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!"

I wanted the posh Sindy House the big one . I tried to look pleased and not feel ungrateful when I got the cardboard alternative and it didn't even have the wall of sound .

DH bought me Mr Frosty for Christmas when my dc were toddlers because we’d been talking about Santa disappointments. My dc were far too young to use it themselves so I had all the pleasure of trying to crush ice with that stupid tiny plastic handle. I managed about half a teaspoonful each. My mother was so right!
I can’t believe that they’re still selling it and it’s just as bad as ever.

Does anyone remember the game Perfection? You have all these different shaped pieces that you have to fit in the correct holes in a tray before the tray pops up and sends them flying. I recently bought one for my kids as I had such fond memories of mine as a kid. It’s alright but they lost interest pretty quickly.

I loved Sunday when I was a kid and I was obsessed with My Little Pony. I remember there was a version that was sea horses and I got the sea play set and when you pressed a button some water squirted out. It was pretty crap but I thought it was amazing!

I loved Sindy not Sunday.

i had Perfection. such an wonderful gift for a clumsy, anxious child. i hated it. the pressure!

We had a board game called Bike About. Norwegian, I think. Not sure what my parents were thinking, really

Oooh, I had Screwball Scramble and loved it!

Anyone have one of these? Bag of shite (especially if you lost the fucking key for it)

Wow, I've never even heard of half of these.

I had a baby doll that you gave a bottle to and then she'd wee. Very nice till she grew bath mould inside her, and then she pooed mould.

I was never allowed a Mr Frosty because my mum said it would be rubbish.
Hilarious! I actually thought I was the only one being deprived but it seems not 🤣

managedmis Yes! I had no memory at all about Keyppers until I saw your pic. The little guy in the pic did he smell of strawberries or something too?

So many.

Agreed re Mr Frosty! Useless pile of shite.

I also had these board games called atmosfear which came with videos that you had to play while you played the game - you had to do so certain things at certain times and every so often a zombie would appear on screen and give instructions. I loved it and everyone else hated it. Dug it out years later and realised how ridiculous it actually was!

I also had the magic dream phone board game where you had to call pre-recorded guys on a plastic phone and get them to ask you out - looking back I think it was probably the worst and most sexist thing I have ever encountered but at the time I LOVED it.

@managedmis I loved my keypers!
I had that one and the snail one. I can smell the plastic, even just thinking about them.

Keypers - that's what they were called. Rubbish toy with a great advertising campaign.

@APurpleSquirrel build a better burger was the best game ever!! I got it one xmas the main reason being my 2 older cousins worked in wimpey and I wanted to be just like them!
Guessing this was around 1986-1988?!
Have it as a saved search on eBay but your right it's so expensive!
Can remember selling mine at a car boot when I was about 10 and the ticking timer sounding like a bomb was going to go off!

Etch a sketch and Spirograph

Puppy in my pocket and pound puppies were my obsession. I had a pregnant pound puppy lol.

And a member of the get along gang 🤣

Another one who wanted but never got a Mr Frosty! I can totally see now that they would've been rubbish. Also wanted an A La Carte Kitchen but never got (but I'm sure that was actually really good, yes?) and a Cabbage Patch Kid - mum said no because they were ugly. In later years, I agreed but I still fumed at my mum about it, well into my adult tears

*years, not tears!

I had a plastic kids version of a potter’s wheel. It had been heavily advertised on TV in the run up to Christmas and I had elaborate dreams about my intended creations. You can guess the rest. About as useful as Mr Frosty and possibly messier!

I had a Teksta robot dog thingy that didn't do much. I think it was quite expensive at the time too.

I wish Blue Peter would have done a segment on making iced drinks by bashing up ice cubes and putting squash on them. Would have saved all of us who were denied Mr frosty the bad feeling and all those who did get him could have saved themselves the disappointment

I had a ballet doll called Dream Dancer. She stood on a plastic battery-powered platform and waved her arms and one of her legs around. Absolute bag of shite but I played with her for hours.

Who said Keypers were crap? WRONG! They were amazing. Even if only for the smell

Screwball Scrabble was & is great! Bought it for DD a few years ago & we all play it.
Also bought her a Big Yellow Teapot off EBay & she loved it. Need to dig it out for DS.
I also nominate Hoppers - that ball thing with a circular disc around the middle you were meant to jump on & hop about - almost impossible to do.

Don't talk to me about Blue Peter jay55 . Their junk modelling section was the worst for false advertising. Where on earth were you going to get dowelling, sticky back plastic and Copydex in a suburban village in 1977? I remember their Sindy chest of drawers made of matchboxes which somehow fitted magically into a bigger matchbox - even 9 year old me was thinking 'nice in theory...'