Favourite Childhood Toys

Childhood toys are always great to talk about. I was born in 1988 so my toys mainly cam from the late eighties and early nineties. We were not a wealthy family and as I was a middle child many toys were passed down the line. I made this quite difficult as I was a tom boy and my sister had Barbie's. I refused to play with them when I got to about three years old and mainly played with boys toys. Here are my five favourite toys- 1 - Toy Cars I loved my little toy cars, the metal ones that you get to play with Hot wheels garages and tracks. I used to have about a hundred of them and live them up all over the house. As I was quite a hyper active ...  Read the complete review

I was born in the summer of 1983 so my toys really date from the late 80's. I have my top 5 here... 1 - Barbie I was never really a baby doll girl but when in came to barbie, I had to have her, I had them all barbie house, barbie shower, barbie car although my brother stole this for his action man quite often. I used to have my friends round and my bedroom was set up as barbie land. 2 - Lego I was about 12 when I became obsessed with my brothers lego. It was the small type which you use to have green plastic board to build on I think I used to play house with the little lego people. I wonder if you can still ...  Read the complete review

I keep reading others reviews on their favourite toys from their childhood and going away and thinking about it, so it's about time I put finger to keyboard. So, given that my childhood was technically 1976 - 1992 with the emphasis firmly on 1980 - 1988 toys wise, you get an idea of the kind of things available. 1. In first place is Barbie. I loved Barbie, Sindy was a close second and I regarded them as friends. I also had Ken and my Mum's old Paul doll (Sindy's boyfriend) which had been mauled by my Nannan's dog, but I didn't mind. He and Sindy were the real deal. I had lots of dolls, in glamorous gowns, in shorts and t-shirts, in swimming ...  Read the complete review

Okay, this is showing my age here people, but here goes. (Period of play circa 1974 to 1984) (In no particular order) THE ATARI GAMES CONSOLE: My favourite game on it, mainly because I was deadly at it, was BREAKOUT. In this you had a small bat at the bottom of the screen which you could only move from side to side and a wall about 8 deep of different coloured bricks at the top of the screen. There was a small gap between the top of the wall and the top of the screen playing area which effectively meant there was a thin unbreakable wall behind the main wall of bricks. When you pressed start a small white ball came out ...  Read the complete review

I was born in the Spring of 1983 and so many of my favourite childhood toys were rather classic late 80's to early 90's toys. The following hold some very fond memories for me. ::: Hungry Hippos ::: Hungry Hippos, the game of marble munching madness. This has to be my all time favourite childhood toy. I have such fond memories of playing this game with my brother as a child until the time came when we had outgrown it and it was then passed on to our younger cousins. Hungry Hippos, from MB Games, is still available in many stores. It consists of a red square, plastic base with four coloured hippos at each side. I remember the pink ...  Read the complete review