What was your favouite childhood Toy ??

marcsignal

What was your favouite childhood Toy ??

Mine had to be "Action Man", or the "Escape from Colditz" board game, ok so I'm showing my age, but what was yours ?

cazzy

Lego was cool

Pj!

Lego. Lego ruled.

Zapp Brannigan

Transformers. Always Transformers.

marcsignal

Yeah Lego is cool, but If someone says 'Meccano' I PROMISE not not to call them a square

Jackz

Cardboard box from a washing machine.

Karoma

Lego.
I miss Lego Land(?) in Arnott's this time of year. I miss decent Lego.


Damn you, OP. you haz maked me sad. You'll be oppressed while I'm depressed. Thread moved.

Dee5

I loved the spinning tops. They were great fun.
My little ones getting one off Santa

Loved Monopoly too when I was older

Ruu_Old

Scalextric. We didn't have a very big one as they cost well over 100 pound at that time but it was cool all the time. *sits and watches cars zip around track in figure 8 pattern* I had a cheap version of Meccano, can't remember the name of it though.

marcsignal

Jackz wrote: »

Cardboard box from a washing machine.

Yeah, I used to make 'Flak Towers' for my Action Man out of those

My German better half has just informed me there is a 'Legoland' here in Munich, i just might pay that one a visit :-)

JæKæ

MASK - used to hate when I lost one of their helmets though

marcsignal

Dee5 wrote: »

Loved Monopoly too when I was older

Please tell me you're not an Estate Agent now

Karoma wrote: »

Damn you, OP. you haz maked me sad. You'll be oppressed while I'm depressed. Thread moved.

sorry kroma, no worries

Santa Claus

In honour of the great mans passing today, my evel knievel stunt set was my most cherished possesion !

marcsignal wrote: »

Yeah Lego is cool, but If someone says 'Meccano' I PROMISE not not to call them a square

Damn right, Meccano rocked. Not only could you build things with it, but with 2 older brothers is also proved to make some handy weapons to defend yourself with !

Karoma wrote: »

Lego.
I miss Lego Land(?) in Arnott's this time of year. I miss decent Lego.

The lego display in Arnotts was the highlight of the year (even if they always had a lego version of the sphinx and the statue of liberty)

marcsignal

Ruu wrote: »

Scalextric. We didn't have a very big one as they cost well over 100 pound at that time but it was cool all the time. *sits and watches cars zip around track in figure 8 pattern* I had a cheap version of Meccano, can't remember the name of it though.

Remember having a cheap version of Scalextric, which was more like 'Shocklextric' most of the time...

Ruu wrote: »

I had a cheap version of Meccano, can't remember the name of it though.

A Lada ??

Santa Claus wrote: »

In honour of the great mans passing today, my evel knievel stunt set was my most cherished possesion !

you know poor old 'evel knievel' died today ?? so if you still have yours, stick it up on ebay :-)

Gekko

lego.

I've even started taking sneaky peeks at the lego website to see what lego is like nowadays. It looks cool and I want some!

It'd be tempting to just go into a toyshop and buy a whole load of it and give the excuse that "it's a present for my son" or something.

Oswald Osbourne

Star Wars / MASK / He-Man / Lego.

These were the big four that held the title in my house at various times.

Crumble Froo

Ruu wrote: »

Scalextric. We didn't have a very big one as they cost well over 100 pound at that time but it was cool all the time. *sits and watches cars zip around track in figure 8 pattern* I had a cheap version of Meccano, can't remember the name of it though.

awww, one of my favourites has got to have been 'AFX Vertigo'... probably a more sophisticated version of scalextric (we were at my aunties house who had scalextric when my parents realised it'd be perfect for a pressy)... it had a loop the loop or two, and a hairpin bend! crazy stuff! :P

when i was younger though, even then, being the *ahem* girly girl that i am *shifty eyes* my favourite toys were small, 2 inch long cars for which i could build roads and traintracks which could be the size of the kitchen-come-dining-room and bigger and my early signs of OCD came in the form of me moving each of my 10-odd cars about an inch and half at a time, in a row, one by one.. id do the first one, then the second one then the third one... etc etc... then go back up to the top and inch the first one on a bit again...

every now and again id get bored and crash them with an intersecting train track (the road btw was blue with yellow stripes, while the railway pieces were yellow with black tracks).

i also loved my fisher price garage. im not sure what it really did (looking back now), but you could drive your little cars (same ones as mnetioned before) up... park them... and then push them down a hill kinda parky thing, and drive them back up. im not quite sure whqat the appeal was, but apprently i got many many hours fun out of that one..

hmmm... what else (apologies, dialup has just kicked me, so there's no piont in just posting, so ill keep on typing for a bit til im reconnected... )...

jigsaws! i loved my jigsaws!
dolls... never really got the point. i used to give out to my bro (lol, yeah, his best mate as a 3 year old was a chick, so i forgive him) for just making the dolls 'bounce' along when they shoulda been walking... i used to make them use leg by leg the way people would walk. ... lol... ok, im back online again, btter post before i give too much away...

>.>

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eamon234

Eagle Eyes Action Man - probably worth a fortune now

Ooh - just remembered - had a Six Million Dollar Man action figure too it was class - one arm covered in rubber that rolled up to reveal all the robotics and a telescopic eye you could look through at the back of his head - also probably worth a fortune!

Santa Claus

eamon234 wrote: »

Ooh - just remembered - had a Six Million Dollar Man action figure too it was class - one arm covered in rubber that rolled up to reveal all the robotics and a telescopic eye you could look through at the back of his head - also probably worth a fortune!

I'd forgotten all about this. He was my favourite toy until my sister married him to her barbie and he tended to live in her barbie house after that :mad:

Oswald Osbourne

Santa Claus wrote: »

I'd forgotten all about this. He was my favourite toy until my sister married him to her barbie and he tended to live in her barbie house after that :mad:

Did he turn a bit fruity after that?

DublinWriter

Lego.

Most of the people I know in I.T. loved Lego as a kid.

I couldn't stand that Lego 'Techno' stuff - that was for hard-core nerds.

I always wanted the Lego electric train set, but it cost a packet by 1980 standards.

I've seen it a few times on ebay and have always been tempted.

Does a ZX-Spectrum count as a childhood toy?

doctor evil

Sylvanean Families followed by wooden blocks (when I was ickle) and of course, Lego!.

Grim.

Lego of course not not to be mistaken with mega blocks the poor sweat shop version of Lego

Lego ftw tbh

Susannahmia

Lego and doll's houses, Especially Sylvanian Families.:)

H.O.T.A.S.

Lego and Micro Machines Military (used to have quite an army of minature tanks and planes)

armour87

Lego.

End of Thread.

FutureGuy

Atari 2600
Transformers
M.A.S.K
Meccano

I also have fond memories of Zoids, ZX Spectum (Match of the Day FTW!) and TMNT.

Still waiting for MASK to become popular again so I can sell of my collection (which is all in a heap in a box somewhere).

I just turned 30 and my brother had this deluxe version of StarScream sent over frm Japan for me...savage looking thing I'm such a kid lol!

fuzzywiggle

Barbies barbies and more barbies!!!!!

il gatto

Lego. It's not as good these days. Looking at the Argos catalogue, there seems to be too many specifically shaped blocks. (If you liked Lego you know what I mean).
Loved the smell from Scalextric cars. Electric ozone and burning. Ahh. Good times.
Metal cap gun which was a realistic replica of a Lugar. Close run thing with metal AK-47 cap gun. They were the dogs b@ll@cks:D

Lola123

My cabbage patch kids.... I still have them!
My Barbies
My a la carte kitchen
And of course....lego!
I also used to love my collection of "fancies". I find it weird now that I used to consider collecting and swapping bits of paper as a great thing to do!!!

tk123

Yeah lego was cool - i had a hospital and villas in my little town..

stovelid

Lego, Mechano (sp ?) or my etch-a-sketch...

Moro23

A little toy called Simple Simon it did exactly what it said on the tin ,but by jingo it was great fun

cmurph

this was one of my favourites....http://dreamfollow.com/lilypad/poochie.html


that and tiny tears of course...and i had a big collection of fancy paper too ,and it was even better if it had a nice sweet smell off it!!

Ruu_Old

H.O.T.A.S. wrote: »

Lego and Micro Machines Military (used to have quite an army of minature tanks and planes)

Were they the ones that changed colour when they got in water? Maybe I'm thinking of something totally different.

pd101

Little cars and I had a remote control crane aswell that was great

Mrs. MacGyver

Lego and a remote control toyota corolla (i was a tomboy)!

It BeeMee

Lego
Many happy hours spent on the livingroom floor rooting through my biscuit tin looking for "the right piece". Cue annoyed shouts of "stop that bloody racket" or somesuch :-)

I also had an eagle-eyes action man, with the "gripping" hands. Unfortunately one of them got, eh, "damaged" in an unfortunate parachuting accident and was stuck back together with superglue.

And jigsaws.

Pompey Magnus

Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles were great, spent most of childhood playing with them.

_Kaiser_

Transformers. Had loads of them - think they're still in the attic at home.

MASK as well

(and yes Lego - IT Manager )

DublinWriter wrote:

Most of the people I know in I.T. loved Lego as a kid.

marcsignal

If you still have any old stuff ? Stick em up on ebay with a high reserve price, you might be surprised what they'd fetch.

I went looking for an original 'Escape from Colditz' board game last year, and the average going price for one in very good condition was £80 Sterling :eek:

H.O.T.A.S.

Ruu wrote: »

Were they the ones that changed colour when they got in water? Maybe I'm thinking of something totally different.

I think I know the ones you are on about, were they not hot wheels though? These were the scale model tanks and planes and various other military vehicles, used to come in packs of three vehicles with two little army men as a bonus, back of the boxs had all the details and specs of the vehicles. I spent a small fortune on them

Lego.
Transformers.
MASK- I still have the Volcanoe monster truck:D
Starcom.
He Man.
Visionaries.
Zoids.
Battlebeasts.
Theres loads more but I'll never be able to remember them all!

311

animal from the muppets,puppet:D

Xavi6

Forky wrote: »

Lego. Lego ruled.

JæKæ wrote: »

MASK - used to hate when I lost one of their helmets though

Depeche_Mode wrote: »

Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles were great, spent most of childhood playing with them.

This was my childhood. Great fun.

tampopo

First thing I thought of was a Rubik's Snake, my bro' brought back from Japan
then reading the thread, yeah, the large cardboard boxes were the business!
Also, the Dinkey cars with the yellow track.

We were so poor though. If I didn't wake up on Christmas day with an erection, I'd nothing to play with!

katieboo

...and i had a big collection of fancy paper too ,and it was even better if it had a nice sweet smell off it!![/QUOTE]

Oh wow, I remember that. We used to bring them into school and swap them. They used to have pictures of cute kittens and puppies on them.:)

xzanti

My Barbie bus Hours fun dismantling it

irishgeo

meccano and the helicopter you could build spent hours that flying it around the house.
Lego as well. So simple.

Can you imagine giving lego to a child now.

bullets

For me growing up I never had the Toys I really wanted.
The spoiled rich kid round the corner from me who was "supposedly" my
best friend as a child had EVERYTHING. I think it was more my mother
trying to get me to be-friend the upper class kid more than my own doing
that got us on a friendly basis.

I alway got the clones or hand me downs from the next door neighbours kids.
Which was fantastic as it was free toys but only catch was I would get them
a year or two after they came out when they neighbours kids and grown up
and the toys in question were not popular anymore.

I remember getting a Lima Train set as a kid that I was never into
but my father seemed to think it was great.

Meccano I loved.

and also the most expensive toy I had was a Robotics set (or 3) which
was like Meccano only robots and there was even a cartoon where there
was a dying planet where beings life energy got put into robots.

Zoids were another favourite cos they were cheap and as a Kid robbing a few
50 pence pieces from the mothers purse every so often I would save up and
buy them.

Another expensive gift I got one year for being extra good was
ACE from the Centurions (the blue flying guy) with all his accessories.

One of my all time favourite toys was like Fashion Wheel for Guys.
Where you had fantasy/sci-fi/robot heads/middle/legs that you could
mix and match and to a paper rubbing to make your own characters.

I always wanted Magic Sand, Domino Rally and Mouse Trap and operation but
never to this day got them. As I got older I got some expenive board games
that I wanted for the Figures that came with them. They took four hours to play so I never had anyone to play the game with me.

Shogun and Space Crusade were the two board games I got that
were expensive.

~B