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.)

I never got a Mr Frosty, Simon, a chopper bike, buckaroo, hungry hippos or the Sindy bedroom set or bathroom set that I was desperate on. My mum and dad didn’t really ‘do’ Christmas. Needless to say my children always got at least one of the things on their Christmas lists. I did get a pippa doll though and still have her ☺️

@Toddlerteaplease The giant head where you could do hair and makeup! There was also a Barbie version for the 80s/90s kids.

Me neither, I begged and begged

This is a Girls World

@Babybellblue

Not exactly a toy but did anyone have a Griffin Savers account with the Midland Bank? I still have my dictionary and pencil case.

Yes!

My dad still calls the midland, never got over the change to HSBC 😂

Oh, I had one of them as well. Don't think the make up lasted very long though. @Notreallythevicar, took me to the coop to buy my first ever Cabbage patch kid. I think by the time I had 60 of them he was regretting it

I’m loving the old Argos catalogues, thank you to who posted the link!

Sat looking at the mid 80s ones with 7 year old dd.

I wanted a baby alive. I got a baby Born. Raging.
Hated the fecking thing. Not even remotely similar.

No Mr Frosty. And the pony I could have when I was 14? Never happened. Thirty years of hurt ... (laughing through the tears)

@groundcontroltomontydon

No Mr Frosty. And the pony I could have when I was 14? Never happened. Thirty years of hurt ... (laughing through the tears)

I eventually got a pony when I was 48 and bought him myself.

@brokenbiscuitsx I wouldn't have minded but I was never the sort of child that would have misused a stamper. I was so annoyed that I wasn't 'adult enough' to be allowed an ink pad. I pleaded my case but to no avail.

I think the post office and a mini 'computer' were the only things I didn't ditch for being too childish. My DP discovered the mini computer toy while we were moving house and I couldn't get him off it .

“I wanted an a la cart kitchen but does anyone remember the commercial where the little girl “cooked” a cake and served it with cold baked beans to her dad? Put me right off”

‘Wake up daddy, breakfast’s ready’ and it was Swiss roll and baked beans

We used to joke that our work canteen was the bluebird kitchen when they had mad combinations for lunch

No Mr Frosty here either but I did have the Sindy House and a girls world (who had removable eyes which I lost so she looked liked a zombie).

@brokenbiscuitsx

I didn’t ever get one, but I did get this and it was awesome ☺️

Oh my god, i completely forgot about that post office, i had one !!!

My DB had a Mr Frosty, sorry OP but he was great fun, but not for very long if i remeber so dont worry 😉

Im loving reading everyones stories 🤣🤣

I wanted a 'pump it up' hairdryer. I got a hairdryer with a diffuser attachment 😭

I always wanted Mr Frosty and never got one Although I was happy with the gifts I did get, Mr Frosty was the only thing I remember actually wanting and asking for which is why now decades later I'm still sad I can still remember the advert on TV, with the ice going in the top and then coming out all crushed up, and the red colour being squirted over it. I would just go and buy myself one but I'd probably be disappointed at how un-fun it is

No Mr Frosty here either

I did have the post office though and my brother got a Simon, he wouldn't let me play with it though!

I’ve just been talking to my sister about this thread and she reminded me that I got www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165053189724?this cash register and a toy sweet shop.

@MrsRobbieHart wow that's a blast from the past! I feel like that toy was in every single Dr's surgery and dentist office in the country.

@Etinoxaurus

Girls World!!
I still haven't got over that.
I swear it's why I'm obsessed with all things beauty now

I also did not get a Mr Frosty. DH did, apparently.

I can still recall the advert so well.
'Mr Frosty is such fun,
He makes treats for everyone!'

@Siriisatwat that's so weird and awful, sorry. I can't fathom the thinking behind that behaviour.

I had better confess that I am a parent who didn’t produce Mr Frosty on Christmas Day.
Couldn’t get one anywhere then found one in Asda in the January sales. Put it away for the following year only to forget about it. DC were teens by the time we found it again in the loft and it had rusted unopened in the box. I still feel bad about it.

I had a Mr Frosty but after spending ages grating ice cubes (I thought it would be like a proper machine with ice pouring out of the front, as in the picture) I wasn't allowed to use the syrups that came with it because 'chemicals'. I also got a chemistry set with a microscope, which I also wasn't allowed to use as it was also full of 'chemicals'.

I did have the best Christmas present ever though, that I still occasionally look for on eBay - a Madam Rosa set. It was a big dark blue glittery crystal ball, on a mount with batteries in and a slot in the side.

It came with a deck of cards with invisible ink pictures printed on them. Your 'customer' (I used to make my family take it in turns to crawl into a tent that I rigged up by draping a sheet between two armchairs) would select a card, and you'd slide it into the base of the crystal ball.

The set came with two huge clunky 'ruby' rings, one of which had a magnet in it. You waved your hands over and around the crystal ball, until the magnet hit a connector spot which caused a light to switch on inside the ball.

You peered (in a mystic fashion) through a red plastic pane at the top of the crystal ball, and the red light would make the picture appear on the card - instant fortune! It came with a little booklet comprised of stories that you could use fit each picture. It was so simple and so
Incredibly effective. It was honestly a work of toy genius.

The thing I wanted most was a chemistry set. Dad was an industrial chemist and flatly refused to let me have one - he was convinced we’d blow the house up.

@MrsToddsShortcut

I had a Mr Frosty but after spending ages grating ice cubes (I thought it would be like a proper machine with ice pouring out of the front, as in the picture) I wasn't allowed to use the syrups that came with it because 'chemicals'. I also got a chemistry set with a microscope, which I also wasn't allowed to use as it was also full of 'chemicals'.

I did have the best Christmas present ever though, that I still occasionally look for on eBay - a Madam Rosa set. It was a big dark blue glittery crystal ball, on a mount with batteries in and a slot in the side.

It came with a deck of cards with invisible ink pictures printed on them. Your 'customer' (I used to make my family take it in turns to crawl into a tent that I rigged up by draping a sheet between two armchairs) would select a card, and you'd slide it into the base of the crystal ball.

The set came with two huge clunky 'ruby' rings, one of which had a magnet in it. You waved your hands over and around the crystal ball, until the magnet hit a connector spot which caused a light to switch on inside the ball.

You peered (in a mystic fashion) through a red plastic pane at the top of the crystal ball, and the red light would make the picture appear on the card - instant fortune! It came with a little booklet comprised of stories that you could use fit each picture. It was so simple and so
Incredibly effective. It was honestly a work of toy genius.

Thank you! You've taken me right back with that. I can see it in my hands, the blue glitter. Happy memories.