Dig This: Twelve Crazy-Cool Toys from the ’70s


There was a time, if you can believe it, when kids’ wish lists weren’t composed of video games, MP3 players, and smartphones. A mere forty or so years ago, the most popular toys around were much simpler, though no less innovative. Fancy technological gadgets come and go; what’s hot today could be obsolete in a year. But the love that the children of the ’70s have for these beloved items no doubt outlasts any electronic battery. In other words, they’re way far out. To the max. You dig?

 

 

 

 

 

Magna Doodle

Magna Doodle, the brainchild of a few engineers in 1974, is similar to Etch A Sketch, minus the need for knob precision to create a picture and the gratuitous shaking to clear it afterward. Instead, the magnetic drawing board and all the fun doodles it contains are erased easily with one quick slide of the bottom magnet.

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