Fortunately, I did have him.I liked Action Man, I wanted the one with eagle eyes but never got one
I was doing some thing in my 8 year old's bedroom and he has a lovely carved wooden toy box that is rammed and he never opens it.
Kids don't seem to like toys anymore, but I remember getting this bad boy for christmas, one of my all time favourite christmas presents. I loved my Johnny 7
What was your favourite?
evel knievel wind up and go motorbike
evel knievel wind up and go motorbike
Oh yeah they were greatThis will probably pre-date what most of you guys remember ... but back when I was little, Westerns were the big thing on TV (The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, Boots and Saddles etc.) and every kid wanted a cap gun. You could buy rolls of 'caps' which you loaded into the gun and each time you pulled the trigger a hammer would come down on the next cap in line and make a bang and you could smell the gunpowder. I managed to find a machine gun (in the toy department of the Co-op on Corporation Street). With it, you could pull down the trigger and it would fire repeatedly until the whole roll of caps was fired. It was a fantastic toy, but the firing mechanism only lasted a short time before it broke. Back in those days, every toy was Made in Britain.
Kids at Caludon would scrape the paint off the sides of a hexagonal pencil and write on the bare wood, cricket scores 0,1,2,4,6,Out. They would then roll the pencil (could be done in class since it was just a pencil) and accumulate a score until it landed on 'Out'. Then they would roll the same pencil which had another scraped off area containing the various methods of getting out: Caught, Bowled, Lbw etc. You can have so much fun with just a pencil. We didn't need electronic devices back then.Not sure whether it classes as a toy, but used to play with these 2 little metal dice for hours and hours, making up teams and writing down all the scores.
I remember a game called 'Escalado'. It was a horse-racing game. I desperately wanted it, but my parents never bought me one. I think it ruined my life. They are now collectors items for sale on eBay.Does anyone remember "Rockem Sockem" the fighting robots. I never had it but a mate did, it was great.
Yep I had striker, it was quite simply the best football game there has ever been. Payers that kicked the ball and goalkeepers that actually dived and saved shots, I can safely say I loved it, until a visiting clod Hopping cousin trod on one of the goals while I was playing it with her brother on the kitchen floor. I don't think I will ever get over that.I had Striker and Test Match
Yep I had striker, it was quite simply the best football game there has ever been. Payers that kicked the ball and goalkeepers that actually dived and saved shots, I can safely say I loved it, until a visiting clod Hopping cousin trod on one of the goals while I was playing it with her brother on the kitchen floor. I don't think I will ever get over that.
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I got Super Striker for Christmas 1979. The team colours were Newcastle and Man Utd.I had Striker and Test Match
No I think the flicky game was first, I've never understood why it is more popular.
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