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You can now catch up with Geoffrey the Giraffe on his special nostalgia webpage which even includes the “Magical Place” song about Toys R Us with old-school computers and roller skates!

Remember getting spokies in your Frosties? Remember trying to out-do your friends with the number you could fit on your bike? It used to make a racket but we loved spokies. They’re still widely available – especially the Disney ones. Some clever people used to get flashing ones or spokies that made a noise [...]

I’m not sure precisely when, but at some stage in (I think) the 1970s, some genius came up with the incredible “Spacehopper”. What was, presumably, one small step for a man, became a giant leap for under 10s the world over, as they bounced around aimlessly for hours upon end.
Spacehoppers were quite possibly the silliest [...]

The best quality Kinder Egg toys were only available in Germany, where the sweet originated. I was given these toys to photograph by an enthusiast, TC, who was brought up in Germany. The forklift truck has moving parts and the silver tray is for doll’s houses. These pieces are around 25 years old. Apparently Kinder [...]

Those little mice and hamsters that lived in windmills and houses. I remember the little green plastic beds that had so many details, down to the mini-mattresses. You could collect all sorts of stuff for them, I even picked up some tiny minature tins of food to stock them up. Somehow, the mini animals were [...]