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Favourite Childhood Toys

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Reading about the blog on empty test strip containers got me wandering down memory lane. Who remembers Scooby Doos and other things?



And corgi cars with 'finger-tip' steering.
 
I remember scooby doos, what about 'clackers' (could be regional name) they were a short handle with two peices of string that held hard balls on the end, the idea was to make the balls clack together. Very noisy and often painful experience.
 
Ouch!

Cap-firing spud guns .... great way to use up spuds and scare off the neighbour's cat (humanely of course)

 
I had a revolver spud gun, I remember mum telling me to be careful, I could put my brothers eye out... I have permission :evil:

Mark
 
zaphod37 said:
I had a revolver spud gun, I remember mum telling me to be careful, I could put my brothers eye out... I have permission :evil:

Mark
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I'm jealous! But, I also had a 'cap bomb' ... great for scaring old ladies!
 
I also had a 'Dan Dare walkie talkie' .... two handsets connected by stretched string. Not very good around corners. Tin cans were cheaper. Also, these days one might wonder about the relationship between Dan Dare and Digby!
 
Scalextric. I loved it! Especially when the cat would join in, he learnt that instead of chasing the cars around the track, it was easier to just lay at the side and bat them off. My favourite car was the 4 1/2 litre Bentley. I have wanted one of those ever since.

Whenever I watch Flog it! or something similar and someone brings a Scalextric in for valuation I feel very tempted to empty the piggy bank and buy one.

I don't think this one counts as a toy, but I still have my stamp album that I swopped for my birds egg collection in 1965. In 1966 I joined a trip of school friends to go to the stamp exhibition in London. England had just won the World cup and it would be on display at the exhibition! WOW! Stamps AND the World cup, it don't get no better. Some ratbag stole the World cup before we got there. Just an empty display case.
 

You have reminded me I had a Triang Flying Scotman engine with 'real steam'. You put a few drops of oil in the funnel and the heat of the motor would vapourise it. My electrically operated points had a habit of melting ... they don't make electrical equipment like that any more, except for the Boeing Dreamliner!!

There was always a rivalry between owners of Hornby v Triang, a bit like 'The Eagle' (Times) versus 'Beano' (Sun).
 
Oh one of the best (i don't know if you could say toys) from when I was a wee boy were these wee crystal type things in a kind of tissue paper that we bought from a joke shop and when you threw them on the ground they made a bang. They were small enough to stuff into a empty pen tube and blow pea shooter style at folk tending their plants in a greenhouse. Ohh and stink bombs on a bus.

And folk think kids are angels

Mark
 
Oooooooo boys and there toys lol
I had a pop up tree house with a family inside was my best present ever
Oh and I always wanted a Barbie but Sindy was cheaper so I got her lol


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What about the plastic divers and submarines from cereal packs that you put in a Tizer bottle and make them go up and down
 
Meccano, the best toy ever, you just made whatever you wanted, everything from tower cranes to aeroplanes or battleships, had a huge collection of bits. I wish I still had it really, was great fun and fed my passion for engineering
 
Thommothebear said:
Meccano, the best toy ever, you just made whatever you wanted, everything from tower cranes to aeroplanes or battleships, had a huge collection of bits. I wish I still had it really, was great fun and fed my passion for engineering
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The best ever ... the original metal version. The only problem was electric motors .... I've no idea where mine came from but they didn't last very long .. and probably dangerous by today's standards.
 
I was born in 1958.

I wanted a Cadburys chocolate machine. You put a penny into this little plastic vending machine and you got a Caburys chocolate miniature out for your trouble. Doubled up as a money box.

I also wanted an Etch a Sketch.

And one of those red viewer things which you put a circular viewing thing in with little negatives round the edge.

I got a Patch doll ( Sindys kid sister) complete with dungarees and painted on freckles. (Guess she was cheaper)....

I got a Spirograph which I loved.

And I got a catapault which broke next doors' window and my neighbour called the Police out and it got conviscated....

3 guesses what I bought my son straightaway when he was small.....
 

A glass repair kit, I hope!
 
I always got a Waddington's board game in the days when people had fun together rather than hiding away alone in a darkened bedroom.

Tow of the games were TAXI! and RAILROADER. They were essentially the same. With TAXI, you selected your starting point on a 'caricature' map of London, picked a card to select your fare (with or without a tip!) and one for the destination and proceeded to 'dice' your way via the shortest route. You could set up roadblocks to impede other players from moving. RAILROADER was based in the Rockies and you had trains and pieces of track. When you threw the dice you had the choice of either laying track or moving your train along the track counting the spaces between the sleepers as moves. Again, you could lay dynamite on the track of other players to prevent them from laying further track.

I always ended up in a huff when I lost, as it was my game and I was supposed to win every time!!

I also had a horse racing game called ESCALADO? where you clamped a green track to the table, placed your horses at the start then turned a ratchet/rattle device from one end to 'shake' the horses along the track. Very noisy!
 
Mine has to be Tonka Toys and Lego, was the slogan for Tonka Toys..... ''Real tough toys for real tough boys''......or something like that
 
noblehead said:
Mine has to be Tonka Toys and Lego, was the slogan for Tonka Toys..... ''Real tough toys for real tough boys''......or something like that
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Bet you drank 'Irn Bru'! Beer with girders!!

Remember Jacks? There was a similar game with 5 coloured chalk squares and you had to stack them one by one whilst throwing one until the air (single-handed only).

 
Jacks were good for hand eye co-ordination but not for Dads bare foot when I didnt put them all away :roll:
CAROL
 
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