I remember this growing up and what a joy it was. This Snoopy Sno-Cone Maker is not only a classic toy, but one that will be great during the summer.

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.

OMG - flashbacks.

Does anyone else remember owning the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine ($15) back when they were little kids? I do, it was awesome! I think.

The Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine was shaped just like Snoopy's doghouse and you put the ice cubes in through the roof, turned the crank, pushed the ice down with the Snoopy ice pusher and it ground the cubes down into shaved ice, er snow. Then you would take the little snow shovels, fill up your cup and top the shaved ice with syrup from the little snowman bottle or any other type of juice you wanted. Well, unbelievably it's back and ready for the next generation of youngsters or maybe just for you to use secretly at the office. I wonder if the kids of today even know who Snoopy is? (via The Green Head)

Because it's awesome. And my kid loves Snoopy. And Sno-Cones.

My little ones will surely love to have this!

Maybe it's a little too cold outside to make sno-cones in the winter - but that's the perfect excuse to wear mittens and moon boots inside! The Snoopy Sno Cone Machine is a classic "toy" that crushes ice and makes real sno cones!

Brings me right back to my childhood! For anyone who was a product of the late 70s in the States, you probably had one. It's Snoopy and the Peanut gang. It's sno-cones. How the hell could you say NO?!!