what was your least favourite, most dissapointed plaything?

fungus_the_muffin_man
fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
edited August 2009 in The bottom bracket
As a foil to the great toy thread what was the worst, crappiest toy you ever had?

Mine was subbutteo rugby, really looked forward to getting it and it turned out to be the most pointless game ever!
Bianchi. There are no alternatives only compromises!
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    tin can alley, it just didn't work and i was almost hyperventilating with excitement with having to wait for Christmas to get it.
  • Percy Vera
    Percy Vera Posts: 1,103
    I'm glad you said that about Tin Can Alley.
    I always wanted it, but never got it! :cry:
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    I'd hesitate to call it 'crappy' but the Hornby railway set was certainly a disappointmentment. It was beautifully made and the trains were great to look at but we just didn't have room in the house for it. As an eight year old with the attention span of a jackdaw in a jewellers there's only so much pleasure you can get from watching a model InterCity 125 go clockwise round a track - then making it go anti-clockwise.
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    I'd hesitate to call it 'crappy' but the Hornby railway set was certainly a disappointmentment. It was beautifully made and the trains were great to look at but we just didn't have room in the house for it. As an eight year old with the attention span of a jackdaw in a jewellers there's only so much pleasure you can get from watching a model InterCity 125 go clockwise round a track - then making it go anti-clockwise.

    Didnt you try to derail it at a simulated 125mph? Every year I wanted a aeroplane type game where you had to bomb stuff, cant remember what it was called but would be willing to bet now that it was bloody rubbish. Thanks for the Scalextric and the ZX Spectrum though Mum and Dad, they were both the dogs whatsits as pressies go 8).
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    I'd hesitate to call it 'crappy' but the Hornby railway set was certainly a disappointmentment. It was beautifully made and the trains were great to look at but we just didn't have room in the house for it. As an eight year old with the attention span of a jackdaw in a jewellers there's only so much pleasure you can get from watching a model InterCity 125 go clockwise round a track - then making it go anti-clockwise.

    I agree, but then I'd make lego buildings and get my airfix soldiers in on the act (1/72 scale) and make the train track part of a battle. Happy days.
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    Hot Wheels.

    You spent hours building the track out of bendy orange plastic. then you put the cars on and they slid and tumbled down it like the pieces on an upturned Monopoly board.

    Nothing like the picture on the box! :evil:

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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Scalextric was a bit of an anti-climax for me; never had it myself but my cousin did. The cars seemed to spend most of the time flying off the track - when they weren't clogged up with carpet fluff, that is.....

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    When I was a kid we lived miles from the shops.So if it came without batteries ...... :cry:
    bagpuss
  • timb64
    timb64 Posts: 248
    My cousin had Flight Deck- that must have been one of the most pointless "games" ever.
    A crappy cardboard plane (based I think on a Phantom?)catapulted off an equally crappy aircraft carrier along a string turned around and came back onto the deck where it was supposed to snag a hook on a restraining line .No purpose ,no skill,very little excitement-ooh seconds of mindless fun
  • deejay.
    deejay. Posts: 665
    I think some of the early electronic games must be up there, stuff like Merlin (dreadfully poor, and only really good for noughts and crosses), some early Star Wars games, and any of the Space Invaders based shoot 'em ups that ran on AA batteries, like Galaxy Invaders or Astro Wars..Not that I had any of them except Merlin, and that was awful, and needed tons of batteries too.
    He's more machine now than man. Twisted and evil...
  • johnboy183
    johnboy183 Posts: 832
    A previous girlfriend :cry:
  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    My first mobile phone when I was 20....... then realised that nobody I knew had one except for work colleagues who were on a different network so I couldn't text message them!
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  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    my ex wife- i thought i was getting a sexy red hot red head but she turned out to be an ugly ginger freak! :(

    (that ended up with most of my wedge) :(:(
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Scalextric, how, for want of a better word............................................Crap.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    Next door neighbours wife!
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Tomy Super Football - great game until it packed in for no apparent reason.
  • brucey72
    brucey72 Posts: 1,086
    Stop Boris.................a ridiculous spider that you had to shoot with a "laser" gun to stop it from "walking" towards you.......I say "walking" because it was more of a shake from side to side and sometimes it wouldn't even do that. .........absolute crap.

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