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!

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



Woo hoo..winter vacation....

Many of my toys will be spending winter vacation under glass. Some of my collection is on display from now through the month of December at our local public library display cases. We took so much stuff we ended up bringing a few things home that didn't fit. People of all ages told us how much they liked the toys and that "I had one of those..." to so many items from my collection. There were 2 glass cases with 4 shelves each, eight shelves of fun all together. Some of the things we put in there were the Junior Circus, Sesame Street, the School, the Main Street, the Camper, the Action Garage, the Chatter Telephone, the Zoo, the Western Town, the blue and yellow House, the brown House, the Fire Station, 2 Airports and Fun Jets, a Farm, a School Bus, the Merry Go Round, some clocks, radios, TV, Record Player, Pocket Cameras, a Giant Rock A Stack, the Swimming Pool, and a Santa's Workshop new style Little People set.

A-mazing A-frame!

Here is my favorite Little People house, the Amazing A-Frame! The Fisher-Price Play Family A-Frame # 990 is one of the coolest toys that Fisher-Price made. Dad bought it for me on ebay and I was so happy. It was waiting on our front doorstep and Daddy tried to pretend it was car parts. This was the 3rd A-Frame he tried to win on the same day, and finally got this one. he had kept it secret until it arrived! The lithos were in perfect condition and that is why we call it the Amazing A-Frame. I like to take this one on trips, and I took it to this year's Fisher-Price Collector's Club Convention, and will take it next year. I pack up my favorite figures and can play with it when we are traveling. My favorite part that goes to this set is the red jeep. We had found some parts before we got the A-Frame. We still need to get more pieces for this set, but we have plenty of pieces to furnish it. I love the blue color. It has a kitchen and a living room with decks, a bedroom with balconies. There is a door panel that becomes a nice garden area. We have a bbq grille for it, and use a table and chairs, a picnic bench from the zoo, a swimming pool and two beds. I put a miniature Fisher-Price Chatter Phone that came from a Toy Story 3 mini-figure set. It is from one of my favorite movies that has lots of Fisher-Price toys in it. I love the bell, it is so cool, like a cow bell.

Weekend at Lake Little People...

We went to East Aurora, New York on July 27 and July 28 for the 2012 Fisher Price Collector's Club Convention. Here are some of the finds I got at this year's convention. I got a Pop-Up camper set, and a swimming pool set. At last year's convention I got the marina. My Daddy found the A-Frame on ebay, and the Happy Houseboat at a thrift store. I really wanted a Pop-up camper. It has a Jeep with a boat on the roof, a storage case for the furniture that goes on top of the camper. The camper has a kitchen and a table set- and two bed shelves. It is so much fun! We made the scenery from craft supplies, blue poster board for our lake, and green and brown construction paper for our trees. Our sky is a blue blanket and the meadow is a green blanket. On the first day of the convention we went to the Fisher-Price Headquarters and the company Toy Store, after that we went to the dinner. The next day there was a Toy Sale where I bought lots of sets, people, and pieces. I can't wait for next years show. Please join the Fisher Price Collector's Club. UPDATE: Today we found a Play Family Camper & a Castle Dragon! So we added a picture of our new finds enjoying a weekend at the lake.

Once upon a time...

...there was a Fisher-Price kingdom with happiness, sunshine, and joy! One day there was a knight from the future, and peering through the castle was a big, giant, little boy named Presley. The woodsman came back from the village market in the carriage to encounter the giant trying to take over the kingdom. The princess was trapped in the tower, while her friend Prarie Dawn was prisoner of Rex the dinosaur who was housesitting the dragon's lair. Will the knight defeat the giant and rescue the fair maiden in waiting? The retro King and Queen have permanent smiles because they hope for a happily ever after. Here is my Fisher-Price Play Family Castle, it was a gift from the Fisher-Price Collector's Club at last year's convention. I was so happy, I love my castle. At this year's convention I got the King, Queen, and Prince.

Mooooooooooooooooooo.......

Here are my four Fisher-Price farms. The first play family playset was the farm. My first farm was the one with the red loft doors where the hen lives- this farm has a Fisher-Price sticker on the roof and a green plastic base. I got this farm at a flea market in West Virginia. It had most of it's parts. We live in Virginia now- just next door. My second farm is the plder style with the masonite wood base. This farm was found at a thrift store in Maryland outside Washington DC without any parts. The third farm was a chunky little people farm with a larger green plastic base. It was missing parts & the doors when we found it at a Virginia thrift store outside Washington DC. On another trip to the same store we found one door. We think the door got lost or maybe it was put out later. Hopefully we will find the second door on our next trip there. On two other trips we found silos with parts in them for the second & third farms. I've been able to find parts and sets all across the United States of America. My newest farm has all of the pieces, even the silo and the original box! This is unusual to find close by where you live. This farm is the original style but with a green plastic base. We found it online, and it was nearby. A nice man was selling his grown-up kid's four Fisher-Price Play Family playsets- all in the original boxes withthe original pieces! They were in really good condition- A house, Farm, Fire Station & Western Town from around 1982. I will share those in another post.

Happy New Year 2012!

Here I am in my playroom with all my Fisher-Price toys. You can see my Imaginext toys in the background, and my Little people stuff everywhere else! I hope to share more this year, thanks for visiting!

It's a zoo around here

This is 2 Fisher-Price zoos. One is a Little People gift set from Kohl's I got for Christmas. The other is a vintage F-P Zoo I found at a Thrift Store. It was missing all of the pieces except for one orange gorilla. The zoo was 95 cents, and the gorilla was in a bag of old happy meal toys for 1.95. They must have thought it was an old happy meal toy. We are hoping to get parts for it at next years F-P Collector Club Convention.

Merry Christmas to one and all!

Here is my christmas tree with my Fisher-Price ornaments. Look closely and you will find miniatures of the School, the School bus, and at the very top the Fun jet, my tree's shining star. The School #923 has a teacher and a boy and a girl. I like the sticker designs and the ruler on the side. It even has a cute tiny bell that rings. I really like the school bus #192, it looks just like the real one with a dog and kids and a driver inside! The Fun Jet #183 is so fun, the real one holds 4 people but the little one has only two. My Little People were there to sing Christmas Carols while they watched the tree lighting. Merry Christmas!

More Sesame Street

This is a Fisher Price Sesame Street Clubhouse #937. The stickers are a little wrinkled but they are all there except for Big Bird's nest. I cleaned out the bad sticker with a wipe and a screwdriver. This toy was really dirty, with a lot of dirt and melted candy. We took it apart and cleaned it pretty good. The great part is the tire swing was not broken. I learned at the convention that the swing is usually broken so this was a good find. I almost have all the Sesame Street Little People. I need Susan and Oscar the grouch, and Herry Monster to complete my set. I found Prarie Dawn hidden away in the wonderful Castle I was given at the F-P Collector Club Convention. We are not sure If she was a gift or a stowaway but she now has a good new home. This is a great addition to the Sesame Street Playset.

Honey, I'm Home!

The Fisher-Price Play Family House is really fun. I found the house at a thrift store. It didn't have any parts, but by going to other thrift stores, and flea markets, and the convention we have been able to fill it up! I like the house to have lots of pieces, more than what it came with. So I added a bathroom and a queen size bed. I added the stairs from the blue and yellow house- which is a Hallmark ornament for this christmas. This brown house is just like the one Daddy wanted when he was little. I set it up with babies and a family with a Mom & Dad, and kids. Those are my favorite figures.

Fisher-Price Headquarters

When we went to East Aurora for the convention we went to the Fisher-Price Headquarters, which was fun and very intriguing, although we couldnt go in except for the toy store. At the store they had all new toys but they did have some left over "chunky" little people. I bought a souvenir cup and a key chain. I liked the street corner of Fisher-Price Street and Little People Lane, and the sign of the pull toy doggie. There was a beautiful fountain with a statue of a little boy. I put my new F-P toy boats in the fountain. The big F-P was really cool and looked like it was made out of rubies and jewels. After we saw the factory we went to the dinner where they gave me my castle! You can see that in another post. I might like to work there some day although it would have been more fun to work there in the old days when they made the original toys.