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To want to know the childhood toy/game you'd still love to have now?

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WeShallHaveFogByTeatime · 09/11/2023 21:41

Mine would be the flat bed of the Fisher price campervan. He was my best friend growing up, I pulled that truck everywhere (he also had a name)
I can't justify buying one from eBay, but if I see one at a charity shop it's coming home with me and I'm in my fifties.
If I could gift you one of your childhood toys now what would it be?

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DimplesToadfoot · 10/11/2023 00:17

Labyrinth (wooden maze ball game)
I wasted half my childhood on it :-)

jazzybelle · 10/11/2023 00:53

TheShellBeach · 09/11/2023 21:52

The Magic Robot!
He knew the answers to everything!

I had a Magic Robot. He had a little notch in his base, so when you fitted it into the thing in the centre he always moved round the same amount of moves. That guaranteed the right answer!

maddingcrow · 10/11/2023 01:00

I wish teenage me had not demolished my beautiful Sindy House 😩

4plusus · 10/11/2023 01:02

TheShellBeach · 09/11/2023 21:52

The Magic Robot!
He knew the answers to everything!

2 xl? My little brother had that, I was so annoyed because I wanted it and got girl stuff instead.

SALWARP2023 · 10/11/2023 01:13

Fisher Price activity centre. My kids loved them and no annoying batteries either.

WomanHereHear · 10/11/2023 01:21

Lights Alive (my older sister’s)
toy typewriter (ditto)
spirograph looked fun
mini Polly pocket toys I would collect from coco pops (20p postage) wish I had kept them to pass on to dc

ScentlessAprentice · 10/11/2023 01:33

My Polly Pockets, Sindy dolls, Oh Penny treehouse and campervan, the fashion wheel that @VeronicaSawyer89 posted.

ScentlessAprentice · 10/11/2023 01:40

Oh and my Jem and the Holograms dolls and Crystal Maze board game. I think it's clear what decade I was a child in 😂

FreyafromLondon · 10/11/2023 02:16

I loved my finders keepers snail. I would hide my "treasure" in there and take the key everywhere

Einevinefine · 10/11/2023 02:40

Showing my age here but a Magic Roundabout track that I had but eventually broke and characters went “missing”, I know you have the bench and Dougal sister.

Also, this was my sister’s board game and she’s older than me but a Haunted House game that was set up into four rooms, had a chimney and a metal ball that clinked down the stairs. I can’t remember the name but was always so thrilled when sister got it out for all three of us to play. It got lost in a house move I think.

And finally since I’m going for three wishes my Swedish doll’s house, very seventies with orange carpeting, orange and brown settee, a fridge with miniature food (plastic chicken anyone?). I got various bits added for birthdays and Christmas including lights and a balcony. My Mum gave that away …

Autiebibliophile · 10/11/2023 02:49

So many good toys.

I had a board game called I vant to bite your finger. It was a vampire game and when you landed on certain spaces he would open his cape and you had to put your finger to his mouth. If you got blood on your finger you lost the game. Always totally amazed me when I saw the 'blood'

I loved spiro graph and weebles and play family. I also had a dusty bin!

Autiebibliophile · 10/11/2023 02:51

ScentlessAprentice · 10/11/2023 01:40

Oh and my Jem and the Holograms dolls and Crystal Maze board game. I think it's clear what decade I was a child in 😂

I had Jem and I think Aja or Asa I remember she had blue hair. And one of the dolls had flashing earrings . I thought they were amazing.

TriceratopsRocks · 10/11/2023 03:30

Child of the 70s too - what wonderful pictures I could create with my etch-a-sketch! And weebles! But what I'd really want is my table top skittles. It was a wooden set, and the skittles were on a little platform but attached with string so they never went flying off. You just pulled a little knob at the front to reset them. I tried to find one on ebay a few years ago when I was preparing boxing day games for an extended family gathering, but none were attached and all cost a fortune. I do still have several of my childhood games, though, and they still get used now - connect 4, downfall, mastermind, battleships... Things were made to last then!

stayathomer · 10/11/2023 05:06

Fashion wheel and Spirograph are still available!

decionsdecisions62 · 10/11/2023 05:15

Clackers - I wonder where they went.

lollipoprainbow · 10/11/2023 05:58

I had a board game called fairground by waddingtons, it was in a yellow box and was a version of monopoly. All the squares were fairground attractions and the pictures were so pretty! I'd love it for my daughter now. Tried eBay etc but no joy.

ArcticBells · 10/11/2023 06:02

Bundtbake · 09/11/2023 21:45

My babydoll and pram.

Me too. I just love pushing a pram Grin

RonObvious · 10/11/2023 06:07

MossBross · 09/11/2023 23:01

Tiny beanie baby dolls that came in a match box. My sister and I used to collect them and we loved them so (1970s).

My Fisher Price hospital. I loved the 'ting' sound the lift made and tiny baby in the maternity ward.

I liked the teeny tiny baby toys Grin

I thought I had dreamt those little dolls! I used to love them, but no one else has ever known what I was talking about.

I would like my electronic game where a chicken plays noughts and crosses with you. It had "I took a lickin' from a chicken" written on it, and I was obsessed.

WeShallHaveFogByTeatime · 10/11/2023 06:21

Yupppp · 09/11/2023 23:07

My fisher price wind-up TV that played row row row your boat as one picture picture wound repeatedly across the screen. I’d give up Netflix if I got that back

I don't know if my mind is playing tricks on me but I'm sure I had this. Either way it's a work of art. Give up Netflix Lol.

Fisher Price TV. Quality recording. Short version.

via YouTube Capture

https://youtu.be/OsL8L56BYus?feature=shared

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WednesdaysChild50 · 10/11/2023 06:22

I’m still gutted I never got Mr Frosty

Cookingdoesntgettougher · 10/11/2023 06:34

I think we can get away with buying a child ourselves a Spirograph on the basis it’s educational. After all there’s a mathematical explanation on Wikipedia

Spirograph - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph

WeShallHaveFogByTeatime · 10/11/2023 06:35

@WednesdaysChild50
Come the revolution we will be divided into two camps. Those of us that didn't get Mr Frosty (me included) and the "others"

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iloveeverykindofcat · 10/11/2023 06:54

My big magic set. I was very into magic tricks and spent many hours studying books of how to do them.

TicTacNicNak · 10/11/2023 06:57

My Stickle Bricks and all my old Fuzzy Felt sets.

spicedginger · 10/11/2023 06:58

WeShallHaveFogByTeatime · 10/11/2023 06:21

I don't know if my mind is playing tricks on me but I'm sure I had this. Either way it's a work of art. Give up Netflix Lol.

I had this and it was re-released when my 10yo was a baby, so I got one for her too!

I also had Magic Robot, I’d forgotten all about that!

I still have my childhood Spirograph, guess who and monster crunch.