Larry the Lion
Aw. This was one of my favorite toys as a little girl. I can still remember how heartbroken I was when he stopped working, and how excited I was to find him back under the Christmas tree when he was repaired! After he quit working again, I still had him as a stuffed toy, voice box removed, for a long time. If you go to the link, you can watch him on the video.
I loved this toy!
Larry the Lion. A Mattel chatter pal from 1962. How this toy survived all these years I’ll never know. All my life up until I was 19 I had this on a shelf somewhere in my room. Girls would love to pull his string. If you look closely at the bottom left corner of this pic from when I was 17 you can just see his eyes. After I moved out of my parents house I moved him to the storage space above the closet. wpe70799.jpg (22424 bytes)My sister left him there. And that’s where I found him when I moved back in with my parents in 1992. So naturally I took him with me when I moved in with my roommate. Well. Women still liked to pull his string. But he was usually just putting them to sleep.
September 6th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
It’s so important to keep a few of these things. What a sweet little guy!
September 7th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Stumbled upon you from “Time Goes By.”
I, too, am turning 49 this year (next month).
September 7th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Welcome Mizmell!
Shrimplate, I wish I still had one, but I don’t. Fortunately with the Internet, we can still visit some of our old childhood friends when we like. I don’t do ebay any longer since my paypal account got my credit card stolen, but I guess you can find almost anything there these days. I love that this guy put up the youtube and wav sounds though – it really took me back!
October 10th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
i have this little guy bought him for 25 cents at an estate sale ; going to donate him to a school in livingston parish who are the lions
October 10th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Aw, cool, Patsy!
That’s sweet of you!
January 25th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Glad you like my Larry :)
I wish I still had the hundreds of other toys I got as a kid. My favorite toy that got lost was a Beany doll. At least I still have a picture of that.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Mark,
What kind of beany? I still have a few of them around….
August 4th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
From the old Beany and Cecil show. The blond kid with the propeller on his hat.
Mark
January 26th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
I have two:) One was my christmas present from my G-ma, and I never parted from him. At a yard sale I found a handpuppet version of him, which still had the voice box. I bought him for $5!!!
January 27th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Cool. Wish I still had mine, but he didn’t talk anymore anyway.
Loved that thing…
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
Glad to see this page still generates interest in my old Larry :)
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 am
I loved my Larry! One of the best toys ever, that’s for sure.