Mr Frosty

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Inspired by another thread! So many of us of a certain age have been denied a Mr Frosty in childhood, AIBU to think it’s astounding that anyone ever received one?! If so, did it live up to expectation or was it actually a massive disappointment? Such a feeling of nostalgia remembering circling it in the Kay’s and Gratton catalogue every winter!

I thought the brunette Sindy was classy!

I wanted a Mr Frosty too but I'm pretty sure my brother ended up getting one 🙃 I also wanted one of those mini Dairy milk dispensers but was told no multiple times. The injustice of it all! 😂

I've always wanted the play doh barbers set! My late Sis tried to get me one when I was in my 30's. I just want to try it 😂

I too desperately wanted one but was told by my Dad that it was too flimsy looking to crush ice and the handle would break after five minutes.

I had ballerina Sindy too, with red hair.

My friend had one of those toy ovens with sachets of stuff you mixed together and it ‘baked’. It was sort of edible…

My parents bought me one. It was crap - took superhuman strength to crush the ice!

What I really wanted and got was the playdoh board game grape escape. Probably to my families annoyance as I loved scissoring their grape, or stamping their grape piece through the game. I never lost the game..... Annoyingly it's not at my parents- and the game is expensive to buy now ....

Love this thread. I never got a Mr Frosty, or the Pop Up Pirate that I coveted. I did have a Sindy Dream House with horse that was worryingly the same height as the first floor!

Someone bought me a Fashion Wheel as a 40th gift after I lined for one as a child. It would have been fantastic as a kid and worked very well for the slightly tipsy 40th party before it went to my niece.

Omg I was so jealous my friend and her Sister had the strawberry shortcake dolls 😂. They also had Barbies, i had Sindy, tbf i did have the horses and the house too. And a cabbage patch doll. We always want what we dont get, I loved my tree house too.

Aaaaaaaah the playdough barber shop. You’ve just brought back a happy wave of nostalgia for me 😍

My Frosty was probably the most disappointing present i ever got. The playdough barber shop on the other hand was amazing - I even loved the smell of it.

I was also desperate for one but have recently been giving them as presents (to children). They all love crushing the ice and making ice lollies.

We begged for a Mr Frosty for years, my parents refused to buy us one. We were given one second hand by someone or from a charity shop (not sure which) but it was missing pieces or was broken so it was completely unusable. It felt even more of an injustice to be looking at this holy grail of a snowman on the toy shelf looking back at us but was unable to fulfill its purpose. It brings me some comfort to read that it probably never would have worked anyway even with all the parts!

It was the TV advert, the kids looked so flipping happy with it and it looked so easy!

I finally got my long awaited Mr Frosty for Christmas when I was 7/8.

It was awful! The ice didn’t crush and the flavouring was dreadful, I remember a bright red liquid that was poured into a penguin shaped dispenser, it tasted bitter and the the liquid just floated on top of the ice, it didn’t resemble a slushie at all, I was very disappointed.

However it obviously didn’t teach me any lessons about how TV adverts make products appear so much better than they actually are because 25 years later I bought the McFlurry maker for Christmas for my 7 year old daughter and lets just say that it was as unsuccessful as Mr Frosty.

Still not learning any lessons I also purchased the useless candy floss maker a couple of years later that took a huge amount of sugar and 15 minutes to make two bites of something resembling candy floss on a tiny paper straw.

Snail toys were called finders keepers, what’s inside your secret…I had one put a ‘secret note’ in and my brother unlocked it lol. You could do it with your key or your nail!! Plastic fantastic… always wanted the inspector gadget doll. Never had Barbie’s - only Sindy’s and had an A La carte kitchen and made the cold beans for the family ;) Had a get in shape girl ribbon and had dreams of being an Olympic gymnast. Never allowed a Mr Frosty don’t feel so bad now… loved the smell of playdoh from the McDonald’s happy meals… oh the 80s and 90s :) oh and those shoes with the key? Did they convert into slip ons? I wasn’t allowed those one minute could be schools shoes the next party shoes… I had shoe envy!

Check out the ad! Intoxicating! An endless flow of slushed ice so much so you need a tiny spade to deal with it! Four cups of it to share with friends! 4 lurid flavours and a fucking HAT! Look how delighted they are! It’s like the kiddy version of a champagne machine.

Based on the reviews here you would have been grinding that ice for several hours to get that much.

I was desperate for one. Never got one. 1980’s parents clearly had a great eye for bullshit.

My friend got one and I was really jealous but then we used it at her house and it was rubbish. So I got over my disappointment very early on and was glad my mum said no 😂I did want the Cadburys chocolate dispenser though and my sister got one and I didn't 😡I also wanted my pet monster and I didn't get that either. I am putting in a complaint to my parents and I think they will be getting coal for Christmas this year 😂

I was bonkers about my little pony

I had 4-two proper ones,one that was sat down and a fake

A long story later,I got the stable,castle and nursery-thank God for ebay as my mother refused to buy them when I was a child

Mr frosty was shite

My brother got him (I got the be-ro baking set) and we lost interest within a few minutes

I opened this thread because I desperately wanted a Mr Frosty and never got one! Think we need a new section on mumsnet for support for all of us who were denied one.

I had the Sindy horse! It was a bit boring tbh. I'd stick Sindy on the back and make the horse bounce about the floor like a rabbit because it's legs didn't move.

I also wanted a Mr Frosty. And a scooter and a pogo stick. I ended up with roller skates but I wasn't allowed to play out the front on the pavement and our garden was all grass, so they were rubbish.

I'm another who didn't get Mr Frosty as a kid and bought one for my own DC. You'll be unsurprised to hear it was rubbish. It is funny though how so many of us wanted Mr Frosty and didn't get it. I think our parents just knew it wouldn't work.

Our presents tended to be whatever my dad could get cheap from a mate at the pub! Which led to some random gifts and usually not what we actually wanted 😕

I had all the plastic tat toys that the 1980s could offer.
A la Carte kitchen (pulled the wheels off on Christmas morning and they never went back on again)
Mr Frosty (left him out in the snow and he seized up)
keypers (snapped the key in the lock and had to crowbar it open)
fashion wheel (snapped the hinges on the frame so it never worked properly)
speak and spell/speak and maths (completed both within a couple of days and lost interest)
Barbie house (got crayon in the lift mechanism so it never moved smoothly)
Cabbage patch doll (cut it a fringe then decided I hated the fringe)
My Little ponies (played in the bath with them and they got wet inside and went stinky black, and shat black slime out of the tail hole)

The only toys I kept nice were Lego, technic, meccano and books. I think my parents always hoped the next “girly toy” would turn me into some kind of dainty princess girl. My grandad saw me for the budding scientist I clearly was.

I desperately wanted an 'A'La Carte Kitchen' - the one in the ad where the little girl cooks her Dad a plate of swiss roll with baked beans. I asked for one for 3 years in a row, never got it, but my sister did!!!

My DH was reminiscing the other week about a board game from the 80s he used to love called 'Ghost Castle', so I have bought him an original 80s one from ebay for his birthday 😁.

I still have my Cabbage Patch Kid. Also kept my Fluppy (remember those?) and my Popple - they were they soft toys that could turn in and out of their own pouch.

My main love during childhood though was Sylvanian Families. My sister again got the majority of those. I did get a bakery though. Still got it.

My mum got me a Mr Frosty from a charity shop, but pretended it was new. I could see that it wasn't and I told her I didn't care if it wasn't new. She admitted it was secondhand and thought the shaver had been blunted by previous use. Now I know that wasn't the case, I'm even more glad she bought it secondhand.