Toys from your youth

thecretinhop

i used love those soldiers you made in casts with molten hot lead, epic fun nowadays the health and safety officer would pass out.
me dad gave us some lead from roof left over again not so safe lol anyway favourite toy and why..

St Tropez Betty

thecretinhop wrote: »

i used love those soldiers you made in casts with molten hot lead, epic fun nowadays the health and safety officer would pass out.
me dad gave us some lead from roof left over again not so safe lol anyway favourite toy and why..

Lolo balls. Two broken ankles and my mam wouldnt accept that they were unsafe.

Dtp1979

The A team van that youd load on to a key and release it at speed slomg the floor

Those planes you bought that were like thin aeroboard and you had to shove the wings through the body.
Matchbox cars with a set of roads and all.
Subbuteo.
Cap guns.
Commodore 64.

odyssey06

I made up those Prince August Napoleonic lead\tin soliders, was half terrified every time!

Then there's Subbuteo... and similar 'hardware' type games like Crossbows and Catapults:

MAJJ

St Tropez Betty wrote: »

Lolo balls. Two broken ankles and my mam wouldnt accept that they were unsafe.

Still making Lola balls, Smyth's generic ones 9.99😀

MAJJ

I used to love spud guns , fire potato pellets and also a water pistol. Just found out they still are making them
https://gadgetman.ie/home/1331-original-metal-spud-gun-ireland.html

_Brian

https://youtu.be/I7H2L3c--xA

Star Bird.

I just played and played with this. I still
Have it in it’s original box in my loft.


https://youtu.be/0EDpsZQ98sI

Armateon was a close second.
Also in the loft in its box. It was great fun for lifting and moving matchbox cars too.

The Scalextric racing track that would break apart as soon as you set it up. One of the reasons I wasn't destined to become an engineer.

scudzilla

For Christmas in 1982 Santy brought me a load of Star Wars gear, had The Millenium Falcon, Snowspeeder, troop transporter, TaunTan and dozens of figures, ok not all were for christmas but i saved up to buy some.

Played them to death and kept them in amazing condition, and in their boxes.

2yrs ago i went back to Wales on a regular visit and my dad asked me if i wanted to take my old toys back with me.

Every one of them was there, still in the box, i'm gonna get them out next week and play Star Wars with my little one.

scudzilla

And here they are..

looksee

The Bayko building set shown here
buildings were created by sticking wire spikes into a base then sliding bricks between them. Somewhere between lego and meccano, but when the brickless spikes were set in the base, on the floor, you could do yourself serious injury if you fell onto them. Certainly not allowed now!

This is it

Peg gun. 2ft of 2x1, 2 nails, a peg and a few elastic bands. Some craic

andekwarhola

t's safe to say that if you went back in time to my childhood with a smartphone, my Raleigh Chopper, Subbuteo and Panini albums would have been in the bin before you could say nostalgic middle-age internet whimsy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDakH14Nmi8

Allinall

Meccano set.

Kept me occupied for years.

Sorry about that

Boot skates. Had to wait months till my 10th birthday to get them. I was braver than I should've been and within a couple of days was attempting to skate down the fairly steep hill of our estate.

Was cautious enough though to go on the hunkers. Little did I know that my poor backside would be used (unintentionally) as brakes before I reached the "bottom" of the hill. Scraped to smithereens but totally worth it.

Bobblehats

Allinall wrote: »

Meccano set.

Kept me occupied for years.

Ah that was class

Ronan|Raven

odyssey06 wrote: »

I made up those Prince August Napoleonic lead\tin soliders, was half terrified every time!

Then there's Subbuteo... and similar 'hardware' type games like Crossbows and Catapults:

Ahhhh yess! What a great game that was. I found most of it when I was last back home sorting out old boxes.

Rodney Bathgate

andekwarhola wrote: »

t's safe to say that if you went back in time to my childhood with a smartphone, my Raleigh Chopper, Subbuteo and Panini albums would have been in the bin before you could say nostalgic middle-age internet whimsy.

A smart phone wouldn’t be much good back in the 80’s. No internet connectivity for a start.

andekwarhola

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

A smart phone wouldn’t be much good back in the 80’s. No internet connectivity for a start.

Thanks Rodney. What was I thinking.

Masala

A Raleigh Chopper.... I entered every competition I could to win one as We we’re just piss poor! Only one lad in town had one and pestered him every day for a spin on it.

Would nearly buy one know just to leave it in my sitting room to look at it every day to remind me of those innocent days

andekwarhola

Masala wrote: »

A Raleigh Chopper.... I entered every competition I could to win one as We we’re just piss poor! Only one lad in town had one and pestered him every day for a spin on it.

Would nearly buy one know just to leave it in my sitting room to look at it every day to remind me of those innocent days

Had one as a kid. Even looking at them now, the design still looks brilliant. There was a mini version called a Tomahawk for really young kids.

The Grifter was brilliant too.

An Ri rua

andekwarhola wrote: »

Thanks Rodney. What was I thinking.

Not very smart

Meanwhile,. Evil Knievel. The windup bike. I never had one (sob) but my friend had 2. And a ZX Spectrum 48k.

We had loads of Matchbox cars and Britain's tractors etc.
I remember buying a matchbox TBird when I was 12. I'd no sooner bought it when I realised that I'd outgrown it. Wrapped them all in tissue a while after and boxed them away. Still have them.

I distinctly remember getting a Garda motorbike (tricycle) when I was 4. Ken Blacks of course. With a go-kart, a tricycle and a Garda motorbike, doing circuits of the kitchen, we drove our poor mother demented

andekwarhola

An Ri rua wrote: »

Not very smart

I was being sarcastic?

Mena Mitty

I might just be of an older vintage than other posters judging by the toys. Anyway we used to comandeer the wheels and bottom frame of prams to make gocarts.

The ones with a piece of robe to steer and somebody pushing from behind. Some were open tops and some were a sedan body of sorts. It helped that one of us had a father who was a mechanic/carpenter.

We'd race them on the roads during the summer until someones skull cracked open, then the carts would be confiscated. It was a sad day when they were gone...to this day I don't know what our parents did with them.

But once we'd get our summer holidays the following year we'd start looking for the makings of the simple little carts again.

Rodney Bathgate

andekwarhola wrote: »

Thanks Rodney. What was I thinking.

No worries, an easy mistake to make.

You probably wouldn’t have had a way to charge it either (unless you brought the charger with you). Plus no phone signal.

Better Than Christ

This Fisher Price garage was my favourite thing as a child.

andekwarhola

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

No worries, an easy mistake to make.

You probably wouldn’t have had a way to charge it either (unless you brought the charger with you). Plus no phone signal.

Decent smartphone covers were presumably hard to come by too.

An Ri rua

andekwarhola wrote: »

I was being sarcastic?

And very sensitive.

Smart/thinking? Humour?

andekwarhola

An Ri rua wrote: »

Smart/thinking? Humour?

Thanks for clearing that up.

Badly Drunk Boy

I had a remote control army tank...except the wire was still connected to it. I still loved it, because we were poor.

andekwarhola

Had this as a kid which really dates me. Bought it with my confirmation haul:

foxy farmer

Had the Lego Action Man Britains scale farm models Action Force/Cobra figures and 2 electronic games.

Church on Tuesday

Jurassic Park/Lost World toys and various merch.

Also Godzilla 1998 puppet and figure; I have an obsession with monster films...

moceri

Tinkertoy

citysights

I threw all my toys out of the pram!!

the beer revolu

I had a fantastic stick.
I loved that stick.

Damien360

TCR cars. Scaletrix cars stayed on the same track but the TCR could switch track. One dummy car as a moving roadblock and two people racing. Brought it out of my mam’s home and it’s in my attic. Needed a lot of care. Needs a power supply at minimum now.

This is the exact same one I have

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garyskeepers

foxy farmer wrote: »

Had the Lego Action Man Britains scale farm models Action Force/Cobra figures and 2 electronic games.

that last one was the best game ever

Rodney Bathgate

A few highlights:

- Tomy Aurora AFX Daredevil Rally with extra track for chicanes, hairpin curve, crossover, narrowing track and a drift curve. Also had the electronic control station and the Castrol Jaguar XJR-9 with lights. Had enough track for a Le Mans layout.

- LEGO 7745 High-Speed City Express Passenger Train Set with the controller, track lights, points, lots of extra track. I had a large layout on my bedroom floor, going under the bed, wardrobe etc.

- Never had any pirate or castle LEGO, had some space but mainly lots of technic

- ZX Spectrum 48k then later Amiga 500 Plus then later an Amiga 1200 with lots of games and a Sega Game Gear at some point

I could never see the point of lego where it was just a kit and you made it. Much preferred the bucket of bricks aimed at making whatever you want. Which is odd really, as I have zero imagination as an adult.

looksee

I very nearly threw out one daughter's box full of polly pockets but then decided to keep them for when the grandchildren came. I didn't realise what a huge hit they would be with one of them, she was aghast at the idea that they had nearly been thrown out.

And the big bucket of lego, none of your pirate ships or space stations, just a vast quantity of 'two-ers' and 'sixers' and so on. With the old rule we had, you make something, it is preserved till the following day then if anyone wants the bits they can take it apart.

SEPT 23 1989

Better Than Christ wrote: »

This Fisher Price garage was my favourite thing as a child.

Every house in the country seemed to have one of those

Rufeo

I had a Gameboy. And was mad into Tetris.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Surprised to see no mention of Transformers or He-Man, they were my favourites.
My bike was a Raleigh mini burner but I wanted a Vektar so much.

Panthro

Anyone have those toys that was like star wars but not star wars.
They had a red plane and a grey base camp toy.
Lods of little purple figures that looked like storm troopers.
It was deadly.

Strumms

I remember buying a game boy and being really disappointed by it. I’d wanted a sega game gear because you could play sonic on it and they were in color too. They were mad expensive though.

odyssey06

Panthro wrote: »

Anyone have those toys that was like star wars but not star wars.
They had a red plane and a grey base camp toy.
Lods of little purple figures that looked like storm troopers.
It was deadly.

Was it Action Force - which few years later linked up with GI Joe?
The figures were same size as Star Wars figures.

smokingman

I asked Santa for star wars toys and got Action Force ones. Fekin loved them all the same https://images.app.goo.gl/EisPcNRiLjs4JTr27

drake70

Lego, tons of it.
Meccano
Action Man, with loads of gear
Airfix models