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Do you still have toys from your youth.....

  • 17-12-2011 2:21pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭


    I'm 51 and i still have...

    Lego...
    Matchbox "Switch-a-track"...
    Matchbox..Superfast track...
    €00's of Hornby,Lima,Fleischmann trains,tracks, buildings.etc....
    Scalextric..various cars, and oodles of track...
    Matchbox,Corgi,Dinky cars...
    Action man..various outfits...
    A few Airfix kits (mostly with bits missing)...

    Am i sad.........:o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Little Alex


    Unfortunately I have very little left, but I do occasionally hunt down bits and pieces that I used to have on eBay! :D

    Absolutely nothing wrong with it, by the way!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    No. Unfortunately not.

    There are some things I wish I'd held on to but its all gone now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    just passed on my dinky cars to my two year old and I reckon he's not giving them the respect they deserve, he aint gettin his little hands on my soldiers though :D:D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Some of my cars and lego is in a box in my mothers house and all the grand children have played with them.. I like to see them in use..

    I have some of my more treasured examples in my own attic, in original boxes.. Like to have a poke with them and it brings back to 9 years old and a much simpler time in my life..

    It's nice to think of the past hand having something tangible is nice too, just not getting stuck there is the key...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Still have a couple of pieces that i've hung on to. An original Star Wars Tie Fighter,sadly nowhere near mint condition,and few Star Wars figures.

    Also still have The Red Barons ATV from the old Action Force and a couple of stormtroopers.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    I got a bowl for my first birthday in 1973. Still use it for cereal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    Big boxes of Lego and Corgi/Matchbox/Majorette cars at my Mam's house now being used by the next generation. I've a 30 year old Hornby CIE loco and wagons sitting on the shelf away from small hands;)


  • Site Banned Posts: 67 ✭✭Lemmewinks


    Yep.

    Attached.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭focus_mad


    Have a big chest of matchbox / corgi die casts!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 Manda76


    I bought three 1980s Sindy dolls off Ebay last year, and an 80s Barbie. I don't play with them or cut their hair as I did as a child as I'm 35 with three kids, they sit on my bookshelf!
    I just bought them as they were only two pounds each and I hadn't seen a big headed Sindy doll in years. I can't believe how different they are to the new dolls, they are heavy to hold and the bodies were softer plastic and were made so much better then the Barbie/Bratz dolls of today. I also bought some Bunty annuals I had when I was younger.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭da_hambo


    still have loads of hasbro wrestling figures from the nineties...most of the retro transformers constructicons and power master optimus prime.

    Not really a toy but last year re bought an n64 and all the old games I had and am always in the market for snes nes if the price is right.but until them ill play em on my android!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭Kersh


    Ah I have a few,

    Millenium Falcon - not even near mint :o
    At-At - well played with
    X Wing fighter - as above
    Tons of star wars figures - some literally in bits :D
    Lego airport
    My first Tasco 11TR reflector telescope :) - Have the box too!
    Loads of matchbox/Majorette/Corgi cars and trucks
    Action Force Sky Striker - In ribbons :pac:

    Thats all I can think of.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Had an 00 gauge Hornby train set that was hanging around the house up until quite recently but has now been passed on to my nephew in Galway. There is still heaps of matchbox & Dinky cars in a biscuit tin somewhere about the house.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭deelite


    I have the cauli dolly but not the cauli. The cauli dolly was from H Williams store where you had to collect stamps to get her. I think it was probably 1979.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭Miaireland


    Bosco with a bad haircut


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭suzzi


    Miaireland wrote: »
    Bosco with a bad haircut

    bosco (a bit battered) and a bosco t-towel...........no idea why i have a tea-towel....but i do!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭monkey tree


    Curious George the Jogger teddy bear...just love him!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Still have my Rude Ralph, in perfect working order! (i.e. disgusting noises still play when I pull his eyeball out)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭working fool


    Unfortunately I have very little left, but I do occasionally hunt down bits and pieces that I used to have on eBay! :D

    Absolutely nothing wrong with it, by the way!

    I'm in the same boat
    But eBay has made up for it a bit .
    I've got an eagle space ship from the tv show space 1999
    I allways wanted one of those


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    tinyjiney wrote:
    Am i sad.........:o
    Not at all!!!

    Your wanting to hold on to GOOD THINGS,things that arent made anymore :(


    I have a few things left. Legos,etc....... (GOOD WOOD LEGOS,not this crap thats out now)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭mongdesade


    Evel Knievel deluxe daredevil set :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭tinyjiney


    mongdesade wrote: »
    Evel Knievel deluxe daredevil set :D


    I'm so jealous.......forgot to mention my Nipper...remember the "free a Nipper" campaign....still in his carboard box cage...:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    I have most of my Britains farm machinery and farm yards but can't find them in the Parent's attic. Also I'd a hundred or so matchbox dinkys (pretty battered as played with them in a sand box outside) but swapped them with a neighbour for a big box of lego and then ended up giving the lego away!

    Have sceletric set and few bits and pieces but by far and away the most toys I had were the Britains so hopefully the parents haven't got rid of them, most times I go there I don't have time to look for them.

    Also I never really "grew up" as I now collect diecast model cars....have about 480 at the moment :)


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