Childhood toys...

[jimbob]

Really going to show my age now, Meccano sets and Hornby train set and one Christmas I had a paint by numbers picture of the Cutty sark which I completed befor emy parents arose, Dad was livid as he thought, 'HMMM thatll keep him occupied', WRONG!

 

[oxbob]

Anybody get tin robot's at xmas?

 

[Fnaar]

I was totally absorbed by Spirograph

 

[col]

I also had an etchasketch when i was ten,i remember taking hours following the safe cracker codes to make a masterpiece,only for my older brother to grab it and shake it clear,oo i could have shouted at him.

 

[Noodley]

Escape from Colditz

Me and 3 mates wasted hours, no days, no weeks of our school holidays playing this game.

 

[Abitrary]

A stradivarius, until I told my father to sell it and give the proceeds to charity because I saw no further need for toys.

 

[Noodley]

Escape from Colditz

Oh bugger, I have just found myself venturing onto e-bay...must not buy it, must not buy it. Oh what the hell, one little bid will not harm me, will it?

 

[col]

I still have colditz and campaign in the attic from when i was a kid at home,cross over the bridge too.

 

[Abitrary]

Anybody get tin robot's at xmas?

They look dire. I'm glad I didn't have to pretend to look pleased at being presented by my parents with one of those.

 

[wafflycat]

Spirograph
Tressy
Barbie
Kerplunk
Captain Scarlet annual
Rupert annuals
My brother's Mechano set
My bikes (first was a red Triang with stabilisers, second was a dark blue Raleigh)
Books... I loved books

 

[Noodley]

Mrs Noodley still has her Tiny Tears from 1967, which our daughters still play with.
And has just had me searching t'internet for Patch dolls, and explained to me about the yellow mac and the ballet outfits...I deserve to get the Colditz game after that!

 

[Abitrary]

Mrs Noodley still has her Tiny Tears from 1967, which our daughters still play with.
And has just had me searching t'internet for Patch dolls, and explained to me about the yellow mac and the ballet outfits...I deserve to get the Colditz game after that!

View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QZE9yGJSb1Q

 

[Maz]

I'd almost forgotten Pocketeers....I had the Car Rally game on the left!

 

[Noodley]

I'd almost forgotten Pocketeers....I had the Car Rally game on the left!

I remember them - just. It must have been a passing phase, but I recall them being good.

 

[col]

I can vaguely remember a plasticine set with moulds for captain scarlet shapes,you pushed the platicine into the moulds and it was a bugger to get out without being distorted.