TV Cream's Top 100 Toys
(A quirky "top 100 most remembered toys of the past",
focussing on the 1970s and 1980s from a British perspective:)
As Christmas hoves noisily into view for another year, and the marketing
divisions of the world's toy companies go into overdrive, we inevitably
start to ponder... was it all like this in our day? If you're reading
this, it's likely there'll be a good twenty-plus years lying between
this Christmas and the last one you started by tearing down the stairs
at five in the morning, in wide-eyed anticipation of the contents of
that mountain of wrapped boxes under the Woolies' fireproof silver
tinsel tree. So, to this end, we polled TV Cream's readership to find
the most well-remembered - for better or worse - toys that turned up in
the stockings of yesteryear, from the tiniest fifty pee rubber novelty
to the many bulky Bakelite candidates for that hallowed "main present"
status. Quite often the little things, mainly through having lower
expectations to live up to, went down better than the battery-hungry
robo-gun-battleship thing mouldering in its box in the airing cupboard
by Boxing Day. Anyway, enough of all this - it's now 6.30AM, and we've
just been told by hungover parents that we can go downstairs and start
sorting out the presents into piles. Let the blizzard of Mr Men wrapping
paper commence...
http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/index.html
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
