What was your favourite toy?

AskMyChocolate · 24-03-2012 7:29am #1

I'd have to say, for me, it was this game called Striker. It then became SuperStriker.:rolleyes:

It was like Subbuteo but much better. You positioned your players on the pitch ala Subbuteo, but then you hit him on the head and he would kick the ball.

Can't believe it's still not around. There was definitely a business in just replacing broken players.

We pressed on their heads too hard.:o:pac:

Super game.

Still lost 3-1 to Argentina in the '78 world cup final though.:mad:

So AHers, any toys that have been a part of you?

mackg · 24-03-2012 7:31am

Lego. Infinite fun to be had with it.

AskMyChocolate · 24-03-2012 7:45am

mackg wrote: »

Lego. Infinite fun to be had with it.

Agreed.

Lego was fookin' magnificent.

meoklmrk91 · 24-03-2012 8:27am

A Doctors set I got for Christmas one year has to rank high, I was forever running my own surgery or vet practice.

Ghandee · 24-03-2012 8:31am

If you didn't wake up with a hard on, on Christmas morning in our house you had nothing to play with:mad:

All you rich kids with your 'toys' bah!

Jesus Wept · 24-03-2012 8:34am

Car carpet city.

chirogirl · 24-03-2012 9:13am

Etch-a-sketch and fuzzy felts

44leto · 24-03-2012 9:15am

Mine was also Lego and it is still going strong, a lot of my nephs got "Technical Lego" I found myself on Xmas morning assembling the various kits. One set actually had pneumatics as in a tiny compressor to move various parts, now that is impressive.

But I remember reading the best toy a child could have and it was put into the toy hall of fame was the humble cardboard box. I bet we all have fond memories of hours of fun with a cardboard box, I know I did, it was a car, a castle, a house, loads of things. The difference with modern toys and that includes lego technics is all the child's imagination is done for them. I am not so sure if that is good for their development.

Edit, I use to have hours of fun with toy soldiers.

bbam · 24-03-2012 9:17am

Lego and a collection of farm stuff I had.
The great thing is the Lego could go along with most other toys which was class.

KTRIC · 24-03-2012 9:21am

My flesh li.....

Lego, its great isn't it

AskMyChocolate · 24-03-2012 9:27am

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

A Doctors set I got for Christmas one year has to rank high, I was forever running everyone's pulse and temperature.my own surgery or vet practice.

FYP?

44leto · 24-03-2012 9:28am

When I was a teen, but still a boy, I discovered a delightful new toy, even though I abused it, I never got bored of it. Even as an adult I still play with it. This toy really does develop your imagination.

tfitzgerald · 24-03-2012 9:33am

Model cars and airplanes . Dinky toys

Dunny · 24-03-2012 9:59am

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Irish Guitarist · 24-03-2012 10:05am

Transformers. Wreck-Gar, Cyclonus, Scourge and Rodimus Prime were some of my favourites. These were originally from Transformers The Movie (the 1986 animated film, not the CGI crap that came out a few years ago).

Rodimus Prime was originally called Hot Rod and transformed into a car. After Optimus Prime was killed, Hot Rod became the leader of the Autobots and was given a new awkward sounding name and transformed into a new awkward, strange looking car/truck thing. Despite his awkwardness I liked the toy although I wasn't too fond of the character.

There were Transformers that I liked just as much or even more but I never owned any of them. I recall it being virtually impossible to get Optimus Prime in Ireland.

When I was about twelve I went to England and got loads of Transformers that I couldn't get in Ireland. I remember one of them transformed into six different things. He was unfortunately named a 'six changer'.

Sadly this trip to England preceded me 'growing out' of toys a few months later so I never really enjoyed them as much as I would have a couple of years earlier.

I held onto my Transformers and was going to give them to my nephews when they got old enough to appreciate them. Unfortunately my sister decided to go into my room one day and get all my Transformers and Masters Of The Universe toys and gave them to my two nephews. They were about four or five years old at the time. They proceeded to destroy pretty much every toy they had been given. At the time I felt like killing my sister over this. I still feel like killing her to be honest. I had kept these toys in great condition and they would probably be worth a fortune now.

senorwipesalot · 24-03-2012 10:07am

A book of lino samples.

AskMyChocolate · 24-03-2012 10:08am

44leto wrote: »

When I was a teen, but still a boy, I discovered a delightful new toy, even though I abused it, I never got bored of it. Even as an adult I still play with it. This toy really does develop your imagination.

Is it perfection? Is it Simon? Is it Buckaroo?...It's Buckaroo isn't it?

No, y'loser. Try again.

Pdfile · 24-03-2012 10:11am

kids size bike, good one too ( not the usual break after 2 days of use ) i remember fondly cycling for atleast a year on it having all sorts of adventures and such over what must of been about 5 miles sq. worth of dublin....

ahhh memorys.

24-03-2012 10:13am

This.

I'm almost certain it's still somewhere in our attic.

AskMyChocolate · 24-03-2012 10:17am

D'ya know what was great? Meccano.

It was like lego, but for engineers. You got a couple of spanners (yes me and my friend), a wrench, two screwdrivers, and a hammer.

A set of instructions.

It was better than Airfix, and you didn't get glue in your hair.:pac:

Snowie · 24-03-2012 10:19am

my bike was my best toy..... or lego

44leto · 24-03-2012 11:25am

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Is it perfection? Is it Simon? Is it Buckaroo?...It's Buckaroo isn't it?

No, y'loser. Try again.

Close
But none of them, its a joystick user interface first person shooter game, there are good online facilities, but they not really necessary, it can be very addictive and you play far to much when you first discover it, but batteries ware with age:(.

Mickey Dazzler · 24-03-2012 11:27am

18" double ended black dildo.

I had a awful childhood.

Seomra Mushie · 24-03-2012 11:29am

Barbie!

Not as bad "role model" as eejits make out. :rolleyes:

Of course her proportions were off, she was a fúcking toy! She was elegant and dainty. Much better than Sindi or the Bratz dolls that subsequent generations embraced. Happily, Barbie sales have surged in recent years following years of decline.

My friends and I would spend hours making our own Barbie houses and furniture out of cereal boxes with books as walls as we were too poor to have them bought for us. First world problems, eh?

I also loved Lego.

Eathrin · 24-03-2012 11:34am

Scalextric or Subbuteo.
Lego was immense too.

44leto · 24-03-2012 11:34am

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

18" double ended black dildo.

I had a awful childhood.

I don't see what was awful about that,,Jealous much.

HalloweenJack · 24-03-2012 12:08pm

My box of Lego. Endless entertainment there.

Seomra Mushie · 24-03-2012 12:14pm

Glad to see Lego get so many thumbs up.

mattjack · 24-03-2012 12:27pm

Claire , she was 14 and I was 13,she lived next door to me.

FortuneChip · 24-03-2012 12:48pm

My parents had a cheeky little scheme that worked wonders for them.
Knowing that little Fortune Chip would be up at 6am trying to wake them up to give him presents, they'd always leave some minor present in our rooms on Christmas morning to keep us entertained until they actually wanted to get out of bed.
It was usually the best present of the lot, some little gadget like a yo-yo or handheld video game.
I reckon they regret the time they gave me a tin whistle though! Defeated the whole purpose!

So Yo-Yo's. They were beast!

sunflower27 · 24-03-2012 12:51pm

senorwipesalot wrote: »

A book of lino samples.

Awwww, did you have a favourite colour?

I never played Lego - ever. Seems I am in the minority.

One year for Christmas I got this:

http://www.heimcomputer.de/tele/gwdonkeykong.html

We never had much money so it was such a big thing. I actually wouldn't mind playing it again. Those games were great fun. Can you still get them?

Logical Fallacy · 24-03-2012 1:25pm

An old board game called Hero Quest, it started me on unfortunate road towards table top strategy and role playing games.

Snowie · 24-03-2012 1:28pm

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

An old board game called Hero Quest, it started me on unfortunate road towards table top strategy and role playing games.

There there

we all did it at one point or another besides even tho war hammer 40k was a little nerdy the sheer story telling behind it was damm awesome... :cool:

Logical Fallacy · 24-03-2012 1:30pm

Snowie wrote: »

There there

we all did it at one point or another besides even tho war hammer 40k was a little nerdy the sheer story telling behind it was damm awesome... :cool:

It wasn't a little nerdy, it was super nerdy. I spent most of my teenage years trapped between being a nerd and a jock, my nerd friends mocked me for playing sports, my team mates mocked my nerdish ways.

Now everyone wants to be a nerdish jock.

bijapos · 24-03-2012 1:42pm

A metal toy gun with caps for sound effects. :pac: Everyone had them and we ran all over the park playing soldiers, cops and robbers and cowboys and indians. Not very PC today.

Lego was excellent and so easy to expand, but we never advanced to the technical stuff.

Best of all was a leather football, I got it for £7 in 1984 in Hamleys in London when we went there on holidays, serious amount of money in those days but it was a quality item. £10 spending money for 10 days, and 7 went on the ball. Had it for nearly 15 years until it literally fell apart, the dog used it for another 10, my mother threw it out a couple of years ago. Epic toy.

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

I'd have to say, for me, it was this game called Striker. It then became SuperStriker.:rolleyes:

It was like Subbuteo but much better. You positioned your players on the pitch ala Subbuteo, but then you hit him on the head and he would kick the ball.

Can't believe it's still not around. There was definitely a business in just replacing broken players.

We pressed on their heads too hard.:o:pac:

Super game.

Still lost 3-1 to Argentina in the '78 world cup final though.:mad:

So AHers, any toys that have been a part of you?

Striker was the one where you had to set up the fiddly "wall" around the pitch, Superstriker came with a moulded wall. Excellent game, way better than fussy Subbuteo, we still have the pitch 30 years on but it's missing everything else. The goalie could be a makeshift gun as well which was handy.

cade · 24-03-2012 1:43pm

I spent countless hours waging battles with my vast collection of G.I. Joe Figures. I'd a large number of vehicles as well as the guys with cable sliding backpacks. So I'd have lines of thread criss crossing my room.

Besides that though I remember having great fun playing this game which upon google I've now discovered to be titled Crossbows and Catapults, these elastic powered catapults were hours of fun smashing up the provided bricks and other Lego built structures. Close up of the weapons.

Snowie · 24-03-2012 1:46pm

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

It wasn't a little nerdy, it was super nerdy. I spent most of my teenage years trapped between being a nerd and a jock, my nerd friends mocked me for playing sports, my team mates mocked my nerdish ways.

Now everyone wants to be a nerdish jock.

i dnt see that as a bad thing it was your teens your supposed to be confused :pac:

I really enjoyed the painting side of it apposed the argument over half a millimeter

kincsem · 24-03-2012 1:50pm

Plastic soccer ball. We played so much in the street it wore down. Then we all chipped in and bought another. And another.

pache · 24-03-2012 1:52pm

THE "RABBIT"

Mugatuu · 24-03-2012 1:59pm

For girls it had to be the fashion wheel!

http://http://www.google.ie/imgres?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1366&bih=667&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=G4c0UYsFDGqpuM:&imgrefurl=http://www.charismagick.com/2011/10/paper-dolls.html&docid=aCc5xP3uoF8NUM&imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IGaQp9is9mA/TqVKqwngnsI/AAAAAAAACEQ/wRujxdt2w3I/s640/fashionwheel2.jpg&w=291&h=240&ei=AcRtT7OuNMuFhQe2nrSpBw&zoom=1

don ramo · 24-03-2012 2:34pm

lego, mechano and scaletrix,

always remember thinking i was great taking the mechano battery pack and wireing it into the scaletrix cars so theyd run around without having to set-up that stupid track:D

got loads of train track lego off my uncles that they had for years, had great fun with it, untill i ended up losing so much of it over the years, now i cant pass it onto my nephew (still have loads of other lego stuff ive already givin him), also had a class electric train (lego one), the battery pack was like a coal carage

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-03-2012 2:40pm

Subbuteo.

ICANN · 24-03-2012 2:40pm

I loved Polly Pocket. She was a legend, I had a house, farm, tree house and even a church for her (the grandparents gave me that one).

The Polly of today is less cool than in the 90s.

JupiterKid · 24-03-2012 2:50pm

Lego. It was really the only toy I ever wanted as a kid.:):) I've given a lot away to a friend's kid and some to my nephew - but he's not really into Lego.

Apparently it's now seen as acceptable to "collect" Lego as an adult. Yay!!

scriba · 24-03-2012 2:52pm

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

An old board game called Hero Quest, it started me on unfortunate road towards table top strategy and role playing games.

I hear you. Gateway drug, Heroquest. It all ends up with an appearance on the 'serious talk' section of the Late Late Show. "I started on the aul d6, Gay, but I needed de hoigher nummers... d8, d12, d20, it all fell apart."

My favourite toys were Transformers, the excitement at unpacking them was unreal. Engine-master ones were great. I loved M.A.S.K. vehicles too.

Logical Fallacy · 24-03-2012 2:54pm

Snowie wrote: »

i dnt see that as a bad thing it was your teens your supposed to be confused :pac:

I really enjoyed the painting side of it apposed the argument over half a millimeter

Absolute, the painting was wicked, then they brought out that modeling putty stuff and that was the end of me having a normal life.

Snowie · 24-03-2012 3:52pm

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

Absolute, the painting was wicked, then they brought out that modeling putty stuff and that was the end of me having a normal life.

have you seen what 40k fans have these days ships actual ships!! :cool:

never got into the modeling putty stuff my self i was just a painter,

i did like my Imperial Tallarn Desert Raiders tho i thought they were pretty cool :cool:

oppenheimer1 · 24-03-2012 5:16pm

The Nimbus 2000, Harry Potter vibrating broom

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1927306_1927313_1927329,00.html

Downlinz · 24-03-2012 5:25pm

Stuff that allowed me to be creative mostly, Lego was fine but restrictive as I never had a huge amount of it.

I used to like DiY racing tracks, they weren't brand name (again hot wheels was too restrictive), just plastic strips of tracks, junctions etc that you could clip in however you liked to make whatever kind of track you like.

Used to combine those with random stuff around the house, old supermarket till cylinder rolls my sister used to have to partition the tracks. I took a lot of inspiration off Mario Kart to make ramps, obstacles and such to race my cars around and play pretend that it was an actual race using imaginative weaponry etc.

Did something similar with wrestling rings and figures where I'd have Hulk Hogan in a royal rumble with half the turtles, some x-men etc. Basically I didn't like toys that did everything for me, I liked tools to make up my own warped games. :pac:

some random drunk · 24-03-2012 7:13pm

senorwipesalot wrote: »

A book of lino samples.

Haha, glad I wasn't the only one then. I used to have a book of wallpaper samples too. Oh and some long thin carpet samples that I used to make into snakes or draft excluders.

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

18" double ended black dildo.

I had a awful childhood.

who got on the other end???

saa · 24-03-2012 7:19pm

This randy looking bastard

http://www.google.ie/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1VEAD_enIE407IE439&biw=1280&bih=709&tbm=isch&tbnid=BfMfJUoAaC45-M:&imgrefurl=http://www.productreview.com.au/p/fisher-price-chatter-telephone.html&docid=fIwgPqqomAVvHM&imgurl=http://static.productreview.com.au/pr.products/fisher-price-chatter-telephone_4ee137e55f598.jpg&w=523&h=365&ei=mQ9uT7zDHInIhAe9zuSlBw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=308&sig=102478448179266331412&page=3&tbnh=140&tbnw=201&start=40&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:40&tx=107&ty=105

What was your favourite toy?

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