I don't want to be a grown up any more

pickarooney · 15-11-2013 10:22AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Speaking of toys, is Mechanno too advanced for a 4 year old? Am thinking of getting some for my husbands nieces son.

The theory isn't but Meccano unfortunately just sucks. It doesn't use washers and so everythign th kid smakes just hangs limply and then falls apart. It's a pity as it would be a great toy if it actually did what it was supposed to.

Wibbs · 15-11-2013 10:36AM

One toy I hankered after, but never got was one a mate had. It was a helicopter attached to a central tower on a long stiff wire that could be flown around in circles and land and pick stuff up and the like. Dunno what it was called. Scalextric I never really got into, cos I couldn't keep the cars on the track and one car was always faster. I did get a clone of it called TCR(total control racing), where the big deal was you could swap lanes, block the other guy and overtake. One car was still quicker though. Action man was brill too. I had the beardy guy with special death grip hands or somesuch. A mate had the one with the eye you could look through. Well you couldn't really as if you did you'd suffer eye failure. Chemistry sets were cool too. Especially the ones that came with potassium permanganate. You could mix that in all sorts of ways to make stuff that would go bang... As said before, how 70's kids survived in any number is a shock to me.

fonda · 15-11-2013 10:41AM

Tonka trucks......best toy ever. The metal ones that is not the crappy plastic ones they have now!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 15-11-2013 10:47AM

I'm getting Lego for Christmas!

Ilyana 2.0 · 15-11-2013 10:49AM

Am I the only one who was a die-hard Barbie fan?

I had about 30 dolls at one stage. I briefly moved on to Baby Borns but Barbie was always where it was at. I even had ones from Disney/Dreamworks films, like Belle and Anastasia. My friend and I would create these mad soap-style dramas for our Barbies which usually resulted in Ken ditching the evil biatch at the altar for the good Barbie

Barbie was always so much more interesting than real life

Lucyfur · 15-11-2013 10:52AM

I had one barbie. I shaved her head and drew tattoos on her legs

Ilyana 2.0 · 15-11-2013 10:52AM

Lucyfur wrote: »

I had one barbie. I shaved her head and drew tattoos on her legs

Sacrilege!

:P

15-11-2013 10:54AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I still have a little handmade teddybear that my aunt bought when I was born. It's 40 now, to hell with sentiment, I wonder if it's worth anything.

I have my teddy from when I was a lickle girl ) its now 44 years old , missing one eye.

minidazzler · 15-11-2013 10:55AM

Lucyfur wrote: »

I had one barbie. I shaved her head and drew tattoos on her legs

Your barbie was hot then? :pac:

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 15-11-2013 10:58AM

Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »

Am I the only one who was a die-hard Barbie fan?

I had about 30 dolls at one stage. I briefly moved on to Baby Borns but Barbie was always where it was at. I even had ones from Disney/Dreamworks films, like Belle and Anastasia. My friend and I would create these mad soap-style dramas for our Barbies which usually resulted in Ken ditching the evil biatch at the altar for the good Barbie

Barbie was always so much more interesting than real life

My mother loved barbie way more than I did, but I had barbie everything! Princess barbie with a big pink ball gown with butterflies that closed their wings with a wand. Ken who grew a beard and had special shaving foam to take it off, barbie balls, barbie bedroom, barbie typewriter with the barbie paper. Barbie car, barbie horse and carriage. I still have all my barbies up in the attic. Should take them down, I don't think there was a barbie doll that I didn't end up getting. Definately had more of them than any other toy, and remembered swapping their clothes but the different dresses looked crap on the different barbie depending on her hair.

Edit: when I used to play barbie with my friend, I always made sure that we played with my friends barbies cause she had a little sister who we had to include, and the little sister used to chew the hands and feet off them.

Ilyana 2.0 · 15-11-2013 11:03AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

My mother loved barbie way more than I did, but I had barbie everything! Princess barbie with a big pink ball gown with butterflies that closed their wings with a wand. Ken who grew a beard and had special shaving foam to take it off, barbie balls, barbie bedroom, barbie typewriter with the barbie paper. Barbie car, barbie horse and carriage. I still have all my barbies up in the attic. Should take them down, I don't think there was a barbie doll that I didn't end up getting. Definately had more of them than any other toy, and remembered swapping their clothes but the different dresses looked crap on the different barbie depending on her hair.

I think I had all those things too! The typewriter was just awesome. I had a Barbie with pink hair dye mousse, loved her. And a mermaid one with purple one. A diver one with a killer whale toy. And a ballet dancer one with clicky feet. Countless bride ones.

Spoiled, so I was

gobnaitolunacy · 15-11-2013 11:05AM

I had a habit of never throwing stuff away...still have a box full of Beano comics, annuals...non-pc gags...you could give a naughty child a few flakes of a slipper back then a la Dennis the Menace.

danniemcq · 15-11-2013 11:06AM

My ma still buys me Lego for Christmas.

She called round to me one Sunday as I was cooking watching Top Gear.

She asked what I was having expecting a decent Sunday dinner,

Fish fingers, chips, burgers beans ,some eggs, waflles and some chicken strips.

She wasn't impressed.

remember people act your shoesize not your age.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 15-11-2013 11:11AM

Do you remember the Irish princess barbie? Big ginger head on her in a green and white dress.

Remember the whale now that you mention it. There was one with a bird too if you pressed it's beak it tweeted and it sat on her finger, she wore a blue dress.

My absolute favourite toy in the whole world was a giant doll my dad bought for me. I was about 5, and desperate sick coming up to Christmas. I was panned out in my parents bed this night anyway, when my dad woke me up, and in the corner here's this massive massive doll, she was pretty much the same size as me and I named her Michelle. Used to dress her in my real clothes cause the only things that didn't fit was my shoes on her feet. Then, about 10 years later, my cousin pulled her legs out of her

Best daddy ever though. I shoulda got sick more often

15-11-2013 11:19AM

I never really "got" barbie. Or Cindy, or dolls in general. I never saw the point of them.

I liked to build things and go vroom vroom.

gobnaitolunacy · 15-11-2013 11:21AM

Dolls in other kids houses, the decapitated, limbless, eyes missing, head-shaved ones....freaked me out.

kieran. · 15-11-2013 11:35AM

The good part about having kids;
"Lets play blocks Daddy".............Child rushes off for his big box of Duplo.
"Lets make a train"
Son frantically sticks the blocks together as Dad carefully replaces each block to were its supposed to go to create a masterpiece.:D

OldGoat · 15-11-2013 11:49AM

bluewolf wrote: »

Clearly never played calvinball

Linky all Calvinball fans might like. Linky

SmokeyEyes · 15-11-2013 11:51AM

My fiance got me the lego Lord of the Rings set this year, I'm a 30 year old woman. I regret nothing, I want more!!:D

Gongoozler · 15-11-2013 11:53AM

I don't want to be a grown up anymore cause I don't like working. My job is **** and tough and the place is awful to work in. I want to go home and get into bed and be comfortable. And have nice food, and have someone bring me nice things.

jimgoose · 15-11-2013 11:59AM

Grown-up me hole. My brother and I gave each other R/C helicopters for the Christmas last year and spent most of Christmas Day strafing everything that moved, such as the parents, and some that didn't, like the ham and turkey. Bird-Bird-Bird, Bird is the Word. :cool:

Legs.Eleven · 15-11-2013 12:01PM

I think it's important to incorporate childishness into your day. I cycle to work and like to sing Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell" in my head as I'm doing so and pretend in my head I'm some crazy cycling renegade as I speed down the road with my yellow reflective vest flapping in the wind behind me like a cape.

Yesterday I taught my students in a company class "rude" words such as "fart". Fart sounds very like a Spanish biscuit from Valenica called a "Farton" and we all laughed for a good 5 minutes about that. Doubled over in tears, we were. I was the youngest person in that room and I'm 33.

People like to think seriousness = maturity. Well you can feck right off with that, tbh.

As Pablo Neruda said:

"“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”

I'll act the eejit 'till the day I die!

15-11-2013 12:07PM

My favourite is:

"You don't stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing."

Legs.Eleven · 15-11-2013 12:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

My favourite is:

"You don't stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing."

Bingo!

15-11-2013 12:12PM

I like bingo.

maximoose · 15-11-2013 12:12PM

When I was young I had a bed like this

When you pull out the table you can crawl in under the bed and theres loads of room, in there was my lego cave. I miss my cave

marshbaboon · 15-11-2013 12:14PM

Best thing I ever built from Lego was a replica of the first NASA prototype ship designed for a round trip to Mars, complete with detachable stages.

I was an awfully nerdy child.

Legs.Eleven · 15-11-2013 12:15PM

maximoose wrote: »

When I was young I had a bed like this

When you pull out the table you can crawl in under the bed and theres loads of room, in there was my lego cave. I miss my cave

Build a cave for yourself over the weekend? Go camping in your sitting room?

maximoose · 15-11-2013 12:32PM

I think I might just do that.

Anyone remember what this range was called?

EDIT: good ol' wiki, Lego UFO it was. Added to the Christmas list

Yellow121 · 15-11-2013 12:33PM

Hey I thought the same as the OP but I went and did it!!!!! I became a child, I quit my job, sold my car so I could buy loads of toys. I spoke in a high pitched voice all the time. I used to hang out in the shallow end in swimming pools, I loved diving in the ball pools and playing with all the colourdy balls. Play on the swings, go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee down the slides, even played hide and go seek with other kids like me. It was brilliant, I was a child again and I loved it! It all went wrong though. I asked some of the other kids to come back to my house to play. One of the nasty grown ups called the police. :mad: I just wanted to play subbuteo.

I'm now posting this from Mountjoy. I still speak with a high pitched voice but now it's because the other inmates make me.

Play time isn't fun with them.

I don't want to be a grown up any more

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