[Kizzy]

There was always something I was trying to get at christmas for my two..Ringing loads of shops, I always managed to track THE must have gift down. Ones I remember...
Teletubbies
scoobydoo mystery machine
bratz dolls
zue zue hamsters

[Marc]

Ammi this is really weird... I was going to start a similar thread!

I wanted a Mr. Frosty and a Furbie

[Me. I Am Salman]

If we're talking about playground crazes as well, happy slaps D;

[Munchkins]

Tamagotchi
Furby

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Marc

Ammi this is really weird... I was going to start a similar thread!
I wanted a Mr. Frosty and a Furbie

..we are like one Marc...

[SharkAttack]

GI Joe, WWF wrestlers, lite brite, He-man, Transformers, Go-bots. Garbage Pail Kids. Dear God...

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Collected pokemon cards but don't have them any more. My sister had a Furby, it scared me.

I was more of a Power Rangers, Hot Wheels and Thunderbirds kind of kid... I had the Tracy Island set, and apparently I cried when Thunderbird 2 crashed in the TV series once.

As for playground crazes... we went through marbles a couple of times, and those little plastic monsters things with faces and feet... dunno what they were called. Pogs tried to take off but failed. A few people collected Magic: The Gathering cards, but I was never interested. The only things I'd swap with friends were pokemon cards and football stickers.

..I couldn't get the Tracy Island...I made the one off Blue Peter..

..also, my son cried when James the Engine got his paint wet...

[Munchkins]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..I couldn't get the Tracy Island...I made the one off Blue Peter..

..also, my son cried when James the Engine got his paint wet...

I cried when my lala cake got cut

[Kizzy]

Oh my god... How could I forget the trauma of thomas the tank?
I must have blocked it out!
Haha! I LOVED garbage pail kids stickers!!
My mother was livid when I stuck my collection on her new fridge freezer

[Ammi]

..I didn't realise this topic would bring back such traumatic memories....

..maybe we need a therapy thread as well..

..my brother pulled the head off my Barbie...tbf, I scratched one of his records first, so it was payback.....

[armand.kay]

Ohh and those dog things they use to give in the happy meals

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Marc

Ammi this is really weird... I was going to start a similar thread!

I wanted a Mr. Frosty and a Furbie

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

[King Gizzard]

what a joke

[Novo]

These great things that you could throw at anything and they would stick to it

[SharkAttack]

Originally Posted by kizzy

Oh my god... How could I forget the trauma of thomas the tank?
I must have blocked it out!
Haha! I LOVED garbage pail kids stickers!!
My mother was livid when I stuck my collection on her new fridge freezer

Keep forgetting we're about the same age, Kizzy, keep mistaking you for 29.

[AnnieK]

Cabbage patch kids ( was never allowed one)
Pound puppies
All barbie and cindy stuff
I had a mr frosty but really wanted a soda stream
Operation and mouse trap were my fave games

[lostalex]

TMNT and G.I.JOE were always my favorites.

But also building toys, like Pipeworks and Legos were great.

Mostly though just building things out of ordinary stuff. I remember my best friend and I used to make a haunted house in my basement, we'd created like a tunnel system out of carboard boxes, and put fake spiders and cobwebs through it, and we'd try to scare my little brother when he'd go through it. it was a alot of fun. Also we used to put on shows, use flashlights as spotlights, and do parodys of movies and stuff.

Most of the stuff we did really didn't require toys or anything, we'd use ordinary stuff. toys were more for when yu were alone, and i'd have battles between all of my TMNT and GI Joe action figures... but with my friends we never really played with toys.

I remember we used to also try to make our own comic books, and we'd try to come up with all new characters and draw them, and we really believed that we were gonna be the new Marvel comics. we really believed the characters we were creating would be as big as X-men or SPider man. It was exciting. We even drew a barcode on it, lol it makes no sense, but it just made it look more professional, so we'd put a barcode on the cover lol.

I miss it. *gets all nostalgic and stuff*

[Ammi]

..yeah, never underestimate the childhood occupation of building things...my favourite thing was to build dens...and then fill them with anything I could find....I could believe they were anything from a pirate ship to an Arabian palace..the imagination was the most valuable 'toy' to have.....

..they always eventually got 'wrecked' and then I'd build another one..a much more ambitious and better one....

[SharkAttack]

<immediately rates this thread 5/5 stars> Great stuff, everyone.

[lostalex]

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.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..we are like one Marc...

Only when interwoven

[Lee.]

Does anybody remember the Coca Cola spinner craze?

[Lee.]

Does anybody remember the Coca Cola spinner craze?

[lostalex]

it's called a yo-yo in America. yo-yo's were far before my time, but we did have a toy like a yo-yo it was like a sphere that had the same purpose but i forget what they were called though. It was in the 80's. It was like a sphere that had a string, and you were meant to play with it in the same way as a yo-yo, but unlike a yo-yo it had like an automatic system so that it would come back even without doing the correct motion. I'm not explaining it correctly... but it was like a sphere with a mechanism that automatically wound the cord back into it. Like if you pulled it all the way out, it would automatically come back to yur hand. I can't explain it properly, nevermind.

[Lee.]

Yeah, they're called yo-yos here too, but this particular craze was marketed as "spinners". I remember EVERYBODY in school had one circa 1990! There was loads of tricks to learn, but I have to admit I dint get quite as obsessed as some did.