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100 Toys from the 1970s
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 20:28
by lazarus corporation
for the nostalgic amongst you of roughly the same age as me.
clicky
As Christmas hoves noisily into view for another year, and the marketing divisions of the world's toy companies go into overdrive, we inevitably start to ponder... was it all like this in our day? If you're reading this, it's likely there'll be a good twenty-plus years lying between this Christmas and the last one you started by tearing down the stairs at five in the morning, in wide-eyed anticipation of the contents of that mountain of wrapped boxes under the Woolies' fireproof silver tinsel tree. So, to this end, we polled TV Cream's readership to find the most well-remembered - for better or worse - toys that turned up in the stockings of yesteryear, from the tiniest fifty pee rubber novelty to the many bulky Bakelite candidates for that hallowed "main present" status. Quite often the little things, mainly through having lower expectations to live up to, went down better than the battery-hungry robo-gun-battleship thing mouldering in its box in the airing cupboard by Boxing Day. Anyway, enough of all this - it's now 6.30AM, and we've just been told by hungover parents that we can go downstairs and start sorting out the presents into piles. Let the blizzard of Mr Men wrapping paper commence...
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 20:48
by Brideoffrankenstein
Wow I had a few of those things!
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 21:09
by Quiff Boy
bloody hell, i had loads of them:
Finger Frights
Fuzzy Felt
Quicksilver Maze
Rubik's Cube
Zoids/Transformers
Mastermind
Walkie-talkies
Wade Whimsies
Guess Who?
Sorry
Buckaroo!
Merlin
Viewmaster
Tomytronic 3D
Stay Alive!
Tank Command
Connect 4
Tonka truck
Perfection
Downfall
Spud Gun
Vertibird
Kerplunk
Stretch Armstrong
CGL Galaxy Invaders 1000
Mousetrap
Mister Frosty
A radio controlled car
Silly Putty
OperationRicochet Racers/Wrist Racers
Slime
Cadbury’s Chocolate Machine
Simon
Game and Watch
Play Doh Barber's Shop
Etchasketch
Cluedo
Screwball Scramble
Shaker Maker
Speak And Spell
Star Bird
Evel Knievel
Six Million Dollar Man
Subbuteo
TCR
Crossfire
Big Trak
Star Wars Death Star Playset
Airfix Model Plane
Top Trumps
Action Man
A computer
A bike
i should point out that my mum was a childminder and always had half a dozen kids around the house, so a good few of those toys weren't exactly
mine, we just had them in the house.
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 21:16
by Padstar
What a spoilt young man!!!!!
Paddy.
Posted: 24 Dec 2004, 07:09
by The Pope
Wow, I was made in the 80s (late 80s, for that matter) and I remember playing with/seeing about half the stuff on that list! Then I discovered X-wing and Sega Genesis and my My Little Ponies and Magic Rocks kind of lost their allure...
Posted: 24 Dec 2004, 11:58
by elamanamou
Girlie things from the seventies I owned.
Childs silver cross pram
Tiny tears dolly
wendy house
space hopper
pogo stick
shakermaker
buckaroo
connect four game
sindy ballerina doll
humpty dumpty
royal doulton animals
raleigh 14 bike
Not forgetting Wade whimsies!!
The list goes on 'Spoilt child'
I think clothes from the seventies were bloody awful!
Parka coats ........YUK
Mother always made me wear smocking dresses, white tights and black patent shoes and a crombie coat. she still does from time to time!
Posted: 24 Dec 2004, 12:52
by DerekR
They haven't got my favourite of all time,
<CLICKY>
Stock Car Smash Up the UK version was called - anyone remember that?...and yes, that auction is VERY tempting, somebody stop me!
I did have the "Raving Bonkers" version of this though, top fun
Great site, I'm gonna be busy today
Posted: 25 Dec 2004, 20:15
by Mrs. Snowey
DerekR wrote:They haven't got my favourite of all time,
<CLICKY>
Stock Car Smash Up the UK version was called - anyone remember that?...and yes, that auction is VERY tempting, somebody stop me!
I did have the "Raving Bonkers" version of this though, top fun
Great site, I'm gonna be busy today
Yep, I had a "Smash-Up Derby". You fed the little plastic strip through the cars' drives, pulled the thing out, and set it onto a collision course with summat else. Ace
I also had a Tiny Tears. Oh God, I'm getting old
Posted: 25 Dec 2004, 22:05
by Brideoffrankenstein
My best ever toy I had when I was little was a pogo stick. I used to love annoying my mother by pogoing in the front room whilst she was trying to watch the TV
Posted: 26 Dec 2004, 11:52
by elamanamou
bring back the golliwog!
Am I allowed to say that anymore??
Rope with balls at the end that clicked together and were quite dangerous... What were they called again?
Gotta go now and play with my Weebles than wobble and don't fall down!
Posted: 27 Dec 2004, 22:24
by emilystrange
Padstar wrote:What a spoilt young man!!!!!
Paddy.
cute though..
blimey. i had lots too...
prob still have. mother never chucks anything
Posted: 28 Dec 2004, 13:34
by Francis
elamanamou wrote:Rope with balls at the end that clicked together and were quite dangerous... What were they called again?
Courtesy of Google.
They made great nanchukas.
