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Did anyone else have this transfer thing when they were a kid?

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FourBoysAndAFeline · 12/03/2023 16:59

Because DH hasn't got a clue but he's in his 50's.

I don't know what it's called but I'd love to get some for my kids.

It would be pictures of letters on a something that was similar to thick tracing paper. You would place it, picture down, onto some paper and rub a pencil on the back of it and the picture would go onto the paper.

Ive Googled "transfers" "paper transfers" "paper picture transfers" etc and nothing even close is coming up.

Does anyone know what I mean or what I could type in to see if they still exist?

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TitilatedOcelot · 12/03/2023 17:40

Scribble down transfers

www.berry-barn.co.uk/store/product/scribble-down-transfers

Lemonademoney · 12/03/2023 17:41

Oh wow that’s just given me a flashback and now I want to buy some

EscapeTheCastle · 12/03/2023 17:42

Just put in "Rub down Transfers" into amazon!

I was crazy for these as a kid and I still remember a Scooby Doo scene of a Haunted House that I did.

Lindy2 · 12/03/2023 17:43

We got a couple of transfer sets recently from a gift shop at a theme park in Cornwall. I remember enjoying them as a child. I'd spend ages doing them really neatly. I think my kids were a bit underwhelmed but they had a go.

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FourBoysAndAFeline · 12/03/2023 17:43

Yes thank you!

I managed to figure out the Letter ones after I posted but still couldn't figure out the picture ones!

You have all posted several
examples, I can get some now, thank you!!

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WhitePhantom · 12/03/2023 17:45

I remember these and I love them! The ones I used to get were called Kalkitos.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 12/03/2023 17:51

Did we have them?! My poor mother spent years scraping them off the wardrobes and bedframes with a butter knife

They came free with cereal (Ghostbusters glow in the dark transfers were the best), you could buy them in every discount store...I even had nail transfers. Happy memories!

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FourBoysAndAFeline · 12/03/2023 18:09

TheYearOfSmallThings · 12/03/2023 17:51

Did we have them?! My poor mother spent years scraping them off the wardrobes and bedframes with a butter knife

They came free with cereal (Ghostbusters glow in the dark transfers were the best), you could buy them in every discount store...I even had nail transfers. Happy memories!

OH MY GOD nail transfers!!! I LOVED THEM!! 😭😭😭😭😭

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TheYearOfSmallThings · 12/03/2023 18:11

Mine were neon, and I used to paint my nails fuchsia pink then apply the transfer on top.

I thought I was pretty hot stuff Grin

Peartreewalk · 12/03/2023 18:12

Thank you OP - I remember those rub down stickers well and have just ordered some to put away for Xmas stockings.

Sorry to jump on your thread but many wise answers might help me find something I remember from the late 70s/80s. A plastic circle with lots of little squiggles cut out from it. Around the edge was numbers. You put a pin in the middle of the plastic circle to hold it in place and a dot at the 12 o’clock position. Then you rotated the circle a little moving the number 1 to your dot, find the squiggle labelled 1 and pencil the squiggle. Then move on to 2,3 etc. when finished you removed circle and ta-da a pencil image of a Disney character. No one else remembers these. It was not Spirograph. Any help appreciated - thank you.

WGACA · 12/03/2023 18:16

I remember these! You had a plastic spatula type thing to rub over the back to make the transfer. My mum would threaten us with death if they were transferred anywhere other than paper! Also remember nail transfers.

NannyR · 12/03/2023 18:19

Did they come with a yellow plastic tool to rub them with? I remember these vividly.
Also remember the squiggly drawing disc thing described above - probably going to fall down an internet rabbit hole looking for them!!

CaveatmTOR · 12/03/2023 18:23

I think the picture books were made by a company called Patterson Blick

tapdancingmum · 12/03/2023 18:24

Peartreewalk · 12/03/2023 18:12

Thank you OP - I remember those rub down stickers well and have just ordered some to put away for Xmas stockings.

Sorry to jump on your thread but many wise answers might help me find something I remember from the late 70s/80s. A plastic circle with lots of little squiggles cut out from it. Around the edge was numbers. You put a pin in the middle of the plastic circle to hold it in place and a dot at the 12 o’clock position. Then you rotated the circle a little moving the number 1 to your dot, find the squiggle labelled 1 and pencil the squiggle. Then move on to 2,3 etc. when finished you removed circle and ta-da a pencil image of a Disney character. No one else remembers these. It was not Spirograph. Any help appreciated - thank you.

Was it this. I have vague recollections of doing this

Did anyone else have this transfer thing when they were a kid?
TheYearOfSmallThings · 12/03/2023 18:24

Peartreewalk I think that was a Rotadraw?

Did anyone else have this transfer thing when they were a kid?
AmazingBouncingFerret · 12/03/2023 18:28

Yes. I vaguely remember seagulls transferred onto my mum’s furniture. (Must have been a seaside beach themed one!)

Mooserp · 12/03/2023 18:31

Ah, fond memories. I had the transfers and the Rotadraw - I had a Bambi one. I sometimes made mistakes with them and ended up with deformed characters😀

User3964870654 · 12/03/2023 18:41

Action transfers, they sell them on Amazon, that sort of thing

NannyR · 12/03/2023 18:43

These were the ones with the yellow tool that I remembered.

Did anyone else have this transfer thing when they were a kid?
captncrunch · 12/03/2023 18:44

Oh yes!! Memory unlocked! My kids would love them now too!

HowardKirksConscience · 12/03/2023 18:45

Snowinsummer · 12/03/2023 17:00

Etch a sketch.

That’s not how that worked

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FourBoysAndAFeline · 12/03/2023 18:50

NannyR · 12/03/2023 18:43

These were the ones with the yellow tool that I remembered.

YES!!! I remember the tool!

I think I just used a pencil in leu of the tool when it was lost!

No idea about the squiggly plastic things though, I think I might have missed that one.

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Goawaypeppa · 12/03/2023 18:51

NannyR · 12/03/2023 18:43

These were the ones with the yellow tool that I remembered.

Omg! I used to get those, I loved them!

I remember getting really frustrated if the paper moved though and you’d get an overlap or a bump.

My 8 year old dd would love them too.

Hairfriar · 12/03/2023 19:00

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=rub+down+transfers&crid=2F9NF50EXI7B6&sprefix=rub+down%2Caps%2C126&ref=nbsbbssts-doa-pp1_8

You can get them at some tourist offices too.

LadyOfTheCanyon · 12/03/2023 19:13

Oooo Letraset! That's a blast from the past! The squiggly Rotadraw things : my friend had some, they were very easy to fuck up if you weren't concentrating and you ended up with some kind of Chernobyl Daffy Duck or similar.

Also the Girls World Fashion designer thing with templates that you mix and match and then colour in. I wanted that soooooo much. I must have driven my poor mum mad going on about it. Eventually got it for Christmas - well it was utterly shit. I'm not sure what I thought was going to happen but it was such a boring thing. You could only make about 5 outfits.