What was everyones favourite toy as a kid?
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I remember that and its gonna drive me nuts trying to think what it was called
Ahhhhh at least someone else remembers it, I thought I was going mad lol
Can't recall what it was called, maybe something with 'Castle' in the title?
hula hoop, chalking out a hopscotch board on the pavement, nice simple stuff
ahh those were the days
remember outdoor games like
british bulldog
hares n hounds
stuck in the mud
kerbie
whats the time mr wolf
queenie
leapfrog
awww
ahh those were the days
remember outdoor games like
british bulldog
hares n hounds
stuck in the mud
kerbie
whats the time mr wolf
queenie
leapfrog
awww
Wow some memories there I tell thee!
Out of that lot I had:
Matchbox Race and Chase (whack the top of the controller to U turn
)
Evil Kinevil Motorbike
Action Man (with Helicopter,Submarine and tank)
Scalextric
Hornby Train Sets (BR Diesel loco and Intercity 125 sets)
Six Million dollar man (press the button on his back and lift the car engine)
Matchbox loop racer
Operation
Payday
Various sets of Lego
Sinclair ZX81 with 16k Rampack
Sinclair Spectrum 48k
Feck me - and we say that todays generation are spoilt rotten:|
Out of that lot I had:
Matchbox Race and Chase (whack the top of the controller to U turn
)Evil Kinevil Motorbike
Action Man (with Helicopter,Submarine and tank)
Scalextric
Hornby Train Sets (BR Diesel loco and Intercity 125 sets)
Six Million dollar man (press the button on his back and lift the car engine)
Matchbox loop racer
Operation
Payday
Various sets of Lego
Sinclair ZX81 with 16k Rampack
Sinclair Spectrum 48k
Feck me - and we say that todays generation are spoilt rotten:|
good old original star wars figures & space ships
x wing fighter
AT AT walker
Tie fighter
millenium falcon
many hours spent playing with these things
And me, thats all I ever played with apparantly. The old dear gave the lot away to a kids hospital when I got older
Its worth a bloody fortune now
:$ The eye was telescopic when you looked through the back of his head. His forearm also opened up to reveal a load of wires or something? I'm sure something happened with the leg as well, but can't remember?
I had a stack of the plastic soldiers. Does anyone remember the colour codes as well? The British were dark green, Yanks a slightly lighter green, Germans were Blue and the Japs were a sand type colour. A lad at our school had posh metal ones in full colour including small artillery guns which fired matchsticks!
I also had the para action man
but star wars figures were the number one. Also the cricket game with the fold out pitch, quality.
I loved my scalextric still got it now...in fact we still get it out and play it from time to time got miles and miles of track....last summer me and my mate built a 30FT straight in his flat...was top bananna i tell thee!
Have u seen scalextric/slot car racing these days.... if you get the top bollox motors in the cars they do 40 mph real speed...! theyve also got this magnet thingy on the bottom to hold em on the track so they dont fly off round the corners....tis the bollox
Yeah I saw those new scalextrics on the gadget show looked so much fun, they all digitalized now, can change lanes whenever you want
Yeah I saw those new scalextrics on the gadget show looked so much fun, they all digitalized now, can change lanes whenever you want
Its not a new concept though remember TCR (Total Control Racing) from the 70's??
Andy
Now THAT was quality, mate had that, but they had a massive fuck off table at theirs so it was perfect for it
hehe i remember tonking it round the corner and the car flying off and clocking my sister on the swede, imagine this, crimbo 2007 little billy playing with his scalextric hits a corner at 50, car flys off and kills some cnut hahaha im gonna buy one
I fucking love Scalectrix. I went through a right phase of being bang into it about 2 years back. I bought loads :$
Anyway, those new cars are the absolute bollocks, they piss all over the older cars. I bought a couple of cars made by other people than Scalectrix as well and they couldn't compete either.
The new Scalectrix one's have Magnatec or something like that, which as you say is magnets on the bottom. I found the fastest were the long American classic cars (it was something like a Pontiac I forget exactly now).
The system I had was the Sport stuff, but now there is the Digital stuff where you can change lanes. That looks the absolute, absolute bollocks. The Sport stuff is compatible but you need some extra little bits of track, controllers and chips in the cars.
ooh i used to love my scalextric
took up the whole spare room , and my dad had painted all these little polystyrene blocks yellow to look like hay bales round side of track / had little spectators for the crowd etc... it was mint!!! 
