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Toy call-out
Not that this blog is intended to be some kind of community notice board or anything, but a nice man called Steve Berry has been signed up to write a book based on the old TV Cream Toy Catalogue - a list of toys that started life as a TV-inspired top 100 and has expanded from there. To illustrate the entries in the book, he needs pictures of toy products. This is proving tricky. So he's looking for an avid collector of '70s and '80s board games and toys with an attic full of them who'd be prepared to let the author go round and photograph them for the book. ("Buying it all up on eBay would bankrupt me," says Steve.) In return, a credit in the book is offered.
If anyone can help, go to TV Cream and click on the Toy Catalogue link.
As you were.
[Incidentally, I do own the Tufty Road Safety Game pictured, although the pic is taken from a site that sells handmade doll's house furniture. I like the idea of someone going to the trouble of making a tiny Tufty Road Safety Game. There is hope for us all.]
posted by Andrew Collins @ 2:59 PM
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Aw, we had that game at school! That brings back memories!
Can't help on the boardgames front, I'm afraid, although I think there is a battered edition of "The Game Of Life" in my parents' attic somewhere... (crap game. Was that 80s or 90s?) Unless my parents threw them out (which is a distinct possibility)there should be an Etch-a-sketch somewhere, and some Rainbow Bright dolls floating around there too, and I seem to recall that I owned an awful lot of fuzzy felt, although I think that died from overuse (yes, I had a fairly unproductive and unimaginative childhood.)
Bought Secret Machines on your recommendation. Thanks :-)
By the way, is there such a thing as the Tufty Club any more?
Px
My sister has the Tufty board game still and I seem to remember was in the Tufty Club.
My Gran probably has loads of this type of stuff in her attic.
px - what do you think of the Secret Machine's album???
I was in the Tufty Club! Makes me feel nostalgic, but I'm sure I'm not old enough to be nostalgic. We had the Tufty Club game at school - one of those educational games where the teaches convince you it's a "treat" to be allowed to play it. That, and those BBC computer spelling games with the dodgy graphics - how spoiled we were!
Thought the Secret Machines album was really good. Mentally I was prepared to be disappointed, particularly as I bought it in HMV then found it in Fopp for £2 less. Listened twice through before I decided, and I love it, in particular the first and last tracks.
Px
We had tufty at school, but in addition, we had an *extrememly* disturbing road-safety 'mascot' called Belisha Beacon. One of those yellow lamp thingys but with lips. Big red moving lips. Imagine if you will, Pete Burns, but very skinny with a black and white stripey dress and a big yellow head.
The lucky accompanying policeman who'd landed this gig had to loop up an old reel-to-reel tape player and 'chat' to Ms Beacon about the dangers of Not Looking Right And Left whilst pulling a string at the back of her head to animate her 'replies'. It was both hilarious and strangely sad in equal measure.
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