Favourite Childhood Toys

[Joanne UK]

I remember playing Jacks a lot and the games lasted for ages. Recently got some for eldest DD but after going through picking 1 up then remainder, 2 up then remainder etc and repeating it doing double bounce, I can't remember anymore. Can anyone enlighten me?

 

[Cyrano]

Scaletric was our favourite. Through succesive birthdays and Christmases we had amassed quite a collection of £00's.
My younger kept it for his son. Decide that it was no use and binned it

 

[bonhoga]

I remember playing Jacks a lot and the games lasted for ages. Recently got some for eldest DD but after going through picking 1 up then remainder, 2 up then remainder etc and repeating it doing double bounce, I can't remember anymore. Can anyone enlighten me?

We used to play jacks a lot, and I loved it .....we also played when you throw one of the jacks up and had to pick another one up before you caught it again.
Klutz do a really good [really cheap] book called Jacks and its full of variations.Here in Shetland they have introduced a scheme to pass on playground games to younger kids, my sons involved - I will ask him if they are doing anything with Jacks!!!

Kaye

 

[Joanne UK]

Thanks Kaye, I remember the one you said now too.

 

[Ware Bears]

I spent many happy hours playing with my Britains farm and farm animals, especially the horses. I kept them all for my DDs but unfortunately they have not survived the passage of time and the legs have now dropped off most of them!

 

[Kernow_Clan]

Airfix plastic soldiers, Lego, Meccano, Brittens Farm vehicles, all kept me amused for hours on end.

Favourite looking back was a plastic "fonz" doll from the Happy days with a lever on the back that made his arms go up and down to do the famous "thumbs-up" pose. Also had a Six million dollar man doll, god knows what happened to that.

 

[shellbell]

My little ponys (which DD has started collecting) my favourite one was Apple jack and the little purple dragon. I loved barbies too, i had one that was called tropical barbie and she the longest hair. We loved playing marbles and always had competions to win each others

 

[JohnnySharp2]

Was that the one that Jonathan Ross had on his show before Christmas??

yes Alan it was - I saw the show but couldn't remember when it was on.

Also had thousands of Airfix soldiers,cavalry/indians/arabs/marines everything, I always used to get some every saturday.

I wonder what happened to them, cannot remember....

I actually used to collect die cast model cars/buses - I still have hundreds in the attic, keeping them away from Joshua

 

[florida sun]

Guys

Its been great reading through all your posts today, and brought back some wonderful memories of some toys from the past, esp Fuzzy Felt, how I could forget that I dont know, I loved it.

Another few I thought of today was Siprogragh(I think thats what it was called), Clackers(which use to almost break your fingers)and Girls World.(A big dolls head that you could make up and do different hairstyles with)

Thank you for the trip back down memory lane lol


Sue

 

[Frances999]

My favourite toy was definitely my dolls houses and dolls - I could spend hours playing with them! I still have one of them to this very day......somewhere in the loft

I remember Jacks as well - I went to a girls' boarding school and we played Jacks all the time, often gambling and giving the one who bounced the most jacks our sweets!

 

[Miffy2003]

Has noone yet said Weebles????

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down

They have re-released them have they not and they look all funny and wrong now, not happy about that at all

As to Mr Frosty, I too always wanted one and was never allowed as my mum said it was a load of old rubbish so DH bought me one for Xmas when I was 21

Oh .... and mum was right - it was a load of old rubbish

 

[Nubbedy]

Miffy2003, my mum was exactly the same and so I never had a Cabbage Patch doll (too ugly), Mr Frosty (its not hygenic to drink lots of ice) or a Care Bear (though there was never a good reason for that one!)

For my 30th birthday last year my sister in law made me a Nostalgia Box filled with loads of 80s toys bought of eBay. It was fantastic - Cabbage Patch, My Little Pony and a Mr Frosty, along with He Man and Battle Cat coz I was a bit of a tomboy. Will agree though that Mr Frosty was over rated!

My favourite childhood toys were Ker Plunk, Purple People Eater and my Commodore 64, oh and that tennis game you plugged into the TV - how cool was that?!

 

[MazdaUK]

My sister had that tennis game and when I took the boys to the science museum I showed them:

DS(11) What's that
me: a computer game Auntie Su had when she was your age
DS(6) What other games can you get for it
Me: er, none
DS(11) What else does it do?
Me: not much, just a few versions of that really
DS(6) Well what's the point of that then?
Me: no answer!

I enjoyed my dolls house, Sindy, Britain's riding school (like the farm) and my Amanda Jane playroom - a doll about 6-8 inches high (but not a fashion doll, if you get the drift) which had loads of clothes and these clip-together blocks to make furniture. She had a lovely bed with real sheeds and blanket - I remember getting it out of my mum's loft ages ago but now I can't find it! I hope it didn't end in the rubbish pile by mistake.