Toys you loved as a kid

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Just been sorting out the loft me old star wars figures and battle walker etc to hand to the kids now they am at the age to play with them, emotional ain't the word seeing them playing with the very same toys i did as a kid, me and my parents was remembering the old days,

There was some Thundercats aswell in there Tonka trucks what toys did you luv, mine was defo Star Wrs especially Bobo Fet the rocket man my boy also luvs him, what was yours?
 
I had a cardboard box with wheels drawn on it for Christmas once. Me and my brother played in it for hours!
 
SherlockGT - 29/5/2014 03:31

I had a cardboard box with wheels drawn on it for Christmas once. Me and my brother played in it for hours!
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I see that with my kids too. They don't really play with any of the toys they have. They like playdoh and my 2 year old thinks coins are brilliant.
 
I used to like Action Force, which was renamed GI Joe at some point. The funny thing is that I remember spending hours in the garden building bases for them with bricks and bits of wood but I don't remember playing with them much. I liked Matchbox Cars too when I was younger.
 
Always think I grew up in "the golden era" for toys. I was 10 in 1980 - so basically when I was a kid I was both pre-microchip and post micro chip generation.

So, some of my faves from early childhood are:-

Subbuteo - which I had the lot , loads of teams, all the stands / floolights / crowd / camera crews

Skalextric - same as above, had enough to fill Silverstone - gave it all away to charity, wish I hadn't.

Evil Kneivel wind up toy - never worked but I loved it !

Crossfire

Tony Blackburns Chartbusters - brilliant boardgame

Then - technology started and I had

Astro Wars table top arcade game - I bloody loved that !!

Then I spent the entire of 1983-1987 playing my Spectrum, and in particular:-

Daley Thompson's Decathlon and Football Manager

However, I never got the Big Trak I always wanted !!!
 
Action Man had loads of them, the adventurer who had blonde hair and a beard, the sailor who had brown hair and beard, the soldier who had brown hair being three of them. Then loads of vehicles army motorbike, tank, jeep, helicopter and a police motor bike. Then of course all the clobber.
 
red viper, go kart, punch bag, scalextrix (spelt wrong), ker plunk, anything wwf, karate kis or superman themed
 
I had the wwf figures and a ring, the steps to the ring had a spring inside so you could fire wrestlers over the top rope and into the ring. Happy days eh.
 
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I had all the ghostbusters figures, the HQ, Ecto1 and the ghost, I wish I had kept them.

I also had all the turtles & wrestlers
 
Juan Mourep - 28/5/2014 19:41

Trekker - 28/5/2014 18:32

Spy briefcase
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Was that the one with a trigger in the handle and a hole in the side so it could shoot darts from the gun inside?
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You'd not be far from fact with that get up
 
I inherited most of my toys from my brother, like skeggy he had all the action men stuff, vehicles, skis, snorkels etc... Also loads of matchbox cars.
I remember having Star Wars and he man figures, and castle grey skull.
Lego was a big thing in our house, we seemed to have shed loads of the stuff, probably because it wasn't really gender specific so we could all play together. I remember getting technic Lego every Xmas that was way too difficult for me at the time but my dad would spend most of Xmas day building. Basically he bought it himself from Lewis's but wrapped it up and said it was from Santa!
 
Lego was and is great. My old man came home one day with a big battered suitcase opened it up and it was full of Lego. He brought it second hand for a quid lol. Loved my bike when I was kid had a tomahawk, little chopper basically, then a chopper then a racer.

http://www.yodathewise.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/TOMAHAWK.htm
 
We had a garage full of bikes, two original choppers with central 3 speed gear stick, both went in a skip, absolutely criminal! Also a racer or two.
Mine was a Raleigh burner, I was never off the thing!

My sister provided Legos insurance and her client contact gave her bucket loads of the stuff for her kids, I'm still waiting for the 'hand me down' to my kids but I'm thinking she's probably charity shopped it!
 
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