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I think mine was this little yappy dog, sometime early 90s. It had buttons on the end of its lead to make it walk forwards, backwards, and bark. I got very bored of it very quickly, it was nothing like a real dog!
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It's a toss up between a musical hippo piano and a teddy bear who sang nursery rhymes as I can't remember which I had first . I also had a baby doll who would crawl across the floor if you put batteries in her backside
. I wasn't too fond of her as she was a very limited toy, being moulded into a crawling position, made entirely of very hard plastic and she made such a whirring noise crawling she got on your nerves after the first five minutes. Both the piano and the teddy are up in the loft and still work perfectly. I think the doll is stil there too, I must have a look when I put the tree away, things have a habit of randomly vanishing from my loft.
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It's a toss up between a musical hippo piano and a teddy bear who sang nursery rhymes as I can't remember which I had first . I also had a baby doll who would crawl across the floor if you put batteries in her backside
. I wasn't too fond of her as she was a very limited toy, being moulded into a crawling position, made entirely of very hard plastic and she made such a whirring noise crawling she got on your nerves after the first five minutes. Both the piano and the teddy are up in the loft and still work perfectly. I think the doll is stil there too, I must have a look when I put the tree away, things have a habit of randomly vanishing from my loft.
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Fabulous Fred.... it wasn't really.
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A Major Morgan
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In 1979 we had the Radofin TV-sports (10 games, tennis, football, target) with the black and white lines on a grey background and two analogue joystick controllers.
My sister had the Mario/Luigi handheld LCD game from 1983 (forerunner to the Gameboy). I'm sure the brown handheld game we had before that was called Gutang Gatong (spelling?) but can't find it online. I had the Sinclair ZX81, later the ZX Spectrum, 1981/1983. Triang-Hornby (electric trains) and Triang-Minic (slot-cars compatible with Triang trains), from around 1970. Motorised Lego (car/train chassis connected by wire to a battery pack/controller) from early 1970's. |
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Either a little synthesizer type organ, or the Robie Jr robot, which came with a tray!
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A Tri-onic electronic engineering kit. Around 1964 when I was eleven. A couple of years later a pair of imported walkie-talkies, when they were illegal in this country.
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Not a toy but a Casio calculator.
Old fashioned basic functions with green LED display. If you were quiet, you could hear it beep slightly. First true electronic toy was a ZX81 with the 16K RAM pack |
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SIMON - the game where you had to copy the sequence of bleeps/lights that the game emitted.
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Demon Driver - much loved and played with a lot but more electro-mechanical than electronic...
Got Grandstand Munchman a couple of years later - not very playable if I remember rightly and then I discovered the ZX Spectrum for games |
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It was called Merlin and it looked like a large red mobile phone.
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c 1958 When the first transistor radios began to appear they were the size of a pack of cigs, So if inclined , then when in a crowd you could switch on while it was concealed in a coat pocket and then join in the general bewilderment of heads turning in all directions trying to trace from where the broadcasts were coming from.
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I think it may have been an electronic chess set.
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I remember as a child seeing an advert for a new set of children's power tools. I pleaded with my parents to get me the circular saw and imagined all the wonderful things that I could build. They eventually caved in and bought me one. Imagine my disappointment when I opened the box to find the circular saw and several wafer thin sheets of polystyrene (and it struggled to even cut through those).
I couldn't find a picture but while searching I did find a very funny article on The 8 most wildly irresponsible Vintage Toys. ![]() I remember at school the kids used to put their fingers in liquid mercury and swill it around. I used to paint my boat with some left over WW2 anti-fouling, which contained things like lead, mercury, cadmium, strontium, arsenic compounds, a lethal cocktail of poisonous substances. Needless to say that's been banned a long time ago. |
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. I wasn't too fond of her as she was a very limited toy, being moulded into a crawling position, made entirely of very hard plastic and she made such a whirring noise crawling she got on your nerves after the first five minutes. Both the piano and the teddy are up in the loft and still work perfectly. I think the doll is stil there too, I must have a look when I put the tree away, things have a habit of randomly vanishing from my loft.