What were your favourite toys (apart from bikes)?

Stewie Griffin

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Astro wars was my first ever electrical gamey type thing is was ace until I broke the little joystick waggler :oops:

Another great game, though not mine, was that cricket game on a green baize like subbutteo but different.

Test Match, I had that and Astro Wars and most of the Main Star Wars figures too, although like everyone else there was always some barsteward friend who had an x wing to park beside his Millenium Falcon. Had a blue Grifter, long rear mudguard which just disappeared one day much to my Dads annoyance. But Dad it looks more like a scrambler now :oops: . As elsewhere my ZX Spectrum and Scalextric were also treasured toys.

Lucky you Pneumatic, we had to "get" our Magnesium ribbon from school, didnt get a Bunsen Burner though so we did it on my Mates Mums cooker

Spits and BF109s fixed with fishing line to drawing pins in the ceiling fixed in permanent dog fights, although its funny now that the Spitfires always seemed to have a 109 in their sights and never the other way around.

Anonymous

Spirograph, me and my little sister loved spirograph.

DavidBelcher

dmclite wrote:

Spirograph, me and my little sister loved spirograph.

Speaking of drawing toys, I never could get my Etch-A-Sketch to do curves......

David

APIII

I grew up on a farm, so a diesel tank and straw bales provided a certain amount of entertainment :oops: When I got to 14 my dad bought me an old Austin 1100 for £20 that I drove round the fields until the suspension collapsed. That was replaced with an Austin Allegro (I make no apologies for the poor choice in automobiles) that lasted a little longer, but that had to go when I reversed into the side of one of the farm buildings at high speed. I probably thought I was Bodie from the professionals or something

CHRISNOIR

Oh yeah, an Acorn Electron. Although all the rest of my mates had Spectrums and Commodores my Dad seemed convinced that BBC Basic was the computing language of the future...

10 PRINT"DAD FAIL"
20 GOTO10

Or summat...

guilliano

Lego, Transformers (best toy EVER!), He-Man stuff and of course Star Wars toys/figures.

Also loved my football.... at one point I owned about 20 of them including a sponge one for playing against the garage door.

timb64

Action Man

Leggo

Airfix aircraft/vehicle kits+soldiers(me and my brother could spend a whole day setting up and then fighting out set piece battles involving mixed legions of cowboys and native Americans (as we must call them now)knights, second world war troops etc etc)

Street cricket and football

A lot of the stuff that kids now "play" on the Wii but in the real world.

DavidBelcher

Red Rock wrote:

catching frogs, newts and tadpoles.

Our house backed onto a canal (which fortunately had pretty clean water) - many happy hours spent mucking about with a net going after sticklebacks etc. Not to mention feeding the ducks and swans!

David

LeighB

Swingball, spent hours trying to beat older sister on this.
MOT failed Honda 50 field bike.
My kids find it hard to believe we had no electronic toys, to make a phone call we had to walk to the shops to use a public call box (not that we ever did as no one we knew had a phone) and our TV was black and white and only had three channels!

Trev71

I remember Airfix kits, train sets, Lego, Meccano, and a Raleigh Grifter that weighed more than me. This was replaced with a Raleigh Burner BMX. Due to my lack of skill, any attempts at BMX-type stunts usually resulted in me going home slightly broken.

ExeterSimon

A Big Trak, a Mercury Maze and as many Star Wars figures and accessories you could collect.

All you needed really.

DavidBelcher

LeighB wrote:

to make a phone call we had to walk to the shops to use a public call box (not that we ever did as no one we knew had a phone) and our TV was black and white and only had three channels!

I remember the heady days of only having 3 channels to choose from (though we did have a colour set). Think we were probably the last family on the street to have a phone put in though (I was about 3 at the time). Apologies if this is starting to sound like the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch.

David

salsarider79

All I had was fuzzy felt, lego, books and a tiny BMX which I loved. Never cared about the name, I could still pull skids after having it 8 years. And it still had the orginal rear tyre and brake blocks. I've still got fond memories and scars from riding it.
Amazing how many things you can build from lego.


Anyway now it's motorbikes. 8)

DavidBelcher

salsarider79 wrote:

All I had was fuzzy felt

Nearly forgot about Fuzzy Felt! Anyone else seen those Fuzzy Felt greetings cards you can get these days?

David

sazzledazzle

Rollerboots, mine were blue with a yellow go faster stripe on them. Saved up my pocket money to buy them when I was about 7 and didn't take them off again for months.

Anonymous

My favourite toy soldier was a 1/32 scale marine Commando who was standing with his rifle, bayonet attatched. he was always the last man standing. His name was jock, cos I had written it on the bottom of his stand in blue pen.

I keep posting due to the fact each time I read through i get reminded of something I really coveted as a kid. Then I got an air gun when I was 12.....

Big Shoes

Raleigh Burner
Spectrum 48k
Lego
Transformers
He-Man
Space Hopper
Bauer Turbo Roller Boots
Scalextric
Star Wars
M.A.S.K

rally200

dmclite wrote:

My favourite toy soldier was a 1/32 scale marine Commando who was standing with his rifle, bayonet attatched. he was always the last man standing. His name was jock, cos I had written it on the bottom of his stand in blue pen.

I keep posting due to the fact each time I read through i get reminded of something I really coveted as a kid. Then I got an air gun when I was 12.....

oh yes, air rifles,... Weirauch HK77

prior to that was "Ricochet Racers" a spring action "rifle" that shot toy cars - it had a safety that was supposed to keep you firing prone - but a little bit of sellotape..

Frank the tank

1/72nd scale Airfix soldiers were brilliant.

I had loads of board games (which I kept in immaculate condition) and my favourite game was called Moviemaker.

I can still remember some of the actor character card names,

Turk Logan
Delores de la rue
Lucretia Fang

Happy days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous

My air gun was an ASI magnum, .22. My mum hated it.

jc4lab

Dungeons and Dragons Became an addiction to many of my friends when it first came out..They got thrown out of a Methodist Church club rooms for playing it..

Monty Dog

sazzledazzle wrote:

Rollerboots, mine were blue with a yellow go faster stripe on them. Saved up my pocket money to buy them when I was about 7 and didn't take them off again for months.

I've got some of these and I'm 44:

http://www.bont.com/shop/uploads/flash/ ... mm-big.jpg

Big downhills on them are seriously scary

jc4lab

Greatgrandfather to GreatGrandson.."During the war when I was your age all I got one Xmas was an apple and an Orange:
Reply:"a Laptop and a mobile..Thats Ace Grandad!"

sazzledazzle

Monty Dog wrote:

sazzledazzle wrote:

Rollerboots, mine were blue with a yellow go faster stripe on them. Saved up my pocket money to buy them when I was about 7 and didn't take them off again for months.

I've got some of these and I'm 44:

http://www.bont.com/shop/uploads/flash/ ... mm-big.jpg

Big downhills on them are seriously scary

I really should give them a go - they look like serious fun!

grayo59

Airfix - I reconstructed part of the Battle of the Atlantic by putting plasticine weights on the bottoms of HMS Hood and the Bismark (otherwise they'd capsize like the Tirpitz) and floating them in the bath at home after school.

One glorious gloomy afternoon in early November 1973 I put a banger (firework, not sausage ) in HMS Hood to recreate her destruction at hands of said German battleship.

Airfix Hood didn't sink like the real one but floated up to her funnels in a ruptured blackened smoky lump and a gun turret had to be prized out of the polystyrene tiled (remember them?) bathroom ceiling ....

"You've been smoking!" said Mum upon arrival an hour later as the toxic smell of burned plastic lingered in the air!

Happy Days!

ndodd

one favourite was crossfire you had to fire ball bearings at a target and push it through there goal use to give me big blisters on my trigger finger

Anonymous

I liked tank Command, lots of tanks to take off and have battles with 1/72 scale soldiers.

skyd0g

Lego and Aifix...
...home-made go-carts from bits of wood and salvaged pram wheels...
...and a skateboard made from a plank of wood and a de-constructed roller-skate nailed underneath.