Childhood toys...

[mickle]

Did anyone read over the weekend about the humble stick being voted as the best child's toy of all time?

 

[graham56]

Did anyone read over the weekend about the humble stick being voted as the best child's toy of all time?

With the empty cardboard box in runner-up position

 

[longers]

Running water in the beck at the bottom of my garden and we get sticklebacks in there.

Ok, I was wrong on both counts.

 

[peanut]

mechano and scalectrix and HO-00

mecchano satisfied my hunger to contruct things which has stayed with me all my life
brief love affair with trains ,soon overtaken by scalextic which I used to heavily modify and elevate the track up over furniture

Best of all was my extensive boxed set of Corgi cars in mint condition. Worth £thousands today my Pop sold the lot for £12.00 when I was away at school. barsteward I'd saved and bought every one myself.
Never forgave him that .
Spent my entire childhood on Jaco roller skates. Skated everywhere including down the isles of Woolies to get my `All-day' hair cream (huge Teddyboy quiff) Skated 15 miles down the Southend Arterial with a mate aged 9 dead lucky to get a lift back phew. Used to hang onto back of cars and lorries and skate to the swim pool or Wansted Flats fair.
Took a portable valve radio apart aged 9 and from then on a love affair with electronics

Nothing I love better than taking things apart and fixing/improving them ....I'm still a big kid at heart really.

 

[Arch]

Oh lord, the sight of you big butch chaps all trying to remember the name of Strawberry Shortcake has had me laughing out loud!

We had spacecraft top trumps, which was weird, as half the things in it were fictional, so you had the Eagle lunar lander, feeble on all counts, against the Millennium Falcon, against some thing made up for the game with a top speed of 5x the speed of light and in service sometime in the 35th century... And we had dinosaurs and you knew a trilobite beat everything for being old...

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Thinks back, brain hurting. Action men, micronauts, lego, cardboard box covered in parcel tape as an action man tank. Little big man, A "race and chase" scalectics style set

 

[Mr Phoebus]

He always beat me at Subbuteo 'cuz he flicked to kick and I didn't know...

 

[Mr Phoebus]

I remember when Electronic Battleships first came out and thinking...
Want it! Want it! Want it! Want it! Want it! Want it! Want it! Want it! Want it!

 

[Mr Phoebus]

And every kid in the neighbourhood being jealous of the kid with the five speed Raleigh Chopper.

 

[Mr Pig]

I used to have a gun/car combination. It was a large plastic gun, and you loaded the car into a bullet shaped thing, loaded the gun and fired the car across the floor.

Had that. It was called ricochet racers.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I didn't know they ever made a 5 speed. I had the humble 3 speed IIRC.

And every kid in the neighbourhood being jealous of the kid with the five speed Raleigh Chopper.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Crossfire = hurty finger.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

I didn't know they ever made a 5 speed. I had the humble 3 speed IIRC.

A five speed Chopper... HERE.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Home made 'Dutch Arrow' two playing cards a length of dowel and an old shoelace.

 

[bikie]

Crossfire = hurty finger.

thanks, I had this game and was talking about it a couple of years ago but could not remember what it was called.