Games & Recreation Childhood toys that take your nostalgia to 11

[Plugger35]

Friends had them as a kid bought from the back of comics
I bought stamps and coins from the back of comics

The actual Sea Monkeys were like sea lice and nothing like the ads, thankfully I never ended up ordering any as my parents saw through the scam and stopped me.

There were also ads for x-ray specs that allowed you to see through people's clothes and as kids you think that's an amazing offer too good to be true.

it's hard to believe that comics were allowed to have those dodgy ads designed to scam kids back then, you would never see those sorts of ads these days.

 

[Hawk Dork]

The actual Sea Monkeys were like sea lice and nothing like the ads, thankfully I never ended up ordering any as my parents saw through the scam and stopped me.

There were also ads for x-ray specs that allowed you to see through people's clothes and as kids you think that's an amazing offer too good to be true.

it's hard to believe that comics were allowed to have those dodgy ads designed to scam kids back then, you would never see those sorts of ads these days.

Sea monkeys eventually died and stunk
I think you then strained it and dried it out and added new water and the new eggs hatched
Brine shrimp

I always wanted X ray glasses never saw any, probably the people who bought them were to embarrassed to take them to school as they didnt actually work

I saw the disappearing ink which someone bought it sprayed on blue and then disappeared

There was also an add that you sent away to and it gave you a questionnaire to see if you were a star child

A friend said he fitted the criteria ,we still have a giggle about it decades later

 

[iluvparis]

We weren't allowed to have guns.

Neither were we - not even water pistols FFS

 

[Shell]

More books: Enid Blyton- Faraway Tree, Wishing Chair, etc.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Secret Seven

 

[peternorth]

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had this one

and donkey kong.
and this

 

[Shell]

Those muppets you got with McHappy meals. Kermit, Miss piggy, Gonzo and Fozzie bear

 

[Hawk Dork]

I had a few of these

 

[Cleavy]

Those muppets you got with McHappy meals. Kermit, Miss piggy, Gonzo and Fozzie bear

the Muppet Babies cars?

 

[Moonwatcher]

I was always jealous of my friend and his transformers.

 

[FRUMPY]

missus and i were looking through some od happy meal toys when we went down nostalgia line a few weeks back. Remembered quite a few from the good old days (even though we rarely had maccas, maybe once a school holidays)

 

[Shell]

missus and i were looking through some od happy meal toys when we went down nostalgia line a few weeks back. Remembered quite a few from the good old days (even though we rarely had maccas, maybe once a school holidays)

Their ice cream birthday cakes /droooool

 

[peternorth]

 

[Catfish Alley]

Good show

 

[Gough]

Secret Seven

Grimble and Grimble at Christmas by Clement Freud is about the greatest kids book ever. Neil Gaimen and JK Rowling both cite it as being influential.

 

[rank and file]

Grimble and Grimble at Christmas by Clement Freud is about the greatest kids book ever. Neil Gaimen and JK Rowling both cite it as being influential.

No,the greatest kids book ever is this one,

Teaches you about allegory before you hit
Animal Farm in secondary school.

 

[Gough]

Adrian Mole, one of literature's great anti heroes. When he died with Sue Townsend a part of me did too. Who'd have thought a middle aged women from the Midlands could get in the mind of a teenaged boy quite like she did and despite his vanity and neurosis Mole retained a child like innocence to the end.

 

[Scotland]

Those muppets you got with McHappy meals. Kermit, Miss piggy, Gonzo and Fozzie bear

My cousin is about 10/11 years older than me and worked at Macca's as a teenager when these came out. Pretty sure we had all 5 of those in the pic.

 

[Shell]

My cousin is about 10/11 years older than me and worked at Macca's as a teenager when these came out. Pretty sure we had all 5 of those in the pic.

I never had animal- never knew he even existed in happy meal toy form.

I had the other 4.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Reminds me of these from Pizza Hut:

 

[Shell]

Do Pizza Hut still exist?

Am assuming Dominos ran them outta town here in Melbourne

 

[Catfish Alley]

Do Pizza Hut still exist?

Am assuming Dominos ran them outta town here in Melbourne

Not sure about Australia but they do over here. Owned by the same group as KFC and Taco Bell.

 

[Shell]

Not sure about Australia but they do over here. Owned by the same group as KFC and Taco Bell.

Fond memories of The Hut as a kid and eating so much all you can eat you felt like wanting to do all you can vomit post meal.

Their dessert bar was pretty damn good too

 

[Gough]

My brother worked at a Pizza Hut. How his manager explained away the amount of nitrous oxy that used to get huffed at that place is beyond me.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Random fact - by sheer volume of Happy Meals alone, McDonalds is the worlds largest toy distributor.