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favourite toys when you were a kid

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thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 09/03/2006 19:24

DD has brought me some homework - I have to write about my favourite toy when I was little! So - first q - I had this plastic corrugated pipe thing that you swung around and it made great noises - did anyone else have one and did they have a name? second q - what was your favourite toy?

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Davros · 09/03/2006 23:09

My favourite toy too weird for MN? Grin

tamum · 09/03/2006 23:10

No, not too weird Davros, just a very sad story.

Fauve · 09/03/2006 23:10

The poignancy left me speechless, Davros. Though I did have a small stick that was a snake in our zoo.

tamum · 09/03/2006 23:11

\link{http://www.astiequestrian.co.uk/trolleyed/9/47/12/14/index.htm\Hurrah}! Not keen on David though.

Fauve · 09/03/2006 23:14

Oh God, that's what I was doing. I was trying to add a pic of Black Diamond, he's my one.

tamum · 09/03/2006 23:15

He's nice and shiny, isn't he? Nice lightweight gingham rug, too (does the lightweight really matter? He's plastic, FGS)

Fauve · 09/03/2006 23:15

Can you still smell them, in a Proustian kind of way?

TwoIfBySea · 09/03/2006 23:16

I didn't have the corrugated pipe thing as my mum vetoed any toys like that!

But my favourite toys were my little matchbox cars, closely followed by my Pippa, Tia and Britt dolls who were all more adventurous than their flowery mini dresses would suggest.

tamum · 09/03/2006 23:16

Yes, I know just what you mean. I wonder if they're still the same? They seem to be selling little stables and things too....

lucykate · 09/03/2006 23:16

sindy and lego were my fav's

i made my sindy a fabric shop, must have been an insight into my own future there as i'm a textile designer!.

Fauve · 09/03/2006 23:17

I want Nutmeg as well, I've always had a weakness for duns.

wheresmyfroggy · 09/03/2006 23:17

/link{http://www.vintagebmx.com/museum/raleigh2.htm\here is mine}

edodgy · 09/03/2006 23:18

I used to love Dempsey and Makepeace and cut the hair off my dark haired sindy so she could be Dempsey to my blonde haired Sindy's makepeace Blush

wheresmyfroggy · 09/03/2006 23:18

\link{http://www.vintagebmx.com/museum/raleigh2.htm\here is mine}

lucykate · 09/03/2006 23:18

\link{http://www.sindydolly.com/sindygallery.htm\this} brought back some memories!

edodgy · 09/03/2006 23:19

aww my next door neighbour loved his raleigh burner too!

wheresmyfroggy · 09/03/2006 23:21

Were they constantly fixing it with puncture repair kits? Thats all i ever seemed to be doing with mine Grin

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thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 09/03/2006 23:22

\link{http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/images/memorabilia/Toys/girls-world.jpg\I can almost touch the choker}

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edodgy · 09/03/2006 23:22

Yes! that is the main memory I have of Anthony who used to live next door! Always got punctures.

Davros · 09/03/2006 23:25

I did have a few toys other than Knobbly!

Mouse trap (which was a nightmare to set up!)
Cluedo
EtchaSketch
Space Hopper
Any arty stuff
What we called Doll Dressers - those cut out dolls with clothes you put on with tabs

swedishmum · 10/03/2006 00:27

Coppit was the best game ever.

nightowl · 10/03/2006 00:56

i loved my sindys and barbies and my little ponies. i am traumatised though...i wanted (so much) that play doh barber shop where you could cut hair and wheel it back in and no-one ever bought it me...

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