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Your favourite toys from childhood

First I asked for your suggestions. Now I'm sticking it in a poll to order it. Sorry it's HUGE and filling the board. Please vote.

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rob, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:36, archived)

What is the onomatopoeia for a Transformer anyway?

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Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:41, archived)

You mean the transforming sound?

Sort of khree-khoo-khroo-khroo-khree

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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:03, archived)

Thats it.

Down to a tee!

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D3xt3r Don't take any guff from these fucking swine...., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:20, archived)

damn!

no g.i. joe/action force :(

(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:41, archived)

sorry!

you'll have to vote for Action Man.

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rob, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:47, archived)

yup

that's what i resorted to

(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:48, archived)

I wanted to vote for

Giant Imaginary Rabbit.
What is my nearest equivalent ?

*Spots*
Ah, found it !
*Votes for Monopoly*

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The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:58, archived)

hahha

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Ysol ab abl blap, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:14, archived)

Can we vote for more than one?

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revolution now 👊, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:41, archived)

after a 30min wait yes

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:53, archived)

Well THIS'll take a while then...

...

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..wil, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:10, archived)

you got a book coming out Rob ;D

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:42, archived)

it's one of those I Spot things for E4.

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rob, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:45, archived)

hehe

cool

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:48, archived)

anyone who doesnt vote lego is crazy

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Microwave, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:42, archived)

I don't want to swing the vote

but I'd be surprised if Lego didn't do very well indeed

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rob, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:48, archived)

my dad built a dungeon out of lego to keep me in

the memories are too much

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:49, archived)

^ THIS

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Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:51, archived)

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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:03, archived)

I'm probably crazy then

I voted for Monopoly.
Lego would've been my second vote if this was a PR Poll.

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The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:54, archived)

Lego has so many votes it's obviously won

so I'm voting for all my other favourites. I'll leave Lego till the end.

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:59, archived)

Some of us are girls

and had Spectrums :)

(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 21:20, archived)

Mmm girls that can use computers.

(waxdart hello., Wed 8 Sep 2010, 12:19, archived)

My Mum used to read the code to me when i used to program my speccy from those mags ! (not THOSE mags !)

(SniffMyFingerUk Photoshop fiddler :), Wed 8 Sep 2010, 16:39, archived)

This is the truth right here.

I don't know anyone who doesn't like Lego.

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deathsquirrel Oh dear., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 22:43, archived)

Knex was better

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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Wed 8 Sep 2010, 20:28, archived)

The Black Widow catapult

capable of firing a ball baring the length of the road and still smashing the green house at the end

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Paul_P http://www.Paul-hub.com, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:48, archived)

someone fired a pebble at the back of my head from 20ft with one

I can vouch for their power

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HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:23, archived)

It was a flint to the front of my head

Still have the scar.

(Chicken Little This signature has been left blank., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 21:02, archived)

i was never allowed one

probably a good call by my parents in retroflection.

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monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:04, archived)

I liked when the poll loaded one by one, and the board felt like it was sinking very slowly

(__, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:50, archived)

I FUCKING LOVE K'NEX

(__, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:51, archived)

Oh.

What about 'balloon on a stick'.

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4Q just lurking, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:54, archived)

OR A HOOP

...eeeh they don't know they born thesedays

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Elvis impersonator, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:05, archived)

hoop? HOOP?

in mah day, all we had was a rock and swift kick oop the arse.

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monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:09, archived)

We used to dream about having a rock....

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4Q just lurking, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:15, archived)

I used to have a hoop...

...left it outside a shop and someone pinched it - had to bloody walk home!

(minimalist ..., Thu 9 Sep 2010, 0:42, archived)

what about brick? :(

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 8:55, archived)

I LOVE MY BRICK

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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:28, archived)

Log ?

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The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:52, archived)

It's better than bad

It's good!

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Dervel OTBC, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:56, archived)

What about FIRE?

that was an excellent toy

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:00, archived)

ooh this!

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:02, archived)

What happened to the ZX Spectrum?

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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:01, archived)

Oh wait nm I found it

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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:02, archived)

I used to like playing with matches

burning schools and things :D

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Elvis impersonator, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:03, archived)

Watching 'Transformers' last night...

I got quite taken with the excitement of what my car could possibly do. Needless to say the only thing 'Fiona' (my Fiesta) is liable to turn into, is a telephone pole...

(batboy ...is it beer o'clock yet??!, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:07, archived)

Shit

I accidentally voted for toy microscope

Either that, or I subconsciously spent hours of my youth looking at things through a toy microscope. But really, how effective could that have even been?

(Ludacrust alliterated your monstrously magnanimous mother, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:28, archived)

~~things~~ my cock and balls

;D

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:38, archived)

does Girls' World include the Jeffrey Dahmer 'Nails' edition?

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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:29, archived)

no dinkle?

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:39, archived)

I still play with mine

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Elvis impersonator, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:41, archived)

best. toy. evah!

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:45, archived)

and it's very hard to lose

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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:48, archived)

My used to

disappear down the back of the settee regular. I'm not sure how it went in, it was so tight.

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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:57, archived)

My lovely 48k Spectrum complete with DK'tronics keyboard

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ERG1008 is climbing in yo windows & snatchin yo people up, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:48, archived)

oh yes!

clunkety clunk!

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:24, archived)

I used to play with my willy.

Still do to be honest.

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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:48, archived)

I'm surprised that I can't see

Amanda Johnson (age 14 - circa 1977)
She was a VERY popular plaything at my school.

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The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:08, archived)

I voted and it said "Go back to wherever you came from."

That's a bit racist isn't it?

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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:08, archived)

Hahaha !

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The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:19, archived)

Where's the Mask toys?

Mask was ace, I had one of the shit cars, but a friend had the red one, I'm boycotting this survey until Mask is added

(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:08, archived)

I will not contribute to your devious market research ploy

(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:10, archived)

i had the red car but as the only tv i was allowed to watch was shitty childrens bbc i had no idea what the background story of it was

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monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:11, archived)

then you're some sort of cunt

I had some spazzy black cadillac that was never actually in the cartoon, but I had a centurion figure, despite only having seen the cartoon for that about 2 months ago

(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:14, archived)

haha are you jealous?

i could probably go find it in the big box of crap from my parents that lives on top of the wardrobe.

neee-ow! tiny plastic bombs away!

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monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:18, archived)

Yeah. Get it and break it.

Then post a pic of the damage just to upset the cat hater.

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4Q just lurking, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:20, archived)

:'(

*sings 'memories'*

(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:22, archived)

those shiney bits on the doors that extended out to make wings were always really fragile

oop, ooooop. nearly... i wonder how far i can bend them....

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monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:22, archived)

A friend of mine ahd it at the time, the temptation to kill hima nd keep the red car for myself almost cost me my childhood

(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:21, archived)

I had them all!

The kid with the messed up face, the biker father-figure...
My favourite was the Cher one. I used to fap on it.

(Professor Yaffle now with added sodium, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 17:25, archived)

My favourite toy was my cock.

Why isn't this on the list. I want answers.

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Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:23, archived)

I doubt many people would vote for your cock.

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4Q just lurking, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:26, archived)

Rubbish.

I would have and so would my wife. Well one out of two ain't bad.

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Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:27, archived)

*checks profile*

I would

(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:27, archived)

It's going to take too long to vote every half hour, so here's my list up front:

Friends and a good imagination (playing "armies" was the best)
Lego
Action Man
Battling Tops
Cap guns
Water pistols
Dart guns
Plasticene
Toy cars
Cardboard Boxes (to make action man spaceships out of)
Conkers (used to collect 'em from a tree & sell bags of 5 in the playground for 5p & spend the profit on beef flavour Potato Puffs).

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Ysol ab abl blap, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:24, archived)

yeah

Cardboard Boxes
Sticks
Fire
Mud

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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:28, archived)

Old fridges...

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Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:33, archived)

oh yes

Empty oil canisters
Old tyres
Dead things
Moss

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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:37, archived)

*Joins In*

Imaginary Giant Rabbit
Amanda Johnson
Fire
Log
Shovel
All five of the above together in a bowl of warm custard with Jenny Agutter*

*That was a great weekend.

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The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:35, archived)

Oh yes now you're talking

mmm shovels

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Ysol ab abl blap, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:19, archived)

That's good to know.

Thanks.

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4Q just lurking, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:35, archived)

What is it supposed to be loading?

Can we not just have some links that say what they are?

Edit: I'm not sure www.palmnet.me.uk will thank us for the borking...

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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:48, archived)

haha

yip - we've borked it

downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.palmnet.me.uk/

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:54, archived)

Ooh. Have we slashed and dotted all over them?

Hang on, they're back...

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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:12, archived)

but they appear to have suspended referals from b3ta.com - oopsy!

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:40, archived)

That's probably wise.

I might ask them how its done in fact.

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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:50, archived)

my favourite toy was a Mini Poll Bar, not sure which one to choose now.

(Professor of Lesbonics remembered his password on, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:59, archived)

the 11th one

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:04, archived)

I'm sure Poll Bars are smaller than they were when I was a kid.

I think there's less chocolate in them too.

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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:49, archived)

Please give us the list in words too.

All I can see is a load of little "can't download picture" boxes. I have WiFi and I have hit reload and everything.

(racheinderbys, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:12, archived)

Actually since from the comments Lego is on the list...

... and since I was still playing with Lego when I came home from university at Christmas times, I think it has to get my vote.

(racheinderbys, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:14, archived)

I think if you ask a load of techy types for favourite toys

You'll always get LEGO, even edging ahead of the ZX Spectrum.
Because they're all just itching for the slightest excuse to go and buy some. As if an X-Wing Fighter or a minifigure Baywatch lifeguard isn't reason enough...

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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:22, archived)

Well I was already an adult when ZX Spectrum came out...

... never had any electrical toys anyway.

(racheinderbys, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:37, archived)

Uh-oh

"Account suspended"

Looks like palmnet can't handle the bandwidth :-/

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revolution now 👊, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 11:57, archived)

THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 6 Sep 2010, 12:03, archived)

NO TRUTH HANDLER THEY!

I DERIDE THEIR TRUTH-HANDLING ABILITIES!

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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 13:01, archived)

As a girl ...

Mine might be a bit different. But my cheetarah doll made me question my sexuality and we did have all the star wars figures till my brother burnt the house down with them in it. I also loved my My Pet Monster which my daughter has nicked (although I have crawled into her playhouse to have a play with his handcuffs on occasion.

(Puckish, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 16:06, archived)

Huge thanks

due to whoever suggested Red Bangers Brought Back from France, we used to have tremendous fun with them. They had short fuses and were very loud. My favourite thing to do was light them and throw them under my mate's feet as he drove along. Hilarity ensued as he cursed wildly and drove with his feet on the dashboard, one hand covering his knackers just in case. A real highlight, however, was throwing a large one into the security office at the stately home where I worked. More hilarity as all the alarms went off and seven police cars arrived. They were told it was a false alarm. Ah, those were the days...

Does anyone know if you can still buy them, or are the penalties for importing them too draconian?

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Varmint, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 20:48, archived)

some kid blew up my neck.

I didn't like it.

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Paster of Muppets is an incredible screen name, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 22:03, archived)

lego is shit

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mongychops, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 20:51, archived)

Did whoever listed "playing in a suitcase" go on to work for MI6?

(Sallow Stoat had a fall on, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 21:26, archived)

Am I the only one who remembers

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.S.C.L.E.

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Mx-Dr Trying to be somewhere between an ape and a robot., Tue 7 Sep 2010, 0:22, archived)

I had a load of those guys...

I think my GF may be upset with you now,
I'm off to eBay... :)

(SD6 , lurking until:, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:17, archived)

Where's ball in a cup?

the aim of the game is to get the ball in the cup, but dont worry if you fail, because the ball is attached by a piece of string, so you can just keep trying! Ball in a cup!

(sockhead I promise I'll subscribe exactly a day after, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 3:05, archived)

Mexico's favorite toy for over 340 years

And cleanup is as easy as catching a ball in a cup

(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:46, archived)

Had to be Transformers

Two toys for the price of one was a big selling point to my parents...

(SD6 , lurking until:, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:22, archived)

suggestion

use a log scale for the histogram lengths, so we can see by eye the variation in the less popular toys. The lego bar is so long almost all the others have near-negligible size.

(haberman is singing in the changes, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 20:54, archived)

I note that there are quite a few toys with 0 votes

So, even the persons who suggested them haven't voted for them.

I demand an explanation.

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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 6:39, archived)

Easy peasy

They submitted their suggestion, and then when someone else said "Dinky die-cast Thunderbird 2", they thought "Blimey, I'd forgotten about that one. That was definitely the very best toy in the world ever," and voted for the Dinky die-cast Thunderbird 2 instead, as all right-minded people would.

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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 16:43, archived)

My favourite toys were Bigtrak and a dead hamster

www.bigtrakuk.com/

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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 10:34, archived)

C64

deffo.

(brutal stack Raided the beeves of Apollo on, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 21:11, archived)

where is it?

Where's hide the sausage? Me and dad used to play it all the time!

(madamcreative, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 22:23, archived)

No Hornby trains?

It'll have to be Meccano then.

(Micklebring, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 23:39, archived)

New glasses time

And now it's there. Bugger.

(Micklebring, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 23:47, archived)

I love Astro Wars!! : D

we had a space ship tent, space men outfits with helmet and vidor and we'd play it for hours.. HOURS AND HOURS!
joy!
thanks for reminding me : )
good times

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Request

I didn't vote for it but can you change Metal detector to it's proper name of Treasure Wand

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Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 1:19, archived)

Shopping trolley delusions...

Be honest, all those of you that clicked shopping trolleys:

Did you actually regularly play in shopping trolleys as kids, rolling down hills 'Last Of The Summer Wine' style, getting into scrapes, and having a lark, leading the life of a Just William character?

Or is the truth more like you stayed indoors as a child and played with lego, transformers, your computer. Learnt to program on your computer, masturbated, avoided girls but made up stories about how you were dead popular with girls in another school, etc... before finally when at university you decided to take the shopping trolley for a spin, fell out and looked mildly embarrassed, but look back at it as a great time through the mists of Students-Union-pound-a-pint glasses?

I know I definitely fall into the latter...

I wasted my youth.

(mongothemagnificent knows where you live, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 10:13, archived)

Is it not 'Mr Splashypants' syndrome?

Or are there alot of Northehers here?

(SD6 , lurking until:, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 21:18, archived)