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retro toys..they dont make them like they used to!

  • 13-03-2010 10:36PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭


    So what toys do you still have from your childhood?:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭gipi


    I've still got Eileen the Crolly Doll that I won in a school fair-day raffle back in 1969.....she resides in the attic at the moment, but I know she's still there!! (for you youngsters, the dolls were made in a factory in Crolly, Co Donegal, hence the name!).

    Same doll visited the doll's hospital more times than I care to remember with dislocated arms (ouch!).

    I see from a quick google that Crolly dolls are now porcelain - Eileen definitely isn't, she was the standard doll plastic of the time!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 978 ✭✭✭Arnold Layne


    Evel Kenevil and his motorbike, except the fingers are missing from one of his hands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭Blue850


    A Hornby train set of a steam engine and 3 wagons with CIE markings.
    My 4 year old son has inherited 4 shoeboxes of Matchbox/Corgi cars found in my mam's attic and I know there should be a huge box of Lego in the same attic somewhere.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I wish I had some of the TONKA stuff :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭Ann22


    I'm mad I don't have my old Sindys. My mother was a compulsive thrower outer of old toys:(.
    I recently started collecting old annuals, my pride and joy is a Jinty 1977. That one was special to me 'cos my lovely nan bought me the same one for xmas that year, I can clearly remember her handing it to me and the slight disappointment at getting a book as a gift instead of a toy. It turned out that I enjoyed it very much and re-read it many times. I'd love to have kept the original one.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    I've got a Princess Tina annual from 1970 and two Bunty annuals from 1979 and 1981. I'm living a childhood I would have had if I'd been a girl!


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