[Misc] Your favourite toy(s) when you were a yoof.

[bobbab5]

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Man Utd vs Everton. Arthur Albiston? and Graeme Sharp.

 

[dadams2k11]

Played with this for hours.

 

[Beach Hut]

Meccano

 

[ozzygull]

Battery operated record player. It was made by Mettoy exactly like the one below.

I blame it for the obsession for turntables I have today.



I also loved Lego

 

[zefarelly]

Lego
Meccano
Scalextric
Action man
Subutteo
Airfix/tamiya/allitalia models
Bycicles
Scooters
Cars

Still going on most ofi it!

 

[maffew]

I reckon I have still got 2 of those, plus a motorhome you could get with some tools and stuff.

 

[Music City Gull]

Laser tag and neighborhood basketball in the summer drinking hose water was our childhood

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

 

[maffew]

I bloody loved this. Modding the crossbows and catapults with doubled up elastic bands and totally smashing up the opponents fort

 

[studio150]

Is a game a toy?

Dinky/Corgi/Matchbox vehicles
Action Man

 

[maffew]

Laser tag

In the 90s I was 15 and got a weekend job as a marshall at a Quasar centre. By 16 I had keys.
God me and my mates had some fun in there playing Quasar, arcade machines, pinball, banging 90s old school and partying/entertaining all through the night, crazy times

 

[Music City Gull]

In the 90s I was 15 and got a weekend job as a marshall at a Quasar centre. By 16 I had keys.
God me and my mates had some fun in there playing Quasar, arcade machines, pinball, banging 90s old school and partying/entertaining all through the night, crazy times

You would’ve been my 12 year old selfs hero, watching you handle your unlimited playtime power like a god.

 

[METALMICKY]

The king of board games. Really need to get one and crapped all over the dull Risk game. Also loved Crossfire and Battling Tops

Biggest anti climatic toy I can recall was Flight Deck. Great advert but in reality was utter garbage.

 

[maffew]

You would’ve been my 12 year old selfs hero, watching you handle your unlimited playtime power like a god.

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It was flipping mayhem, we would go in after going clubbing at 2am, we had a 4000 square foot arena, lasers, smoke machines, a 2k sound system, keys to everything

 

[atomised]

Action man training tower was my.favourite toy

 

[Tokyohands]

Lego, He-Man, M.A.S.K, Subbuteo, Scalextric, Hot Wheels and Corgi cars, N-gauge train set, Spectrum 48k, Commodore 64, Sega Master System and my combi record/cassette player.

 

[OzMike]

One parent family with 11 kids, couldn't afford toys, never even had a teddy bear or anything cuddly.
We used to make stuff from what we could find and rescued things from rubbish bins or dump sites.
Many a skateboard fashioned from a plank and old roller skates, go karts make from wooden boxes and pram wheels etc.
When I was working , paper round etc. I got myself a Hotwheels set and track, used to like that and then graduated on to Scalectrix.
Now I am on to Saxophones and Clarinets etc. can be quite an expensive hobby !

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Action Man
Escape From Colditz
Battling Tops
Subbuteo (glue and bluetac repairs prominent...)

all “ticks”

But my standout childhood play memory is of a box of toy soldiers, cowboys and “Indians”. We also had a small plastic fort and the favourite game involved a sibling - first rolling and then throwing marbles back and forth at each other’s army. Both good fun and quite dangerous.

 

[Questions]

My group regularly played with their little Dinkys but owning a Johnny 7 was the tops.

 

[Billy the Fish]

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Used to bloody love this