ON THIS MOST special of days, let us cast our minds back to Toy Shows and
Christmasses past, when all we wanted was…
1. Mr Frosty
Surely the top coveted toys of all the coveted toys?
2. Sylvanian Families
So expensive. So tiny. So necessary.
3. Scalextrix
No matter how many times the cars flew off the track, this was a quality toy.
4. Screwball Scramble
A frustrating noisefest. The dream.
5. Fashion Wheel
Hours and hours of tracing. That’s all it was: tracing.
6. Commadore 64
Or it’s nemesis, the Amstrad CPC 464.
7. Cabbage Patch Kids
Many Irish kids settled for the cheaper alternative… the cauliflower kid.
8. Operation
“You’re the doctor, it’s so much fun to play!”
9. Subbuteo
Floodlights were the holy grail.
10. Mouse Trap
The cause of so many fights.
11. Bed Bugs
So so loud. Your dad would definitely have hid the batteries by 11am.
12. Buckaroo
“Cos you never know when that mule is gonna….”
13. Fisher Price garage
Was there anything more fun than firing those cars down the ramp?
14. A microscope
Making tiny things appear huge was a BIG childhood dream
15. Chemistry set
To go along with the microscope.
16. Big Yellow Teapot
They always had one in other people’s houses. WHY CAN’T I HAVE ONE?!
17. Big Red Fun Bus
Ditto the Big Red Fun Bus.
18. My Little Pony Dream Castle
It was HUGE*!
* About the size of a shoebox. Cost £1253464542.
19. He-Man Spydor
Just for the “SPYDOR, SPYDOR” chant alone.
20. Transformers
Robots in disguise. Optimus Prime was the ultimate dream.
21. Millenium Falcon
The Holy Grail of Star Wars toys.
22. Spirograph
True artistry at your fingertips.
What ones did we leave out? Let us know in the comments…
