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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
When I was a kid I never really played with dolls. I did play with my brothers action men with him. Of course eagle eyes was very sexy, but I did love the frog man (maybe a bit like latex) and the polar mission, arctic explorer one with the big orange parker and wolf/ dogs. We use to set up zip wires in the back garden for them, sometimes letting evel kinevel go down them while riding on his bike.
What toys did you play with as a kid?
Lex |
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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
"Still got my original buzz lightyear 
I was a big fan of remote control cars "
Funny how you can pin people’s ages by their toys.
This freaked me out coz I have my sons buzz and woody in the loft still  |
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"Evil kenevil wind up bike wind the handle and let it rip .
Loved this, did you have the dragster one too"
No couldn't afford it.
I got mine from a jumble sale.
Always wanted a stretch Armstrong as well,but had to make do with an elastic band with a face drawn on it  |
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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
"Evil kenevil wind up bike wind the handle and let it rip .
Loved this, did you have the dragster one too
No couldn't afford it.
I got mine from a jumble sale.
Always wanted a stretch Armstrong as well,but had to make do with an elastic band with a face drawn on it "
Hahaha oh my brother had stretch hulk and we stretched him so much he split |
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"Evil kenevil wind up bike wind the handle and let it rip .
Loved this, did you have the dragster one too
No couldn't afford it.
I got mine from a jumble sale.
Always wanted a stretch Armstrong as well,but had to make do with an elastic band with a face drawn on it
Hahaha oh my brother had stretch hulk and we stretched him so much he split "
Sounds like a plotline to a gay porn superhero movie |
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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
"My favourite was just being outdoors playing
If stuck indoors I was normally drawing, reading or building Lego houses until 1981 when I got a hand held console... Astro Wars "
What games did you play outside, can you remember?
Did you walk around the school yard singing “join on for war”. Or “who wants to play, Mam’s and dads” but never actually play |
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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
"Evil kenevil wind up bike wind the handle and let it rip .
Loved this, did you have the dragster one too
No couldn't afford it.
I got mine from a jumble sale.
Always wanted a stretch Armstrong as well,but had to make do with an elastic band with a face drawn on it
Hahaha oh my brother had stretch hulk and we stretched him so much he split
Sounds like a plotline to a gay porn superhero movie "
Seek and ye shall find.
Not sticking in my search engine like. It’s got enough dodgy stuff in already |
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By *cgkcCouple
over a year ago
Hitchin |
"My favourite was just being outdoors playing
If stuck indoors I was normally drawing, reading or building Lego houses until 1981 when I got a hand held console... Astro Wars "
Still got mine and it works. I can still remember all the music! |
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I remember a mate had one of the first hand held battery powered games called "blip"
It was basically squash not very exciting.
Back then I was either climbing a tree or falling out of one.
Building or crashing a go cart.
Or pretending to be Steve Austin |
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"Old pram wheels and a plank of wood.
Did you make your own skateboard with a bit of wood and a roller skate split in two?"
No but the kids on my road all made go karts in the hope of racing, until we all became aware of the fact that we lived in a small village in Lincolnshire.
Which you may or may not know is very very flat.
So it wasn't so much a go cart race it was more like a test for who could run the fastest whilst pushing and steering a go cart race.
I pimped mine up
Pontius Pilate style and put nails sticking out the front and sides until I impaled myself on one.
I then resorted to my second favourite activity.
Burning stuff, starting with the gokart. |
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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
"I used to get all my books out and make a pretend library so I was the librarian
Do you think this is why I like my specs so much Lex?"
Haha you are a very sexy librarian
I use to play libraries too. I think so I could be in charge with the big stamper and be stern and mean |
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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
"I can remember a big group of us making a go kart from an old pram, a skipping rope and bits of wood off 'the back field' x"
Wow, we had a back field too. Is that where you all made dens, had your bonfires and read your porn? |
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over a year ago
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Had the action men, loads of tiny plastic soldiers, but nothing topped a cap gun. Blamming away through the woods and fields behind the farm dressed in oversized military surplus trousers and tops.
And of course every boy had a knife. Never saw anyone stabbed either!! |
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"I used to get all my books out and make a pretend library so I was the librarian
Do you think this is why I like my specs so much Lex?"
Oh dear sounds like a lonely childhood.
Did you walk around telling your Dollies to shhhhhhhhh ? |
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"My favourite was just being outdoors playing
If stuck indoors I was normally drawing, reading or building Lego houses until 1981 when I got a hand held console... Astro Wars
What games did you play outside, can you remember?
Did you walk around the school yard singing “join on for war”. Or “who wants to play, Mam’s and dads” but never actually play "
lol I don’t know your school yard games, it was more bulldog for me
Outdoor was normally climbing trees, building dens, conkers, pretending to be soldiers, on our bikes, just generally exploring. I grew up mostly on army bases so was a Tom boy and if you didn’t get home by the MPs it was a bonus |
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"My favourite was just being outdoors playing
If stuck indoors I was normally drawing, reading or building Lego houses until 1981 when I got a hand held console... Astro Wars
Still got mine and it works. I can still remember all the music! "
Oh wow lucky you. I’d play it now if I could but my lad would probably just pull faces at it haha |
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Britains Farm toys. Had the farm yard, stable block, barns, tractors, loads of animals and even a big conbine havister. Everthing you need really for a fully fuctioning farm. Plus Britains were so well made and realist.
As I got older I got more into Lego. Lego city, knights, pirates and marines. I had a big collection. Now my kids play with my old Lego and it makes me so happy. |
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"I can remember a big group of us making a go kart from an old pram, a skipping rope and bits of wood off 'the back field' x
Wow, we had a back field too. Is that where you all made dens, had your bonfires and read your porn? "
No porn but dens, bonfires, manhunt x |
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By *ookie46Woman
over a year ago
Deepest darkest Peru |
"I used to get all my books out and make a pretend library so I was the librarian
Do you think this is why I like my specs so much Lex?
Haha you are a very sexy librarian
I use to play libraries too. I think so I could be in charge with the big stamper and be stern and mean "
Haha yep, picturing you now  |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Lego back when you just got assorted bricks and had to use your imagination rather than just getting a set that would only build one thing (like the Milennium Falcon).
Airfix planes - used to hang them on my ceiling. Had loads of Airfix soldiers too.
Striker - football game where you pressed the players head down to kick
Subbuteo
Scalextric - friends of the family bought me the biggest set they did at the time for Xmas and I'd play with it for hours.
Countless Matchbox/Dinky cars and the loop the loop race set that went with the Matchbox ones.
Board games galore (Risk, Game Of Life, Payday and a good few more)
Action Man - had a few - my favourite was the Canadian Mountie uniform you could only get by saving the stars on the side of the boxes - saw one a few years back on sale for £400 - alas didn't keep mine!!
Crossfire - a game where you had to shoot a puck into your opponents goal using ball bearings
Like Spurschick though school holidays were best spent going on "adventures" on bikes with mates over the local park and spending all day outdoors. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had a wind up Evel Knievel motorcycle you and a Batman car with the bridge you could assemble and blow up with an air pump. My brother and I used to send Evel Knievel over the bridge and blow him up instead though.
I also had an Muhammad Ali boxing doll which I would make beat up my action man.
I still my Muhammad Ali doll although it's looking a bit worse for wear now as it's missing an arm and a hand lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Believe it or not : calculator !
and a large collection of car miniatures (Tamiya). Start collecting them since I was 5. "
I remember the early personal calculators. They had dimly lit red lights and a shity battery life.
Did anyone else play Spiderman by tieing off a ball of string to a table leg and the winding the string around everything else in the house to make a giant web? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lego. Kept it all including the instructions. My kids not interested at all in it.
And my train set. My first was an intercity 125..still got that too. "
Ohh can I come round and play? My brother had a Hornby train set but he'd never let me near it |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Oh few more to add to the list...
Top Trumps - had loads of different sets
Ker Plunk!
Frustration with the Pop-o-matic thing to roll the dice
Mastermind - where you had to work out your opponents coloured pegs in so many goes
Mousetrap - that never worked properly when setting the trap off
Oh and a thing called Flight Deck that involved trying to land a Phantom jet attached to string on the "deck" of an imaginary aircraft carrier - that took forever to set up and you soon got bored of. |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
Hereford |
"I add a few action men when i was a kid and then when I was sixteen I joined up and became the real thing
Which was your favourite action man PP?
Red devil "
Of course, after all, the Red Devils are a team of action men.. . |
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"Lego. Kept it all including the instructions. My kids not interested at all in it.
And my train set. My first was an intercity 125..still got that too.
Ohh can I come round and play? My brother had a Hornby train set but he'd never let me near it "
Actually sat looking at it in boxes and bags now. Mother was about to sell it...for £250. Mother is silly. Spent ages cutting and covering drain pipes in fake grass for tunnels and clay mountains.. I may make a child camp in the garden over the summer so I can set it up in their room Haha |
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I always wanted the dream phone game. Something like that. Where you had a phone, surprisingly, and find your dream date..
Mr frosty has been on my xmas and birthday list since 1988 and will remain so until someone actually buys me a present ive asked for..
Although the slush puppy machines look good. Lol |
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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
"Lego back when you just got assorted bricks and had to use your imagination rather than just getting a set that would only build one thing (like the Milennium Falcon).
Airfix planes - used to hang them on my ceiling. Had loads of Airfix soldiers too.
Striker - football game where you pressed the players head down to kick
Subbuteo
Scalextric - friends of the family bought me the biggest set they did at the time for Xmas and I'd play with it for hours.
Countless Matchbox/Dinky cars and the loop the loop race set that went with the Matchbox ones.
Board games galore (Risk, Game Of Life, Payday and a good few more)
Action Man - had a few - my favourite was the Canadian Mountie uniform you could only get by saving the stars on the side of the boxes - saw one a few years back on sale for £400 - alas didn't keep mine!!
Crossfire - a game where you had to shoot a puck into your opponents goal using ball bearings
Like Spurschick though school holidays were best spent going on "adventures" on bikes with mates over the local park and spending all day outdoors."
I remember the Mountie, we got that, and wasn’t there a dog you could get too |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
Newcastle upon Tyne |
It was Lego for us. We had some Meccano too, but I don't remember using it much.
The Lego had been inherited from somewhere, and was a huge collection of bricks with no instructions. We'd just build whatever we fancied. Houses were just an outline, two courses of bricks with windows on top. Our imaginations filled in the rest.
The Meccano had instructions. I've never got on very well with instructions. No, I'm not a sub, why do you ask? |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Action Man - had a few - my favourite was the Canadian Mountie uniform you could only get by saving the stars on the side of the boxes - saw one a few years back on sale for £400 - alas didn't keep mine!!
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I remember the Mountie, we got that, and wasn’t there a dog you could get too"
Yeah the Mountie came with a dog, which bizarrely from memory was a boxer |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I always wanted the dream phone game. Something like that. Where you had a phone, surprisingly, and find your dream date..
Mr frosty has been on my xmas and birthday list since 1988 and will remain so until someone actually buys me a present ive asked for..
Although the slush puppy machines look good. Lol "
Ha I had a Mr frosty. You can still buy them |
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"I always wanted the dream phone game. Something like that. Where you had a phone, surprisingly, and find your dream date..
Mr frosty has been on my xmas and birthday list since 1988 and will remain so until someone actually buys me a present ive asked for..
Although the slush puppy machines look good. Lol
Ha I had a Mr frosty. You can still buy them "
I know..which is why I get more pissed off year after year...when i now get shit like ornamental crap I gotta dust or Hoover ( house hold items used for chores should never be given as presents) coz apparently I gotta do that too..when all I've wanted since I was 8 was a mr frosty fucking snow cone asshole maker... |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
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I was proper old school before the days of eagle eyes and realistic hair |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
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It was a manly scar.
My mom made clothes for my action man. I don't remember asking her but she made them anyway. He must have looked like a right nonce in brown flares and a massive knitted jumper. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
I was proper old school before the days of eagle eyes and realistic hair "
My brother had an eagle eyes and a 6 milion dollar man. The arms would shoot off when you press buttons and they both had the eagle eye. |
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
It was a manly scar.
My mom made clothes for my action man. I don't remember asking her but she made them anyway. He must have looked like a right nonce in brown flares and a massive knitted jumper."
Yes! You've just reminded me, my mum knitted our Action Man a big blue fishermans jumper!
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
I was proper old school before the days of eagle eyes and realistic hair
My brother had an eagle eyes and a 6 milion dollar man. The arms would shoot off when you press buttons and they both had the eagle eye."
We aspired to the 6 million dollar man... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
It was a manly scar.
My mom made clothes for my action man. I don't remember asking her but she made them anyway. He must have looked like a right nonce in brown flares and a massive knitted jumper.
Yes! You've just reminded me, my mum knitted our Action Man a big blue fishermans jumper!
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Yes the kinted stitching would always be massive because the wool was really thick. So he'd be on manoeuvres looking like a born again christian.
I used to fling him from the bedroom window as my mom got me an action man parachute from a jumble sale. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
It was a manly scar.
My mom made clothes for my action man. I don't remember asking her but she made them anyway. He must have looked like a right nonce in brown flares and a massive knitted jumper.
Yes! You've just reminded me, my mum knitted our Action Man a big blue fishermans jumper!
Yes the kinted stitching would always be massive because the wool was really thick. So he'd be on manoeuvres looking like a born again christian.
I used to fling him from the bedroom window as my mom got me an action man parachute from a jumble sale."
I had the deep sea diver one with the big helmet (no not that sort!!) and the weighted boots that came with an air tube that if you blew down it made bubbles!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When I was a kid I never really played with dolls. I did play with my brothers action men with him. Of course eagle eyes was very sexy, but I did love the frog man (maybe a bit like latex) and the polar mission, arctic explorer one with the big orange parker and wolf/ dogs. We use to set up zip wires in the back garden for them, sometimes letting evel kinevel go down them while riding on his bike.
What toys did you play with as a kid?
Lex"
Oh yeah action man with his real feel beard and in his orange latex frogman suit. Probably my first realisation of bisexual tendencies  |
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
It was a manly scar.
My mom made clothes for my action man. I don't remember asking her but she made them anyway. He must have looked like a right nonce in brown flares and a massive knitted jumper.
Yes! You've just reminded me, my mum knitted our Action Man a big blue fishermans jumper!
Yes the kinted stitching would always be massive because the wool was really thick. So he'd be on manoeuvres looking like a born again christian.
I used to fling him from the bedroom window as my mom got me an action man parachute from a jumble sale.
I had the deep sea diver one with the big helmet (no not that sort!!) and the weighted boots that came with an air tube that if you blew down it made bubbles!!"
I seem to vaguely remember the deep sea diver action man. I think a friend at school had one. He had a truck too which we'd send action man down a hill into a river. |
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
It was a manly scar.
My mom made clothes for my action man. I don't remember asking her but she made them anyway. He must have looked like a right nonce in brown flares and a massive knitted jumper.
Yes! You've just reminded me, my mum knitted our Action Man a big blue fishermans jumper!
Yes the kinted stitching would always be massive because the wool was really thick. So he'd be on manoeuvres looking like a born again christian.
I used to fling him from the bedroom window as my mom got me an action man parachute from a jumble sale.
I had the deep sea diver one with the big helmet (no not that sort!!) and the weighted boots that came with an air tube that if you blew down it made bubbles!!"
Could you put it in the bath? And blow an suck air out to make it go up and down? |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
It was a manly scar.
My mom made clothes for my action man. I don't remember asking her but she made them anyway. He must have looked like a right nonce in brown flares and a massive knitted jumper.
Yes! You've just reminded me, my mum knitted our Action Man a big blue fishermans jumper!
Yes the kinted stitching would always be massive because the wool was really thick. So he'd be on manoeuvres looking like a born again christian.
I used to fling him from the bedroom window as my mom got me an action man parachute from a jumble sale.
I had the deep sea diver one with the big helmet (no not that sort!!) and the weighted boots that came with an air tube that if you blew down it made bubbles!!
Could you put it in the bath? And blow an suck air out to make it go up and down?"
You could put it in the bath but as far as I remember all that happened if you blew down the tube was that it would make bubbles appear.
Actually talking of bath toys reminds me of another that deserves a post of it's own |
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Frustration with the Pop-o-matic thing to roll the dice
Mastermind - where you had to work out your opponents coloured pegs in so many goes
Mousetrap - that never worked properly when setting the trap off
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Still favourites in our house along with pick up sticks; connect four; Yahtzee; and the first to build their beetle |
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"Action Man had no genitals, even as kids we thought that was odd, tho I was inpressed by his scar and his eagle eye.
It was a manly scar.
My mom made clothes for my action man. I don't remember asking her but she made them anyway. He must have looked like a right nonce in brown flares and a massive knitted jumper.
Yes! You've just reminded me, my mum knitted our Action Man a big blue fishermans jumper!
Yes the kinted stitching would always be massive because the wool was really thick. So he'd be on manoeuvres looking like a born again christian.
I used to fling him from the bedroom window as my mom got me an action man parachute from a jumble sale.
I had the deep sea diver one with the big helmet (no not that sort!!) and the weighted boots that came with an air tube that if you blew down it made bubbles!!
Could you put it in the bath? And blow an suck air out to make it go up and down?
You could put it in the bath but as far as I remember all that happened if you blew down the tube was that it would make bubbles appear.
Actually talking of bath toys reminds me of another that deserves a post of it's own"
I had a shark for the bath. Looking back I should have made it eat action man. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Frustration with the Pop-o-matic thing to roll the dice
Mastermind - where you had to work out your opponents coloured pegs in so many goes
Mousetrap - that never worked properly when setting the trap off
Still favourites in our house along with pick up sticks; connect four; Yahtzee; and the first to build their beetle "
My school had beetle races. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
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Frustration with the Pop-o-matic thing to roll the dice
Mastermind - where you had to work out your opponents coloured pegs in so many goes
Mousetrap - that never worked properly when setting the trap off
Still favourites in our house along with pick up sticks; connect four; Yahtzee; and the first to build their beetle "
Oooh pick up sticks - reminds me of the other game I had - where you had a pile of plastic every day objects (ladders, an iron etc) and had to pick them up with a hook that came with the game.
P.S. Think I need to come to your house for a play - you have the best toys |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Frustration with the Pop-o-matic thing to roll the dice
Mastermind - where you had to work out your opponents coloured pegs in so many goes
Mousetrap - that never worked properly when setting the trap off
Still favourites in our house along with pick up sticks; connect four; Yahtzee; and the first to build their beetle
Oooh pick up sticks - reminds me of the other game I had - where you had a pile of plastic every day objects (ladders, an iron etc) and had to pick them up with a hook that came with the game.
P.S. Think I need to come to your house for a play - you have the best toys"
Hmm I seem to remember that every day in object toy but can't for the life of me remember exactly what it was. It wasn't Buckaroo.
I was mad for Fuzzy Felts. |
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Frustration with the Pop-o-matic thing to roll the dice
Mastermind - where you had to work out your opponents coloured pegs in so many goes
Mousetrap - that never worked properly when setting the trap off
Still favourites in our house along with pick up sticks; connect four; Yahtzee; and the first to build their beetle
Oooh pick up sticks - reminds me of the other game I had - where you had a pile of plastic every day objects (ladders, an iron etc) and had to pick them up with a hook that came with the game.
P.S. Think I need to come to your house for a play - you have the best toys"
We have the everyday item pick up game too, my lad loves the old games. No PlayStation here (reserves for his dad’s house) just old fashioned fun indoors and out
Always good to have someone to play with  |
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Frustration with the Pop-o-matic thing to roll the dice
Mastermind - where you had to work out your opponents coloured pegs in so many goes
Mousetrap - that never worked properly when setting the trap off
Still favourites in our house along with pick up sticks; connect four; Yahtzee; and the first to build their beetle
Oooh pick up sticks - reminds me of the other game I had - where you had a pile of plastic every day objects (ladders, an iron etc) and had to pick them up with a hook that came with the game.
P.S. Think I need to come to your house for a play - you have the best toys
Hmm I seem to remember that every day in object toy but can't for the life of me remember exactly what it was. It wasn't Buckaroo.
I was mad for Fuzzy Felts."
Buckaroo was the horse and load it up
Damn so many memories.... fuzzy felt |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Frustration with the Pop-o-matic thing to roll the dice
Mastermind - where you had to work out your opponents coloured pegs in so many goes
Mousetrap - that never worked properly when setting the trap off
Still favourites in our house along with pick up sticks; connect four; Yahtzee; and the first to build their beetle
Oooh pick up sticks - reminds me of the other game I had - where you had a pile of plastic every day objects (ladders, an iron etc) and had to pick them up with a hook that came with the game.
P.S. Think I need to come to your house for a play - you have the best toys
We have the everyday item pick up game too, my lad loves the old games. No PlayStation here (reserves for his dad’s house) just old fashioned fun indoors and out
Always good to have someone to play with "
Lovely to hear - there's a lot to be said for some of the old school games and no PlayStation
And I might just have to hold you...to that |
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"I had a Sindy for my birthday.
I cut all her hair off, coloured her clothes black & green.
I got Action Man the following Christmas
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I think I'm in love |
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By *an_Lexa OP Couple
over a year ago
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Did anyone have a chemistry set? They were worried I’d blow stuff up so got me a biology one instead with pollen and butterfly wings and a microscope.
But the lad over the road had a chemistry set and we would sit on his drive and make bangs. |
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"Did anyone have a chemistry set? They were worried I’d blow stuff up so got me a biology one instead with pollen and butterfly wings and a microscope.
But the lad over the road had a chemistry set and we would sit on his drive and make bangs."
Wow ,I just had a mental whiff of the smell of the iron filings in my chemistry set!
Fabulous.
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Lego, scalextrix, toy cars
Kept all of it for when i have kids too
Infact afew months back my life long friend that i was practically joint to the hip too came round with his 7 year old, we went in my loft and got the lego out, there was still stuff in the box we had made. |
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"Did anyone have a chemistry set? They were worried I’d blow stuff up so got me a biology one instead with pollen and butterfly wings and a microscope.
But the lad over the road had a chemistry set and we would sit on his drive and make bangs."
I had a chemistry set but I just mixed loads of shit up and didn't really look at the instructions.
I was reading about the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab. That was a kids chemistry set that had real uranium.
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"At my parents place this weekend. There is still a bag of all my old he-man and thundercats toys in the spare room that the kids play with
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They'll be worth a few quid now. |
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Didn't really like toys that much but we did have a lot of wrestling figures.
Preferred computer games. Had an Atari 2600, amstrad 464 plus, original Nintendo then a mega drive... Good times watching my dad boss it on river raid on the Atari. He seemed to never die on it. X |
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"Didn't really like toys that much but we did have a lot of wrestling figures.
Preferred computer games. Had an Atari 2600, amstrad 464 plus, original Nintendo then a mega drive... Good times watching my dad boss it on river raid on the Atari. He seemed to never die on it. X"
Still got my Atari 2600  |
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"Didn't really like toys that much but we did have a lot of wrestling figures.
Preferred computer games. Had an Atari 2600, amstrad 464 plus, original Nintendo then a mega drive... Good times watching my dad boss it on river raid on the Atari. He seemed to never die on it. X
Still got my Atari 2600 "
Pretty sure ours is still In my mums loft too along with a lot of old things haha. X |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
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"At my parents place this weekend. There is still a bag of all my old he-man and thundercats toys in the spare room that the kids play with
(And sometimes me )
They'll be worth a few quid now."
Nope, only worth any money if still in boxes.. |
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"Lego, Britains Knights and Castles  …..are the toys I burnt once I got an Action Man!
Ouch "
…..is what I said when I pinched myself in disbelief when once upon a time on my birthday, the orphanage supervisors clubbed together and bought me a slightly worn Action Man! |
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"Power Rangers, He-Man action figures, TMNT figures, and Lego.…..are all they sold in Toronto so I had to drive like a million miles to Quebec to buy me an Action Man! "
An hour is my limit to go get me an Action Man |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
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I had the eagle eyed action man, but not the chopper. (gutted). I also had EK, but not his rocket bike or motorhome.
If AM doesn't have the eagle eyes, then it's poor substitute.
I also had the $6M man, with the left eye and built in viewing lens, that you could see through, if you looked from the hole in the rear of his head.
My own left eye got upgraded this year, sadly not with a telephoto zoom lens. |
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"Power Rangers, He-Man action figures, TMNT figures, and Lego.…..are all they sold in Toronto so I had to drive like a million miles to Quebec to buy me an Action Man!
An hour is my limit to go get me an Action Man "
gripping hands? |
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"Power Rangers, He-Man action figures, TMNT figures, and Lego.…..are all they sold in Toronto so I had to drive like a million miles to Quebec to buy me an Action Man!
An hour is my limit to go get me an Action Man gripping hands?"
Only if I get cramp |
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"I had the eagle eyed action man, but not the chopper. (gutted). I also had EK, but not his rocket bike or motorhome.
If AM doesn't have the eagle eyes, then it's poor substitute.
I also had the $6M man, with the left eye and built in viewing lens, that you could see through, if you looked from the hole in the rear of his head.
My own left eye got upgraded this year, sadly not with a telephoto zoom lens."
All cool. The bionic eye definitely cool. You’re on your way to be a real life Alita Battle Angel. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
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"I had the eagle eyed action man, but not the chopper. (gutted). I also had EK, but not his rocket bike or motorhome.
If AM doesn't have the eagle eyes, then it's poor substitute.
I also had the $6M man, with the left eye and built in viewing lens, that you could see through, if you looked from the hole in the rear of his head.
My own left eye got upgraded this year, sadly not with a telephoto zoom lens.
All cool. The bionic eye definitely cool. You’re on your way to be a real life Alita Battle Angel. "
Pfff! |
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thanks for the reminder and memory 
How CAN I look at this thread in all innocence now!?