lost & found vintage toys

lost & found 10th birthday!

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

i'm bren & this is the lost & found's 10th 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 more than 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 10 years ago ~

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 won't be posting every day, but don't worry i still have lots of cool stuff to share, 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!! here's your own ghostgallery library card :)

ghostgallery library card	2021
ATT: this official card allows carrier full access to the ghostgallery, gumbyland website & all affiliated blogs, links, albums & archives, including toxic vintage library. do not lose.
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bren (ghost) & toxic

p.s. Hey! we were featured :)

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— Brenda Roudebush (@GhostAtTheGate) July 24, 2018

Posted at 09:32 AM in books, dinosaurs, dolls, fisher price, ghosts, gumby, halloween, houses, lost & found, old school, plush, raggedys, scholastic, science, sesame street | Permalink | Comments (0)

06/22/2022

prema gumby

what's more fun than opening up a box full of old rare gumbys? ~

pile 'o gumbys :) ~

so these old prema heart gumby bendies popped up recently on ebay & all the gumby collectors are talking ~

prema = love ~

wireless & super rubbery like the old Old gumby rares, i measure mine to be 6.5" tall, not the full 7" tall like the 1976 bicentennial bendy, without paint or marks, other than the mold markings underfoot, these are in remarkably good shape, a few have a little staining ~

so i welcome anyone's thoughts or comments on these guys! i wonder if paul/gumboflexo might still check here? if you do i know we'd love to hear your thoughts about these rough but fun 'rejects' as some call them? & i'm linking here to the old gumby bendy thread from 10 years ago that has been where we all share notes :D ~

it's a gumby day!

update: see the comments here! i will now be referring to these as 'prototypes' :)

bren

Posted at 10:17 AM in gumby, television | Permalink | Comments (6)

06/20/2022

glowing retro monsters

it's mr dad's bday today! ~

fittingly always coinciding with father's day <3 ~

so i picked out some retro toys for him to put up in his spaceroom ~

because house rule is you get a toy on your birthday ;) ~

cool retro metaluna mutant & the creature from the black lagoon ~

even the box is cool ~

but the coolest part is at night ~

because these little guys glow in the dark! :O ~

so happy birthday to our mr dad, sasquatch, rock solid, best catdad ever <3 ~

bren

Posted at 08:17 AM in monsters, movies, space & robots | Permalink | Comments (0)

06/19/2022

geology rocks!

continuing with where i left off yesterday ~

so i first met the sasquatch i married back in socal in an honors geology field course ~

so yeah, we're rockhounds! ~

i was 16 & he was one of the prof's older students driving one of the class vans for us ;) ~

i'd ride shotgun, smoking my cigarette & looking out the window at all the cool natural scenes thinking.. i could get use to this! ;) ~

i think back of those times now as 'husband tryouts' ;) ~

on our first actual date together he gave me a love letter & ancient barnacle fossils he'd found down in mexico ~

so that sealed the deal & here we still are together 40 years later <3 ~

we keep jasper in this jar by the butterfly box ~

this rock tumbler makes them nice & smooth ~

lately we've added additional different stones to fill the jar ~

more tiny treasures ;) ~

toxic always loved pants with lots of pockets for tucking cool pebbles & other tiny things she'd find ~

this trilobyte fossil in mr dad's room is the oldest thing in our collection ;) ~

i found these cool trays for him to display his finds ~

& they filled up quickly ~

with crystals & agates he had tucked away in the garage ~

it's always fun to go out rockhunting with mr dad ~

he knows his stuff ~

today i want to wish him a happy day of the dad! ~

here's hoping we'll be out soon looking for more rocks & stones in cool places ~

here's a cool little handful i picked up last trip out, all washed & varnished ~

i've been known to paint some of these too ~

so here's a cool update as well to a post i made back in may here ~

john's old friends not only left my tolkienstone on tolkien's grave for us all, but they brought back 2 stones from his grave too! so i painted one similarly with tolkien's famous sig & it will now reside on our tolkien shelf in a place of honor :) ~