lost & found vintage toys

Happy 5th Birthday Lost & Found!!!

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

i'm bren & this is the lost & found's 5th 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 almost 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 gallery of my art up at gumbyland for anyone 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 neither seems to really work to find all of the items i've posted, even with specific item names, so i've added an advanced google search below that. 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 :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!! ~

update: the lost & found just had its 6th bday! after posting a toy or book every day for all these years i've found the typepad search just doesn't find hardly anything, so i removed it, but i've left the advanced search in the sidebar which works great!

bren (ghost) & toxic

p.s. Hey! we were featured :)

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— Brenda Roudebush (@GhostAtTheGate) July 24, 2018

 

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flashback friday favorite ~ american mcgee's alice

today i'm sharing what is my most favorite videogame of all ~

american mcgee's alice by ea games on pc from 2000 ~

what can i say except that i just love this game ~

at the time i played this game i had my pc hooked up to my tv for a nice big screen ~

i got well into this twisted wonderland & then needed to upgrade my pc to xp which resulted in my losing all playability! ~

an old friend, humpty dumpty ~

the cheshire cat by my side ~

original gameplay guide ~

oldschool installation ~

alice had a whole arsenal of toys she used as weapons in this dark wonderland ~

& so there i was stuck in the middle of the game for years with no end in sight ~

more than once people have commented about a resemblence between this alice & myself ~

i tried every fix i could to get the game to play but nothing worked ~

these are the notes taken by alice's psychiatrist at rutledge asylum ~

complete ~

there was laudanum & camphor ~

bloodletting & solitary confinement ~

art therapy? ~

force-feeding ~

experimental drugs ~

in-patient abuse ~

homicide & suicide attempts ~

insane children & a therapy cat? ~

psychoanalysis ~

you know, the usual ~

while dr heironymous q. wilson tries everything to evoke a breakthrough, alice fights her personal demons all in her own mind ~

i can relate ~

'if it's my keen invention you'd like to destroy, i'll withstand your best shot: i've got the right toy..' ~

check back tomorrow to see alice's progress ~

this has been a flashback friday favorite post from 2014.. also, alice fans should support american mcgee over on Patreon like i do to get cool insider benefits & help bring about more adventures in wonderland :D ~

click on alice & american mcgee in the category list in the sidebar for Sooo much more!

bren

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more beatrix potter today ~

this time with stickers :D ~

this is a rebus sticker storybook from penguin books ~

classic peter rabbit ~

put the stickers where they go in the story ~

more beatrix potter here ~

& here ~

& more to come soon ~

bren

wooden puzzles

i always love vintage wooden puzzles, how quaint, learning to tell time :) ~

this one is from sifo, but i usually find playskool ones like this sing a song of sixpence puzzle ~

always missing a piece or two.. more like this here ~

on the subject of wooden toys, these folks are looking for their long lost wooden vehicle, a toy toxic remembers her little brother had that you could take apart & put back together. i'm always keeping my eyes peeled for one at estate sales ~

see more of timmy time here..

bren