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What's your favourite toy from childhood?

Doing another in the I Spot series and this time it's about toys.

My favourite toys were Lego, my ZX81 and my 200 in 1 electronics kit.

What about you?

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rob, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:04, archived)

Definitely lego

www.mocpages.com/home.php/25216

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:08, archived)

Oh, and some playmobil too

mostly pirates and knights

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:08, archived)

this

but specifically technic lego.

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Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:16, archived)

lego

is the greatest toy ever devised.

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izb posting occasional messages since 2001, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:33, archived)

^ this.

(apart from when you stand on it - in your bare feet).

(minimalist ..., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:28, archived)

winces

at the memory

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evil_chutney, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:38, archived)

Had to be the earlier Lego, though.

Before they started doing special bits for the nose of a spaceship/prow of a ship/etc. You had to use your imagination and creativity more to use generic Lego bits to make a Millennium Falcon or a Formula 1 car if you [i]didn't[/i] start from a special Lego set designed to build those things, than if you did.

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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 14:26, archived)

+1 for Lego.

And -999 for anyone who adds an S on the end of it.

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Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 19:00, archived)

Amen to that brother

www.brothers-brick.com/lego-glossary/#Legos

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:09, archived)

Born in the early 50's my favouite toys were Corgi & Dinky diecast models.

I think my favouites then were the Z-Cars Set. I had hundreds of the things. Wish I still did, they would be worth a fair bit now.

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Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:09, archived)

I still wish I had my

full set of Thunderbirds dinkys. I bet some nerd would pay handsomely for those now.

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:31, archived)

Only if it was Thunderbird 2

The rest were crap.

(Gordon Shumway, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 6:23, archived)

Thunderbird 4 is my favourite.

(Mitchell Gant, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 10:38, archived)

My not-quite-uncle is a major Dinky collector

Oooh look - he's made a CD-ROM www.toycollector.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77278&Itemid=502

Although he's got great glass cabinets of stuff, I never knew he was THAT nerdy about it :)

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chthonic, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:40, archived)

I thought all B3tans were in thier early 30s?

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Mr Gear the gay-maker, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:34, archived)

they are, will be and were

me the latter

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d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:43, archived)

action mans scorpion tank

www.vectis.co.uk/AuctionImages/111/2948_l.jpg
which if you took the tracks off became a terrifying whirling dervish going downhill at what felt like 50mph to a 7yr old :D

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:13, archived)

I have one of those - Woo

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Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:01, archived)

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:05, archived)

Eagle Eyes Action Man

:0)

(hengushrh is found at the Dole office every second thursday, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 0:16, archived)

^^ This

He had a fuzzy head.

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DeadEyeDick, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:03, archived)

The earlier gripping hands were a bit shit, though.

They were made from latex, so after a couple of years the rubber would perish, the figners would fall off and you were left with Action Leper.

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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 14:27, archived)

Spoilt!

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100% Cock Raw like carrots., Wed 1 Sep 2010, 13:44, archived)

Colour By Numbers

* Although your post does not appear to have an image?

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Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:23, archived)

I'd forgotten about that stuff

there's loads of scans online should you wish load them in to MSPaint and use the fill tool.

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rob, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:24, archived)

Thanks, I have tried that, but I only have Magenta Paint.

And there are loads more here... www.colourbynumbers.com

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Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:01, archived)

Ohhhh,

you rucking fotter!

(NoveltyCondomHead Clanks Wams., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:44, archived)

sod

(Bernardate, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:55, archived)

he-man, transformers, scalextric and lego

(benito vaselini no not that one, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:28, archived)

^^all of the above

Transformers was awesome, much MUCH better than the crud remakes.

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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:35, archived)

i used to combine the last two

i used to build bridges and tunnels for the scalextric using the lego

(bamslower i like cheesecake..., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:56, archived)

Looking at it now, it was shite, but

Rom, Spaceknight It was the best when I was eight or nine.

(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:28, archived)

hmm

Playmobil, Total Control Racing (soooo much better than scalextric) Action Man & and the boardgame Risk.

there was a load of toys from what was warrior comic or something as well but can't remember what on earth it was called

(Halfy By light alone, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:32, archived)

Lego, for sure

Action Man, which I used to cybernetically enhance (which might explain the later Barbie mod projects)
ZX81, BBC B computers
Star Wars figures, which I still have (including an original AT-AT)
Soldering iron... my dad taught me how to use a soldering iron at about the age of 10.

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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:32, archived)

This, and this is how my dad destroyed it

QOTW answer

EDIT and yes, Transformers and He-Man mainly, plus a Commodore 16 +4 with seperate tape-deck

Oh and CROSSBOWS AND CATAPULTS!!!!

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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:33, archived)

With you 100% on C&C

best game ever made!

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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:56, archived)

Yes

And they could be made to be truly lethal. If you wrapped the lazzy band round the crossbow pegs a few times, you could get some truly awesome power. I broke a window with one of those. I tell no lie!

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100% Cock Raw like carrots., Wed 1 Sep 2010, 13:41, archived)

bucket

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d d, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:33, archived)

Hahahaha

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Bela Lugosi's Dad, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:52, archived)

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:26, archived)

We had to use a tambourine in our sand pit

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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:50, archived)

brick!

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:05, archived)

LEGO

and model trains (Hornby, Lima et al)

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BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:36, archived)

Does a Raliegh Chopper Bike count as a toy?

Also Etchasketch and a Slide Projector that you had to colour the slides yourself.

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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:44, archived)

I got bored of Etchasketch in about 5 minutes

I thought it was rubbish.

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spesh., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:47, archived)

Don't remember what happened to it, I didn't have it long.

My parents would buy us some great Christmas Presents then a month later pawn it all off at the pawnbrokers - this is true. Only kept the chopper because my brother decided to paint it with a tin of red house paint, drips, lumpy bits and all. Used to have an electronic organ not like the fancy synths nowadays this was long before that and was like a wheezing whirring brown box with keys on it and I remember learning by ear to play the first few bars from The Pretenders theme tune. My parents banned me from playing for more than 5 minutes as we couldn't afford the electricity soon after they flogged it off to the pawn-brokers and I was left musically challenged for the rest of my life.

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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:04, archived)

Whoops, I seem to have accidentally clicked on /talk.

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Ttssattsr, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:44, archived)

Tell us your favourite childhood toys

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:49, archived)

I don't know. Hotwheels were good, I suppose.

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Ttssattsr, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:31, archived)

ahem...

oops

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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:49, archived)

Hahaha

have a click

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:27, archived)

Action Man

Lego
Scalextric
Hornby
Computer stuff: VIC20, Commodore 64, Amiga

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spesh., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:44, archived)

Lego and k'nex

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weaver., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:46, archived)

Major Morgan - electronic organ

Great musical toy for annoy the crap out of my mother, boy did she regret buying one each for me and my twin brother that Christmas.
Now it just sounds like a top name for a porn movie.

(it was like that when I found it fueled by Fanta, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:47, archived)

I had one of those bad boys! You slid a card into his gaping chest cavity and pressed the coloured squares to make a tune!

(Chocolate Hostage, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:02, archived)

Classic space lego.

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Bela Lugosi's Dad, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:53, archived)

CAPSELA YOU PHILISTINES

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsela

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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:55, archived)

Yes, yes ,yes

That was it...couldn't remember the name! You could make floating boats and submarines and stuff.

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number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:33, archived)

I built a hovercraft once and sent it down a river

I wasn't allowed any more for a couple of years after that.

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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:50, archived)

I seem to recall...

...that the old girl picked some up second hand from a school fête or some other bring and buy tat fest and it sat unplayed with for ages before I had a go and then I wanted more to build extravagant vessels for transporting everything by little yellow plastic floats and tiny motor. Ran out of talent long before I achieved anything notable.

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number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:05, archived)

Lego,

with a few transformers and star wars toys thrown in for good measure
/I loved Skywarp

My first box of lego... here

//'kin 'ell, candle!
Cheers folks :)

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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:55, archived)

Candle!

Enjoy.

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Captain Howdy, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:56, archived)

Happus Candleday!

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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:58, archived)

HAPPYTIMES

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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:58, archived)

happy candles

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The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:01, archived)

'appy candle day

archibald.

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Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:05, archived)

DAY

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Bela Lugosi's Dad, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:08, archived)

CANDLE!

Happy b3ta-day TGA!

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Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:08, archived)

candles :D

(herman:D, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:19, archived)

happy b3taday matey :)

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:21, archived)

:D Candles!

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Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:05, archived)

Happy Illuminarti Day!

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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:16, archived)

Our vote from Holland: happy b3taday!

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 14:17, archived)

Without hesitation...

Crossbows & Catapults!

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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:55, archived)

funnily enough......

...I concur :)

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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 9:59, archived)

I remember that now!

great game!

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Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:02, archived)

ooh, so many...

he-man ~~dolls~~action figures, a-team figures, spectrum 48k (with rubber keys!), spirograph, scalectrix, mecano, lego, chemistry sets, hornby trains, army men, transformers (but never go-bots - what are you? poor?), and probably 500 other things I have forgotten.

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Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:00, archived)

yeah go bots were shit

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Spunky McPunk not dead yet, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:37, archived)

Super Striker

Ace footy game where you pushed the head down to makee them kick

(good preparation for boarding school) :-)

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The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:01, archived)

AT-AT

and star wars figures

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HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:02, archived)

the wiggly purple lightsaber

that my mum kept in her bedroom

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parttimedogfish is a Born-Again Reincarnationist, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:04, archived)

^ Ha ha ha...

* It's true, I have seen it!

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Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:10, archived)

Talk Board > no image

my bmx Star Wars toys Lego and Scalextric www.spike.com/video/this-is-worlds/3229962

(herman:D, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:04, archived)

Was there till the end: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb-38LmJ0Pk - god it was boring waiting tho! :-) Mainly went for the Scalextric meet (so missed most of James May at the start of the day), but thought we might as well at least see a bit of the race!

(annierat1 doesn't have anything interesting to add on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:06, archived)

Most of my favourites have been mentioned

(Transformers, Action man etc.) but one of my favourites were glow in the dark race track things for Matchbox/Corgi etc. toy cars (This type of thing in fact www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZCbqNgzwL.jpg&imgrefurl=http://constructiontoys.guidestobuy.com/awesome-tower-speedway-fast-race-car-track-darda&usg=__GDd_qSs7IxEzipqKNkwqGiEo83M=&h=500&w=500&sz=36&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=BVK3QlTfACjn5M:&tbnh=164&tbnw=164&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGlow%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bdark%2Btoy%2Bcar%2Brace%2Btrack%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1276%26bih%3D823%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=918&vpy=75&dur=104&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=100&ty=124&ei=C-x8TJO9K86L4Qbgj73uBQ&oei=C-x8TJO9K86L4Qbgj73uBQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0)except, due to my parents attending multiple car-boot sales in the mid-eighties my brother and I ended up with about ten miles of the stuff and would construct elaborate circuits that would cover most of the room. What was even better was that it cam with TOWERS so we could take up even MORE space with our creatons! Oh and Space Crusade the board game too. That rocked.

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Funkenschlag still likes dogs more than cats, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:07, archived)

"ten miles" ?

That's still not as long as your link.

Pffftttt...

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Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:14, archived)

Matches

and petrol and action man

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horace wimp needs more than 49 characters to fully express hi, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:10, archived)

My sister's penis

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Bela Lugosi's Dad, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:16, archived)

definitely Lego and my Commodore

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pzyko Query failed., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:19, archived)

absolutely LEGO

and also my toy microscope/chemistry set
and the toy trebuchet, catapult and crossbow kits i got at about age 8
also: SPIROGRAPH.
and.. *hides* my toy horses. I had loads of them. shut up, i'm a girl!

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Seventh is somewhat subdued, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:23, archived)

absolutely Spirograph

My favourite childhood toy. These days I generate spirographic patterns using fractal software, but I still fondly remember those early push-pin and pencil days.

(Brian O'Blivion contains hazardous material, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:24, archived)

Big loader!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtcfQUkCdf8

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izb posting occasional messages since 2001, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:23, archived)

I had one of those!

But couldn't remember what it was called so cheers! Top toy!

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jonbontempi, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:19, archived)

As is the case with most toys,

an understated feat of design and engineering! its powered by the wheel. By.The. WHEEL!

(Wyldoats Is 8 miles outside of Barstow, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 3:57, archived)

Oh my god I'd totally forgotten about that!

aceness

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parttimedogfish is a Born-Again Reincarnationist, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 19:52, archived)

Chemistry Sets.

Back when they were hardcore.

Like this one: 4.bp.blogspot.com/_PkfT3w3Rqbs/Sed16UM5AjI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/3AaF6ULpN54/s1600-h/chemistry+set+boy.jpg

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zacherynuk @echo off, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:25, archived)

The toys from the M.A.S.K cartoon

were my favourite
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.A.S.K.

(maddave, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:25, archived)

oh yes

the switchblade helicopter that turned into a helicopter-shaped plane.

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izb posting occasional messages since 2001, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:27, archived)

forgot about them

I had the orange dune-buggy that turned into a plane, whooaaarrr :)

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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:35, archived)

i had the car!

desmondyoongcollection.blogspot.com/2008/10/kenner-thunderhawk-mask.html

i am far too excited by this

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evil_chutney, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:51, archived)

I wanted that car!

I never watched the cartoon but I wanted that toy car because it had DeLorean doors and I was a Back to the Future addict.

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Rob T Firefly talked, like, William Shatner, on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:05, archived)

Oh you beauty

I had the bike that became a helicopter and some sort of jeep too.

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number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 31 Aug 2010, 20:18, archived)

Pretty much like what you and everybody else said, starting with Lego (space lego).

Some other things:
My BBC B had a hardware C compiler in it, on nice blue ROM chips that were made in Watford.
I used to buy sparklets (the little carbon dioxide cylinders used in brewing or something) and hammer nails through the ends so they went off like rockets.
Choose Your Own Adventure books were pretty sweet, and apparently are being revived for the iPhone: www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/08/return_to_the_cave_of_time_uve.php
Also capguns and plastic swords and big sticks and paper planes and skidding my bike down a hill repeatedly until it got a big hole in the tire.

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:28, archived)

Battling tops!

ancestor of beyblades, lots of fun!! especially as the ad had the immortal line 'whats your secret champ? it's in the wrist action....'
cue wanking implication style gags.

(nimrodihnio making gravy for one., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:28, archived)

No love for Bigtrak?

that shit was awesome.

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bowdie, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:34, archived)

awesomely shit more like

the trailer for mine broke in 5 minutes, and getting it to do anything took half an hour to program, and then it'd only hit a skirting board so you'd have to start all over again

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flapmeister knows where your mum lives, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:31, archived)

You had the trailer?

posh kid!

(Wyldoats Is 8 miles outside of Barstow, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 3:58, archived)

a clock

you could take apart and reassemble (once upon a time it even worked, before the spring died). And the cogs made excellent mini-tops.

Also lego. And variously sided dice.

(haberman is singing in the changes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:34, archived)

Speak and Spell

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Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:35, archived)

And Matchbox loop the loop track for cars

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Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:36, archived)

FTW!

(gearanach #wankwankwank, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:03, archived)

I had Speak and Maths too.

(CaptainSunshine, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:11, archived)

Big Trax

I never had one, but wanted one.

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Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:35, archived)

Knock yourself out mate! This modern day copy is available for relatively little:

www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/14398006/Big-Trak/Product.html

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..wil, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:51, archived)

I'm getting one this week

can't wait!

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XLVII .uk, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:51, archived)

Meccano

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Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:35, archived)

Lego, as well as Brio

and my food technology kit (like a chemistry set only more food-oriented; you made salt crystals, gluten and flakes of cheese) and hydraulics kit. And plastic dinosaurs. A kid's got to have toy dinosaurs.

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Bob Todd whee, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:36, archived)

Our dad loved steam trains

so I think he was the one behind buying us three girls Brio. But we loved it. Would wind the track all round under the cabinets!
And we had this amazing set of toy safari animals that were a save-up-the-tokens-and-buy from the petrol station Esso. Aahh the days.

(dragondracus, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:00, archived)

I reckon every kid needs: a tea set, toy trains, toy dinosaurs, and dollies.

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Bob Todd whee, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 1:00, archived)

wait a second...

I had that 200-in-1 electronics kit :)

I made smoke come out of it. It poured through the little springs, like they were little chimneys.

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izb posting occasional messages since 2001, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:37, archived)

Well the usual really

-I had a huge transformers, at least 35cm tall. It was a bomber planer named something-o-tron, honestly I can't remember, but he was one of the baddies.
-I have no idea how much time I wasted building things out of lego technics.
-The N64. It wasn't actually mine but a mate of mines, but I can't describe how much I love this console and I've actually borrowed it again from said mate.

(Haz, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:39, archived)

As a lady-girl type person

I was absolutely obsessed by Sindy. Didn't have nearly enough stuff, but I used to drool over the catalogue.

I also had a really 'cool'(?) fashion designer thing where you could design about five different looks from a selection of dubious seventies fashions. It was eventually redesigned as Fashion Wheel, but wasn't as good.

Plus, I can't remember how long I pestered my parents to buy me Build a Better Burger. I got it for xmas, but it was never as good to play as I had imagined. Largely because I had no friends and any game that said 2-4 players was mostly lost on me.

and do bikes and roller boots count? Cause I was rarely off mine when I was a kid. If not one, then the other. i tried both at the same time, but it didn't really work.

Length, etc.

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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:40, archived)

oooo I had that!

The advert had annoying American kids: "I win!!", "Where's the ketchup?". Class.

(TheFlyingOnion. looking forward to, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 8:51, archived)

Domino Rally

Especially the lazy way some of the 'dominos' had been badly produced with a plastic nib at the top, meaning that they wouldn't stand up and were likely to make your hours of work setting it up collapse.

You'd think the people in the Domino Rally factory didn't care about a spoilt child taking pleasure in the product of their endless soul destroying work.

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monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:40, archived)

I'd say I had that

but really my dad wouldn't let me near it for long enough to ever feel it was actually mine.

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izb posting occasional messages since 2001, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:43, archived)

cardboard boxes,and sticks (making catapults, spears, and bows and arrows)

/poor old country cousin blog

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CanonCaliber A big bore, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:42, archived)

Intercom City

It was a car playset with readers built into the road and when you drove your toy car over it the control tower called out an emergency for the car to go to (ie a fire engine would be called out to a fire)

It was brilliant, atleast when I was 8 it was.

I can only find a link to the models www.zig-d.co.uk/diecast/adminmm/?lls=4-ic---&cp=1 I can't find anything on the actual playset

It's an obscure one though.

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:45, archived)

I used to play with Stickle Bricks

when I was a wee nipper.

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Fitznicely into a thimble, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:49, archived)

Lego, small rubber bouncing balls, french skipping, top trumps and that weird ball game thing where you bounced two tennis balls, off the floor and the bottom of a wall repeatedly. I was shit at that but I still played. I also desperately wanted Buckaroo and Operation but my mum thought they were a waste of money.

(mary magdalen, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 10:57, archived)

My lower colon.

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Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:05, archived)

Lego, Transformers, Star wars, Star bird

in that order

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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:07, archived)

Mecanoo!

oh, and micromachines

(ginsoakedboy would like a nice cup of tea, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:07, archived)

Lego and:

oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html

(|, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:08, archived)

+1 for TI-99/4a

Emulate the past: www.99er.net/emul.shtml
Cassette player and ROM cartridges not included... and unfortunately not required. hehehe :-)

(curlyfries eats curly fries, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:12, archived)

Game and Watch!

Game and WAAAAAATCH!

or any of those third-rate rip offs

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:13, archived)

Dinky Toys Diecast Thunderbird 2

Extra points for not having lost the minuscule TB4 included.
Minus one point for every bent/missing leg.

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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:14, archived)

-4 points then, but the TB4 was still there.

I wish I still had my matchbox Liberator. I didn't find out what it was until I was in my 20s.

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:21, archived)

you had TB4

lucky sod.
My TB2 came with some stupid mole machine. :(

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:22, archived)

Deep breath...

Toys: Race'n'Chase (Scalextric rip-off); Lego; Swingball; Teddy bears; Toy soldiers.

Games: Gold rush; Game of Life (jeez - the irony); Top Trumps (Sports cars and Helicopters); Escape from Colditz; Rebound.

Computer games: Johnny Reb; Jetpac; Manic Miner; New Wheels John?; Dictator.

(Sallow Stoat had a fall on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:22, archived)

K'Nex.

(__, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:22, archived)

If your list had an eagle eyes talking Action Man as well

then our lists would be identical. Lego was always number one. Also eventually graduated from the ZX81 to the BBC B and then to the Amiga.

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brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:24, archived)

Buckaroo

Kerplunk
Build-a-hamster-maze-out-of-lego-and-leave-it-in-there-overnight-with-no-light-with-water-and-food-at-opposite-ends-of-the-maze

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:24, archived)

Lego

Star Wars toys, Table Top/Handheld Arcade Games! www.handheldmuseum.com/

*edit* Oh and Micronauts, they were very cool, but nostalgia has forgotten them in favour of Slinkies and Space Hoppers n such...
www.microforever.com/microheritage_micronauts.htm

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..wil, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:24, archived)

ZX81 a toy?

How very dare you? That ( and the ZX80 preceding it) were the very cornerstone of my early electronics and programming education:)
Hmm, toys from when I was a lad? ( you won't remember whip and top ;))
I loved Operation. clackers ( bad for your knuckles ) I had a lot of 1970's Action man stuff including the tank and the helicopter.
Probably my most favourite toys would be my huge Scalextric and my compendium of Meccano kits. I was quite partial to Kerplunk too.
I did enjoy more serious pursuits with my metal detector and like you, electronics kits but also chemistry kits which my Granddad was always willing to spoil me with.

Holy cow I almost forgot Spirograph. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:25, archived)

Spirograph was a proper toy

I remeber the joy of pin related injury ;-)

(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:26, archived)

micro machines and thunderbirds

(chocolatelemming, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:28, archived)

The Thunder Tank from Thunder Cats

Also Lego, Meccano and Transformers

EDIT: Oh, and the Commadore C64

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Uncle Tom I command thee to wibble, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:35, archived)

+1 Commodore 64

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:45, archived)

Did you have the awesomenes that was the

C.R.E.A.T.U.R.E.S (If I remember correctly it stood for Clyde Radcliffe Eliminates All The Unfriendly R(something) Earth-ridden Slime) games? They were SAW films for the '80's they were.

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Funkenschlag still likes dogs more than cats, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:00, archived)

Lego, and the woods behind my house

Playing with the lego right now! Not many toys survive 35 years and still mix with new stuff, but Lego does. The woods for example no longer exist - covered in houses now. *sniff*

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chthonic, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:37, archived)

Apart from my zx spectrum...

... I loved a game called "Simon" - it was an electronic toy where you had to copy a sequence of button presses. It was brilliant. (just idly found an online version www.freegames.ws/games/kidsgames/simon/simon.htm)
I also had a kind of 2D mini-lego - thousands of different coloured tiny plastic mosaic pieces (a bit like real-life tetris blocks) which would plug into a big white lattice frame not unlike an electronics breadboard - you could make pictures or patterns with the tiny blocks. Can't for the life of me remember what this was called, but even though it was obviously a choking hazard, it rocked.

(notquite, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:39, archived)

Big Trax

I still scour Ebay for sight of one even now.

I don't suppose we're allowed to count pornography we found in hedges?

(NoveltyCondomHead Clanks Wams., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:41, archived)

depends if you found toys too

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:46, archived)

What a strange phenomenon that was.

You never see any jazz mags in hedges anymore.

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Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:47, archived)

The internet does not get discarded n blown by the wind...

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..wil, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:07, archived)

or found by inquisitive children...

... wait.

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:27, archived)

it'll be there where you find the white dog poo

(gearanach #wankwankwank, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:00, archived)

We should all print out....

...softcore smut and go stick it in bushes for a new generation to wonder over. To make it authentic, go for women with really hairy growlers.

(NoveltyCondomHead Clanks Wams., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:35, archived)

www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/retro-toys-big-trak-80s-toys-big-track.html?gclid=CKHOu9iN4qMCFc792AodfGucAQ

(Chocolate Hostage, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:08, archived)

We were allowed to play in back yard with sticks and stones

also there was a sandpit, in which we were periodically allowed to set things alight

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Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:49, archived)

Spoilt bastard!

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Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:52, archived)

and lego.

we had lego for inside.

but not outside, because molten plastic burns pretty bad

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Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:56, archived)

you can barely even see the scars!

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Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:58, archived)

You were allowed inside?

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Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:59, archived)

well you can't go beating the kids out in the yard where the neighbours can see.

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Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:01, archived)

Matchbombs!

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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:56, archived)

Knucklebones.

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Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:00, archived)

Various wooden puzzles.

Ball in a cup.

don't fucking forget ball in a cup.

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Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:10, archived)

BALL IN A CUP!

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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:17, archived)

Quick! Call Childline!

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:57, archived)

oh no! i didn't catch the ball in the cup... oh wait! the ball is on a string attatched to the cup

(bamslower i like cheesecake..., Tue 31 Aug 2010, 11:17, archived)

My M.A.S.K Rhino truck!!!

:-D

(RBFesquire I shit badgers for breakfast, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:55, archived)

YEAH!

the exhaust stacks were machine guns! uh uhuhuhuh, pew pew pew! its late and im getting way too excited by all this!

(Wyldoats Is 8 miles outside of Barstow, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 4:03, archived)

POCKET MONSTERS!!

Tiny rave-paint coloured rubber figurines in the shape of various recognizable (and totally made up) monsters from myth and popular culture.

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Fitznicely into a thimble, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:58, archived)

similar to M.U.S.C.L.E. men?

but they were outlandish wrestlers

(Wyldoats Is 8 miles outside of Barstow, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 14:12, archived)

I don't think I had a favourite, the saddo I am....

I do remember the Cupcake Dolls though because they smelt ace- like cheap, interesting plastic.

Link to a picture here.

Does a Sega Mega Drive II count? I was never off the bloody thing. I had Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Sonic, Road Rash, and The Lion King pinned. =D

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vix0r was not Matthew on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:07, archived)

I remember getting the Mega Drive.

my whole family were basically told by my mum that she could only afford the console, that if possible could other people buy the games.

So I got three games, and a bunch of jumpers.
Sonic 2, 4-in-one super pack (Super Monaco GP, Alien storm and two others I can't remember), and NHL/John Madden.

Best Christmas ever.
It was all downhill from there. No-one ever buys me games any more. Now I just get jumpers. :(

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:31, archived)

magnifying glass, boiled water

and an ants nest

(augsav forgot about B3ta, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:21, archived)

Action Man

Dolls for boys.

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Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:28, archived)

Me too

not even my mum knitting new outfits for them could dampen my enthusiasm for action man

(gaylord stinchcomb Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. AIDS is., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 19:30, archived)

Mousetrap

Not that we ever really played the game, just set it up and spring the trap.

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Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:28, archived)

Having seen the TV show (remember that?) before playing the game

my hopes were much higher when I finally got to play it that I now loathe that game as an utter disappointment.

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:35, archived)

Connect 4

Oh, and Mastermind.

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Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:29, archived)

Daleks and Trolls

(fragglehunter http://www.sleepyg.co.uk, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:44, archived)

mydaughters favs

not so much she married now. still I got her more than 300.

(Captain Spacker I lick windows, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 18:23, archived)

dalek and the cows

(tichy, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 3:44, archived)

Bring on the Daleks

(fragglehunter http://www.sleepyg.co.uk, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:08, archived)

+1 Mastermind

Great game, until I dropped the box and those little micro-pegs for score keeping ended up in the carpet... great noise from the vacuum cleaner when those were found.

(curlyfries eats curly fries, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:20, archived)

Little Professor

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I067/10328754.aspx

Although mainly I just liked lying on my bedroom carpet, watching dust motes in the sun shining through the windows, daydreaming. No toys involved there, though.

(egg1, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:41, archived)

1) chew the bark off of a tree

2) broken bicycle tyre

3) hit your brother in the head with a rock

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PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:44, archived)

big trak

evil knievel wind up bike/rocket car
my 6 million dollar man and his operating theatre/spaceship

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Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:47, archived)

Absolutely this ^

I also had one of these which was possibly cooler than the Evil Knievel bike: Powerarm: Mike Zoom and Speedbike

See the metal glove? That involved mild electrocution that did, absolutely no way they could sell this nowadays.

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mamilla_sarsum um... a vial is enough, no jam-jars please, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 12:13, archived)

Matchbox Motorway

Lego, Dinky cars etc.

I lusted after a Dinky fire engine or two, and of course all the Gerry Anderson series toys but could never afford them (and was never given any) :-( so, when I was a lot older I bought them all.

every single chuffing one of them :-)

and then promptly sold them on ebay for major profits and of course now I want them back again......

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oldpoint is up in space doing important work for NASA., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:48, archived)

Tomy Turnin' Turbo Dashboard

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOebLtLSxfM

I want one now, i wonder if my parents still have it in the loft...

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Peach Motorbike I hate the cut of your jib, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:56, archived)

A couple that haven't been mentioned yet.

Zoids
Manta force - particularly the red venom spaceship. I loved that awesome lump of red plastic.
Mr. Frosty - A nice idea marred by the fact that very few seven year olds had the Schwarzenegger like arms required to operate the thing.

(Prof. Moriarty put his foot in it on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 13:14, archived)

Late 70's / early 80's Matchbox Cars!

The back yard of our house was paved with 'crazy paving' and I would spend hours freewheeling the cars down this particularly slopey bit.

I would measure the distance each one went and I had a points table.
My Pontiac Firebird always went the furthest. I was incredibly anal even then :D

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dirtyscarab intends to live forever. So far, so good..., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 13:22, archived)

Lego and game gear..until the lego killed the game gear.

Turns out destroying my akihabara replica godzilla style could potentially ruin a game gear. Oh yeah and transformers!

(Caphall, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 13:24, archived)

Lego, C=64,

moar Lego

(Heaping Spoonful of sugar, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 13:42, archived)

lite-brite!

also, hot wheels criss cross CRASH!

(schnurricane?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 13:54, archived)

Holy shit

Light Bright! Yes!

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Droog is too orangey for crows, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 15:36, archived)

Lego

Gameboy
An SAS survival guide and some woods. Making bows. arrows, catapults, spears, dens, fires e.t.c.

(Banjo-Jeff I don't play a banjo, and I'm not called Jeff., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 13:57, archived)

Being as my parents were generally quite disapproving of actual video game consoles

some of my favourite toys were those pseudo-computer games, mainly involving little LCD screens with cars to avoid or helicopters to shoot. My favourite of all though was this tactile little beauty: cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/06/tomy_turnin_turbo_dashboard_jalopnik_02.jpg

(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 14:08, archived)

Scalextric

Polly Pocket, swords and bows, Slinkies, a Ladybird pushcart. And a chemistry set supplemented with the various bits and pieces found in my dad's woodwork shed. And fire. Fire was always a favourite

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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 14:13, archived)

I think "Fire"

should get it's own entry.

(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 14:18, archived)

Toy soldiers

Bow and arrows
Cap guns
Subuteo
Pirate memory games

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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 14:29, archived)

Oooh nostalga time....

I loved collecting these little blighters and still have a large bag of them lurking somewhere in my wardrobe even 20 years later :D

Also, being one of the original cyber generation, this took up a lot of my formative years. I still remember slot racers very fondly. Aaaaaah. And Crossbows & Catapults!

edit: astro wars this takes me back.

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baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 14:45, archived)

i was darn obsessed

by m.u.s.c.l.e. men for quite a while
loved the smell of them (possibly a harmful solvent)

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evil_chutney, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 17:04, archived)

Johnny Seven

The gun that fired seven different types of missile from bullets to RPG all in one gun.

God I'm old.

Plus a Radionic X30 Electronics kit from before they were taken over by Philips. I still have it complete in original box. THAT's how sad I am.

(karnuvap, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:03, archived)

I had a huge selection of.......

"Airfix motor racing" slot car kit... their version of scalextic....
loads of the stuff pws.prserv.net/gbinet.dbjames/mrrc.htm
My favorite set was "The monte carlo rally" pws.prserv.net/gbinet.dbjames/4thmonte.jpg
It had slot together cardboard mountains....

(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:07, archived)

Fuzzy Felts!

Simultaneously the greatest and shittest toy ever!

(Rushy, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:15, archived)

Soft and fluffy

My teddy bear was my favourite toy. I also enjoyed the game Moustrap. My Teeny-Tiny-Tears comes in third.

(Woofie, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:37, archived)

Airfix kits

well no surprises there then.

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amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:53, archived)

I'll definitely second this...

Though unlike amoebaboy, I did not develop into a God-like genius of model making, largely due to having the manual dexterity of a housebrick...

Still, fond memories of getting my dad to make Messerschmitt Me109s, Focke Wolfs, Heinkel He 111s, Junkers Ju87s (Stukas), etc. It's only now I realise that I had half the Luftwaffe in my room and no British planes. Erm... Dad?

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Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:44, archived)

69 f'ing quid for a few components and some plastic and cardboard!

You lucky bastard, I had the cheaper one without the fancy front. Mine were just components and cardboard!

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Ratsta, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:57, archived)

TOYZ

Action Jacks
Tomy Handheld 3d tank attack
Action Man Training Tower
Pocketeers

(MistahG, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:10, archived)

Ricochet Racers !

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MartinH, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:32, archived)

as one of the girly people...

...i mostly had various doll based toys.

the most obvious being the my little ponys, of which i still have one with a very long (and remarkably tangle-free, pretty much all my little pony hair permenently matted itself into dreds in a couple of weeks) rainbow mane, and a rainbow tail you can pull to make longer and twist the ponys head to draw back in again.

sylvanian families was another, small plastic felted animal families which gradtually went bald in any exposed areas, they all ended up looking like they had mainge. the sole survivor of this i have is one tiny plasic pastry from a picnic set.

i'm sure i also had a "style head" but they were actually crap, seeing as you can't really practice makup on a plastic face, or hair styling with a nylon wig. also it was bascally a severed head, so a pretty creepy thing to have lingering at the back of a cupboard.

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ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:38, archived)

Another one for Star Wars toys

...with my snowspeeder (with light-up laser cannons!) probably being my pick of the bunch;
Also I had a white 3 piece spaceship called "Starbird" (I think) that made different engine noises as you tilted it.
Crossbows & Catapults
Scalextric
and my rubber-keyed ZX Spectrum 48k.

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OBiW4NSHiNOBi is sure those were the droids you were looking for, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:58, archived)

I had a starbird!!!!!

I'd totally forgotten about that, it changed pitch the higher it was off the ground!

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Pass me the gun and ask me again reads like a cd, types like an 8-track, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 0:33, archived)

LEGO.

Just adding my vote to (what looks like) a winner.

(Stashie is plotting against his blender on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 17:21, archived)

Transformers

I had this beast from the age of three and it still rules my shed with an iron fist
images1.wikia.nocookie.net/transformers/images/3/3c/G1_Scorponok_toy.jpg

(shake'n'bake Tally Ho, Biatch!, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 18:27, archived)

Evel Knievel from about 1974/75 with the wind up revver and ramp

it really did jumps long wheelies the lot
went like doo da off a stick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEUVm-Ja6lY

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hyperspacial puggling, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 18:52, archived)

Most of mine have already been mentioned BUT

Six Million Dollar Man w/ Space Rocket
Dungeons and Dragons, if you can call it a toy
Rebound

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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 19:03, archived)

I think

I've still got the Rebound in the loft somewhere. The elastic bands are going to need replacing and the ball bearings in the pucks are probably a bit rusty but I think it is there.

(karnuvap, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 23:10, archived)

Minic Motorway

Sort of like Scalectrix but much more sedate, no racing cars, just cars & charabancs.

Oh, I also lusted after my mate's Johnny Seven; a gun that could do everything.

(neilg, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 19:07, archived)

My willy.

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Jeffrey44 (User was banned for this post), Mon 30 Aug 2010, 19:42, archived)

BIG LOADER and BIG BIG LOADER

Not my childhood, but my son's and therefore my second childhood

(gearanach #wankwankwank, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 19:52, archived)

Lego, of course

And the original gameboy, plus the subsequent models. Mostly for Super Mario Brothers.
Meccano and knex were good too.
Nothing beats the outdoors, friends and a good imagination though.

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palmr The speaking clock says:, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:11, archived)

Big Wheel .....low rider tricycle with massive front wheel :D

...to be fair this was my bro's but I loved it too.

Also, bontempi organ (bright orange), AT-AT and millenium falcon, nurses dressing up kit and raleigh chopper - which got nicked while I was inside having tea :(

My fave thing to do was building mud dams in the little streams next to the cow fields where we lived :D

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tubbylittletitwitch ... is still trying to drop a twatting norfleet on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:26, archived)

Something no-one mentions about the Millenium Falcon

It took batteries and made an underwhelming noise, how many people are going "ohhh yeah!" right now?

(Wyldoats Is 8 miles outside of Barstow, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 4:13, archived)

Sticklebricks, lego, transformers, battle beasts

i also had a big bag of toy guns.

me and my best mate also used to like playing with those plastic army figures. we'd spend all day setting them up and by the time we were ready to fight, we'd have to pack them away for dinner/bed/whatever

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Spunky McPunk not dead yet, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:33, archived)

Lego Technic which took over in my affections from Sticklebricks, none of which could ever face up to the mighty power of

PLASTICINE!!!

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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:37, archived)

Scalextric

the original fiddley stuff and the more simple stuff they make now

(bamslower i like cheesecake..., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:02, archived)

Ooooo.

Lego, obviously, Technic for preference.
Big Trak - still haven't really forgiven my dad for chucking mine out.
Matchbox (or similar) cars, we had loads of them in a big box, mostly second- or third-hand and pretty knackered, but ace fun.
Had a couple of He-Man figures, some Star Wars stuff, and one Transformer, but I reckon I had more fun with the knackered old cars and the Lego.

(tomsk, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:07, archived)

Ghostbusters figures.

Good for playing Ghostbusters, funnily enough. Also, because I was a young American Doctor Who fan in the 1980s when nobody else here had heard of such a thing, Dr Egon Spengler often ended up playing the role of the Doctor with a cardboard TARDIS and Daleks I made for him.

I always wanted the full kid-sized Proton pack and all, but never obtained it. Years later I finally saw one secondhand at a yard sale and realized it looked like utter shit, I'd have been disappointed as a kid had I been given one.

Also, my TRS-80, and the payphone there used to be on the street corner by my house.

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Rob T Firefly talked, like, William Shatner, on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:16, archived)

Micronauts - awesome little figures and spaceships.

Evil Knievel - and his stunt truck; God bless being a spoilt only child ;)
ROM the Space Knight - Made by the people who made Action Man, I think. Great electronic toy.
Fuzzy Felt - back in the good old days when it was just felt silhouettes.

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FoldsFive, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:54, archived)

Big Trak

Now available to buy again!

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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:59, archived)

Atari 2600

I still have it (despite it getting a tad worn and being replaced with a 2nd hand earlier 'woodie' version, then the slim version), and all my old games!

(annierat1 doesn't have anything interesting to add on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:01, archived)

MY LITTLE PONIES!!!

Farting rainbows and joy all across my childhood. And maybe still today.
No-one's mentioned playdoh! We had the thing where you pumped down on it and it came out like spagetti. And always good to eat.

(dragondracus, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:04, archived)

despite my parents best efforts to take it away from me....

it was a wooden spoon. i used to wallop anybody that came within striking distance smack round the head.

after getting past high chairs i was all about my baur quad skates. they ruled, i was one of the the fattest kids in schoold but on those bad boys i was the fastest. booyah!

(bruxia, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:19, archived)

Starcom!

Clockwork + Magnets = WIN!

www.digitalmonkeybox.com/starcom.htm

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8-gvOP1UP0&feature=player_embedded

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gingerbenji wrote a book http://goo.gl/8UiGjd, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:23, archived)

Agreeeeeeeeeed!

Starcom was SUPER amazing.

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Obz Click, ting, stamps, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 22:22, archived)

Palitoys Tree Tots Treehouse

With its slidey swingey, clickey pop upness. It was an awesome - and very very sturdy toy.

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Animanga, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:34, archived)

Anyone remember Manta force?

www.mantaforce.co.uk/
edit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manta_Force
the link above is super old!

(madamcreative, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:44, archived)

Crossfire

My older brother had one of these which I fucking loved, the guns were fucking awesome, squeezing ball bearings through two taught pieces of wire that forced then to ping off at high velocity. The typical outcome of the game was for us to dismount the guns from the clips and shoot each other until something in the house was broken or until the inevitable injury happened.

I will admit, for some reason the guns we had seemed so much more powerful then those of acquaitances, but that just made it so much more special!

Awesome game!

tinyurl.com/70sxfire

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Muns, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:46, archived)

You are right about that.

You could also tighten the guns so they shot with greater velocity. I am scanning ebay tonight and also looking for Super Striker.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 17:06, archived)

Fimo

Coloured Belgian clay you baked in the oven to make it hard. On the packet they would have these intricately carved works of art, obviously created by immensely talented Belgian children whose craft-making skills were far superior to my own because all I managed to create was a brown lump. But at least I got to bake it in the oven.

Matchbox cars
Yesterday my mum got out a big box of Matchbox cars for my 2-year old nephew to play with. Almost 50 of my treasures, collected over what was at the time a lifetime of obsessing over which was going to be the the next acquisition. While I can't remember what time I'm supposed to be picking my wife up from work this afternoon, I was able to tell young Alex exactly which cars were mine and which I stole from my brother, the manner in which many of them had lost their paint (the Jaguar was the heaviest and the red Ferrari had the thickest paint - win to the Jag), which would fly furthest when you rig up the track down off a chair and over a jump, and in a almost disturbing bit of recollection from two decades previous, the order that I would have them arranged on the window sill when they weren't being played with.

A largely good-natured argument ensued when I informed my mother that the cars were mine and I'd be taking them back, and she to my shock and disdain tried to say that she had bought them, so they were hers. This isn't over.

And once a year in early November, we got $2 to buy as many Pohas (Maori for firecracker) as we wanted. Man I miss those.

(Canerbry porks kittens, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:50, archived)

ah fimo

great stuff, though it'd always take ages to warm it up in your hands enough for it to go sufficiantly soft to work with.

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ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 23:47, archived)

knex!

1 metre wide ferris wheels, 1.6m high towers, was just fantastic stuff. I've still got boxes and boxes of the stuff ^.^

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Laice , was Rogitating on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 23:26, archived)

Like everyone else, I too loved lego a little too much.

However, in the days before we got our first ZX Spectrum and when the Atari VCS was still too expensive, I remember having a few of those Grandstand games. In particular...

Astro Wars

Munch Man

and another one called "Demon Driver" that had an entirely mechanical display and a little steering wheel, but I can't find a picture of it.

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Mystery_Bob, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 23:41, archived)

Ah Man!

I loved my Astro Wars, beat the hell out of my brother's SIMON thing...
:0)
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(hengushrh is found at the Dole office every second thursday, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 0:20, archived)

I had Astrowars

And a few years ago, I bought one off eBay in it's box. The kids loved it and for a while would eschew the PS2 in favour of it.

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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 0:20, archived)

I bought my young nephew one for his 6th birthday

he genuinely thought it was some kind of new technology and was thrilled and played it constantly until he found out it was from the '80s, where-upon it was left to his Dad to take the baton n run with it.

Kids today eh? Pchaw! ;)

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..wil, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 11:16, archived)

Astrowars!

I remember completing this in the back of the car on a journey to Yorkshire!

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doctordoctor I feel like a pair of curtains, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 21:59, archived)

Astro Wars was extremely popular!

My fave tho was Alien Attack www.davesvideoarcade.co.uk/tabletop/TomyAlienAttackScreen.jpg I still have one and I still play it.

Firefox, Invaders From Space and Tron are all fantastic tho! www.davesvideoarcade.co.uk/tabletop.html

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..wil, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 11:06, archived)

I had astro wars!

It was most excellent!

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100% Cock Raw like carrots., Wed 1 Sep 2010, 13:20, archived)

MAC Men.

Edit: Better link

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Bryan Damage Cheese sandwich?, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 23:49, archived)

Favourite playthings.

I have to admit to having a brilliant father..although now I am one, I realise that 'age appropiate' for playthings just doesn't register on his horizons. This was hammered home when last Sunday I left my precious only child in his care whilst I enjoyed a peaceful bowl of cereal and a look at B3ta newsletter.
After viewing the links and still enjoying the remnants of 'Shreddies' stuck in my teeth I ventured forth to 'the garage' where my little darling and Grandad had been playing...I saw strange black marks on the pathway!

On Closer inspection I saw these marks spelt out her name..in her handwriting..sort of...

I stepped into said structure to be greeted by a smoke filled room and my precious girl waving a flaming lump of wood around like Doug McClure beating off rubber dinosaurs. The black marks being her discovery that burnt wood equals charcoal which then writes on paving slabs. I should point out that she's 4 and has yet to really learn the valuable life skill that is 'Risk Asessment'.

Mind you I should've expected this seeing as my fave toys when i was young were pre prepared sodium chloride (minus fire retardent type) weedkiller and sugar fireworks (now referred to as B*mb5), A BSA airsport .22 calibre airifle..with x12 telescopic sight, and various unlicenced motorbikes both 2 and 4 stroke with free petrol. Of course all these happily supplied by my Father.

In his defence,he did grow up in the war where bombsites and unexploded ordnance were the order of the day.

(MrHackenbacker, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 0:09, archived)

Cans of WD40

and those red bangers everyone used to bring back from France

(MonkeySpunkMoped, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 0:12, archived)

red bangers

OH Yes..I'd forgotton about them.....what a lovely noise, plus you could break them open and empty out all the black powder, then twist together all the unused fuses to make fantastic 'Genies'. I'm going to bring back a truckload of them when i go to frnace next time.....happy childhood memories a go-go.

Might even risk smuggling a flick-knife...that other reputation improving piece of teenage 'street-cred'

(MrHackenbacker, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 0:39, archived)

ha, get us some will ya

We did that with a entire box of fireworks and put all the contents into one photo pot. Took ages but it was a pretty decent bang. Looking back I'm thankful I still have all my extremities undamaged from all those pyro days at the back of my mate's garden. He did burn his eyebrows off once though.

I was originally going to put flick knife as well, but I wasn't "cool" enough to ever quite get hold of one. I got a flick-comb instead :)

While I'm here, might as well add "video nasties" to the list. Cannibal Holocaust and Animal Farm on scuzzy VHS?

(MonkeySpunkMoped, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 1:18, archived)

Lego for starters (obviously)

But also Action Man before they looked like Pierce Brosnan, and a few other action figures namely Jaws from the Bond films and it had a magnet in it's mouth for no reason whatsoever. An alien from an spisode of Star Trek, one of the movies I think but I don't know what. It had a melted face like it's head was made of chocolate and had been left in the sun too long.
And another action figure, a 'mummy' based on Boris Karloff's interpretation it seems (how's that for movie tie-in merchandise?) . It had a glow in the dark head, had a push button thing on it's back that made it's arms draw in and smelled of smoke because I bought it in a firesale.

I would them have them re-enact the different heats from World's Strongest Man competitions (back in the Geoff Capes days) with the aid of tennis balls and an Action Man lorry.

But then I hit 12 and wanking and hanging about on street corners was the order of the day. Not at the same time I hasten to add.

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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 0:15, archived)

Hmm

any comic with Gambit
Star wars Ewok Treehouse
Legend of Zelda
A Boy and his Blob

in that order

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Pope Yoda is OLD, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 1:00, archived)

ZOIDS - robot dinosaurs you put together yourself.

and my second hand ZX Speccy 48k (with kempston joystick, RAM version of Jet Pack, and printer(!))

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Godzuki needs more sleep., Tue 31 Aug 2010, 5:47, archived)

Lego, Evel Knievel bike, Chutes Away!, Crossfire (loud, noisy and fun) & Dark Tower (although it broke constantly and my bro and I eventually exchanged it for a 16K ZX Spectrum. Bloody geeks. A working Dark Tower would fetch a hell of a lot more on eBay these days than a Speccy, too.)

Also anyone remember the round, white Action GT hovercraft that you could charge up and then send shooting across the floor carpet? My mate had one and I was dead jealous. Never seen any mention of it since on the net.

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mozza, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 8:31, archived)

It has to be

48k spectrum
Big Trak
Simple Simon
Star Wars Snow Speeder
And a damn big red Tonka car, can't remember what it was, might have been a capri or something that was almost indestructible and lasted for most of my childhood through which it received more abuse than any toy should get.

Still got a fisher price digger from when I was 4 that my daughter now plays with, despite it living at the bottom of the garden behind a shed for over a decade

(bluehamster, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 9:13, archived)

Stretch Armstong

and incredible hulk.(which we cut open like junior vivisectionists just to see what was inside) also as previously mentioned ,Evel Knievel stunt bike,one of the few toys that lived up to its hype.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_Armstrong

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bane, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 9:30, archived)

In the 80's my favourites were definitely

my 48k Spectrum and my Manta Force set img401.imageshack.us/img401/5756/pict1979bw8.jpg

Also Does anyone else remember Zoids? I had hundreds

*Edit* I have read the thread now and can see I am not alone in my love for Zoids

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Peej, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 9:37, archived)

Why has no one mentioned...

Gameboys, and Subbuteo?!

Unless they have, and I just couldn't be arsed to go through all the answers.

(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 31 Aug 2010, 9:52, archived)

I had a orange Tonka dune buggy that I never could break

but being a 60s throwback child I spent more time with my magnifying glass and ants & woodlice

*edit How could I forget about my Arnold Palmer Golf??? sigh I do wish I had that now

**edit I remember sparing the ball style woodlice the agonising magnifying glass for a more dignified death via a game of golf.

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acab, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 9:58, archived)

TONKA

I had a massive TONKA crane. I liked my TONKA construction toys - great for smashing into that intellectual LEGO shite.

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d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:50, archived)

Lego, Transformers, ZX Spectrum

All still retain their hold over me
/lego keychain, Spectrum T-shirt, Transformers tattoo

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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 11:37, archived)

Boglins!

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SauronWibble I'll hold it, you lick it..., Tue 31 Aug 2010, 11:40, archived)

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!

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Obz Click, ting, stamps, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 22:22, archived)

Hmmm

Meccano
Teddy Ruxpin with the tapes you loaded into his back
Mr Frosty
ZX Spectrum (128k! Floppy disk drive! WELL POSH) and enough games off the front of Crash magazine and Your Sinclair to fill two big drawers in my mum and dad's dresser.

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Droog is too orangey for crows, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 11:51, archived)

What about ZX Computing? Loads of listings to type in...

...and forget to save.

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Guff McFlange Yes, but can it be made out of Lego?, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:47, archived)

Yes!

Many afternoons spent typing in line after line while my dad dictated from the mag :) Good times... until, like you say, you forget to save.

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Droog is too orangey for crows, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 15:35, archived)

Visionaries FTMFW!

www.virtualtoychest.com/visionaries/visionaries.html

I had all but one of the toys (used to live near a 'What everyone wants!' that used to sell them off cheap).

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Victor Meldrew, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 12:13, archived)

Plastecine.

Lego,
Meccano,
Shaker-makers,
cardboard, scissors & glue,
Paper/blackboard and crayons/powder-paint/chalks
And top of the list, Revell Snap-Together Dinosaur model kits.

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NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 12:14, archived)

Favourite toys

I have been a big fan of Transformers - although it was well known that the 'Jazz' figure would inevitably break after you transformed him once.
Which made his appearance and sudden termination in the Michael Bay Transformers movie strangely appropriate.

I had a friend who was big into Playmobile and Barbie.

Funny lad he was.

Also the commodore 64 - about 40 minutes of bright flashing colours, a poor quality image of the promised game with some honkey atmospheric music squeaking out yet more promise.

Closely followed by a clunk as the tape reached the end and the game failed to load.

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Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 12:19, archived)

In case it's already been mentioned,

Evel Knievel zip start motorcycle and ramp. They are doing them again now I see. Christmas looks good again all of a sudden!

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Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 12:54, archived)

etch-a-sketch

Cabbage patch kid, care bear and smurf figurines, Baby Alive, spongy Womble toy, roller skates and the fastest pedal car ever - white with blue racing stripes.

Trampoline without all that poofy safety gear, just exposed springs and sharp bits.

(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:04, archived)

Spectrum/Amiga

Scalextric
BigTrak. I hear they have just re-released the BigTrak. My son might finally 'get' the one I was denied all those years ago. My friend Michael had one, I was in awe of him.

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DeadEyeDick, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:08, archived)

Mr Frosty

Seldom was it used to crush ice though, we put all sorts of things through that as young children, worms and crabsticks being the one with the messiest outcome.

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Muns, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:45, archived)

Definitely LEGO, Star Wars, ZX Spectrum

With honorable mentions to Big Trak and my old Tamiya RC cars

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Guff McFlange Yes, but can it be made out of Lego?, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:45, archived)

Lego was my absolute favourite

Also Sindy dolls, fuzzy felt, spirograph, footballs, bikes, hot wheels, cap guns and my brother's matchbox cars. I may have been a bit of a tomboy.

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The Cat's Mother Not a People Person., Tue 31 Aug 2010, 13:56, archived)

can you use the fuzzy felt

to make Sindy a little more 'natural'...?

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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Tue 31 Aug 2010, 20:40, archived)

Candle making kit

Especially the fact that the morning after I made candles, my porridge was just a tad, er, waxy. The fucking stuff needed to be chipped off - soapy water just bounced off it.

The Original Binatone Pong rip-off

Tennis/Football/Squash, on your telly. Only shitter. And with beeps.

Spirograph

A guaranteed way to use up every spare sheet of paper in the house. And put smudgy blobs of ink on all the biros, too.

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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 14:29, archived)

also, does anyone else remember the Purple People Eater game?

forums.doyouremember.co.uk/threads/2785-Purple-people-eater.
You could peel off the monster bit and wear it as a mask :D

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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 14:40, archived)

Hell Yes!

Although I remember wearing the purple thing as a mask and scaring the hell out of my younger brother with it being much more fun than the game itself!

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OBiW4NSHiNOBi is sure those were the droids you were looking for, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 23:05, archived)

Probably these

etch a sketch, operation, jenga, connect four, roller skates, whoopie cushion, silly putty

also

making mush out of loo roll and water and chucking it at stuff

and

pretending to be the Ghostbusters, fighting over who gets to be Bill Murray and using the hoover as a prop.

For a shit one: Poleconomy was awful.

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bland is bland, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 15:03, archived)

Merlin - still got one in working order!
www.retrothing.com/2005/12/magical_merlin_.html

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insignificantsnivellinglittleturd I Like Peas, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 15:41, archived)

I remember that.

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Guff McFlange Yes, but can it be made out of Lego?, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 17:03, archived)

The toys i never got bored of

were matchbox or corgi cars.
most of them met a painful end when I discovered how funny it was sending them down a length of old guttering with another favourite toy, a lit banger, sellotaped to the back.

Scalextric and subbuteo were pretty good. Best described by half man half biscuit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Or410w6hI

(Sawdustman now with added giro. again, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 16:22, archived)

Lego, Meccano, Crossfire (not sure this would be allowed any more), Talisman, Crossbows and Catapults, Top Trumps, Panini stickers - not technically a toy, but certainly ate up most of my free time each summer.

(Elephantine Galoot is on the M62 heading east at, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 16:42, archived)

I don't know what it was called

but when I was 4 or 5 I had a rocket set that was very cool. There was a range of rockets, from 4" to about a foot, all of which fired from three different launchers on spring-based mecahnisms. The launchers had little scientist blokes standing around as well.

When I left school we spent most of our dole money on Scalectrix. I'd still happily spend 3 hours setting up a track to race it for 5 minutes then break it down again to build another.

(glammerocity state of the art Luddite, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 16:44, archived)

Hot Wheels was always great but ate batteries

I loved the electronics set I got when I was about 8. Airfix models, I always got one when I went to stay over at my Grans.

Slime and putty, and bangers when I could get them.

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Cactus 1 doesn't care what you think on, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 17:12, archived)

Took me an age to remember the name of this one...

Construx.

My parents had to be difficult and not get me Lego like every other kid have. No, instead I got Construx. In fairness it was ace and built some truly MASSIVE models, though as no-one else ever had any it ended up being something of a loner toy.

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Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Tue 31 Aug 2010, 17:18, archived)

Fischer Technik

Anyone remember this? My cousin had some, sort of lego-sized grey bricks with connectors on each end and grooves up the sides.

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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 17:37, archived)

Evil Kenevil ( Spelling issue potential)

Rev up and go. Especially when he went up the cardboard ramp from my bed and out the bedroom window. Fly my precious, fly!

(boarders You won't catch me with my trousers, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 18:50, archived)

Evel Knievel

Shredded knuckle potential, more like.
Why did they put the winding handle so close to the ground?

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Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Wed 1 Sep 2010, 13:11, archived)

i do remember

my infant school had lots of it. it was well good

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monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 12:17, archived)

TCR. no question. that or Big Trak

(HelgyBumlick Helga licks her bum a lot!, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 18:49, archived)

you could make cardboard ramps on the track. me & my brother had hours of fun with this!!

(HelgyBumlick Helga licks her bum a lot!, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 18:53, archived)

had a bit of a rummage in the loft yesterday and found/remembered loads of the things mentioned so far in this thread

Things I've still got:
200 in 1 electronics kit, same as Rob's
Lots of scalextric. Did anyone else take the braids apart and put single strands of wire between the rails? They'd glow like a bulb filament and melt any of the plastic track they happened to be in contact with, before burning out.
ZX Spectrum 48k and loads of games
Several sets of Top Trumps including both Horror packs. Must have got hundreds of hours of play time out of those buggers.

Other stuff that's probably been chucked out:
Obligatory mention of Lego, etch-a-sketch and Transformers.
Also had Simon, Little Professor, Game of Life, Zoids and others.

Probably the biggest thing not yet mentioned was a big air-powered toy which consisted of a hand operated pump and an assortment of tubes and connectors which could be made into a track that went all over the floor and up the walls etc. You put a little rocket like thing inside the tube, pumped like mad and it would shoot round at a kajillion miles per hour. Can't remember what it was called and google isn't helping either.

Anyone want to buy some scalextric? :P

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Paster of Muppets is an incredible screen name, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 18:55, archived)

Nerf toys were shining when I was little

especially the ballzooka!

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McBadger COW, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 19:07, archived)

Toys

At the age of seven I visited Wrexham general hospital after an Action man head (with eagle eyes) became accidentally lodged in my rectum whilst I was in a bath.

Hence not on my list of favourite toys.

(MistahG, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 19:11, archived)

"accidentally"?

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Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:06, archived)

Yup

I was aiming for my japseye

(MistahG, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 17:17, archived)

Big Trak

Fucking Big Trak. Only Darren White had Big Trak.

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collapsibletank procreates, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 19:35, archived)

Conkers

& White dogshit.

(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 20:47, archived)

I think you're on to something here.

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Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:03, archived)

LEGO's original minifig Space theme from 1979:

www.brickset.com/browse/themes/?theme=Space&subtheme=Classic

Action man was OK, but a bit big, so on holiday in the caravan we had Mobile Action Command toys:
www.plaidstallions.com/matchbox/mac.html
Figures with vehicles that looked like they'd just rolled out of one of Thunderbird 2's pods.
And later, the cheaper 'Action Jack' figures and vehicles.

Before there were handheld consoles, there were Pocketeers. This site makes me want to cry for simpler times:
www.masters.me.uk/pocketeers/completelist-pocketeers.htm

ZX Spectrum is the big and obvious one after LEGO though. But I'm still programming for it, so does it count?

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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 21:19, archived)

Nearly forgot - an going back a bit further.

When Tonka toys were still made out of steel, I had a large-ish red tractor that was virtually indestructable. My brother had a yellow one with front and rear digger, with control levers that would pinch your skin, but mine was better.

And P.S., this is what LEGO is all about:
www.flickr.com/photos/25627262@N05/4016882060/

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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 12:13, archived)

Bluebird "A La Cart" Kitchen.

If you never served your parents swiss roll shoved on a bed of cold baked beans as a child, you never had a childhood. (according to the Mrs)

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evilrob saw that ludicrous display last night, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 21:29, archived)

Wake up Daddy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW_KXl3b0H0

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alwayslostinsmoke fulfilling dreams since, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:17, archived)

MASK, Star wars, teenage mutant ninja turtles, the ever faithfull and good old fashioned hornby train set.

(furey, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 23:34, archived)

My Little Sexy Hitler Cockring.

waka waka

(SSSSS, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 1:16, archived)

A member for five years and you don't know the rules yet!?

Or just a cunt?

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..wil, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 11:21, archived)

HOW BIG IS THAT THING!!!!!

/2Mb, apparently

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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 12:24, archived)

hahaha

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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 13:28, archived)

ahh my eyes!

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Obz Click, ting, stamps, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 22:23, archived)

i used to spend a lot of time with my game boy, until i accidentally shot him when he went to retrieve a pheasant

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Lightguy hail satan, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 2:12, archived)

Lego, Lego & more lego

Particularly space lego LL918 & LL928
www.tamundo.de/artikelbild/2009/05/02/13/29/1797045/t5_df4faef16a5b8f3c59ddc499885c639e/weitere-kategorien-lego-weltraum-classi.jpg

img266.imageshack.us/i/lego2026.jpg/

also hot wheels, star wars figures, atari www.nwcomputers.com/atari2600.jpg

Didn't discover my cock for quite some time....

(Baron Greenback Still in Sunny Singapore, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 7:31, archived)

Two favourites, Star Wars and Lego

I know it has probably been mentioned a billion times already but Star Wars toys, through scrimping and saving and understanding family members I collected all of the figures including the ones you could only get by saving proofs of purchase and sending off for them. I had some mates who between them had pretty much most of the hardware and we used to have gigantic day long full scale battles in and around gardens and homes.

Oh and Lego is the nuts, the single greatest product toy or otherwise (allowing for fire and the wheel of course) ! It almost transcends the question.

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number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 1 Sep 2010, 8:49, archived)

Meccano

...with which I made weapons

and my BBC Model B computer, with which I made blocky 32kB porn.

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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 9:12, archived)

Lego, ZX Spectrum, and transformers.

Also a sherriff's badge I thought was a ninja star.

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wangmaster2000, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 9:59, archived)

lego (like everyone else)

Transformers and their shitty cousins GoBots. I never had any, but i used to really, really want the various robots that Tomy made back in the day.

www.google.co.uk/images?q=tomy%20robots&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1563&bih=734

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monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 12:20, archived)

It has to be

The Evel Knievel Stunt Set

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100% Cock Raw like carrots., Wed 1 Sep 2010, 13:17, archived)

Also;

Cap/coin grenades.

Basically:

-Get 2-3 rolls of paper caps (those ones for those cap guns that came in rolls of red paper with little bubbles of gunpowder every few centimetres)
-Score them with a knife donwn the middle all the way along the length of the roll
-Wrap them around a 2p coin until all 3 rolls are tightly wound round it
-Sellotape it into an enclosed unit

-Throw it at something. It explodes really satisfyingly on contact. Basically, all the little bubbles of gunpowder go off at once, and as there are about 100-200 of them in each grenade, they are very loud and make quite a lot of smoke.

Once, as 3rd years, me and a coupel of mates made 10 or so of these each. We hid near the basketball court and lobbed them at 6th-formers. There were little explosions and smoke billows all over the court. The 6th formers must have thought they were back in 'Nam (this was also at about the time that we thought "Platoon" was way cool).

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100% Cock Raw like carrots., Wed 1 Sep 2010, 13:59, archived)

Classic 80s

Penny Racers www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0749/
Rough Riders www.ilovethe80s.com/toys_toys_roughriders.htm
Polystyrene Planes with the clip on propellers

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alwayslostinsmoke fulfilling dreams since, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:09, archived)

I grew up in the late 80's/early 90's

The following are a few toys I owned at some point

Tenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
WWF wrestlers
Action Man
Lego
POGS
Thunderbirds (aswell as the Tracey Island)

Oh I also had the ORIGINAL Gameboy (if that counts?) i.e the grey one the size of a housebrick and monochrome screen which was a bastard to see!

(Lord Chode, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:38, archived)

www.collectorsquest.com/collectible/31363/premier-league-1994

anyone else used to collect sticker books like the above?

'Got....Got...Got...Need...'

(Lord Chode, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:46, archived)

oooh yes

not footy though, being a girl: The Beano stickers rocked...

(TheFlyingOnion. looking forward to, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 8:55, archived)

Hell yes!

I think I had 94, I definitely had 95.

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Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 15:45, archived)

Heroquest

Spent many happy hours playing that.
Haha just looked on youtube. The adverts look so kitsch now...
10 year old me thought it was dark!

(Stickboy otters nose! wolf nipple chips!, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 18:36, archived)

Armatron.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armatron
Noisy bastard, but I loved it.

Acetronic MPU 1000
www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=906&st=2
'Circus' was one of my favourite games of all time. The bloke who collected the football pools on a Thursday used to sell/rent the games for it out of the back of his car.

That got upgraded to a Philips VideoPac G7000
www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=2&c=1080
God it was good.

Probably wouldn't play Crysis now though...

(npfiii, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 19:15, archived)

Lego, obviously...

...back when it was Space, Town or Castle. But they all eventually get mixed up in the same big plastic box, don't they?

But does anyone remember M.U.S.C.L.E Men? They were little and pink and smelled. They were Japanese wrestler type figures but they were really freaky. I used to use them in conjunction with my Lego men. The M.U.S.C.L.E men were mutants and the Lego men were humans because the mutants could tear their limbs off. I used to use the pink Radox bubble bath for blood and splash it all over the window sill.

(BillCosby, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 19:24, archived)

Zoids, Capsela, TinkerToys, Lego, FischerTechnik

Had a "StegaZoid"- I would re-articulate it and it would flail and hop in place like some spastic cyber-camel.

Model rockets too!

(curlyfries eats curly fries, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:56, archived)

I loved my Major Morgan

You know, the electronic toy from the eighties which had letters and numbers on it. It made crude bleeps when you touched the buttons.

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Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:24, archived)

Spud. Gun.

(835Rocks, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 22:44, archived)

God I loved my spud gun!

water pistol too, except it wasnt!

(Wyldoats Is 8 miles outside of Barstow, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 14:14, archived)

Oh my god...

...a RED one!
I don't think I've ever seen a red one before. Mine were always blue - apart from the useless 'water-pistol' cap, that bit was always red.

(minimalist ..., Fri 3 Sep 2010, 12:17, archived)

roller boots

Definitely, They had to have rubber wheels though, not plastic, otherwise you'd shake your fillings out on most road surfaces. And NEVER roller skates, they were totally uncool, especially the ones that strapped over your shoes...

(TheFlyingOnion. looking forward to, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 8:53, archived)

Favourite toys

Those planes you got in paper sleeves from newsagents in the early 1980s for about 20p. You'd slot the wings in, attach a propeller and then the things were ready to throw around. They were all re-creations of genuine fighter planes.

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 10:05, archived)

I also liked collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards

...though I don't know whether that counts as a toy.

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 10:07, archived)

LEGO, trains and cubes.

LEGO, thankfully still around though mutated into forms I have difficulty recognizing: when I started playing with 'em, the most
specialized parts were the diagonal cuts and the occasional window frame.

Another beloved favorite was my LGB train set; gifted to me when I was 8 years old, it kept me entertained for another 20+ years as I imported expansion bits at great expense and served as dad's little booze delivery train during the numerous parties he would host. I eventually sold it for a song at a local swap meet to a family which burned out the primary control transformer the very next day.

Another toy I have enjoyed ever since its early 80s introduction was the puzzle cube made famous by Singmaster, Thistlethwaite and Rubik, although I don't bother showing off the pretty patterns to anybody now: they always try to get it back to the start position, which indicates how fucking boring and one-track their minds are.

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Felis Concolor, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 19:31, archived)

I fucking loved Monopoly as a kid

In hindsight, it's probably not that surprising I'm studying Economics at Uni.

I also loved my Supersoaker (can't remember what it's exact name was - 4000, or some other ridiculously high number) and my Nerf crossbow, with which I used to terrorise my little sister. I also vaguely remember having 2 laser-quest-a-like guns and headsets.

Jesus, this is like taking a trip down memory lane. Hadn't thought about most of these for a good few years.

I had a playmobile pirate ship, which I adored, and a bunch of small, plastic army men, with boats, tanks, ships and planes. They were like a set, there was loads of them, can't think of the name. Some of the guys were already in sitting positions, ready to be put into a vehicle as the driver. Even had a monorail with track. What the fuck was it called? Anyone help me out?

(Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 13:00, archived)

action force

action force were wonderful. i really regret selling all my action force stuff at a car boot when i was 10, to buy a crappy MASK toy...

www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=action%20force&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=836

(SuperDuperCooper, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 0:24, archived)

Matches

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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:46, archived)