Think back to your childhood toys. I bet you they were made by Fisher-Price. The beloved pull-string telephone, farm house with little people, record player, xylophone, cash register, camper and so on. They might be vintage to today’s kids, but many of our parents have kept these toys and they’re still in decent shape. This is what you can expect from a brand like Fisher Price. Which is exactly why several of our beloved vintage toys are now back on store shelves.
While vintage toys are making a come-back, Fisher Price has also continued to evolve with the times and the changing needs of our children. The makers of Fisher Price have come out with a revolutionary technology embedded in several of their new Laugh & Learn toys called Smart Stages. The toys’ content is meant to evolve with your child’s developmental and learning needs. This feature also further prolongs the lifespan of your toys.
With a switch of a button, you can change the level setting between 1, 2 and 3. The level details are as follows:
Level 1 , Explore (6M+) - First words and sounds spark baby’s curiosity
Level 2, Encourage (12M+) - Prompt baby though questions and simple directions
Level 3, Pretend (18M+) - Imaginative fun and early role play
Last year around this time, we received the Fisher Price Crawl Around Car, I wrote about how much my sons loved playing with it. I’m pleased to tell you that a year later, it still sits prominently in our living room as my 20 month old STILL loves playing with it. It’s pretty uncommon these days to have a toy with so much “kid enjoyment” longevity.
This year, we got to try out the Laugh & Learn Puppy’s Smart Stages Train. One of my favourite features is that the train moves when you press down on the smokestack. It also comes with three little characters including a dog, monkey and frog which are fun to play with either as part of the train or on their own.
I would highly recommend any of the new Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages toys which include, in addition to the ones mentioned above, the Chair, Vacuum, Mower, Home and Laptop.They make great birthday or holiday gifts and they’re sure to provide hours (and years) of entertainment fun for your little ones.
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I loved Barbies as a kid
I loved my Speak and Spell.
Never heard of it. Sounds awesome and educational
This is the Speak and Spell. It was made by Texas Instruments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)
I loved my Cabbage Patch Kids, and my Popples
My favourite toy was my fisher price chatter phone
Barbies for me
Becky Best says
A baby doll!
I had a clown with a wind up nose that sang a song
I loved my horses when I was little, I had so many
Barbie
Popples…they were great!
Yes! Love them
Barbies for sure
I loved my Cricket Doll and Slinky
My favourite toy was the train set that ran on a track.
My favourite childhood toy was either my Slinky or my Barbie Head that you could do her hair and makeup!
My favourite childhood toy was probably my teddy bear.
Jeannie Lam
Not Fisher-Price, but lego!
I was going to be an architect
I LOVED my Little Orphan Annie doll from the 1982 movie! I wish I still had her.
My favourite was Barbie when I was a kid
I loved barbie
Mine was a steel spring rocking horse that my grandparents gave me (now I am dating myself)
Haha. Not at all. Those are a big hit now
My Curious George stuffed toy.
I loved my Jem dolls! Outrageous!
Loved my little pony!
A xylophone!
My favorite toy was called Minnie the Mermaid.
I loved playing with paper dolls. They were so much fun to create.
I still have my favourite toy. My stuffed racoon named Bandit!
love seeing that all my ‘childhood toys’ are available as vintage fisher price now! such nostalgia to see them for sale at chapters etc.
I loved Barbies so much as a kid. I played with them for years and collected so many of them.
a ride on peddle tractor
I had a glo worm that I loved!
Judy Cowan says
Barbie Dolls were my fave! Had quite the collection!
My favourite childhood toy would have been my Easy Bake Oven.
A doll that my mom made clothes for.
my chatter phone
My Barbies and also the tops that you pushed up and down then let go and they spun
Just today I was talking about how I used to love to play with all those Fisher Price “sets” like the camper, A Frame house, barn and how my kids now play with them! Still going strong.
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my stuffed bear
My favourite childhood toy would have been Barbie and all her clothes!
My FIsher Price Kitchen Centre!
I liked the Barbie house my uncle built.
My favourite toys when I was really little were my Fisher Price Little People sets - the cabin, school, hospital and barn. When I was a little older it was my Cabbage Patch Kid.
Easy bake oven, jem dolls and my brother’s g.i. Joes
I had a baby doll that I loved!
Hot wheels and my car mat!
I loved my Barbie collection, my dad made a doll house and all the furniture, my mom made all the Barbie accessories and clothes..spent so many hours playing!
My catty Cathy doll.
My first grandchild is 6 months old, and my second is due in April!
Blocks
Crazy car…sit in it and spin out! It was so much fun!
Oh I was obsessed with barbies! If I had to pick a game I loved Lite brite too!
I loved my baby shivers doll
Barbies were my fave
My favourite childhood toy was my Jenny The Gymnast Doll
I loved my barbies and my Easy Bake oven
My fave was my Whoopsie Doll
My favourite childhood toy was LEGO
My favorite toy was my Fisher Price parking lot.
My Barbie dolls were my favorite childhood toys.
I liked to play house with my Barbie Dolls. I had many Barbie Dolls and played with them with friends too. I did not have a playhouse so I made one for myself out of a cardboard box and made furniture for it too
cabbage patch doll
my favorite childhood toy is Chatty Cathy!
Barbies were my fav
I adored my Lincoln Logs
I loved this fake rotor phone with a string i had.
Jodi N Danny Mitrovic says
I had many favourite childhood toys! I wish I would have kept some of them to be able to look back a reminise. My Mother In-Law kept most of my Husbands and the grandchildren, and Husband still play with them now. I want to make sure to keep things like this for our child so when he grows up hopefully it will bring back some happy memories. I always loved Cabbage Patch Kids. I remember filling out the card to adopt them lol They’ve become popular again and I was so excited to be able to buy one for my niece last year for Christmas. It looks just like her! Cabbage Patch Dolls will always be cool!
My stuffies were my favourite toys. I loved that I could snuggle them, have tea parties with them and also ‘play’ them.
I loved my weebles!
I always liked action figures.
My favourite was Alphie!
My favourite was probably the baby doll I had my mom take care of when I went to school lol. Her name was Emily and everyone thought she was a real baby when I took her out.
trotulo says
Teddy Ruxpin. He was a stuffed bear whos mouth would move and talk to you.
I had some spinning tops that I really enjoyed playing with.
Lol my Pinochio doll. I called it Mike YoYo.
My favorite childhood toy was that Rubbermaid plastic ring stacker toy!
I was always a Barbie lover as a kid
I loved polly pockets
polly pockets and my barbie jeep
My favourite childhood toy was Mrs Beasly
I had a few favourite toys…The slinky…lol….my easy bake oven…and a lego set that you could build a house with…Oh and Wiggie the large doll that had wigs you could change out!
My Cabbage Patch doll
Barbie dolls of course! Lol
My Barbie was my favourite childhood toy.