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Mr Frosty

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realsavagelike · 05/10/2025 23:23

Inspired by another thread! So many of us of a certain age have been denied a Mr Frosty in childhood, AIBU to think it’s astounding that anyone ever received one?! If so, did it live up to expectation or was it actually a massive disappointment? Such a feeling of nostalgia remembering circling it in the Kay’s and Gratton catalogue every winter!

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Frankblackwife · 06/10/2025 04:02

It is a bit pointless, can't even play with it, bits fall off lol

Frankblackwife · 06/10/2025 04:00

I used to buy my kids a lot of playmobile, they were pretty unimpressed tbh

Frankblackwife · 06/10/2025 03:58

It's really hard to turn, the handle, also extremely flimsy

NameChangeForThisQuestionOnly · 06/10/2025 03:52

I wanted one through my entire childhood. I asked Father Christmas every year and was devastated every year. Why were parents so against them?
Age 45, I bought one. I wrapped it up and put it under the Christmas tree, to me, from me. I was so excited to open it!
Friends, it was the biggest disappointment of my life. It doesn’t crush the ice up. The was no bright red liquid to squirt over ice either.

Frankblackwife · 06/10/2025 03:48

I forgot plasticine existed

Frankblackwife · 06/10/2025 03:45

There was a necklace in the argos catalogue that had a little bottle filled with gold flake. I coveted that hard, laminated book of dreams Grin

Frankblackwife · 06/10/2025 03:43

Nope pile of crap

Nat6999 · 06/10/2025 03:28

realsavagelike · 06/10/2025 00:29

I loved Sindy. Still clearly remember unwrapping ballerina Sindy on my fifth birthday. First life lesson- if you take out Sindy’s glossy low ponytail, you ain’t never going to get it looking the same again. DSis is 2 years younger, and got Barbies

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I've started collecting Sindy as an adult, I've got 10 dolls now, 5 original & 5 of the Kids Kreation ones that came out a couple of years ago.

CausalInference · 06/10/2025 01:15

I never got a Mr Frosty either, I was so desperate for one but my parent's told me they were rubbish. When I had my own children I actually looked at getting myself my kids one but then I realised actually they are crap, let's not! A fashion wheel was the other thing I never got, was a pink circular thing, the advert looked so much fun, I was sold!

I did have one of these a la cart play kitchens though I absolutely loved it, I was only talking to my mum about it recently, she said it cost a fortune to buy, I got it for christmas when I was 3 or 4. I've gone down a rabbit hole looking up all my old toys now, great memories!

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FortuneFaded · 06/10/2025 00:46

I wanted one. Never got one. I don’t know anyone who did.

I did get a Barbie Star Traveller motor home. It was massive. Played with it lots. When I outgrew it, my Gran asked me if I would pass it on to my cousin, who was much younger and loved Barbie. I remember taking it to my gran’s house, passing it on to my cousin only to watch her and her brother use it as a ride on toy (it wasn’t designed for that) and set about banging it into walls. I was fuming! I had outgrown it, but I had treasured it and was annoyed at seeing it being bashed about. Last time I gave them anything!

murasaki · 06/10/2025 00:40

I did get all the flower fairy dolls though, as my mum had had the books from when she was little, my nieces have them now. So that was something.

I still wanted that castle though.

Ah, petty resentments from 40 years ago...

sesquipedalian · 06/10/2025 00:38

MrsMoastyToasty · 06/10/2025 00:04

I wanted a Barbie
I got a Sindy.
She wasn't Barbie.
I'm still waiting, DM.

I too was desperate for a Barbie - all my friends had one. My mother, who didn’t approve of them at all got me a Skipper - Barbie’s little sister. That wasn’t it at all, DM. Now I have DGC, I buy them whichever Barbie they want - and Princess dresses, as the whole point of them was having clothes for them.

researchers3 · 06/10/2025 00:35

murasaki · 06/10/2025 00:18

The my little pony castle was another one. I had a fair number of ponies and I WANTED that castle.

Dad built me a castle for my birthday. Quite big, a large courtyard, a flat roofed tower on each corner, a gateway, and all covered in grey brick paper.

It looked like Colditz.

My friends loved it more than I did.

I had that castle (!) Ace!! And the Mr Frosty which was rubbish. What a disappointment 😞.

murasaki · 06/10/2025 00:32

I had ballerina sindy too. With the pink tutu skirt.

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realsavagelike · 06/10/2025 00:29

MrsMoastyToasty · 06/10/2025 00:04

I wanted a Barbie
I got a Sindy.
She wasn't Barbie.
I'm still waiting, DM.

I loved Sindy. Still clearly remember unwrapping ballerina Sindy on my fifth birthday. First life lesson- if you take out Sindy’s glossy low ponytail, you ain’t never going to get it looking the same again. DSis is 2 years younger, and got Barbies

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realsavagelike · 06/10/2025 00:24

SocksAndTheCity · 06/10/2025 00:04

I never had a Mr Frosty, but I did have the Fashion Wheel and also the Playdoh Fuzzy Pumper Barbers Shop, so I was already spoilt rotten as far as I'm concerned ☺️

A friend had that Playdoh barber shop - the 8th Wonder of the World! I always got plasticine instead of playdoh. It’s not the same, mum.

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realsavagelike · 06/10/2025 00:22

OSTMusTisNT · 05/10/2025 23:48

I wanted Lego Technic, remote controlled car and Scalextrix.

I received, babie, doll and an educational crappy think called 'speak and spell' which had an American accent and spellings 🙈.

I got the Speak and Spell too! I loved it. Poor Dsis got the Speak and Maths. Didn’t work out for her…

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murasaki · 06/10/2025 00:18

The my little pony castle was another one. I had a fair number of ponies and I WANTED that castle.

Dad built me a castle for my birthday. Quite big, a large courtyard, a flat roofed tower on each corner, a gateway, and all covered in grey brick paper.

It looked like Colditz.

My friends loved it more than I did.

Jewelledslice · 06/10/2025 00:15

Yeah I got one. It took about 3 hours to make the tiniest cup of ice chips and was very flimsy!

murasaki · 06/10/2025 00:14

MrsMoastyToasty · 06/10/2025 00:04

I wanted a Barbie
I got a Sindy.
She wasn't Barbie.
I'm still waiting, DM.

For some reason my mum thought Sindy adhered to fewer sexist stereotypes than Barbie, so me too.

I spent a lot of time at my god sisters house playing with her barbie and fantastic plastic pink barbie Palace of dreams.

murasaki · 06/10/2025 00:12

We really wanted one. Eventually one turned up in a church jumble sale and my parents folded.

It was not anywhere near as good as I and my sisters had imagined.

Soonenough · 06/10/2025 00:09

Almost as crap as Easy Bake Oven . The start of my disillusionment with TV advertising. See also Hot Wheels track as my brother found out.

MrsMoastyToasty · 06/10/2025 00:04

I wanted a Barbie
I got a Sindy.
She wasn't Barbie.
I'm still waiting, DM.

SocksAndTheCity · 06/10/2025 00:04

I never had a Mr Frosty, but I did have the Fashion Wheel and also the Playdoh Fuzzy Pumper Barbers Shop, so I was already spoilt rotten as far as I'm concerned ☺️

BlueberryLatte · 05/10/2025 23:59

I got one as a kid! It was very disappointing. I used it (or attempted to) maybe once or twice. I hope that heals some wounds for people who were denied one!

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