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Toys from your youth

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  • 12-04-2020 9:32pm
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    thecretinhop
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    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..


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    St Tropez Betty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭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.


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    Dtp1979
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    The A team van that youd load on to a key and release it at speed slomg the floor


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    odyssey06
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    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:

    img_3950.jpg?w=600&h=600

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    MAJJ
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    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😀


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    MAJJ
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    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


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    _Brian
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    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    scudzilla
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    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.


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    scudzilla
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    And here they are..


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    looksee
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    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!


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


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    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭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.


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


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    Allinall
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    Meccano set.

    Kept me occupied for years.


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    Sorry about that
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    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.


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    Bobblehats
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    Allinall wrote: »
    Meccano set.

    Kept me occupied for years.

    Ah that was class


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    Ronan|Raven
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    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:

    img_3950.jpg?w=600&h=600




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


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    Rodney Bathgate
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    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.


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    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭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.


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    Masala
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    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


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    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭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.


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    An Ri rua
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    Thanks Rodney. What was I thinking.

    Not very smart :D

    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 :D


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    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    An Ri rua wrote: »
    Not very smart :D

    I was being sarcastic?


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    Mena Mitty
    Registered Users Posts: 5,996 ✭✭✭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.


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    Rodney Bathgate
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    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.


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

    DdBQ_PhV0AAAqVb.jpg


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    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭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. :(


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    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,493 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    I was being sarcastic?

    And very sensitive.

    Smart/thinking? Humour?


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    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    An Ri rua wrote: »
    Smart/thinking? Humour?

    Thanks for clearing that up.


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