Presley’s Little Brother’s First Day of School!

 Presley’s Little People Blog started out as a way for our son Presley to document his Fisher Price Collection; as Presley has grown up (he’s in High School!) he has welcomed his Little Brother Ryker into the fun of collecting and Playing with classic Fisher-Price Toys! Ryker recently had the first day of First Grade, so he took some pictures among the playroom…filled with Fisher Price and Disney Toys! Fisher Price toys are great for sharing and stand up to generations of use! 

How about a career in ARCHITECTURE: I “fixed” the Cinderella Castle Monorail Toy

Fun with a Cinderella Castle Monorail Toy Accessory, how Cindy’s Castle was “fixed”! 

How about a career in ARCHITECTURE: I “fixed” the Cinderella Castle Monorail Toy: A toy of Cinderella Castle was released as part of the accessories for the Walt Disney World Monorail Playsets. It was a variation on a prev...

Welcome to the Playroom Theme Park Resort!

What happens when you combine Fisher-Price toys with Disney Magic? You get the Happiest Playroom on Earth!

Welcome to the Playroom Theme Park Resort!

Little Brother Ryker has joined Presley & Dad in the toy collecting fun. His favorites are Disney Parks toys and he loves combining it with our Fisher-Price Collection.  Our collection of Fisher-Price toys became the foundation of our "Playroom Theme Park Resort".

It started small from here but has grown and grown. With a Lil' Playmates Disney Magic Castle Set and the more recent Fisher-Price Day at Disney playsets

Ryker started his Fisher-Price Collection with newer "Magic of Disney-Day at Disney"style sets. He has Mickey's Toontown playsets, popcorn cart, souvenir stands and a Castle-Main Street playset with fireworks.  At first they were set up on the carpet in the living room.

Our family in front of the Castle

Presley got this Disneyland Castle at Disneyland years ago and now Ryker plays with it with our Fisher-Price Little People Family. 

First go round with push train toys

When Ryker started to like wooden train toys we set up some old Thomas The Tank toys for him.

Eventually we combined the Thomas the Train Toys with the Disney & Fisher-Price toys on a train table.

For Christmas we would set up our Disney Monorail Toy & Disneyland Castle.

When you cant make it to the Parks, bring the parks home with you!

When Christmas was over the tree was put away but the Monorail stayed out...and accessories started to spring up around it.

Disney Theme Park Toys and the Imaginext Pizza Planet Playset that is actually now a part of Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studio's Toy Story Land! The monorail set was on the floor of the den after Christmas had passed.

Imaginext playset inspired ride entrance at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World

Sometimes you have to play along with what is on TV

FAO Schwarz Castle Blocks

Ryker loves any Castle toy, so he collects Castles...even Castle Blocks that go great with classic Little People Toys! The collection includes Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, and Walt Disney World's Cinderella Castle (3 of them: Lil' Playmates, Monorail Accessory, and the GIANT Disney Theme Parks Toys playset!). 

We had Disneyland with the push trains on the train table and Disney World with a Monorail on the den floor. At some point we combined it all into one giant Playroom Theme Park Resort!

Disneyland on the Train Table & Walt Disney World in the Background

It all should be surrounded by a train

Our Playroom Theme Park Resort includes a monorail around a pirate lagoon with a Disney's Contemporary Resort & EPCOT Spaceship Earth accessory. Look closely and you can see the Tree of Life from Disney's Animal Kingdom! Our Main Street has Disney Store Fur-Tail Friends playsets which have just the right victorian gingerbread look to them...like real Main Street only toy style! We also have some Hasbro Disney Theme Park playsets...a carousel, the hub, and Small World.  Lately we have expanded our transportation options with a Disney Parks Tram, theme park vehicles, and Lionel Ready to Play train sets. Our resort is populated by all sorts of Disney figurines, Little People & Playskool figures...all are welcome who come to this happy place!

The Pirates of the Condominium strike again! This newer Fisher-Price set models a hipster neighborhood complete with goateed barista!  But we put it to other uses as one of the Hotels at our Theme Park Resort.

Monorails and other toys

Castle time

Trains, Castles, Monorails

Snapshot of "Fisher-Price International Airport"

Set up 3 FP airports (one 1970's play family and 2 Little People 1980's) and you have your own three terminal international airport!  The driveways even match up! Your flight to adventure is waiting at any gate!

Each Airplane here has some variation, and the 2 1980's play sets have variations as well....part of the fun of Fisher-Price Collecting!

Fisher-Price Toy Box Playgrounds

We found three Fisher-Price Mall Playgrounds in the Carolinas.  Here are pictures of the boys (Presley & Ryker) exploring the giant Toys.  They are modeled on the newest versions of these classic favorites...a Little People Farm, a Rock A Stack, a Xylophone, and a Chatter Phone. These playgrounds were found in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as much as they enjoyed playing on the Toys!

Happy 45th Anniversary Walt Disney World

1980's Playmates Toys Disney Magic Kingdom Castle Playset with Fisher-Price Magic of Disney Toys from 2015

On this day in 1971 the Magic Kingdom

at Walt Disney World Resort opened. Happy 45th Anniversary

Walt Disney World!

Look at me in the rear view mirror while we enter the Toll Plaza at Magic Kingdom

Me and My parents were born in California so we did not go

to Walt Disney World till I was 10. When I was little I used

to go to Disneyland all the time. My first trip was during

the Disneyland 50th Anniversary celebration in 2005, I was 4

months old! 

With my Grandma on my first trip to Disneyland in 2005

Disney World is very different from Disneyland,

it is much bigger. We have stayed at the Pop Century Resort.

The theme of the resort is the 20th Century and it has

amazing giant props and toys all over it.

With some friemds at Disney's Pop Century Resort in Florida

Today we are

talking about the Magic Kingdom!  To get to Magic

Kingdom you must first travel past other Disney Hotels and

theme parks. You have to take a ferry or a monorail across a

beautiful lake to get to the park. The ferry ride is one way

to take in that Disney Magic. We had so much fun and always

want to keep going back.

Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Florida

On our 1st trip we ate at the

Tortuga Tavern in Adventureland. The food was good, I had

the tacos because they are my favorite food. I gotta say my

favorite ride at Magic Kingdom is probably Space Mountain.

Outside Space Mountain in Tomorrowland, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Florida

One of my favorite memories of going to the Magic Kingdom

was getting my embroidered Mickey Ears! On that trip it was

my little brother's first haircut, I joined him in getting a

haircut at the Harmony Barber Shop on Main Street USA.

Harmony Barber Shop, Main Street USA, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Florida

We found this 1980's Playmates Toys Magic Kingdom Castle

Playset a long time ago.

Box art for the Playmates Toys Castle Play Set

It is one of my little brother

Ryker's favorite toys. In these pictures we set it up with

New Fisher-Price Little People Magic of Disney Toys. 

Retro Fisher-Price Ferris Wheel

We found this at Target. It is based on the original Music Box Ferris Wheel.  Only this version includes "Chunky" style figures!  There is no grumpy carney on this toy...but one of the riders looks like one.  Check out your local Target for one today!

Fisher-Price Musical Ferris Wheel

 

 At the 2014 Fisher-Price Collectors Club Convention I found this Musical Ferris Wheel. The characters were mint in their wrapping from the factory, and it came with the original box! I had been wanting this one for a while, but I had not found one in good condition.  On our way to the convention we saw a rough one in a thrift store and they wanted a lot of money for it. I'm glad we waited because we found this nice one, in better shape and in it's box for a good price.

 

The #969 Musical Ferris Wheel was made from 1966-1972.  The one we got has straight sided figures, and the girl does not have plastic hair.  The doggie is an early figure and not the usual Lucky dog.  The newer versions have plastic figures but mine has wood figures. It is one of the oldest toys in my collection, I also have a Circus and a Huffy Puffy Train that maybe are older.

It has a price tag on it from Sears back when it was new it sold for $4.49!

 

Rockin the Adventure People Daredevil Van

With my Daredevil Van, North Woods Trailblazer, and Kitchen Set stove in Daddy's Den

I found this Fisher-Price Adventure People Daredevil Van #318 today at a second-hand store in North Carolina.  It is from 1978 and they were made until 1982.  This customized van cleaned up nice except for the worn away lithos :-( but at only $1.00 it was worth it! In the background you can see the kitchen set stove and my Adventure People orange North Woods Trailblazer Jeep! I have filled it up with items from the Little People, the Adventure People, and Imaginext collections. There were three different Van playsets in the Adventure People series, Daddy says he remembers when custom vans were all over the roads. This is the first of the Vans I have found.  I am still on the lookout for the TV Action Team set and the Motocross team van.

My new Daredevil Van and Adventure People rover robot

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Fisher Price Collectors Club Convention 2014!

With Buzzy Bee "Toy Fest Parade Float"

 Here I am in front of Fisher Price headquarters in East Aurora, NY.  They had old parade floats on display and I got to take pictures with them while I was there for this years toy convention.

Dr Duck "Toy Fest Parade Float"-in front of Fisher Price Headquarters

 This year at the toy show they had 10 vendors. I bought pieces to complete my A-Frame set, Herry Monster to complete my Sesame Street figures, an adventure people robot, a guide book to Fisher Price toys, a Children's Hospital, and a Ferris Wheel in the box with the little people still shrink wrapped from the factory!

With Daddy and Snoopy Sniffer "Toy Fest Parade Float"

It's always nice to see all the club members, this was the fourth year in a row I have been to East Aurora. Fisher Price Collectors Club Convention 2014 was great!  It was a good year!

Moving right along...

It's been a year since our last post :-( but we are back :-) In the last year we went on our yearly trip to the Fisher Price Collectors Club Convention in East Aurora, NY, and then we moved from living near Washington, DC in Virginia to Charlotte, North Carolina.



Loaded up and ready to move to Charlotte, NC



Here you can see my Play Family Pop-Up Camper all loaded up for our move. I got it at the Collectors Convention in 2012.

2013-Just a few Little People for Sale

2013 Dealers Table

2013-Fisher Price Collectors Club Toy Sale

At this years convention I got the Play Family Village, the Nursery School and lots of other goodies, it was a great convention.  I've been to 3 conventions now, and I want to keep going to them for the rest of my life. The dealers room is amazing, with toys of all ages.  It is so exciting to see so many Fisher Price Toys in one place. 


2013-East Aurora Welcome Sign

 When we are in East Aurora we always make a trip to Fisher Price Headquarters.  I like to imagine what it was like to design and make all the great toys there, how I wish I could have been one of the local kids to try out the new toys.  When I grow up I want to be a toy designer.        

2012 Fisher Price HQ Fountain

Vintage sign over the door of Fisher Price HQ



2012 In front of Fisher Price HQ