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Originally Posted by Josy (Post 5586945)

I saw a rip off version of mr frosty the other day, it was a penguin.

Mr Penguin?!

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/up...-real-life.jpg

i remember there was a yoyo we all had in the late 80's early nineties that was like a yoyo that wound itself back, like you didn't have to wind it back up again. I don't know if we are talking about the same thing.

It was around the same time as slap bracelets, remember those?

I remember having a Stretch Armstrong and me and my sisters all took one limb each and stretched it across the whole room and it's insides started coming out

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5587567)

I remember having a Stretch Armstrong and me and my sisters all took one limb each and stretched it across the whole room and it's insides started coming out

I remember dissecting my stretch armstrong. I cut it open like a surgery though lol, i didn't even bother stretching it that much, i just cut it open and remember what looked like ooze at the time, but now as an adult i think it's basically the same stuff breast implants are made off. Like silicon gel.

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Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 5587565)

Nah, the coca cola ones were proper yoyos... they were really heavy though and easy to control.

I vaguely remember slap bracelets, I don't remember having any though...either because I thought I was too cool for them or my mum wouldn't buy me them, I'm not sure :)

It was some brown stuff IIRC :laugh: was a bit of a discovery considering we thought it was indestructable!

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5587567)

I remember having a Stretch Armstrong and me and my sisters all took one limb each and stretched it across the whole room and it's insides started coming out

I remember my sister and I totally ****ing up Mr Frosty by putting flump sweeties through him :bored:

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Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 5587550)

I remember when Jurassic Park came out, We created like a safari ride, where we'd put my little brother in a wagon, and then he was like in the car on Jurrassic park, and we totally set up the whole back yard like Jurassic Park. and then there'd be different areas where the wagon would stop and then one of my friends would jump out as a T-rex, and we made all sorts of costumes and had the whole thing planned out. it was so cool.

Gawd, thinking about all of this is really making me want to have kids!! It's totally making my biological clock tick louder. I forgot how cool it was to be a kid.

I'm gonna be such a cool Dad some day.

toys really are **** though, none of my favorite memories as a kid involved toys. Building other stuff out of nothing was far more fun.

..that's one of the great things about being a parent Alex...you get to be a child twice....

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5587567)

I remember having a Stretch Armstrong and me and my sisters all took one limb each and stretched it across the whole room and it's insides started coming out

...Oh LOL..how could I forget Stretch Armstrong..my boys did that as well...it actually totally freaked me out and I couldn't watch...I'm not sure why really...

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Originally Posted by Lee. (Post 5587578)

I remember my sister and I totally ****ing up Mr Frosty by putting flump sweeties through him :bored:

Omg what a way to go though

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5587585)

TY beanie babies

http://s3.hubimg.com/u/244838_f520.jpg

oh gawd, that makes me think of Troll dolls, i never got into the beanie babies, but I did go through a troll phase! (no troll jokes please, it would be too obvious)

http://www.livinginthelightms.com/troll1.jpg

TY BEANIE BABIES omg
i had about 80 so they had to be put in a seperate toy bag

and troll dolls <3 i had about 5/6 i think and they all had different names :P