Domestic and wild animals are a popular theme among children's toys today, and they definitely were so during the past decades, too. I still have quite a lot of small plastic animal toys in my home that date to the 1980s and 1990s. I can even remember how my family was choosing and buying some... Continue Reading →
When I look back to my childhood and try to remember the toys that I played with before school age, one of the toys that comes to mind instantly is Polly Pocket. To my readers outside Finland, by saying before my school age, I mean before the age of seven. That will place us to... Continue Reading →
These tiny dolls and their brightly coloured houses found their way to Finland in the last years of the 1980s or in the very beginning of the 1990s. They are called So Small Babies. My memories about their arrival are vague, as I was quite small myself back then. Apparently, these toys were not in... Continue Reading →
Old Toy Cabinet 