Help with toy name from 60's

[Doctor_J]

What was the name of the toy that consisted plastic-encased bald man's face and a pile of iron filings, together with a magnet with which we spent hours giving him beards, hair, eyebrows, etc.?

[lizziegrace]

1. I know exactly what you're talking about

I have no idea what it's called!

[mitchum]

3. The woman was Hairdo Harriet

[mitchum]

2. Wasn't it Willie?

[City of Mills]

4. Wooly Willy?

So guesses this child of the '70s...

[Deja Q]

17. I wonder what the Brits might have to say about that title...

:rofl:

(or do a google image search with safe mode turned off and head to page 4...)

[zonkers]

5. Wooly Willy pic...

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[Doctor_J]

9. well done

for tennis fans, we're watching James Blake and thinking he looks like wooly willy.

[zonkers]

14. This tennis fan wonders how you can be watching Blake when he lost yesterday.....

May I suggest visting the NYT tennis blog (google it) just keep it open and enjoy the live blogging and all sorts of stuff from the open. It really is fun.

[Doctor_J]

16. we were watching yesterday afternoon's match

we hate commercials and the incessant babbling of the announcers

[zonkers]

15. Whats bothering Serena? She looks out of sorts.

[Doctor_J]

18. Maybe she's embarrassed playing a woman who weighs the same as her ass

:shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Do you mean the kids version, or the erotic novelty version?

:P

[jeff30997]

7. Gee,Sorry if I can't help...

I was born in '67.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Wooly Willie, I think.

Loved that thing, and also Etch-A-Sketch, and Silly Putty, and Slinky, and Mr. Potato Head (the kind where you used real potatoes).

[ironflange]

10. I hated those things

The package showed all kinds of really nice looking pictures you could theoretically make, but all that you got in reality was ugly clumps of filings here and there. It was worse than the Etch-A-Sketch.

[Hand]

19. Stupidest. Toy. Ever.

I think my brother had one--maybe it was mine, actually. It hardly matters; neither one of us gave a shit about it.

[SOteric]

11. Something like this...?

http://www.mcphee.com/items/11703.html

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. Ahhhhhh Dammit! I Just Google Searched My Ass Off And When I Finally Found It And Came Back Here,

so proud that I actually found the darn thing, everyone already knew! LOL

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/21556/489620

[triguy46]

13. I had one. One of those toys that really works, ongoing fun for years.

[Aristus]

20. Anyone remember "Hugo, Man Of A Thousand Faces"?

I loved it. It was a lot of fun. Looking back now, it seems a little creepy, but who thinks of things like that at age eight?