Other Favourite Toys growing up ( and now )

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  1. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus Rule #9

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    Girls



    What? Someone had to say it
     
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  2. jhanlon303

    jhanlon303 The Keeper of History

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    Julie J, Janice, Leslie. We was young
     
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  3. Mik3yB @ CCL

    Mik3yB @ CCL Everything is not going to be OK

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    Awesome thread!!

    I was looking online at the weekend on sites that had pics of the free toys you used to get in cereal boxes. Who remembers the baking powder powered boats and stuff? They were cool :)

    I obviously loved lego, who didn't?!... also Action Force figures, Marvel/DC Figures, Radio Control cars (Tamiya!), matchbox cars, Scalextric, Centurions figures, MASK figures... soooooo many toys. Think I might send my mum a belated (yes, I'm 30 in a couple of weeks) thankyou text for all the toys when we were kids.

    Did anyone collect Jurassic Park cards and WWF cards? They were both epic :p
     
    Mik3yB @ CCL, 16 Feb 2011
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  4. jhanlon303

    jhanlon303 The Keeper of History

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    I must have sent in for dozens of cereal box and back page of comic book toys in the fifties. Real toys didn't need batteries or instructions. Decoder rings, tiny submarines, slingshot little men with parachutes.
     
    jhanlon303, 16 Feb 2011
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  5. Psycho

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    This little motherf*cker

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    Psycho, 16 Feb 2011
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  6. Chairboy

    Chairboy I want something good to die for...

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    M.A.S.K and the ubiquitous LEGO :)
     
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  7. yodasarmpit

    yodasarmpit Modder

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    Lego
     
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  8. Blarte

    Blarte Moderate Modder

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    there were many brilliant boys toys - Action Man.. Lego.. Scalextrix .. Spacehopper (bust my nose on one of them) .. But the only one that leaps to my mind just at the moment was the Shittiest present toy I ever received .. a plasticine basil brush do it your self model kit .. it was truely crappy
     
    Blarte, 17 Feb 2011
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  9. boiled_elephant

    boiled_elephant Merom Celeron 4 lyfe

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    You know, I'd bet that's not technically true...

    As for me, I jumped the lego ship fairly early, around age 11, and moved onto BB guns. Voila, my most loved childhood toy:

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    Shortly followed by a cheap spring action desert eagle, then a gas powered p226, then an electric ICS MP5.
     
    boiled_elephant, 18 Feb 2011
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  10. profqwerty

    profqwerty What's a Dremel?

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    Lego! and K'nex. I got some lego for the so's xmas present and relived my own childhood :lol:

    Also I made a racing hovercraft so that's kinda the new "toy" aha.
     
    profqwerty, 18 Feb 2011
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  11. TSDAdam

    TSDAdam Beard!

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    Thought there should be a shout for tabletop electronic games and game & watch-alikes from the likes of Grandstand, Mattel and Tomy. How I lusted after those little machines.

    Astro Wars
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    Firefox F-7
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    I spent hours playing this one...

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    TSDAdam, 18 Feb 2011
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  12. jhanlon303

    jhanlon303 The Keeper of History

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    These were quite the rage at Bell Labs in the early 80s. I had a couple and we must have had a dozen of them throughout the building. Vectex - vector grahics. Woot!

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  13. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    You worked at Bell Labs :jawdrop: ? Awesome!
     
    Pete J, 18 Feb 2011
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  14. markbrett64

    markbrett64 thanks to denial I am now immortal

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    Lego
    Meccano
    Action Man (I bet a few people have had issues with admitting that....)
    Hot Wheels
    Airfix
    Swingball... ultra violence!


    Oh and Battling Tops...

    (anyone want to admit they had a Captain Scarlet outfit??)
     
    markbrett64, 18 Feb 2011
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  15. jhanlon303

    jhanlon303 The Keeper of History

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    Sure. Somebody had to help invent Unix and the internet. :rolleyes:

    john
     
    jhanlon303, 18 Feb 2011
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  16. Lovah

    Lovah Apple and Canon fanboy

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    when I was a kid? guns
    when I was a teenager? girls
    now? girls and guns
     
    Lovah, 18 Feb 2011
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  17. ccunlif1

    ccunlif1 What's a Dremel?

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    Transformers all the way!!!!!!
    Or Star wars! got a Snow Speeder for Christmas once.... Then well... yeah never really beat that did ya dad:)
     
    ccunlif1, 19 Feb 2011
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  18. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Trees.
     
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  19. jhanlon303

    jhanlon303 The Keeper of History

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    I left the copyright watermark in.
     
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  20. VipersGratitude

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    You don't know len tower, do you? a gnu guy
     
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