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I was just reading Thunderpussys excellent thread on username,
so I hope he don't mind that ive sort of hi-jacked it a weeny bit (get on with it A.S)
but what ,as a kid or adult hmmmm was your favourite toy
mine was Action man oh to be a small boy again
so I hope he don't mind that ive sort of hi-jacked it a weeny bit (get on with it A.S)
but what ,as a kid or adult hmmmm was your favourite toy
mine was Action man oh to be a small boy again
By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
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My parents never got me a DBS - trauma of my childhood - but I remeber that the Mercedes C111 model gave me extreme happiness.
Never fancied Action Men - always considered them to be dolls for boys
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
and my Meccano, Air fix kits. ( I had loads of WW2 fighter aircraft hanging
from my ceiling )
I'd say my Sci Fi and fantasy love began with Masters Of The Universe. Castle Grayskull was a great playset recreation. I was always watching out for certain characters I wanted. Esp The Scorceress!
For sentimentality though it would have to be the model railway and toy garage I had. Dad built the garage as a two level structure out if wood, it had working internal lights, and my Mum painted it. Held all my matchbox and Corgi cars. The fact they made it themselves made it really special.
I was a spoilt brat! ;%
I was jealous of my mate as he had this cardboard round Death Star playset with all the rooms (trash compactor) etc that was very cool (dont think it was official, not Kenner anyhow) and ive seen them on eBay go for a fair whack
It worked out great as he had tons of Star Wars stuff and so did I but we had different things so when we played we had most stuff!! I also had the big AT-AT but that was pretty crap play wise but looked impressive!!!
When we moved country my mum gave all my Star Wars toys away to her friends very young kids who wrecked the lot, remember them chewing my Darth Vader figures head etc
and lego, naturally!
Almost too posh to play with. Suddenly, it disappeared, just as I decided I wanted one, and before the internet you just couldn't track this stuff down. I had awful daydreams about stumbling upon some seaside shop on holiday and seeing one in the window... Ditto the grey Aston Martin, just vanished. The toyshop called one day to say they'd got one in! But it turned out to be the Lotus Esprit, a rather crap toy as it was stuck in a half way house stage, the wheels didn't retract. In 78 the Aston got reissued and I got one, turned out it was sans tyre slashers and revolving no plate, then again Britain was in a recession at the time...
Other than that, every kid in school had a Batmobile.
Oh, Top Trumps were good too. I even made my own, with Bond gadgets featuring.
Both Corgi and Dinky toys were great, but then you had the Matchbox Models of Yesteryear, they were great too. The Lagonda was a really good one.
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along with the Shadow ground truck ) I wish I still had them.
BTW - mine was the "Il Tempo Gigante" from the animated movie "Flåklypa Grand Prix"
Good stuff. I wanted a CCBB and did get one from an 'antique' shop when I was in my teens, fantastic! Sheer craftsmanship.
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pistol /grenade launcher ect
Also loved Action Man....
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Still...better than playing with knockwurst and Stollen all day
)
I did have a Meccano racing car but it was at a time when mecanno was on the way out. I couldn't get the wheels on it so I left it in frustration on the side before grumpily going off to bed. In the morning I came down to breakfast to find the car miraculously finished on the table, my dad had finished it off for me. Good old dad.
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I would have had money on that, ) I said to myself I bet MGs best toy was Meccano
Lol, worst actually!
I was at a demo of some software recently and the guy giving the talk asked "who had Lego as a kid?" Everyone put their hands up lol
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I really wanted be as a kid but didn't get one (no wonder I need therapy lol)
They're called Johnny 7 OMA (one man army) and go for a fortune on eBay now. Betcha wish you'd kept it 8-)
Ahhhh ... They were the days!
But latterly, one got the sense of being conned. Like, a Superman van for sale. Really, it just looked like the Charlies Angels pink van, painted grey. It had Superman written along the side, surely not very secretive? Inside were banks of TV screens and computers, at least on cardboard. But it never featured in the film did it, so why would I want it? Ditto some flying vehicle he had with red arms with fists on the end that punched. Never seen it in the movies, what gives?
But the Batman spinoffs on the other hand were in the series and looked great.
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a train set for my older brother. Took it home with some wooden blocks for the fire. After the
Excitement of the train being handed over, he went for his dinner in the kitchen, only to find
when he returned my brother ignoring the train set and building castles etc with the blocks for
the fire. )
'86 : Mattel was overflowing the market with He-Man : 400 mill profit in '86 and then the bubble burst , only 7 mill in '87. Sadly the PoG (Powers of Grayskull , which was to be a pre-HM era where He-Ro was the main guy & they fought the Snake people) concept was not to be
Kids lost interest in MotU and moved on to other things , Transformers esp. MASK and Defenders of Earth came a little later.......
'88 : Laser Power He-Man and Laser Light Skeletor were the final He-Man figures to be produced & only sold in Europe , owning LL Skelly is bitter sweet since it was the last ever Skeletor made in the old MotU series.
On the positive side that same yr marked debut of Dino Riders , both the toys and toon is underrated.
'90-91 : the height of TMNT mania , those were the days.......the trend was dying out when TMNT III came out , sad to think about.
'89 : debut of Pirate Lego , my fav Lego besides trains.
'93-94 : BTAS , a great toon and the toys are wonderful , too.