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Jon · 06-06-2003, 03:42 AM

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

mikey · 06-06-2003, 08:59 AM

I had Striker

Only trouble was the heads used to be a bit vunerable, press to hard and you broke off Tony Curries head

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.

cosywolf · 06-06-2003, 11:30 AM

Matchbox cars were one of the best - and not really much on them to break

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

Yes, I am a girl.

DaBouncer · 06-06-2003, 11:41 AM

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Originally posted by "cosywolf"

Matchbox cars were one of the best - and not really much on them to break

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

Yes, I am a girl.

Scalextric (spelling may be wrong), Operation and Buckaroo! All fab kids games.

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

cosywolf · 06-06-2003, 11:57 AM

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.

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

max · 06-06-2003, 12:03 PM

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 ....

Classic Rock · 06-06-2003, 01:10 PM

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!

Michael_W · 06-06-2003, 01:13 PM

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

waxy chuff · 06-06-2003, 02:10 PM

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

Lickszz · 09-06-2003, 01:46 AM

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.

t020 · 09-06-2003, 01:54 AM

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

Jon · 09-06-2003, 01:59 AM

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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

t020 · 09-06-2003, 02:04 AM

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Originally posted by "Jon"

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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

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

Lickszz · 09-06-2003, 02:06 AM

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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.

t020 · 09-06-2003, 02:11 AM

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...

PaulTansley · 09-06-2003, 02:51 AM

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.

kittykat · 10-06-2003, 01:47 AM

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.

shoeshine · 12-04-2006, 07:56 PM

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.

pressy · 12-04-2006, 08:24 PM

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.

Annoni_mouse · 12-04-2006, 08:29 PM

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

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