Toys

Following the huge success of the E.T. movie a whole range of E.T. merchandising was created including various E.T. toys.The best E.T. toy, in my opinion was the plastic E.T. with the extending neck. The wrinkly brown alien had a ...

Easy Bake was a mini oven so little girls could bake cakes. I remember baking lots of cakes and having cake parties with my Easy Bake oven. It even came with packets of cake mix and round pans for baking ...

The Easy Show Movie Projector needed a plain wall or a sheet suspended from a picture rail in order to work properly. I tried to view it on the ceiling once, but just got a cricked neck! The Easy Show ...

Egg Men were little eggs that opened up into little figures. They were quite a few different Egg Men figures available including Dracula, a mummy, a zombie and werewolf. ...

I distinctly remember Electric Super Cup Football. it was kind of like a cross between those static air hockey tables you always get at Mega Bowl or in the seaside arcades, with the classic Subbuteo football game. I think ...

Electric Trucking Slot Cars were essentially like Scalextric. There were all sorts of different slot cars available, but the Truck variety was a popular option for boy's obsessed with the open road. As you might imagine, the set was particularly ...

The Electro Shot Shooting Gallery made by Marx Games was a noisier version of the Magic Shot Shooting Gallery and had an electric machine gun instead of a pistol.The idea was the same though - you had to fire at ...

Essentially just a gimmicky piece of costume branded by the 70s TV show 'Emergency!' which centred around the goings on of Station 51 and Rampart Emergency Hospital, dealing often with actual events in an attempt to educate as well as ...

I had a BUNCH of Enchanted Horses! They were colorful plastic horses that came with all sorts of fashions and accessories. The saddle was snap-on, and the bridle reins were made of plastic pearl beads.I had one Hawaiian one named ...

Entertech water guns were water guns that had a special feature: battery-power. One would load the necessary sized batteries into the water gun, fill the removable water-clip, and pull the trigger. The batteries would allow the gun to automatically ...

Erector Set was a construction set that was very similar to the popular Meccano - Lego for older kids. Originally released in the early 1900s, the new Erector Sets are actually manufactured by Meccano.Sets were varied and consisted of packs ...

Playground Kids were a collection of dolls who could play on their dedicated playground equipment thanks to their grasping hands. You could fix them to a climbing frame and they would hang with their hands. Playground Kids' bodies were soft ...

Etch-a-Sketch was a red plastic square-shaped toy with a grey screen. When you turned the two knobs a line would appear on the screen. One dial made the 'cursor' move up and down and the other moved the 'cursor left ...

For some reason, this was one of the best toys ever. It consisted of a replica Evel Knievel with his bike and a red box with a handle. The rear wheel of the bike plugged into the box and turning ...

My cousin loved Ewoks - remember them? They were the stars of Star Wars and later many animated TV programmes. He had an Ewok Village and used to play out whole dramas with it. I remember a family do at ...

These toys were sold by British Home Stores, 1987-1988. They were 16-wheel drive vehicles in four different variants: Ocean, Polar, Terrain and Space. There was also a base station and numerous trailers that you could buy to attach to the ...

EZ 2 Do was basically the same oven as the Easy Bake Oven, except that you could make jewellery in it. It came with fluorescent colored clay - I think it was called Fimo or Plasticraft - "friendly plastic" ...