Seven Again Toys and Games guide
Cadbury Chocolate Miniature Dispenser
For some reason this was one of the things I always
wanted when flicking through the toys section of the catalogue as a child.
A money box, that essentially rewards you with chocolate for saving. It sounded perfect, it probably was. Did I every get one to find out. Did I heck.
Back in the 1980’s it used to take 2p pieces, now it’s a whole 10p per miniature. Damn inflation!
I still can’t fathom how a Cadbury’s miniature tastes so much better, than a piece of identical Cadbury’s dairy milk. But it does, and I know you all agree…
So let me get this right, I can twiddle knobs and they will magically draw whatever
I want, and after if I don’t like it, I can just shake the picture away!??Brilliant!
Oh, but you have to draw in straight lines, and oh, you can’t make any mistakes halfway through!
This classic toy, originally invented in the 1950’s is a timeless classic. Nothing was more likely to encourage a child to draw a house on a rainy day. Not a toy for fans of all things spherical, there was a certain ingenuity to be had, trying to draw a house, where the windows weren’t connected to the walls by a single line! Try it today, it’s highly therapeutic, probably karma for the infuriation it often caused as a child!
Another timeless classic. Over 300 million have been sold!
This should be marketed as an exercise tool, what else could make you climb the
Stairs 10 times in the same number of minutes? Spawning a range of toys, the original
is still the best. Pass it from hand to hand, suspend it in the air, walk it down the stairs, but whatever you do, don’t stand on it.
If there was an award for the best smelling toy of all time, they’re could be only one winner ( as far as I’m aware there’s no such award, but when channel 4 get desperate with their top 100 lists, you never know…!)
It was also fun to play with, squidgy and colourful it came in numerous bright colours. Play Doh barbershop being the perfect companion to the malleable mixture.
I Guarantee, when you get a tub next, the first thing you’ll do is smell it…
The iconic toy of the 1980’s. There was a time when it seemed that everyone had one.
In fact they probably did. The trouble was , I can’t recall anyone who was any good at completing it. Sure there were the spotty geeks on Saturday Morning Superstore who could do it, but very few others. A sense of achievement quickly became completing one of the 6 faces with the same colour! Still, there were alternatives, chiefly removing and replacing all the stickers, or smashing the little b’stard open with a screwdriver and putting it back together- often without success. Yet still now I think, aha, this time I’ll do it, try it, go on….. you’ve no chance…..!
A great little childhood favourite. Invented after the war by a bored scientist, no longer concerned with trivialities such as the Manhattan project, and more focussed on something that could bounce, snap, stretch and …. most importantly, take up impressions from your comics! Subsequent fun followed for generation after generation. Still available in the little red eggs……
A toy undoubtedly designed to counteract the indefatigable nature of younger children. 20 mins round the garden on this bad boy and then were knackered.
This toy has 70’s written all over it, I mean it’s orange for starters, with a weird face which I still can’t make out what it’s meant to depict. These days it really comes into it’s own in a garden, during a barbeque, with several tipsy adults. Throw in a small exuberant dog and it’s like being a mere nipper again, except the drunkenness of course…!
Great fun as a child and what’s more, a simple pleasure. Pull them back and watch them go. But ho! Wait! put a penny in the slot in the back and they wheelie up as they race. Amazing! Ok, well not amazing, in fact more average fun when compared with other toys out there. However, it’s hard to see how the modern office desks free of clutter aren’t the perfect racing opportunity. Or is that just me..?
Ok, so this wasn’t what you got as a child of the 80’s, but it’s the chance to relive the exact same experience. Sans the loading time too! Includes Pong. For those of you who aren’t familiar, this is the iconic two blocks, one ( permanently pixellated ) square and about 4 hours of addiction. If you don’t believe me, get on a Virgin Atlantic flight, you’ll end up playing this game the most… Or for a least £300 cheaper give it a whirl now…
Possibly too much fun as a child. At least until the little metal strips on the bottom of the car broke!!! Anyhow, you’d race round the track, they’d fly off, you’d race more, they’d fly off again. You know the drill. Sets ranged from a basic figure 8 track ( for the poorer kids) to the whole bells and whistles set- smoke, grandstands, multi-loops ( only child). It’s as competitive as ever when you play it now. Dads out there everywhere are counting the days until their son is old enough to get them their first set!!
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