Hello from the UK

Hi Guys,

I am Paul (aka Jemboy) and  live in the North West of the UK.

 

I am a huge 30 something year old kid at heart and love my toy era of being a kid.

 

I started with my first doll from a Jumble sale (like a yard sale) at the age of 3. My Mum says I carried it around for a few years.

For my early kid days I loved any kind of doll for the concious boy (not wanting to be called any name) so played with Action Man, The Lone Ranger & Star Wars Figures. 

 

In later years I got hooked into playing with Sindy with a few girls (and my sister) that didn't seem to mind me joning in. I started to collect them and my Grandma (who bought us gifts at the weekend) didn't bat an eyelid when I asked for a Sindy doll.

Me and my Sister collected Sindy in 82-84, Barbie 84-86 and then Jem in 86-88 (with a few Sindy's a Barbies in between) We had hundreds of them as well as all the parafinalia!

 

By 1989 I left school and suddenly "grew up" leaving our toys behind.

Our Mum gave all the dolls, houses, cars,pools, starstages etc to a local kids home in 1991 without us knowing (boo hoo)

 

In 2001 some 12 years later I looked up Jem on e-bay and won Stormer of TheMisfits for 99p, she was nude so I thought I would find her an outfit and fell back down the rabbit hole into doll-land. Now with most of my childhood collection back (Barbie, Sindy, Jem and a few others) I look for he dolls I missed back in the era. I have a personal liking for Steffie faced Barbies and the brief 1986 madeover Sindy.

 

Stay Outrageous,Truly Outragous!

Paul

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Community ManagerPermalink Reply by Simon Farnworth on September 5, 2010 at 19:29
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your wonderful introduction! It really breaks my heart when I hear about parents giving away someone's childhood toys :(( Luckily mine were kept in the loft for years (no dolls sadly but loads of Star Wars toys!). Like you I discovered ebay as a place to recapture my childhood (or in my case the childhood I never had in the case of dolls LOL) and had a Sindy craze to begin with as she was the doll I remembered. As you say it is just like falling down the rabbit hole!

It's great to have you on Doll Observers and I look forward to your contributions.

Warm regards,
Simon

P.S. Where in the North West are you? I come from Blackburn originally so know Lancashire well.
Permalink Reply by Jemboy on September 5, 2010 at 19:38
Hi Simon and thanks,

It broke my heart when I realised (a few months later) they had gone, but we didn't really look after them that well as me and my sister where budding hairdressers in the making. well worn / Heavily played with would be what they would have been now so replaceing them new has been great,

I originally lived in Leyland (until 1984) but live in Preston now. I as reading your intro and i see you are a nurse, as is my partner, and I work at the University of Central Lancashire in the Nursing Office :)

Hopefully I will have lots of contributions as I seem to remember everything about dolls (mainly Jem and sindy 82-87) and nothing important.

Paul :)

Community ManagerPermalink Reply by Simon Farnworth on September 5, 2010 at 19:53
Haha yes I know what you mean about remembering. I often think if I could apply the enthusiasm and knowledge that I have about dolls to work I would be chief exec by now LOL!

Yes I know Preston well or at least Preston as it was up until 1990 or so whenI moved south and I guess it must have changed somewhat since then ;)
Permalink Reply by Jemboy on September 6, 2010 at 20:42
I bet Preston will have changed quite a bit by now,the Uni has taken over most of it :)

Community ManagerPermalink Reply by Simon Farnworth on September 6, 2010 at 20:56
Yes I think it was still a polytechnic when I was there! ;-)
Permalink Reply by Ashley on January 24, 2011 at 16:36

My mom was great.  She didn't send my toys away because she had that done to her as a kid and is now trying to find them all again!  

 

I loved Jem!  One of my favorite cartoons.  :-)  I'm just starting to get my Jem collection going.  I've managed to get most of the Misfits and Holograms.  Now I'm working on the secondary characters...

 

~Ashley

Permalink Reply by Jemboy on January 28, 2011 at 7:59
Hi Ashley, Thanks for your message and joining the group. If you need any info on Jem just give me a shout. I have cut back on Jem over the past 2 years and have gone back to only what I had as a kid. My Plan is to re-visit Jem in the next few years and rather than re-collect peice by peice I am to get them MIB and open them ha ha ha
Permalink Reply by Jemboy on February 3, 2011 at 7:47

Great to see you here Geo, I am glad you joined. You have some great pictures that you can share on here too. Come and join my Sindy group too.

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