Toys

There has probably never been a cuter pig portrayed in film, book or anywhere than “Babe” TM. When it came out in the cinema, Babe was a phenomenon, it was massively popular, people cried en masse at the end, there ...

Does anyone remember going to the grocery store and buying little, candy-sized bags that had babies in them with cloth diapers and a whole list of the other collectibles in the series? ...

Baby Alive was a realistic baby doll originally made by Kenner in 1973. Kenner also made successful toys such as the Easy-Bake Oven and Spirograph. The Baby Alive doll came in just her sunsuit and hair ribbon and had a ...

Baby All Gone was a baby doll made by Kenner in 1992 after the success of Baby Alive. Baby All Gone came with a can of 'baby formula', a baby bottle, a jar of cherries and a spoon. You could ...

Baby Born is still one of the most popular baby dolls around. There are a variety of different dolls but they all have one thing in common - they are all quite realistic babies.Baby Born dolls are made by Zapf ...

Baby Brother Tender Love was from the Tender love dolls line made by Mattel. He was made in the 70's and came with a cute two-piece outfit and a bottle. Baby Brother doll was different from other male dolls of the ...

Baby Bubbles : Baby Bubbles was a bubble blowing baby from 1989 made by Ideal Toy Co. Measuring around 16-inches Baby Bubbles was made of vinyl and cloth. She came with her bottle that you filled with soapy water ...

An amazing thing I thought - a real walking doll! I think Baby Come Back may have been the first of her kind, (certainly mine) and loads of things similar have been on market since. If she bumped into a ...

Baby Cut and Grow was a cute doll from the 80's which had a hole in the top of her head and a hatch in her back. She came with yarn "hair" inserts in different colors. You pulled her hair ...

I had a Baby Feels So Real! She was a baby doll that was filled with some type of gel, so that when you held her she felt heavy, like a real baby. I think she weighed about 2 pounds. ...

I had a Baby Go Bye Bye when I was a little girl. I LOVED her! I was a tomboy and never really played with dolls but I still have her to this day. She's a tattered mess and the ...

Baby Grows Up Doll was made by Mattel in the 70's. She would grow in the legs about two inches when you pulled her string. She came with two outfits. She had a pink outfit with a bonnet when she ...

I was about 3 or 4 when Baby Heather came out and I had gotten her for Christmas and when we opened the box, her head was at the bottom! It took my parents four attempts to get the stupid ...

Baby Kickie was a doll, made by Mattel in 1987 that was a bit like Tiny Tears to look at except that she had flippers on her feet. You would put Baby Kickie in to a pool or bath tub ...

This possibly has to be one of the freakiest dolls ever produced by Temco, or indeed any other manufacturer. Not only did the doll look scarily similar to the horror character, Chucky, with her red bunches and permanent crazed smile, ...

Baby Lou was created by Zapf creations in the early 90s, I remember seeing the adverts around 1993. She was the kind of baby doll every little girl dreamed of. large, blonde and beautiful, though you could buy Baby Lou ...

Baby Luv 'N Care was an awsome doll! She took two D type batteries and she would become "ill". Her arms would rise up and down and her cheeks would light up beet red so you had to take her ...

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She was a doll from the 70s, with blonde hair and a pink summer dress and had a heart-shaped button that when you pressed it made her say, "I love you, Mummy." ...

You know the recent Evian water advert with the hipster babies all roller skating around (it gained over 4 million hits on the internet)? Well, you may be surprised to know that they're not the first toddlers to get their ...

Baby Surprise was the baby that came with a cloth pouch that you put in the water so that the cloth would dissolve. Enclosed was the baby's 'papers' and its name, which you would mail into the company so that ...

Baby Talk was a doll that blinked her eyes while talking. She said lots of things like "I love you Mommy", "Turn me over", "I like to be picked up", "Feed me".She also said "I love you Mommy, I'm sleepy, ...

Baby Wurble was an early 80s electronic bear made by Cuddle Wit. They're now considered collectors items as they particularly rare. They were available in both light brown and dark brown. Baby Wurble was light-sensitive so it would come alive ...

Of all the puzzles in the World, Baffleball (also known as 'Frustration Ball' in the US) made by Remco in 1969 had to be the most fiendish. Basically Baffleball was a transparent perspex ball inside which there were eight cups. ...

Bagatelle is an indoor table game closely related to the games of billiards, pool, snooker and is a precursor of the pinball machine. The object of which is to get nine balls past pins, which act as obstacles, into holes.Rather ...

Made by Milton Bradley in 1989 Balzac Balloon Ball was a kind of cloth sack into which you could put a deflated balloon. Once inside the sack you would inflate the balloon to make a Balzac Balloon Ball. Because ...

In 1958, Barbie Millicent Roberts was born - 11 1/2 inches tall and weighing 11 ounces. She debuted as a teenage model in a black and white striped swimsuit that came with sunglasses, high-heeled shoes, and gold-coloured hoop earrings. Her ...

I had a hand puppet called Barnardo when I was younger. It had a rubber face and a material body. It also had a string that you pulled out from its body, which was connected to a mechanisam and when ...

A purple dinosaur cuddly toy based on the popular kids TV character. Barney the dinosaur is a purple Tyrannosaurus Rex yet despite his being one of the most ferocious animals ever to walk the earth Barney has been made in ...

An ultra-simple classic game involving about 50 plastic monkeys and a barrel. The little plastic monkeys had long curved arms so tht they would link together at the elbows to make a chain.Barrel of Monkeys was originally created by Lakeside ...

I am I the only person who remembers them? Little bright orange toy cars about 3-4 inches long which were charged up by inserting a black plastic charger into the rear of the car for about 30 seconds. Remove the ...

Battle Beasts originated from a world called Cybertron. Battle Beasts were halr-robot, half-beast and every one had the power of one of three elements - Wood, Water and Fire. Originally a spinoff of the Transformers Battle Beasts were created by ...

The Battle Ram was a vehicle from He-Man and The Masters of the Universe that was released by Mattel in 1981, and was often ridden by the character Ram-Man, although it was really a gift for He-Man himself from The ...

The toy Viper and Cylon fighters. Sure, they came with little pilots, but the cool part was the plastic orange darts they fires to represent lasers. They may have been the last ones to have that feature, which was somewhat ...

These sets were bricks that were laid just like the real thing with a water-soluble mortar and even 'scaffolding' that slotted into holes in the baseboard.Bayko was invented by Charles Plimpton, a plastics engineer from Liverpool. It was originally sold ...

Beach Balls. Balls for the beach.We had two of these that came out every summer, and were great when playing in swimming pools or water, though in the slightly breezy English summer they would fly off miles up the beach ...

These toys had strange little bean bag bodies and plastic heads with bobble hats (not always babies') and also came as a range of animals too. The babies lived in a small matchbox. Cruel huh?I used to have hundreds of ...

If you've never come across Beanie Babies before, you'd be forgiven for thinking that they were just another squidgy range of toys favoured by kiddies in nappies. But that is not the case. Today, many a grown man will boast ...

This was a bit like a cuddly bear, and its eyes were light-sensitive and would show up red against the bear's white fur. I think they were also called Chubbles, but I'd often refer to mine as my Ewok cuddly ...

I had a few of these bendy toys over the years, my favourite being the Pink Panther. They were made of a thick, foam, rubber-type material, with wire through the middle so you could bend and pose them into different ...

If you had the misfortune of being christened "Betsy", oh dear…. Of course, it's a lovely name, there's no doubting that. But from 1935, the lives of Betsys everywhere were about to change. Dramatically. All thanks to one tiny doll ...

Betta Bilda (often mistaken for 'Better Builder') was a cheaper version of Lego with little white bricks and small squares of plastic that you clicked together to make "slate" roofs. Although Lego took over the universe, I personally preferred Betta ...

This was a big plastic stapler-looking thing that you could make badges with.You inserted a plastic circle, a circle of badly coloured-in-by-a-child piece of paper, and a transparent plastic lid, pressed the machine and it stuck the base to the ...

Big Bird was the main character from Jim Henson's Sesame Street kids TV programme.Basically, Big Bird was a big, yellow bird with a slightly camp voice and very long eyelashes. Although he was originally the main character in Sesame Street, ...

The Big Bolt Construction Set had a truck that carried a pump that would pump air to the power tools. There was also an action figure bundled in with the box. This figure could actually hold the tools like the ...

I remember getting Big Jim for Christmas '73. He came with red shorts and a dumbell and he was about 8 inches tall. He had a button in his back which when pressed made him perform a karate chop. There ...

I had one of these sets in the early 80s. The Big Loader Construction Set, marketed by Palitoy, was a square track layout with a single groove and a battery-powered set of rugged-looking wheels which fitted into the groove and ...

Big Red Chimney Pot was the follow-up to the Big Yellow Tea Pot. It was basically a toy red chimney pot that opened up in the middle and had rooms and stuff for little people to live inside. It had ...

When I was a child, me and my best friend (who is still my best friend now) used to love the Big Red Fun Bus! It was my favourite childhood toy! You could open the doors, and put the little ...

Big Trak was a programmable electric toy tank first released by Milton Bradley (later more commonly known as the abbreviated MB) in 1979.Big Trak was a six-wheeler toy tank that could be programmed to drive forward, backward, turn and fire ...