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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #45 on: 03 April 2008, 15:06:03 »
.. and then there were the home made explosives... Pop round to see my mate whose Dad ran a garden centre for some potassium nitrate... Never got a particularly loud bang but managed to vapourise a length of copper pipe in record time.

And people moan about the price of toys, etc. The things I got most of my enjoyment out of were practically free (and probably not legal, but never mind).

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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #46 on: 03 April 2008, 15:07:27 »
another fave was my catapult. but it er...............was.. erm, taken off me for knocking the local bobbies helmet off ,and no i couldn't sit down for a week afterwards  :D :D
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« Reply #47 on: 03 April 2008, 15:07:51 »
Throwing matches with tin foil wrapped around the head onto the coal fire at home ::)
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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #48 on: 03 April 2008, 15:08:02 »
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another fave was my catapult. but it er...............was.. erm, taken off me for knocking the local bobbies helmet off ,and no i couldn't sit down for a week afterwards  :D :D

PMSL  ;D
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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #49 on: 03 April 2008, 15:20:08 »
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another fave was my catapult. but it er...............was.. erm, taken off me for knocking the local bobbies helmet off ,and no i couldn't sit down for a week afterwards  :D :D

PMSL  ;D
man, that Bobbie could run .I got i clip round the ear off him ,then a proper tanning off my Dad ,it worked though because i was never brought home by the police again (never caught again i learnt to run faster)  ;D ;D
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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #50 on: 03 April 2008, 15:25:29 »
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I still have mine!

Dad brought it just before i was first born hopin i was a boy!

its still in the box and now worth a fortune.

a hornby train with track. ( ont ask me which one i dont know) but dad wont part with it even though its mine. i want it for my son cos hes train mad!

(the other one i which i and kept but i gave to charity was my natwest pigs. cos they as a set now are worth a fortune too.)


The older ones are better as toys, the newer models are a bit too fragile. That said there are some toy ranges again from both Hornby and Bachmann (less detailed, cheaper), but my boys only play under supervision and do have an expensivish loco they bought shared.

If you get him a train se he may continue the great hobby when he is an adult.

At our last house (garden was a big bigger, but was flatter) I built a garden line, about a 20m to 30m run, and I ran stuff collectors would rather leave wrapped up and not taken out of the box.
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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #51 on: 03 April 2008, 19:31:45 »
I used to experiment with empty coke cans, a tube, and some Mr Fothergills ::)
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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #52 on: 03 April 2008, 20:04:40 »
Race n Chase...Remember that? The car's could do a handbrake turn.
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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #53 on: 03 April 2008, 20:16:03 »
I just remembered another one i had..... Whirly Bird, how cool was that when you were a kid in the 70s ::)
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« Reply #54 on: 03 April 2008, 20:38:54 »
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I just remembered another one i had..... Whirly Bird, how cool was that when you were a kid in the 70s ::)
Wasn't that the helicopter that went round in a circle and had a hook underneath?
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« Reply #55 on: 03 April 2008, 20:40:39 »
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I just remembered another one i had..... Whirly Bird, how cool was that when you were a kid in the 70s ::)
Wasn't that the helicopter that went round in a circle and had a hook underneath?

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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #56 on: 03 April 2008, 20:45:41 »
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)

Yeh, i remember TCR Total Control Racing (or in your case)
My mate had one of these & i loved it  :y

Yeah! I had a TCR and also a matchbox powertrack, I think that is what it was called. (The one with the headlights so you could race in the dark) :y
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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #57 on: 03 April 2008, 21:32:02 »
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)

Yeh, i remember TCR Total Control Racing (or in your case)
My mate had one of these & i loved it  :y

Yeah! I had a TCR and also a matchbox powertrack, I think that is what it was called. (The one with the headlights so you could race in the dark) :y


What was the 'matchboc'?? one called. It had a slotted spring going round and you got little stick things to put on any matchbox car.
Really technical with my description arnt I :D :D :D
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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #58 on: 03 April 2008, 21:36:23 »
scaletrix and mechano  :y :y

my kids have psp, ps2,ps3,nintendo wi,32" telly, video, dvd player, laptop each, pc,2 hi fis, 2 portable stereos, mobile each, mp3 each, and more

i didnt need all that stuff, my parents sent us out till lunch time then afternoon then evening and they didnt have to worry about ringing us every hr to see where we was, because we had a great crack with no worriesof being stabbed robbed or mugged. and we never had none of the stuff kids have nowadays.


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Re: Child hood toys
« Reply #59 on: 03 April 2008, 21:37:14 »
Scaletrix great then even better now you no you cant just keep your finger flat down
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