Toys of the Eighties, Little People
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Tiny toy people that were basically a plastic cylinder with a tiny, very round head with a VERY simple face painted on it. They had no arms, legs, hands, or feet. There was different races of people, people wearing different colored clothes (basically different colored cylinders), etc. They had all sorts of collectible homes, pools, cars, furniture, etc. They came in different families- such as Mothers, Fathers, younger brothers/ sisters, babies (which I could never seem to tell whether they were boys or girls), dogs/cats (which also stood upright like the people), etc. They eventually had to change the size and shape of the tiny people because small children began choking on them.
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OH MY GOD!!! I had so many of these things. They were made by Fisher Price. I think I still have some at my Mommas house. I had a play house for them which came with a merry go round, I had a tree house for them, and even a ferris wheel! I had a complete set which was Sesame Street themed and came with the "main building" it had Gordon and may other characters including Big Bird who came complete with his bird nest. The building had opening doors, and a slide which your characters could slide on. I LOVED THESE AND STILL DO.
I had tons of these too. I had the boat and the captain. My brother had the airport. We still have almost all of ours. The originals were wooden.
i had the sesame street house too! it had a trap door and a tire swing. i saw that little people now come with cell phones. so sad.
Awesome. My older brother had all these, but I got to play with them after he outgrew them. We still have a bunch, including a big main street playset, where it opens up into two rows of buildings with room for a road down the middle. There was a fire station, barber shop, etc, with apartments on the second story. Very cool.
I loved this toy! We had Peoples at our house since before I was born (77), there are still some floating around my parents' house.
I still have the Little People cars and the interactive Little People car garage with a cranking car lift! I would use this garage for my Hot Wheels cars too!
I had the bus and the school. Good times.
These were the BEST toys, weren't they? My sister and cousin passed theirs down to me and my mom bought me some of my own playsets. This is a toy that could entertain you for hours. :)
I don't like they put arms on them. I had the old ones. They where wood or plastic.
I had a Little People farm and when you opened the barn doors, you heard a "moo" sound. The farm also came with a silo and a tractor.
Yay, Little People!!! I had the Little People farm, schoolhouse, family house, and van! I remember my little brother used to tote around these three Little People everywhere he went. He named them Crunch, Vance, and Pole.
When I graduated from nursery school, that summer I played "graduation" with my little people. For a stage I would use a book or I would build a stage with my blocks. I would act out the graduation program with them. Since I could not get enough of the graduation video that my parents had bought me, I knew the program by heart.
My brother and I have the farm, house, ferris wheel and car that pulled a trailer with a boat. Then my mom lent them all to my friends little brother and he stole half of my favorite pieces. So upsetting, he broke up the family!!! My baby didn't have a daddy or a dog any more :(
Does anyone remember the parking garage? I used to launch the cars down it.
YES! I remember the parking garage! Wasn't there some sort of car lift in there...? Or was that a different toy? Anyway, this is super RANDOM but my local dry-cleaning service had a play area & they had the farm & parking garage. For years I associated dry-cleaning with happiness because of this :P
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