Toys

Fabulous Fred was made by Mego Corporation in Japan and was an electronic games machine that featured 10 different activities: electronic organ, music machine, memory game, mind bender, submarine hunt, baseball, roulette game and a few others.My mum remembers buying ...

I used to love these. They were slightly more upmarket and prettier than Sindy or Susie dolls. Susie was the really cheap Sindy/Barbie wannabe, but all my pocket money could stretch to until birthdays and christmas... The air hostess is ...

Fairy Tail Birds were cute, big-eyed birds made by Hasbro. They were similiar in style to My Little Pony.Fairy Tail Birds were available in different colours and had different designs on their chests. They had long hair on their heads ...

Fairy Winkles were a bit like Polly Pocket or Charmkins but they were fairies instead, with twinkly wings that were meant to give them special powers! They had the same compact homes, but they were a bit random (a shell ...

I remember everyone going crazy in the playground for these things. They were named 'spinners' but really they were just posh yo-yo's.I think there were special tricks to learn such as 'walk the dog' and 'rock the cradle', and once ...

Calling all budding florists... did you have this toy when you were a kid? I remember making my granny an entire bouquet of Fantastic Flowers and she loved it! Basically, this involved pressing pieces of paper into a mould to ...

Fashion Gals were like size-sero fashionista versions of Barbies - half the size, skinny and with big hair. You could change their clothes - important considering their links to fashion. ...

Originally released in 1978 Fashion Plates consisted of three different-sized plates that made up a fashion and you would switch them around making new styles. It was a more primitive versin of the popular Fashion Wheel. After you had decided ...

Fashion Star Fillies were a series of plastic toy horses - a jazzed up alternative to My Little Pony - and they came in a range of different colours. Each of the Fashion Star Fillies had their own look and ...

Fashion Wheel was a strange game for girls and was a type of drawing game, in a similar fashion (excuse the pun) as Flip And Fold Fashions. The main part was round and you placed a piece of paper under ...

I'm not sure if this memory of Traxx is accurate, I had a toy, come game, when I was very young and it consisted of a small Jeep like vehicle with big plastik wheels which you atached to an ascending ...

Fat Wheels were tiny little toy vehicles of varying descriptions with 'Fat Wheels' made of hard foam. The wheels were so oversized it made them look ridiculous. The ads in the toy shops said they would be able ...

Fazz was trendy make-up for 80s girls that was worn as jewellery and was shaped in plastic holders like lightening bolts, triangles, etc. The only problem with Fazz was the mess it made - you didn't want to wear it ...

Fetch It Freddy was a toy dog that came complete with its own toy ball. When you rolled the ball, Fetch It Freddy brought it back to you. Fetch It Freddy came with a lead that you could pull ...

1983 Classic Game made by Grandstand, the Firefox F-7 was on every boys christmas list.Described as the handheld miniature space invaders game complete with mini joystick and 'fire' buttons, complete with memorable noises! ...

This was a baby doll quite like tiny tears. It had a waist that pivots. It has very unique plastic sockets in all its joints and thick "rubber bands" held by plastic pins. Often the rubber bands would break and ...

Being a kid in 1973 I remember getting this toy for a birthday present. Its basically a cartridge with very small film in it. This one has the Classic Mickey cartoon "Lonesome ...

Flatsy doll was not only flat but she was bendy. I loved her to bits with her big eyes and whimsical smile. Her technicolour hair was so vibrant. She came in groovy frames with with cool accessories. My favourites ...

Produced in the mid 70s, Flight Deck (later it became known as Super Flight Deck after a few modifications) was a game that involved you landing your Phantom on the cardboard aircraft deck of a ship using a joystick. It ...

Created by Tomy, Flip and Fold Fashions were popular with all aspiring fashionistas in the early 80s. You started off with a plain lady model and could then create your own miniature fashionalble clothes that could be fixed on to ...

Where do I begin? Flower Fairies are the most beautiful dolls ever created! About 7 inches tall, they had sweet little petal costumes and wings that fitted into their backs, inspired by the Cicely Mary Barker drawings. Originally, in 1983 when ...

Flower Patch Kids were imitation Cabbage Patch Kids, for those of us whose parents wouldn't buy us the real thing. I believe they came out a little earlier than the CPK dolls, so many of us had them until ...

Flower Princess Kingdom Dolls were flashy and remind me of the animes of today. Partly because they were made in Hong Kong! They were beautiful dolls with highlighted tresses and they had fantasy horses, including unicorns, instead of the run ...

Fluppy Dogs were a line of plush puppies produced by Hasbro. They resembled sheepdogs, dreadlocked Puli dogs, as well as Dougal from The Magic Roundabout. They came in various colours and had bushy fur coats made of wool that made ...

Made by Mattel Food Fighters were a set of ten food figures all jazzed up in military uniforms. Food Fighters were split into two armies - the Kitchen Commandos and the Refridgerator Rejects. Making up the Kitchen Commandos were the ...

Forest Family were toys that very much resembled the Sylvanian Families and the Maple Town and Calico Critter ranges. I guess they were a copy of these more famous families. I personally didn't even hear about the "Sylvanians" when I ...

The Forever Friends bear was a cuddly looking pale brown bear. He had very red cheeks and in the mid nineties he was everywhere - a bit like the Me to You Bear is now. There were Forever Friends cuddly ...

I was given one of these at a party when I was younger and I was transfixed by it. It literally blew my tiny mind.You probably remember them – they were thin red plastic fish that you would place on ...

The Fraggles were cute little things that lived under a lighthouse. In the lighthouse lived a man and a big fluffy dog!The Fraggles used to work and play in a big cave-type place and there was always one explorer Fraggle ...

The French Knitting doll has always been a girls' favourite. They are also known as Knitting Nancys, Bizzy Lizzys, knitting mushrooms, knitting spools, corkers, peg knitters, knitting nobbys (or knitting noddys) or knitting knobbys. There were so many different ...

I got a Fresh N' Fancy set for Christmas in 1980 or 1981. It was a make your own make-up and perfume set, complete with eye and lip colour pigments that you mixed together with a white cream substance.You got ...

Tin toy cars were very popular in the 1950's and 1960's, these were later replaced with diecast models in the 1970's. Tin toy cars were produced in America, South America, Europe, and most notably, Japan. These toys used friction to ...

Frustration is a fantastic game - not at all like "ludo" or other more boring variations.Yes - like 'ludo' It's a counter game where you have to move your colour round the board to 'get home' (with the person who ...

Fun Flowers consisted of a metal mold that you plugged into the mains and it would heat up. You could use different shaped metal plates which would fill with goop in allsorts of colours. Once they heated up they would ...

Freddy was great! You could change how this big, dopey-looking blue dog looked over and over again by re positioning his arms and legs, ears - because they had wire inside them - or even changing the way his face ...

At some point in the 90s, you could have been forgiven for thinking that Furbish, not Spanish, was the fastest-growing language in the world. You could hear it from wherever you were in your house. Sometimes even in the middle ...

Furrever Friends were plush cats with really long tails. The tail sections had velcro on them so you could detach and reattach them. You could even buy separate tails to attach to your Furrever Friends to make them ridiculously long. ...

Furskins were a bunch of character bears dressed in clothes. They were designed by Xavier Roberts who was also being the Cabbage Patch Kids. There were sixteen different small Furskin bears, sixteen large plush bears and six smaller plush bears ...

Bring back Fuzzy Felt! Ok, so it's stuck around to some extent, but surely it's the ideal toy to invest in right now. For one, it's one of the few toys these days that doesn't require batteries, and secondly it ...

Fuzzy Stickers were HUGE during the sticker collecting fad! These were highly sought after stickers because they were fuzzy to the touch. These mostly came in animal figures, but many types were found.. Hmm... I have to go to ...