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2. A Micro-Bike (it's tiny and difficult to ride at first, but it is this Christmas Micro-Scooter).


1. A Christmas Millionaire Maker ticket from The National Lottery.


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3. A cocktail set (apparently, it is the new beer). 4. Walkman (it's retro cool and will block out the oblig­


5 A remote controlled UFO (forget remote-controlled cars, this is the latest gizmo with the X factor).


atory festive family quarrels).


1. His and her dressing gowns (need we say more?) 2.Woolly themed jumpers (who actually wears them.) 3. Novelty joke presents (one weak laugh and its al


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Toys that play memory


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HILDREN may be desperate for a Nintendo Game Boy Advance or a Harry Potter Lego set this Christmas, but adult eyes m ^ o y e ra t


the memory of older toys that made their childhoods s p e c ia l .


__ Tnvs that will capture our


SuIEutSSyTWs provokes a wave of nostal ^ ^ times> giving fun gia in those who grew up an[] d;fferent results.With


JUMUllVI u iv ------------- War. For a child of the '70s, Star Wars figures or the strange Stylophone hold a


j u s t a f t e r t h e Second World .. » r-___ u:t,i ~r»Vw> ’70c


similar magic. Catherine Howell, collec­


tions officer atthc Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green in London,which has almost 20,000 exhibits, says there are some classic toys which have lasted for generations, although they have often appeared in different forms over the decades. So there are dolls which


some help from Nicholas Whittaker, we have compiled a list of classic toys from Christmas past which may prompt a few memories for


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the older “kids” among us. □ SIMPLE TOYS: Chil­


dren were expected to amuse themselves with a few simple toys. A yo-yo or spinning wooden top was to be prized and a privileged youngster may have owned a tin clock­


work toy.□ MECCANO: In 1901,


have been popular for cen­ turies in different guises, as well as boys’ play figures, board games, construction sets and other toys modelled


on the real world. Catherine Howell says:


“Some things have been around for a long time and they almost get into people’s


psyches.” Nicholas Whittaker, author


icing treated for his


ly he had been in a dAndy Rourke, who


hs. le, Bulldog Nation, ear failed to reached inner bandmates. In the Top 40. ■ beat about the whole


well, it sold 24,000 at No 48 - wedged ri Halliwell - which vedged,” he said.


of a new book called “Toys Were Us”, agrees, saying playthings prove how little human nature really changes. “WCW wrestling figures


are just the toy soldiers of 1900 moved on a century, except they now boast Realscan technology, whatev­ er that might be,” he notes.’ “Toy cars may now be


Mitsubishis rather than Aston Martins, but they are still pushed along by kids who want to grow up and drive for


real.”Classic toys have some common characteristics,


according to the games inven­ tor Rob Angel, who gave us Pictionary in 1985 and has just produced a new diversion called ThinkBlot.


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SUITS: The late Victorians had a moral version of Snakes And Ladders, in which the elevating squares included Penitence, Thrift and Indus­ try, while Indolence or Dis­ obedience doomed players to slither downwards. Jigsaws - or “dissected puzzles” - were introduced at the turn of the century and were huge by the


matchbox. Q SCRABBLE: Scrabble


took off in 1952, when the owner of Macy’s department store in New York chanced upon it. Soon the word game, invented in 1932, became a


1930s.□ SUBBUTEO: The immediate post-war years were grim for kids, since sweets were still rationed. But in 1947 their lives were brightened by Subbuteo table soccer. Small cardboard fig­ ures - known as “flats” - were inserted into rounded bases and used to flick the ball into the opposition’s


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