Child Of The 1980's

Just a very brief post today to let everyone know who won our recent competition to win a selection of cool books and DVDs. To win you had to answer this question. What was the name of the badger in Doctor Snuggles? The answer was Dennis, and the lucky winner who should be receiving their prizes through the post soon is…

Ooh, I feel like a game show host announcing that. We had over 500 entries to this competition, so congratulations Julie, and we hope to be running another competition very soon.

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It’s been a little while but I’ve finally got round to organising a little competition for you. The prize consists of two books, The Classic Childrens Television Quiz Book and Sarkylocks and the Three Bears, by Dean Wilkinson, and SuperTed and Doctor Snuggles DVD.

For a chance to win these great prizes all you need to do is answer a simple question – What was the name of the badger friend of Doctor Snuggles? The answer can be found fairly easily on this site (there’s a link not a million miles away that will get you the answer), and if you click to enter the competition you’ll even find a set of multiple choice answers to make it even easier.

The competition is open until the end of October, so click here to enter or on the big icon in the sidebar! Best of luck!

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I am extremely pleased to report that Child of the 1980′s has been chosen by Cool Site of the Day to be today’s, well, cool site of the day!

Every day Cool Site of the Day features a different website, and you get the chance to vote for whether you think it is cool or not, so if you like this site then I’d be very grateful if you would cast a vote for it, which you can do by clicking here.  On September 2nd only you should see  this site with a voting frame above it.  The highest ranked site each year gets the coveted Cool Site of the Year award!

Finally, if you like what you see here, then why not sign up for our e-mail updates or RSS feed?  It’s free and you’ll get every new post delivered straight to you, and you can be sure we won’t bombard you with spam mail.

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Just wanted to let all our regular readers know that from this week I am going to be reducing my writing on this site to just three days a week, plus the Saturday Survey.

I’ve decided to do this as I have a few ideas that I would like to implement for this site which I don’t currently have the time to look into, so my hope is that by sacrificing a couple of entries a week I can address these ideas a bit sooner and improve this site even more.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to ask you all if there is anything you feel is missing from this site, whether it be a write up of a particular toy or tv show, or something much bigger. I’m really interested to know what you’d like to see here in the future.

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Regular readers of this site may remember we ran a competition a month or so ago to win tickets to the 80s Rewind Festival, a music event featuring many well remembered artists from the 1980′s. Well, a winner has been chosen and it is…

Congratulations to Richard who wins two tickets to the entire weekend of the festival with access to the camp site area thrown in as well. We hope you have a great time.

If you’re still interested in attending then you can book tickets from the Official 80s Rewind Festival web site.

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Easter is almost upon us so I’m going to be taking a long weekend off, so no posts for the next few days I’m sorry to say.

In the meantime, I just thought I’d take the opportunity to remind the sci-fi fans out there that we’ve got a new Doctor Who special this weekend on BBC1, satellite channel Dave is showing new Red Dwarf over the course of the weekend starting Good Friday, and Sci-Fi channel have their Supermarionation weekend, which means wall to wall Thunderbirds, Stingray and Joe 90!  I remember loving watching these Gerry Anderson classics when they were repeated during the school holidays.

Have a great Easter, and don’t eat too much chocolate!

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Just a quick reminder that today is the last day of our competition to win tickets to the 80s Rewind Festival.  If you haven’t entered already then click on the big icon at the top right of this page.  You’ll need to answer a simple question (hint: read the blog post mentioned on the competition page for the answer) and provide your e-mail address so that we can contact you should you be the winner.

Go on, give it a shot.  Best of luck!

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Firstly, I’d like to remind you all about our competition to win tickets to the 80s Rewind Festival taking place in Henley-On-Thames in August. The competition is open to the end of March, so click here or on the big yellow icon at the top of this page to enter.

Next, you may have noticed a new feature creeping into this very site. I’ve joined up with the eBay Partner Network to bring you links to eBay listings for relevant items. If you really want to get hold of something from your childhood that is no longer available eBay is one of the best places to go, so hopefully these links will make things a little easier for you to find that toy or game you loved. The links should even take you to the relevant eBay site for your country, or at least will if you’re in the UK, US, Australia or one of the other countries supported by the programme.

Going back to competitions I thought I’d also let you know about Hawkins Bazaar’s Do You Remember? competition where you can win £100 worth of their goods, which I highly recommend as they have a lot of cool retro toys and stuff available.

To enter the competition is pretty simple. You must play the conveyor belt game from TV game show The Generation Game. A number of products slide across the screen, and at the end you have to try and remember as many as possible. Follow this link to enter.

Definitely worth a go I’d say. I’ve already submitted my entry!

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