Didn't get a Mr Frosty Support thread.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Stolen the idea from
Another thread. I wanted a Mr Frosty, but never got one. Apparently my parents says I never asked at Christmas or birthdays. (I did have an A la cart kitchen though.)

@DipItAgain and @WellThatsATurnipForTheBooks
I’m sure it’s time that makes hair doing for kids so hard. Mine are in their 20’s now and very kindly let me do fish tails and all sorts of ticktoc fun hairdos. And for the first time ever (50+) I have nice hair because I have the time to look after it.

Thanks for starting the thread @Toddlerteaplease I’ve been needing to get my sadness and annoyance out for 30 years. Now I know that there are so many Wannabe Mr Frosty owners at least we can be each others support network.

I wanted wooden toy trains and never got them. Needless to say, my DC have lots of trains and tracks that I enjoy helping with!

@Toddlerteaplease

To be fair to my parents. Although I never got a Mr Frosty or a lolo ball, or one of those things you put round your ankle and skipped with. (Can't remember the name) My mum thought I was to accident prone!

I did get some cool stuff
A la cart kitchen
Yellow tea pot
Carry tot
Lots of cabbage patch kids
Trolls
And a Hornby train set (suspect for my dad's benefit)

A skippet!! They were so awesome, loved mine ❤️

"Wake up Daddy! Breakfast's ready!"
I still get flashbacks when serving baked beans

The a la carte kitchen was disappointingly fragile. A couple of years I got the Fisher Price Mini Chef Kitchen... it's probably still in the playhouse

I was a pretty spoiled only child. I had more Sindy than I ever knew what to do with, Girls World, the Cadbury Chocolate things. All rather wonderful, but what I really wanted was this ⇦.

"Girls" my Mother said, "Do not play with Star Wars toys".

This is now my house. Mother did concede she'd probably have been better buying me the bloody things and getting it out of my system 😂

@KilledByWitches

I was a pretty spoiled only child. I had more Sindy than I ever knew what to do with, Girls World, the Cadbury Chocolate things. All rather wonderful, but what I really wanted was this ⇦. "Girls" my Mother said, "Do not play with Star Wars toys".

This is now my house. Mother did concede she'd probably have been better buying me the bloody things and getting it out of my system 😂

Haha, my brother got all the games consoles which I had to just gaze longingly at. Now I'm the gamer in the family and work in IT, while he barely games at all 😂

I did having a hankering for Mr Frosty, but what I really wanted was My Little Ponies although was kinda too old for them. What I did have was this bad boy, not the house just the cooker. But oh the nostalgia when I spotted it in a charity shop a few years ago!

I had a Frosty, it was a bit rubbish. The ice didn't crush like it did on the advert. And I got a big yellow teapot - the spout was big enough that you could fire a Weeble "weebles wobble but they don't fall down" down it which I loved.

I wanted a Barbie - like a proper 80s power suit Barbie - but for some reason she was considered less suitable than a Cindy - who never really amassed the same social capital on the playground.

I think Mum was right about the LoLo Ball.

TheTeapot House is a family heirloom.

What was the fun fax?

@MedusasBadHairDay see thats the funny thing, my Dad was pretty good at overruling and bought me an Amstrad CPC464 one year with games etc despite Mums objections. I guess he could play with that as well though

I'm almost glad I didn't get one, despite asking a million times. I'm pretty sure it would have been classed as a "messy toy" therefore only allowed out once then put away and likely binned when parents thought I'd forgotten about it.

@Pashazade

I did having a hankering for Mr Frosty, but what I really wanted was My Little Ponies although was kinda too old for them. What I did have was this bad boy, not the house just the cooker. But oh the nostalgia when I spotted it in a charity shop a few years ago!

There were 2 versions of that I recall, the other was a built in oven which came with the house I had, with the lift at the side. When we moved here it had a similar built in oven to that and I was so bloody happy!

Into adulthood I coveted a real hostess trolley because my Sindy had one and I thought it was amazing.
The lady across the road is moving and I was chatting with her as she was wheeling one out to the skip the other week. Took me every ounce of willpower I had not to bring it in the house despite her pushing me to keep it!

My waaaay ahead of her time & slightly obsessive DM absolutely refused to buy me a Girl's World as she thought it taught girls they had to wear make-up & do their hair to be acceptable.
Admirable really but I SO wanted one & spent hours at my friend's house playing with hers & experimenting with forbidden make-up.
Mr Frosty was out of the question as he involved sugar & 'chemicals'.
Again, I guess she had the right idea but not many people thought that way in the late 70s!

I always wanted a Mr. Frosty and also the Jasmine and Aladdin dolls but didn't get them.

I did have a lot of other Disney dolls - Ariel, Hercules, Esmerelda, etc. Then in a fit of spite one day when I was about 16, my mother gave them all to my obese cousin to give to her children as "they'd get more use out of them". Did they heck - obese cousin sold the lot at the first car boot sale she found herself at 🙄

@brokenbiscuitsx I still have my post office! It's a little worse for wear though. I remember my mum taking the little stamp pad ink away (I was devastated obviously).

I’ve told a lie! I didn’t have the yellow teapot- i had the yellow boot with the blue (maybe red?) roof! The yellow tea pot was at our nursery school.

I loved this. For some reason any children of any given play family were Susan and Billy.

I didn't get a Teddy Ruxpin!

I did have LOADS of Sulvanian Famillies including the Manor House. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@FrenchyQ my friend had the grooming parlour and I loved it but was never allowed one myself.
I saw the re-released edition on Amazon last year and had to have it even though my daughter is only 1 .

[quote PissedOffNeighbour22]@brokenbiscuitsx I still have my post office! It's a little worse for wear though. I remember my mum taking the little stamp pad ink away (I was devastated obviously). [/quote]
Oh I’m jealous I got rid of everything when I thought it was childish, really regret not keeping a few bits for nostalgia

Haha were you on a bit of a stamp frenzie? 🤣

I never got one, although wasn't massively bothered. DH had one and says it was rubbish. Apparently it didn't make slushy ice like the advert, he said it was like trying crush ice cubes through a cheese grater.

No Mr Frosty
No a la carte trolley, thing
No yellow teapot
No replica cash register

I don’t like to talk about it, tbh.

@KilledByWitches

I loved this. For some reason any children of any given play family were Susan and Billy.

Omg, I loved this. It was the only thing I ever got that I wanted apart from Cabbage Patch dolls, but typically not the one I wanted.

Mini till with choc coins ✔️
Mini food processor ✔️
ALL the flower fairies incl the queen, the horse and carriage.
Girls world ✔️
Massive pram for the baby doll ✔️
Toy sewing machine ✔️

StIll upset over mr frosty though. This is the support thread we need, there’s a lot of us out there who also had deprived childhoods.

My cousins were, and probably still are, absolute shits but they had a puppy toy that barked and did somersaults. Never known jealousy like it. I think I could watch dh chat another woman up with less emotion 😂. I was fuming. I can still remember mum looking at me with an “oh god she’s gonna blow” look on her face but I held it in. It was my first moment of “Why God? I’m a good person why do they get a puppy”.