Toys

C.O.P.S. - Fighting crime in a future time. C.O.P.S. was a Saturday morning TV show which spawned a toy line featuring C.O.P.S. and evil doers. The C.O.P.S. included Bulletproof, Bowser and Blitz, Longarm, Sundown, Sgt. Mace, Highway and ...

The C.O.R.P.S were action figures from Lanard Toys. They were around 3-inches in height and each 'character' came bundled with their own accessory which was normally their own model of gun. There were two sets of C.O.R.P.S - the Special ...

CUTIE were little (2 inch high maybe?) plastic figures of girls that were made in fixed poses, and in a single colour of plastic (like a cereal box freebie!).CUTIEs came in sets so that you were encouraged to collect them ...

Innocent-looking it may be, but parents everywhere would never again underestimate the pulling power of a pair of pudgy stuffed arms and too-closely set eyes. Never again would they spend the weeks before Christmas waking up in a cold sweat ...

My Roller Baby was gorgeous - she had blonde hair and wore a neon-coloured outfit, just like any Californian chick. Best of all, she could 'skate' across the floor on her roller boots. I loved this doll so much. I ...

Capsela Building Sets were rather strange and obscure 80's construction sets that centred around perspex spheres containing something mechanical such as a motor, clutch, or gearbox, each known as capsules. Each capsule had 6 octagonal pegs which were used to ...

The only memory of Captain Power I have was of this weird part-gun part-spaceship thing that my dad had and a video tape that went with it. It was sort of a video game, you put batteries in the spaceship ...

Tenderheart Lion, Playfulheart Monkey, Proudheart Cat... I don't quite understand how a lion, a monkey, and a cat could ever be "related" and further still cousin to a bear; but that's the way things are in Care-A-Lot (the cloud home ...

Throughout the 80s, it would have been pretty hard to find a little girl's bedroom that didn't have a Care Bear in it. These teddy bear-like, colourful cuddlies were on hand to comfort you after a hard day at school. ...

Carrie and Christopher dolls were two dolls about seven inches high with short blonde hair. You could buy all sorts of accessories for them like a cot and a double buggy. The dolls came out in 1978 and I think ...

Casey was a 'talking' robot made by Playskool in 1985 that had a built-in tape recorder and digital display for his face. Casey could operate as a standard tape player or could operate in story mode if you flicked a ...

Cassey was a Pippa-size (approx 7 inches) doll made by Hornby in 1991. She was like a smaller Barbie, with the usual range of glittery ballgowns, horse riding outfits etc. Photo Larah Wylde ...

Castle Grayskull was the type of 80s toy you always really really wanted, but in reality only the boy next door would get it for Christmas. So, every day after school you'd have to lug all your He-Man figures over ...

Centurions were toys of a modular nature. The good guys were led by Ace Mcloud and the bad guys by Dr. Terror. Each figure had holes on the chest, back, and limbs and one would be able to attach various ...

Back in the 1980's you couldn't buy a packet of branded cereal without there being some kind of toy or promotion that came with it! Do they still do this? Not as much.I remember nagging and nagging my mum and ...

Chain Lightning was the bitter rival of Domino Rally in the 80's domino playset wars. Neither of them worked well at all. In the TV ads they would show amazing falling domino setups with various devices being triggered along the ...

Farrah Faucett as Jill Monroe, Jaclyn Smith as Kelly, and Cheryl Ladd as Kris Monroe. Charlie's Angels Dolls were made by Hasbro, were around 9 inches tall and quite similar to Barbie dolls. The Charlie's Angels Dolls had all the ...

Charmkins were cute little plasic figures, with a loop on their heads so they could be attatched to hair slides, earings, necklaces, button-clips etc.Most of these were just a couple of centimetres high and in the USA and Canada they ...

Chatter Chimp was a talking cuddly chimp/monkey made by both Pedigree and Berbanks. Chatter Chimp had a soft body with hard hands and face, not unlike the Chad Valley Jacko Monkeys. He came with a swing and could say a ...

What is it about a toy telephone? From the cheap ones you could buy for a week's pocket money to the toy smart phones of today they can give hours and hours of fun and imaginative play! the Chatter Telephone, ...

To little brothers everywhere, Chatty Cathy was like something out of The Exorcist. However, to their sisters she was a trustworthy best friend and always there if you need to, well, chat. Because, as the name goes, chatting is what ...

Chatty Patty was like Chatty Cathy and was often refered to as 'Chattys Cathy's Cousin'. Chatty Patty was smaller than Chatty Cathy but as time progressed she was manufactured with more features.Each Chatty Patty doll came with a number of ...

Produced by Mattel from 1988 to 1990, Cherry Merry Muffin was basicly a re-hash of Strawberry Shortcake.Each Cherry Merry Mufin doll was a small, poseable, plastic doll with mouded on shoes. The dolls were scented, had a muffin-themed little friend ...

Chic a boo was one cheeky little monkey who though it was fine to encourage kiddiwinks to keep on sucking their thumbs, while their frustrated parents insisted it would give them buck teeth. Well, i suppose it never did Chic ...

Chinese Jacks were made of small plastic rings. One ring was in the center and all the other rings were attached to that center ring. It was like a key-ring with a lot of keys. This created the ...

I still have my Chinese Jump Rope that I had from my childhood. It is green and white and they usually came in 2 blended or woven colors.Think of the Chinese Jump Rope as a really large rubber band. One ...

There was this one particular toy which I liked, a motorcycle based on the TV show 'c.h.i.p.s'. it was battery-operated and had a working headlamp and also an antenna with a little red light on top. You could also get ...

Christmas crackers are rubbish these days. All of them (even the cheap ones) are filled with classy necklaces or fetching pens. Whatever happened to the fabulously tacky crackers of my youth? Tissue paper hats, a bad joke and your choice ...

Chubbles was a white bear with a purple/blue hooded shirt. His eyes were light sencores and when the light went out his nose lit up and he made a sound.My favourite memory of Chubbles is that he got lost and ...

Our grandmother bought us Chuck Norris Karate Commandos. Squeeze the legs and watch the martial arts come alive. Swinging fists and chucks of fury. Actually pretty fun considering it's "Walker, Texas Ranger".The Chuck Norris Karate Commandos figures coincided with the ...

Chutes Away! was a circular landscape that revolved (wind up mechanism) and had plastic craters at various locations, the graphics on the board depicting emergencies I think.In Chutes Away! you operated the rescue plane and looked through a periscope device, ...

These were like a cine camera, but instead of filming, you could look through it and see a film unfold before your very eyes.Mine was a blue plastic video camera with a handle that you wound round as you looked ...

Circo the Tumbling Circus Clown was a figure about 18 inches tall. He had a yellow clown car with red wheels and a water-squirting button-hole flower. The clown's hips were articulated so he could sit in the car and his shoulder ...

Clackers were 2 balls (slightly smaller than golf balls) at the end of two pieces of string with a little piece of plastic to hold. The idea was to smack them together and get a rhythm going and they always ...

Zero Gravity Cliffhanger racing sets were slot car sets produced by Tyco that had individual track pieces that allowed you to build your own unique tracks. The sets included things like flags and guardrails that would make the tracks look ...

During the 90s there appeared a strange trend for furry clip-on animals/dolls, but predominantly clip-on koalas. You had to be really careful with them though, as their little pincer hands could hurt if clamped onto your skin accidentally. Most walked ...

Close 'N Play Phonograph was an early vinyl record player for kids that could play standard 45 rpm records. The phonograph would only play when the lid was down. Once you opened the phonograph it would stop playing so you ...

Made by Tonka, Clutch Poppers were little toy cars. You rolled them along the floor to rev them up then released them by pressing a little button on the top of the car. It was just great to have a ...

The Tin Foil cars that came with Clyde's Car Crusher were made from plastic moulds. Once placed into the crusher they came out the other side as crushed cubes of tin foil. ...

Colorforms were playsets that featured third-party licensed characters and themes that may still be produced today. The sets featured a cardboard backdrop of a specific theme (for example: "The Smurfs") with a smooth surface. The set would also come with ...

I think it was called Computer Car, from the very early 70's. It was a red hard top car. Battery operated. You fed a strip of card into the back. The card had notches cut into it, depending on the ...

I love this! Computron was a small computer looking game that had buttons on it with all the letters and numbers. The keys also had options for different games like Hangman, and learning for math, spelling, create your own music ...

Everyone in my family spent loads of time building things with Construx, and even now it's still one of the best construction sets around. Construx came with many different sizes of girders, there were rods, wheels, hinges, ropes, pulleys and ...

Cool Cuts Kara produced by Kenner is a Barbie sized doll that had hair you could cut and style. She came with one set of replaceable hair plugs and her own pair of scissors, then you had to go out ...

Corgi Cars were and still are Britain's best known brands of car model manufacturers, but they also make tiny replicas of lots of other modes of transport including planes and lorries. Corgi Cars were the sought-after item of every little ...

in 1983, to celebrate the launch of the Austin Maestro, Corgi issued a special edition of the Maestro in Yellow, but this was no ordinary Corgi car. This one had light - front and rear! This was something they never ...

The Corningware Playset was a set of toy dishes that looked like the genuine Corningware Pyrex dishes. ...

Couch Potatoes were fairly simple dolls made of a nylon material by Coleco dolls. Each doll came in a 'potato sack' burlap bag that covered the bottom half of the potato. They were sold individually or as a family unit ...

I had Counting Bears. They were in four colors (red, blue, green, and yellow) and they were little plastic bears that looked a little larger than Gummi Bears and would sit like Gummi Bears. I used them to learn my ...

Cozy Coupe was available in any color so long as you wanted red and gold! I believe everyone who had a Big Wheel started with the Cozy Coupe. The design was similar to that of the Flintstones' car - it ...