Fisher Price record player

Yes! And the tv which played:
Row, row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is butter dream

(yes, I do know! )

And the garage.

Why did we get rid of it all?
I did buy an old-fashioned pull-along telephone for the DGD

We had one for our DCs. It was great. Now children will probably not see record players.

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I saw in the paper the other day that vinyl is making a comeback!

So anyone into manufacturing record players will make a fortune as most people have thrown them out!!
Now who thought that one up?

I did buy DGD the FP "chatter telephone" for her first Christmas last year, just as I bought one for her mummy's first Christmas.
All together, now " Aaaaah!"

We had the 'row row row your boat' tv rq mentioned.

The record player looks great! You can't beat Fisher Price.

The FP garage is great, rosequartz. I'd got rid of ours, so bought it again when I saw it at a local table top sale. I keep it here for when the DGS come round and it's so sturdy compared to the ones they have at home. They had the old-style FP playground for sale as well, and if I could have carried it, I'd have bought that too.

We had one of those too! I still have the Chatterphone, Zoo Train and Camper Van, complete with all the animals and camping equipment. The GC's love playing with their mummys' old toys.
I heard that one of the supermarkets -? Tesco - is stocking vinyl records and they are flying off the shelves, so perhaps I should dust down the record player....

OH and SIL both into vinyl. so DGS is used to seeing a record player in action. I hope he likes it!

Seriously nostalgic for old FP, it was indestructible.
The pull along phone, garage, record player, bath whatsit that stuck to the side with plastic suckers, a zoo train.
How I wish I'd kept them

Actually it's 'life is gup a dream!'

Gasp!! The Camper Van, yes, yes! DD1 loved it, she would play with it and the little people for ages.
We have the Fisher Price house passed on by a kind neighbour and I bought some people for it, the DGDs love it.

'life is gup a dream!'
Actually, kitty DD was grown up before she realised there was no such thing as a 'butter dream'

I saw a FP record player in t Museum of Childhood, last week. It was one of the things I commented on! If anyone gets a chance do go,it's full of nostalga!

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We had kept several FP toys in the loft for the grandchildren. Their favourite is the hospital which is still played with and the lift still works!

.....nearly forgot the Ferris wheel!

And the little wooden dachshund with the spring tail!

DS2 had a FP radio which played Hickory Dickory Dock. He nearly drove the nurses crazy when he was in hospital at the age of 2, winding it up in the middle of the night. I think it may be in my loft.

The FP record player was my eldest daughter's very favourite toy. I recently found one in a charity shop, it didn't work but I gave it to my daughter to remind her of her early years.
We had lots of Fp's excellent toys, the Big Wheel was another favourite.
Remember the Tree House? That wasn't FP but it seemed every child had one.

DD had the Fisher Price record player, but the favourite, most played with, was the camper van the boat on top! I was really sorry we didn't keep that. I've never seen another one. Weren't Fisher Price just the sturdiest, almost indestructible toys?

Did anyone else have the street that opened up with a bridge joining both bits with lots of different shops! Obviously, the dentist was the most exciting bit for us.

We had the garage and donated it to the optician's waiting room. It's still there and I want it back!

We still have our Play Family Camper with the boat - alas no people though . I wish we still had the Play Family House, and the Play Desk. My DS had the little tip up truck, which operated by squeezing a bulb at the end of a rubber tube (the tube also acted as the 'pull along'). This little truck had such a clacker attached to one of the wheels, so that as DS ran about the house pulling it behind him, the clacking sound got faster and faster and was very loud. Very annoying. I waited till he was in bed one night and doctored the dratted thing .

had a clacker.... (please delete the word 'such' lol!)

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The words of 'Row, row, row your boat' have always, in our house, ended with 'Life is buttercream'.
It is one of my 5 month old GD's favourite songs and now she's learning that ending too, oh dear