Toys from your Childhood (1 Viewer)

Malaka · Sep 24, 2016

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?

vow · Sep 24, 2016

Tonka Toys
Action Man - My Auntie used to knit gear for him, ski jumpers, balaclava's etc.

Malaka · Sep 24, 2016

I liked Action Man, I wanted the one with eagle eyes but never got one

vow · Sep 24, 2016

Malaka said:
I liked Action Man, I wanted the one with eagle eyes but never got one

Fortunately, I did have him.
Trying to think of the advert on TV and the little ditty.

vow · Sep 24, 2016

Nevermind, found it!

eastwoodsdustman · Sep 24, 2016

Malaka said:
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?

My mate had that gun as a kid. It was an awsome piece of kit in a 10 year olds hands.

Had tons of action man stuff. Training tower, tanks, jeep and a motorbike. Spent days on end in the garden with it all.
Toy soldiers was another. I had hundreds of them.

Pipehitterz · Sep 24, 2016

evel knievel wind up and go motorbike

eastwoodsdustman · Sep 24, 2016

Pipehitterz said:
evel kni

evel wind up and go motorbike

Got one of these a few years back on the bay. If you get one then a christmas annual makes a great ramp for jumps

vow · Sep 24, 2016

Just found this too, Narrated by Matt Berry, Battlefield Casulaties starring PTSD Action Man!

eastwoodsdustman · Sep 24, 2016

Pipehitterz said:
evel knievel wind up and go motorbike

Christmas is just round the corner. Ask the boss nicely!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Evil-Knievel-chopper-/201673041807?hash=item2ef4a6678f:g:5kwAAOSwknJX1cbw

Ian1779 · Sep 24, 2016

Proper Transformers... Not this plastic shit they have now.

I had Soundwave and Grimlock... But always wanted the Pteradactyl but could never get my hands on it - think it was called Swoop

wingy · Sep 24, 2016

Mine would have to be a. QUERCETTI Mach 5. rocket in the mid to late 60's

skybluedan · Sep 24, 2016

Tomy 3D

Gazolba · Sep 25, 2016

This 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.

Marty · Sep 25, 2016

I had a crash test dummies car that I loved. Smash it up. Spend 20 mins rebuilding it before smashing it again.

Still got my Action Man from my childhood in the loft.

wingy · Sep 25, 2016

Gazolba said:
This 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.

Oh yeah they were great
Living out in the sticks we'd get snowed in now and again and 63 was a bad winter but I think it was later when me and my Bro got a couple of machine guns one Christmas.
They had a magazine full of plastic bullets and we'd shoot the hell out of each other over the snowdrifts.
Happy days.

Edit
I think there was also a mini bomb that you could load with caps. Throw it up in the air and get the bang as it landed.

Johnnythespider · Sep 25, 2016

Does anyone remember "Rockem Sockem" the fighting robots. I never had it but a mate did, it was great.

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Rusty Trombone · Sep 25, 2016

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.

Amazon product ASIN 0762457465

Gazolba · Sep 26, 2016

Rusty Trombone said:
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.

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.

Gazolba · Sep 26, 2016

Johnnythespider said:
Does anyone remember "Rockem Sockem" the fighting robots. I never had it but a mate did, it was great.

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.

Gaz71 · Sep 26, 2016

I had Striker and Test Match

no_loyalty · Sep 26, 2016

Big Trak, I once attempted to deliver a cup of tea to the old man in the Big Trak trailer, but got a command wrong and it ended up smashing into the wall with the tea going everywhere.

I also liked the 1984 original Hasbro Optimus prime (which I still have)

Johnnythespider · Sep 26, 2016

Gaz71 said:
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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no_loyalty · Sep 26, 2016

Johnnythespider said:
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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Was this pre Subuteo?

Johnnythespider · Sep 26, 2016

No I think the flicky game was first, I've never understood why it is more popular.

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rondog1973 · Sep 26, 2016

Gaz71 said:
I had Striker and Test Match

I got Super Striker for Christmas 1979. The team colours were Newcastle and Man Utd.

jimmyhillsfanclub · Sep 26, 2016

Johnnythespider said:
No I think the flicky game was first, I've never understood why it is more popular.

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Wash your mouth out!

I still play subbuteo occasionally.......look to your left to see the all conquering 1982 world champions (of our estate)

Sky_Blue_Daz · Sep 26, 2016

A CHiPS motorised kids motor bike it was ace,

Malaka · Sep 27, 2016

I didn't have striker but had Casdon Football

Malaka · Sep 27, 2016

I had this too, but thing was, I never played indoors, I was always out

Malaka · Sep 27, 2016

I could never get this to work properly

Malaka · Sep 27, 2016

I also remember I wanted a bike, I was taken to Alf England's in Bedworth and sat on a Yellow Chopper "Yes" I thought until

I got this bone shaker instead. Wounded!!!!

olderskyblue · Sep 27, 2016

When I was a kid, my favourite toys were called swoppets. Westerns were the thing to watch, and you could get swoppet cowboys and "native americans". They were quite detailed, and "swoppable" The head or legs could come off and mix and match with others. Used to get them from a shop called Swifts i think, by the General Wolf.

The neckerchief, holsters, guns etc were all individual pieces, as were the bow and arrow, head-dresses, knives etc. Even the saddles on the horses came off.

ajsccfc · Sep 27, 2016

Outside the normal Transformers, He-Man and Lego, I also liked

WWF Hasbro

Visionaries

M-M-M-Mask (MASK!)

In addition to Subbuteo I had Cup Final which by the same people as Test Match. Three a side with the outfield players having gimmicked lob and shoot feet and possession depending on what side of the ball showed which colour. Kids today don't know how good they've got it.

Nick · Sep 27, 2016

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