Stylophone – Not sure if we really should call this as a toy, but it was sold to us kids so for the sake of argument lets say it is allowed in our list.
Slime – Now try and work this one out, we loved to buy a container from Mattel, that when you opened it up was full of a green thick jelly type product called Slime. What did we do with it?
UNO – This was a strange card game from 1971, which I did not really enjoy playing, it has cards of four colours Red, Green, Yellow and Blue which had a number on it from 1 to 9 and some are action cards too.
The Muppets – The ATV show made a star of lots of the puppets called The Muppets. Created by Jim Henson, the 1970s show as a phenomenon hit worldwide, and of course we all wanted to have Muppet toys in our homes.
The Inch Worm, which was a worm shaped sit on toy with a saddle on it for our tiny bottoms. Really it was a scooter with shaped like a caterpillar with a green hat.
Simon – This was so high tech when it first came out, and reminded me of the spaceship from the film Close Encounters Of A Third Kind.
Rubik Cube – My memory told me that the Rubik Cube was created in the 1980s, well I am very wrong. As this frustrating colourful cube, that I never was able to complete was invented by a Hungarian in 1974.
Planet of the Apes – Of course TV had a huge influence on us kids in the 1970s, and when Plant of the Apes was shown in the sixties, it was only a matter of time for the TV series to be launched.
Meccano – Now I have to be very honest I never really got into this, but a lot of my school mates loved it. They are probably rich architects now, maybe I should have played it more.
This was a great idea, a little bit like Battleship games we use to play as a kid, but made to look much more professional in this format.
Fisher Price Little People, these were very simple 1971 toys that looked like your dads shaving brush
Lego – The Lego Company really did explode upwards in the 1970s, as technology allowed them to make better shapes, add motorised units, and it went from the little building blocks we put in our mouths a babies to something much more important, and much more exciting.
Kerplunk This started in 1968, but was a great family game in my home during the 1970s,
