Mumsnet users share the childhood toys that make them feel nostalgic with BRIO

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For many of us when we see or a hear a reference to a toy from our childhood, we are immediately transported by to a specific time when we were younger playing with that toy...queue all the nostalgic feelings. BRIO would love to know all the toys that give you that nostalgic feeling and what it is about them that makes you feel that way.

Here’s what BRIO have to say: “We just turned 130, yet we feel more vital than ever. And that’s a good thing when working with toys. Because just as play develops children, play has developed us as a company. Smart Tech is the latest integrated technology from BRIO which is adding extra layers of functionality and play value to our timeless toys. The Smart Tech trains can stop, turn around, go slower or go faster using the accessories that are in the range, bringing even more magic to the BRIO World. In a world full of technology and computers, traditional play is at the core of what we do at BRIO. Our Smart Tech range combines clever train technology with traditional play patterns, meaning as parents you don’t need to feel nostalgic for those classic toys as they’re at the heart of everything we do.”

Watch this video on the BRIO Smart tech Engine with Action Tunnel Set:

Is it the Troll Dolls that make you feel nostalgic as you remember spending hours styling their bright pink hair? Perhaps seeing your DC talking to imaginary people on your phone makes you remember you doing the same on your Chatter Telephone? Did you think of yourself as a highly-skilled chef with your Easy-Bake Oven? Would you just spend hours drawing out things on your Etch A Sketch? Or is it good old Play-Doh that always make you feel nostalgic whenever your child plays with it?

Whichever toys make you feel nostalgic, share them on the thread below and everyone who comments will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list) and another four MNers will win a BRIO Smart Tech Engine Set with Action Tunnels, worth £89.95 each.

Thanks and good luck.
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The toys that do it for me are the good old Etch A Sketch, the trolls, the cabbage patch dolls and an older childhood memory is the Sega Megadrive and playing Sonic The Hedgehog for hours on end! I love all the classics! xxx

My old dolls house

I have fond memories playing with my Scalextric set with my mates

Barbie! I had a huge 5 storey Barbie house complete with all furniture, cutlery etc, a washing machine that made noises, a hob that lit up and an elevator! Looking back, this must have cost my Mum a fortune!

spirograph though I always wanted an etch-a-sketch

I had a pair of klackers as a child, they were bright green and I'm surprised I still don't have the bruises on my hands and wrists from practising.

There were two things that I loved in particularly. The first was fuzzy felts. I had a fuzzy felt hospital and I loved it. The second was a toy washing machine BUT it actually worked. I filled it up with water and put soap in and it washed my dolls clothes, then hung them on the line to dry. It would work on batteries or there was a handle at the back and a tube to drain the water out. I think I loved washing the dolls clothes in the washer more than I liked the dolls!!

Monopoly- we could all squabble for hours!

The Big Yellow Teapot and Cabbage Patch Dolls

The treehouse! and the boot! and the fisher price garage! so many!

Power Rangers toys, they came out for the first time when I was little and me and my friends thought it was so new and exciting.

I used to love playing with m fashion wheel. Making different outfits and colouring them in.

Cabbage patch dolls. I loved those when I was little and my daughter did too. The main toy that brings back memories is an Eskimo cuddly toy that my father have me when I was 4. I then gave it to my daughter when My dad died She loves that toy because her grandad picked it. It brings back so many memories for me xx

For me it would have to be buckaroo. I remember playing that alot with my brother and using different items than the norm. We had great fun with it.

Speak & Spell, Lego, Nintendo Game & Watch, Mouse Trap, pull along Fisher Price Toy Phone, Care Bears, Transformers, He-Man.

Tiny Tears, Sindy, little china tea set, jig saws, plasticine, puppets.... so many memories!!!

My absolutely favourite toy was Pick Up Monkeys. I would spend hours trying to get all the monkeys stringed together and even my own children were able to play with them many years later.
Toys were fewer and less elaborate in my day but I loved my pram and dlolls too and of course the knitted blankets and clothes.

Was a navy cord dolls pram that Santa brought me on my 6th Christmas. Being one of 3 siblings I didn’t get much throughout the year so when this wonderful pram turned up on Christmas morning complete with matching knitted blankets for my dolly it felt like the most magical thing in the world.

However once I became a magic maker myself for my own children the pram grew new value and magic as I learnt my wonderful mum had saved up all her post office stamps over the year to pay for it, she also walked through an awful blizzard to pick it up on Christmas Eve as my dad was night shift.

Navy cord isn’t the most festive thing in the world but when ever I see some, It always reminds me of getting that pram and mostly how I lucky I was to grow up in a house where I was so loved.

I always wanted a Mr Frostie but I loved my teddy ruxpin!

Whenever I see Mr Frosty I get very sad, I waited many a Christmas day to unwrap him but alas. Still the therapy is helping but still can't pass an ice dispenser without floods of emotion.

For me, it has to be stickle bricks. Do they still make them? I never really managed to make anything useful from them; I used to just stack them up into towers. I desperately wanted Meccano, but I never got any.

When I see playdoh it does something to my brain! I'm suddenly 5 years old again - the smell too!

I loved stickle bricks. Hours of fun, as well as my fisherprice garage and school house.

My girls world head, I used to do her makeup and put rollers in her hair, I loved it.

Congratulations to annedoyle55 for winning the £300 voucher
Congratulations to Theimpossiblegirl, Noodledoodlesandspud, AngelDog and Thishatisnotmine for winning a BRIO Smart Tech Engine Set with Action Tunnels