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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krofftkon

i had a blast yesterday watching a live stream on insta of krofftkon, which is happening all weekend at the orinda theater in northern california ~

click the link to see marty krofft's grandson, griffin, taking the video :) ~

& yeah, that's me there with weird comments & a question for marty ~

i had to ask if he knew art clokey? nope ~

& in comments later with sid krofft who has liked my comments in the past, i was able to satisfy my curiosity about an old rumor from toxic's childhood, that the opening scene with the creepy boat as the hr pufnstuff theme plays was filmed up at a spot she knew & loved, big bear lake, ca? yes! that's true & he said it was a beautiful day :) ~

if you're as big a fan of the old krofft shows as i am you should click the links in this post to a bunch of posts i've done in the past ~

meanwhile enjoy these cool collectibles i've just added to my toyroom including pufnstuff, sigmund & the sea monsters, electra woman & dynagirl, lidsville & toxic's favorite land of the lost pins, magnet & Stickers!! i've always said witchiepoo was my earliest fashion influence! ;) ~

Sleestak! Avoid Eye Contact! i have to say my favorite moment at krofftkon was when will & holly sing the show theme & even remembered to add grumpy the dinosaur at the end! made my day!! :D ~

back to cd sundays next week.. 

bren

all who wander are not lost

a very special post today in honor of our favorite author jrr tolkien, as old friends of mr dad's are visiting oxford & graciously placed my painted tolkienstone on his grave in remembrance of his life's works that we have all loved so much.. yeah, for all of us nerds <3 ~

so i have an entire category devoted to tolkien here at the lost & found toy blog ~

as i discovered his books as a child long ago & read them all ~

& of course never missed the animated films that came on every year ~

& naturally passed it on to our son who became a huge fan too ~

there's not a film we've not collected & seen in full commentary form ~

not a game we haven't played to the end ~

all those collector cards ~

we'll never forget all the times going to the theater for the movies over & over ~

i once posted a month of tolkien time posts here at the lost & found ~

featuring all the books, games & collectibles we've collected over a lifetime ~

cool figures ~

& as a taphophile who loves to photo old cemeteries & epitaphs i added the photo to the very end of my extensive cemeteria album too ~

kinda makes me want to venture back into middle earth again ;) ~

& visit with old friends ~

you can check out all the tolkien videogames as well up at our game gallery playlist on youtube here ~

cool old vinyl for your vintage inner kid ~

& be sure to click on tolkien in the category list in the sidebar for much more ~

& thanks so much to robert & jeb :) ~

bren

happy flashback friday the 13th!

some mystery items for this special day ~

these tiny boxes contain world's smallest versions of vintage classic toys ~

but you don't know which one you've got till you open it up ~

yay! i was super lucky to have plucked just the toy i was looking for ~

could this be the world's smallest magic 8 ball? ~

some standard versions for comparison ~

i bought 2 just in case, now what's in this one? ~

hey it's a tiny polaroid camera ~

& it's a keychain too ~

i'd also like to get the fisher price phone ~

i already posted the world's smallest gumby & pokey here ~

from superimpulse toys ~

this has been a flashback friday favorite post from 2018 ~

now updated with this peek at my new art album at the rowsofneveropeneddoors entitled 'muchness' :) 

bren