Toys that shaped my life... Kinda...

Answers to last weeks photo shop things
1 Louis Walsh
2 Jimmy Saville
3 Sue Pollard
4 Des Lynam
5 Marilyn Manson
6 The Queen (god bless ya 'mam)
7 Ozzy Osbourne


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Staying on Lukes theme of childhood bits and bobs. I present to you.

TOYS THAT WERE GOOD AND STUFF YO!

Boglins

These were blatantly toys for boys, not girls. I was a girl, but I still used to love pushing their eyes inside out and trying to break them to no avail. I have two memories of these things; one is my cousins chasing me around my aunts house with one before I knew what they were and thinking it was real and the second was that my brother had a glow in the dark one which someone put on top of a lamp and it set on fire.
All bad memories, not my favourite toy.


Fish Price Tape Recorder

This was one of my favourite toys, mainly because I am self obsessed and could record myself and listen to it back over and over again. Every now and again I will stumble upon an old tape with a recording of myself babbling away and pretending I am funny. Much like now.

My favourite recording is one where I'm trying to tell a horror story about a old lady that was dead but a ghost which obviously ended with “BUT SHE WAS ALREADY DEAD” only to have my little sister in the background shout “HAVE I MISSED IT YET?” and then laughing to herself. It doesn’t make any sense, none of it does but its a lovely, although a slightly embarrassing, thing to listen to and it's nice to know I had bloody good fun using such a basic toy!
The oddest thing of all is that I have the queens accent, You know! A posh British accent! Not my awful brummie one I have now that sounds like you’re running in mud in slippers. I wonder what went wrong? I can't help but wonder if I'd kept using my tape recorder I could have been a more eloquent person. EH WHAT? BASTARDS!


Popples

 

Not only was it cute but look at it! It's fun! Best of all you can turn it inside itself and it's a weapon! If you threw one of these hard enough you'd cause some serious damage, Great! I cant remember actually playing with these, only really throwing them at people.

Glow-worms

 

Oh, I liked these, these were great.Not the cuddly ones but the plastic glow in the dark things! Yeah! Apart from when I forgot they were in my bedroom and I woke up in the night and thought they were ghosts. Can't do much with them, but when you've got a good enough imagination who cares?! Kids these days have too much complicated shit, bring back glow worms!


Werebears

I'm starting to notice a theme here, and its that I enjoyed toys that you could somehow turn inside out. Only these were cool! These were amazing! I only had 3, I wanted all 4! DAMN IT ALL I WANTED 4! although I think one was actually my brothers, but it was in my house so technically it was mine! Best of all is there was a comic book that went with it, and you could make masks! MASK! I LOVE MASKS! IM HYPERVENTALATIN! ARARAGH!

NO WAIT! Best of all is that you could turn their heads INSIDE OUT. One side a cute teddy bear the other a monster! Bwhaha! It was like they were bi-polar but a very dramatic metaphor.

Pound Puppies

Ahah! These. I had them. I cant remember much about them. Only that they came in a box that looked like a dog house. Shit.


Keypers

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! A TOY WITH ANOTHER TOY INSIDE THAT YOU CAN HIDE THINGS IN?! Thats right! You heard me! Whoa! So simple but so exciting for a 7 year old!
I remember vaguely my friend putting a pound in one of her keypers and it disappearing, we of course blamed the trampy girl that was present, a fight ensued, popples were thrown, turns out it had rolled under the bed. Brilliant.


Stickle Bricks

I hated these but I loved them at the same time. Every school seemed to have them. I think my school had about 5 tons of the stuff. There were pretty limited, I only really liked toys that had faces for some reason. Once you’ve stuck one brick on another you've pretty much reached the pinnacle of your stickle limits. Smash it up. Still keep finding random parts about five years later. Great.

Let go Sticklebricks! Let go! You were rubbish! No one wants you!

Fish Price Roller Skates

Ah my first pair of roller skates, so elegantly they were wedged onto your shoes and you didn’t so much roll and you clomped around making clanking noises. I'd like to say that these were the inspiration for me playing roller derby, but they weren’t, they were awful things that didn’t really work unless you got on some kind of slope and then you were in trouble, rolling at the max speed of 1 mile a day! Slow down! You’re going to fast! You’re a maniac!

...Not quite. They looked cool anyway.