AIBU to be thinking that a toy I owned in the 80s never actually existed??

[WhackusBonkus]

I know it must have… unless I’ve flipped realties or some such. It was my favourite toy for years and I spent hours whiling away the hours with it, on and off for a good few years.

But I can find no reference to it anywhere online. What’s that all about..?! The internet always throws a up some results…

It was called a Batty Bouncer. It was a hard plastic stick maybe ten inches long.. and it hard a hard bouncy bit like a ball (although not completely round) at each end. You threw it and it bounced, sometimes quite high.

I think the stick was yellow .. maybe.. and I think or was by Mattel or some other well known at the time toy brand.

Did anyone else have one?

I keep looking it up on and off because I can’t believe al lol mention of them has fallen off the face of the earth, less than 40 years later!

There are several posts above about Trick Sticks @Rachie1973. You’re the same vintage as me and I was just reminiscing about mine. All my friends at school had them too.

@HaveringWavering

There are several posts above about Trick Sticks *@Rachie1973*. You’re the same vintage as me and I was just reminiscing about mine. All my friends at school had them too.

I just read them, I think it came with a leaflet with the ‘tricks’ on it too

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This?

@MrPenguinsPoppers

I am so happy for you!

Now if somebody could work out where my beloved Fivver hand puppet came from (pre-the Watership Down movie, which is why the name was Fivver, not Fiver), I'd be the one crying.

Brown (dark, chocolatey) furry handpuppet. Perfect size for a 5-6 year old. Rounded hard eyes, plastic, stubby although I may have trimmed them like I did the actual cat's whiskers, including eyebrows. Not real fur, can remember the pale woven inside of the puppet, but quite silky/longish on the outside with a slightly paler belly/palm. Head was firm construction with a cardboard inner for the neck.

Would have been around 1975/6.

Bet that was some cheap thing that nobody has ever seen or heard of and never will again. [sighs with small child longing]

@Hellocatshome

How strange I was a kid of the late 80s early 90s and coveted every toy going and dont remember these at all. They look a bit dangerous though, I can imagine if I had one I would maybe have lost some teeth or an eye so probably best I didnt (I was a very accident prone kid)

Ah but it was the 80's! A few disfiguring facial injuries were nothing to write home about! Anyone remember 'Skip-its?' They were great exercise, I wish they'd bring them back!

@AgnesWaterhouse1566

Whilst we're on the subject, can anyone remember the name of a toy which was two long nylon strings which passed through an orange rugby shaped ball. The strings had red and blue handles and when you pulled them apart the ball whizzed down the strings to the other set of handles. Fun for literally minutes and we were so grateful for the invention of the internet!

I had that and it was called Going

www.fruugo.co.uk/jumbo-speed-balls-through-pulling-the-ball-outdoor-games-childrens-toys-giftblue/p-63806255-128759146?language=en&ac=croud&gclid=EAIaIQobChMImIfZtLOA9gIV7gyLCh0h6ACREAQYAiABEgLFK_D_BwE
This is the closest game I can find to it

Isn't it amazing the detail with which we still remember our childhood toys. We invested so much in them. ❤

Going! That was it. What an odd name 😁

Pair of tights with a tennis ball in one foot and the other foot tied around your ankle. Such fun

WhackusBonkus I had one!!! No idea what it was called though and I had completely forgotten it until you posted this of course.
I recall mine was blue? with maybe a red end and a yellow end. Bouncy stick thing.

can anyone remember the name of a toy which was two long nylon strings which passed through an orange rugby shaped ball. The strings had red and blue handles and when you pulled them apart the ball whizzed down the strings to the other set of handles.

I had one of these! Loved it!

Come on everyone, stop talking about boring Google and give us some more old toy mysteries to solve.

I am sad to say I don't recognise the puppet

I had a glitter stick toy thing....
It looked like this

@AgnesWaterhouse1566

Whilst we're on the subject, can anyone remember the name of a toy which was two long nylon strings which passed through an orange rugby shaped ball. The strings had red and blue handles and when you pulled them apart the ball whizzed down the strings to the other set of handles. Fun for literally minutes and we were so grateful for the invention of the internet!

Can't remember what they are called but I had ine I've seen them in Poundland recently

I had a toy that was a plastic rugby ball with a hole through the longest length that had two strings threaded through & handles on each end of both strings & you stretched the strings as wide start as you could to send the ball to the other player, who did the same. We played hours with it but I can't remember it's name.

@Divebar2021

*Surely that must be a sexual reference nowadays?

Blimey.. how?!*

@WhackusBonkus

Batty is Jamaican slang for arse…. Your description is absolutely x rated when viewed through that lens.

I was thinking the name sounded homophobic - so that's where the vile phrase batty boy comes from. MM - so educational

@HaveringWavering

Glad it was solved. This is making me nostalgic for my Trick Stick though, I loved it but had not thought about it for decades!

I remember my trick stick really clearly. I wasn't able to do any of the actual tricks though

[quote NeverDropYourMooncup]@MrPenguinsPoppers

I am so happy for you!

Now if somebody could work out where my beloved Fivver hand puppet came from (pre-the Watership Down movie, which is why the name was Fivver, not Fiver), I'd be the one crying.

Brown (dark, chocolatey) furry handpuppet. Perfect size for a 5-6 year old. Rounded hard eyes, plastic, stubby although I may have trimmed them like I did the actual cat's whiskers, including eyebrows. Not real fur, can remember the pale woven inside of the puppet, but quite silky/longish on the outside with a slightly paler belly/palm. Head was firm construction with a cardboard inner for the neck.

Would have been around 1975/6.

Bet that was some cheap thing that nobody has ever seen or heard of and never will again. [sighs with small child longing][/quote]
Unfortunately I can't help but just wanted to say you are on FIRE tonight with your toy finding skills!

Ah this thread makes me so happy. I asked in here for help 3 years ago to find a replica of my much loved toy that got lost when I was 11. The power of Mumsnet found it in minutes and I got a new one for my birthday. I sobbed my heart out when I smelled it for the first time in over 30 years and have slept with it every night since. The power of Mumsnet!