Mr Frosty

I’ve found my people!

So many of us denied a Mr Frosty - it's like a support group here. Glad to know they were rubbish though. I spent hours looking at it in the Argos book. It was the coloured ice cube shapes in the little trays that fascinated me - literally just ice cubes. Kids are weird.

I really wanted the Petite post office, I got the beige and brown office 😕

I did the same last night and found Snugglebumms that I had forgotten about 😂

I really really wanted a Barbie but would have ok with sindy but my mum thought dolls with boobs were not appropriate for a child. As an adult spoke about not being allowed one and she asked why not. Err dunno mum you had weird rules.
I could watch children’s tv no problem but not on Saturdays.
Anyway back to the Barbie situation, I eventually got a Tressy doll from a cousin who’d out grown it. She had hair that grew if you turned a key in her back. it was ok but it wasn’t Barbie. I mentioned this one year at a family get together with my in-laws. That Christmas I received 3 Barbies. I was 45.

I had the Bionic Woman doll as well, I remember all the little bits, and the flaps in her arms or something like that.

I desperately wanted a Speak and Spell too but never got one

I was desperate for one, but never got one either.

I did get bought a sweatshop thing that was also heavily advertised, but likewise realised it was quite rubbish once I’d eaten all the sweets out of it.

Oh, yes, that thing with my younger sister happened to me all the time - same age gap. Not just with toys but with other 'privileges' such as being allowed to sit in the front seat of the car and getting our ears pierced.

My Sister and I got one for Christmas and it was definitely disappointing! I remember a lot of waiting around and my Dad getting annoyed with it!

I absolutely loved Ghost Castle, the best game ever. I also adored my Were bear (I had Fang, just looked it up) and My Pet Monster.

I can remember my Dad telling me about the time he stood outside Toys R Us in the early hours of the morning to queue up to get me a full set of the TMNT figures.

I had ballerina Sindy. She had wires in her arms and legs that let you put her into ballet poses. She was so well played with that the wires snapped so she was more like multiple compound fracture Sindy. I also bit her toes and fingers off as they were a very pleasing rubbery texture. 😳

I really wanted a Sindy house and a Ken. We couldn’t afford the house and my Mum despised Ken for some reason so he was vetoed. My mum instead made me a house out of a cardboard box but got me the Sindy bed and dressing table and decorated the ‘house’ in off cuts of 1970’s brown and yellow velour for the carpet and her old bedroom wallpaper which was mad purple swirls. I absolutely loved it.

As the youngest of many female cousins I actually got another Sindy doll compete with nurse outfit as a hand me down and a BIONIC WOMAN Doll! She came with blue overalls and a pretend computer chip in her arm and a bag that had a false passport and a map to somewhere. That was sufficient for me to basically pretend she was Ken and given they lived together in the Sindy house and there was only one bed one thing led to another. The other Sindy used to pop round to say hi. Sindy and Bionic Ken wouldn’t actually get out of bed though as the only place to sit was the dressing table.

It was basically a dolly version of a 1970’s porn film down to the decor. Made even creepier due to the fact that there were twin Sindys, one in a nurses outfit just watching and the one in the relationship with Bionic Ken had limbs sticking out at strange angles and no fingers and only ever wore a tutu.

OMG "shat black slime out of the tail hole"...you totally win the internet today @InMySpareTime 😂😂😂

I had totally forgotten about having a Speak and Spell until this thread!

I had the fashion wheel and the Play Doh barber shop and they were actually both really good.

I had one, it was absolute crap! You didn’t miss out 😂

I told my husband about always wanting a mr frosty as a kid and never getting one. He bought me one! Well it’s the fiddliest price of crap ever! It’s so hard to use. Crushing the ice is nearly impossible and they don’t taste nice! Bless him for the thought though xx

I LOVED my Speaker and Spell!

I did have a FunFax which I absolutely loved. I felt really sophisticated! The stickers were great.
My friend group had an obsession with stickers. We loved going to a little stationery shop in the nearest town and buying the little sheets with different themes of sticker. We'd write each other letters with funky paper with wavy lines and stickers in different coloured pens. Such a lovely time.

We had one as kids.
I assume I am speaking for everyone here, but we basically just wanted to consume the syrup. The ice chips was a shit carrier for it.

Someone mentioned trolls. I had them (im assuming they got lost when we moved). I loved them.

Also had jelly shoes. Flats and heels.

Never had playdoh. I had Marla!!!

I was desperate for one. Was never allowed one so I swore I’d get one when I was an adult. I didn’t in the end but my son started asking for one when he was little. I said no 😂

Shhhhh. Don't mention that too loud. My friends sister had one. One day she was out and we 'made her up'. But not with makeup. With markers and stuff apparently (we were v young). She was pissed. Still mentions it. And then a couple months ago her dad found the thing in the attic and sent a pic!!!

Toys for 80s television ads that I was denied:
Mousetrap
Buck a roo
Hungry hippos
Mr Frosty
Operation
Colour change bears that changed colour in the bath.
Glow bug

Allowed;
Junior Scrabble
Connect 4
Twister

Did play Connect 4 a lot.

My husband always wanted one as a child. I bought him one second hand early on in our marriage. Used it once. Thought the kids might use it. It eventually got rehomed having been used twice as they did want to try it and it was crap.

That's just reminded me of my Nana. She had dementia in the late 80's and would give us 50p for Christmas and think she'd given us a lot of money.

We had to fib and say thanks Nana, I bought an album or a t-shirt or something otherwise she'd have been upset that she'd not given us enough to buy something decent!

I had the money box!

They were a bit pointless though as they only took 2p coins, which weren’t much money even in 1988!