Is it just nostalgia that makes the old Little People toys

[mcsangel2]

I collected that stuff for awhile, I still have most of it. The house, the school, the garage, and I think the hospital. I don't really have a good reason to hang on to it since I don't have kids! But I am, anyway.

[Deleted]

I loved Little People.

I had the house oceanspray posted above. My favorite part was the nursery furniture.




I also had the one-room schoolhouse:



And the schoolbus - LOL at the dude with the cowboy hat.



And this boat:



And....no clue where any of this stuff is.

[papie]

I think the new people are cuter (and I like that they are kinda soft, I keep walking on them), but the sets were much nicer and had better detail then.

[cville]

No, they really were better.

And the Playmobil stuff is amazing. My ILs brought some for L to use that both my husband AND his sister used and they look like they came out of the store brand new yesterday. No plastic toy these days would hold up for 35 years!

/shakes cane

[bonquiqui]

I had the farm and parking garage. I had lots of animals too

[marshmallowmars]

My mom still has that FP house and all the grandkids love playing with it. She also still has this.

[marshmallowmars]

My mom also still has the glow worm tree house, although the glow part doesn't really work anymore.

[papie]

So my MIL is not the only weirdo who keeps that stuff? She has so many toys, it is ridiculous. My mom couldn't get rid of it fast enough, I'm pretty sure she decided one day "ok, you guys are too old for this, trash trash trash".

[coribelle26]

I had completely forgotten about the Sesame Street Clubhouse and just had a nostalgia explosion!! I remembered having the little house but had forgotten the Sesame Street one. The trapdoor was endlessly entertaining.

[charley]

I used to have a TERRIBLE recurring dream involving the old school LPs.

My mom kept my little glow worms!

Did anyone have these?

[junebug]

Apr 2, 2015 10:00:25 GMT -5 charley said:

I used to have a TERRIBLE recurring dream involving the old school LPs.

My mom kept my little glow worms!

Did anyone have these?

Omg! Yes! I forgot about these!

I also had Puffalumps and Popples. I wish my mom would have kept them.

[Bernadine]

Apr 2, 2015 9:31:14 GMT -5 papie said:

So my MIL is not the only weirdo who keeps that stuff? She has so many toys, it is ridiculous. My mom couldn't get rid of it fast enough, I'm pretty sure she decided one day "ok, you guys are too old for this, trash trash trash".

The only toys my mom kept were the Little People sets, and I can't wait to break them out.  We had the house, a gas station, I think maybe the parking garage, the bus, and the zoo, that I can remember.

[marshmallowmars]

My mom is definitely a weirdo. She also kept my prized possession from 1986 - orange monkey jumbo love. lol

[bania]

I loved them! I remember this one and the barn the most.

Attachments:

[Deleted]

Apr 2, 2015 10:00:25 GMT -5 charley said:

I used to have a TERRIBLE recurring dream involving the old school LPs.

My mom kept my little glow worms!

Did anyone have these?

I had those! What the heck were they called? Polly pocket or something?

[qcinoct]

Hmm, I was thinking of finally getting rid of DSs (newish) LP sets, but what I'm reading here is that I should hang on to them for 30 years for my grandkids?

[jane6672]

My mom still has a lot of the little people stuff.

[CajunShrimp]

We have my husband's old ones, School bus, camper w/ pool, and a few of the Sesame Street pieces - Big Bird, Ernie, Gordon, Olivia, and a mail truck. Lots of random stuff too, like a TV.

[kitkat2613]

My brother and I had the plane, the bus and the airport(which also came with a helicopter). My parents still have all of it, and now my nephews play with them. They love them, and generally go for the plane and bus first out of everything.

ETA:  OH and a ramp with an actual conveyor you turned by crank to dump people into the airplane.  Like a little moving sidewalk, haha.

[bania]

jane6672 I forgot about those! This is fun!

Eta: my mom still has all of this. I feel like I should call her and ask her to hang onto it for me.

[jane6672]

Apr 2, 2015 10:15:56 GMT -5 bania said:

jane6672 I forgot about those! This is fun!

The little garage door on the firehouse was so cool, and the umbrella for that cafe table was mounted on a spring – I remember sproinging it back and forth.

It's weird how it comes back to you.

[charley]

Apr 2, 2015 10:13:11 GMT -5 @blueyes623 said:

Apr 2, 2015 10:00:25 GMT -5 charley said:

I used to have a TERRIBLE recurring dream involving the old school LPs.

My mom kept my little glow worms!

Did anyone have these?

I had those! What the heck were they called? Polly pocket or something?

They were (very awesomely) called Sweet Secrets

[Deleted]

Apr 2, 2015 9:06:10 GMT -5 oceanspray said:

This?

I have this house from when I was a kid at home!  I only have the car, a bed or two, a couple chairs and some of the people.  Ooh, and the dog.

[Deleted]

We used to have this thing called "tub town" and you suction cupped it to the wall of the tub. We used to play for hours with this thing-

[bania]

Apr 2, 2015 10:18:10 GMT -5 jane6672 said:

Apr 2, 2015 10:15:56 GMT -5 bania said:

jane6672 I forgot about those! This is fun!

The little garage door on the firehouse was so cool, and the umbrella for that cafe table was mounted on a spring – I remember sproinging it back and forth.

It's weird how it comes back to you.

Yes! And turning the handle on the top of the firehall would make a "siren" noise. I dont remember that connecting piece at the back though.

[bania]

Apr 2, 2015 10:20:03 GMT -5 calamity said:

We used to have this thing called "tub town" and you suction cupped it to the wall of the tub. We used to play for hours with this thing-

Holy crap! You just blew my mind. Tub Town!

[Deleted]

Apr 2, 2015 10:00:25 GMT -5 charley said:

I used to have a TERRIBLE recurring dream involving the old school LPs.

My mom kept my little glow worms!

Did anyone have these?

YES! Talk about blast from the past.

[Deleted]

Also we used to have this guy and would call him "pot head" because it looked like a cooking pot on his head.

Turns out, I am now a pot head.

LOL

[Deleted]

I was always bummed that I didn't get the barn. You know, the one that made a "moo-ooo" sound when you opened the door.

[Deleted]

We had that barn @beachgal and it was awesome!