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over a year ago
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What was your favourite toy as a kid?
I was a big Action Man fan, not so much the military stuff, but the explorer with the dog sled and the mountaineer. I also love my Britains toy animals and farm set. Things were so simple back then.   |
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I had action man, barbie and Ken.. I took them in the bath with me because one of my action men had scuba gear. For some reason I bit all of their noses off though...
I also used to have those little army men.. You know the green ones that came in big bags... Well I'd get stickle bricks and Jenga pieces and anything else I could find and make trenches... My sister and I would then take turns rolling a golf ball towards each others army and the last man standing won. However we could never agree on whether they were still alive if they were leaning on something
I think that was my favourite game/toy |
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My favorite toys were toy cars. I collected matchbox cars and got new one every Friday from my Grandmother.
Wish I'd kept them and especially in the boxes but toys are to played with not looked at. |
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"Tiny tears and pippa dolls and a bloody good imagination  "
I remember those, my sister had them, pippa became action mans daughter in a sort of ' Taken' scenario. |
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"Now I think of it, my companion growing up was a green crocodile hand puppet called Crazy Charlie.
Very naughty reptile. "
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"Tiny tears and pippa dolls and a bloody good imagination
I remember those, my sister had them, pippa became action mans daughter in a sort of ' Taken' scenario. "
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"Tiny tears and pippa dolls and a bloody good imagination
I remember those, my sister had them, pippa became action mans daughter in a sort of ' Taken' scenario. "
Mine played with Mr matey in the bath |
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"Tiny tears and pippa dolls and a bloody good imagination
I remember those, my sister had them, pippa became action mans daughter in a sort of ' Taken' scenario.
Mine played with Mr matey in the bath "
Mr Matey does a colour changing bubble bath. Its blue, it hits the water and goes red, it's not a new product but its fucking ace. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Tiny tears and pippa dolls and a bloody good imagination
I remember those, my sister had them, pippa became action mans daughter in a sort of ' Taken' scenario.
Mine played with Mr matey in the bath "
That is some surreal shit man! |
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Remember those days of no responsibility, the only thing I worried about was if Dad could get the frogman outfit on Action Man, before the days of those little cups. lol |
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"Space hopper
Do they get used as sex toys now or is this my twisted mind playing up?"
The ladies sit on the handles and bounce, they can try dp if they are feeling extra naughty and there holes are a foot apart  |
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"Space hopper
Do they get used as sex toys now or is this my twisted mind playing up?
The ladies sit on the handles and bounce, they can try dp if they are feeling extra naughty and there holes are a foot apart "
They might not be that distance when they begin riding it though |
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I was scarred as a child...my dad took my first lego set and wouldnt let me play with it until he had built a house with all the bricks...on Christmas day. Never got another set  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My toy soldiers had hundreds of them.
Airfix? "
yep mate some great memories there used to get a box every week and then get all my cousins mostvof the family were military so loved it. |
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"I was scarred as a child...my dad took my first lego set and wouldnt let me play with it until he had built a house with all the bricks...on Christmas day. Never got another set "
That's traumatic! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I had a tractor and trailer as a kid - got it for my 3rd birthday
My Mum tried everything to get me to pick a Wendy House instead but not a chance
Went all over the place in it....put my sister in the trailer and off we went
Going too fast around a corner and her ankle bone scrapped up against the wall oh but the screams brought half the street out |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was scarred as a child...my dad took my first lego set and wouldnt let me play with it until he had built a house with all the bricks...on Christmas day. Never got another set
That's traumatic!"
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My toy soldiers had hundreds of them.
Airfix?
yep mate some great memories there used to get a box every week and then get all my cousins mostvof the family were military so loved it."
My Dad was a Marine, so I had to have the Commandos box, they were well detailed, 32nd scale, great memories, |
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"I was a tom boy loved climbing trees and my x was never far lol. I got bought dolls but i gave them away. Best toy ever was my mini pool table "
I still climb trees now, fancy a non sexual tree climbing meet? |
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Action Man with a tank.
I also had a penknife which me and my mates used to make spears with and roam the countryside.
When I was older Me and my mates used to collect and play warhammmer. |
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A six million dollar man action man, looked through his head for binocular vision, rolled skin back on his arm to see all the wires inside, it was cool in 1977 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The original little Polly Pockets - I had absolutely loads - and Barbie dolls. I'm an only child & I wasn't spoilt at all, but I remember getting the massive Barbie camper van in the late 90s for Christmas, that must have been about forty quid at least.
My late grandpa made me a brilliant Tudor style dolls house when I was seven or eight. It's still in my mum's attic. He wallpapered all the rooms and made all the furniture, definitely a family heirloom |
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"A six million dollar man action man, looked through his head for binocular vision, rolled skin back on his arm to see all the wires inside, it was cool in 1977 "
Yep had that, you got an engine or steel girder for him to lift when you pushed the button in his back. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My toy soldiers had hundreds of them.
Airfix?
yep mate some great memories there used to get a box every week and then get all my cousins mostvof the family were military so loved it.
My Dad was a Marine, so I had to have the Commandos box, they were well detailed, 32nd scale, great memories,"
My uncle was a para and i had another one the green jackets.I now collect the lead ones. |
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By *etzPlayCouple
over a year ago
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"What was your favourite toy as a kid?
I was a big Action Man fan, not so much the military stuff, but the explorer with the dog sled and the mountaineer. I also love my Britains toy animals and farm set. Things were so simple back then. "
You don't know how close I've come to getting the same tattoo as Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow lol |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My toy soldiers had hundreds of them.
Airfix?
yep mate some great memories there used to get a box every week and then get all my cousins mostvof the family were military so loved it.
My Dad was a Marine, so I had to have the Commandos box, they were well detailed, 32nd scale, great memories,
My uncle was a para and i had another one the green jackets.I now collect the lead ones."
I had Paras as well, I bet the lead ones cost a few bob now/ |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"What was your favourite toy as a kid?
I was a big Action Man fan, not so much the military stuff, but the explorer with the dog sled and the mountaineer. I also love my Britains toy animals and farm set. Things were so simple back then.
You don't know how close I've come to getting the same tattoo as Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow lol"
Go for it! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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For my ninth birthday my dad bought me a black and decker workmate and a chest full of tools, chisels ,saws, screwdrivers ,drawknives ,a multimeter, hammers you name it it was in there.. Was the best thing ever for
Me as was always taking things apart to see how they worked! Kinda set me up for how I am and what I do now..
hi 5 old chap and you gave me a glass of whisky that night !! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My toy soldiers had hundreds of them.
Airfix?
yep mate some great memories there used to get a box every week and then get all my cousins mostvof the family were military so loved it.
My Dad was a Marine, so I had to have the Commandos box, they were well detailed, 32nd scale, great memories,
My uncle was a para and i had another one the green jackets.I now collect the lead ones.
I had Paras as well, I bet the lead ones cost a few bob now/"
Depends last one i got was 20 euro but i make them meself kits useally go frim 10 euro upwards. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My toy soldiers had hundreds of them.
Airfix?
yep mate some great memories there used to get a box every week and then get all my cousins mostvof the family were military so loved it.
My Dad was a Marine, so I had to have the Commandos box, they were well detailed, 32nd scale, great memories,
My uncle was a para and i had another one the green jackets.I now collect the lead ones.
I had Paras as well, I bet the lead ones cost a few bob now/
Depends last one i got was 20 euro but i make them meself kits useally go frim 10 euro upwards."
I thought you meant the old ones. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"He-Man, ghey.
Thundercats! Although I did have a castle of grey skull would prob be worth a fortune now! "
I made my own castle Grayskull out of a cardboard box, posh bastard. |
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"Barbie and Sindy dolls. "
Can they cook tea for my action man, so he can get his strength up for his next mission, or would they consider that sexist of him, |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"He-Man, ghey.
Thundercats! Although I did have a castle of grey skull would prob be worth a fortune now!
I made my own castle Grayskull out of a cardboard box, posh bastard."
Blue Peter man ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Clackers
Two plastic balls on equal lengths of string that used to knock together high and low by a wrist and hand movement...
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Banned after we all got bruised knuckles |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Clackers
Two plastic balls on equal lengths of string that used to knock together high and low by a wrist and hand movement...
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Banned after we all got bruised knuckles "
I remember them, how about the tube that made a noise when you swung it around your head, can you remember what that was called? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A six million dollar man action man, looked through his head for binocular vision, rolled skin back on his arm to see all the wires inside, it was cool in 1977 "
I had that one in the 70's too, with the removable circuit board in his arm and the orange girder.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Clackers
Two plastic balls on equal lengths of string that used to knock together high and low by a wrist and hand movement...
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Banned after we all got bruised knuckles
I remember them, how about the tube that made a noise when you swung it around your head, can you remember what that was called? "
Yeah remember like a vacuum cleaner hose ( sure that's what grandad "made" ours from)
can't remember name tho |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"A six million dollar man action man, looked through his head for binocular vision, rolled skin back on his arm to see all the wires inside, it was cool in 1977
I had that one in the 70's too, with the removable circuit board in his arm and the orange girder. "
I had the girder one, but wanted the engine |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Clackers
Two plastic balls on equal lengths of string that used to knock together high and low by a wrist and hand movement...
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Banned after we all got bruised knuckles
I remember them, how about the tube that made a noise when you swung it around your head, can you remember what that was called?
Yeah remember like a vacuum cleaner hose ( sure that's what grandad "made" ours from)
can't remember name tho"
That`s the one, does anybody know what they were called? |
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"What a bunch of heartless Bastards,,,,,
Not one of you mentioned your Teddy-Bear......
Disgraceful
Shame on the lot of you.... "
Still got mine in the loft, it`s 49 years old and still in one piece, unlike me |
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"action man lego airfix models and those transfer things
I`m intrigued about the transfer things?"
Do you mean the water slide transfers you used to get with the Airfix kits? |
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"action man lego airfix models and those transfer things
I`m intrigued about the transfer things?
Do you mean the water slide transfers you used to get with the Airfix kits? "
I hated them things, I used to get my Dad to do them for me and he went bananas, what was his name for them, oh yeah, "slippery bastards" |
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"action man lego airfix models and those transfer things
I`m intrigued about the transfer things?
Do you mean the water slide transfers you used to get with the Airfix kits?
I hated them things, I used to get my Dad to do them for me and he went bananas, what was his name for them, oh yeah, "slippery bastards" "
I can remember my Dad building a model kit replica of his Alpina BMW at the dining room table. It looked awesome till he tried to apply the stripes on the sides and got creases in them. Those things really were a nightmare to apply lol. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"action man lego airfix models and those transfer things
I`m intrigued about the transfer things?
Do you mean the water slide transfers you used to get with the Airfix kits?
I hated them things, I used to get my Dad to do them for me and he went bananas, what was his name for them, oh yeah, "slippery bastards"
I can remember my Dad building a model kit replica of his Alpina BMW at the dining room table. It looked awesome till he tried to apply the stripes on the sides and got creases in them. Those things really were a nightmare to apply lol. "
Don`t get me started on the creases mate.  |
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"Never had action man.
I had Lego and meccano, when I was younger it was a Tonka dump truck. The thing was indestructible, we tried to wreck it.....we failed."
First thing every kid did with a Tonka toy was try to destroy it, lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"He-Man, ghey.
Thundercats! Although I did have a castle of grey skull would prob be worth a fortune now!
I made my own castle Grayskull out of a cardboard box, posh bastard."
Yes daddy bought it when mummy was at the spa and Tarquin was at the stables as if it was a hand me down my cousin was the spoilt one!! Single child syndrome although I wasn't complaining lol |
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So who else made do with a throwing arrow with flights made from margerine tub lids ... I sold them at school till the teachers found out the barstards I could have been a made man by 16 !! Lol |
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I liked the lack of electronic games, you actually sat round with your family playing proper games which all seemed to be made by MB games lol. Used to love the feeling when you pulled a pin out in Ker Plunk and nothing fell then the next person would have a go and all hell would break loose. Simple pleasures back in those days. |
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"Starwars toys!!!! Awwwww man I had so many and now repeatedly kick myself when I see how much they're worth... Not many survived vaders light sabre... "
My oldest lad has loads of them somewhere, he`s 25 now and saving them for a rainy day. |
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"A six million dollar man action man, looked through his head for binocular vision, rolled skin back on his arm to see all the wires inside, it was cool in 1977
I had that one in the 70's too, with the removable circuit board in his arm and the orange girder.
I had the girder one, but wanted the engine "
mine was the engine one also had Oscar goldman his boss who had an exploding briefcase and his enemy, maskatron,still have them in the loft, and have an original Big Trak too |
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"Never had action man.
I had Lego and meccano, when I was younger it was a Tonka dump truck. The thing was indestructible, we tried to wreck it.....we failed.
First thing every kid did with a Tonka toy was try to destroy it, lol"
You're so right!
My brother had a Tonka car transporter (yes spoilt!) barely a scratch on it. He/we tried by sitting/walking/jumping on it. My kids have tried, now it's his kids turn.
Don't make em like they used to (am I in the right thread?!)
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"Never had action man.
I had Lego and meccano, when I was younger it was a Tonka dump truck. The thing was indestructible, we tried to wreck it.....we failed.
First thing every kid did with a Tonka toy was try to destroy it, lol
You're so right!
My brother had a Tonka car transporter (yes spoilt!) barely a scratch on it. He/we tried by sitting/walking/jumping on it. My kids have tried, now it's his kids turn.
Don't make em like they used to (am I in the right thread?!)
Mrs DDC"
I`ve two autistic lads now, they destroy everything, wish they still made Tonka`s . Yep you`re in the right thread,lol |
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"I was a tom boy loved climbing trees and my x was never far lol. I got bought dolls but i gave them away. Best toy ever was my mini pool table
I still climb trees now, fancy a non sexual tree climbing meet?"
Haha im not as good as i was! X |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Loved playing with my sindy and pippa dolls and also had a tiny tears ..lego was something I shared with my brother.I also had a space hopper and roller skates...and my dad built me a Wendy house in the garden x |
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"Never had action man.
I had Lego and meccano, when I was younger it was a Tonka dump truck. The thing was indestructible, we tried to wreck it.....we failed.
First thing every kid did with a Tonka toy was try to destroy it, lol"
The modern ones are plastic, not quite the same challenge. |
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"He-man figures.
He didn't run off on you then I see what with those ridiculous socks you have on
*RUB. I meant rub not run"
He-man wore socks. It's a little known fact. You fancy dressing up as She-Ra for me sometime!  |
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"He-man figures.
He didn't run off on you then I see what with those ridiculous socks you have on
*RUB. I meant rub not run
He-man wore socks. It's a little known fact. You fancy dressing up as She-Ra for me sometime! "
I envied She-Ra |
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