. from here on i may or may not be posting every day, but don't worry i still have lots of cool stuff to share (lol i said that last year :D) including highlights of fun old posts from the archives that i want to bring back ~

my toy room has changed since i first started posting, so this is an updated look (click on pix for the larger size) ~

my toy room is my happy place.. have fun!!

bren (ghost) & toxic

p.s. Hey! we were featured :)

welcome to #gumbyland & the #lostandfoundtoys #blog ~ https://t.co/NdZFUiVvY9 #gumby #vintage #toys #blogs #books #retro #blogger #collector #tv #animation #art #gallery #children #kids #artist #paintings #collectibles #fun ?? pic.twitter.com/OXltJUnrHT
— Brenda Roudebush (@GhostAtTheGate) July 24, 2018

Posted at 07:09 AM in books, dolls, gumby, halloween, houses, kid's meal prizes, little golden books, lost & found, old school | Permalink | Comments (0)

01/24/2020

flashback friday favorite ~ lost toys

long post ~

toys that remain Lost today ~

this was toxic's favorite lunchbox ~

tin aladin early 70's era dr seuss ~

$(KGrHqJHJEEFGviDgnBkBRtf75r1Qg~~60_57

with the grinch, horton the elephant, the sneeches & the cat in the hat ~

i see it on ebay here & there but it's pretty pricey so i'm holding out to possibly find one in a collectible shop someday ~

this swingarounder gym playset was a toxic favorite toy since toxic was always climbing all over her vintage 50's backyard swingset ~

also early 70's era but fairly rare, i've only seen one once in a shop.. should've snagged it when i did! ~

from mattel it came with this skipper doll which became toxic's favorite doll, her hands fit the bar & swings so she could hold on like toxic on the rings at her school playground ~

she played with skipper, swam with her, took baths with her, & yet she was so worn & grubby that i recall her as having dark hair like toxic, not blonde & new like this..lol! (well, we did play land of the lost a lot in a dirtpile beside the back porch with a basket made of popsicle sticks to escape unfriendly dinosaurs..) ~

toxic also had this malibu skipper doll ~

& malibu ken who lost his leg & her little brother threw it up on the backyard patio roof where she didn't discover it for years.. all those years of ken's disability, then he had his bleached white leg returned! ~

toxic liked to climb up onto the roof of just about anything ~

another favorite lost toy was this li'l polly puff playhouse set, also early 70's era ~

toxic had this set up on a cardtable in the corner of the diningroom with toys stacked on top.. it was a great place to hide when stealing a spoonful of frosting from the refrigerator ~

it came with a li'l polly puff doll & inflatable furniture ~

there was also a bed ~

this was the suitcase toxic had & used for sleepovers ~

along with this beloved sesame street sleeping bag ~

i miss this, i'd use it now..lol ~

again i'm borrowing a lot of pictures from the internet i've collected today ~

there's grover & cookie monster getting a midnight snack ~

toxic also got this animal yacker lion plush toy for xmas of 1969

these little guys are all i have left of a little ice-cream stand playset toxic had that i cannot find any information on at all.. if anyone recognizes them or remembers the maker or original name please let me know in the comments, i'd really appreciate it :) ~

this was my bad, i mistakenly put out my early 80's era visible head model in pieces in a bag at a yardsale many years ago & have regretted it ever since.. when assembled mine served as a handy hatstand for many years & i miss him.. turns out this model is particularly rare & i can't find him again :( ~