favorite toy

always shaken

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

Charmed & Dangerous

Mine was toy guns - especially the Lone Star-type Walthers and Lugers, not the cowboy ones -{

danjaq_0ff

+1 for action man

Higgins

All kinds of Corgi car models.

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

Thunderpussy

I loved my Weebles, I used to make up my own action films with them. )
and my Meccano, Air fix kits. ( I had loads of WW2 fighter aircraft hanging
from my ceiling )

welshboy78

Millennium Falcon

Thunderbird 2

I too remember my Star Wars toys. However, for longevity, I'd have to say LEGO, from 5 to 15 I always had some I played with. Glad to see kids love it as much today.

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! ;%

welshboy78

My mate had Castle Grayskull, I had Skeletors Lair!!!

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

The Domino Effect

Action Man...followed by Airfix 1/32 soldiers, Lego and then Corgi/Dinky.

Charmed & Dangerous

Good topic/thread btw, AS - interesting to read about everyone's fave toys from back in the day :007)

Number24

This model car:

and lego, naturally!

Napoleon Plural

As you might guess, it's the one that got away - the Lady Penelope Car.

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.

The Domino Effect

I had the Lady Penelope car, but would it be wrong of me to admit that I actually preferred my Basil Brush car?

Thunderpussy

I too had the lady P car, with the Joe 90 and the interceptor from UFO
along with the Shadow ground truck ) I wish I still had them.

Number24

Wonderful cultural history, this is. I had to google what a Lady Penelope Car is.
BTW - mine was the "Il Tempo Gigante" from the animated movie "Flåklypa Grand Prix"

Napoleon Plural

A bit like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, then?



Good stuff. I wanted a CCBB and did get one from an 'antique' shop when I was in my teens, fantastic! Sheer craftsmanship.

Number24

Yes, I guess a bit like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLkvbgHVD3M

always shaken

I remembered that I had this huge green gun thing called a jonny 7 ? it was as big as me and had all different weapons built in to it
pistol /grenade launcher ect

Sir Miles

I had a football game bought for me as a kid...Waddingtons table soccer....it was football tiddlywinks style with footballers made from a block/slab....I had it for many, many years...even having to sellotape the pitch back together ) made my own leagues and everything
Also loved Action Man....

Higgins

8-) oh the guy-doll fraction

Sir Miles

Bondtoys wrote:

8-) oh the guy-doll fraction

Still...better than playing with knockwurst and Stollen all day

)

minigeff

Lego, Lego technic and then airfix and tamiya kits. Oh and a huge amount of matchbox cars.

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.

always shaken

minigeff wrote:

Lego, Lego technic and then airfix and tamiya kits. Oh and a huge amount of matchbox cars.

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.

I would have had money on that, ) I said to myself I bet MGs best toy was Meccano

minigeff

always shaken wrote:

minigeff wrote:

Lego, Lego technic and then airfix and tamiya kits. Oh and a huge amount of matchbox cars.

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.

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

Charmed & Dangerous

always shaken wrote:

I remembered that I had this huge green gun thing called a jonny 7 ? it was as big as me and had all different weapons built in to it
pistol /grenade launcher ect

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-)

Ens007

Aside from the usual suspects (Action Man, Star Wars etc), mine was an Evel Knieval stunt bike that had an orangey-red coloured contraption to wind it up & then the thing flew off. Spent many an hour setting up ramps to get him to fly here, there & everywhere.

Ahhhh ... They were the days!

Number24

One of the things I like about christmas is buying gifts for my nephews. The criterium is: would I (have) liked to have this? Sometimes I find myself thinking: "Darn, why didn't I have one of those when I was a kid?"

Napoleon Plural

The odd thing is, a good toy could get you going even if you never saw the TV show on which it was based! There were all kinds of things, I mean I never even saw Thunderbirds as a kid but the toy spinoffs were great so I wanted them. There were other things like the Green Hornet car. Or Steed's car from The New Avengers, what was it? Not the old Bentley, a modern car with some odd gadget. A Triumph or something.

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.

The Domino Effect

It's interesting to note that pretty much all the toys mentioned on here are ones that demand creativity to use. Now, granted we're probably all old farts (ie wrong side of 23), but I just don't see the Me- and Wii-generations being able to entertain themselves for hours (years?) on end with a bag full of small plastic building blocks, a box of metal strips and small nuts and bolts (not to mention that if Meccano suddenly re-emerged as a hugely-popular toy, the H&S types would likely have it banned for fear of swallowing the small bits - not that that harmed me in the slightest except when I go through the metal detector at the airport), or even toy soldiers/Action Men that don't take bullets, transform into zombies or walk and talk. I fear that future generations will be brilliant with computers but useless with creativity.

Thunderpussy

I sure all families have a story like this, I remember my late Father telling me that he once bought
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. )

Grindelwald

'84 : I vividly remember holding Skeletor just out of the package and being transfixed by it.

'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.