The timing of this video being posted is amazing. I just lost a sibling today, and we used to play with a lot of those little people sets back in the '70s. Thank you for the nostalgia at such an emotional time. It made me smile and cry.
I had the castle, the cash register, the house, the garage, and the farm. I drove my parents crazy with the mooing door, but I loved it. My absolute favorite was the houseboat, and I vividly remember taking it all over the world on various expeditions that took place all over our house. Wish I still had all of them.
I only recall the activity center and the cash register from my childhood. What I want to know is who made the infamous sit and spin? That toy was hilarious!
My little one has the cash register in the thumb nail! My sister got it for her at a thrift store. It's faded and you can't see the stickers anymore, but she loves it anyway 🤗
Love this episode! Such nostalgia...I had a little people boat for the tub, and my Nana had the whole sesame street setup that we played with at her house. I miss those days! Late 70's and on!
Taking me back to 1976 in Preschool, we had ALL these toys.....plus wonderfully made kitchen set from a fridge down to each dining room chairs out of fine wood... our grandparents sure made things that lasted!!!! P.S: Everytime I eat Goulash, cut up hot dogs in Spaghetti & Tree Top Apple juice.....it takes me back to Preschool meals.....Yummmm
About 20 years ago, I bought a huge amount of little people items, play sets, boats, individual figures and accessories just for nostalgia purposes and I have them displayed, I had no idea that they appreciated.
I had most of these toys, but my fave was the medical kit, which I still have, in mint condition. I was 4 when my parents bought it, in 1978, and now I have grands, and they love looking at it. We also have the record player with all the records, and we listen to it EVERYTIME they come over. I have the Farmer in the Dell running through my thoughts all day...😂😊
I loved Little People play sets!!! I had the castle, AFrame House, Circus Train, the Bus, furniture sets, Sesame Street playset...these were some of the toys that would keep me busy for hours! I also used to cut up boxes to make my own doll houses for my LP. Thanks Weird History for the nostalgia!!!
I had some of the little people figures I think I had a bus too. I remember playing with the little people garage set but it was at some other kids house. I miss the 70's!
And in both of your cases , your little brother's cash till set was eventually donated to somewhere like a salvation army store after your parents did a clean up when your brother grew out of playing with toys . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
i had a lot of the fisher price toys from the 70s, like the farm, the airport with extra accessories, the circus train, etc. and i had them on display on a she;f in my office, i sold them in 2015 to help pay for a move and it ended up covering moving truck, first and last rent, security deposit and some groceries for the new home and fridge :-)
I'm so glad I never played with my Fisher Price toys when I was three years old and left them unopened in the box so I could sell them decades later. Wait, that didn't happen...
Omg grandma had the play house. That was always my favorite thing to play with. Plus all the little people figures. 😢 aweh makes me miss her and grandpa..😢❤
I was born in 82 and remember quite a few of the little people toys. I distinctly remember the barn and the house. I think my pre-k or kindergarten had those toys.
Family still has the complete barn set. Door still moos but the horse recently fell apart due to old age 😢 I remember the parking garage set really well too. I can still remember the smell of the plastic coins from the cash register set 🤣 Good times, man.
As a kid born in 1999, I actually grew up playing with a lot of these sets from my older siblings (my oldest sister was born in 1979 and she had hand-me-downs). My mom sold all of them about 6-7 years ago and I’m still mad about it. What a cool piece to still have for my future kids.
Thanks for sharing this video, I happened to have grown up with the entire Little People sets featured here. I recall a few friends getting the cash register when it was new. I used to setup the Village near the Play House, across from the Barn, to create a little cityscape, which kept me entertained for hours. When we outgrew these toys, Mom asked us if we'd mind them being donated to a family in need at Yuletide. We agreed it was time to let them go to a new family, who we understood were delighted to have them. That said, it is remarkable how much some people are willing to pay for those old toys today. As such, I'd imagine they'd be surprised to learn how resilient those toys were to being submerged in the simulated floods I'd create for the Little People to navigate. Just like the real adults I knew were dealing with real flooding, it was my childlike way to process some scary things.
One of my friends had the toy cash register when I was a kid. Whenever I used to visit her in 1985, we played with it together. I didn't know it was over ten years old at the time. Just found that out today from this video.
When I first attended kindergarten classes in 1992, they still had some of these vintage Little People playsets on the shelves of the classroom to play with once playtime came around...
I got to play with most of those little people play sets, I had older cousins that got them new back in the seventies and I got them used in the 80s. We used to love those barn doors.
My cousin had the Little People Garage and I thought that was the coolest. Loved everything about it. I vaguely remember the little people being made of wood. Yes I'm old LOL
A lot of vintage toys are worth big bucks today. Mainly b/c back in the day kids took much better care of their toys. You can find almost mint condition ones still out there. Can’t say the same for most of the toys from the 90s and beyond unless someone bought them specifically to collect, and didn’t let anyone play with them. Kids don’t generally respect their toys today. I know we did growing up as you didn’t get replacement toys, so you played with them but also wanted them to last a long time before they broke. I want to catalog what toys remain and sell some off. We got originally Star Wars, transformers, cabbage patch dolls, my little pony, hot wheels, gi joe, etc. at one point there was a Sesame Street fisher price apartment building play set with all the characters but I think it got sold at a garage sale years ago.
i loved mine and my brother's early 70s fisher price toys. i also had a camera that had a square "bulb" that would rotate with each click and a record player that each disc played different nursery rhymes.
I have nearly all of those Little People sets! I don't think I had the full set of all of them as I think we got many of them from garage sales. But I loved them so much I was still playing with them with my little brother well into Elementary school. The garage gas station we used with our match box cars.
I loved the Adventure People line! The space series figures like X-ray man and woman, Opticon, Clawtron, and especially, Brainoid are rare in good condition and command good money especially when cared or mint in package. The whole AP line is amazing!
We live near East Aurora, New York. I can remember Toy Fests and the Fisher Price Toy Museum and they also have the Fisher Price Store. The Fisher Price complex at Christmas is amazing!
I remember playing with an Action Garage set that was in my paternal grandma’s basement as a kid in the 90’s. My maternal grandparents had the Family Farm set, which now sits in my basement, awaiting my niece to reach a safe enough age to play.
I had all of the little people (characters, playsets, and accessories) except the train playset and I loved playing with them during my childhood. My favorite character was the dog.
I had a deprived childhood, apparently. Born in 1962, last of five girls, none of us had trendy toys like that. Makes me want that farm one really really badly, at age 61.
This was a fun video. We have a few classic toys left from our kids. One gem is the football game made out of tin. You plug it in and they shake their way to the touchdown zone😂. We can’t part with it. Too fun still!
I am a collector of Little People sets. I grew up playing with them and am collecting them as an adult. The McDonald's Little People set is my holy grail, but I won't spend over $50 on any set. I was 5 minutes too late getting an almost complete set on Facebook Marketplace for $50. I also really want the McDonald's Drive Thru. I wanted it so bad as a kid and never got it, but once again people want too much for them. My mom bought the almost complete castle set and I found the missing pieces for her so it is complete now except her carriage is missing the yellow piece. If you have the mail envelopes from the village set. They go for big bucks because they were the first thing to get lost I am assuming. My village set doesn't have any of the envelopes and there is no way I can afford to replace them.
Mom lectured me about saving for retirement all those years, while she sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of old comics and toys for a quarter each right in my own front yard. * shakes head *
OMG almost everything listed was either a fixture at my pre-school-kindergarten class as a kid. My mom also had a daycare that she ran in the 90s that had some of these toys as well. Man! if I could time travel!
Between me and my friends and cousins, I think we had every single one of the toys featured here. I don't know what became of any of them, but they were well loved. None of us had the Geotrax, though.
Wonderful episode I hope maybe you can find some material on 60's toys being that I was born in 63 and remember having the best toys and childhood. Thanks and God Bless. And maybe an episode on home video console history.
In the mid 80s I spent a week In The hospital with a bad infection on the pediatric ward. They had about 3 sets of the entire fisher price collection and a ton of donated toys like transformers and games
The timing of this video being posted is amazing. I just lost a sibling today, and we used to play with a lot of those little people sets back in the '70s. Thank you for the nostalgia at such an emotional time. It made me smile and cry.
truly sorry for your loss. thank you for sharing these memories with us. 🫂
So sorry for your loss.... Sending you strength to overcome this dificult time...
So very sorry for your loss.
😂😂
I had the castle, the cash register, the house, the garage, and the farm. I drove my parents crazy with the mooing door, but I loved it. My absolute favorite was the houseboat, and I vividly remember taking it all over the world on various expeditions that took place all over our house. Wish I still had all of them.
The mooing door was every kid's favorite.
Yeah, I had them too. If only life were still that simple. 🫤
I only recall the activity center and the cash register from my childhood. What I want to know is who made the infamous sit and spin? That toy was hilarious!
I still have my Little People play house and all it’s parts from when I was a kid in the 80s. I’ll never get rid of it 😊
Wow! That’s impressive! We had a lot of the play sets, but not all of the accessories. I think my grandmom got some of them at garage sales
If I still had it, it would def take more than a few hundred bucks to get me to part with it. You're smart for keeping yours!
I lost my mind in 1974 seeing that Play Family Castle under the Christmas tree just for me! Probably my favorite childhood gift I ever recieved.
I was born in 1968, and this brings back so many memories!
My little one has the cash register in the thumb nail! My sister got it for her at a thrift store. It's faded and you can't see the stickers anymore, but she loves it anyway 🤗
yeah screw it. I’ll watch a video about fisher price toys
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especially since I noticed some of the stuff.. we might be ritch b!tch!
🤣🤣🤣 Luv it 👍
Marry me lmao
....yup
My favorite was the barn. I have such wonderful memories of playing with that toy.
Love this episode! Such nostalgia...I had a little people boat for the tub, and my Nana had the whole sesame street setup that we played with at her house. I miss those days! Late 70's and on!
The playsets are wonderfully made.
By little Chinese people 😢
And the other play sets like the doctor play set, etc. we still have a few of these that our new generation plays with! Solidly built!
Taking me back to 1976 in Preschool, we had ALL these toys.....plus wonderfully made kitchen set from a fridge down to each dining room chairs out of fine wood... our grandparents sure made things that lasted!!!!
P.S: Everytime I eat Goulash, cut up hot dogs in Spaghetti & Tree Top Apple juice.....it takes me back to Preschool meals.....Yummmm
I grew up in the 70's and had a number of these toys. Thanks WH for that brief walk down memory lane!
About 20 years ago, I bought a huge amount of little people items, play sets, boats, individual figures and accessories just for nostalgia purposes and I have them displayed, I had no idea that they appreciated.
Yep we had the barn, house & garage sets. I loved my peoples.😅
This is exactly why I love this channel. How else would I know so many toys from the 60s-80s can sell for $300 on eBay. Bravo.
I had most of these toys, but my fave was the medical kit, which I still have, in mint condition. I was 4 when my parents bought it, in 1978, and now I have grands, and they love looking at it. We also have the record player with all the records, and we listen to it EVERYTIME they come over. I have the Farmer in the Dell running through my thoughts all day...😂😊
I had the Fisher Price family play farm, loved every minute of it !
I just remembered playing with the Fisher Price Little People Garage in a waiting-room somewhere in the '90s.... Childhood memory unlocked.
Never realized how many FP playsets I had (born '65) as a kid! I pretty much had every set presented. Thanks Mom & Dad!
I loved Little People play sets!!! I had the castle, AFrame House, Circus Train, the Bus, furniture sets, Sesame Street playset...these were some of the toys that would keep me busy for hours! I also used to cut up boxes to make my own doll houses for my LP. Thanks Weird History for the nostalgia!!!
I had some of the little people figures I think I had a bus too. I remember playing with the little people garage set but it was at some other kids house. I miss the 70's!
My friend had that castle from the 90s!! We would play all different ways! I was so jealous!! 😂
I remember playing with most of these in preschool in the early 90s. I bet my teachers now wish we kept our grimy little hands off them now. 😁
I remember my brother had that little cash till with coins... He loved it! I remember how often he played with it when he was little 😄✌️
Same with my little brother!
And in both of your cases , your little brother's cash till set was eventually donated to somewhere like a salvation army store after your parents did a clean up when your brother grew out of playing with toys . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
i had a lot of the fisher price toys from the 70s, like the farm, the airport with extra accessories, the circus train, etc. and i had them on display on a she;f in my office, i sold them in 2015 to help pay for a move and it ended up covering moving truck, first and last rent, security deposit and some groceries for the new home and fridge :-)
I'm so glad I never played with my Fisher Price toys when I was three years old and left them unopened in the box so I could sell them decades later. Wait, that didn't happen...
You had me until the end
My favorite Fischer Price toy was the Little People Farm. I had the original in the late 60s.
@6:37 40¢ gas seems like a good deal until you realize gold was $50 per ounce in 1970.
I am always looking for and buying Fischer-Price toys at Goodwill. Found a 1960s wood clock with the big red hand dials that still works.
Omg grandma had the play house. That was always my favorite thing to play with. Plus all the little people figures. 😢 aweh makes me miss her and grandpa..😢❤
I moved out of my parents home 16 years ago but I will be returning soon to rummage through their attic $$
I was born in 82 and remember quite a few of the little people toys. I distinctly remember the barn and the house. I think my pre-k or kindergarten had those toys.
We tried using balloons as currency, but inflation was killing us.😜
Family still has the complete barn set. Door still moos but the horse recently fell apart due to old age 😢 I remember the parking garage set really well too. I can still remember the smell of the plastic coins from the cash register set 🤣 Good times, man.
As a kid born in 1999, I actually grew up playing with a lot of these sets from my older siblings (my oldest sister was born in 1979 and she had hand-me-downs). My mom sold all of them about 6-7 years ago and I’m still mad about it. What a cool piece to still have for my future kids.
Money isn't everything , although condolences for your loss of what could have been . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
When I was a kid, my fave FP line was the adventure people.
Two Weird History videos in two days? Why thank you
my daughter was playing with vintage little people just this week. the house, barn, bus, and playground
Thanks for sharing this video, I happened to have grown up with the entire Little People sets featured here. I recall a few friends getting the cash register when it was new. I used to setup the Village near the Play House, across from the Barn, to create a little cityscape, which kept me entertained for hours. When we outgrew these toys, Mom asked us if we'd mind them being donated to a family in need at Yuletide. We agreed it was time to let them go to a new family, who we understood were delighted to have them.
That said, it is remarkable how much some people are willing to pay for those old toys today. As such, I'd imagine they'd be surprised to learn how resilient those toys were to being submerged in the simulated floods I'd create for the Little People to navigate. Just like the real adults I knew were dealing with real flooding, it was my childlike way to process some scary things.
I had the posable adventure people sets in the late 70's. So many great memories!
Omg I remember the garage! The farm ! Play family house! This was a fun episode 😊
I still have all my little people sets from the 70s-80s!! Seeing the old ads makes me want to sort all the accessories and see how complete they are.
One of my friends had the toy cash register when I was a kid. Whenever I used to visit
her in 1985, we played with it together. I didn't know it was over ten years old at the time.
Just found that out today from this video.
No Fisher-Price growing up. I lived near the Marx toy factory so I got plenty of those. Big Wheels were awesome.
When I first attended kindergarten classes in 1992, they still had some of these vintage Little People playsets on the shelves of the classroom to play with once playtime came around...
I loved the parking garage and the farm. I also remember having an A-Fram home with carrying handle.
Wow! Vivid flashbacks! My grandparents had Fisher Price sets back when I was a kid from when my mom was young.
I can tell you had so much fun making this with all the puns and references.
Omg!! Even though I was born in the 80s, I played with almost all of those!! Such good times! 😭🥰
I got to play with most of those little people play sets, I had older cousins that got them new back in the seventies and I got them used in the 80s. We used to love those barn doors.
Don't forget the castle had a trap door, you should warn any new monarchs so they don't end up in the dungeon
My cousin had the Little People Garage and I thought that was the coolest. Loved everything about it. I vaguely remember the little people being made of wood. Yes I'm old LOL
How about a video on Milton Bradley games and history? 🙏☮️❤️
yes ! that would be awesome !
A+ video!
Supercool, great to know that Fisher-Price is still beloved!
Fisher-Price is still great today. 😀👍
I was born in 82, and I remember playing with pretty much all of these in day care or Kindergarten. They were so cool
Oh hey, I have the play Family House! Just none of the pieces inside, but fully functional house😁
Little people toy line is still my favorite gifts to give
A lot of vintage toys are worth big bucks today. Mainly b/c back in the day kids took much better care of their toys. You can find almost mint condition ones still out there. Can’t say the same for most of the toys from the 90s and beyond unless someone bought them specifically to collect, and didn’t let anyone play with them. Kids don’t generally respect their toys today. I know we did growing up as you didn’t get replacement toys, so you played with them but also wanted them to last a long time before they broke.
I want to catalog what toys remain and sell some off. We got originally Star Wars, transformers, cabbage patch dolls, my little pony, hot wheels, gi joe, etc. at one point there was a Sesame Street fisher price apartment building play set with all the characters but I think it got sold at a garage sale years ago.
i loved mine and my brother's early 70s fisher price toys. i also had a camera that had a square "bulb" that would rotate with each click and a record player that each disc played different nursery rhymes.
Thank you for this video! 😀🌺
I played with a lot of these. Loved making the barn moo.
Man my siblings, cousins, and I had almost all of thse sets. Brought back genx memories
I have nearly all of those Little People sets! I don't think I had the full set of all of them as I think we got many of them from garage sales. But I loved them so much I was still playing with them with my little brother well into Elementary school. The garage gas station we used with our match box cars.
I loved the Adventure People line! The space series figures like X-ray man and woman, Opticon, Clawtron, and especially, Brainoid are rare in good condition and command good money especially when cared or mint in package. The whole AP line is amazing!
I have lots of AP in unopened in box!
When I was a kid I had a Little People Little Mart. Apparently they were made in 1986, when Fischer Price was a subsidiary of Quaker Oats.
We live near East Aurora, New York. I can remember Toy Fests and the Fisher Price Toy Museum and they also have the Fisher Price Store. The Fisher Price complex at Christmas is amazing!
I remember playing with an Action Garage set that was in my paternal grandma’s basement as a kid in the 90’s. My maternal grandparents had the Family Farm set, which now sits in my basement, awaiting my niece to reach a safe enough age to play.
I had all of the little people (characters, playsets, and accessories) except the train playset and I loved playing with them during my childhood. My favorite character was the dog.
“No Cap” 😂😂 - 3:04
I remember all of these 😁 had a lot of them ❤️
I had a deprived childhood, apparently. Born in 1962, last of five girls, none of us had trendy toys like that. Makes me want that farm one really really badly, at age 61.
I had bert and Ernie little people...lol I miss Ernie! His hair was hilarious 8:26
This was a fun video. We have a few classic toys left from our kids. One gem is the football game made out of tin. You plug it in and they shake their way to the touchdown zone😂. We can’t part with it. Too fun still!
I had all these at some point in my childhood from late 80s - early 90s.
I am a collector of Little People sets. I grew up playing with them and am collecting them as an adult. The McDonald's Little People set is my holy grail, but I won't spend over $50 on any set. I was 5 minutes too late getting an almost complete set on Facebook Marketplace for $50. I also really want the McDonald's Drive Thru. I wanted it so bad as a kid and never got it, but once again people want too much for them. My mom bought the almost complete castle set and I found the missing pieces for her so it is complete now except her carriage is missing the yellow piece. If you have the mail envelopes from the village set. They go for big bucks because they were the first thing to get lost I am assuming. My village set doesn't have any of the envelopes and there is no way I can afford to replace them.
Elmos hate for rocko goes deep
I had that cash register from the thumb nail. That was back in the mid-80s. Now I wish I still had it.
Mom lectured me about saving for retirement all those years, while she sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of old comics and toys for a quarter each right in my own front yard. * shakes head *
A video on the most valuable McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys would be awesome!
My son was an FP model when he was small. He is on a product box and his pictures pop up occasionally in online banners. ❤
OMG almost everything listed was either a fixture at my pre-school-kindergarten class as a kid. My mom also had a daycare that she ran in the 90s that had some of these toys as well. Man! if I could time travel!
Im 45 and I still have my cash register and doll house complete with the coins, cars chairs beds and little people
Between me and my friends and cousins, I think we had every single one of the toys featured here. I don't know what became of any of them, but they were well loved. None of us had the Geotrax, though.
I had a Play Family School house. I loved it!
I was born in 94 but my siblings were born in 75’ 77’ & 86 and I played with all of these toys!!
Wonderful episode I hope maybe you can find some material on 60's toys being that I was born in 63 and remember having the best toys and childhood. Thanks and God Bless. And maybe an episode on home video console history.
Oh my gosh, the car garage!!! 😱❤️
With the wealth of toys from 77-early 00’s you could easily do a timeline just on toys.
Toy History! Nice!
Good on you for using recent solds
10:10 i still have this! But no little people or accessories. Or the garage door. I may or may not have pulled it out as a kid.
In the mid 80s I spent a week In The hospital with a bad infection on the pediatric ward. They had about 3 sets of the entire fisher price collection and a ton of donated toys like transformers and games
A weird history on Life Insurance would be sooo interesting!!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
6:19 crayola 6:36
Thanks for this! 🧸 #WeirdHistory #Toys #VintageToys #FisherPrice
Oh yeah... the mooing door. I definitely had that one lol
Oh man, I had the Fisher-Price Action Garage and the AIrport too!
My favorites were the Fisher Price circus train and we had a Sesame Street funhouse!
That's Mr Looper...! "Hoopah! Hoopah...!" Haha!
I bought the geotrax Christmas train for $30 a couple of years ago for my kid. Still play with it