What was all the rage when you were young? What did you spend all your pocket money on?

For me, it had to be Lego, but Micro Machines came a very close second...

very sad really. All my money went on magazines to cover my walls with the pictures. Duran, dolphins and Sheffield Weds

Top Trumps!

Nomme

I liked He-man figures, Lego and Muscle men figures (came in a bin).

I'm so ashamed to admit this but i was obsessed with My Little Ponies as a kid. That and carebears! :shakes:

lego... mechano... anything I could take apart and put back together again...

*sorry about the radio Dad* :rolleyes:

Airfix soldiers ruled the roost in my house. WW2 figures English commandos, desert rats, marines etc, German stormtroopers, Japs, Yanks the lot. I also had a full set of WW2 leaders too, Hitler, Churchill, Goering, Montgomery, Mussolini. I used to set up battles on my felt subbuteo pitch. Also had Alamo figures, Waterloo and WW1. I was mad on WW2, all the comics I had were WW2 based (Warlord and Hotspur).. a healthy obsession for any young lad LOL

I have to say that, despite having loads of teams, Subbuteo doesn't work.. neither did Subbuteo cricket. We used to have a league on our estate and we used to tape (audio) the football with Gerald Sinstadt for background noise LOL (sad bleeders).

I also had a great football card game called Penalty!. I've been trying to buy it on Ebay lately but the bids get out of hand LOL

I was also a lego fiend (and still am - YAY for technical lego!) - though I'm a bit dissapointed in their current lego any-popular-film direction (but that didn't stop me getting a lego Darth Vader!)

Lego, lego and more lego :thumbsup:
hurts like a female dog when you stand on it with bare feet!!!
Thats why the soles of my feet are like rubber, spent my youth aclimatising myself to lego inflicted foot pain :P

I was one of those annoying children who once had received a really expensive pressie would play with it for about 5 minutes then have hours of fun with the packaging it came in!!!!!

Gimme that bubble wrap!!!
OoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo :D

Action man figures
Top Trump Cards (which I've started buying again)
Lego
and Atari :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Martin_s
lego... mechano... anything I could take apart and put back together again...

*sorry about the radio Dad* :rolleyes:

me too martin ... anything like lego ... loved the stuff.

Transformers first

Lego second

err...that's it!

used to love playing with me lil' plastic toy soilders :blush:

Is there a lego -> geek trend emerging ;)

My favourite toy was my Girls World - you turned a bolt in her neck and her hair grew! Used to spend hours painting its face with blue eyeshadow. My mum chucked it out when my evil sister drew measles on it though!


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Originally posted by evildrneil
Is there a lego -> geek trend emerging ;)

I openly admit to being a Lego Anorak :D

Originally posted by evildrneil
Is there a lego -> geek trend emerging ;)

Come on ... fess up neil ... you were a lego kid too ... ??

I think the trend is lego kids -> software developer ...

Originally posted by Jamie
[B]Come on ... fess up neil ... you were a lego kid too ... ??


Yup and now a geek through and through!!!

Was quite obsessed with super hero figures! had all the spiderman types ones , although the Dr octopus one with all the extra tentacle things was a bit of a nightmare cos they just used to randomly fall out! stars wars toys were also a passion, especially when me and my brother used to have star wars versus super hero types battles! other than that i am told that when i was very young i was a huge fan of posting lego men into the video recorder- oops!!

Transformers, lego, he-man and star wars. of which i think i still have 20 buckets of lego, snake mountain, castle grey-skull, the millennium falcon and loads of other stuff. Not that i still play with them or anything. Hmmm, i can hear ebay calling come to think of it.

Has to be Lego although Playmobil was a very close contender.

Yep, like Martin said, anything I could take to bits. So lego, meccano and anything like that. And now I take stuff to bits and put it back together for a living :D

I used to be mad on Lego...

As well I played with the original Star Wars figures, He Man figures, and also Action Man!

If only I'd hung on to the Star Wars figures though, apparently they're worth a mint nowadays.... :(

i never had any lego *sob*

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Originally posted by em3978
i never had any lego *sob*

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I'm planning on bringing my big storage box full of the stuff back with me from my mums over the summer..

Oh the possibilities.. Lego parties :D :loopy:

Whenever I go past a box of Lego in the likes of Toys R Us or Woolies, I'm always half tempted to buy a big box and build it up, but to be honest at my age I have neither the time nor the patience for it nowadays.. :(

And WTF?! £40-50 for those big Fire Station boxes?! What's that all about?! In my day you could get the big massive boxes for like 20 quid tops!

I suppose that was like 20 odd years ago though..

Originally posted by Rich
And WTF?! £40-50 for those big Fire Station boxes?! What's that all about?! In my day you could get the big massive boxes for like 20 quid tops!

I suppose that was like 20 odd years ago though..

Lego always was expensive, but the new models are ridiculously overpriced, especially the licensed products (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Spiderman etc).

It costs more to buy the Lego versions of Star Wars toys than it does to buy the ordinary toy!

Hey, 1001 posts!

I once applied for a job as a hod carrier for Lego.

Too small though.:(

My favourite toy was my Girls World - you turned a bolt in her neck and her hair grew! Used to spend hours painting its face with blue eyeshadow. My mum chucked it out when my evil sister drew measles on it though!

Mine too! My sister & had one each. We got banned from using them for a while after my sister used the make up from hers on herself. It's not a good idea to try it - it makes you all red & blotchy ... Not unlike a real measle... (You can imagine the panic)

My mum made us various rag dolls too - they were good.

I think we had the most fun though dressing up in mum's discarded (and laddered) tights then tottering up & down the garden in a neighbour's old stilettos. Not sure that counts properly as a 'toy' - fond memories nevertheless :D

Oooh I loved lego (still do), and I agree it used to really hurt your hands when the bricks got stuck together.

I also loved barbies and sindys. Well I liked sindy until she went from brunette to blonde and she became a traitor. I had a really camp ken doll and my barbies used to regulary be involved in hair cutting accidents.

I agree with mosh bring on the bubble wrap!! Give me some that today and I will be your best friend forever (or until ive popped it all)

As a child of the 60s (born in 1961) I have to say Lego, vast numbers of toy soldiers, my chemistry set and my electronics set.

And in a seriously belated apology to aunts, uncles and parents....

A radio is not a construction set.
Clocks, when re-assembled, should not have spare cogs.
Kitchen knives do not mix with mains sockets.
You should not view tools as consumable items.

:-)

Actionman and Matchbox cars.

I used throw my actionmen out of the bedroom window with a parachute.

When i was fairly young it was my A la Carte Kitchen, fab toy, with the cooker on one side and the sink on the other!

When i got to about 8/9/10, it was trolls (had loads of them), and the baby trolls, i had a hair salon for them haha! Erm, and Barbies/Sindy's...i too preferred the original Sindys before she started to be too much like Barbie!

I also used to like the lego stuff, and then just board games, bikes, stilts, rollerboots, balls to play kurby (or however you spell it)....etc!

Sure i probably had lots of other cool toys i cant remember at this time, but its late, my brain's almost stopped working!!

Yeah, Matchbox cars.
It was my dad caught up in them rather than me. :D
Originally posted by Lickszz
Actionman and Matchbox cars.
I used throw my actionmen out of the bedroom window with a parachute.
I did the same thing, throw from the fourth storey of a condo.

Originally posted by Lickszz
Actionman and Matchbox cars.


There was one matchbox car which reigned supreme over all others for me and my friends - we all had it, maybe in blue, maybe in white, there were even some red ones in action - the Ford RS200. It had the vents in the back window above the engine, and it also has tread on the tyres and a fairly good suspension system too. Fantastic stuff.

For my Dad's era, it was the Lamborghini Miura - but for us, it was the RS200. Group B silliness in your own livingroom. :thumbsup:

Well my favourite toy was called Baa Lamb and was a soft cuddly lamb!! I still actually have it, all patched up with bits of material from the various decades of fashion!!

I had a Sindy doll that I gave a mohican and drew black eye make up on with a marker pen!!

I think my most played with toy was my Tiny Tears. I spent hours feeding it water and making it wee!! I also discovered that if you held it round it's middle and shook it up and down, it's arms flapped up and down like birds wings!! Many hours of amusement there!!

And yes, I was a strange child!!

Originally posted by Lickszz
Actionman and Matchbox cars.

I used throw my actionmen out of the bedroom window with a parachute.

Matchbox for me, I had a lunch box that turned into a rescue centre with all the cars in, loved it!

I had quite a few He-Man figures aswell!:thumbsup:

Matchbox, Dinky, Spot-on, Corgi, Husky the lot.

Still collect the older ones!

Sadly I had to give my extensive and well looked-after collection away when we moved house in 1960 when I was 9.:sad: :sad:

Originally posted by Lickszz
Actionman and Matchbox cars.

I used throw my actionmen out of the bedroom window with a parachute.

So did I... I had a Spiderman figure with a parachute as well, bloody things never worked though... :mad:

Originally posted by Martin_s
I'm planning on bringing my big storage box full of the stuff back with me from my mums over the summer..

Oh the possibilities.. Lego parties :D :loopy:
Oooooooo can I come??? :D had a lego party once before and I made a treemobile :thumbsup: even composed a small tree song... ahem anyway... :roll: :P

thought of another toy... who remembers those velco bat and ball type things???? you had a bat/glove type thing with the hook velcro on and the ball was all fuzzy :thumbsup:
ahhh the joys of extreme indoor tennis
.... well the 'rents werent too impressed :P

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, loved them.
Never been a girly girl! I had there coin collection, books and everything.

Anyone remember them?

Lego for me too, years ago. Playmobile, Mechan-o.

whip and top-60s
french skipping,where you tie dozens of elastic bands together
put it round two people's legs and jump in and out etc.
sounds painful lol
but we had hours of entertainment from it.
sweet shop set ,
post office set.
skipping rope -with two people at each end.

my sons were mad on the power ranger figures etc -80s -90s

Playing shops with dried peas and my grandma.

My little tree house

and my budgie bike

I just remembered....

Train sets and model villages. I loved building stuff from cardboard, wood, papier maches. Lots of scenery for the train set and battlefields for the soldiers. I still have all my books about wargaming umpteen years on.

And I had this GREAT lino on the floor of my play room - it had rods and buildings drawn on it, and the size was just right for Matchbox cars and OO/HO trains.

Joe

Originally posted by Abdul
Lego always was expensive, but the new models are ridiculously overpriced, especially the licensed products (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Spiderman etc).

It costs more to buy the Lego versions of Star Wars toys than it does to buy the ordinary toy!

Hey, 1001 posts!

Now that's a rip off for a start, you're only paying extra for the Star Wars name on the box and to fill George Lucas's coffers cos I bet he gets some money through product licensing.

I used to be mad on My Little Pony, Sylvanian Families, and Rainbow bright and the Colour Kids. I also used to love Jem and the Holograms. lol I was a weird kid!! But I've got to say, compared to the toys available today, my toys of the early eighties were LOADS better!!!!

Star wars then Transformers and loads of lego.

Transformers where amazing; 2 toys in one and some of them changed into 3 different things!

Mr Saucepan... I've still got him and he is about 35 years old! Although my fiancee keeps threatening to chuck him out of the window.. poor Mr Saucepan!! If she does carry out her threat then I will have to consider throwing her Victoria Plum doll out lol