Toys from your childhood

SimonAH
SimonAH Posts: 3,730
edited December 2010 in Commuting chat
My dad dug this out for me the other day - I remember loving this as a small boy in the early 70's.

Firstly does anyone know what they're called? And what was your 'Worthington's sepia memory' toy?
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  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    Looks like a Gyroscopic wheel toy to me,
    The toy most likely to induce a state of nostalgia; too many to mention. I think I'll go and watch "James May's Top Toys"or "James May's Toy Stories" again
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    No idea what it is called, but I also had one.

    My toy from the past... Raleigh Tomahawk NOStommahawk.jpg It gave me my first taste of freedom and introduction to fettling. I learnt how to repair a puncture and adjust brakes on that bike, skills I still use to this day.

    I remember looking longingly at my brother's Raleigh Chopper and dreaming of being big enough to ride that. Eventually he got a Raleigh Stratos road bike and I got the Chopper. The day he got the Stratos I no longer wanted the Chopper as road bikes look so cool.
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  • hambones
    hambones Posts: 407
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uw5crBtIqs

    Loved this game. I used to always fight with my brother as to who controlled 'Tricky Nicky'!
    :)
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  • forcutty
    forcutty Posts: 1,055
    Lego 8)
  • skellator3
    skellator3 Posts: 200
    my best friends sister was my fav toy when i was 13 lol
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Scaletrix! Great fun

    Eke, I also had a Tomahawk. Can't ever remember getting a puncture...
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Meccano of course
  • cyberknight
    cyberknight Posts: 1,238
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    I had one of these ...
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    lump-of-coal.jpg

    and we had to share it between 25 of us :cry:

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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    Cereal boxes. I loved making things, so a box would be cut up and glued back together to be a spaceship or a racing car or something. I once built what I thought was a rather excellent version of Skyship One from the Thunderbirds movie.

    In later years I moved onto Airfix models, and then, unfortunately, Warhammer...
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    My best ever toy (besides Lego of course) was Action Man. I had a 1968 MK1 version with unrealistic painted hair and hard ungrippy hands.
    The new versions are steroid-popping mutants in comparison.

    Favourite kit? The diving kit, scuba and bronze helmet version and the parachute.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I got my first visit in ages from the fairy today after using the 'p' word earlier in this thread. Boy, she's a hard mistress!!

    I only remember getting a couple of visits on my Tomahawk, but they introduced me to rubber and glue and I haven't looked back.
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  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    ZX Spectrum +

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    I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.
  • Flyingbogey
    Flyingbogey Posts: 352
    I too had a Tomahawk, everyone talks of the chopper ooer but i thought i was unique. The only other bike i coveted was the Grifter mainly for the gear changes and heavy as a tank which was good when you're 12. Fav toys were soldiers and the Hun always lost.
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  • unixnerd
    unixnerd Posts: 2,864
    Action Man (Men really as I had 2) , followed by Lego railway, Technical Lego and then the ZX81 when I was 13. First bike was an Elswick Hopper single speed when I was 11.

    Best Action Man toys were the old fashioned diving suit and the RNLI one with the breachers buoy. I rigged it up from my upstairs window to the washing line pole in the garden with a return rope to pull the poor unfortunate figure back up again. Hours of fun, top that with Call of Duty 4!
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    I got an Etch a Sketch as a kid back in the 60s. Vaguely artistic and surprisingly robust. Hours of fumbling fun.

    Lego was the other standby.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    One of these

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    and one of these...

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    And Lego and Playmobile, and Starwars figures.
  • Dudu
    Dudu Posts: 4,637
    Bayko.

    Although me and my sister were forever puncturing our fingers with the rods.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    LEGO!

    *cough*Playmobil*cough*

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    And an array of progressively more awesome trini style hand made catapults.

    First proper bike was something like one of these when I lived in Holland:

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    8)
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  • soundninjauk
    soundninjauk Posts: 333
    I had this when I was younger, and it was my favourite toy of all time. So much so that when I sold all the rest of my Lego several years ago, I kept it for nostalgia value.

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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,767
    Has that picture of a bike been photoshopped onto a picture of a tatty old bit of pavement? :?

    It doesn't look right.
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  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    Hi,
    fischertechnik
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    the telephone from toy story 3 I had one of them.
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    rjsterry wrote:
    Has that picture of a bike been photoshopped onto a picture of a tatty old bit of pavement? :?

    It doesn't look right.
    Was a Google Image catch so I'm not sure. Looking at it though, the lack of shadows is probably due to someone using a flash with bright but diffuse ambient light. Or something...
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    roger merriman wrote:
    the telephone from toy story 3 I had one of them.

    +1
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    forcutty wrote:
    Lego 8)

    +1

    Absolutely loved it, had only sisters (one 5 yrs older, other 8 yrs younger) and relationship with Step Dad was testing to say the least, so tended to play on my own.

    Nowadays, it's a PS3 and FIFA. I still play on my own, and have never grown up. :oops:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    cashmere-goat.jpg

    We had 700-odd of them. They were great fun.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    lost_in_thought wrote:
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    We had 700-odd of them. They were great fun.

    We had goats too - I had to milk, muck out and stake them out. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate fecking b'stard goats.

    Except in curry.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    SimonAH wrote:
    We had goats too - I had to milk, muck out and stake them out. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate fecking b'stard goats.

    Except in curry.

    Goat curry, or curry goat?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    SimonAH wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    cashmere-goat.jpg

    We had 700-odd of them. They were great fun.

    We had goats too - I had to milk, muck out and stake them out. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate fecking b'stard goats.

    Except in curry.

    Oh we didn't milk them, they were cashmere goats, and actually once you get to an industrial level of farming them the jobs get more fun - mucking out was done with a JCB, for example...
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