Toys

Wacky Packages were packs of various cards that contained stickers of common household, food, and consumer products, that had a twisted slogan, name, message, etc. Like 'Crust' instead of Crest toothpaste for example!Then to add to the fun, there were ...

Wacky WallWalker toys were sticky objects that had a similar shape to an octopus. Made out of sticky elastomer, Wacky WallWalker toys were very similar to A Bad Case of Worms in that if you threw it against a wall ...

Walkie Talkie, Wow – remember the world without mobile phones! If you wanted to talk to someone in another house or place you had to go into the hallway, dial a number to a phone in another hallway (in their ...

The Wallace Stress Ball was a squeeze stress relief toy, perfect for the office desk. It was around hand size and it had a hard black hat. The Wallace Stress Ball was purple in colour. It was very squishy with ...

Wanda was the amazing plastic doll that walked (wiggled) which was manufactured by the Advanced Doll & Toy Co during the 1950's. She had sleep eyes, a closed mouth, blonde hair and moulded shoes that were installed with metal ...

Water Baby doll was made by Lauer in 1990. The doll can be filled with water to give it a weighted real baby feel. They could be a boy or a girl. ...

Water Pressure Rockets were a terrific toy. I remember purchasing them for under a dollar in the 70s. They were small plastic rockets, usually red and white in color. You put a small amount of water in the rocket ...

Water Weenies were special extra thick water balloons with faces! If you squeezed one side the other side swelled up. Great fun to play with in the pool. ...

Are you still carrying scars from your Water Wiggler? I loved this evil toy - a long thin yellow plastic hose, u-shaped copper tube, crimped at the end, covered by an orange "cup/head" with a goofy face - hooked up ...

I used to love waterbombs when I was younger! But I’ve not seen one for ever! I think I’m quite happy about that, because water bombs are something for kids rather than adults. Kids make them, adults get covered ...

Waterfuls were plastic handheld water filled toys by Tomy. They came in various shapes and sizes, typically smaller cylinders and larger rectangles. The basic was a ball catch, but themes ranged from sports - basketball, soccer, ring toss, fishing and ...

He was a yellow spider with blue legs and red wheels and a string, because he was a pull along spider. He had really googly antennae on springs, which kept getting tangled eventually beyond repair.He also had a bow tie, ...

Small nude baby-like figures, that were of the same range as Fairy Winkles. Basically Polly Pocket type tiny dolls in a compact scene case. ...

"Weebles Wobble But they Don't Fall Down!" It's true - no matter how hard you tried as a kid, back they'd spring.Weebles were basically little plastic people with circular bottoms and no legs. They looked like eggs, but had painted ...

WereBears were a concept by my design partner George Nicholas, and I worked on the format and wrote scripts for the monthly WereBears comic, which was published by London Editions Magazines. We sold the toy rights for the WereBears characters ...

"Could that be Mom on a wet banana?" cried the voiceover guy in the advert. "We really hope not," us kids cried back…This was kids' play - anytime an adult attempted to slide along the wet banana they just looked ...

Wheel Warriors were a series of toys by Mattel and were cars with interchangable weaponary from the animated series 'Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors'. The 'good guys' had mech cars and drivers, whereas the 'bad guys' were plants with little ...

Whiz Wheel was a toy where you sat in between two huge wheels and on the inside of both was a crank that enabled you to control the direction of each wheel independently of the other. You could spin in ...

Whoopee Cushion (also known as Poo-Poo Cushions or Raspberry Cushions), is a practical joke toy that has withstood the test of time and still raises a chuckle today. It design is simple - two sheets of rubber glues together round ...

Whoopsie was a doll where you push her belly and her pony tails went up and she said "whoopsie". She had blonde hair with ponytails that had plastic bows in them. The bows were not removeable. ...

I had the misfortune of owning a Willy Water Bug as a child. Willy Water Bug was a water toy with a bug-shaped body about 3 feet tall with striped plastic tentacles protruding from its body. It was connected to the ...

Wing Dings looked like a little elf / fairy thing and came with a hook so you could hang it upside down. Its wings wrapped around it to show that it had glow in the dark designs on its back ...

Wish World Kids were little dolls, about 2 inches tall, that came with playsets where an everyday item would turn into something fun. There was one with a bed that turned into a playground, for example.One doll had curly bright ...

Wizzzer was basically a two-tone, plastic gyroscope. My sister's was purple and green I think. On one end it had a small rubber cone which you "whizzed" along the floor to power it up like a friction motor; then let it ...

Wonder Whims were fantasy creatures. Most of them came with a matching animal friend they could ride on. They had really soft, furry type bodies (except for the fish-like one) and semi-soft vinyl faces. Most were in pastel colors and ...

Wooly Willy went on to become one of the 40 most popular toys produced during the 1950 to 1980 period. Seldom has such an inexpensive toy produced so much entertainment over so many years. Made with special magnetite ...

Workshop Willy was a plastic, brightly multi-coloured character around 1 foot in height who had lots of different tools (spanner, hammer, pliers etc) which fitted together to form his body. This could be dismantled and the body parts/tools could be ...

Wrestling Buddies were made by Tonka and were released in the early 90's. They were essentially a soft foam filled doll of the most popular WWF wrestlers of the time, Hulk Hogan, Macho King Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior as ...

Ahh I still have my Wrinkles dog up in my Mum's loft - a bit worse for wear now though. I had a Wrinkles dog when I went in to hospital for an operation. It was basically a big dog ...

Wuv Luv was a big animal that had an egg inside its throat and it had big eyes with a little heart inside of it. Wuv Luv came in all different colors and sizes. Inside the egg was a little ...

Wuzzles – they always reminded me of the idea of the “Heffalumps” from Winnie the Pooh. Hybrids of different animals.A whole range of Wuzzles toys were made in the mid-80's and had a rash of adverts announcing them to the ...

WWF Action Figures were rubber versions of the real WWF superstars. They were safer to practice your wrestling skills on then trying to piledrive your younger brother! ...

I think WWF Thumb Wrestlers were based on the WWF cartoon Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N' Wrestling. They were basically just small rubber wrestlers that came in 2-packs. I wanted Hulk Hogan and Rowdy Roddy Piper.You stuck your thumb up into ...

WWF Wrestlers were actual rubber figures which would bounce when you threw them on the floor. There was Super Fly Jimmy Snuka, Iron Sheik, Capton Lou Albano, Hillbilly Jim, Ricky The Dragon Steamboat, Nikoli Volkov, Jimmy Heart, Hulk Hogan and ...