I must be PMS'ing or something because every time the nostalgia stick whacks me upside the head today I am getting all teary. This did it big time. Had totally forgotten it EXISTED until I saw this. It was the FAVE toy of my best friend Jenny and I the summer of our... oh hell I don't even know how old we were. I grew up partly in the Valley of So. Calif so there are a lot of years I've purposefully blacked out of my memory due to traumatic fashion choices (like my 4-inch vertical Aqua Net bangs that were always painstakingly backcombed using my single non-lace glove-clad hand....). "Before we discovered Duran Duran", that's the only way I can date it. Because once DD came on the scene... well screw Charlie Brown and basically anything else on the planet.

At any rate, I am so excited to see this make a reappearance. Given that my mother gave every single thing I ever considered near and dear to our cleaning lady a week after I left for college (do you think I have lingering issues about that? No...... ok yeah maybe one or two- I mean she was nearly SIXTY! Did she NEED the Weeble Wobble circus????), I've spent many years reacquiring things like this to pass on to my children. Or more accurately, to excitedly present to them while ignoring the fact that some shaved ice and a 'freakishly-bald-except-for-the-pubic-like -orehead hair thingy' cartoon character isn't quite as stimulating to them as rebuilding civilizations on Sims. Luckily we have reached a compromise- I shoot them the "we are going to BOND over Mommy's childhood memories, dammit!" look and they bury their "Oh for Christ's sake" expression. Then we all dig into bowls of yummy denial and 6 minutes later go back to whatever we were doing feeling a bit used and unsatisfied. Hey, it works for us.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go squirt some unnaturally colored juice on ice chips and pretend to myself that it's a life-coming-full-circle, beautiful moment.

This is the prescription for instant summer fun!

this was my favorite toy as a kid. I'd wake up in the middle of then night and secretly make sno-cones in my bedroom- my parents never found out (oops, until now).

very cute and practical!

Not only do I remember having this when I was little...but, my mother the ulitmate pack-rat still has it...in it's original box! This year, I plan to give it to my niece for Christmas. She is going to LOVE it!

I had one of these when I was a kid, I would love to have one again. I remember how frustrated I used to get because it seemed to take forever to grind up all of the ice.

come on guys-this is classic! of course, it's tedious and crushing ice is much faster via a blender BUT gotta love the nostalgia of this!

I had one of these (or something similar) as a kid. When I saw it, I got a wee bit nostalgic and decided I need this back in my life