Toys of years gone by

jackieb

I had a viewmaster, but one birthday I got upgraded to a talking viewmaster. It was red and it was heavy! Well....probably not that heavy, but then again I wasn't very big. I thought I was the bees knees. I wish my mum wasn't the kind of person that threw everything out.

culpepper

sophiesmum wrote:

Ahemmm
Showing my age now but any one remember rolf harris stylophone,?
Space Hopper, Chopper bike, binatone first ever tv computergame - used to spend hours playing tennis blip blip blip used to drive parents crazy.
Very upmarket when we graduated to Atari space invaders a few years later.

sophiesmum

I remember all of those!
I had some clackers one year. They were very hard balls (sometimes glass) on a piece of string with a tab in the middle to hold. You had to clack them together. Lots of places banned them because you could hit yourself in the face if you weren't careful. Don't know if they were for xmas though.
My cousin bought me a flatsy doll.She was about 1/8th of an inch thick poseable rubber with green hair and clothes and she sat in a flat green car in a picture frame so you could hang it all up.
I never had sindy but I did have patch who was her little sister. I wasn't really a doll person so she got a black eye added with marker pen to make her more boyish.

newcook

purpleimp wrote:

Victoria Plum!.............. you've just reminded me of another one.

strawberry shortcake............... the 1st time round, it used to smell so much better when we were kids!

My grandma used to knit me jumpers of victoria plum! I'm sure I still have a strawberry shortcake book somewhere...! I remember the popples and how could I ever forget carebears, my little poney, sylvanian family... oh the memories!!!! does anyone remember Keepers? they had a compartment on their backs or belly and you could put your secret treasures!:D

ambernora

Ah keepers i remember those, and popples. My favourite had to be my cabbage patch doll that I will never get rid of

piratess

just thought of a few others i loved .. we got kerplunk one year which was brilliant until we lost the marbles! ....

and my first pair of roller boots! which were white and they had blue strips down the side with red stars in them and blue stoppers they were fab! until coming down a hill i put the stopper on to frantically and and took a chunk out of the front of one of them ... my mum was not happy! lol ...
My sister once for a red BMX and matching jumpsuit with her name on it !!!

recovering_spendaholic

I had Sindy Paul and Patch and also Barbie and her friend Midge, sister Skipper and boyfriend Ken - I loved all my dolls and played with them constantly! I also loved Mousey Mousey and Coppitt and last year bought both of them for DD2 but they were a bit tame for her!

merlinormartin

Talking about "space hoppers" .. woolworths have a adult size hopper for £16 but its on the 3 for 2 offer :j .. iv bought my OH one for xmas, am just wondering how long it will take till one of us ends up at A&E!

sophiesmum_2

I was a bit of a tomboy as a child and used to love playing with my brothers evel knievel stuntcar and his six million dollar man with the bionic eye:D
he also had lots of those matchbox car tracks we used to rig up and send cars shooting down the stairs, and an action man helicopter which was positively lethal when you pumped the rotor blades.

sophiesmum

Nytehawk

:shhh: Now I am going to share this with you because I know you won't tell anyone........... When I was young we were unable to ghave big train sets or bikes or anything like that (Even Lego was out in favour of Betta Builder the cheaper version)

But for my 50th Christmas my OH bought me a Top of the range Scalextric set in recognition of what she described as regaining my childhood. I set it up in our 15` x 14` lounge and could only get the whole track laid out from corner to corner but, Bless her, my OH allowed me to keep it there for the whole of Christmas Day. Needless to say we are now doing the lottery every week so that we can get a bigger house for me and my childhood fetish to get a more permanent fixture within the home:santa2: :xmastree:

nuttywoman

I cringe now when i think of the toy we had as kids! a cooker that ran off methalated spirits !!!! it had little pans that we used to make chips in, little tiny ones. Mind you this must have been in the late 50`s , somehow don`t think they`ll catch on today,lol
val