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!

elliesmummy19 · Today 08:26

I didn’t want one and never got one but I did desperately want those little machines that dispense mini Cadbury chocolates.

I'd never heard of those, or Mr Frosty, until a recent thread about them. I was born in 1970. We weren't allowed to watch ITV, so missed all the adverts!

We didn't have a TV at all from when I was 5 to when I was 10. All my longing for this plastic tat came from seeing it at my friends' houses.

InMySpareTime · Today 10:13

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)

😂😂😂

It was awful - impossible to crush the ice! And didn't come with flavours.

My husband wants a Slush Puppy machine. I've turned into my mother.

I never really wanted, wanted one, but I always thought they'd be cool to have!

The only person I knew who had one was a girl I was pretty friendly with through school. Her parents were quite wealthy and she was an only child (who spent most of her time with childminders though) who got everything she wanted. Honestly, she wasn't really all that nice, but hey.

She demonstrated it to me one time, and it was absolutely nothing special. She also had a soda stream back when they were new and cool. But as someone who has never enjoyed the static sensation of fizzy drinks, I was underwhelmed!

Your dad is a legend.

We had one, it was shite.

The Lite Brite was much better, although I spent forever buying black construction paper to use as blanks. It was strangely satisfying.(I think that was the toy sold here as Lights Alive)

I was never allowed a Mr Frosty. Something I still bring up now with my DM.

I did have a fashion wheel though and loved it!

What I wanted most was the My Little Pony nursery and one year I got it!

My friend who had the barbie pink house of dreams also had a soda stream. Top tip, don't put milk in it and fail to secure it properly. Her mum was not amused at having to clean the ceiling.

I had one, back in 1986 ish, it was awful. I did not have a Tiny Tears 😤

I can’t believe no one has mentioned a Girl’s World. I desperately wanted one of those!

I always asked for a Mr Frosty but never got one. I did have a peaches and cream barbie though. She was married to my brother's eagle eye action man.

Mr Frosty taught me a very valuable lesson as a young child! My parents didn’t/wouldn’t buy me one but I saved up my pocket money and bought one for myself. Tried to use it once - it was absolutely useless, which was perhaps obvious to the adults and possibly they tried to explain that to me (I was a very stubborn child, so wouldn’t have necessarily listened!) I was only 6 or 7, I think, and that buyer’s remorse has served me well - I realised that I needed to think very carefully about what I spent my money on and not get sucked in by the adverts.

I had one as a child and absolutely loved it!! Me and my friends took turns at turning the handle and shaving the ice off and we obviously had more willpower than a lot of you lot as we kept at it and enjoyed slushy drinks in the summer holidays and it was one of the best presents I ever had!

Did anyone have a colorforms play house? It was a book with re-stickable vinyl shapes of house things. I spent hours playing with it. I've never met anyone else who had one though. Also shufflies! No one else remembers them!

I used to ask for a ballerina Sindy, and every year I used to get very practical toys instead. Desk and chair, typewriter etc. I had some baby dolls like Tiny Tears, but no idea why, my Mum and Dad wouldn't let me have a Sindy.

This, except it was my sibling!

I really wanted Mr Frosty but my mum said it was a waste of money so I never got one. I also wanted the little Cadbury chocolate dispensing machine and never got that either.

My parents didn't have much money, so I always got the cheaper version of stuff, so a Bionic Woman styling head instead of Girls World, and a Teeny Tiny Tears instead of Tiny Tears and so on.

As an adult, I can totally sympathise with my mum. I bought my daughter various things that got used once on Boxing Day and never again, a £20 chocolate pen, a £50 pooping unicorn slime maker etc etc

But the kid in me still wants a Mr Frosty even though the adult in me knows that my mum was right .

I did have the Tomy Fashion Plates though and loved designing with those. I presume it was the cheaper version of the Fashion Wheel

Ha, I could have written everything you've written!

for anyone who wants to see Mr Frosty in er action:

Things I was not allowed as a child:
Mr Frosty
Tree House toy
Trolls
Enid Blyton books
Cola
ITV
Any trainers other than Green Flash
Adidas tracksuit with those elastic bands that went under your feet

My parents had weird prejudices, in retrospect.

Oh, and Playdoh,

I had unbranded plasticine instead. Was shit :(

I got my Mr Frosty as a joke present from my parents at 15 having asked for it year on year since I was really little. My mum really didn't want to buy it as she knew it would be disappointing crap that didn't work properly, produced miniscule amounts of ice and that I would use twice at most. She was absolutely correct.
Also on my most wanted was the Cadburys miniature chocolate dispenser where you put in 2p and got out a chocolate. I did get that one!

I never got a Mr Frosty but I did get the Playdoh barber shop. My mum said it was a waste of money and asked why I couldn't just push the play doh through a sieve to make the hair "grow" - but she got me one in the end. She was right though: it was a waste of money. It was rubbish. It just shows the power of advertising.

I had the ballerina Sindy and she really was beautiful. I remember opening the present and seeing her doing the splits in her little tutu. I loved it. My mum wouldn't get me Barbie because she was too American. And she said Sindy looked much nicer. As an adult I can see she was right. Sindy has a sweet, wholesome look. I'm not sure why your parents would object to Sindy. I bought myself one off Ebay a few years ago, just for nostalgia's sake.