Tell me your favourite childhood toys which were actually shit

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I loved the Magic Robot.

Also a newspaper board game called "SCOOP!"

Spirograph. Undoubtedly the most boring "toy" ever conceived.

@Teddyisahe was it Teddy Ruxpin?
I had that. I loved it!

@SpicedCamomile you must have had a faulty one! Our elephant thing shot the butterflies all over the place. I was finding them behind furniture for years a while.

The mouse trap game.

Amazes me that they got away with selling Mr Frosty when he simply did not work. Only thing that got frosted was my mum's attitude.

Baby All Gone was kinda dumb in retrospect. As a three year old, I thought the way she ate her food was magic. I see now how it worked and it's really not impressive 😂

I always wanted a Mr Frosty and was never allowed one!

Girls World the make up would not come off !!

Buccaneer. Little pirate ships collecting gold bars and gems. We played it a fair bit, even though we all thought it was fundamentally boring.

Spirograph - the potential to produce some interesting patterns. But not with plastic cogs that slipped!

I had this fashion design kit for dolls clothes. But it turned out the doll had seems and you just stuck the cut out fabric into them, it didn't help you make actual reusable dolls clothes. Spectacularly shite.

I remember DD asking for Cricket doll for xmas but I couldn't bring myself to spend that much - it was 80 quid at least (in the 80s). Don't think she noticed on the day but I still feel guilty about it.

I had some really cool toys. An Al a carte kitchen, yellow teapot, etch a sketch and a viewfinder. But I really wanted a lolo ball and a mr frosty!

Always wanted a Mr Frosty...

Sindy on her bike..she didn't stay on the bike! Spent more time trying to get her feet on the pedals then anything else.

Did love my Furby though remember the excitement when managed to find one. My mum however less so

I had a fun fax it was awesome!

A cardboard cut-out model of Hector's House & characters. Even then, I think I knew it was shit.

Major Morgan the electronic organ! He was wonderful but would often disappear for months at a time ( when my mother had enough).

I also remember being obsessed with my fun fax and was stationery mad. I loved my student box which was a kind of solid v bodied pencil case with a magnetic flip lid and divides inside. It also had a hunger but to put your pencils in and they could lie flat or stand up like a proper artist might do . I spent hours in wh smith and partners trying pens and smelling erasers.

I seem to remember my uncle buying me a chemistry set for my birthday, probably around 1970. My dad took one look at the (quite possibly lethal) contents and whisked it away to the shed. When it returned, some of it was inexplicably missing...

Scoop was an ace game

Had a second hand Viewmaster from cousins which was pretty good, also a toy projector called Flashy Flickers (wouldn't get away with that these days) which was excellent.

I loved my Etch a Sketch and Spirograph but Mousetrap was utter shit. If you so much as looked at it the whole thing would collapse.

And another - The Merry Game of Floundering where you had to throw a dice and build as many luridly coloured cardboard fish as you could.

Hours of fun

My dad was a research chemist dodo, and chemistry sets were banned in our house. Not safe apparently.

@PleaseStopCrying Ah yes the toy we begged for every Christmas and birthday when we finally got it, we shoved playdoh in it and broke it in seconds. Literally didn't even get round to putting ice in whatever goes in it

So glad to see so many others left frustrated with stupid Frosty. I agree wholeheartedly with the poster who wonders how he even made it to the shelves. Did they not care he didn't work?

To those who never got one, honestly your childhoods were better without the crushing disappointment he brought to homes up and down the country.

Fuzzy felt. Stick some bits of felt on a board. So 10min, say. And then what?

@TheSparklyPussycat OMG I absolutely loved Fuzzy Felt and would spend hours playing with my many sets 😀

What was that game with magnetic goldfish?

I loved it but I can't remember what it was called.

@TheSultanofPingu I'm not surprised