Best toy you NEVER had

[HG]

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... me and my sister used to do it, she was blonde so she was Agnetha, myself, having dark hair, I used to be erm... let me think now... what was her name... can't think....erm, oh yes, the Brunette One From Abba!!

Freda or Annifrid

[Teejay]

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Oh great, now I've got the scenario of a foot stomping down, a block sliding off the top, and that horrible slow motion lurch as you head carpetwards, or towards the 14 inch ITT in the corner, with the round tuning dial...

Lord that's vivid. I can almost hear the chunk sound of the blocks. Gaaaahhhh!

We used to laugh at the ITT because if you rejiggled the letters, it spelt something naughty! LOL! How dreadfully childish!

Clunk, Chunk....ouch...

[Derekflint]

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Oh great, now I've got the scenario of a foot stomping down, a block sliding off the top, and that horrible slow motion lurch as you head carpetwards, or towards the 14 inch ITT in the corner, with the round tuning dial...

Lord that's vivid. I can almost hear the chunk sound of the blocks. Gaaaahhhh!

[Teejay]

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That's insane. (Takes bite from marmalade sandwich.)

Building blocks in the socks (Great, now I'm Dr Seuss), wasn't that painful?

Yes Paddington, it hurt like hell!! The sacrifices us girlies make in the name of fashion... me and my sister used to do it, she was blonde so she was Agnetha, myself, having dark hair, I used to be erm... let me think now... what was her name... can't think....erm, oh yes, the Brunette One From Abba!! The blocks in the socks (and the cat in the hat) were very painful, so when performing our beautifully choreographed dance routines, we probably more closely resembled 2 lurching, quasi-modo types, lumbering around the living room..... Hot or what? Not!

[Derekflint]

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Crikey, sounds like an AA intro... "Hello my name's Derekflint and I wanted to be Paddington Bear" (applause from rest of group) my turn...

Hello, my name's Teejay and I used to put building blocks inside the heels of long school socks, to make them into platform boots - OBVIOUSLY - and pretend I was one of the girls from Abba. OH the relief of sharing that with the group.......(why aren't you clapping me?)

That's insane. (Takes bite from marmalade sandwich.)

Building blocks in the socks (Great, now I'm Dr Seuss), wasn't that painful? I had enough trouble walking on pebbled beaches - especially after getting out of the water! Used to shout for someone to bring the lilo over so that I could walk on that!

[Teejay]

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I remember asking for a Paddington Bear suitcase - Okay, I admit it, I wanted to be Paddington Bear

Crikey, sounds like an AA intro... "Hello my name's Derekflint and I wanted to be Paddington Bear" (applause from rest of group) my turn...

Hello, my name's Teejay and I used to put building blocks inside the heels of long school socks, to make them into platform boots - OBVIOUSLY - and pretend I was one of the girls from Abba. OH the relief of sharing that with the group.......(why aren't you clapping me?)

[Derekflint]

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I got a brilliant toy for christmas when I was about 9 or 10. It was a silver utility-type belt (battery operated) with buttons that made bleeping noises, a laser (looking) gun attached with a curly cord, that also made bleeping and laser gun noises. It may have also had a micorphone (like a cabbie's radio) that you could talk into and a holster attatched to the belt to put the gun in. Looked very space-agey and was well cool. Can't remember what happened to it now though.

Might have a photo at home with me wearing it, I'll try and dig it out. If anyone could help finding out what it was called or find photo's that'd be great.

STARBLAZER

This is the site that I referred to.

[Derekflint]

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I remember asking for a Paddington Bear suitcase - inside were little knick knacks relating to Paddington, and I really liked the little details.

Okay, I admit it, I wanted to be Paddington Bear. Only thing was that for the same money, you could get the larger cardboard suitcases for kids to play with, so I ended up with the practical solution. Mind you, it housed a load of Disney comics for a few years.

'Hi, I'm Paddington from Peru...'

Aw nuts.

[Teejay]

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What toy did you feel cheated/deprived/life ruined forever by not receiving it? I still feel aggrieved that I never got Mr Frosty, Mousetrap or one of those little Cadbury chocolate machines you put 2ps in! I also remember hating my cousin with a passion cause she had a Girls World and I didn't

Mine were a Mr Frosty (although as some kind of JOKE my mum finally bought me one when I was 32!! - and it wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be!! LOL!)

Also a Play Doh Barbers Shop. I soooo wanted to squish the Play Doh dough through the things head in that giant garlic press type thing! My God, I just realised I was a deprived child!! Am I too old to sue my Mum?...I'm 36 next month....

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A Mobo Horse.

[Danny]

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Really really really wanted and yearned for a Johnny Seven but had no luck with convincing the parents

[Soul]

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My top 3 had to be:

1 - Teenage mutant hero turtles
2 - Gi Joes
3 - Playmobils

[Palazzo]

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The Ghostbusters Proton Pack. I had quite a few of the regular Ghostbuster figures, the car and the Ghostbuster building/station. One Christmas I was given the trap and a Ghostbuster gun which would shoot out pink-coloured foam missiles which was pretty cool but I never did manage to get the proton pack, I was especially gutted as the trap I had was designed to clip onto the proton pack!

[tulip]

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Playdough hairdressers.I think my mum thought it was a bit sick!Remember in the ad the hair "grew" out the head and you cut it.Mind you,I did have a Girls World.Think the hairdressers was too much for her.

tulip

[branny]

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I also had absolutely loads of Star Wars figures and vehicles. The only ones I didn't have were the Millenium Falcon and an At-At. Had X-wing Fighters, Boba Fett's ship, Darth Vader's Tie-Fighter, the walkers from Jedi etc... & virtually all the figures and small robots from all 3 original movies. Were my pride and joy as a young 'un.

Came home from school one day (aged about 14) and my mum told me she sold it ALL to a woman at her work (without asking me) for her young son for £15 as her colleague was hard up for cash to buy Christmas presents for her son.

Wasn't to mithered at the time as I didn't play with them anymore at that age and was happy to get £15 pounds but now, oh woe is me. Could've got a lot more money for them than £15.

My only relief is that none of them were boxed or in the original wrapping, otherwise I could've been a millionaire if I sold them now (probably )

De ja vu. I had loads of action figures as a kid, action men, uniforms, training tower, motorbike and sidecar, liferaft, tank, six million dollar man, maskatron, his bionic repair station/rocket, cyborg, muton, koenig from space 1999, capt kirk, galen and a soldier from planet of the apes, batman and robin, dr who, tardis, talking dalek, k9, giant robot, star wars figures and probably some i've forgotten about. My mum sold the lot to our next door neighbour for £20 and i didn't even see the money oh and there was a large box of corgi and dinky toys as well. Could've retired if i'd kept em. Her excuse for selling was that we didn't have the room. Not negotiable. I was 14 at the time.

The toys i wanted but never got were action man uniforms like The army officer and mp but could never find them.....Until now. The 40th anniversary range that came out has enabled me to obtain the outfits i never got as a kid, and wife's got no choice in the matter.