Cool old toys that were cheap...

ciaran76

Does anyone remember the old airplanes you could buy in newsagents for about 15p or 20p. They were made from styrofoam type stuff?
You would have to put them together yourself !

Also anyone remember like soldier men with a parachute?
You could run with them and throw them in the air and they would float back down like a real soldier jumping from a plane or something !

monkeyfudge

Garbage Pail Kids were also cool.

r3nu4l

Oh yes, now you're talking my language I loved those planes. The little plastic bit on the nose where the propellor attached was vital for a proper flight, throwing them in the air to do loop-the-loops

I also loved (and still do ) those plastic armies you could buy in big bags from Hector Greys in Dublin. They're still around, my nephew ahs a load of them!


/dammit, what were those planes called again?

Kimbot

ciaran76 wrote:

Does anyone remember the old airplanes you could buy in newsagents for about 15p or 20p. They were made from styrofoam type stuff?
You would have to put them together yourself !

Ah the pound shop still sells them!! Many a day of fun was has with them!!

ciaran76 wrote:

Also anyone remember like soldier men with a parachute?
You could run with them and throw them in the air and they would float back down like a real soldier jumping from a plane or something !

I only wish I could still buy these now!! A few years ago we were on the roof of a building on the quays and decided to throw one of to see how far it would go!! It went for ages, the laugh we had trying to keep track of it!!

Ruu_Old

I used to get those airplanes every once in a while alright. The excitement when the plane didn't take a nosedive.
Those parachute men come in Kinder Eggs and similar items nowadays I think, great fun too.

sioda

Loved lobbing those planes out the upstairs windows

tk123

You could still get planes in Hector Greys until it closed a few months ago. I splashed out once and got my nephew a Huge one - it was only about €2 My mam used to treat us with something from Hector Greys we went to town - used to get stamp sets, bubbles, marbles, those rubber monsters that go on top of your finger, harmonicas :rolleyes:

ciaran76

tk123 wrote:

You could still get planes in Hector Greys until it closed a few months ago. I splashed out once and got my nephew a Huge one - it was only about €2 My mam used to treat us with something from Hector Greys we went to town - used to get stamp sets, bubbles, marbles, those rubber monsters that go on top of your finger, harmonicas :rolleyes:

Same here our Mams must have been from the same school of thinking.
Also thos spiders that you threw at the wall and they climb down the wall as if they were real except they were jelly/rubber !

dubdvd

anyone remember the adventure kit you got if you where lucky for xmas it had a camera that worked and if your ma and da werent already told by someone eles they would leave the penknife inside the box :eek:
that was a great xmas for me but not for my little mate who ended up with 3 stiches lol

WindSock

ciaran76 wrote:

Does anyone remember the old airplanes you could buy in newsagents for about 15p or 20p. They were made from styrofoam type stuff?
You would have to put them together yourself !

Also anyone remember like soldier men with a parachute?
You could run with them and throw them in the air and they would float back down like a real soldier jumping from a plane or something !

ohohoho yes. Before I clicked on this thread, those planes were the first thing that sprung to my mind. I remember the lovely colourful paper packet it came in. I think it had pictures of other planes on it, there were loads to collect. I used to buy one with my weekly beano, and a clear red chupa chup with a ball of chewingum inside it. Mmm.

Ruu_Old

Beano (often with Double Dip or similar sweety attached to it, yum) and Desperate Dan comic every week too.

byte

r3nu4l wrote:

I also loved (and still do ) those plastic armies you could buy in big bags from Hector Greys in Dublin. They're still around, my nephew ahs a load of them!

Was that the wee green fellas? I used to have loads of them back in the day!

The_g-man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_men
You never had enough of these and always see a few kids add cowboys and indians to fill out a battle.:p

_blank_

The Japanese were yellow and had great detail, Asian eyes and all, and the Nazis were grey.

SeantheMan

Anyone remember Manta Force ?? :eek: ...the big huge spaceship
And there was Red Venom and Black Baracuda :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Or Starcom...with all the little men that had magnets on their feet and stuck to the spaceship n stuff

walrusgumble

SeantheMan wrote:

Anyone remember Manta Force ?? :eek: ...the big huge spaceship
And there was Red Venom and Black Baracuda :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Or Starcom...with all the little men that had magnets on their feet and stuck to the spaceship n stuff

left many marks on the walls driving them on it in my own imaginery world AND firing missles at little sister. red venom vs the toy soliders (re inventing how star war films should have been.

remember the springy football game were ya pull back the palyers and it flicks the lead ball into the goal (better than the fancy subetto)

others were the cowboy suits and cap guns.

Saruman

Those planes were cool! Friend of mine even got a few from ebay (unopened).

I loved my voltron
Had all kinds of cool cheap toys i cant remember

Oriel

Those planes were cool alright! You needed the front propeller to keep the balance correct! I used to love bending the wings to change the flight of the planes!

ciaran76

Anyone remember there was also a throwing device similar to a boomarang but it had 3 wings ?

You could throw it and it came back if you threw it correctly.

c - 13

Yep, bloody hard to do right though, many a day at my local park trying to perfect throwing both those and boomerangs and then loosing them in bushes and stuff

andrew_ireland

Anyone remember the rocket-shaped bangers that you loaded with caps and threw in the air? Got sick of having to buy them when they wore out so ended up making them from a nut and two bolts- the bigger the nut, the more caps you could load in- the bigger the bang!

Good days- Xbox......................meh:p

GAA widow

i remember those styrofoam planes - they were cool....and the parachute men. The clear sheet was wrapped around the little parachute man with an elastic band around it. You'd get them in Lucky Bags.
I remember those rocket things too that you put caps into, they were great fun!
I remember getting those red transparent fish that would flip in the palm of your hand too (well they were supposed to anyway!).They were fortune telling fish or something?

r3nu4l

GAA widow wrote:

I remember getting those red transparent fish that would flip in the palm of your hand too (well they were supposed to anyway!).They were fortune telling fish or something?

Oh yeah! I'd forgotten about those too They were great.

o1s1n

SeantheMan wrote:

Anyone remember Manta Force ?? :eek: ...the big huge spaceship
And there was Red Venom and Black Baracuda :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Or Starcom...with all the little men that had magnets on their feet and stuck to the spaceship n stuff

Ah yes, I had the Black Barracuda and the main grey mothership with all the smaller ships inside. Sold the lot at a garage sale years ago. Stupid kid!

If you still have some Starcom left you will be happy to know it's now extremely collectible. Annoyingly enough, I some of the rarer ones at at said garage sale..gr. Still have a box of it left though.
Saw a Shadow Upriser sell on ebay a week or so ago for 213 stearling.

Bettyboop

How about spud guns? Does anyone remember them?? Or the game you played using straws and a ball?You tried to blow the ball into your apponents net:D

Steve_o

Does anyone remember the little men with the sticky hands and feet that you could throw at a wall and they would "climb" back down?? I think you can still get them but i haven't see them in a while!!!!

Unpossible

Anyone remember Manta Force ?? ...the big huge spaceship
And there was Red Venom and Black Baracuda

I got the small one first (red viper) we didn't really know what they were from, but a few years later my brothers got red venom and black barracuda and I got the mountain base (which had a few guns/missile turrets and a bunch of heli-pads that would jump if you hit a target under them).


Years later we picked up a Manta force ship from a car boot sale just for memory sake

paula1981

ciaran76 wrote:

Does anyone remember the old airplanes you could buy in newsagents for about 15p or 20p. They were made from styrofoam type stuff?
You would have to put them together yourself !

Also anyone remember like soldier men with a parachute?
You could run with them and throw them in the air and they would float back down like a real soldier jumping from a plane or something !

what about italia 90 when you used to get a cut out of the irish players heads with one of those things that if you spit on it you could stick it to your window.??? i kept getting kevin sheedy and i really wanted big cas