Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 27, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted May 27, 2021 Meccano building toys, I loved them, a wee tiny spanner with nut and bolts etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,321 Posted May 27, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted May 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said: Meccano building toys, I loved them, a wee tiny spanner with nut and bolts etc. Meccano constructors were class... I had Meccano, Merkur and Fischertechnik sets among some other old Soviet ones, they were a joy and I definitely attribute my interest in technology and engineering to them Some of them were made of plastic, but some had proper metal pieces and tools, and you could build actual working models with them. Good fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewolf 7,161 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 These were my toys growing up... But with them and one of these..... You got this classic... Up the nearest hill, then down again as fast as it could go until you either hit something or crashed and tipped it... No brakes, you just used your trainers to slow down on corners.. or not.. You would come home with cuts, bumps and bruises all the time.. No sissy helmets or pads for these beasts, Some of the best rides were with a mate standing on the back after giving you a push start then hurtling down the hill and swearing you can make the corner at the bottom at full pelt... Them were the days.. Not stuck indoors day after day, we were always out doing something and if we weren't building carts we were building secret hideouts in the woods or having our HQ halfway up a tree... Everything was totally dodgy and unsafe as fuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rucksackfranzose 4,344 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 43 minutes ago, Bluewolf said: These were my toys growing up... But with them and one of these..... You got this classic... Up the nearest hill, then down again as fast as it could go until you either hit something or crashed and tipped it... No brakes, you just used your trainers to slow down on corners.. or not.. You would come home with cuts, bumps and bruises all the time.. No sissy helmets or pads for these beasts, Some of the best rides were with a mate standing on the back after giving you a push start then hurtling down the hill and swearing you can make the corner at the bottom at full pelt... Them were the days.. Not stuck indoors day after day, we were always out doing something and if we weren't building carts we were building secret hideouts in the woods or having our HQ halfway up a tree... Everything was totally dodgy and unsafe as fuck I expected hand axes made of flint stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 27, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted May 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Bluewolf said: These were my toys growing up... You got this classic... Up the nearest hill, then down again as fast as it could go until you either hit something or crashed and tipped it... No brakes, you just used your trainers to slow down on corners.. or not.. You would come home with cuts, bumps and bruises all the time.. No sissy helmets or pads for these beasts, Some of the best rides were with a mate standing on the back after giving you a push start then hurtling down the hill and swearing you can make the corner at the bottom at full pelt... Them were the days.. Not stuck indoors day after day, we were always out doing something and if we weren't building carts we were building secret hideouts in the woods or having our HQ halfway up a tree... Everything was totally dodgy and unsafe as fuck Fucking loved them Find some old pram wheels, a bit of wood and an old seat and away you would go, we had a hill in Tilbury Essex called Chadwell Hill, go up there and have races down and as you said no "No sissy helmets or pads for these beasts..." get knocked and go flying off, a bit like Charlton Heston in Ben Hur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 3,824 Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 I loved this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,602 Posted May 28, 2021 Moderator Share Posted May 28, 2021 I had a lot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys. This was one of the best: It could shoot Pizzas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Palace Fan 3,400 Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 This was a cool one when I was nine. A wrestling ring that floated in the bath tub. Implying Stevie Ray can't swim on the packaging hasn't aged well though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beelzebub 2,508 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 I used to burn ear cotton buds, dropping the molten plastic on ant hills. I also used to make wasps and ants fight each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,602 Posted May 29, 2021 Moderator Share Posted May 29, 2021 3 hours ago, McAzeem said: I used to burn ear cotton buds, dropping the molten plastic on ant hills. I also used to make wasps and ants fight each other. It's all starting to make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnivore Chris 2,606 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 15 hours ago, Lucas said: I loved this game. I remember that but wouldn't have if you hadn't posted a picture of it. The original action men with all the weapons and a tank for them to sit in. WWF wrestling figures. Pogs. Ninja turtle figures. Also these: While most of us 80s/90s kids played with these dinosaur figures, @Bluewolf played with actual dinosaurs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 29, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted May 29, 2021 Not classed as a toy really but something we all had when we were kids we played with, an old leather football, head the ball on the lace and come home with big bruises on you head or face, if it was a well-used football then the lace would be all worn and the inner poking out of the ball like a big bubble, then if it was pissing down with rain the ball became a hard soaked leather ball but we never gave a shite when we were kids, sling a couple of jumpers down for goalposts and away you would go, some of us couldn't afford footy boots so it was bare feet or your own shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 29, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted May 29, 2021 Just remembered, marbles, dig a wee hole in the ground or a circle with chalk on the pavement and try and win some marbles off your mates. Then you had the conker season, go around the parks and look for a conker tree, knock the conkers off, bore a hole in the middle and put a shoelace or string through it and try and smash your mate's conker, I think a conker I had was a '5a' meaning I smashed 5 conkers before my one got smashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted May 31, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted May 31, 2021 Looking at one of the pictures above and what was poking out of the young lads pocket, a catapult, we all had at one at some time in our lives and easy to make, a bit of a y shaped branch of a tree, a bit of elastic and bingo, but...eventually some young lads would take the piss and smash windows with stones or get into a fight with somebody and fire a stone at the guy, I would get my arse kicked by my mum or dad if they caught me with one as they said they were bloody lethal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber JoshBRFC+ 1,388 Posted June 7, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 28/05/2021 at 19:04, Lucas said: I loved this game. Screwball scramble, what an iconic game. Few off the top of my mind. Not so much of a toy, buy for hours spent playing..... it deserves a mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnivore Chris 2,606 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 The Sega master system with Alex Kidd built in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 11 minutes ago, Carnivore Chris said: The Sega master system with Alex Kidd built in You know they're doing a jazzed up version of that don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnivore Chris 2,606 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, Bluebird Hewitt said: You know they're doing a jazzed up version of that don't you? I didn't actually. But I'm surprised it's taken this long. Which consoles will it be available on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, Carnivore Chris said: I didn't actually. But I'm surprised it's taken this long. Which consoles will it be available on? Pretty much all of them. Actually out in just over two weeks. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-04-08-alex-kidd-in-miracle-world-remake-gets-june-release-date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted June 7, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted June 7, 2021 Airfix toy soldiers, planes and tanks, I would buy one of either every week, assemble the tanks or planes then paint them all and create a battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber JoshBRFC+ 1,388 Posted July 9, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 9, 2021 Yesssss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted July 9, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 9, 2021 Never mind being a young kid but we lived in Southend-on-Sea for a number of years and I would take our then young son & daughter up the seafront to the arcades and I would happily play away on the Space Invaders machine while they spent their pennies on whatever else and in the end, they would have to drag me away to go home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Mel81x+ 3,607 Posted July 9, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said: Never mind being a young kid but we lived in Southend-on-Sea for a number of years and I would take our then young son & daughter up the seafront to the arcades and I would happily play away on the Space Invaders machine while they spent their pennies on whatever else and in the end, they would have to drag me away to go home. That picture on the right brings up great memories of my dad taking me to his office because someone had a floppy with Space Invaders on it. I looked at the screen and couldn't for the life of me figure out what was going on but it looked amazing at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted July 9, 2021 Subscriber Share Posted July 9, 2021 31 minutes ago, Mel81x said: That picture on the right brings up great memories of my dad taking me to his office because someone had a floppy with Space Invaders on it. I looked at the screen and couldn't for the life of me figure out what was going on but it looked amazing at the time. I loved the game, the noise when you hit an alien made me more determined to wipe all the fuckers out for a top score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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