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Now lego was probably my favourite toy when growing up as it had such major flexibility and rewarded imagination.Like Mechanno lego was also a construction toy though Lego was invented in Denmark. The original lego seemed to have few colours compared to the current colorful interlocking plastic bricks available today with all sorts of built in ...
Remember Pannini Stickers? When it came to "Swapsies", the indistuputable king at school were Pannini Football Stickers. These were an evolution of the Soccer bubble gum cards of the seventies. The stickers were swappable until you committed it to the sticker album, then unless a serious swap was offered that sticker was in for good. ...
Watch with Mother which included Andy Pandy, Muffin the Mule, the Wooden tops and Poggles woods to name a few, were often the first tv memory kids had in the sixties and seventies. For many years there was little else except this lunch time treat. Then the after school slot kicked in in the early seventies ...
Collecting match box labels was another hobby in the seventies. I Don't know why, but I had a phase as a kid of a bizarre need to collect match boxes. Most kids would be keener on what you could do with the matches - not me. It seems that the fact that there were so ...
By the look of these graphics i know what you're thinking, if this is version 2, then how bad were the graphics on version one?. Well actually at the time this game was well above its rivals, a well polished look and feel and solid game play. Similar to Ant Attack, it was a a 3D ...
In 1968 a book entitled "What do People do All Day?" was released by Richard Scarry. This gem of a book has continued to be a massive seller. With incredibly detailed illustrations, kids would spend hours and hours on a journey of detail scanning and double scanning each page of illustrative detail. The book is about what ...
This blog wouldn't be complete without the good old Whoopee Cushion. The joke was funny once and once only. Ten out of ten for novelty factor. Whoopee Cushions Poo-Poo Cushions or even Raspberry Cushions were a practical joke toy that has withstood the test of time and still raises a chuckle today (for the first few ...
Remember Sherbet Fountains? In all the years i had Sherbet Fountains, i don't think i ever once managed to use the liquorice straw as a straw. Every Friday as a treat from our nan, we were given crisps, a penguin and a Sherbet Fountains. What a treat. Basically it is sherbet powder in a yellow paper cylinder ...
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down! Boy were they ugly little blighters! One of the benefits of having children is that you can unashamedly play with kids' toys once again. My daughter's have a fine collection of vintage Weebles (the old Airfix ones with the scary hollow faces) which has given me a perfect opportunity ...
Back in the late 70s early 80s there was a gold digging revolution. Anyone who lived near a iron age monument or the beach had one thing on their shopping list...a Metal Detector. It was all about massive dreams and hope and the never knowing what might be around the corner scenario that made it so ...
