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Toy nostalgia

39 replies

nannyme · 20/05/2006 19:45

I did this on another forum and it may have been done here before but aaaanyways...

My favourites were:

Plastic Boot (with real laces, people and a slide)
Girls's World (not my own I am sad to say)
Buckaroo
Kerplunk

OP posts:
kolakube · 20/05/2006 20:03

Tiny tears doll that wet her nappy
Operation
Sindy

Good old days

tenalady · 20/05/2006 20:03

ahh, clackers and spinning tops that humm.

hulababy · 20/05/2006 20:05

DD was looking at KerPlunk today and I was very tempted for nostalgia :)

Tiny Tears was my first proper doll. Has her for years.

tenalady · 20/05/2006 20:06

No skip the kerplunk, your memory obviously hasnt jogged the bit where you have to feed all those sticks through the holes at the beginning of the game. it was a releif when ours broke!

SoupDragon · 20/05/2006 20:07

KerPlunk is different though! DS2 got it for his birthday andI was most disappointed that it wasn't the difficult-to-thread-sticks, turning-round version I remembered.

BettySpaghetti · 20/05/2006 20:07

Space hoppers (the orange ones with smiley faces on)
Stylophone (as promoted by Rolf Harris!)

PS -very envious of anyone who had a Girls World -I always wanted one but was never allowed Sad

SoupDragon · 20/05/2006 20:08

tenalady, KerPlunk is "new easy to set up" KerPlunk now.

kolakube · 20/05/2006 20:09

Also that hairdresser shop where the play doh came out of their heads as if hair was growing and you could cut it and style it!

LIZS · 20/05/2006 20:10

My mum has one of those boots at her house and ds loved it - has a school room and playground with figures . She also has my original Tiny tears, Baby Alive and Kerplunk !

We also have newer versions of Kerplunk (the marbles still get everywhere) and Tiny Tears here !

Northerner · 20/05/2006 20:11

Mouse trap
Screwball scramble
Etch a sketch
Major Morgon (sp?) there was a professor one too IIRC
Perfection

SaintGeorge · 20/05/2006 20:11

Kerplunk must have only changed recently. DS1 got it for his birthday last year and it is the old, annoying sticks through the holes version.

LIZS · 20/05/2006 20:12

I was thinking that StG - ours is the same as my original, as is Mousetrap

Angeliz · 20/05/2006 20:13

This has been said before but what was that toy with lots of orange shapes you had to fit before the timer went?

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 20/05/2006 20:13

I had a doll thing that 'walked' when you held its arms and cried. Cant remember what it was called, was quite big though. I loved it. My sister had one the same and we'd pretend they were twins.

Hated Kerplunk! Used to play Labrynthe on a Sunday evening when my dad was at home but he always cheated!

FrayedKnot · 20/05/2006 20:14

Coppit
Mr Potato Head
Pippa dolls
Pelham Puppets

Northerner · 20/05/2006 20:17

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Angeliz · 20/05/2006 20:18

Yes that's itGrin
Oh i loved that!

nicnack2 · 20/05/2006 20:19

had a girls world think its mums hope that i would become girly instead of playing with bb action man. didnt work sorry mum.

SaintGeorge · 20/05/2006 20:19

You can still get Perfection

Northerner · 20/05/2006 20:19

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SaintGeorge · 20/05/2006 20:20

Tamba - I had those dolls. About 2ft tall.

I had a blonde and a brunette but I think I might have nicked one off my sis.

Angeliz · 20/05/2006 20:20

Oh i'm going to get it then. It's that last fice seconds where you're shaking trying to get them all in.Smile

Mercy · 20/05/2006 20:22

Etch a Sketch

Jacks (small metal ones)

Meccano

Northerner · 20/05/2006 20:23

God, jacks. I remember them. What the hell were you supposed to do with them? Don't think I quite understood!

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 20/05/2006 20:23

Yup SG thats them. I think they are still hiding in my moms loft. We used to play the our husbands were in the Army and so we were living in a flat... Oh I loved that game!