Few will ever forget bolting out of bed and running down the stairs to check what Santa left you on Christmas morning, waking up the adults in the house in the process. The smell of a newly opened tin of sweets, trying on your news clothes, going to Christmas Day services, the big dinner, selection boxes and running out to the street to show your friends what you got and check out what Santa had left for them. It was magic.
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Who remembers fixing a plastic bag to toy soldiers and watching them sail out of the bedroom window to the ground below? Plastic or metal, mini figures like these could provide endless hours of entertainment. Pictured are tin soldiers at a factory of the 'Niena Studio' in Saint Petersburg on February 21, 2017. (OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images) Photo: OLGA MALTSEVA
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Backed by a popular cartoon, My Little Pony was a huge hit in the 80s. Some of the different ponies, which have proved popular through to the present time, are pictured here at the My Little Pony Convention at Redwood Hotel and Country Club, near Bristol on October 26 2007. Fans of the toys were in the city to celebrate twenty five years Of My Little Pony. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Photo: Matt Cardy
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Remember this shy little fellow? He is the Monchhichi monkey, first released in Japan in the 1970s and globally popular during the 1980s and ever since with children and many collectors around the world. (Pixabay) Photo: Pixabay
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Then as now, skipping ropes were popular as a solo or group activity and had the added bonus of keeping you fit. Pictured are girls skipping in the playground of Christ Church Primary School in Battersea. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: Evening Standard