What was your favouite childhood Toy ??

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.

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)

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.

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 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:

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?

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

Lego ftw tbh

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

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

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