Toys of christmas past

[kimlouiseb]

I found this while searching for something completely different earlier. (Click on small pages and scroll down for bigger ones.)

Brings back so many memories for me, even though I was only 2 in 1979 - it all looks so familiar.

My particular favourites are:

Fisherprice play desk

Speak and spell

Major morgan

Come and join me in my nostalgia.....

[shockers]

That portable record player! I used to put my tape recorder next to it to record LP's... can't be sure if it was that particular year or years to come but I remember taping Blondie's Parallel Lines that way!

[kimlouiseb]

I love retro toys

[Ninks]

That catalogue is brilliant! My sister and I had quite a few of those and the ones we didn't, our friends owned. Thanks kimlouiseb

[Ninks]

The activity centre was £9.58 in seventies money

All the prices end in weird units. I wonder if it was to do with the changeover. Refreshing to see not everything ending in 0.49 or 0.99 though.

[notagrannyyet]

I had my first 3 DC in the 1980s. I've still got the toys you mention in the loft and many more......wonder if they're worth anything!

[kimlouiseb]

I'm sure they would be, there's lots of vintage toys selling well on ebay.

[borderslass]

we had sorry and jaws

cgi.ebay.co.uk/The-Game-Of-Jaws-Vintage-1970s-Game-by-Ideal_W0QQitemZ290372123237QQcategoryZ109224QQ cmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BIEW%2 52BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D11%26ps%3D63

[nickelbabe]

ooh, those fisherprice television sets with the lenticular pictures!
we had one that played raindrops keep falling on my head!
brilliant

[nickelbabe]

tree house!

i've still got mine somewhere!!

[heymammy]

Awww, I had the Palitoy Treehouse and it was nearly a tenner in 1979

I also had one of the Mario Bros handheld games a few years later and it was £17.95...I am shocked my parents afforded it tbh

[Marne]

nickelbabe- the tree house is worth money on e-bay. I have sold a few vintage toys on e-bay, i love the vintage fisher price toys.

I was a child in the 80's and i had Keypers, rainbow bright, my little pony, popples and wozzles .

My favorite toy for x-mas was the red chimney pot with soot family, i think i was 4 or 5 when i got it and i can still remember how excited i was when i opened it.

[kimlouiseb]

I had a cabbage patch doll that I loved. I nearly wet myself when I saw it on Christmas day! Looking at them now, they are revolting!

[teameric]

I used to love care bears, cabbage patch dols, strawberry shortcake, my speak and spell was my fav toy though! I took DD to the Museum of Childhood yesterday they have all the old toys in there. brought back memories (and made me feel quite old!)

[Wigglesworth]

I was an 80's child and I too had rainbow bright and her horse. My little pony dream castle and lullaby nursery were my favorite x-mas presents. I can still remember getting a blood blister on my finger from the scissor handle trying to cut the My Little Pony free from it's packaging in a frenzy of festive glee.
I also got a She-Ra fancy dress costume when I was 6 which I thought was the absolute dogs bollocks.
I asked for a Mr Frosty every year for about 5 years and NEVER got one, gutted. I am still scarred.

[nickelbabe]

ooh Marne, could never sell it!

my mum still ahs the Shuffly castle and Shuffly hospital and Shuffly police station: my nephews and niece have each had them in turn and they're very well received.

shame you can't still get those .

[MrsMattie]

Things I wanted for Xmas as a child, but never got :

Mr Frosty
Soda Stream
The BIG rainbow brite (my mum got me a tiny little beanie version - not cool!)
A Cindy house with furnitureA glow worm

[izzybiz]

I never got a Mr Frosty either!

My best ever present was a dream dancer, a ballerina doll that you put one foot in this special stage and she used to dance...........

(I loved her!)

[FlorenceandtheWashingMachine]

At age four I desperately wanted a Sasha Doll, some hippo soaps and a Fisher Price camper van.

All of the above were owned by my best friend, Joanne, whose house I played at all the time. My mum pointed out to me years later that I had never asked for any of the above. I think that I truly believed that Santa would read my mind and come up with the goods.