1970's Xmas

[nkp1962]

Anyone remember these?

- Yahoo! Christmas UK

I used to love plasticraft

NKP

[coomber]

Only just!

I loved that mastermind game

[smallblueplanet]

Spirograph and Etch-a-Sketch for me!

[Rhona]

Palitoy Girl's World With Hair That Grows! Swoon!

[nkp1962]

Try the 'TV Cream toy Quiz at the end of the article - frightning!

[SueA]

I didn't have any of those toys mentioned but I did have Tressie (Tressy?) who was sort of the poor man's (girl's?) version of Sindy & her hair used to grow when you pulled it & shorten when you turned a key in her body! I used to love 'Fuzzy Felt', spent hours making pictures with it & 'Spirograph' too. Always wanted a Spacehopper but never got one.

[kernowyon]

peter powell kites - OMG, my dad won a competition to fly his kites at a demonstration with no other than PP. i was soo excitied 'cos i thought it was the DJ

anyway can still see my dad, standing up in the back of a dodgy looking Range Rover, zooming up and down a field as there was not enough wind to fly the stunt kites.

[coomber]

I always wanted a Mr Frosty but I never got one cause my parents were really mean

[BrideXIII]

kerplunk and mousetrap, I LOVED setting up mousetrap.

[FionaH]

Loved othello and a strange board game called goldrush

[lottie dolly]

i still have to this day my well loved spiroghaph,it one of the first out,no one else has,or will be allowed to use it,in later years i brought the next model out for the children to use,

[kirsty b]

I liked Hungry Hippos, had slime, Sindy was never a patch on Barbie, Mastermind was great. Would love to get hold of one now.

I remember my dad working in Wimbledon whe I was about five, and me and my sister begging him to bring us back a womble.

Downfall - sis and I used to play this for ages.

[bubblewrap]

i still have to this day my well loved spiroghaph,it one of the first out,no one else has,or will be allowed to use it,in later years i brought the next model out for the children to use,

Bought my sister a Spirograph & the add on too.

[poozie]

Sindy and her horses amused me for ever. And weebles, fuzzy felt, Mr bounce space hopper....................but my most fav toy was a hobby horse my mum found at a jumble sale and covered in fur fabric so i could groom it. That filled the gap until I started riding for real. I used to show jump in the back garden.

[SlugLobber]

No-one has mentioned Pogo sticks!!

Had to wait until I was 28 to get my own space hopper (why did I wait so long?!?) and I never did get a spirograph - boo hiss! I did have a fantastic fire-engine, though, and those strap on roller skates that were bloody lethal! I remember them tarmacing a cobbled hill and we all went up there to 'test it out'. Oooh there were some injuries that day!