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Retromaniac Member Since: September 2005 Contributions: 7508 Gold Stars: 153 View User Posts	Toys at Easter Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:39 pm Central Time Did any of you ever get toys for Easter? I remember getting toys for Easter at about maybe four years old. They were Ninja Turtles toys. Unfortunately for my parents, this started a tradition that lasted at least a decade. _________________ Oh Gloria, with hair like granite.
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tripdownmemorylane Member Since: April 2007 Contributions: 266 Gold Stars: 177 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:13 am Central Time I don't recall getting toys in my Easter basket as a child, but I used to put small toys in my son's Easter basket. Easter pencils, egg kalidascopes, ect...
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Sith Penguin Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2048 Gold Stars: 224 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:17 pm Central Time i got an aladin action figure in one of my baskets when i was 5. after that it usually varied between trinkets and movies. _________________ can't talk now, the ninjas are watching me think. The new Halloween Special is up...enjoy! http://the-rl-story.bravehost.com/index.html
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freakyfemme Member Since: August 2007 Contributions: 516 Gold Stars: 7 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:21 pm Central Time Easter was always primarily a "candy holiday" rather than a "toy holiday" in my family when I was growing up, but I remember getting a few little things in that big basket of sugary goodness, like stuffed rabbits, kites, skipping ropes, and one year, I got a set of sidewalk chalk that were shaped like eggs. They were harder to draw with than regular sidewalk chalk, but they sure looked cool. As for the "toys at Easter" thing, though, I can kind of see the rationale behind it--some kids have winter birthdays, so Easter is a good excuse to buy them outdoor toys, and some parents would simply rather spend a bit more money if it means that their kids can have active toys for Easter instead of just a lot of candy--I mean, I'm not saying it's a good idea to eliminate candy altogether, but wouldn't most kids be just as happy with, say, a small basket of chocolate eggs AND a bicycle/skateboard/pair of Rollerblades, as they'd be if they just gotten a gigantic basket of chocolate and jelly beans and Peeps and whatnot? If I have kids, I think I want to start that tradition with them, because I'm not religious, and I know that Jesus wouldn't have had much use for Rollerblades while he was nailed to the cross (although, he might have used them to skate away from his tormentors, lol), but around here, Easter just happens to fall around the time the weather FINALLY starts getting warmer, and the snow FINALLY starts melting, and after a long, brutal Canadian winter, I can't think of a better way to celebrate the coming of spring than with some new "outdoor toys" to try out. It doesn't even have to be anything fancy--even something like a Frisbee or a kite is fun (but I'd get a good-quality kite, because the plastic dollar-store ones break really easily). My point is, if I can get my (hypothetical, future) child associating Easter with active outdoor play rather than a massive candy binge, I'll make that happen even if it costs a bit more money.
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Retromaniac Member Since: September 2005 Contributions: 7508 Gold Stars: 153 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:46 pm Central Time You're right about winter birthdays. My birthday comes two weeks before Christmas, so I'm always the last in the family. Maybe I should skip my birthday this year and celebrate my half birthday instead, June 10. _________________ Oh Gloria, with hair like granite.
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Guybrush Member Since: September 2009 Contributions: 11 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:28 pm Central Time I don't recall getting actual toys, just those plastic eggs and candy. However one of my earliest Easter memories was playing with my LEGO set (the yellow castle one) while watching Lost In Space reruns.
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Christina87 Member Since: October 2008 Contributions: 336 Gold Stars: 19 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:49 am Central Time yes: the ones I remember: Songbird barbie a mini cabbage patch doll that came with a little house like thing mine was a kitchen with a high chair it was a baby btw a m&ms racecar that shot out m&ms stuffed animals little things
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Wishnick59 Member Since: November 2008 Contributions: 214 Gold Stars: 150 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:16 pm Central Time The Easter bunny left me some plastic cowboys and horses once.
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misty jade Member Since: April 2006 Contributions: 165 Gold Stars: 21 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:11 am Central Time The high point of Easter goodies for me came the year that my basket had a dress for my Barbie that looked just like Scarlet O'Hara's BBQ gown, my Malibu Ken got a sharp three piece suit and wingtips so that he no longer had to live in his swim trunks, and the bunny threw in a pair of hugely coveted PINK(!) ballet slippers for me. Never before or after did the bunny deliver like that.
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Allie Fox Member Since: June 2006 Contributions: 3056 Gold Stars: 273 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:02 am Central Time Retromaniac wrote: You're right about winter birthdays. My birthday comes two weeks before Christmas, so I'm always the last in the family. Maybe I should skip my birthday this year and celebrate my half birthday instead, June 10. view My son's birthday in at the end of February. It is always cold and rainy when we try to plan his birthday party so this year we started a new tradition of having a family celebration in February and an "UN"birthday for friends at the end of May. Back to the topic. . . I do not remember ever getting toys on Easter other than the standard easter trinkets. It was always a basket with Peeps, Chocolate eggs and a chocolate bunny (hollow or solid). I had always wanted one of those giant baskets that had popular looking toys in them. They were ususally at the grocery store on display on the top shelves. They looked like they were so wonderful. A friend of the family bought one for my son last year and it was the worst Easter basket ever. The toy car (scaled for Mego sized figures) was cheap and there was only three little pieces of candy. _________________ People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. - Rogers Hornsby
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Retrotank Member Since: April 2009 Contributions: 22 Gold Stars: 1 View User Posts	Re: Toys at Easter Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:08 pm Central Time The only thing I could remember about Easter was colorful eggs, oh yeah, and I couldnt eat any meat from Fri -Sun _________________ www.RetroTank.com
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