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Again I was hooked by an advert for a toy locomotive, with a cow catcher on the front It was quite big, tin, green, red removable cow catcher, I liked removable things. My gran got it me from Woolworths. I think she enjoyed buying it. She said she asked the manager to demonstrate it imagine...

Dad started getting me those I had 2 Coldstream Guards on dark bay horses and 2 mounted police on black ones. These were plastic though.

Unimaginable but like what is still happening now.Thank you for posting.

The advert for it hooked you in. Like The Battle Of The Little Big Horn hooked me in. I never worked out how to play it & the plastic pieces were really cheap. I preferred my cowboys & Indians on horse back, which ended up just the horses. I had the Native American Indian chief,( hope I am not...

Now that does look like a letter box......Boris

I found if you stood the green man back to front he would flip in to the barrel and me mum and dad would shout mouse trap!. The cat looked on in disdain because we had woken him up. We used to play on a Sunday afternoon after dinner.

Blow yes, magnetic? The other side of the magic painted page.

A Kelly doll had no legs they were a figure on top of a weighted ball, like the budgie's toy, Nan called them Kelly dolls.

Having trouble editing my post the dead bit keeps appearing. No body died I can assure.

Some things we just don't remember or didn't have. I never knew what Subuteo was really, were they a bit like Kelly dolls.? If so I never saw the point. Never heard of new footy. I wasn't sure about Totopoly either or Cluedo. I liked Twister but as an only, it wasn't practical. I played a lot...

I wanted one of those little tin horses that bob up & down till I saw circus chimps on them

I bought something like that called craft sticks in the 60s, they were coloured pipe cleaners.

0 So then I wanted to be a farmer till I realised you had to kill or have animals killed.

I thought I was going crackers I am not that cleaver. Are they after my/ the Forum details?

Scary stuff, it looked like I was promoting a site. Thank you.