:D Can you remember your favourite toys and games from when you was little that worked and didn't work?

My favourite was Striker football game you touch his head and he would kick the ball.

The worse was a aircraft carrier and you tied some wire to a door handle and you fired this jet up this wire and it was meant to turn round and land back on this aircraft carrier, NO it didn't Never did it just got tangled up damn thing lol

I had Striker :) Only trouble was the heads used to be a bit vunerable, press to hard and you broke off Tony Curries head :D

My fave was Matchbox Hot Wheels Track and cars, me and my mates would all bring our track out, fix it all together in a really cool config and then see which car would get the furthest.

Matchbox cars were one of the best - and not really much on them to break :D
What about those parachutes, was it action men with chutes? You were supposed to be able to launch them into the sky and they'd parachute back down, but it never worked. So you'd try dropping them from first floor windows or out of trees, and they'd still drop like stones. A major childhood disappointment :lol:

Yes, I am a girl. :wink:

Originally posted by "cosywolf"

Matchbox cars were one of the best - and not really much on them to break :D
What about those parachutes, was it action men with chutes? You were supposed to be able to launch them into the sky and they'd parachute back down, but it never worked. So you'd try dropping them from first floor windows or out of trees, and they'd still drop like stones. A major childhood disappointment :lol:

Yes, I am a girl. :wink:
Scalextric (spelling may be wrong), Operation and Buckaroo! All fab kids games.

Also loved my He-Man figures.... wars with them were great!

A friend of mine has set up a scalextric track that fills his entire living room. Yesterday he was over at mine writing up tables for cars, speed, etc. :roll:
There's not growing up for you. He has no woman and has given up hope of finding one, I think, so he's gone back to the things he enjoyed doing as a child - only now, he's in charge of how much space it takes up and how many cars he can have.
What about Lego - the houses and cars and then the castles and knights sets and all the rest? Or when you were really bored, just building them up as high as you could before they fell down...
And Hungry Hungry Hippos

I fondly recall the submarines you used to get free in cereal boxes. They were about an inch long (2.54 cm) and had a hollow bottom which you filled with baking powder. They would initially sink then the powder would react with the water and form a bubble. The bubble was enough to cause the sub to return to the surface causing the bubble to burst which sank the sub ....

Lego! Trying to recreate all the pictures that appeared on the box and then leaving the pieces lying all over the stairs for adults to tread on!

Two of my favourite childhood toys and games were Subbuteo and Lego, playing with either would occasionally end in fighting with brother/s (Lego fights were messy !).
cosywolf mentioned the Action Man with the parachute, I had one of them, dropped him out of the attic window on his first jump and broke both his ankles - Christmas 1968 I think :wink:

I absolutely loved a bit of that Hungry Hippos game when I were a lad.

Kerplunk - classic.

And what about twister? Just, not with your gran

Favourite things were Action man figures closely followed by Matchbox cars. I used to spend hours upon hours playing with the figures, throwing them out of windows on parachutes, digging trenches for them etc. Something must have stuck because many years later I joined the army.

I used to play subutteo, monopoly, lego and technic lego, the good old sega megadrive, good old Commodore 64 (!), and toy cars. i think my favourite that i spent the most time on was definitely Lego. i had a huge collection and spent hours making new things that weren't on the boxes, just letting my imagination run free. happy days

Originally posted by "t020"

I used to play subutteo, monopoly, lego and technic lego, the good old sega megadrive, good old Commodore 64 (!), and toy cars. i think my favourite that i spent the most time on was definitely Lego. i had a huge collection and spent hours making new things that weren't on the boxes, just letting my imagination run free. happy days Don't forget capitals. .i .I :wink:

Originally posted by "Jon"

I used to play subutteo, monopoly, lego and technic lego, the good old sega megadrive, good old Commodore 64 (!), and toy cars. i think my favourite that i spent the most time on was definitely Lego. i had a huge collection and spent hours making new things that weren't on the boxes, just letting my imagination run free. happy days Don't forget capitals. .i .I :wink:

Indeed, but at least my mistake is laziness as opposed to poor grammar. :wink:

Originally posted by "t020"

I used to play subutteo, monopoly, lego and technic lego, the good old sega megadrive, good old Commodore 64 (!), and toy cars. i think my favourite that i spent the most time on was definitely Lego. i had a huge collection and spent hours making new things that weren't on the boxes, just letting my imagination run free. happy days

oh yes, I owned a Commodore 64 too, with the 'chocolate keys'. That is until someone nicked it when the house was robbed.

I used to play this pool game on it loads, can't remember what it was called. I can't believe the games ran off tapes! Needless to say my C64 is no more...

I did,nt have that many toys when i was a child....AHHhhhhh.
Well i did,nt but what i did have was a rifel (toy of course) and used to play Cowboys and Indians.
I had a Batman cape and used to play batman and Robin with mi mate.
I had Mouse trap bought me about 1966 but could never learn how to play it so i just messed with the plastic components.
My mate had a chemistry set though we called him proff, cause he was clever and a bit of a comparison to a mad scientist.
Me well i had a few wooden bricks and no shortage of match box cars and had an oblong wooden block called Steve Ankrill and my brothers was called Kolo Kartrini, taken from Man from U.N.C.L.E and we had a carpet in the room which had patterns that looked like roads and we used to play our cars for hours on these roads and create car chases.

Barbies and Sindys. They used to have little soap operas in which theyd get together with action men nicked from my brother. Ken looked too gay whereas action men were more manly cos they wore khaki and had fuzzy hair as opposed to kens very camp painted on hair.

Just thought about childhood toys and was gonna post a thread, but I did a search and found this thread from 10 month's ago. It seemed a bit under supported by people at the time. I know there are several threads in the same vein, some are OP'd on the Sheffield History & Expats Section.

My favourite toys as a child were

A Cowboy Cap Gun & Holster, together with a Belt and Holster
A largeish wind-up motor car, (like a Porsche) with a steering wheel complete with horn button working from a seperate wind-up key ( Made in the U.S Sector of Germany after WW2), and to top it off, a Hornby Dublo Electric Train Set (3rail system) with the "Duchess of Montrose" Loco and 3 Pullman Coaches...........

Which ones did you have?:)

Which ones are your children's favourites now, I wonder.:)

In the 60's, I loved playing with my Trik Trak .. a little car with plastic curves ..... just bought myself on off e-bay .......... didnt think I'd see one of those again.

I could go on about what toys I loved as a chabby,but this picture says it all

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that was one of my best toys to have scalextric I started out with just the 2 lane one at first but my dad then decided to make it bigger and it finnished up with 6 lanes and it also had the pit stops, hump back bridges, chicanes, banked curves,spectators, all of the buildings built from scratch and everything else that went with it even had the track lights on it. I use to race cars,motorbikes and sidecars,F1 racing cars,mini's,sports cars,just about anything I could race we would race and this was all in the 2 back bedrooms joined together as my dad bought the house next door to the one we had got so it was ideal for the scalextric, it also served well for my model railway layout my dad and my uncle had built for me which replaced the scalextric as I had grown tired of racing cars and such. I was into railways and 42 years later I am still into railways and I have done all the spotting of the loco's and collected all the coach numbers,wagon numbers,name plates anything to do with railways either in this country or a broad I have done it, and yes I hold my hands up and say I WAS AND STILL AM A TRAIN SPOTTER DIESEL'S & STEAM but I am also into BUSES now in a very big way and EDDIE STOBBART LORRIES.

I remember playing hours with the cut-out dolls - dressing them in the paper clothes with the little tabs on them. Also Ludo, Dominoes, snap. This was long before the days of colour telly, never mind computers!

that was one of my best toys to have scalextric I started out with just the 2 lane one at first but my dad then decided to make it bigger and it finnished up with 6 lanes and it also had the pit stops, hump back bridges, chicanes, banked curves,spectators, all of the buildings built from scratch and everything else that went with it even had the track lights on it. I use to race cars,motorbikes and sidecars,F1 racing cars,mini's,sports cars,just about anything I could race we would race and this was all in the 2 back bedrooms joined together as my dad bought the house next door to the one we had got so it was ideal for the scalextric, it also served well for my model railway layout my dad and my uncle had built for me which replaced the scalextric as I had grown tired of racing cars and such. I was into railways and 42 years later I am still into railways and I have done all the spotting of the loco's and collected all the coach numbers,wagon numbers,name plates anything to do with railways either in this country or a broad I have done it, and yes I hold my hands up and say I WAS AND STILL AM A TRAIN SPOTTER DIESEL'S & STEAM but I am also into BUSES now in a very big way and EDDIE STOBBART LORRIES.

BK...what a wonderful chidhood...and what a great Dad you had.......I am impressed. I too as a child had a trainspotter book. and used to spend hours with a couple of pals recording numbers, and on one occasion seeing the Flying Scotsman train coming through the Midland Station in Rotherham. We used to go to The Holmes to catch them. Unfortunately the Flying Scotsman train came through, but the engine attached was not "The Flying Scotsman" when it appeared........ah well. at least I saw the train itself.:)

shoeshine can you ever remember the flying scotsman making a stop at woodhouse station I am going back to 1972 it had been on a rail tour and was going back to sheffield midland but for some reason it stopped at woodhouse station also because it had got a load 16 on thats the coaches it was away out of the platforms and as I was stood on the side road what took you down to the iron bridge and on to woodhouse mill, the scotsman was towering above you but the funny thing about this was we all had a bonus because coming down the other track going towards kiveton was the evening star on a load 14 and the coaches was in the cholocate and cream stock. my dad and my uncle was jumping for joy mind you so was I when the evening star blew his whistle, this is the only time I have ever seen two steam engines at woodhouse and on stock. my childhood was a mixed one as my dad was into railways and he use to paint them in oils and watercolours, he tried is upmost to get me off the railways and in to a new hobby but he failed as I had a uncle who worked at doncaster station as a driver a top link one at that so when ever the school holidays was here I was shipped off to my aunty and uncle who lived in doncaster and spent most of my time on the station waiting for my uncle to arrive with his loco and stock and going onto the footplate for a cab ride to york and back. I have even been down to london on the footplate what a thrill that was so I think the railways are in my blood.

I had Legos, and most of the original Star Wars figures... If only I'd kept hold of those, apparently they're worth a mint to collectors nowadays, especially in the original packaging and in good state of repair.

shoeshine can you ever remember the flying scotsman making a stop at woodhouse station I am going back to 1972 it had been on a rail tour and was going back to sheffield midland but for some reason it stopped at woodhouse station also because it had got a load 16 on thats the coaches it was away out of the platforms and as I was stood on the side road what took you down to the iron bridge and on to woodhouse mill, the scotsman was towering above you but the funny thing about this was we all had a bonus because coming down the other track going towards kiveton was the evening star on a load 14 and the coaches was in the cholocate and cream stock. my dad and my uncle was jumping for joy mind you so was I when the evening star blew his whistle, this is the only time I have ever seen two steam engines at woodhouse and on stock. my childhood was a mixed one as my dad was into railways and he use to paint them in oils and watercolours, he tried is upmost to get me off the railways and in to a new hobby but he failed as I had a uncle who worked at doncaster station as a driver a top link one at that so when ever the school holidays was here I was shipped off to my aunty and uncle who lived in doncaster and spent most of my time on the station waiting for my uncle to arrive with his loco and stock and going onto the footplate for a cab ride to york and back. I have even been down to london on the footplate what a thrill that was so I think the railways are in my blood.

Can't say I knew about " The Flying Scotsman" at Woodhouse, I was living at Todwick in 1972.....three young children, youngest born a year earlier, so life was very hectic as you can imagine...Oh I would have loved to have seen it. And the "Evening Star" at the same time.......how lucky can you get...........

Great memories for you:)

And Rich, my kids were into Lego big time in the 70's....used to take all evening picking it up off the floor..........:hihi:

My two sons loved the "Airfix " model soldiers.All coloured plastic, in blue, green & beige.Holding rifles and grenades.All different regiments,Army,Airforce and Dessert Rats.I gave them all away when they had grown up,and my son moved to America and had to buy them second hand off E Bay.Cost a fortune now.Wished I had saved them.