i'm too young for my childhood toys to be vintage!

It being a very slow day here at work (thank god!), I decided to take a little stroll down Memory Lane. Only once I got there, I discovered that Memory Lane quickly turned into Vintage Boulevard, and I was a lot older than I thought.

Are you old, too? If you (or your sister) had any of the toys posted below, you're probably old. You're also probably really cool, but that doesn't make you any younger.

Going back as far as I can remember, we start with Richard Scary's Puzzletown:
This was a fabulous set of interlocking toys based on the books of Richard Scary. We had the medical center (above) and the downtown, the farm, and god knows what else. My favorites were always the picklemobile and the egg mobile. I think that may be all we have left of them now.

Then our good old bathtime favorires, Sea Wees. My sister and I shared them, and I'm pretty sure we had both of the ones below:

In addition, we had the blue one, the white one and the orange one. I sure as hell don't remember their names, though. I'm waaaay too old for that.

Ah, Pretty Cut & Grow. What they don't show you here is that if you buy the blonde doll, it comes with blonde hair in the doll, and a PURPLE HAIR REPLACEMENT. What the hell was that??
The Brooke Shields doll (The World's Most Glamorous Teenage Doll). But I could SWEAR that mine came in a Blue Lagoon bathing suit outfit. Maybe my mom made that, though. There's no evidence of its existence (outside my own home) anywhere on the internet.

The infamous Barbie Head, which they still make -- although none of the ones made now come with that attractive ruffled prom dress. After my mom would do our hair by pulling it super-tight, my sister and I would always shout, "I'M NOT A BARBIE HEAD!!"

My friends Becky, Jenny, Mandy and, um, er, Timmy? (we didn't have him) At one point, my sister and I had two Mandys, so we cut one open to see what was inside. (Just fluff) These dolls had great shoes. Not sure why I remember that in particular, though.Dolly Pops! I especially loved the brown haired one because I thought she looked so much like me. These were dolls whose clothes were made out of plastic and you just popped them into place on the doll. We never had this fashion show stage, but family friends did and I certainly thought about stealing it when I was younger. And had no scruples. Unlike now.
Real Baby. Really heavy. Pretty ugly, too. This doll was HUGE. And when I got mine, it came in this enormous bassinette that took up half of my bedroom. But boy did I feel like a Real Mommy for about a month!Then there were all the happy meals, and everything you could collect from them.
Like the potato head kids.
Or the McNugget toys. (Creepy, but lovable)
I don't think the Glo Worms came in happy meals, but they could have.
Pogo Ball, which I fell off of and sprained my ankle so badly I had to go to the hospital.
And then, as I grew up, we had all sorts of other toys and games, but one that I remember having that nobody else had:
THE DURAN DURAN BOARD GAME.

(I have no idea how on earth you play it, but Polly and I were champions!)

My mom was in children's advertising for my entire childhood, so my sister and I got a number of toys that never made it to market, including a set of collectible birthday My Little Ponys, Ripley's Believe it or Not game (which is actually good), and who knows what else. And we had all the other toys, too, like Strawberry Shortcake, Jem, Barbie (although Jem was mom's client, and we had more of them), Cabbage Patch Kids, Weebles, and on and on and on. Although, you'd think with a mom in the biz I somehow would have ended up with a Snoopy Snow Cone maker, but I never did.