TV Cream's Toys: Presents You Pestered Your Parents for | 
| Author: Steve Berry
Publisher: The Friday Project Limited
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 6526
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1905548273
EAN: 9781905548279
ASIN: 1905548273
Publication Date: November 16, 2007
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Pure instant nostalgia for 70s kids October 19, 2008
If you were a kid in the 70s, and to some extent the 80s, then this is pure distilled nostalgia in an easy-to-read book format with lots of pictures.
At first glance it looks quite a quick read (only 200 pages) but it will take you quite a while- there's a lot of detail in there, especially if you keep skipping back and forth through all the footnotes (which you should), and by the time you've finished laughing out loud, you've cross-referenced one toy against another and you've gazed wistfully at the toy photos, wishing you were 8 years old again, this book will have kept you interested for many hours.
As a child of the 80s I'd say about half the toys were just a little bit before my time, but that didn't make it less interesting- it's still a fun read.
My personal 'those were the days' moments: Armatron, Big Trak, Connect 4, Downfall, Etch-a-Sketch... and that's just A to E.
Thrown down a time tube September 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Steve Berry's meticulously compiled book is extraordinarily evocative and regularly had the hairs on my neck standing up as I turned the page to see a long-forgotten chunk of childhood propelled through time and dangled before my ageing, wistful eyes.
Genuinely quite moving for hardcore nostalgia-wallowers, but even for those of a certain age who live resolutely in the present, TV Cream Toys will elicit the odd whelp of recognition. Excellent.
TV Cream's Toys: Presents You Pestered Your Parents for April 23, 2008
It's brilliant. Many of the toys I had as a kid and plenty of the ones I wanted and never got are all here in one great book. Easy to read and often amusing. Dissapointing review of Super Flight Deck (my alltime fave toy) but not as scathing as James May's view of the same item in his Top Toys TV show from Xmas 2006.
Go and buy this book now!
 Great photos, not so good text March 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A fun reminder of many toys, mainly from the seventies and eighties. Loads of great photos that are sure to bring back memories of your own childhood toys and those that you wished you had (but only saw at your friend's house or on TV). The text is the only reason for not giving 5 stars. While jokey it is not always as amusing as it thinks it is and it would have been good to have had a little more accurate information about the toys mentioned. Get "The bumper book of fads and crazes" by Richard Lewis with this. Although there are no photos in the fads book, it has the great text the TV Cream Toys book should have had to complement the photos.
Girl's World February 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very funny, especially loved the Girl's World and Kerplunk pieces. Can't wait to buy my own future children pointless pieces of plastic one day and smile knowingly at their enchanted faces as they clap their hands in glee.
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