"Toy Boats - Where to find?" Topic
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| Dremel Man | 08 Jul 2008 12:19 p.m. PST |
I have been searching for some good old fashioned plastic toy boats.
When I was a kid (in the 70's), stores like Woolworth and K-Mart sold all sorts of cheap and colorful plastic boats, planes and cars. No, I cannot find anything. I am really looking for stuff like freighters, tugboats, destroyers, etc. Nothing too small, like maybe 12" or larger. Scale not an issue, but actual size and the ability to FLOAT is critical. Dollar stores and Toy Stores have been a bust. Help!
Thanks! |
| jpattern2 | 08 Jul 2008 12:41 p.m. PST |
You don't menton scale, and a 12" tugboat is going to be a far different scale than a 12" destroyer . . .
Searching Ebay US for "toy boat*" yields quite a few floating toys of different sizes and scales, some vintage/antique, some not: auction
Even if you don't want to buy from Ebay, you can find boats you like, then search for other online stores that sell them. |
| Dremel Man | 08 Jul 2008 12:53 p.m. PST |
Scale not important at all.
These really are going to be toys…
:-) Think "Made in Hong Kong" colorful plastic floating boats. oh yeah… and cheap. :-) |
| jpattern2 | 08 Jul 2008 3:50 p.m. PST |
Ah, that's different, then.
If you search Amazon.com for "toy", "boat", "-radio", and "-rc", you'll see more than 1,000 listings for everything from toddler tub toys up to pond sailboats. You can sort the search to show the least expensive items first (which usually equals "cheap" and "plastic"), and you can also filter the search by recommended age and other categories.
Yoiu can also run similar searches on walmart.com , target.com , kmart.com , and other sites like that. |
| Dremel Man | 09 Jul 2008 5:44 a.m. PST |
Wow.
No luck using any of those sites.
This is nutty.
I may have to go to the boardwalk to one of those beach stores to find them… I guess kids these days just don't have any desire for toys that don't whistle and beep. |
| Mikhail Lerementov | 09 Jul 2008 6:06 a.m. PST |
Check the party stores out. Sometimes they have a package of four plastic toy boats, all of which I recognize as having back some 50 years ago when I was a kid. A tug boat, a ferry, a sailboat, and a cabin cruiser. Also check the party section of Michaels and Hobby Lobby. The dollar stores are also a source. What your looking for are the cheapy stuff from China or Hong Kong. |
| Mikhail Lerementov | 10 Jul 2008 6:06 p.m. PST |
If you are still looking I found a card of the four boats I mentioned in a CVS Pharmacy. They were in the pool toys section. |
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