Category: vintage toys

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“Tricky Traps” restoration

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In this post, I’m going to take a look at the restoration – or rather repair – of a handheld game that I recently received for review. It has the name “Tricky Traps”. This means something like “tricky or tricky traps” The game “Tricky Traps” by Tomy is a mechanical game of skill that was…
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Tomy Racing Cockpit – electrical wiring

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Due to some inquiries regarding the electrical wiring of the Tomy Racing cockpit, I sat down and drew out the wiring. There are apparently many contemporaries who still find toys from the 80s in their basements, attics, etc. and repair them again. With the Tomy Cockpit it happens again and again that the thin wires…
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Technology toys from the past – made of plastic

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This article has nothing to do with electronics. In my retro-madness I was once again rummaging in the cellar of the parents’ house and discovered there behind dusty jars of musty-smelling cardboard boxes with unknown content. So what was left to me to uncover and view the contents of these cardboard boxes? And what came…
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Wickie, Slime and Paiper

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It does not have anything directly to do with technology, but perhaps fits under the title “retro” as a post very well in the blog: A book for browsing memories of the 70s and 80s is the band “Wickie, Slime and Paiper” by Susanne Pauser and Wolfgang Ritschl. The book was published in 1999 by…
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