Childhood toys and activitys

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On the subject of sticker books, do any of you remember oily stickers?

What are they?

I may have heard of them but can't place the name.

Is that like scratch and smell?

They were stickers filled with a irridescent sort of fluid, that kind of gave the image of a rainbow like when you see a rainbow in an oil slick.

Oh yeah!

I remember them, I think I was too young to know what they were called.

I loved them, They were as close to magic for me.

I never put them on paper though! I out them everywhere else. The windows, the walls, the mirror, the fridge. I don't think my mum appreciated my effort to make everywhere look more pretty!

My favorite toys growing up were my Hot Wheels cars, my Micro Machines cars, GI-Joe figures, legos, wooden blocks, lite brite, and my dirt pit in the yard! I didn't play in sand, I played in actual dirt. I had an area that I played in forever. I'd build lakes and streams, bridges, tunnels, etc. I'd set up my construction vehicles (tractors, dump trucks, etc) in there and make construction sites.

I remember that I was always all about keeping things proportionate. If I was playing with my Micro Machines, I played ONLY with Micro Machines. No Hot Wheels, no GI-Joe, etc. I would get SO mad at my friends for playing with toys together that weren't in proportion. I would throw tantrums over that. GI-Joe can't possibly ride inside a Hot Wheels car or a Micro Machines car, so why even go there? Idiots! That's how I always felt. And it never failed, I don't think I ever had a friend who could understand that concept... or cared. I was creative and had an imagination, but it simply made no sense to me to play with disproportionate toys.

Oh and I also collected Garbage Pail Kids cards! I forgot about that. A few years ago I remembered my love for Garbage Pail Kids and started buying them again on eBay. I have a ton of them in a box somewhere in my house.

Oh man don't even start to talk about dirt pits as you'll make me cry. I had entire 'universes' of dirt piles and pits in my backyard as a kid. It was a world of my own making and I felt really comfortable there. Few would understand what it's like.

I found out searching for oily stickers online, that they're also called liquid crystal stickers. It seems you'll get more hits looking for liquid crystal stickers.

You understand quite well. I didn't understand why I couldn't do what I considered to be fun. It didn't make sense at all since I thought fun was an individual thing. Sometimes I wonder what might have been if they hadn't worked so hard to crush my imagination back then when I thought anything was possible.

Another interest that my parents and sister used swimming to crush was electronics. When I was 13, I started working on building a Heathkit shortwave receiver. To me it was so interesting to see all the different components, figure out what they do, and put them together. The more it came together, the more proud of myself it was, but then the swimming war began. My mother would threaten to throw it all away if I didn't go swimming when my sister wanted me to. I could have worked on that radio all day long and been happy as a clam, but they wouldn't stand for it.

I didn't get to give it the time it needed and even though I got it finished, it didn't work and had to be taken in for repairs. I never understood why they had such a problem with it, I had a summer project for myself, and enjoyed doing it, and was doing something I could learn from, but they didn't like it because it wasn't swimming. I was told things like if I stayed in working on it all day, I wouldn't get suntanned and I needed to balance my activities out with both physical and mental. I never understood why the amount of swimming I needed to achieve this so called balance just happened to be the amount my sister wanted to do done when she did it.

Sometimes she want to swim in the morning, I figured with it out of the way I could spend the day working in peace. Nope, sometimes she'd want to go again in the afternoon, which meant I had to go too. Even when I tried using the argument I'd done my swimming for the day, I was told I needed to do more. I lost an my interest in electronics after that horrible summer and found it hard to actually explore hands on anything because I feared they would try to take it away again.

I was the only one targeted this way, none of my older siblings had swimming or anything else crammed down their throats, let alone had their interests denied them for something else. It was only me.

violet_yoshi, Yeah that would have triggered my memory better, that sounds more familar, I did kind of suspect but didn't want to say anything until I knew for sure.

I was looking up more stickers, prism stickers are really pretty too. They are like rainbowey holographic.

Had them too!

Boy I didn't realise till now how obsessed I was with stickers as a child!

I also had gem stickers which looked like gems and were dimensional.

As well as 3D stickers!

Anybody old enough to remember these stickers?

If I was, I don't think they had them where I was.

Good job, as I would probably have wanted them!

My mum probably would have been very concerned!

Stuffed animals, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony, Kitty/Puppy/Pony in my Pocket. Never played with dolls. If someone made the mistake of giving me a doll for Christmas/birthday it went to the thrift store. I customise My Little Ponies and Littlest Pet Shop animas today.

Do you mean Popples?

Last edited by PunkyKat on 17 Dec 2008, 7:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes, I meant Popples!!

Sorry not being mean, but can people read the entire thread before asking if I meant Popples. This is the third time I've had to answer this question!