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Mcdonalds playset 1970s12/29/2023 ![]() You bought and paid for it, and, as a responsible adult, it belonged to you. By that same token, the lap top that was destroyed did no, at least in a legal sense, belong to your daughter. They simply do not have the maturity to handle those obligations. That is exactly why we do not allow them to enter into financila contracts or to own property. They are not evil, per se, but they do act from impulse rather than enlightened self interest. Children, by their very nature, are duplicitous and dishonest. For too long, our country has labored under the delusion that children can do no wrong, ever, at any time. ![]() THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT A CONCERNED AND LOVING PARENT SHOULD DO. You set a rule, it was violated, you took action. You have done absolutely nothing wrong nor unwarranted. Jordan, do not be dissuaded nor crestfallen by the inevitable flood of idiots that will decry you for taking a positive, and proactive stance in the raising of your children. The Tray Return was my favorite part of the set, it was so streamlined, just like McDonald’s They fit cleanly between the blockhead characters’ chin and chestĪ drive-thru McDonald’s in a 1974 play set The cash register that dings and the trays, which were my favorite part of this set, ![]() I loved this toy, and the triangle hat-wearing blockhead characters always struck me as unique, but the larger fact is that the whole toy was actually as functional and efficient as McDonald’s-which is why I still love them both.Īnd if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and bid on this set over at Ebay, which, by the way, offers some wonderful images with brilliant detail of the very elements that intrigued me so as a kid. It was one of the most compelling designs of a toy that I can recall from my childhood, and the “familiar places” theme that Playskool used was both insidious and fascinating all at once. But there was a kind of tray sliding system that allowed you to move them throughout the kitchen area, and even place used trays into a depository in the side of the restaurant. Not only did the trays fit between a character’s chin and chest so they could carry them around. The restrooms were uncannily like the one’s at our local McDonald’s, and the whole thing just seemed so intimately familiar that I could play out our family adventures from that very evening with a few block-headed figures.Īlthough, in truth, the genius of this toy was the dinging cash register and the elaborate tray system. Not only was it a place I was intimately familiar with as a kid (our family ate there more than a few times a week-and it was a sit down meal with all 8 of us), but the fact was remarkably re-enforced by the design of the toy. Of the three, the McDonald’s set was the only one worth having, and it was one of the most memorable toys of the 70s. McDonald’s will never simply be just another chain burger joint, McDonald’s was a “familiar place” to use Playskool’s advertising of this series of toys in the early 70s that included Texaco, Holiday Inn, and McDonald’s. While the liberal media has killed the beauty that is McDonald’s over the last decade, I remember a day during the 1970s when McDonald’s wasn’t poisoning the underclass and undermining all that is good and right about the unaffordable organic food movement.
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