| Childhood toys and memoriezs.
Posted: 3/22/2006 2:26:56 AM | What toy do you still have or have fond memories of from when you was a toddler. what memory takes you back to those days.
I had a stuffed Mickey mouse toy, I would have been about 6 years old, I don't know if this type of toy had a particular name but this one had a rubber face, in Woolworths in Birmingham town centre they had black monkeys with the same type of faces hung up from some chrome metal work around the toy area. We left Birmingham when I was 7 or 8 years old the toy didn't go with us for some reason, a couple of years later I went back to the house which was due for demolition but there was no sign of Mickey.
(Just been searching the web to see if I can find any mention of this style of doll but no good so far.)
In Birmingham's New Street (our main railway station) there was and still is a guy selling Jacket potatoes, the smell of them always takes me back to a winters evening wrapped up in a coat with scarf the pigeons flying around and Christmas decorations all around.
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Posted: 3/22/2006 2:41:17 AM | My stepdad once made me a box car, All the other kids made them out of old pram wheels & scrap peices of wood. For weeks my dad was in the shed making this surprise present for me, i had no idea what it was & remember thinking my dad was such a cheapskate & other kids had presents bought for them.
Anyway, my birthday had arrived & there was this box car.... Modelled on my dads car at the time, a black & gold special edition escort estate... He went out & bought brand new wheels, it had curved side panels with gold go-faster stripes down it & a number plate on the back with my name on, It was the flashest box car in the area!! God, how the other kids hated me...didnt take long to trash it though! | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 2:47:40 AM | | I remember finding my mothers' dutch cap in the drawer next to her bed (for the benefit of our younger viewers, it's an ancient form of contraception used by women whos husbands were unlikely to venture south).....anyway I used to stretch it over my head and pretend to be one of the baddies from Dr Who.... | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 2:49:46 AM | A Johnny Seven.... a machine gun and grenade launcher ..wicked..
A Honda C50..stripped of all the plastics, brakes that did not work, half a seat and no exhaust, whizzing around the fields , trying to jump the brook... fantastic introduction to Biking..lol... I think the damn thing is still going nearly 35yrs later....
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kel14
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Joined: 3/17/2006
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| Childhood toys and memoriezs.
Posted: 3/22/2006 2:56:00 AM | it souns sad now but i had a long yellow barbie camper van and i thought it was the bees knees as none of my friends have it!!!
it was made so well years ago...now i buy some stuff for barbies for my daughter and it just isnt like it used to be!!
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Posted: 3/22/2006 2:56:49 AM | I think you maybe right there nom... i had a c50... bought off a mate for £20, just hanging together, i remember whizzing round the fields on it... until my mate had a go & pretended he was gonna run me over, he wasnt, only i panicked & ran the same way as he swerved... smash!!!
He`s ok & i am on the floor shaking in shock!!!... how that could have happened on a large playing field i dont know.... the bike was fine. | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 3:00:32 AM | I had a giggles doll, you pulled its arms open and it giggled not sure what happened to it but the giggle stayed with me  | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 3:02:29 AM | BigS... I was on the back of a TS 125 no rear mudguard... blasting round a HUGE field with a small rise and one solitary tree atop...
Yes..you guessed...we hit the tree...
I slid off the back of the bike straight on to the rear wheel...
I had bollox like melons for days..utterly black and blue... I can feel the pain now as I type this....
Nom
Feeling sick.. | |
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| Childhood toys and memoriezs.
Posted: 3/22/2006 3:03:15 AM | I have two toys I remember particularly fondly
The first is a teddy bear, but not just any old teddy bear - it was a panda. My dad used to make up stories about this panda - I took it to bed with me every night, and even as a adult, if I felt low, or ill I'd cuddle up with this panda.
The other was a doll with a porcelain head and a soft body. It was a baby doll and it was the ugliest thing you've ever seen.
Neither of these toys is anywhere to be seen now. I do know what happened to them. The unsentimental, practical side of somebody rubs off after a while, and they got thrown out in one of our major decluttering sessions. | |
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| Childhood toys and memoriezs.
Posted: 3/22/2006 3:26:14 AM | Nom you must have been blind as a bat, but then again after riding the back wheel like that you must have ended up cross eyeds as well!!!
Brought tears to me eyes that did! | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 3:51:55 AM | | Mike... Sadly I was not the rider I was the passanger...and rather sore for quite a while. | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 9:07:46 AM | @Justgeorgie,
Why didn't you admit to that training vibrator you have saved all these years?  | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 9:23:15 AM | i remember having the jem doll and the guitar stage she sang on if i remember correctly she was a rock star!!! i think it was a cartoon as well
i also my sister having a rainbow brite doll that she wanted only it wasnt the girl father christmas bought her it was the star hahaha she was sooooooo disapointed
(ok that only makes sense if you remember them lol) | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 9:32:50 AM | cabbage patch doll! i loved that doll
Also a teddy bear...well its a polar bear that was brought for my by my dad when i was born. My older sister was jealous of it so she paintes his nose with tippex and bit his eyes off :o( Ive still got him now! | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 1:14:31 PM | | i had a foam kermit the frog, he had wire inside so i cud bend him into all shapes haha. i loved him | |
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Posted: 3/22/2006 6:58:57 PM | my fav toy was purple....was nice to ride......but vibrated sometimes
i guess i shlda fixed the shocks on my bike lol  | |
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Posted: 3/23/2006 4:05:30 AM | I remember having a HP Sauce bottle on wheels with a steering wheel...
God... i think that shows my age, anyone else remember them or did i dream it? | |
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Travan
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Joined: 11/23/2008
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| Childhood toys and memoriezs.
Posted: 6/2/2009 4:29:26 AM | I had a police car with a flashing blue light and a siren. My granda was the only person who didn't mind me playingwith it but that's cos he was half deaf.
Later I had a robot that also had flashing lights and fired guns. That was my fave til the batteries died lol | |
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| Childhood toys and memoriezs.
Posted: 6/2/2009 4:41:24 AM |
I remember finding my mothers' dutch cap in the drawer next to her bed (for the benefit of our younger viewers, it's an ancient form of contraception used by women whos husbands were unlikely to venture south).....anyway I used to stretch it over my head and pretend to be one of the baddies from Dr Who....
Has this resulted in/contributed to hair loss in later life ? | |
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Posted: 6/2/2009 4:41:25 AM | I still have my entire collection of original Noddy books, a womble, a pink and white rabbit pyjama case and a huge panda .. can't bear to part with any of them!
My favourite toy was a Girl's World, spent hours plastering blue eyeshadow and red blusher on it and doing its hair | |
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Posted: 6/2/2009 4:54:13 AM | | We did'nt have toys when we were kids, we amused ourselves by pulling the legs off daddy longlegs, and tieing up my baby sister in the garage, BAhahaha | |
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Posted: 6/2/2009 6:14:24 AM | | i use to have a little plastic dalek..i use to wind it up with a little key and it would run around the floor in circles.. | |
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sjxx
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Joined: 4/9/2009
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| Childhood toys and memoriezs.
Posted: 6/2/2009 6:34:04 AM | I still have James a bald teddy bear who wears a blue and pink dress to keep him warm & only has one eye. He too is 40 and when i die he is coming with me in my box.  | |
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Posted: 6/2/2009 8:23:59 AM | | LEGO was always the one for me. I spent hours building increasingly complex things. Happy times. | |
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Posted: 6/2/2009 10:26:53 AM | A clockwork white bear with glasses on and when wound up , ironed on it,s little ironing board.
Still have a stuffed dog that,s neither shape nor form called sniffy.
At age 2 i called all dog,s sniffy,s. | |
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