Tell me your favourite childhood toys which were actually shit

[ClapForCats]

I loved the Magic Robot.

Also a newspaper board game called "SCOOP!"

I'm with you, SparklyPussycat.

Fuzzy Felt - Why?

I loved my 'At the beach' fuzzy felt set.

aww I loved fuzzy felts too.

lots of toys mentioned I didn't have, but my friend did so got to share the joy, she had a Mr Frosty too but it was never used when I was there, I begged my parents for one. Never got it.

One of my favourite toys was the incredibly shit pile of plastic on wheels that was Sindy's car.

Sindy didn't get a look in though, it was so robust my and friend and me use to sit on them and race each other, then as we got too big we would lean on the front with our hands then run like fuck pushing it.

I had collection of flowers fairies and was lucky enough to get the special tacky garden one year I adored it. I use to mix the fairies and garden with my brothers Ewoks and Ewok village.

@CakeHoleinRoof The magic spoon had a magic mechanism that popped the cherries out when you put it in the pot and made them vanish when you put the spoon in her mouth.....like I say an oh so loving family member pointed it out fairly quickly to innocent little me....

Beanie Babies! Keep the TY label on and they were meant to make us a fortune.....

I LOVED my magnadoodle.....it was always so disappointing though when they started to break, I don’t really know how they work but you start to get lines that wouldn’t rub out and mine ended up with patches that didn’t work and what looked like a folded line under the top layer of plastic across the middle.

Crocodile dentist! I remember all of my friends pulling out the teeth and it never snapped!

Flower fairies. My DDs had them, also Care Bears, and those plastic locking animal things, turtles etc, and cabbage patch dolls. Every xmas there was a mad panic to get whatever was the rage.

I loved Lucky Bags - sweetie, rubbish toy, not sure what else but somehow they seemed worth the money.

Oh I also remember being given a pencil case - it was like a box with different buttons that popped out, so your sharpener, a draw for the rubber, a big pop-out tray at the side..... I thought it was really cool and they were popular but there was bigger all space to actually put your pencils in

We had a ViewMaster with the aforementioned Postman Pat and Peter Davison Dr Who; also loads of wildlife picture. The wildlife looked as though it had been stuffed, for some reason. I liked putting the slide disks in backwards, which produced a mirror image of the original slides.

My most disappointing toy was a 'Sindy Styling Head' - similar to a Girls World except Sindy's hair wasn't long enough to style and it didn't come with make up. I think I brushed the hair once and then gave up,

These things!

Fashion Wheel

Those stupid water games where you just pressed the buttons furiously in the hopes that one of the floating hoops landed on the hook.

All chemistry sets were universally shit too

I still have all my flowers fairies in my mums attic. Some of them sell for a fortune if they are in pristine condition. Sadly mine aren't as they were mostly car boot bargains which my mum fixed with matchsticks

My brother had a projector, which was like a giant View Master. You projected the scenes onto a wall- I seem to remember he had a Tom and Jerry story and a couple of others, but the scenes to project were so expensive back then (60's) that we just watched Tom and Jerry to infinity. Then the battery went, and batteries were pricey too, so that was that.

I haven’t read the thread so I might not be the first to say, but my printing set. I had lots of tiny letters that fitted very very badly into a red holder. You then stamp the letters onto an ink stamp and then onto paper. The letters would not stay in place so pinged out all the time. Eventually if you were lucky you managed to print your name and address on a piece of paper, amazing. Im not fucking Caxton or in his fan club, so who thought I wanted to do that ?

my family still has the Mastermind board game. it’s been causing furious arguments at Christmas for about 35 years now.

fuzzy felt made me feel sick.

Not a toy but a game, Sonic R. Fond memories of that. Played it again last year and it's bloody crap!

and i got a Spirograph for christmas one year. desperately excited, but a combination of my left-handedness and its intrinsic shitness made for nought but disappointment.

i’m still a bit angry about it now, 40 years later!

ClapForCats I love this thread and think you must be a similar age to me if you had a Magic Robot. I also had fuzzy felt, Tressy, Cadbury's chocolate dispenser and many other crap toys I loved.

I had a pencil case from the Disney store that I thought was hot shit. All the other girls had one in my class and I nagged relentlessly until I did something "good" at home to earn a treat. I still remember my dad driving me into town to pick one. It was Aladdin and really sophisticated as you pressed buttons to open the different sections which housed the rubber, pen etc. In reality it was plastic tat. I also had some atrocious cupcake doll that folded in like a cake then unfurled into a precursor for the awful bratz dolls. My parents picked me up from infants school once and asked me what surprise was waiting. I was so disappointed when it was a new car and not a cupcake doll.

I always wanted a mr frosty but never got one. Never got over it tbh

@TheFaerieQueene

I remember that terrible printing set!

The memory had obviously been buried until I recognised your description of the rubber letters pinging out over and over again.

I LOVED that printing set. I would love it now, if someone would make me another.

@Mlou32 sorry but that proper made me laugh! I hate spiders too and can imagine that must’ve been fairly terrifying, but just picturing how big that spider must’ve looked and how surprised you would’ve been set me off 😆

Oh! I loved my toy treehouse! You pushed the top of it down and it would spring back up open- and my big yellow teapot! With the roundabout under the lid and the little compartment for the car! My mum would buy me a wendy house in the summer, that you put together a frame of white plastic rods with little angled joints, slipped the plastic cover over the top and there would be a little window and a little flap of a door. I loved them and I loved the smell of the plastic 😁

Oh and also that you were expecting to see Postman Pat and instead you saw a huge spider lol 😄

Those stupid water games where you just pressed the buttons furiously in the hopes that one of the floating hoops landed on the hook.

I forgot about them, so annoying and if by any chance I managed to get the hoops over the hooks I was so pissed off with the game I didn't even care.

Spirograph was a great idea... if you just wanted to draw circles.

But I loved Viewmaster and those weird pencil case things, and I spent hours playing with Fuzzy Felts.

Omg I was a child in the 90s (can see my age from username) and must have been spoiled as had so many of these - fun fax was great! Also shaker maker - had completely forgotten that! My sis had and loved sky dancers and baby all gone, and those cupcake dolls that also smelled really strongly of vanilla/banana. Also had the Disney store pencil cases! But we never had Mr Frosty and always wanted it...glad to know he was a waste of space!

There was a family boot as well as the tree house and teapot! All amazing.

I never had a Mr Frostie. I had a rubbish typewriter which didn't actually type!
Mouse Trap and Buckaroo were crap although not quite as boring as Monolopy.

Shaker makers were grim. We had a Wombles set, they looked like turds when we turned them out!