alison
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toy wantedI am looking for a toy we had when we were little, but haven't seen for years.
It is a set of plastic disks that were about 6" accross.
There was a pin hole in the middle where a drawing pin would fix or hold it to the paper below.
On the outside rim was a start mark, and at different spaces numbers going round. A dot was drawn on the outside edge of the disk, on the paper below.
On the whole disk where a seres of lines and curves, all numbered.
No 1 was lined up with the dot, and line 1 was then drawn from the stencil. The disk was moved to 2, and line 2 drawn, until all were finished.
Underneath you would have drawn fantastic animal pictures.
Any idea what they are called or if they are still around.
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Chez
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Is it called a spirograph? But I don't have one, I'm afraid!
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Snowball
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I know exactly what you mean, I used to have them.
Can't remember what they were called though.
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alison
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Not spirograph. That was where you had a series of cogs and made patterns.
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Chez
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Ah, sorry 
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Northern_Lad
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'salright, Chez. That was my thought too, but given who remembers it it was probably made of lead and was steam powered.
Life? Don't talk to me about li.....*thump*
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alison
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Marionb
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My first thought was Spirograph too.....
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Snowball
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Lead/, steam powered? If I recall correctly it was made from stone and flint.
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Northern_Lad
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| Snowball wrote: | | Lead/, steam powered? If I recall correctly it was made from stone and flint. |
Well, of course you'd remember the prototype.
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ian1
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im sure its a ROTODRAW !
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GSHP
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I know what you mean..I had one .loved it !! can't remember what it was called though I'll try to remember..probably still have it some where.
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GSHP
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Rotodraw??
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GSHP
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 cross posted
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alison
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That is the one.
Thank you
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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goodness I remember that - we had an animal set I think
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Green Rosie
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Jamanda
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Gosh I remember them. What made you think of them Alison?
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alison
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Well it started with a conversation in the vets, while I was waiting to pick up my blue tongue vaccination. You know how I like a chat.
It started with the pc going slowly, to sort out my bill, and us discussing the cogs going round slowly, which then moved onto spirograph, and then on to these.
Only one other person could remember them.
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alison
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The other one we were talking about was a board game called scoop, I think, that was based on being a newspaper editor, and making up a newspaper page. There was a cardboad phone, which was dialed to give tasks.
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tigger
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I had them with figures in national costumes and characters from bambi. My children have inherited them, and they love them too 
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wizz
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We had scoop! though can't remember much about it except the phone bit that i loved to mess about with - much to my elder sister's irritation.
wizz
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alison
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wizz
That is the bit I remember too.
I found a site selling old games, and I noticed a couple of others we loved as well. 
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gil
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If you're into old games, and visit London, do make time to go to The Museum Of Childhood in Bethnal Green. Well worth it for the nostalgia, and a great place to take children for a half day out.
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