I had a Tiny Tears when I was little and she was one of my absolute favourite dolls. I think I actually got her when I was quite old for baby dolls by my friend’s standards, maybe 7 or 8, but then I went on to play with them until I was about 12 (I always wanted to be pushing a baby in a buggy so stretched it out for as long as possible) so she definitely got some love.
My 1980’s Tiny Tears (I wasn’t the first to play with the iconic doll for she is 40 years old would you believe) had real hair and was very stiff of tummy meaning it was incredibly difficult to actually get her to cry or do a wee. However, she did work when enough force was given and I absolutely loved playing with her. I asked my Mum if she still had her somewhere (as I’m sure she does) but she couldn’t remember where she might be hiding these days so unfortunately I don’t have a photograph to show you.
Tiny Tears has moved on in the world (with everything else) and these days is a WHOLE lot different to the one I played with back in the day. You can now buy Classic Tiny tears Interactive (£26.99 RRP). She still cries real tears and does a wee on her potty but the 2014 version does it all at the touch of buttons. She no longer needs you to sit on her or jump up and down on her tummy to make the water come out and seamlessly drinks from her bottle before producing the desired tears or potty water! To boot, she cries (sound), burps, makes sucking noises, calls for her Mama and giggles. If I’d been presented with this Tiny Tears as a child then I’d have thought I’d won the lottery. She is like a real baby (except you can turn her off of course) and had I had one myself it might have saved two cats dressed in bonnets while physically being held down in my toy pram from their shame as well as making my baby cousin Mike (now a strapping chap in his late twenties) free to just roam around rather than being treated as an added ‘dolly’ to my collection! Every little girl needs on of these Tiny Tears dolls (or failing that a baby cousin Mike)!
Florence has been playing with this latest asset to the Tiny Tears dynasty and of course she is utterly thrilled with her!
What does Florence like? Apart from the obvious and previously mentioned super duper functions? Well she loves that Tiny Tears comes with a nappy you can take on and off. She has dolls which came with nappies but the sticky wears off meaning they are rendered a little useless and have to buy more, the nappy for Tiny Tears has Velcro and can be used as many times as you like. She also is rather fond of being able to dress and undress her easily. She’s a hit that’s for sure! Take a look at her in action, even Jimmy had a play and he’s not usually interested in baby dolls at all!
If you’re after a bit more of a traditional doll then Classic Tiny Tears (normal) is available also for £19.99. She has ‘real hair’ and simply cries or wees after a feed. She’s lovely but now that we’ve played with the Classic tiny Tears Interactive I think I know where our heart really lies! We also like that you can buy extra outfits and a feeding set so little extra presents can be bought for something special.
If you fancy winning one of these lovely dolls then enter my Rafflecopter competition below to be in with a chance!
You can buy Tiny Tears from all good toy stores and for stockists please see www.johnadams.co.uk.
We were sent a Classic Tiny Tears Interactive for the purpose of an honest review and also offered another to give away as a prize for this competition.
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I loved barbie she was everything i wanted to be when i was older
My little pony when i was a kid, loved that there were so many different ones to collect x
my toy typewriter as I used to pretend I was a secretary working in an office
my action man with moving eyes
i had a rocking horse 🙂
I loved my teddy called Tiger as my gran gave it to me and it had just one eye.
when I was younger I can remember spending hours playing with an old spinning top – was great fun!!!
My space hopper was a big favourite in my family especially when my dad tried to have a go and kept falling off.
My blue teddy a christmas gift from my grandma
My Hula Hoop, endless hours of competitions with my friends.
my little ponys 🙂 my 5yr old is now into my little pony so wish I kept mine now x
Lego! I was a tom-boy but lego was great, and my kids now play lego…..I am now stepping on the lego!!!!
Loved my Sindy dolls – played for hours with them along with the Sindy caravan and car! 🙂
I loved My Little Pony!
He-Man and She-Ra, ooh and Jem and The Holigrams, does anyone remember them?
My big yellow teapot, it was amaze
I had a teddy that ended up very threadbear with love 🙂
I loved Furbys as they were a gigantic craze, I loved Pogs as me and my big brother would spend hours playing and it was perfect for rainy days!
My pogo stick – I could bounce about all day 🙂
I had lots of fun times with my care bears and my little ponies
barbie and cindy. my old orange space hopper that had a face, and a wooden pull along dog that was white with brown spots, oh not to forget my old fisher price telephone with eyes too!! so many great toys back then!
I used to love my Polly Pockets, I’d play with them for hours!
lego, played with it all the time, now my daughter loves it and plays with all my old lego.
Pacman on the old style atari and then the classic spring dolls pram x
I had one of the first soft bodied dolls that were more like a real baby than the plastic ones, she was called Stephanie and now my daughter loves playing with her.
I used to love my rupert the bear satchel and colouring set, it came everywhere with me
Wooden abacus
I love playing with my spud gun as it use potatoes
I used to love the thing (because I don’t know what it was called) which was a plastic circle with shapes (which were numbered) cut out. Plus numbers round the edge. You drew a line where the number one was and drew the shape(stencil) and when you had done that you turned the circle to 2 and drew inside the shape where the number 2 was. When you had run out of numbers you took the circle off the paper and you had a little person (we had Rupert with his friends. and people from around the world too). If ANYONE knows what it was called, I’ll be the best friend forever. Well not really, but know what I mean. It’s not Spyograph (I keep checking because people keep asking me if it). 🙂
Pardon me for the long post. 🙂
my sindy doll because of all the different outfits
My Keyper Diamond Pony <3 I can still remember the smell to this day!
Lego, the old style Lego that you had to use your imagination with and you were only bound by your creativty, todays Lego is a bit prescriptive.
my old retro had to be buckaroo and kerplunk for sure.kids these days arent upto games which is a shame.my self and our family play scrabble every week from our eldest 19 right down to our littlest aged 4 and 2 others inbetween.
I loved my Sindys and Sindy House because she was much more ‘normal’ than Barbie!
space hopper lol
I had a tiny tears doll when i was little, loved her
I have always liked my little pony and care bears
I had a Sindy doll, I loved her to bits, I also liked being a hairdresser, she ended up as bald as a badger.
Has to be the Rubix Cube we didn’t have one but my Aunty Mary did and i used to love visiting her and playing with it x
I loved my old school fisher price record player – the one with the colour plastic records – Rock n Roll baby 🙂
Had to be my She-Ra dolls – loved She-Ra xx
My tamagochi 🙂
i used to love my major morgan-it was so cool and educational too :)x
Used to have a wooden dolls house which was hours of fun. It had lots of different wooden furniture and you could reach all the rooms on all floors as the roof lifted up.
Girls world caking on the make up
Sindy dolls were my thing and I had the horse, car and lots of clothes
kurplunk always ended in kids at war.
I love Cabbage Patch Kids!
I used to love stickle bricks! There were so many things you could build with them and they felt great too!
I loved my Barbie horse and carriage. It walked and could plant it hair. Came with a mini picnic hamper.
I used to love playing with my pregnant barbie hehe!!! The bump used to pop off and a baby was inside!!! xx
I had cupcake dolls! loved them!
space hopper great fun
My little ponies and Care Bears
I had a shopping till with keys like a typewriter and remember picking up lots of things in the house and then charging Mum to get them all back… shame it was only plastic money!!
My little Pippa doll,I used to make tiny clothes for her.
I love my tiny tears. I will never forget the christmas when I got up and she was sitting downstairs waiting for me 😀
sindys and barbies
I loved my spinning top and Rubix Cube.
Barbies!!
simon
I used to have loads of trolls… I loved collecting them
My tressy doll. She had hair that grows. You pressed a button on her tummy to make her hair grow then you had a key to wind it back in again.
I was a Barbie gal through and through! Had hundreds of the things!
I had a doll called Sheena who’s hair used to grow then you would wind it to make it shorter, I loved looking after her and brushing her hair.
I loved my Sindy doll, I had the car, the horse everything lol. I used to have a tiny tears until my brother chucked off the top of my grandads boat (it was in the garden for some reason) and broke it, I still hold a very big grudge about that!!
I loved Sindy because she had a lot more clothes than me!
I love my My Little Pony Show Stable and collection of My Little Ponies! I loved to brush and plait their tails and manes!
Lego, it would keep me quiet for hours 🙂
She is lovely, would loved to have owned her when I was young.
My Spirograph
my Panda.
Cabbage Patch dolls with they wool hair 🙂
I used to love playing with a toy camera that used to say ‘smile’ when you clicked it.
I loved Lego because I could make so many original and interesting things
I used to love helping my brothers with meccano – it stopped them fighting!
My Petite typewriter .
Well, I was more your ‘climb the trees and play football’ kind of girl. I wasn’t into Barbies or dolls. I was afraid of the dark, so my mum got me a little glow in the dark kitty. When I was scared, I would press her tummy and her cheeks would glow red.
Fisher Price stuff like the chatter phone and the teaching clock.
cabbage patch dolls as they was different
Teapot House
My cricket doll.
my favourite was my sindy doll I became a member of the sindy club got her record and imagined I was her
Polly pocket – i had loads as a child
my first two wheeler bike
My little ones love playing with my old big yellow teapot!!
I loved my pacman
Sindy, & I loved dressing her up & making clothes for her too
Polly Pocket! The ones from the 90’s that were tiny! I loved my little heart-shaped play set and had it with me everywhere.
My big Yellow Teapot , my daughter plays with it now its over 30 years old and in top condition
teddy ruxpin cos he told stories and i loved stories and reading
I used to love my car garage that my dad built for me would play for hours with it
My chopper!
My Barbie dolls
I remember spirograph, never played with dolls
I loved my yoyo. I liked to practice the tricks. x
My barbies, used to love dressing them up
The classic Pacman! 🙂
Yo yo.
teddy rukspin
I had a little wicker picnic hamper filled with all the cutlery and crockery you would expect just scaled down to kiddie size
I had a plastic record player. You put little plastic records in and it played nursery rhymes!
Etch a sketch
My brother used to have Big Loader which we’d play with for hours.
I had Sindy dolls, and I loved them because they gave me imagination x
I always loved the post office sets with the little date stamps and paper money. Kept me happy for hours
I used to love playing with my Sindy doll with her house, car and horse simply because they made me happy when I played with them
My care bears….I used to believe in the magic
rock star barbie because i loved her the most out of all my barbies!
I used to love my Fisher Price record player which played nursery rhymes
connect 4 – i was great at that game !
I remember having a tiny tears i thought it was great would love to win this for my daughter
I loved little cups and pans I made from clay
My little pony!
barbies! i used to love dressing them up and creating little personalities for them
I still have my 40 year old teeny tiny tears from the 70’s…. would never part with her 🙂
I loved my teddies and soft toys the most but did have one dolly but i think my i cut her hair off!
my bike
I loved Barbie, I used to love all the different outfits
I loved flower fairies, I had the petal beds and loved them!
I loved my cabbage patch kid. I loved the whole idea of where they came from and the fact that no one else in the whole world had one that looked exactly the same as mine did
I used tolove my cabbage patch doll! It was so different looking from other dolls and there had all different skin types I don’t remember many other dolls that done that. Plus she had a name and certificate!
I loved the big yellow tea pot
Sindy dolls. I had a LOT of stuff for mine.
my Teddy Bear,he has been with me for over 65 years,and although threadbare & been through the wars I still love him!!
A lovely spinning top which used to hum if you could make it go fast enough
Rainbow Bright and her ponty Star Bright!
My little pony and the cabbage patch dolls
Barbie dolls because they had so many outfits and accessories.
Perfection! Count down to get all the shapes in before it popped up – loved the excitement lol
I had a sweet shop with scales and little bottles of cherry lips, dolly mixtures, little gems and lots more little sweets. I used to line up my dolls and if they had been good I would weigh out some sweets for them.
Rubiks Cube, I could only ever get 3 sides tho. My naughty little sister, on the other hand, took hers apart & put it back together finished!!
Ah, the Space hopper, mine was bright orange and I absolutely loved it, my sister had one as well, but her’s was red, I think, and the fun we had, bouncing up and down our street. We would spend hours playing on them. but I think it was spending time with my sister, sadly now no longer here, that I remember the most and why they bring back such happy memories x
my action man with moving eyes
I used to love my cabbage patch dolls xx
Sindy dolls…me and my 3 sisters all had various ones and we would play for hours with them 🙂
Sindy and barbie dolls. I got mine passed on to me from my cousin and I loved them
action man figures!!
My Polly Pocket and Melanie’s Mall
A beautiful doll called Katie Kopycat, she had a gorgeous blue dress with long blonde hair. She sat a tiny desk and using the attachment she wrote words as you wrote them. Seemed so magical back then !!
my little ponies kept me amused for hours
Going back a long while, but I remember being fascinated with a kaleidoscope, it was triangular and made of glass. Inside there were pieces of coloured foil, like sweet wrappers, that made beautiful patterns, all different.
As a tom boy I liked my brothers turtles and action figures lol
the old spinning tops train set rubik the real toys of yesteryear I also had my special dolls and teddies take me back
I had a giant red teapot house that I loved I remember playing with it for hours on end 🙂
Guess Who – Still the best for those rainy days.
Barbie toy, spend hours and hours making her own clothes 🙂
loved my lego
I absolutely adored playing with Weebles when I was little!
Loved my game Buckaroo me and my sister played it for ages
Spirograph 🙂
i used to be crazy for POGS , i remember the looney tunes ones that were inside walkers crisps
i loved my etch a sketch, could play on it again and again and again
My cindy and barbie dolls as you could dress them up and role play with them
I used to love all my dolls, my Tiny Tears was my favourite and I had a walking Talking doll on a remote control.
My nosey teddy, press his belly and the glitter in the plastic nose use to move 🙂
spirograph
I used to have a dolls house that i loved, i used to sit for hours bossing my little family around x
Etch a sketch!
Barbie dolls because I had quite a few different ones
my sindy dolls in my dolls house
Care Bears! 🙂
my timmy tears just loved him so much
loved my pallitoy tree house. Still have it and my daughter plays with it 🙂
My Barbie doll
I had a fisher-price till and record player that I loved. Can’t believe they’ve re-released these toys now!
i had a tressy doll,she was brilliant you turned a button on her stomach and her hair became longer or shorter.i absolutely loved her she was much prettier than cindy, more liked barbie.unfortunately they stopped making her but i bet if they brought her out now she would be really popular
Popples and finders and keepers!
rubik’s cube
My pull-a-long Fisher Price phone (which I still have). It was an early mobile phone!
I loved Cabbage Patch Kids. I had a boy and a girl and trey were like my own children lol! 🙂
I loved playing with my Girls world, I put make up on her, styled her hair, and she looked liked she should be out for Halloween!!!!!!!
popples and my little ponies
Loved playing with my cindy dolls
I used to love playing mousetrap
Polly pocket (the old style not the giant new style!)
I used to love my Polly Pocket!x
My speak and spell as I was a boring square !!
Me and my partner were just talking about what retro toys we could buy our kids, we loved the board games like Mouse Trap, Frustration and Operation, oh and Hungry Hippos! X
My slinky, trying to get it to go down the stairs!
My teddies, I loved them
I loved my Cindy dolls,I used to spend hours quitely playing at my nannas house!
Tiny tears and maccano
Well I loved my Tiny Tears until my sister cut her hair as she convinced me it would grow back so I then moved on to my sister’s Rubiks Cube but just used to take the stickers off I’d say I’d completed it
my roller skates
I loved my fashion wheel because I would design outfits for hours!
my little pony i still love them now you can make up so many story’s with they let your imagination run wild 😀
I used to love playing with my Sindy’s and my brothers Action Men.
Fuzzy felts! Loved them especially as they were a special treat at grandmas house!
ooohhh going back a few years now but I used to love my Tomy Lights Alive as I just loved the way it lit up 🙂
strawberry shortcake and rainbow bright. I really wish I’d kept them now, they were so great!
I loved drawing with the Etch a Sketch – it was fun trying to draw backwards
I had a tiny tears I loved and once I was a bit older it was my girls world I adored
I loved the Simon game where you had to do the light sequence
I loved the original my little pony and polly pocket you could use your imagination
Polly Pocket
Transformers – They were so cool!
I had a tiny tears doll! and a lil’ ladybird pram to put her in 🙂
My little pony … I remember having the blue castle one Christmas 🙂
I loved lego and would play with it for hours..
Lego, you could build more than one item not like today a batman car etc only
sindy dolls were my favourite i loved role playing
I loved the wooden train set = could play with it for hours!
My Sindy doll, I had loads of fashion outfit and I loved changing her clothes according to the occasion.
Big Trak was always fascinating to me.
Simon – greatest game ever made 🙂
My little pony, sweet secrets, keepers
keypers wish i had kept mine for my little girl Tango was my fav
sindy doll my big yellow tea pot and i loved my secret keeper
I used to love my Barbie dolls!! I loved spending hours dressing them up in different outfits!!! 🙂
I loved playing with my Post Office Counter. I dreamed to work in Post Office. It seemed the most exciting job in the world to sell stamps all day!
Astro Wars – it was addictive and I was better than my brother and sister at it.
Etch-A-Sketch – i loved those
I loved playing with my keepers they were just so pritty
I loved my Barbie doll
barbie and sindy dolls loved them as a kid played with them for hours xx
rainbow bright as she was fab xx
My Teddy Ruxpin and Sylvanian Families were favorites x
I had a range of Sindy dolls and my aunt, who had a knitting machine, made me a huge bag of clothes – I used to spend hours dressing, redressing and playing with my dolls and letting my imagination run riot.
I had my Pippa dolls an all their clothes they were a miniature version of a barbie that you could fit in your school bag fab for sneaking into the classroom!
I used to love my Rubik’s cube and my sindy dolls.
I used to love playing with Tiny Tears & Barbie
Action man I could play war
I loved my Sindy dolls – I loved dressing them, and doing their hair. My mum used to make bespoke outfits for them too!
It was all about the tea set – used to spend ages writing menus and serving tea and cakes to my parents!
my big yellow tea pot wish i had kept it for my kids
Loved my brothers train set….. I was always told by him , that girls play with dolls !!!!!
I used to love my Cabbage Patch dolls, had 2 and they went everywhere with me!
I loved my Major Morgan, thought I was the bees knees because I had one of those
Love the spinning top a timeless classic.
my sally secrets doll, I loved her
Barbie, Sindy & Ken dolls
Pippa dolls 🙂
My little pony because it was the closest thing I was going to get to a real pony 🙂
I loved me weebles
My Evil Knevil wind up motorbike was awsome!
My Spirograph and lots of new pens I loved stationery
Magic Robot, as a child I was never able to work out how he always spun to th eright answer 🙂
I loved Strawberry shortcake dolls as not only were they great to play with they smelt lush too
barbie, cindy & action men. i had so much barbie stuff, hundreds of shoes, barbies which stayed boxed because they where limited editions etc. amazing!
My little pony xxx
simon says, it was such an addictive game
I had some ‘clackers’ which dont sound very exciting now, they were basically two hard balls on the end of pieces of string. When you moved your hand up and down the clackers…clacked. By today’s standards they were very tame – but I played with them for hours!
My dolls! I loved my Tiny Tears Dolly!
sindy 🙂
Sindy and Barbie Dolls
My yoyo, I remember one year I got a new light up one, would spend ages trying to do all the tricks- kept me entertained for hours 🙂
got to be my teeny tiny tears she was like having a younger brother or sister
Spacehoppers because they were bouncy fun
Tiny Tears, and other dolls. I was a girly girl and enjoyed playing with dolls.
I used to love my care bears I tried to collect them all
I actually had a tiny tears too
Rubiks cube 🙂 xx