Big Thumb - Mattel - 1969/Early 70's
I never had this game, in fact I had not heard of it (nor remembered it) until I saw the commercial for it on youtube and thought to myself, this is so potentially dangerous, it is great !
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| Box For Big Thumb Game |
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It's kind of like "Whack a mole" without the mole. One player wears the big plastic Thumb, while your opponents have plastic hammers. Plastic Poker chips are put on the board and the player with the "Big Thumb" attempts to move the poker chips to her/his side of the board while your opponents try to whack the Thumb.
I'm sure after a while, the game just becomes trying to whack the thumb and no poker chips. Also I'm sure there were a few casualties from playing the game such as smashed hand or wrists ! I'm not quite sure if a game like this would be developed today
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| Alternate Box for Big Thumb Game |
Here is a TV commercial for both "Wizzzer's" and Big Thumb. Big Thumb starts at about the 30 second mark.
We had this game at our Grandparents and was the favorite game of all the cousins, and after 3 generations it was the most sought after toy in the toy box. Over the years we lost the board and three of the hammers, but the thumb and one hammer was left. And yes, the game could quickly get out of hand but all in good fun and no one got hurt, after all it was a soft plastic hammer. Maybe we were just tough kids back then.
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