What were your favourite toys as a nipper?
Mine were:
- Lego
- Scalextric
- Roller Skates
Still love lego
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Subute. - had the fencing, the trophies, the grandstand. you name it.
Mitre Trophy football - great for the Streets - and orange.
Rubiks Cube - Took me a while, but i did it in the end.
lego playmobil, we had it all the castle, the pirate ship, and the space ship. matchbox. my marklin train set. my fully functioning steamroller.
i still have most of this stuff.
J.A.K wrote: 3. Rubiks Cube - Took me a while, but i did it in the end.
Taking the stickers off does not count 
- A 1975 Hesketh Cosworth (Hunt) (errmmm a model of one)
- Thunderbird2
- Lego (space kits mainly)
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote:
J.A.K wrote: 3. Rubiks Cube - Took me a while, but i did it in the end.
Taking the stickers off does not count
oops. nearly forgot my steve austin six million dollar man action figure with bionic eye. nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, nah nah--nah nah.
Steve Campbell wrote:
- A 1975 Hesketh Cosworth (Hunt) (errmmm a model of one)
- Thunderbird2
- Lego (space kits mainly)
You didn't include Semtex 
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
- A 1975 Hesketh Cosworth (Hunt) (errmmm a model of one)
- Thunderbird2
- Lego (space kits mainly)
You didn't include Semtex
Typical English ignorance.....you don;t get Semtex til yer 12...up till that it's only molotovs and nail bombs, oh and roadbloacks in the summer 
Al Jarvis wrote: Subbuteo Scalextric Meccano
Subbuteo won through in the end then :D
I actually consider myself as having had a deprived childhood on account of never having had mechano. I asked repeatedly, played with my mates sets, but my folks just always had this look of terror when I reminded them I liked it. Oh well.
Wembley Trophy Football (Mitre? tsk!) 10 Embassy Filter Knave/Fiesta/Escort/Mayfair
I was a rebel because I wasnt allowed a 6 milliion dollar man or an Evil Knevil wind up bike 
Barney Army wrote:
Knave/Fiesta/Escort/Mayfair :
Kids of today eh? T'internet my arse!
PS....Fiesta ended up as a showcase for hairy old trolls and dinner ladies on their way to the knackers.
Barney Army wrote: Wembley Trophy Football (Mitre? tsk!) 10 Embassy Filter Knave/Fiesta/Escort/Mayfair
I was a rebel because I wasnt allowed a 6 milliion dollar man or an Evil Knevil wind up bike
10 lucies from the Mobile at the end of the street.
Wembley? haha. i remember now. came in a box.
J.A.K wrote:
Wembley? haha. i remember now. came in a box.
bit of a stinger on a cold wet day I seem to remember.
What about Kevin Keegan's super striker, orange & black? and much lighter. Impossible to save a shot with one of them, they didnt half move in the air 
I remember Santa got me. Spectrum for xmas as it was cheaper than the Amiga. The Spectrum was a load of oul shite 
J.A.K wrote: ASTRO WARS.
top little game where you had to dock the spacey.
I could clock that game 3 or 4 times, probably the last thing I was any good at, I took up bass shortly afterwards and wasted my life with it instead....man I coulda been a contender.
Was it astro wars or firefox that played the clip from holsts planets in little monophonic beeps, whichever, it shaped my musical destiny LOL.
And even I the football avoidist extraordinaire can remember the sheer terror of standing there in shorts facing a wet "caser".
I had the ZX Spectrum with the rubber keys. I spent all day Christmas Day and til lunch-time Boxing day inputting this programme and at the end of it all it did was draw the outline of a Union Jack then colour it in!!
My Mum and Dad were laughing their heads off because it kept me quiet for so long and that's all i got!
Snoopy wrote: I remember Santa got me. Spectrum for xmas as it was cheaper than the Amiga. The Spectrum was a load of oul shite
watch it fucker....you and your ameoba games machines PAH.
Ok, lets face it the amiga could kick piss out of a speccy, they are of different generations and you clearly pissed santa off a treat that year. As an Atari St owner (and caretaker, mucker-outter and vet) I am honour bound to make fun of the amiga, and ignore the fct it made every decent special effects shot on tv until Linux took over.
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: I had the ZX Spectrum with the rubber keys. I spent all day Christmas Day and til lunch-time Boxing day inputting this programme and at the end of it all it did was draw the outline of a Union Jack then colour it in!!
My Mum and Dad were laughing their heads off because it kept me quiet for so long and that's all i got!
hand on heart. Me too! not xmas day, but I typed in that same program...possibly out of that magazine "input"?
Stop doing stuff like that it scares me
Steve Campbell wrote:
J.A.K wrote: ASTRO WARS.
top little game where you had to dock the spacey.
I could clock that game 3 or 4 times, probably the last thing I was any good at, I took up bass shortly afterwards and wasted my life with it instead....man I coulda been a contender.
Was it astro wars or firefox that played the clip from holsts planets in little monophonic beeps, whichever, it shaped my musical destiny LOL.
And even I the football avoidist extraordinaire can remember the sheer terror of standing there in shorts facing a wet "caser".
nothing worse than a CASEY across the back of the legs on a winters day. kept the blood movin.
Still got Astro Wars - somewhere.
think you are talking about Firefox maybe with the beeps.
also loved any of these:
err...i mean these:
I used to be interested in those for as long as it took me to work out where each of the lcd "animation" cells were, then I got bored with actually playinh.....I'm like that...weird.
PS I think maybe the union jack program was in the back of te speccy manual.
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: I had the ZX Spectrum with the rubber keys. I spent all day Christmas Day and til lunch-time Boxing day inputting this programme and at the end of it all it did was draw the outline of a Union Jack then colour it in!!
My Mum and Dad were laughing their heads off because it kept me quiet for so long and that's all i got!
my sister (same age as you) had dolls.
- trivial pursuit (is that a toy?)
- my barbie dolls
- my doll, amanda (i've had her since i was two and she sits on my dresser to this day)
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: I've always been very clever and grown up for my age
haha. they must have a different employment selection criteria in bolton then.
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: I've always been very clever and grown up for my age
Clever I will accept.
All growed up? fuck RIGHT OFF!
Iforgot two other important toys.....me mum's hifi (which bore the brunt of my early (aged 8) experiments in recording, and feedback manipulation) and my Granny's piano, which taught me that if you can make anything other than a total cacophony...SOMEONE will be impressed (later I heard NO and realised that even cacophony avoidance was not strictly mandatory)
Lego (fab because I get to play with it again now we have kids) Spirograph and probably a shaker maker and a family treehouse if I had been bought one. - I was a very badly done to child!
Lucyjane wrote: Lego (fab because I get to play with it again now we have kids)
Ah yes, I remember the scene well...me, me sister, her BF and the sprog.....
"what do you want for xmas Patrick" Chorus: "he wants scalectix!"
we bugger backed us up too :D cue endless nights of beer and scalectrix and being beaten by a sober 7 yrold.
Steve Campbell wrote:
Lucyjane wrote: Lego (fab because I get to play with it again now we have kids)
Ah yes, I remember the scene well...me, me sister, her BF and the sprog.....
"what do you want for xmas Patrick" Chorus: "he wants scalectix!"
we bugger backed us up too :D cue endless nights of beer and scalectrix and being beaten by a sober 7 yrold.
Why do you think Henry got a portable DVD player for his birthday!!!
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: Yeah, Bolton employ, Liverpool don't!
If anywhere in the North West employed I'd not be in PA now :P
State of Love and Trust wrote:
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: Yeah, Bolton employ, Liverpool don't!
Ripped!!
eh!! shouldn't you be listening to Alive again or something. :p
(good rip btw)
I have 2 sisters, so to avoid fighting at Christmas our parents bought us a stereo (which had to go in the Living Room) and a telly (that went into their bedroom).
Parents eh?
ChrissMari wrote:
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: Yeah, Bolton employ, Liverpool don't!
If anywhere in the North West employed I'd not be in PA now :P
As in "Public Address" you loud bastard :D
Lucyjane wrote:
Why do you think Henry got a portable DVD player for his birthday!!!
Very wise, low down drity and dispicable....but certainly wise :D
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote:
J.A.K wrote: 3. Rubiks Cube - Took me a while, but i did it in the end.
Taking the stickers off does not count
hahaha. I used to play Rubik Cube too.
Anybody mentioned dolls?
[black]Diamond[/black] wrote: IN order of 'most played with'...
Matchbox cars My willy LSD-25
3 SMALL toys then?
Rocket Mick wrote:
[black]Diamond[/black] wrote: IN order of 'most played with'...
Matchbox cars My willy LSD-25
3 SMALL toys then?
When I was a very small boy
My parents got all of my old Matchbox cars out for LITTLEINOIL to play with at the weekend. They're all RUINED - I've smashed all the windows, scratched the paint off, removed doors and roofs. Wanton destruction all round. Don't seem to have pulled any wheels off though.
Emma Peel wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: i love my teddy
i love my teddy too!
mine is an original steiff teddy, and he growls when you shake him. he'd be worth a lot more if my ever so thoughtful mother hadn't taken the metal button out of his ear, but i still love him.
Stylophone - mine was all white and silver! Yamaha keyboard on very thin plastic legs which snapped within weeks My Brothers Action man sitting on Barbies horse (she had the tank).
Wino wrote: Stylophone - mine was all white and silver! Yamaha keyboard on very thin plastic legs which snapped within weeks My Brothers Action man sitting on Barbies horse (she had the tank).
You could have been in New Order!!
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote:
Wino wrote: Stylophone - mine was all white and silver! Yamaha keyboard on very thin plastic legs which snapped within weeks My Brothers Action man sitting on Barbies horse (she had the tank).
You could have been in New Order!!
Woulda made life bloody awkward for Barney having her around tho LOL.
"this is why events...." WHOMP (wino knocks synths over) WALLOP ( wino hits barney doing about 135mph) Crunch (barney hits floor straddled by wino)
And you can stop sniggering and all Missy, cos I doubt you'd be any more ladylike :D
Lego Tinker Toys Model airplanes Baseball bat, ball, glove
Everything my 7-year-old son plays with today... :)
I still love the Slinky!
And Nooligan -- even without the metal button, your teddy could still be worth something...
Emma Peel wrote: I still love the Slinky!
And Nooligan -- even without the metal button, your teddy could still be worth something...
not that i would ever sell him. hum i just realised that for all these years he never had a name. it was always just teddy.
Lite Brite.. maybe its why I only saw polka dots for years.. then again.. maybe it was something else
Emma Peel wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: i love my teddy
i love my teddy too!
I'm sure it's quite a-Peeling. 
And that would be a quadruple entendre, if I'm not mistaken...
Barbies... Mom only let me have three, because I kept turning them into psuedo-Wendy O Williams ala Reform School Girls.
Lite Brite, Atari, Amiga, NES, and a very beloved Simon.
Too many chemistry sets to name!
A bunch of the Real Ghostbusters figurines.
All my brother's Star Wars hand me downs.
I was also pretty keen on electronics. I could sit in my room all day playing with an old dead calculator or radio or whatever. I loved taking stuff apart and trying to put it back together or even just amassing large amounts of "push buttons" and pretened they blew up stuff around the world.
I also had a little synth to eek out songs on, and a drum set I never quite got the hang of, and my Dad's guitar. Which I broke. Because I tried to play it like a violin. Which is why they paid for me to have violin lessons and not break their adult stuff again.
I have geek written all over me, don't I thought?
melly wrote: Barbies... Mom only let me have three, because I kept turning them into psuedo-Wendy O Williams ala Reform School Girls.
Lite Brite, Atari, Amiga, NES, and a very beloved Simon.
Too many chemistry sets to name!
A bunch of the Real Ghostbusters figurines.
All my brother's Star Wars hand me downs.
I was also pretty keen on electronics. I could sit in my room all day playing with an old dead calculator or radio or whatever. I loved taking stuff apart and trying to put it back together or even just amassing large amounts of "push buttons" and pretened they blew up stuff around the world.
I also had a little synth to eek out songs on, and a drum set I never quite got the hang of, and my Dad's guitar. Which I broke. Because I tried to play it like a violin. Which is why they paid for me to have violin lessons and not break their adult stuff again.
I have geek written all over me, don't I thought?
Cambo's gonna...Too Late! There goes his screen!
Comrade Shampanyov, Last Gentleman of the Mohicans wrote: Cambo's gonna...Too Late! There goes his screen!
He better clean that up! 
(poor guy's likely sleeping, and here we are gently abusing him. much love for him for putting up with the likes of me! )
melly wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Last Gentleman of the Mohicans wrote: Cambo's gonna...Too Late! There goes his screen!
He better clean that up!
(poor guy's likely sleeping, and here we are gently abusing him.
Melly I wish you had lived next door to me as a yoof :D
the damage we could have caused.
Sigh.
Steve Campbell wrote:
Melly I wish you had lived next door to me as a yoof :D
the damage we could have caused.
Sigh.
What, global chaos? Dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
It's probably for the best we was separated by an ocean, though, for the well being of everyone else around us.
The other "toy" I had was on the weekends when Dad would work on his car - I'd get to sit quietly and hand him tools and get greasy with axle slop and in general get out of doing cleaning by having father daughter hangout time. Ahhh, I loved whirling the ratchets around, especially. Made such great noise. Even better as a sample, so when I'd fart around on the synth later on, it'd be pre-saved and made all sorts of nasty fart-like sounds in the right octaves.
Come to think of it, for a good year after I got that thing, the sampler on it was exclusively used to make rude noises - due to my room being across the hall from the bathroom.
There's not a domestic sampler in existence that wasn't used for burps and farts. I had a casio sk10, that had this auto repeat function....you put it in the corner of the room and as soon as anything hit the trigger level, it played a merry tune with a little grab of it. Deeply hilarious when unleashed on a room full of wasted people, especially since after it's first appearance all it ever gets to work with is stoned giggles. OK I was 25 but it was still a toy. The hifi was my fave toy...I used to plug mics into it and play the feedback ( which I'm still known to do, only with FX units not mics....for instance the odd Dr who noise right at the start of the cozzietune), I'm fairly sure I also deduced, but forgot for many years, the nature of sound on sound recording, by taping up the erase head in the cassette deck. Spent a lot of time audio taping TV shows cos VHS was still a myth here in bog Ireland.
Oh...I also used to play with my grannies sewing machine...a huge iron singer with a foot treadle....it made noises and motions FAR to simmillar to a steam loco not to be appealing. I can't believe I can play a bass after the number of times I squished my fingers in that thing.
Steve Campbell wrote:
The hifi was my fave toy...I used to plug mics into it and play the feedback ( which I'm still known to do, only with FX units not mics....for instance the odd Dr who noise right at the start of the cozzietune), I'm fairly sure I also deduced, but forgot for many years, the nature of sound on sound recording, by taping up the erase head in the cassette deck. Spent a lot of time audio taping TV shows cos VHS was still a myth here in bog Ireland.
We'd just gotten our first VCR around the time I got that grotty synth, and I wasn't allowed to operate it so I would sit down and audio tape the shows.. little me thinking that I'd get the same enjoyment from Thundercats or Saturday Night Live or whatever at a later date with.. a cassette recording.
Nothing beats replaying those tapes and hearing radnom stuff like my brother talking over the intro, or a fart, or Mom calling us to dinner.. I dunno.. treasures the lot of them ... doomed to be used for malicious intent on some bad album in the future if I have my way. 
I never grew out of that sound of a half heard TV show. SNSS always had a walkman on stage full of tvshows or movies to just fade in and out at random moments.
Mind you if it wasn't for people like us, many an episode of the Dr would be gone forever...lots of them have been put back together with production stills and off air audio tapes.
BTW.... never seen lite brite before...but I did spend a hell of a lot of time seeing just how many batteries it took to make an LED finally give up......impressive too....they get as bright as welding arcs before they pop.
I was So that kid that played with a toy for a week....then disected it.
speaking of toys, i just got a turntable and a usb preamp, so i can pulg it into a computer and transfer my vinyl, but so far i have not had much success. i can't even hear the record over the computer yet, but i will struggle on tomorrow. any tips there cambo.
NOOLigan wrote: speaking of toys, i just got a turntable and a usb preamp, so i can pulg it into a computer and transfer my vinyl, but so far i have not had much success. i can't even hear the record over the computer yet, but i will struggle on tomorrow. any tips there cambo.
You can't hear it at all or you cannot hear it over the noise of the fans?
it IS an RIAA preamp isn't it?
If it's using it's own bizarre software, stop it, see if it appears in the windows multimedia control panel as an input device, set it as the default input device and record with the windows sound recorded (they still bundle that little shitepile for your 300 quid?), or something good like audacity.
Prince Pro tennis racquet 1984. not a toy. but began life alongside the other toys under the Chrimbo Tree.
Steve Campbell wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: speaking of toys, i just got a turntable and a usb preamp, so i can pulg it into a computer and transfer my vinyl, but so far i have not had much success. i can't even hear the record over the computer yet, but i will struggle on tomorrow. any tips there cambo.
You can't hear it at all or you cannot hear it over the noise of the fans?
it IS an RIAA preamp isn't it?
If it's using it's own bizarre software, stop it, see if it appears in the windows multimedia control panel as an input device, set it as the default input device and record with the windows sound recorded (they still bundle that little shitepile for your 300 quid?), or something good like audacity.
well some sort of pre amp. it probably is a software issue. i'll give it another go tomorrow. today i just want to relax, well it is night here now
Steve Campbell wrote:
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote:
Wino wrote: Stylophone - mine was all white and silver! Yamaha keyboard on very thin plastic legs which snapped within weeks My Brothers Action man sitting on Barbies horse (she had the tank).
You could have been in New Order!!
Woulda made life bloody awkward for Barney having her around tho LOL.
"this is why events...." WHOMP (wino knocks synths over) WALLOP ( wino hits barney doing about 135mph) Crunch (barney hits floor straddled by wino)
And you can stop sniggering and all Missy, cos I doubt you'd be any more ladylike :D
You cheeky Swine.......I disappear for a few hours and find this nonsense. Humph. As if. Just because I used to play with a little man with a scar does not make me a straddler!
Boatraceface wrote: Toys??????We only ate Sundays and Birthdays
You're not kidding there but you were lucky - we had to lie low in the field when the men were hunting Grouse and Fox. Then dash out hoping we could snatch the kill and dash off home for a clear soup.
Melly- same with the ratchets' sound and the quality time w/ dad. There was Mechano from my brother- bless him and his friends, but mostly getting on the bike to got off somewhere. and taking the bike apart piece-by-piece to clean it after a day in the rain.
Disco Roller Boots- I thought I was the coolest chick on the block in these.
BMX Flyer- A really addictive hand held game. Me, my brother and sis used to fight like mad over this.
Barbie- I had loads of these but didn't have 'Ken'. I did have two Michael Jackson dolls though (complete with thriller outfits)so my Barbies all dated Jacko.
I'm still not quite sure why I had two Michael Jackson dolls though
