LGR - Tomy Waterful Ring Toss Review
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When I ordered the Waterful, I also ordered a bag of 36 of those colorful plastic bird water whistles after they popped into my head. I also have a vague memory of owning one of those for a brief period of time when I was between 6 and 8. For $6 total, I thought I'd keep one for myself and give the rest to the young ones in the family. But it seems that half of them don't work. LOL I believe there are burrs and other imperfections around the fipples that I may try to fix with a box cutter.
I went on another nostalgic binge a couple years back and bought a couple of electronic pinball machines, as well as the Entex Baseball 3 handheld game, as well as the Mattel Basketball and Football 2 handheld games, all of which we once owned. It's amazing how we change as we get older. Of course, these are all bought for historical purposes and will be mostly preserved instead of being played vigorously until broken. But in many ways, it seems that most of us do tend to revert back to our own childhoods in some ways. I mean. I would not have been caught dead buying these back when I was 20. LOL
Date: 2022-04-14
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Comments and reviews: 9
Dennis
Awesome! Instant upvote. I had one of these, of course, too. And I have a similar psychedelic toy memory of some pretty advanced toy that I was unable to identify, even with the help of the gigantic resource called -The Interwebs-. I got a toy that you had to wind up and that would let a plastic tree spin around. The treetop was tilted to the side and there were pink bugs hanging down. With a button you could make a plastic frog jump up and take a bite at the bugs. The objective was to gather all the bugs before the windup mechanism died down.
It wasn-t my favorite toy, but it was quite neat and cool and interesting enough. There were other toys of the same series. I only remember one with a professor who had to flip around some kind of yellow dishes, with pretty much the same mechanic. I would really like to know if everyone else can remember this one and maybe got a name to it? Would be interesting to research the other varieties. But in the end, it doesn't matter, as it would be a time waster today as it was back then in the 90s (I think. Cheers
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Awesome! Instant upvote. I had one of these, of course, too. And I have a similar psychedelic toy memory of some pretty advanced toy that I was unable to identify, even with the help of the gigantic resource called -The Interwebs-. I got a toy that you had to wind up and that would let a plastic tree spin around. The treetop was tilted to the side and there were pink bugs hanging down. With a button you could make a plastic frog jump up and take a bite at the bugs. The objective was to gather all the bugs before the windup mechanism died down.
It wasn-t my favorite toy, but it was quite neat and cool and interesting enough. There were other toys of the same series. I only remember one with a professor who had to flip around some kind of yellow dishes, with pretty much the same mechanic. I would really like to know if everyone else can remember this one and maybe got a name to it? Would be interesting to research the other varieties. But in the end, it doesn't matter, as it would be a time waster today as it was back then in the 90s (I think. Cheers
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Hotaru
There is absolutely a skill factor involved. Being absolute freaks of nature, my brother and I would race to stack them by color. When all the rings were finished, you stared impressed for afew seconds, awed the person next to you and then enjoyed the most satisfying part of the game: knocking off every last ring using a series of strong water currents.
The dentist, yes us too, had this kind and later the basketball one. Unfortunately if those were the only two available, racing needed more rules. The dentist hsd lots of other tots, so the oldest and smartest kids narrowed their eyes and instantly locked on to these, which we'd grab and hold on to until the last possible second.
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There is absolutely a skill factor involved. Being absolute freaks of nature, my brother and I would race to stack them by color. When all the rings were finished, you stared impressed for afew seconds, awed the person next to you and then enjoyed the most satisfying part of the game: knocking off every last ring using a series of strong water currents.
The dentist, yes us too, had this kind and later the basketball one. Unfortunately if those were the only two available, racing needed more rules. The dentist hsd lots of other tots, so the oldest and smartest kids narrowed their eyes and instantly locked on to these, which we'd grab and hold on to until the last possible second.
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Yakkers
I had something similar except it used sand instead of water, you'd flip the thing upside-down to load all the sand into the top and then it'd drain down like an hourglass when you flipped it back. You moved a little bucket around with a knob to catch the the falling sand and redirect it into point buckets or something. It was a lot more engaging than one of these
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I had something similar except it used sand instead of water, you'd flip the thing upside-down to load all the sand into the top and then it'd drain down like an hourglass when you flipped it back. You moved a little bucket around with a knob to catch the the falling sand and redirect it into point buckets or something. It was a lot more engaging than one of these
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Nails
I was born a few years later than this 76 model (but may have been playing with hand-me-downs) and I think i remember the back having a card or sticker or something to give you a graphical representation of some sort of circus or something? it may have provided a scoring system too.
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I was born a few years later than this 76 model (but may have been playing with hand-me-downs) and I think i remember the back having a card or sticker or something to give you a graphical representation of some sort of circus or something? it may have provided a scoring system too.
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FredDoesStuff
Update, theres an arcade game based off of it. I saw it recently and it can occupy 2 players. It's basically the same game but there are rings that give you extra points and multiplier and random events and theres a time limit (because its an arcade game. It's a decent game.
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Update, theres an arcade game based off of it. I saw it recently and it can occupy 2 players. It's basically the same game but there are rings that give you extra points and multiplier and random events and theres a time limit (because its an arcade game. It's a decent game.
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Chompy
Wow, I had one of these. Totally forgot about it. I think my mom would boil water and let it cool off before pouring it into this thing, probably to get rid of most of the stuff that makes the plastic cloudy. What a memory to instantly recall that I haven't thought of in forever
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Wow, I had one of these. Totally forgot about it. I think my mom would boil water and let it cool off before pouring it into this thing, probably to get rid of most of the stuff that makes the plastic cloudy. What a memory to instantly recall that I haven't thought of in forever
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DoomFoxofDeath
I had at least 2 different varieties of Waterful toys, neither of which had the rubber cap and were relegated to bath toys. The concept of playing with it outside of the tub literally never occurred to me until now -
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I had at least 2 different varieties of Waterful toys, neither of which had the rubber cap and were relegated to bath toys. The concept of playing with it outside of the tub literally never occurred to me until now -
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Lyn
It-s entirely possible that you had the -76 original. My Dad bought them in the late -70s for his waiting music lesson students and my daughters played with the forgotten box of them as small tykes in the mid-to-late -90s.
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It-s entirely possible that you had the -76 original. My Dad bought them in the late -70s for his waiting music lesson students and my daughters played with the forgotten box of them as small tykes in the mid-to-late -90s.
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David
I love that this use to actually entertain kids. Can you imagine parents buying this for kids today? Can you imagine kids today actually playing with this! But gosh it really is a wonderful, mesmerizing toy. Thanks LGR!
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I love that this use to actually entertain kids. Can you imagine parents buying this for kids today? Can you imagine kids today actually playing with this! But gosh it really is a wonderful, mesmerizing toy. Thanks LGR!
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