Which Childhood Toy Would you Bring Back?

[Treetotal]

You have brought back memories GG. I remember being delighted at getting a compendium of games
Which had all the games you mention. I only ever asked for a tin of paints and a drawing book.
There were four of us so the games could be played together, until the arguments started, then it would be confiscated.

[candleflame]

My mum kept quite a few toys from my childhood, which my children then played with and now the grandchildren do ! My metal till is currently in eldest grandsons school as part of their ' bring a toy from the old days into school' . I asked him what the other children thought of it and he didn't say a lot , so I don't think they were impressed. He and I had already had conversations about pre decimal money and what all the press down keys meant. He did say it was made of metal and not plastic lol.

One of my favourite toys which I still have was my dolls bungalow - White walls, red roof which lifted off and a red garage door which lifted up with string ( the garage was integral to the house and there was no wall between the garage and the rest of the bungalow). A typical 1960's aspirational bungalow. I played with it for HOURS! Then when our daughters were young, my husband made an extra floor from plywood to the exact size and painted it white and the roof then fitted on top to make it a two storey. There's no stairs so the figures have to leap from the ground floor to the top floo lol.
Our youngest daughter used her playmobil figures in it and she was bought the dolls house playmobil furniture for it too. This was mainly because the playmobil dolls house was far too expensive for us to buy!

My other favourite was Britains garden complete with greenhouse, pond, flower beds, lawns and a lawn mower etc. Still have that in the loft.

The toy I've considered buying second hand is spellmaster, a Spears brand  tile spelling toy. It'd be great for the grandchildren and I wish that one had been kept.

[Ray T]

My favoutite toy, or so I’m told was the pre-decessor of the 13 Amp plug which I would dismantle and re-assemble on a regular basis. Why I didn’t end up becoming an electrician has never been revealed!

[mazi]

Born in 1940 with no older siblings toys as such were almost non existent, so, I would bring back “freedom” the freedom to roam, to climb trees, to explore the abandoned Royal Navy target range and many more.


Mike

[Erato]

I agree.  We were turned loose in the morning and expected to be home for supper at 6 o/c.  If we were late on a summer evening, my father would make a poor attempt at mess call on the trumpet.

[DianaCanada]

You're all going to laugh - it was my 1962 Barbie and the three others in the family that followed her in the next few years.  My mother made clothes, had only one "real" Barbie outfit.  Upset when my mother persuaded me to give the whole kit and kaboodle away to my younger cousins.
In 1961 we went to New York state, i had saved some money, and we went into a toy shop in Lake George.  There was a display of Barbies and I wanted one so badly!  My mother would not let me buy one, she though I was too young.  Might have been the first time I'd seen them.  So the next year she let me pick one out back home when I finished grade 2 - no pony-tailed ones left, but I settled for the short haired one.
Many happy hours playing with them and with other girls who had them too.

[angelfish58]

My other favourite was Britains garden complete with greenhouse, pond, flower beds, lawns and a lawn mower etc. Still have that in the loft.

I had that too, spent hours playing with it, very fiddly trying to put the flowers on the stalks and bushes.

[candleflame]

You're all going to laugh - it was my 1962 Barbie and the three others in the family that followed her in the next few years.

I had a dark haired Sindy doll and her little sister Patch. I wanted to have an action man,  but wasn't allowed one!

[Rena]

You're all going to laugh - it was my 1962 Barbie and the three others in the family that followed her in the next few years.

I had a dark haired Sindy doll and her little sister Patch. I wanted to have an action man, but wasn't allowed one!

OH was in the forces and I hadn't seen the Action Man toy until we came back to England one October and I saw a little neighbour with one.

I bought one for our young son and as soon as my OH saw it he was aghast that I had bought our impressionable son a doll!