Have you still got any toys from your childhood?

[EltonFrog]

Inspired by the 70's thread I remembered that in the loft I still have my original Action Man, my Marbles with a marble bag made by my nan and an original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was a child of the sixties a teen of the seventies.

What toys have you still got?

 

[tadpole]

I didn't have any toys, Just books, and No I didn't keep them as most of them were third or fourth hand by then and falling to bits.

 

[green1]

OH still has about 50% of her teddy collection. She still occasionally adds to it too.

 

[Sandra6]

My favourite doll that Santa brought me when I was 7 is still at my parents house. I always said I would give it to my children to play with, but then I met my children and decided they couldn't be trusted!
I have lots of fairy story books and a set of Winnie the pooh books from when I was five that are pristine, even though I was an avid reader, I just really looked after them. My children, again, not so much!

 

[EltonFrog]

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No, no toys. I've got a school project I did about spacecraft when I was eight, but the toys would all of have been trashed by younger siblings or (in the case of the action men) destroyed by heavy air rifle fire.[/quote]

My action man is in well used condition, and has lost a finger in combat, in a catapult/bedroom window,versus gravity incident, if I recall correctly.

 

[Arch]

My action man is in well used condition, and has lost a finger in combat, in a catapult/bedroom window,versus gravity incident, if I recall correctly.

Lightweight. Mine lost both hands and a foot, and had to have a hip transplant when the rubber band that held his legs on perished - probably as a result of scuba diving in the bath.

We recently sorted a lot of our childhood stuff, passed some onto my nephews, and charity shopped a lot. The Lego stayed at Mum's for them to play with when there. My favourite soft toys are still in a box at my Mum's. Maybe I'll liberate a couple to come with me when I move in to NT's. Lucy Rabbit*, and Teddy. Maybe Timmy the panda too.

*Lucy Rabbit was homemade by Mum for my first Christmas, a rabbit doll in a pink dress, with petticoat and long bloomers underneath. She had a rather careworn expression, and was my comfort through measles, mumps, colds etc. Her face is a bit bald, from being stroked.

 

[Sara_H]

I still have my Panda (age 37), now adopted by my son.

Two of my stepson's did evil things to my Panda a couple of years ago (it was a case of step sibling hostility). Luckily, Panda survived, and the evil was never repeated after I "spoke" to step sons!

 

[8mile]

I kept all of my lego which is played with on an almost daily basis by my sons. They seem to prefer it to their modern sets as the newer pieces are sometimes so bespoke it can be difficult to 'imagine' them into other structures. The boys also play with my old toy cars kept at my mums and which also includes some of my dad's C.1950's dinky toys.

 

[Alex H]

Still in semi-working order, given to me in 1960

 

[Moon bunny]

I have still my recorder, I still play it occasionally.

 

[swansonj]

Lego? Lego? I still have my Meccano set. The entire decline and fall of UK engineering and manufacturing, not to mention the loss of the Empire and teenage pregnancy rates, can, of course, be traced to the ascendancy of Lego over Meccano.

 

[EltonFrog]

Lego? Lego? I still have my Meccano set. The entire decline and fall of UK engineering and manufacturing, not to mention the loss of the Empire and teenage pregnancy rates, can, of course, be traced to the ascendancy of Lego over Meccano.

Damn Straight.

 

[Night Train]

I only have a children's encyclopedia of science left from my childhood. As a grown up (?) I have replaced my collection of Lego with Lego Technic, which I still use for modeling and prototyping, a collection of old Dinky and Corgy trucks, the complete collection of Rev Awdry's railway series books and some Hornby trains and track.

Over the years I seem to have been gifted a lot of cuddly toys, mostly Unicorns but also a sheep, a couple of bears and some pigs!

 

[SquareDaff]

Loads - all upstairs in my loft after my mum and dad decided they wanted their loft clear of clutter.
So, a complete set of original Lone Ranger toys, lego, action man and pursuit craft, "Chutes Away", "Staying Alive", "Ker Plunk", "Mouse Trap", loads of annuals/books, a chess set and a couple of games I can't remember (suggestions welcome). Game 1) Two bi-planes either side of a platform. You fire ball bearings at moveable legs on each side of the wing. Take out both legs and the plane nosedives - meaning you win! Game 2) A yellow piece of platistic with two tracks on it. A blue one that goes from top to bottom in a straight line and a red one that goes on a repeated "S" shapped track from top to bottom. The aim - to knock the red ball off the red track with your blue balls on the blue track. The nearer to bottom you do this the more points you score!

 

[mark st1]

Subbuteo is in my loft had been in my family for over 30 years boxed up keep promising myself i will give it to my little boy he is 10 now though and he still doesn't know its there.