lost & found vintage toys

green ghost game

^{happy halloween!!}

for halloween a classic vintage game from transogram ~

green ghost, the original glow in the dark classic from 1965 ~

toxic never had this game or played it in her day, but my hubby did as a kid.. once while he & his brother were playing green ghost with the lights off their dad snuck up outside the window nearby & scared them to pieces!! ~

the glowing board has red spaces to move along on this version (there were several different versions of this game with different color schemes, but this is my favorite one..) ~

it has a haunted house, tree & shipwreck, & also 3 pits that are only opened with the right key ~

you get to choose to be one of 4 different pets, a cat, a bat, a vulture or a mouse ~

& you are trying to find the green ghost's lost child, kelly, but he looks just like all the other little ghost children.. (these small vintage game pieces would never fly today as the ghost children are veritable throat plugs..) ~

the ghost children are hiding in the pits along with scary snakes, bones & bat feathers (?!) ~

the snakes are just pieces of old rubber bands ~

gameplay is surprisingly complex, but once all the ghost children are found the green ghost will spin to reveal which one is kelly ~

whoever found kelly wins, so basically the entire confusing game is superfluous & it all is decided at the end with one spin.. lol ~

the box is half the fun ~

with its cool glowy graphics ~

it really does glow in the dark quite well even after almost 50 years ~

$5.99 at bargain city! expect to pay much more for one of these nowadays ~

the transogram company also made the cool glowing vintage kabala game ~

this halloween my son & hubby & i decided to try to play ~

the resulting youtubes are kinda hilarious ~

green ghost game start

green ghost game middle

green ghost game end

the rules ~

have a safe & excellent halloween & remember to keep all the good candy for yourself!!

ghost & toxic

p.s.

did you see today's google doodle?

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bookmarks

so i am a booknerd ~

& i am missing going to my usual friends of the library book sales that i've posted here before ~

so i've been using my online library & checking into various bookclubs & e-books ~

something i've done for years is make my own laminated bookmarks :) ~

either by laminating interesting paper ephemera like these old pez instructions & lenore, etc ~

or when i would print photos for scrapbooking i'd use the edges to print favorite images like these alice scenes ~

i have a whole box of them now ~

kitties, halloween, vintage ephemera & my own art & photography images ~

old tv guide pages.. lol ~

even the backs are fun ~

here's an old favorite one i created ~

'va manger tes morts'! (in case you want to curse someone out but still sound kinda classy) ~

ironically now that i have more than sufficient bookmarks i'm actually getting into audiobooks instead ~

these are still waiting to be laminated ~

so for the month of september i hope you'll join me here at the lost & found ~

as i post oldschool books from our toyroom library & fun toys that i've acquired recently as i succumb to helpless bored-shopping ~

lol.. my old 'business' cards.. more like this to come ~

bren

magic: the gathering

back to the magic cards ~

the black cards ~

these are raven's favorites ~

with all manner of creepy characters ~

skittering skirge ~

barrow ghoul ~

& rats ~

cackling fiend :D ~

morgue thrall ~

lost soul ~

scathe zombies ~

cool old white bordered cards ~

more scathe zombies ~

& more to come ~

bren

flashback friday favorite ~ paperback rack

today's flashback friday favorite post is from october 2017 & has some magic the gathering paperback books included: let's see what we can find on the paperback rack today ~

hmm, vampire plagues, sounds interesting ~

the house with a clock in its walls ~

vintage dell & scholastic books are always good ~

an old crest scifi classic ~

the day of the triffids ~

a favorite author of toxic's, cs lewis ~

how about the mind parasites ~

actually i think we have enough of this irl right now ~

the boxes ~

a penguin book ~

crablike & grotesque :o ~

i've collected magic the gathering cards but haven't posted them here yet ~

but i've never read the associated stories ~

here are a few selections to peruse ~

i'll have to post my magic cards soon ;) ~

haunted waters ~

i myself enjoy dark otherwordly fantasies ~

the mystery of the silver spider ~

with the three investigators ~

aah! real monsters! ~

ickis gets stuck in the human world.. yeah, that Is scary ~

some ghost jokes seem in order ~

bren

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