dollys and trends

[zzxxee]

i had a rag dolly called rosie rags when i was little and felt she was special a one off.
As time went on all the rag dolls flew off the shelf and lots of people had one just like her identical !!!.
I was miffed so went onto the next toy that took my fancy. I had never been one for following trends for toys as a child. Did you ever get caught up in the latest fad as a child if so what was it ?

[Bobbisox]

My black dolly called Susie, she was lovely, I dressed her in pink..lol
remember Tiny Tears??

[zzxxee]

i had a susie dolly as well small world !!
tiny tears both my girls had one when i potty trained them i made tiny tears have a wee on the potty and gave her a sweet my kids soon cottoned on, if you pee you get rewarded like Dolly!!! :)

[Bobbisox]

I didn't like the Cabbage Patch Dolls zeee
scary buggers they were..lol

[Mosaic]

The girl child went for:
My Little Ponies...hundreds of the ugly little blighters, yuck.
Barbie dolls....
as a feminist I could only stand and wonder at my failure as a mother. Still, it made her happy on wet days.
The nylon hair and manes all sort of tangled up and mated with each other over time to make a single many-headed monster.
The boy:
Anything that looked like a gun
Anything that could be slammed down like a hammer
Anything that made a loud and irritating noise
Action Man and Transformers
When I was little I had a Cindy doll, to which I eventually added a Paul and her 'little sister' Patch (didn't believe it even then - obviously their kid....)
Then I acquired 'Mary Make Up' who came from the same stable as 'Tressy', who had a very strange anatomy. I liked this little tribe quite a lot - I can't remember going off them, but I must have done at some point.

[zzxxee]

my eldest liked her my little ponies as well mosaic the little plastic shoes used to pop up all over the house !!

[zzxxee]

cabbage patch kids plastic aliens ugly things !!

[Ankou]

with darker hair, this could have been me......

http://mondopopcultur...08/07/70s-evel-ad.jpg

[Mosaic]

My girl also acquired some rip-off types, more like a fantasy horse than a pony - all glitter and neon nylon manes. Gaaah, the static!
Then there was a sort of flying fairy thing - like a person-version of a sycamore tree seed.
Oh, ans Scampy the dog that had a plastic pole you shoved as far as it would go to make it walk.

[Bobbisox]

awww Ankou I remember them, Evil Knievel's?

Dollys for boys eh?

[zzxxee]

yes my brother had one
and an action man another boy dolly !!

[Mosaic]

Action man and Raid the dog was the boy's fave dolly

[B00]

Pippa dolls!

http://www.pippadoll.net/

[Bobbisox]

did Cindy and Ken ever get married???

[zzxxee]

pippa the poor barbie :(

[horseshoes]

I hated dolls as a child. I had a golliwog which came everywhere with us - it's in nearly all my childhood photographs. I remember having ONE doll and that was because she had blue hair! I loved the Britain's garden I had, which had a greenhouse, pond wicket fences etc etc. I was going to treat myself to one from eBay recently until I saw the price.

[Bobbisox]

or was it Barbie and Ken...

[horseshoes]

......toy craze when I was about 10 or 11 - pogo sticks!

[cazzz1975]

I was a strange child, I wanted a matchbox motorcity desperately, followed by a bigtrak

[zzxxee]

anyone remember the cardboard dollies you cut out and all their clothes cut out of the same sheet with little white taps you put over to keep in place i loved them !!