Toys

Sasha Doll was a designer doll made by Sasha Morgenthaler. They are highly collectible and worth a fortune for the rarer ones in mint condition! They were made of hard vinyl with hair rooted into the doll's head. The ...

Have you ever spent days watching cars go round, and round the same 3 metre racing track? If you have, you probably used to own a Scalextrix set.A set consisted of miniature cars that ran on a track that slotted ...

These were plastic strings, all different colours that you would twist and put together to form a long pattern, which ou could then attach to keyrings, I loved these and you can still get hold of them now! ...

Of course I remember Scream'n Demons! Those 7-inch long little motorcycles by Hasbro could really haul butt! They ran on a single AA battery, had a little removable rider, and made motorcycle sounds as they screamed along the sidewalk! I ...

One of the most amazing looking farms you will every see!Scuttle farm combined a racing track, with a train set with a farm! How? You ask? Well all the animals had wheels instead of legs! So you could move them ...

For some kids, a kitten was not enough - they wanted something that depended on them, that was always there when you fancied playing with them, and that looked, well, freaky! For that reason - and the fact Mum had ...

Sea Wees had to be my favorite toy as a child. They came out in about '78 or so, and eventually wound up with pet counterparts a few years later. Sea Wees floated around in the water in soft ...

Secret Sam Spy Case was a spy kit, concealed in a briefcase (plastic) which included camera and gun, both of which could be used while carrying the case. Attaching stock and silencer transformed the hand gun into a sniper rifle. ...

Marvel Secret Wars were action figures produced by Mattel during the mid-80's. The line included Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-Man, and about a dozen others. All the toys were colorful, and had a secret that could be revealed with the character's ...

Strangely, as a girl, I had a Sectaur! Sectaurs were insect / human action figures and some came with a large insect that had a furry glove for its feet. You could put your hand in its legs and walk ...

See-N-Say was the quintessential toy of childhood. It was a large red plastic wheel that featured a center dial with several different things (such as farm animals, colors, et cetera depending on the model you purchased) and had a ...

The set includes 26 track pieces shaped like letters of the alphabet, which can be connected to make a full track. A motorized bus travels along the track. The set also includes plastic park benches, trees, signs and stand-up cutouts ...

Made for girls, Sew-Easy was a plastic, kid's sewing machine that used thick wool. It looked like a real sewing machine and came with templates with big holes in them that you could "sew". ...

Shaker Maker was a toy that came with some powder you mixed with water and poured into various molds. After a while the mold set and you took out the figure and let it dry, whereby it shrunk down a ...

I loved the She-Ra cartoons and got the She-Ra doll and the Cat-Ra doll (her nemesis) for my birthday one year. I couldn't decide which one I most wanted to be. She-Ra had beautiful blonde hair with reddy bits in ...

Shimmers were dolls around the same size as Sea-Wees and made by the same company, Kenner, in 1986. Unlike your standard Barbie doll or Rainbow Brite, though, Shimmers were palm-sized pieces of mythological perfection...They were plastic figures which had a ...

I loved the Shirt-Tales! They were a group of animals that lived in a tree and were kind of like crime-fighters. I remember that whenever they were thinking somwthing, their thought would come up on their shirts! The ones that ...

Shogun Warriors were released by Mattel during the late 70's/early 80's and were toys of popular Japanese Super Robots from the 60's/70's. Such robots as Great Mazinga, Gaiking, and Raideen were among those featured in this toy line.There were several ...

During the one and only sleep-over I ever had as a child, I was introduced to the Viewmaster showbeam!I already had a Viewmaster – these great binocular-like things you could put a cartridge into and by facing a light source ...

Shrinky Dinks reached their height of popularity in the 80s. They were an activity set for children consisting of large flexible sheets, which once baked in the oven, turn into smaller, hard plates or pieces of jewellery. Many of the ...

They were like the classic Fisher Price figures but with ball bearings underneath. You would set up a track for them, let them go and they would shuffle on their way. Or fall over. One or the other really. ...

Silly Putty was fun, plastic putty that came in a plastic egg and was avaiable in all sorts of neon colors, as well as neutral beige. Silly Putty could be used to lift ink off items like newspapers, and ...

There were several different colors of reusable Silly Sand, which was a bit like Silly Putty and Plasticraft, but with one key difference. All you had to do was add water and then you could create whatever your imagination ...

Silver Hawks were undoubtably the coolest toy to come out of the eighties. Quicksilver was the leader, and despite the fact most of them could fly in space, they rode around in a space ship with the only member of ...

It said a lot about a person whether they preferred to play with Barbie or Sindy. And it wasn't just about where you lived - Sindy was born and bred in Britain, whereas the more brash Barbie was a through ...

I would sit on this thing and twist around for hours. Back when it was still made of the hard plastic, I think I had to finally give it up when I was about sixteen because I couldn't fit my ...

Six, as we affectionately know him, was so much more than an Action Man! The 12-inch tall Kenner toy figure certainly lived up to Lee Major's version of the character in the Six Million Dollar Man TV show. A red ...

This was a cheap version of an artist's pantograph copying instrument. You pinned a sheet of paper to a drawing board, placed an original drawing/picture alongside and traced the pointer along the outlines of the original. The picture was reproduced ...

Skip Stick was a toy where you basically put the hoop around one ankle and spin the ball and then have to jump over the stick/ball with the other foot. It was pretty much a test of your coordination, but ...

I never owned a Skip-It, but I remember friends that did. It's quite hard to describe but basically it was a ball on the end of a rope. One end of the rope had a loop in it that you ...

Sky Commanders were fairly popular in the late 80's. They were basically little men attached to a string that you could hook at one end and they'd slide across. I think there was even a cartoon show about them. They ...

Sky Dancers were fairy-type dolls which came in a wide range of styles, colours and sizes in the late 1990s. They had long plastic wings and they were positioned on a stand which had a button, if you pushed the ...

My mum would never let me have them because she heard in the news that the fabric covering could come off and children all over were accidently slitting their wrists. After a while, the noise of people slapping the ...

I remember my brother having a tub of green slime and he took it on holiday to Blackpool in 1977. He and my dad put it in my mum's bed so that when she got in she thought the dog ...

It's one of the simplest toys ever, but since its release in 1945 the slinky has remained a popular pastime for kids across the world. They never actually stopped slinking long enough to realise they were actually playing with a ...

All the kids on the block would get together to see who was the Slip and Slide champion! There were a few grown-ups who were brave enough to try it out... and that's when the real fun used to happen! ...

This was your very own Slush Puppy Drink Maker - you could put ice in the top and there was a handle on the front which you turned to crush the ice and then you added the drink flavouring to ...

Smokin' Shakers were battery-operated trucks and cars; the engine would shake and emitted 'exhaust' from the tail-pipes. It smelled awful, and I think the toys were recalled because you could get high off the fake exhaust! ...

Does anyone remember the little plastic Smoking Monkeys? I remember they were about 1 to 2 inches in height and they came with little "cigarettes" (similar to insense kind of things) which you lit and they sat and smoked ...

These things were rubbish (sorry, but they were)! Smooshees were made by Fisher Price around 1987 I think and they were basically small soft toys that could be stuffed into plastic holders."Rubbish!" I hear you say? "Exactly!" I say.An ...

Ahhh! The lovely mushroom village of little blue men containing only one female, 'Smurfette'. How did they reproduce? Everything was always "smurfy" and the Smurfs were always running from their enemy Gargamel and his evil cat Asrael. Lots of ...

Snake Mountain was the fortress of the evil Skeletor. This is from the legendary cartoon He-Man and The Masters of the Universe. The toy was awesome and an absolute favourite when I was little. It was a purple mountain with ...

You had to hold a plastic snake by the end of its tail, the body then wobbled about a lot and you had to scoop small marbles out of a pit on the tongues snake, the first to fill their ...

Snap It Beads, or Pop Beads as they are also known, were snap together beads for making your own 'jewellery'. They came in increasingly fancy variations starting off with just plain neon-colored round beads you could snap together and moved ...

I bet you've all had a sneaky snake at sometime or another. They were made of plastic and you held them by the tail and they wobbled about... quite cool when you are about three, I reckon. They were usually ...

The Snoopy Sno Cone Machine was a seventies left over that would shred ice cubes to make snow cones. Snoopy's dog house contained a shredder, and a big shaft with a sleeping Snoopy on top pushed the ice through it.I ...

This snoopy doll was unique in the 70's; dressed in blue jeans and a red sweatshirt. I cuddled four to disintegration. ...

Snorks were odd little aliens. they had a cartoon series, and I think a computer game at some stage. Their heads looked like a large cherry with one half of the stork still in it, and they came in various ...

The Snugglebumms were a collection of cute little hairy character toys made by Playskool in the 80s. The main characters were the mother and father "Papa Gentley and Momma Brightly" who had hearts which, when squeezed, would make their bodies ...

Snugglepets were brought out after the successful Snugglebumms toys. Snugglepets were a range of toys that included a butterfly called Flutter, a bumble-bee called Butty, a dinosaur, a caterpillar and others.Unfortunately unlike the smaller Snugglebumms they didn't giggle. They were ...