tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post5706585144670983970..comments2024-03-28T11:03:41.050-05:00Comments on Unlocked Wordhoard: Where My Imagination Lived, c. 1976Dr. Richard Scott Nokeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-27975516839835160782009-01-02T15:58:00.000-06:002009-01-02T15:58:00.000-06:00With great amusement, I came across your blog whil...With great amusement, I came across your blog while researching whether or not to give the castle, Sesame St., the parking garage, schoolhouse, circus train, and a few other pieces to my one year-old grandson. My sister tells me that there was a recall of the people because of a choking hazard. It seems to me that my children as well as many of you survived so he will receive them over the course of a couple years. Fortunately, almost all of the pieces survive. I have very fond memories of my children playing with these toys and am very happy that they didn't go in a garage sale!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-59685042469311645542008-08-14T10:56:00.000-05:002008-08-14T10:56:00.000-05:00In the middle of searching Google Images for pictu...In the middle of searching Google Images for pictures of Lindisfarne Castle to add to my exciting "intro to British history for high school kids who probably couldn't care less" Power Point, I stumbled upon one of your images of your Fisher-Price castle. Wow...total nostalgia and super-happy memories washed over me. I am 40 and still have the castle given to me for my 6th birthday (I was a Fisher-Price afficionado..my village too had an airport, a three story parking garage and a farm-in addition to a one room school house...we were very cosmopolitan in my village!)-it is in storage but in good condition. Alas, most of my "little people" have disappeared over the years but I just have to say thank you for the delightful memories you helped to stir and for bringing a smile to the face of an amateur medievalist like myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-29830511221485703762008-01-03T11:49:00.000-06:002008-01-03T11:49:00.000-06:00I certainly remember wanting this thing! I did hav...I certainly remember wanting this thing! I did have the farm set, the one with the barn that mooed when the door was opened. Somehow I still managed to end up in the Humanities!<BR/><BR/>Toy was sold in Brazil (childhood there from about '76-'81), as I recall, with only minor changes. <BR/><BR/>Thinking back, I recall toys like the "GI Joe" figures of the period, which I did not own either (the larger ones, not the later, smaller ones) were sold under the Estrella (star) label, Brazil's Hasbro, and completely relabeled to make Joe a generic soldier of fortune ("Falcon") rather than an American soldier. But the most popular toys among the bulk of my fellow children were cheap and either knock-offs of brand-name toys or simply the sort of thing we'd call a party favor in the US. Same old rich-poor disparity, far smaller middle class there in the 70's.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the memories!Matt Rolphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03040429113704313693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-7825616160324258442008-01-02T12:22:00.000-06:002008-01-02T12:22:00.000-06:00Ooh, I forgot about the Knight on horseback. Hm. ...Ooh, I forgot about the Knight on horseback. Hm. Why did I have the Princess run off with the coachman, then? Maybe I thought the Knight was too violent to be suitable boyfriend material. Or he was just too busy fighting dragons. Or maybe I decided he was Galahad. Too funny.<BR/><BR/>I've got to get mine out next time I'm at my parents' house. I completely forgot about all the cool little hiding places and sliding doors. Awesome -- thanks for reminding me!<BR/><BR/>As for crosses, are you talking about the ones on the outside? Aren't those arrow slits -- made for both long bows and cross bows? I always thought of those in practical terms, but, duh, they have symbolic valence as well.<BR/><BR/>And now I want the version with the boiling oil to combine with the classic version!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-87662764398402564012008-01-02T12:12:00.000-06:002008-01-02T12:12:00.000-06:00My younger brother was given THAT VERY FISHER PRIC...My younger brother was given THAT VERY FISHER PRICE CASTLE for his seventh birthday. In a fit of jealousy mixed with insanity, I swore to become a medievalist, just to spite him. Voila!<BR/><BR/>Have you looked at the "updated" version of that same castle? I gave it to my son four years ago: no peg people, but little red and black barbarians. No women at all (no princess, no queen). Lots more weapons, and also a boiling oil pot.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-50644781535470621252008-01-02T11:39:00.000-06:002008-01-02T11:39:00.000-06:00Man oh man, do I remember that castle! Be forewarn...Man oh man, do I remember that castle! Be forewarned...it's really hard to get Ewoks out of the dungeon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-16131077026570389012008-01-02T10:36:00.000-06:002008-01-02T10:36:00.000-06:00You have been tagged for a history meme, if you ch...You have been tagged for a history meme, if you choose to keep the meme alive, details are on heavenfield.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-56814812577947307512008-01-02T10:08:00.000-06:002008-01-02T10:08:00.000-06:00UPDATE!!! Just after I posted, my son walked in th...UPDATE!!! Just after I posted, my son walked in the room and asked why I was posting pictures of the castle. When he saw the image of the original set, he claimed that the prince, princess, and some of the furniture still survives among the flotsam and jetsam of my parents' toyroom.Dr. Richard Scott Nokeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.com