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if you could have any toy again from your childhood what would it be
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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i had a thing called VERTI BIRD,it was a helicopter on a rod that flew around hovered and you had to pick things up etc, saw one go on e bay for £110 last month wish i still had one  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lego, and I love browsing toy shops to see how much they have evolved from my younger days.
Also a Meccano clock, as I failed to make mine work, and would love to have another go at it.
And nope, I cannot remember ever owning a doll! Never a girlie girl you see.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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'Lexi Data'  It was a yellow plastic flat box, with a pop-up button in the middle, a turning disc with numbers and 20 little sliders going out from the centre. Each slider had 3 positions.
It came with packs of colourful question cards, you could buy different packs for different age groups on every subject.
Each card had a seriel number to enter on the box, each question was a multiple choice with 3 possible answers to match the sliders, if you got all the answers right the button popped up with a smiley face and went 'DING!'
.... well it was before the days of computers. I wish I had kept it and bought more packs, I bet it would be a real collectors peice now.. and still playable too!
Sorry - that was a bit long winded  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My Red Chopper. What a great bike that was. Went far afield with my mates on that bike, jumped ramps with it, scrambled down the local quarry with it. It's fair to say that I loved that bike.  |
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Do you know something, i have no idea. We never went short of toys but we spent most of our time outdoors making our own fun, building dens and going for bike rides. I cant actually remember sitting for hours playing with one toy. We had a lot of board games and craft stuff for when we where inside because it was raining.
My sister was a tom boy and had all the jcb diggers and stuff like that.
We made our own gokarts and stuff.
I guess i would have to say my bike cause its what i used most of the time |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had a doll that was brought for me.. I wasnt really a Doll kinda gal when I was younger..but this one I found lovely. it was a fabric made doll but made for me by a friend of the family.. she had the most amazingly embroidered eyes..
She was called sally... I lost her on a trip back from Jersey ( well they lost our baggage)
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Do you know something, i have no idea. We never went short of toys but we spent most of our time outdoors making our own fun, building dens and going for bike rides. I cant actually remember sitting for hours playing with one toy. We had a lot of board games and craft stuff for when we where inside because it was raining.
My sister was a tom boy and had all the jcb diggers and stuff like that.
We made our own gokarts and stuff.
I guess i would have to say my bike cause its what i used most of the time"
AHH homemade go karts now ya talking, destroy a perfectly working good condition pram , to make a go kart lol happy days  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My Red Chopper. What a great bike that was. Went far afield with my mates on that bike, jumped ramps with it, scrambled down the local quarry with it. It's fair to say that I loved that bike. "
and still chopper crazy today hun i bet lol xxxx  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i used to have a smallish plastic doll with a huge over sized head, when you pulled the head it came out on a bit or string and when you let go the head pulled back in and she talked
cant remember what they was called but i loved that doll |
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By *andKCouple
over a year ago
Norfolk |
"My Magic Robot board game. I was fascinated by how it got all the answers right. "
I just saw the theme of this thread and thought of exactly the same toy but couldn't remember what it was called, wonder if it is still in my dads loft? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My Magic Robot board game. I was fascinated by how it got all the answers right.
I just saw the theme of this thread and thought of exactly the same toy but couldn't remember what it was called, wonder if it is still in my dads loft?"
.... shall we go up and have a look?
I'll hold your torch for you.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Toys? Nope. Books? Two..one a book of fairytales the other, a childrens bible, the illustrations in both were beautiful...i really wish i appreciated that at the time |
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By *andKCouple
over a year ago
Norfolk |
"My Magic Robot board game. I was fascinated by how it got all the answers right.
I just saw the theme of this thread and thought of exactly the same toy but couldn't remember what it was called, wonder if it is still in my dads loft?
.... shall we go up and have a look?
I'll hold your torch for you.
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now that does sound like a good idea  |
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By *aravancoupleMan
over a year ago
A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love |
I loved my Clackers.
A toy which was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s
They are formed out of two hard plastic balls, each about two inches in diameter.
Clackers were discontinued when reports came out of children becoming injured while playing with them. Fairly heavy and fast-moving, and made of hard plastic, the balls would occasionally shatter upon striking each other. |
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"I loved my Clackers.
A toy which was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s
They are formed out of two hard plastic balls, each about two inches in diameter.
Clackers were discontinued when reports came out of children becoming injured while playing with them. Fairly heavy and fast-moving, and made of hard plastic, the balls would occasionally shatter upon striking each other. "
I had some and was really good at them as well, bloody lethal though could take someones eye out |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Siren would like her roller boots back. They were blue with yellow stripes. She went everywhere in them, knew where all the bumps in the pavement were so stop her tripping over in them, typical 70s child. I'd like to see her in them again, wearing some nice little hot pants - you know, the ones that go right up the crack of her arse! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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when i was very little i had a teddy bear i called him ted after a man we used to know. Dont know what happened to him but i see ones like him on antiques roadshow. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"when i was very little i had a teddy bear i called him ted after a man we used to know. Dont know what happened to him but i see ones like him on antiques roadshow."
The man or the bear? |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
"Do you know something, i have no idea. We never went short of toys but we spent most of our time outdoors making our own fun, building dens and going for bike rides. I cant actually remember sitting for hours playing with one toy. We had a lot of board games and craft stuff for when we where inside because it was raining.
My sister was a tom boy and had all the jcb diggers and stuff like that.
We made our own gokarts and stuff.
I guess i would have to say my bike cause its what i used most of the timeAHH homemade go karts now ya talking, destroy a perfectly working good condition pram , to make a go kart lol happy days "
can remember making our first "skateboard" from a fruit crate screwed to my sisters old roller skate and then nearly killing our selves riding it down a one in four hill nearby ! also numerous go-carts or bogies made from pramwheels and lumps of wood happy happy days |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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"lego without a doubt awesome toy ! "
still have abit tub full of lego that my kids play with when they visit . also when lily has been particulaly nawty or disobediant i will tip the lot out and make her sort it all as a punishment !
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh my goodness...too many to mention....
Fuzzy Felt...and the younger ones will be thinking...what the hell is that! Lol
Etch a sketch...Spiro graph...the list goes on and on.....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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my roller skates
i had hours of fun on those skating round the village
even been thinking about getting a new pair now it would be a fun form or exercise i think |
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By *andKCouple
over a year ago
Norfolk |
"I loved my Clackers.
A toy which was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s
They are formed out of two hard plastic balls, each about two inches in diameter.
Clackers were discontinued when reports came out of children becoming injured while playing with them. Fairly heavy and fast-moving, and made of hard plastic, the balls would occasionally shatter upon striking each other.
I had some and was really good at them as well, bloody lethal though could take someones eye out"
my first job (during school holidays) was making clacker balls at the factory where my mum was the secretary. funny thing was the most expensive ones in the shops (multi-coloured) were actually what would normally have been waste in any other product as they were produced when we changed the colour of the raw plastic. The boss soon cottoned on to that though and one of my jobs was to 'rough' mix the plastic pellets to get the tie-dye effect. We also used to make frog arircraft kits, the rivals to airfix. Oh happy days, I bet 13 yr old kids wouldn't be allowed to work in factories these days |
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I also had a golliwog that I would love to have now because you can get a fortune for the originals these days. 