This part of the site is dedicated to all those toys that you or your parents, wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend have thrown out over the years and that you dearly wish that you had back. The page is loosely inspired by the scene in "Toy Story" when Woody and Buzz are abandoned at the filling station and Woody cries, "I'm a lost toy!"
For me, the moment which led to these lost toys was when my parent's and I moved house in the mid 1980's. We were moving from the house where I had grown up and so it was a treasure trove of great toys. Unfortunately this move coincided with me being a surly teenager. When asked if I wanted to keep any of the toys that were stored in the attic, I said no. . . . .
The ratings for the items on this page are in terms of desirability (by me).
  The Waterloo Assault Set. Now highly sought after since there is some farm apparatus that was only included in this set. Airfix released a good few of these sets, but this is the one I really want. Probably the main reason is that I remember my dad painting the figures for me when he was on night shift, but also because of the beautiful box art. |
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 My mum and dad were right posh and we used to shop in Marks and Spencer (an upmarket UK department/grocery store). This set was a limited edition for distribution through M&S only. This is now worth a fortune. This was a really nice set with a good set of kits. I particularly liked the image of the kid on the front. . . . Yeah, like he painted all those models that well! |
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 Airfix had never ending ways of repackaging boxes of toy soldiers and the odd model, and I am a sucker for everyone of them. There were numerous sets in the battlefront series, but this one strikes a particular chord with me as I lusted after for sometime in the toystore near my Grandma's, probably because it was kept in a display case high up behind the till and I could never touch it which lent such a great air of mystique to it. Finally Granny came through and what can I say, Airfix came through again and the set did not disappoint. |
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I've never been able to find any trace of this anywhere. Basically it was a shooting gallery game. You have a flat vinyl haunted house with windows. Behind the house on a pendulum were numerous ghosts, witches and ghouls. As the pendulum swung from side to side the various baddies swung past the windows. The object of the game was to shoot at the passing nasties with the supplied dart guns. Many thanks to Andrew Wertheim and Dominic McChesney for sending me the photos. |
Below is list of my other "Lost Toys". I haven't been able to track down images yet (or I'm too lazy too look). Images will appear in due course.
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A wild west train set, complete with cowboys and train robber figures. I really
want this one, but I saw it recently on eBay for £145. I'm not sure I want
it that much!)
Sort of a cross between Indiana Jones and Thunderbirds. These were action
figures produced in the late 1970's. There were several sets including a deep
sea adventure and a lost jungle adventure. I have been concentrating on getting
some of these over the past 6 months or so. Click
here to see what I have found. )
These were a lot like the "Battlefront" series above except they
were 1/32 scale and came with pill boxes that fired plastic discs which could
be used to wreak havoc on the assembled armies. 
