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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Definitely Barbies, Spent hours and hours with them. Spirograph, fuzzy felt were favourites too! Also I had a electronic keyboard which was shaped like a cake!!

I had one Sweet Secrets toy which I treasured ( I thought the gem in it was worth millions!) lol, and my Wee little Charmkins man, he was scented, like a rubbery strawberry, but he was a gift from my Nan just before she died, so when I lost him, I was inconsolable for weeks.
I miss you Smelly Simon! (Thats what my brother named him lol) x

Child of the 80's - Glo worms, Polly Pocket, Keepers, Sweet Secrets. Had a few of each which kept me quiet for ages.

Barbies, definitely barbies. Even now, at 40, I look at the tiny bits and pieces my kids have and think "I'd have loved that for my Barbies..."

Lego was also a firm favourite, but its changed so much (in a good way - we only ever had basic bricks in six colours. My kids have tiny pizzas!).

Polly pockets and Sylvanian families. Loved them!

Pound puppies and Garbage Pail kids make me feel nostalgic. They were the toys everyone wanted. I got a pound puppy and puppies for christmas and I remember being over the moon , it was the only thing I wanted.

Barbie Sindy and their boyfriends

Sindy. Beautiful Sindy who was much softer and less scary looking than Barbie. I had so many adventures with my Sindy and she had so many rooms to live in, built thanks to Lesley Judd and Blue Peter. I also used to make her clothes too - not very good ones, but I Ioved making them. I think I'm more nostalgic about the opportunity to be creative than anything else.

Duplo for me.

I loved my Sindy dolls, I only had 2 and I played with them for a very long time, recreating all sorts of scenarios with my sister.

I loved my toy microscope and am thinking about getting my grandson one in the next few years, I never grew up to be a scientist though

I loved Monopoly (and still do!). We have had many hours of fun over the years with various groups of friends and family, but it is the old sets that I feel nostalgic for. The money was bigger and the figures were more chunky...

I was telling my dcs about my meccano set the other day....it was just a big box of cogs, connectors, screws etc but I could spend hours building big complicated models. I love toys that allow children to really use their imaginations and get creative with telling stories and expanding their horizons!

Sindy dolls I would spend hours upon hours playing with them. My gran would make clothes for them and I'd make houses out of shoe boxes for them .
I remember taking them around to friends in a sindy vanity case and playing her and her sindy dolls for hours inventing new stories for them.
The best Christmas was when I hit the ballerina sindy that had posable hands and feet

spirograph

Tiny Tears, Lego, Cluedo and Mousetrap. I also still have my Sindy doll and her sister Patch which was a present when I had scarletina and had to be isolated in the house and only my mum could see me!

Teddy Ruxpin was my most favourite toy as a child. I can still remember how excited I was to recieve it.

We were Lego children, and spent all the time we weren't reading indoors building things. One Christmas I looked in the place where I thought my mum hid our presents, and found the unwrapped Lego hospital (for me) and the police station (for my brother). Lovely sister that I was, I dragged him there to show him. I was never tempted to do it again, as it really spoilt Christmas!

My boys now adore Brio - they''re 6 years into playing with it. We didn't have any as children as it was considered too expensive, so we had to make do with playing with it during long visits to the Early Learning Centre.

Mine favourite toy was a red and yellow Fisher Price record player that played nursery ryhmes. Loved it!

The Tamagotchi was my first and most beloved pet. Until I forgot to feed it for a day, and those sad little cross eyes appeared. My second pet was the Teksta robot dog. It didn't matter if I forgot to feed it and it didn't poo. Double win.
The Cadburys Chocolate Money Box. 10p for a square of chocolate was actually a con, when I realise that that would have bought you a Freddo at the time, but still, the joy when the block dropped out was worth the expense.
My brother would never let me play with his Thunderbirds Tracy Island so I tried to make the one that they did on Blue Peter. But launching Thunderbird 1 out of a plastic bottle wasn't quite the same.
I definitely remember my super soaker. It didn’t matter that it was a freezing Winter – what wasn’t fun about soaking people?! And these things carried some serious power.
Pokemon cards: PLEASE SAY MY BOOSTER PACK CONTAINS A SHINY CHARIZARD.
One of the toys that got me most excited at the time were those little round disks of cardboard called Pogs. What a time to be alive.
Rollerblades. Mine were brightly coloured and offensive to the eye. I managed three seconds upright once.
Mousetrap: catching those little mice was the ultimate 90s smug moment.

I think classic game boards were more my thing Monopoly especially although lego was also a firm favourite. My son loves his lego too

Oh and the tamagotchi craze that took over when I were at school.

My original orange space hopper. I loved it so much and was always bouncing around the garden on it. It lasted for years and years and I think was even passed on to younger relatives.

i absolutely loved my barbie house. i’m thinking of buying one for my DD this year but i’m not sure if it would just be more for me! i also loved the big yellow teapot 😊

Care Bears - especially the Cloudmobile, which I got for my 8th birthday! I had wanted it for ages, but my parents always said it was too expensive, so it was a huge surprise!

I still have it in the roofspace!

Also Lego, which my sister and I spent HOURS playing with!

Would have loved a Brio train set, but again it was deemed too expensive - but I'm enjoying buying some for DS now!