Mr Frosty

Mr Frosty taught me a very valuable lesson as a young child! My parents didn’t/wouldn’t buy me one but I saved up my pocket money and bought one for myself. Tried to use it once - it was absolutely useless, which was perhaps obvious to the adults and possibly they tried to explain that to me (I was a very stubborn child, so wouldn’t have necessarily listened!) I was only 6 or 7, I think, and that buyer’s remorse has served me well - I realised that I needed to think very carefully about what I spent my money on and not get sucked in by the adverts.

I always asked for a Mr Frosty but never got one. I did have a peaches and cream barbie though. She was married to my brother's eagle eye action man.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned a Girl’s World. I desperately wanted one of those!

I had one, back in 1986 ish, it was awful. I did not have a Tiny Tears 😤

My friend who had the barbie pink house of dreams also had a soda stream. Top tip, don't put milk in it and fail to secure it properly. Her mum was not amused at having to clean the ceiling.

I was never allowed a Mr Frosty. Something I still bring up now with my DM.

I did have a fashion wheel though and loved it!

What I wanted most was the My Little Pony nursery and one year I got it!

Your dad is a legend.

We had one, it was shite.

The Lite Brite was much better, although I spent forever buying black construction paper to use as blanks. It was strangely satisfying.(I think that was the toy sold here as Lights Alive)

I never really wanted, wanted one, but I always thought they'd be cool to have!

The only person I knew who had one was a girl I was pretty friendly with through school. Her parents were quite wealthy and she was an only child (who spent most of her time with childminders though) who got everything she wanted. Honestly, she wasn't really all that nice, but hey.

She demonstrated it to me one time, and it was absolutely nothing special. She also had a soda stream back when they were new and cool. But as someone who has never enjoyed the static sensation of fizzy drinks, I was underwhelmed!

My husband wants a Slush Puppy machine. I've turned into my mother.

It was awful - impossible to crush the ice! And didn't come with flavours.

InMySpareTime · Today 10:13

My Little ponies (played in the bath with them and they got wet inside and went stinky black, and shat black slime out of the tail hole)

😂😂😂

We didn't have a TV at all from when I was 5 to when I was 10. All my longing for this plastic tat came from seeing it at my friends' houses.

elliesmummy19 · Today 08:26

I didn’t want one and never got one but I did desperately want those little machines that dispense mini Cadbury chocolates.

I'd never heard of those, or Mr Frosty, until a recent thread about them. I was born in 1970. We weren't allowed to watch ITV, so missed all the adverts!

My mum got me a Mr Frosty from a charity shop, but pretended it was new. I could see that it wasn't and I told her I didn't care if it wasn't new. She admitted it was secondhand and thought the shaver had been blunted by previous use. Now I know that wasn't the case, I'm even more glad she bought it secondhand.

I desperately wanted an 'A'La Carte Kitchen' - the one in the ad where the little girl cooks her Dad a plate of swiss roll with baked beans. I asked for one for 3 years in a row, never got it, but my sister did!!!

My DH was reminiscing the other week about a board game from the 80s he used to love called 'Ghost Castle', so I have bought him an original 80s one from ebay for his birthday 😁.

I still have my Cabbage Patch Kid. Also kept my Fluppy (remember those?) and my Popple - they were they soft toys that could turn in and out of their own pouch.

My main love during childhood though was Sylvanian Families. My sister again got the majority of those. I did get a bakery though. Still got it.

I had all the plastic tat toys that the 1980s could offer.
A la Carte kitchen (pulled the wheels off on Christmas morning and they never went back on again)
Mr Frosty (left him out in the snow and he seized up)
keypers (snapped the key in the lock and had to crowbar it open)
fashion wheel (snapped the hinges on the frame so it never worked properly)
speak and spell/speak and maths (completed both within a couple of days and lost interest)
Barbie house (got crayon in the lift mechanism so it never moved smoothly)
Cabbage patch doll (cut it a fringe then decided I hated the fringe)
My Little ponies (played in the bath with them and they got wet inside and went stinky black, and shat black slime out of the tail hole)

The only toys I kept nice were Lego, technic, meccano and books. I think my parents always hoped the next “girly toy” would turn me into some kind of dainty princess girl. My grandad saw me for the budding scientist I clearly was.

I'm another who didn't get Mr Frosty as a kid and bought one for my own DC. You'll be unsurprised to hear it was rubbish. It is funny though how so many of us wanted Mr Frosty and didn't get it. I think our parents just knew it wouldn't work.

Our presents tended to be whatever my dad could get cheap from a mate at the pub! Which led to some random gifts and usually not what we actually wanted 😕

I had the Sindy horse! It was a bit boring tbh. I'd stick Sindy on the back and make the horse bounce about the floor like a rabbit because it's legs didn't move.

I also wanted a Mr Frosty. And a scooter and a pogo stick. I ended up with roller skates but I wasn't allowed to play out the front on the pavement and our garden was all grass, so they were rubbish.

I opened this thread because I desperately wanted a Mr Frosty and never got one! Think we need a new section on mumsnet for support for all of us who were denied one.

I was bonkers about my little pony

I had 4-two proper ones,one that was sat down and a fake

A long story later,I got the stable,castle and nursery-thank God for ebay as my mother refused to buy them when I was a child

Mr frosty was shite

My brother got him (I got the be-ro baking set) and we lost interest within a few minutes

My friend got one and I was really jealous but then we used it at her house and it was rubbish. So I got over my disappointment very early on and was glad my mum said no 😂I did want the Cadburys chocolate dispenser though and my sister got one and I didn't 😡I also wanted my pet monster and I didn't get that either. I am putting in a complaint to my parents and I think they will be getting coal for Christmas this year 😂

Check out the ad! Intoxicating! An endless flow of slushed ice so much so you need a tiny spade to deal with it! Four cups of it to share with friends! 4 lurid flavours and a fucking HAT! Look how delighted they are! It’s like the kiddy version of a champagne machine.

Based on the reviews here you would have been grinding that ice for several hours to get that much.

I was desperate for one. Never got one. 1980’s parents clearly had a great eye for bullshit.

Snail toys were called finders keepers, what’s inside your secret…I had one put a ‘secret note’ in and my brother unlocked it lol. You could do it with your key or your nail!! Plastic fantastic… always wanted the inspector gadget doll. Never had Barbie’s - only Sindy’s and had an A La carte kitchen and made the cold beans for the family ;) Had a get in shape girl ribbon and had dreams of being an Olympic gymnast. Never allowed a Mr Frosty don’t feel so bad now… loved the smell of playdoh from the McDonald’s happy meals… oh the 80s and 90s :) oh and those shoes with the key? Did they convert into slip ons? I wasn’t allowed those one minute could be schools shoes the next party shoes… I had shoe envy!

I finally got my long awaited Mr Frosty for Christmas when I was 7/8.

It was awful! The ice didn’t crush and the flavouring was dreadful, I remember a bright red liquid that was poured into a penguin shaped dispenser, it tasted bitter and the the liquid just floated on top of the ice, it didn’t resemble a slushie at all, I was very disappointed.

However it obviously didn’t teach me any lessons about how TV adverts make products appear so much better than they actually are because 25 years later I bought the McFlurry maker for Christmas for my 7 year old daughter and lets just say that it was as unsuccessful as Mr Frosty.

Still not learning any lessons I also purchased the useless candy floss maker a couple of years later that took a huge amount of sugar and 15 minutes to make two bites of something resembling candy floss on a tiny paper straw.

It was the TV advert, the kids looked so flipping happy with it and it looked so easy!