to ask what toys you remember from your childhood (in a positive way) that are still around?

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Partially nostalgia,partially because I want to use them as ideas for Christmas pressies for DC and DNs this year.
Most of the things I remember really loving aren't readily available now,or were homemade but lego,scalextric and games like operation were big hits for us as kids. There were others I struggle to remember the names of but can kind of picture that I am hoping might come up in this!

Monopoly, pogo stick, cards, dolls, teddys , sylvanian families, books, bike, roller skates, climbing frame, work bench and real tools, mr frostie, playdoh hairdressers

my Merlin and my palitoy treehouse were hands down the best Xmas pressies I ever had. You could play several different games on Merlin or play tunes and I adored it. The treehouse was so cool with its little slide and swing for the figures to play on.
Spirograph was also a winner but when I bought a new one a few years ago for me my DD it seemed flimsier and not so good.

I loved those chemical "crystal gardens" where you grew crystals on a rock (and variations on them).

Fuzzy Felt. Wish I had one now. Do they still sell them?

Coloured embroidery thread for making friendship bracelets. Lego. Lite-brite. A tea set.

I bought my nephews Guess Who a couple of years ago. Went down a treat.

Playmobile
Rings on your fingers
Game if life

Dh choice

Lego (which i personally hated as my items always broke into pieces when i played with them)

Ilove. I loved my merlin too. Fav game was the music one. Mastered the copy cat one very early on.

Scarlet they do. In fact add fuzzyfelt to my list. Also bikes, damming up the steam, climbing trees, football

I still love fuzzy felt now. We play a game where we each have a board and a set number of pieces and compete to make the most ludicrous best picture.

When I was in primary (late 70s early 80s) my nan bought me a little doll called Matilda, and loads of outfits. She was a girl doll rather than Barbie like, and I adored her. I've found her on google, but not to buy sadly.

I'm pretty sure you can still buy fuzzy felt. I loved screwball scramble too.

Lego, Sylvanian Families, Spirograph, Hama beads, FIMO, Monopoly, UNO, knitting, jigsaws, drawing & colouring, fuzzy felt? (think you can still get it).

Sindy was WAY better than Barbie, though

I still hold minor resentment that I was never allowed Sylvanian Families for no good reason.

Trolls!

Our two had a whale of a time with DP's lego and little army men.

bikkett I think I know what you mean, I had it too, or something very similar - I'm pretty sure mine was a Winnie the Pooh game. Might that help you find it?

Guess who.
Those flicker hands with counters going into an open mouth, there have been many themes throughout the years.
Oh yes screwball scramble
mousetrap

Simon, still around but in cubes now

I still have our families spirograph, some of the original paper and the little tubs of pins to hold in place.
DD loves it as her brothers did before.

We had operation, and dds have this now.

We never had guess who, but dds have it.

I had Sindy dolls, and my DM used to help me choose clothes to buy them.

My bf had an amazing Sindy collection, with the house which had a lift, and all the furniture. I was soooo , but stayed and played with her, and her dolls for ages.

I had Cabbage Patch dolls. They're on a comeback, but I don't think dds like them much.

We had Rubik's cubes and the puzzle games, naturally being Hungarian we were supposed to be good at them

Spiro graph.

A dolls house - just any old wooden one, it wasn't branded, but Playmobile people wwere the right size for it and I made loads of stuff for it with Lego, and plates and dishes out of acorn cups, and wallpaper and curtains and all kinds of things for years and years.

Guess Who although I was an only child so no one to actually play it with.

Fimo

Embroidery threads for making friendship bracelets