Toys YOU used to have as a child

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I noticed in one of our second hand shops this morning that they had a little stroller like i used to have as a child. It is a maclaren buggy, red and white striped with red plastic handles and a steel chasis. It made me remember how me and my sister used to 'pour' ourselves in it and push each other round the garden

needless to say I have forced ds to say he wants it and it is now being pushed round after the dogs...........

what were your favourites?

Blueteddy,
I had Baby Alive ! In fact she is still at my mums complete with original dress and food, and my old Tiny Tears.

Sparkler ,
I had one of those sticks, but can't remember what they were called.

Also had Sindy with horse and Carrie and Christopher (who was anatomically correct). We had a Binatone black and white tv console and a Merlin "handheld" computer game. Used to borrow friends' Atari one.

Another Girl's World owner - got a brunette one though and I remember being disappointed cos I wanted a blonde one...
Lots of Sindys and two Barbies with loads of gorgeous clothes. I had the Sindy horse and cart too - very plain and sensible compared to that white Barbie horse with a pink side saddle! Anyone remember that?
Ones I haven't seen anyone mention yet: Care Bears (had the one with the rainbow), Victoria Plum (had the doll, a four-poster bed, a little bag), Flower Fairies.
Also had flower-pressing, button-sewing and knitting kits - was into the flower-pressing but certainly not into the knitting and sewing - my brother used to get given electronics and chemistry kits...

is there anyone out there who remembers a doll called "Tippy Tumbles"?. It did handstands, etc.

Would probably be banned under Health and Safety laws now, but my favourite was this

knitting nancy

I'd never come across anyone who'd heard of Pippa and Amanda Jane dolls before now....that really takes me back. I also had 1 of Pippa's friends who was called Mandy.
I always wanted a Paddington Bear but was never allowed.

Pippa dolls. I had merlin too! I remember getting it for Christmas - still works and is at mum and dad' house. Like this. I used to like the Magic Square game.

my sister was desperate fir tippy tumbles!

I had one of these

best toy

and loved it to bits

Skull machine? You put plaster of paris in a mould inside a plastic ball, then put it on the 'machine' which kept it rotating in different directions for hours. It coated the inside of the mould and made a hollow model. It had different moulds for skulls etc which you could then paint etc. You were supposed to be able to use it for easter eggs but I just made loads of hideous shrunken heads! I was such a sweet child!

Fisher Price School House - my children play with it now when we go to mothers.

Space Invaders game. Sadly dead!

Fisher price garage !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

with wind up car platform and ramp from top to bottom - excellent!!

Oh yeah and Play People

and Fuzzy Felt

I had a girls world too!! Yar boo and sucks to you.

And Sindy not Barbie as my mum said Barbie was a slut.

I always wanted a metal detector though.

Buckeroo was great and Operation - you can still get that

OMG, the memories are flooding back! I had lots of dolls event though I didn't play with them - Amanda Jane, Sindy, Tiny tears (still got her somewhere), Pippa and a walky talky dolll Poppet I think her name was. My favourite things were Etch a Sketch, my Space hopper and my Roto-Skip - does anyone remember that? It was a hoop which you put round your ankle with a disk attached to it on a bit of string and you sort of swung it round and jumped over it

my mum stood on our etchasketch on christmas day and ended up with a fluffy silvery slipper

Space hopper
Lego
Tiny tears
My sister and I had a black doll and white doll which we called All Bran and Cornflakes!
Slime
Slinky
Emu puppet
Fuzzy felts

Oh yes and Mini Mosiac - doubt if you can still get that, the pieces were tiny would be deemed unsafe these days.

Slinky
Clakkers
Spirograph
Fuzzy felt
Box of paints
Books, books and more books!
Flower press
Mud!
Not hugely into dolls but was given Pippa and Sindy. Had a horse for Sindy and my Dad made it a fab mock-tudor stable . All was going fabulously and they were winning rosettes all over the county - until the horse had a fatal fall and broke it's leg!! - a very nasty fracture!
Lots of crafy things - candle maker, make and paint your own Peter Rabbit models
Desperately wanted a space hopper but never got it? - don't know why!

victoria plum, had a "speak and spell" (said "tie" in a really funny voice), Little Professor, Major Morgan, care bears, Rainbow brite (rereleased in the states so hopefully over here soon) and a vast collecion of flower Fairies.

Always wanted a Mr Frosty but was never allowed one

Lego, of course
Zoids
Star wars figures and spaceships
Marbles

Oh yes, nearly forgot...............Silly putty!

my little ponies, cabbage patch doll, baby talk, barbies, lego, all the usual board games.
(of course I had the first ones of the cabbage patch and MLP)

fat sindy's!!!!!!!!!!!!
the 'real' ones

Slinky
Space Hopper
Spirograph
Some sort of enameling kit where you made jewelery in a minature oven and another where you mixed plastics to the same effect, all highly dodgy with todays H&S regulations!
Not at all into dolls, very keen on cowboy & indian outfits complete with guns, bows & arrows.