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Die-Cast Racing Tracks were a dream for us boys. There were so many additions to the basic set. Tracks joined together with small slides that linked the track and add-ons included banked corners and loop the loops plus a start finish line counter for the photo finish. If gravity wasn't strong enough there were even battery ...
Did any one else collect Brooke Bond Tea Cards or something similar? I still have a huge amount stashed away and was a proud collector as a kid. Additionally I collected cards that came with crisps and candy sweets too. If it looked like a card I collected it. Even lollipop ice-creams started releasing cards to ...
Model animals for farms, zoos or circuses were always a part of childhood for me. Most toy shops had model sheep, cows, crocodiles or was it an aligator, giraffes, elephants, monkeys, pelicans and so on. Everyone needed a lion as he was king and nobody wanted the pigs and there was always one model that ...
In 1966 these Zoo-it-Yourself set of plastic animals were released onto the teeth of ever toddler. They were a hit! Bright and colourful, cheery and adaptable we had loads of fun and what's more they were so indestructable that they remain in your toy box forever (well until you decide to throw them out). The Animals ...
Who remembers the Wombles plastic figures in the 1970's? The Wombles were on our sets for the decade and I remember a trip down the post office each week to pick up one of these figures. I think there were seven to collect and they cost just around 5 pence in those days. All of the Wombles ...
Resin Casting was a bit of a blast from the past for me. One cold seventies afternoon in the winter, dad came home with a resin casting set. It looked great as you could cast anything you could lay your hands on. Cast moths, cast coins, cast hair, cast nails, cast anything and everything. Suddenly ...
Palitoy Parker Striker Football Game now that was a great little game in the seventies. It was slightly different to table soccer and subbuteo as a push of the head enabled the leg to kick the ball mechanism gave it an extra edge. Though snapped legs and heads were always likely by the end of ...
Remember Kenner's Easy-Show Movie Projector? Back in the 60s and 70s, before video recorders and home video was unavailable, the only way you could watch cartoons in your schools broom cupboard on end of term day was with toys like Kenner's Easy-Show Movie Projector, which used film loops so there was no film threading involved! This was ...
How wierd were Pez dispensers? Kind of collectible and yet a little novelty that wore off after a few dispenses. Dispense, dispense, dispense, then what? History of Pez PEZ apparently was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy in Vienna, Austria. The candy was invented in 1927 in Vienna by a confectioner named Eduard Haas III. Haas invented ...
In 1955 a new game was released. I vagualy remember it at school as a semi education game. The play and learn at the same time was certainly the reason my teacher in the infants allowed us to play this once our work was done. The whole thing was very reminiscent of the film starring ...
