These 10 Vintage Fisher-Price Toys Are Now Worth Ridiculous Amounts

A vintage wooden toy featuring a sailor duck pulling animals, next to a cat with large eyes and a red bow tie. Both toys have movable parts, and the illustration style is colorful and cartoonish.
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Without a doubt, Fisher-Price (founded in 1931) is one of the biggest toy brands in the U.S. No matter what decade your childhood was in, you probably remember toys with the “Fisher-Price” moniker on them. But the plastic, light-up, battery-operated examples we see in the toy aisle today are a far cry from the earlier vintage options. Despite their much simpler nature, those vintage options are worth significantly more than newer Fisher-Price toys. Here are the brand’s most expensive vintage toys.

1. Fisher-Price Paper on Wood Disney Mickey Band

A vintage toy depicting a cartoon mouse playing drums, with a cartoon dog lying on its back nearby. The toy is mounted on a blue platform with yellow wheels, and it has a long red handle for pulling.
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Sold for: $1,900

This Fisher-Price classic hails from 1935 and harnesses that vintage Disney charm we all know and love. Kiddos could pull this toy behind them while Mickey Mouse drummed along. It was both a child’s dream and a parent’s noisy nightmare.

2. Fisher-Price Paper-on-Wood Bak-Up Donald Duck

Vintage wooden toy depicting a sailor duck pulling a cart with cartoon mice inside. The duck is dressed in a blue sailor outfit, and the cart features colorful illustrations of the mice, all on small red wheels.
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Sold for: $1,600

This Donald Duck toy is one of Fisher-Price’s finest paper-on-wood options — a toy where paper artwork is adhered to a wood surface. It was part of the brand’s “Bak-Up” toy line, powered by a small motor so it could walk.

3. Fisher-Price Paper-on-Wood Wind-Up Jumbo Bak-Up

Vintage wooden toy elephant with movable parts, featuring bright orange and black colors. The elephant is positioned beside its original box labeled "Jumbo Bak-Up" by Fisher-Price. The box has red and beige colors with decorative designs.
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Sold for: $900

Another paper-on-wood Bak-Up toy, this elephant was made in 1931 and included a rope tail and a beaded lead off his trunk so that kids could hang on to him as he walked along.

4. Fisher-Price Donald and Donna Duck Toy 

A vintage wooden toy featuring two characters, one wearing a sombrero, playing a xylophone with mallets. They are mounted on a red wheeled platform.
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Sold for: $850

Made in 1937, this Fisher-Price toy is one of the brand’s rarest Disney options. Between the Donald and Donna (not to be confused with Daisy) ducks, there’s a functional xylophone. Kids could not only roll this toy, they could also make music with it. 

5. Fisher-Price Hot Diggety Wind-Up Dancing Toy

Vintage toy figure with a checkered outfit and cap stands next to a matching box labeled “Hot Diggity No. 800” by Fisher-Price Toys Inc. The figure is supported by a metal base.
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Sold for: $800

One of the more obsolete Fisher-Price toys, Hot Diggety was a wind-up dancing doll with zero frills about him.

6. Fisher-Price Bruno and Bear Drummer Toys

Two vintage tin toys: one is a bear on an orange tricycle with a drum, wearing a striped shirt and top hat. The other is a bear pushing a yellow wheelbarrow. Both have colorful, detailed designs and are wind-up toys.
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Sold for: $800

It seems that all of Fisher-Price’s best, most coveted vintage toys came on wheels, were pullable, or had a functional drum. These guys checked all the boxes.

7. Fisher-Price No. 170 Paper on Wood 1941 American Airplane

A vintage orange toy airplane with blue accents and propellers on both wings. The wings have "AA" printed, and the body reads "NC 5000." The design resembles classic mid-20th-century aircraft.
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Sold for: $750

While this Fisher-Price airplane couldn’t take flight, it was still a fun break from the brand’s usual toys, swapping wheels and rope leads for wings and a propeller. This particular airplane was made to look like an American Airlines plane.

8. Fisher-Price Performing Penguins 

A vintage wooden toy depicting a penguin with goggles and a red scarf, and a small bird with a blue scarf beside it. The toy has wheels and a simple mechanical design.
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Sold for: $750

Before “Happy Feet,” Fisher-Price rolled out their own paper-on-wood performing penguins. The penguins had moving feet and wheels to really dial in on kiddos’ imaginations for the kinds of moves these arctic birds could make.

9. Fisher-Price Tricky Tommy

Vintage toy depicting a cat playing cymbals. The cat is painted with stripes, has a red bow tie, and stands on wheels. The cymbals are raised as if about to be clapped together. The toy is colorful and whimsical.
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Sold for: $650

Made in 1936, Tricky Tommy was a cat push toy. Like all Fisher-Price favorites of the ’30s, he came with a musical instrument to make noise, too. This wooden kitty had functioning cymbals and a wooden stick so kids could join Tommy in the fun of causing a racket.

10. Fisher-Price Woodsy-Wee Zoo

A vintage Fisher-Price Woodsy-Wee Zoo toy set featuring an unopened box with animal illustrations. The open box shows wooden pull toys shaped like a lion, elephant, giraffe, and camel with round wheels.
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Sold for: $600

The Woodsy-Wee Zoo was a 1931 Fisher-Price toy that came with five rolling, pullable, colorful animals, including an elephant, giraffe, camel, bear, and lion. As one of the brand’s earliest toys, these sets (especially complete) are hard to come by almost 100 years later.

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