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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I had a Huggy Bear. Not a character from a 70's cop show but a little bear that was designed to hold onto your arm, bedpost or whatever.
My favourite however, had to be my roller boots. My mum let me spray paint mine gold cause I wanted to look like the Martini girl.
I loved all my "creative" toys such as lego and meccano. (I later became a bricklayer so perhaps I was still living out my childhood as an adult!)
I also had a fantastic jeep type car called Mighty Mike. It came with a length of track and "scaffolding" to build the track with. When you set it going, Mike would climb up the track no matter how steep it was.
I borrowed a golf type toy from a friend of mine and it was fantastic. It was a golf club which had a little golf player instead of a clubhead. It came with different clubs and little balls. When you operated the trigger mechanism the golfer would take a swing at the ball and play a perfect chipping shot.
I can remember buying some of the toys already mentioned for our daughters when they were younger. The big yellow teapot and the tree house were faves, and also a lovely PollyPocket house. I remember sitting up till about three am one Christmas eve putting stickers on one of the girls toys, some sort of dolls house, but my favourite of our girls' toys was something called a "Merry-go-copter." It consisted of a helicopter which took the little ballbearing people on a little flight then dropped them off at the top of a helter-skelter. From here they would slide down and wait at a station until the train came round. They'd get on the train and take a little ride, eventually getting off at the lift, where they would then be returned to the helicopter. Absolutely brilliant, kept the kids (and myself) amused for hours!!!
A talking doll (I cried with happiness when I opened it on Christmas Day), a dolls pram, a tea set, a yellow Baby Beans (which I've still got 32 years later!), Tiny Tears, Girls World, Sindy (with her horse, riding outfit and bedroom furniture), Fuzzy Felts, Lego, Plasticine, Spirograph, Etch-A-Scetch and Berol Doodle Art (the big colouring-in poster).
Had great fun, thanks to my lovely Mum and Dad!