Your favourite toy as a kid
Joe_Pineapples
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What was it?
Mine was BigTrak. I remember seeing the advert on tv around 30 years ago now and decided that Santa HAD to bring me one. He did, and Biggie and I embarked upon many an exciting adventure across the Cursed Earth that was my back garden, until the day he died.
Neglect had meant that Biggie's batteries had corroded inside him. My dad said "Give me the cover from the battery compartment and I'll get it cleaned at work" but the cover never returned. So Biggie lay in my parents attic until February last year when I saw a damaged BigTrak on ebay, complete with the now rare battery compartment cover. £10 in batteries later and we were reunited, and it was as if we'd never been apart.
Ok Biggie, let's rock!
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Mine was BigTrak. I remember seeing the advert on tv around 30 years ago now and decided that Santa HAD to bring me one. He did, and Biggie and I embarked upon many an exciting adventure across the Cursed Earth that was my back garden, until the day he died.
Neglect had meant that Biggie's batteries had corroded inside him. My dad said "Give me the cover from the battery compartment and I'll get it cleaned at work" but the cover never returned. So Biggie lay in my parents attic until February last year when I saw a damaged BigTrak on ebay, complete with the now rare battery compartment cover. £10 in batteries later and we were reunited, and it was as if we'd never been apart.
Ok Biggie, let's rock!
DivShare File - BigTrak2.avi
http://letthewookiewin.blogspot.com/200 ... lames.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVBrlCY3 ... annel_page
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Lego technik or any of my radio controlled cars.0
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Joe_Pineapples wrote:What was it?
Mine was BigTrak. I remember seeing the advert on tv around 30 years ago now and decided that Santa HAD to bring me one. He did, and Biggie and I embarked upon many an exciting adventure across the Cursed Earth that was my back garden, until the day he died.
Neglect had meant that Biggie's batteries had corroded inside him. My dad said "Give me the cover from the battery compartment and I'll get it cleaned at work" but the cover never returned. So Biggie lay in my parents attic until February last year when I saw a damaged BigTrak on ebay, complete with the now rare battery compartment cover. £10 in batteries later and we were reunited, and it was as if we'd never been apart.
Ok Biggie, let's rock!
DivShare File - BigTrak2.avi
http://letthewookiewin.blogspot.com/200 ... lames.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVBrlCY3 ... annel_page
BRILLIANT!0 -
Lego Technik, I've still got a massive box of the stuff in the loft and recently found a website with pdf's of the old instructions!0
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I had some Lego Technic, when built, it was a radio controlled car. Nothing special these days, but 15 years ago it made me the envy of all my mates.
There was also my Scalectrix which I still have. Might go dig it out now actually
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Cereal boxes, plus a few motors, gears, wires etc. I built my own little electric cars from this stuff and drove them around the house. Problem was, I had no servos to control steering, so they were all dragsters. Still great fun to drive into my mum's feet while she was in the kitchen though.0
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big trak and my all time fave...... TRANSFORMERS, OPTIMUS PRIME!!!! 2019 Ribble CGR SL
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That Big trak rings a bell, think my mates bro might have had one- the keypad on the top looks very familiar :?
Favourite toys hmm... Transformers and Technics lego (always wanted the Test Car) spring to mind.
Use to build wooden kart things using pram wheels and race down the hill most summers, ahh hapy days!
Just think how this thread will be with the next generation-
"My favorite toy was an xbox 360....." quite sad really
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"What console does this 'Lego' run on?"
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you mean the original red one, or this one?snotty badger wrote:Transformers and Technics lego (always wanted the Test Car) spring to mind.
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You gigantic ****ing nerd. Well done 8) I always wanted one of those...
Mine was this:
Still got it under the bed. I even kept the box for ages, but I threw it out for no reason. Wonder what a boxed, original, first edition complete one's worth now? Don't tell me, it'll only upset me
Loved lego as well, that was the rule for us for years- birthdays and christmas, if in doubt, biggest lego thing you can find. Castles, ships, pirates, spaceships... Doesn't matter. My brother just got me this for my birthday:
And it's AWESOME.Uncompromising extremist0 -
I've still got these bad boys round at my parents house, all still in working condition.
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snotty badger wrote:
Just think how this thread will be with the next generation-
"My favorite toy was an xbox 360....." quite sad really
1. I agree.
2. Why would Xbox and Playstation maniacs go on this site anyway.
+ I'm glad my parents never bought any type of these. also because i'm a good boy i'm going to buy a orange crush instead of an xbox and lots of games and it will be with mostly my money from my paper round 0 -
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mine has to be my specrtum 48k played it for hours (horace gos sking first game i played) :oops: if i had my time again would i take the time to make the right choices
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I don't think things have changed that much with regards to consoles. I had a Commodore C64, and was programming BASIC by about age 9 or 10. Didn;t stop me going out all hours on my bike, or playing with lego, kites, RC cars, action man, etc etc.
What makes me sad is that now I'm a grown up, people don;t buy me lego anymore - which in itself isn't so bad. The problem is, the crap I get instead.
I'd much rather get lego for birthdays or whatever, than some crap socks or horrible jumper.0 -
im first to die wrote:mine has to be my specrtum 48k played it for hours (horace gos sking first game i played) :oops:
Speccys were fantastic, my first pc as it were was the Spectrum 128k with the built in tape deck! Absolutely loved that thing, remember Manic Miner, Chuckie Egg, Elite, Treasure Island Dizzy, ahhhh the memories! Orange 2010 P7 - Custom Build - My New Bikey Poos
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im first to die wrote:mine has to be my specrtum 48k played it for hours (horace gos sking first game i played) :oops:
I was a Commodore 64 man myself, still got that too. I'm a bit of a hoarder, as you can probably tell.0 -
Still got that too somewhereJoe_Pineapples wrote:im first to die wrote:mine has to be my specrtum 48k played it for hours (horace gos sking first game i played) :oops:
I was a Commodore 64 man myself, still got that too. I'm a bit of a hoarder, as you can probably tell.
Mine was the original shape (same as the navcom - I think - from Red Dwarf)
I even had a CARTRIDGE for it! RoboCop2 0 -
Joe_Pineapples wrote:im first to die wrote:mine has to be my specrtum 48k played it for hours (horace gos sking first game i played) :oops:
I was a Commodore 64 man myself, still got that too. I'm a bit of a hoarder, as you can probably tell.
I too had a C64, loved that too, I would really love to get another one, but after being sold a herring on ebay a few years back I'd like to see it in the fur first!Orange 2010 P7 - Custom Build - My New Bikey Poos
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showing my age now i remember chucky egg on the bbc computers at school (are school had 2) if i had my time again would i take the time to make the right choices
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im first to die wrote:showing my age now i remember chucky egg on the bbc computers at school (are school had 2)
I used to play Chuckie Egg on the schools BBC micros all the time, my wife has just said she loved that game too!
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Oh and Virus on the Acorn Archimedes, showing my age too Orange 2010 P7 - Custom Build - My New Bikey Poos
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i still play computer games now (on the xbox 360) only when i cant get out on my bike wife/kids etc not letting me :roll:if i had my time again would i take the time to make the right choices
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I got really, really excited when they started reissuing Master System games for the Gameboy DS. My master system was made of bakelite and was the size of a suitcase, the Gameboy was smaller than the game carts. Awesome.Uncompromising extremist0
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Best games on the old C64s were the Dizzy the Egg games. Just awesome!0
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Used to love my Transformers and the original Star Wars toys. My mum gave them all to my cousin when I was about 16 or 17 and I was FURIOUS!!!!!
I nearly bought the new Milleniumm Falcon when it came out a few years ago, but the GF at the time wouldn't let me. Grrrrrr0 -
Technic Lego was the best! still got loads of my old sets (including the red test car!) in bits in the loft.
had a bit of a relapse to my childhood last year when i bought this...
Fully remote, 'bout the size of a toaster, great fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnP4EiKdHzcMTB's, SC Blur LTc & Cotic Soul (26" definitely aint dead!).
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i also had a comodore 64, i remember i got it for xmas it was the newer white/cream color and came with the big floppy disc drive
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i had a c64 and my dad took it to the tip a couple of years ago :evil: i was quite annoyed as it still worked!
also lego technics R/C cars scalextric (missus bought me a new one a couple of years ago ) and me and the old man made a go kart out of wood and a pram, the wheel came off at about 20 and he nearly went in the pond in the park
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