lost & found vintage toys

american girls ~ mini illumarooms

 

the american girls line made minis back in the early 2000s, including these fun illumarooms ~

lil's diner lunchcounter ~

this girl's bedroom set has a kitty with her own little house too of course ~

by 2003 they were discontinued due to product breakage & electrical lighting issues ~

i love the cool retro lil's diner set with lunch counter & accessories ~

& all the mini items that make this set look so realistic, like the tiny shakemaker ~

this reminds me of rainy afternoons spent having a grilled cheese & milkshake at toxic's old local woolworth's lunch counter ~

the light bars stick by magnet & plug into tiny outlets ~

the windows also stick by magnet & have changeable scenes you insert ~

originally these set boxes were made of wood like mine are ~

mattel took over from the pleasant company years ago ~

i still have many of the fun magnet/signs from lil's diner on my fridge ~

here's the bedroom box set before you arrange it with lights & furniture ~

see the tiny outlets ~

the wall pieces are reversible depending on which pattern you like & a dustcover sticks over the front also by magnet to protect the scene inside ~

i wish i'd gotten the horse stable set before these were discontinued, but there were only so many xmas's they were available ~

original brochures ~

for my own minis & houses just look down left in the sidebar for links ~

bren

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the gumby funko pop ~

949 ~

i only have 2 of these now ~

gumby & fred ~

together now at gumbyland & in my toyroom ~

bren

vintage toy ads ~ toxic's choice

more vintage toy ads ~

these are from toxic's old stomping grounds like her home beach, 62nd street in belmont shore :) ~

there was a 2 guys along toxic's bikeride to school ~

jcpenney's toyland! toxic also often bought her school clothes, bathing suits & gym clothes here for jr high ~

zody's is where we bought our first stereo :D ~

& i still have old 45s i bought at the treasury in lakewood ~

classic fisher price & tinker toys ~

not unlike my old backyard swingset but hey, i wish i'd had the dangerous tent kind! ~

toxic's choice ~

good old toys'r'us, we spent many hours there, especially during the pokemon training league years with my son & his friends, happy times :) ~

bren

vintage toy ads

i keep a notebook in my toyroom that's full of vintage toy ads ~

hey look, it's talking bozo with 10 different phrases! no i think i've had quite enough bozo for awhile ~

these are mostly from vintage sears catalogues ~

i love the really old ones ~

velocipedes, hand cars & irish mails? (translation = trikes & gocarts) ~

mechanical, musical & rolling floor toys including waddling goose ~

gilbert sets, like toxic's old microscope ~

erector sets & tinker toys (i need a magic lantern) ~

more like this all week ~

bren