Amusing Toys
During Easter Holidays in few days ago, I went to the Taipa House Museum in Taipa Village to see an interesting aged toys collection.
Two toy collectors from HK and Macau respectively, they showed around 200 toys which were manufactured in Germany, England, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Macao from 1930 to 1980. There are metal toys of transportation vehicles, included the DINKY designed nature models of race cars and toy helicopters manufactured during the Cultural Revolution era of China.
Besides these, the China Can Co. Ltd. in HK produced metal toy cannon during 1950, that company made use of the leftovers from can-manufacturing to make toys and had been able to produce several kind of metal toys in Shanghai. As boys do prefer to play with toys associated with wars, there are also numerous toys were showed out, particularly a green plastic soldier that was manufactured in Japan during 1940 to 1950.
The most hit plastic toys in 60s & 70s are girls fancy – dolls, combine and make up clothing dolls, Mickey mouse, giant robot, Robocop and pinkpanther.
Let’s have a look for some toys came from the Cultural Revolution period:
six sides blocks with chinese animation stories and three traditional chinese dolls
Two toy collectors from HK and Macau respectively, they showed around 200 toys which were manufactured in Germany, England, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Macao from 1930 to 1980. There are metal toys of transportation vehicles, included the DINKY designed nature models of race cars and toy helicopters manufactured during the Cultural Revolution era of China.
Besides these, the China Can Co. Ltd. in HK produced metal toy cannon during 1950, that company made use of the leftovers from can-manufacturing to make toys and had been able to produce several kind of metal toys in Shanghai. As boys do prefer to play with toys associated with wars, there are also numerous toys were showed out, particularly a green plastic soldier that was manufactured in Japan during 1940 to 1950.
The most hit plastic toys in 60s & 70s are girls fancy – dolls, combine and make up clothing dolls, Mickey mouse, giant robot, Robocop and pinkpanther.
Let’s have a look for some toys came from the Cultural Revolution period:
six sides blocks with chinese animation stories and three traditional chinese dolls
Here are the plastic series toys:
um...boys like to play with these guns but I have been played with this cute wind up pushcart when I was a child
Toys made of iron sheet:
Mini-Bar, refrigerator & washing machine and have a look at this battery operated toy, it had been popular during the 50s due to science-fiction film.
This display definitely awoke everyone’s childhood memories and recall those happy moments while being a child. Of course I am the one of them. Although many of those exhibited toys which I haven’t played, but I do know the following ones are my childhood’s toys to have fun frequently.Kaleidoscope AND
By knowing how the playing toys for last generation were, I admit a bit envy the young generation’s modern, new technology toys!
19 Comments:
I don't really envy modern children with their electronic toys at all. When I was little I had comparatively simple toys, so I had to rely a lot more on something called my imagination. Developing my creative skills in my childhood helped me a lot in my adult life.
Children nowadays don't need imagination. Everything is provided for them courtesy of the video game manufacturers. They just pop in a game cartridge, turn on the machine, and let it entertain them. Consequently, kids nowadays tend to be a lot shallower and more desperate for gratification...which is probably why we're seeing a lot more random attacks on people in the street by youths, homeless people getting beat up, toddlers abducted and tortured, etc..
Be thankful you were allowed to have an imagination, PP. It will serve you well.
Oh! My comment disappeared. Blogger must have "eaten" it when I wrote it.
Oh well. For the most part I just echoed what Moody said.
Kids need to use their imagination and also to exercise their bodies playing out of doors.
Cool collection of toys in that exhibit.
The Moody Minstrel:
Toys are in different era has the different positive and negative impact to the children. Don’t just use your subjectivity point of view to discuss things in the same frame of mind.
Somehow, we might not blame for the toy manufacturers, the more important motivation or action is: parents’ guidance and care to their children goings-on in their daily life. I guess you should know how to do it well with your kids who are playing modern toys, though. ;-P
Pandabonium:
Uh..oh! Bloger had “eaten” your comment, bad luck! Um..it's 13th Friday on today!!!! :-p
I do agree with you, children need to play out of doors regular and don’t just concentrated on their electronic toys. Perhaps to follow PandaB as an example ---- > playing idealized “heores” with his ex-peppi in that secret “den” in in the Santa Monica Mountains of California. ^_^
Ah, you're sweet PP. Those are fond memories for me.
It was interesting looking at the toys from the Cultural Revolution period and recalling what was happening in China at the time. The blocks and pictures are probably what you would expect, since they clearly glorify the youth movements that were such a major part of that period. The dolls, however, are a bit of a surprise. They seem surprisingly stylish at a time when "style" was not considered a good thing.
It's good to see a human face on a notorious period of history, however. It shows us that, yes, there were human beings living in those days, they had children, and their children liked to play with toys.
Thanks M.M. I do learn a lot from your strong insight. *Y*
It’s un-properly for us to observe things from its appearance, have to analyze the inside story. Just like those photos, there’s sill more pictures inside it.
It's good to see a human face on a notorious period of history, however. It shows us that, yes, there were human beings living in those days.......
Um...um...insult words or derogate on C.R. period of PRC?
Nice line-up. Brings back memories. I used to play among trees, mostly climbing them for their fruits, guavas were my favourites. There used to be more ground to play but these days, kids are not so lucky, in a way, plus modern parents are more protective thus not encouraging their children to explore the wild or nature much less climb trees.
That fridge and washing machine sure do remind me of Barbie stuff.
You are right Happy, over protective or spoil to children by modern parents in nowadays which would cause side effect.
When I was young, I’d been played in the suburb with friends. I was jealous my friends a lot because they could climb trees, but I didn’t know how to. Even now, I still don’t know how to climb trees, also rope climbing and pole climbing. (*blush*)
Barbie stuff? I recalled you had posted an issue about Barbie, are you fond of collecting Barbie dolls? ;-)
[It's good to see a human face on a notorious period of history, however. It shows us that, yes, there were human beings living in those days.......]
Um...um...insult words or derogate on C.R. period of PRC?
Oh, come on, P.P.. You should know me better than that. If anything, that was a derogatory comment against my own country. I grew up in the U.S.A. during the Cold War / Cultural Revolution period, and we weren't really supposed to think of communist countries as being "human".
In my high school days I actually got angry at students who said all communist countries and all the people in them were "evil". I said no, people in those countries were just as "human" as us. Because of that, my teacher got angry at me! He said people might think I was betraying my country!
I remember when our first exchange students from the Soviet Union came to my university...followed shortly afterward by students from the PRoC. We were ALL surprised, because the students seemed so "normal" and "human". We were raised to think of them simply as "the enemy", and here we were talking with them, joking with them, drinking beer with them, etc. just like any other people. I made some very good friends from the PRoC then...something that would have been totally unthinkable just a few years earlier.
That's why I say it's good to see a "human face" from the C.R. period, because during that period people in my country weren't supposed to think of people in the PRoC as "human". I'm glad times have changed.
Why are you being so bitter toward me in your comments? T-T
May be that’s the cyber misunderstanding again!
May be that’s the translation tool caused some weird ideas to me!
May be...??? ;^)
Well, everyone has his/her own right to gauge or observe thing. I am just direct at the matter, not to the people, M.M.
Ooops! Terrible to see man’s crying face.
The toys look similiar with the toys when I was little :)
Maybe those were your toys! You never knew what happened to them, did you? ;-)
Hey, please don't teasing Selba, MM.
Um..um...she'll have her eyes for eyes. ^_^
Aw, P.P....can't I have any fun? {:-(
Uh oh...perhaps it’s better to call Clark Ken gives me a hand for helping this moody Moody guy seems unhappy in this comment thread. \(–<–)>
Clark KEN, SOS, SOS!!!!!!
I'll have to get back to you. Right now I'm trying to save lower Manhattan from a horrible invasion of door-to-door salesmen.
Hey, P.P. wasn't talking to YOU !!
What color?
Hey PinkyP, where have you gone? Why haven't you blogged in ages..? *pokes*
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