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Game of Nations Board Game This Strategy Board Game by Waddington’s for 2 to 4 players looks great, but again it falls into a category of mine, i bought it, but just never played it. It sat in my collection for 15 years and hardly got opened from the day of purchase. Reading other blogs [...]

Waddington’s Scoop is a real classic game of daily newspapers and their reporters. Just like the real fleet street of the sixties, you race other players to get the best stories and advertising for your newspaper. With great period newspaper titles including the Daily Mail, The Times, The News Chronicle, Daily Sketch, Daily Express and [...]

The Fisher Price Chatter Telephone gets its cameo in Toy story 3. This is one of the kings of Fisher Price toys. It seems to last forever. indestructable i an understatement. Lets be honest any toy box in the seventies had one of this deep in the corner ready to get dialed. This was the [...]

Continued from yesterdays Toy Story – Most Retro Top 10 we now reveal the top 5 With Toy Story 3 out we’ve gone Toy Story crazy at Skooldays we now enter the top 5 Are there more deserved candidates for a retro toy? Here goes…. at number 5 Slinky the Dog Dog is based on Slinky, a [...]

With Toy Story 3 out today we all have gone Toy Story crazy at Skooldays So we decided to list out top 10 most retro toy story toys Do you agree with our choice? Are there more deserved candidates for a retro toy? Here goes…. at number 10 Rock’em Sock’em Robots These 1960′s heavy weights showed themselved [...]

The Board Game of GO One of the few times I’ve been thoroughly confused was the time a friend invited me round for an afternoon of playing Go. He says, can you play go?, i say yes I’ve played go a few times in my life, shall i bring my game?. He says no don’t [...]

Dice Pouffes The sixties, seventies and early eighties for some reason seemed to have a fascination with dice items. If you were a Capri owner then furry dice were a must hanging from the rear view mirror. For the cultured an alarm clock shaped as a die (singular for dice) and finally the ultimate accessory [...]

1950′s Fashion is certainly a topic that’s gained popularity here on Skooldays in recent months. Today we find out why it proved such a strong decade for fashion. In 1949 clothes rationing came to an end for Britain, and fashion was now ready to hit the big time. This is one of the reasons why 1950s fashion [...]

The Beetle Game or Beetle Drive is a real family favorite. Vintage Games seem to be big again with the impending Toy Story 3 about to find release again. Certainly Mr Potato Head saw a re-surge in sales and i just wonder when the Beetle will make it into a deserved spot on Toy Story. [...]

Scalextric started producing slot cars back in the 1950′s. The name came from the combination of Scale and Electric. This is what they were scaled cars motoring on electricity. When i think of Scalextric myself, i think of asking the question, have you ever sucked your thumb? Well i have never sucked my thumb but [...]