Toys that were crap....

[chriswallace85]

Haha...we will still play Frustration now!

Used to love this...

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Frustration's great - basically just a redesigned Ludo.

Yup.

There was skill involved. You needed to hit the button just right to get it in the hoop.

Still f***ing shite though.

Yep - definitely skill involved. I had a few in my time, including the basketball one.

 

[RichD]

Battling Tops

Battling tops was class man, we used to play 2p a winner each game, you could make ya self at least 20p...REAL MONEY

 

[Duggins81]

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These were shit like. Had loads of them for some anarl

 

[Boy]

Battling tops was class man, we used to play 2p a winner each game, you could make ya self at least 20p...REAL MONEY

Well I couldn’t make the twats work like on the advert

 

[Napoleon Dynamite]

Rubix cube

 

[Marcosplace]

Battling Tops

Wrong. Class times.

 

[safcrob]

Squirty gun

 

[Marcosplace]

A slinky. That spiral wire that moved downstairs.

After a few goes it was bent and useless.

Bat and ball, usually kept for camping, hitting a sponge tennis ball backwards and forwards to each other in the wind, which usually diverts its course,with a heavy plastic tennis racket. Are we supposed to keep it up in the air which is impossible for more than 3-4 hits or do we let it bounce like in actual tennis...no we cant because the shit sponge ball doesnt bounce.

Aye. They never worked like the advertising.

 

[Jon Dough]

Chemistry sets,they never quite lived up to the promise,i wanted to split the atom not make a foul smelling test tube of liquid.

 

[Yankee Mackem]

F****ing Ratchet from the 1980s.

What we expected

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What we got

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I'm still f***ing bitter.

 

[Hardyman's Yugo]

Battling Tops

Great game

 

[Gene Hunt]

Aye. Had to be careful not to knock ya stumps over with the string mind

Or your bat which was comically oversized.
Crossfire. Looked amazing on the advert, high speed and exciting. Always wanted one then my mate got one - played it for about 5 minutes then got bored.

 

[tonyfromalnwick]

Action Man. Anything but.

 

[the boot]

My sister in law bought her daughter a kite.
We went to the beach, and after a lot of f***ing about trying to get it to go, we did. Dead proud of ourselves as it hung there in the air.

Gave the kid the string. She held it then said "What do we do with it now?"

I looked at the sister-in-law blankly. Kid crashed the kite. We went and had ice cream. What a waste of time.

Yoyos as well.... shite

Cap guns were shite. Stoppages all the time. Sometimes I’m the heat of battle I would just have to rub my thumbnail over the roll.

 

[shadowplay]

Anyone remember Jibber-Jabbers?

 

[Seaham Towny]

Remote control cars that had a wire. Point of that like?

 

[a1970man]

Simon - Got to about 4 or 5 beeps and got rapidly bored
Speak & Spell - Too much like learning at 5 year old like

Both destined for the bottom of the toy box in the corner.

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Best toy, Tyco Electric Trucking

Tried to buy one second hand to put in the loft. They go for hundreds these days.

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[TIMMY]

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These were shit like. Had loads of them for some anarl

I had that exact one, it was class

 

[Duggins81]

I had that exact one, it was class

Give owa man they were shite

 

[Churchlanelad]

I had a tinplate, clockwork fireman in the 50s, that climbed up a ladder. When he got to the top, you stopped it and returned it to the bottom. That’s all it did, but it kept me happy for hours. Just googled it and one sold recently in a vintage toy auction for £40!