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Kalkitos

  • 18-11-2005 10:39am
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    Anyone remember Kalkitos? it was like a picture book with loads of empty scenes, and a sheet of transfers. Kinda like fuzzy felt with plastic. I used to love those.

    http://www.teacuerdas.com/images/nostalgia-otros-kalkitos3.jpg

    Also, anything with uncle remus on it was a winner with me. From tvcream:

    Uncle Remus kits
    Bargain bin puzzles bestowed by aged benefactor
    Concealed inside a thin card wallet bearing the illustrative image of the professorial titular "uncle", the budget-priced kits generally strove to adhere to the notorious adage about "making learning fun", more often than not involving something akin to pushing pieces of plasticene into numbered trays to make a scene from Aesop's Fables, or something to do with fact sheets about dinosaurs. However, there were some stray examples that leaned decidedly more in the direction of "fun", including adaptations of such tried and tested favourites as the iron filings/pen combination for drawing ridiculous combinations of facial hair and hats on the visage of a cheery gentleman (and indeed what Danny Baker was given to describing as the cunning variant on the above, featuring the same man in profile but with his features missing from nose to chin, replaced with a chain that could be shaken into comical shapes), and the flimsy primitive precursor to Etch-A-Sketch in which indentations were made on silvered plastic with a very hard drawing tool, and then "wiped" by running a badly-aligned plastic bar across it. For some reason, Uncle Remus kits only ever seemed to be on sale at motorway service stations and chemists, meaning that requests for one to be bought could only ever made at times when parents were in no mood to buy toys or games.

    http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/toptoys8071.htm


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