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.

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I get very nostalgic about our first video games on the the NES (Nintendo entertaining system). Classics such mario brothers, legand of Zelda with its gold cartridge, bomb Jack, wrestling etc. Also the hand held version, nintendo game boy. It's amazing looking at video games today how far the technology and graphics have come along. Zelda and Mario still being my favourites.

Loving this thread! I used to love ‘baby all gone’ with the magic spoon and sented cherries I think! Still catch the smell sometimes!

The old Polly Pockets with the teeny tiny dolls.

I used to spend hours playing with these, I can't believe that the parts never went missing as they were so small.

Meccano and lego for me. I particularly loved my technical lego - I had a hydraulic set which was really satisfying.

It has to be a spinning top for me. I had a tin one painted like a carousel at my grannies house and I adored it. My own dc have more modern versions where a train goes round and makes a noise. It is well loved by all who visit.... Despite their age!

I loved my rollerskates in the early 80s. Wearing leg warmers and with crimped hair, I felt very grown up and I remember the local roller disco on a Saturday afternoon with great fondness

Shape sorter ball, half is blue, half is red, and the shapes are yellow. I loved it!

You know those 'magic' bottles where the milk and the juice seem to disappear when you turn them upside down: they're my childhood in a toy!

We had a board game called "Dream Phone" - you had to use the huge pink phone to decide which of the (very 90's styled) boys had a crush on you. It was so cheesy and absolutely brilliant fun. My sister and I used to pay it for hours!

We still quote the automated phone responses to each other and find it hilarious now we're in our 30s.

OMG I've just seen you can buy the modern version on Amazon - right, that's going on the Christmas list....

Fisher Price toys like the doctors kit and construction kit make me feel very nostalgic.

When I was two, on the way to visiting my mum and my new baby sister in hospital, my dad took me to the little toy shop in the High Street where I chose a Duplo man on a motorbike (no idea why that particular one appealed!) I also had a little black Duplo dog, which I loved. I would spend hours building with Duplo. My parents recently dug the box out of the attic so I can pop it in the dishwasher and let my own little girl play with it. My sister grew to adore our Lego collection.we used to get so upset on a Sunday evening when my mum would make us dismantle it all to put it away so it didn’t clutter up the house all week (although we were allowed some leeway if we’d built something ‘extra special’!)

My partner’s childhood obsession was with Lego (he still had a box of it under his bed when we met as teenagers and to this day can’t bear to dismantle the helicopter! He credits his engineering career with his Lego obsession; he’s a triplet and the others outgrew it long before he did!

Fisher price telephone! My sons play with my old brio all the time, 35 yrs old and still going strong!

As a young boy in the late 1960s:
Triang Hornby train set (only recently sold on eBay)
Lego - kids still playing with the same bricks
Meccano
Action Man! I had a few of these including one that you pulled a cord to make him talk.
Scalextric
Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars - the bright green Lamborghini Muira was the fastest every time

Interesting that most of these are still available today nearly 50 years later.

I LOVED Barbies and doll houses! Always wanted to have babies and take care of them. But now in real life,after two,AM FED UP! Haha

I loved the fisher price record player! Was truely fabulous fun...

Carealot (loved playing with that) and lego. It's so timeless. i had the best light up spaceship with sounds. I so wish I knew where it was!

I used to love my farm yard that my grandad made.it was a piece of wood painted green with hedges stuck on made out of green sponges .I put the animals in the fields and had a tractor. I used to play for hours on my own with this in my own little world.

Epic pitched Crossbows and Catapults battles with my brother across the living room carpet, they transformed rainy days and prevented us from killing each other for real!

Loved Lego when I was growing up and still do but two things that are really nostalgic were a wooden building set that you could build log cabins with that was my grandads when he was growing up and Sugglebums although I didn't know they were called that as all my came from a friend of my parents in Holland so they were Troullewoolys (not sure of the spelling) but I had loads of them and I adored them.

Lego, we always had Lego in the house, we would spend hours just relaxing , but also we spent a lot of the summer going to the beach so had plenty of buckets and spades

Barbies! I had a Barbie bath and Kitchen and 20 tears later and I still remember that the bath set had mini pink towels and the kichen had pink fridge with watermelon in it:) i also had lots of fun making clothes for my barbies

We used to love playing Monopoly and Buckaroo! Simple games but always lots of fun! Sometimes just a plain pack of cards to play games with or to see who could build the tallest triangle tower out of the cards!

My favourite toy was a spinning top that used to keep me amused for ages and probably drove my mum mad with the noise but also a good old a hula Hoop

my little jointed bear, a little thread bare now... and lost and eye , but he is over 50 .here he is below next to a pencil

My fisher price garage was my fave toy I wish my parents had kept it. I spent hours playing with it with my cars and carmat