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Your forgiven if you think we have mispelt monopoly only if you have never heard of the Totopoly board game. Apart from the name sounding similar the likeness ends there. Totopoly is a great game based on the events leading up to, and during, a horse race. Originally made in 1938 by Waddingtons, the game is ...
Made by Jumbo and Merit Magic Robot Quiz Game was Published in 1950 and While marketed as a board game, the Magic Robot Quiz game is probably more accurately a "curiosity" game. The "game" consists of placing a little robot figurine which holds a pointer in the center of a circular pattern of questions. The magic ...
Can you say Crackerjack without saying Crack-er-Jack? "It's Friday, it's five to five... it's Crackerjack" "CRACKERJACK!" As the time and place suggested, it was going to be 45 minutes of games, comedy and music. Whether Jack Douglas, Ronnie Corbet, Don Maclean, Peter Glaze and The Krankies or Leslie Crowther, Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart or that weird Stu Francis, ...
Hard to distinguish, are the fireman from Trumpton, or Camberwick Green? Now name the firemen CAPTAIN FLACK & Firemen PUGH,PUGH,BARNEY McGREW, CUTHBERT,DIBBLE AND GRUBB Camberwick Green or Trumpton back in 1966 The series was written and produced by Gordon Murray and animated by Bob Bura, John Hardwick and Pasquale Ferrari. Music was by Freddie Phillips, and narration and song vocals ...
One of the most iconic toys in any kids toy box has to be the iconic Batman TV Show Corgi Batmobile 1966 Model 267 It was a true competition to the other classics at the same time, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the James Bond Aston Martin. Few kids could avoid taking notice of this beauty in ...
Tooty Frooties were mainly sugar, glucose, fruit juices, Vegetable fat, Malic acid, Gum arabic, flavourings, Acidity regulator, Citric acid, wheat gluten and loads of colours. Its true, don't be fooled this was sugar and e-numbers in heaps! Chewy and fruity sweets that were with us through the sixties and seventiesIn fact it was in 1963 Tooty Frooties came ...
Plastic cars were great as they never chipped the skirting board and that kept the parents happy. I could have any car as along as it was Tomte Laerdal from Norway. That limited my car collection, but the plastic cars lasted forever! The Tomte-Laerdal company from Stavanger, Norway produced soft plastic (vinyl and PVC), furniture-friendly toy vehicles ...
Today we present The Clangers Episode List. The Clangers were The Soup Dragon along with Granny Clanger, Major Clanger, Mother Clanger and Tiny and Small Clanger. Made by Smallfilms production, the Clangers were originally written in a series of children's books by Oliver Postgate. The Clangers were very popular for kids from 1968 through to 1972 and ...
Back in the 50's fashion and early 60's the beatles trousers were the thing to imitate. Every lad had a pair of drainpipe trousers. It all started back in England where the "Teddy boys" addopted it as part of there uniform. Drainpipe Trousers - Good Times from the 1960s The trousers were normally made of lightweight 100% ...
Many kids were brought up on Janet and John You could say the old-fashioned way, but was it the best way Innocence really did exist in these days. Mabel O'Donnell and Rona Munro from New Zealand, and published by Row Peterson. Originally there wer known as Alice for Janet and Gerry for John. Then James Nisbet bought the rights ...
