Retro Toys/Games you had as a kid

Did anyone else have 'Merlin'?

Fuzzy felt+1
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& I loved my Tony Hart painting wheel
 
Duplo and Sylvanian Families!
 
my only annoyence with that gi joe pic is that serpintor
guy isnt on there
 
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chewyuk said:
or maybe just one more:

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One of my favourite toys of all time. Really wish I still had it now. You could really bend Evel into all sorts of positions.

One of my best toys I had was from an uncle of mine. He did a home-made "meccano" set and a castle built from plywood & drainpipes all covered in rough artex to look like walls and moss. He then went on to make a boomerang and painted it silver to look like the one from Mad Max!!

He got bored one day and made a pedometer to see how far he walked just doing chores in one day.
 
Dan Dare Action Station. Etch a Sketch (and I bought a new one this Christmas). Lego - when it first came out and it was really basic blocks only.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I thought Ashers would have commented on that......:naughty:
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:lol:

My grandad made me a really cool Famous 5 Mystery game thing....he was so good at that sort of stuff...and he also made me an amazing dolls house!!
 
Anybody old enough to remember this high tech game.:D

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Awaits response from Winston Wolfe (Hepburn)
 
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chewyuk said:
Great thread ... Come on there has to be only one:

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chewyuk said:
or maybe just one more:

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Veracocha said:
Not forgetting these:-

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OMG OMG OMG!!! i remember all these!! i had the Evil Keneivil bike ! AND an Astro Wars!!

Didnt those knicker knacker things get banned???


I also remember another thing a littl like the bike but as far as i remember it was to do with Space 1999!! although im not sure..

Great thread!!!! :thumbs:
 
What about the little plastic submarines/divers that you would empty all the Kelloggs cornflakes out of the box to find. You would fill them with baking powder, place them in water and after a while they would slowly float to the top:D

Also, courtesy of Kelloggs cornflakes, those little plastic animals, IIRC cows and horses that you would place on a slope, they would then rock sideways all the way to the bottom:D.

Simple amusing toys in those days.
 
The green plastic paratrooper with his polythene `chute, from out of a Lucky Bag.
 
We couldnt afford Tonka's in my house!! :'(
 
Hacker said:
I had one of these which was a favourite, the Man from U.N.C.L.E. Thrushbuster (which would probably be called Canestan these days :eek:)

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Anyone wanting to see what David McCallum (Kurayakin from U.N.C.L.E) is up to these days, check out NCIS on 5, or newer episodes on FX. He's chuffing brilliant :)

As for toys, I had fuzzy felt like Han, mecano, lego, all that sort of stuff.
 
I used to have a action man and I'd go to an upstairs window, tie string around him under his arms and swing him past the windows downstairs.

Was this attention seeking behaviour? :suspect:
 
hepburn said:
Those days being circa WWII Mal? Now listen matey, you're retired, i'm not, says it all age wise... :lol:
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Now look here "matey" on the evidence presented by your avatar you know damn well the toys I have mentioned :lol:

And you do not necessarily have to be old to retire, in my case it was age 49:D
 
Galaxy66 said:
Now look here "matey" on the evidence presented by your avatar you know damn well the toys I have mentioned :lol:

And you do not necessarily have to be old to retire, in my case it was age 149:D
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I know you worked twice the normal working years mal, and the reason you have a dog for your avatar is because your real skeletal features would scare us all (except ashers maybe :D) :razz:
 
hepburn said:
I know you worked twice the normal working years mal, and the reason you have a dog for your avatar is because your real skeletal features would scare us all (except ashers maybe :D) :razz:
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:razz: Jealousy gets you nowhere:razz:
 
Fuzzy Felts here too, plus Girls World, hundreds of matchbox cars, including a Batbmobile that shot match sticks from its rear rocket launcher thingies. Buckaroo, operation, kerplunk, cluedo, monopoly [you know you can get this for the Wii these days :bonk: ] WEEBLES!! Weebles wobble but they dont fall down :D [actually, they were my younger sisters, but I sneakily played with them when no one was looking] ....oh, and of course, no kid of the sixties or seventies could really say they had lived unless they had built their own ragger/trasher/bogie/etc, a cart made from discarded pram wheels and a plank of wood. Really clever ones had a piece of rope and a pivot on front wheels for steering :D

Chopper bikes, or chipper if you were very young, girls rode round on 'shoppers', with a basket on the front. Original skate boards, wooden ones! :eek: roller skates that were 4 wheels square with leather straps that fastened over your shoes.




yes, I am OLD :shake:
 
Yv said:
oh, and of course, no kid of the sixties or seventies could really say they had lived unless they had built their own ragger/trasher/bogie/etc, a cart made from discarded pram wheels and a plank of wood. Really clever ones had a piece of rope and a pivot on front wheels for steering :D
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I had one of them but the wheels would come off so you could fit runners for sledging. Think i must have come from a posh end of the street cos it wasn't home made :shrug:

Yv said:
yes, I am OLD :shake:
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Me too, but don't tell that miscreant OAP of Northumbria :lol:
 
Okay, calling all 70's girls. Did anyone else have a 'Warm Bake Oven' ?
 
Neighbour did. She used to keep crisps down her bloomers . . .
 
Yv said:
Fuzzy Felts here too, plus Girls World, hundreds of matchbox cars, including a Batbmobile that shot match sticks from its rear rocket launcher thingies. Buckaroo, operation, kerplunk, cluedo, monopoly [you know you can get this for the Wii these days :bonk: ] WEEBLES!! Weebles wobble but they dont fall down :D [actually, they were my younger sisters, but I sneakily played with them when no one was looking] ....oh, and of course, no kid of the sixties or seventies could really say they had lived unless they had built their own ragger/trasher/bogie/etc, a cart made from discarded pram wheels and a plank of wood. Really clever ones had a piece of rope and a pivot on front wheels for steering :D

Chopper bikes, or chipper if you were very young, girls rode round on 'shoppers', with a basket on the front. Original skate boards, wooden ones! :eek: roller skates that were 4 wheels square with leather straps that fastened over your shoes.




yes, I am OLD :shake:
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I still have my old Batmobile. A bit battered, no Batman or Robin, no missiles and the chain cutter in the front doesn't work anymore.
I used to have loads of Matchbox, Dinky, Corgi etc. Still have the odd one that my own sons haven't taken as their own. I used to have an Action Man with eagle eyes and gripping hands and before that a Major Matt Mason with space suit. I always wanted the action man vehicles but never got any.:'(
Never had a proper scalextric, but I've made up for that since, I now have 6 sets plus loads of cars. My sons had their own scalextric so they don't get to mess about with mine. :lol:
 
Bicycles & guns for me! - Couldn't afford a Chopper bike :thumbsdown: but here's my favourite gun 'Johnny Seven OMA' (wish I'd kept mine when you see what they go for on £bay)
http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/johnny_seven.htm
Paul
 
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