your favourite schoolboy toys

[CoolC]

I can't believe

hasn't been mentioned yet.

I remember one Christmas my grandad presented my brother and me with a HUGE box of track (he'd been collecting it all year from car boot sales) that was enough to make a track around the whole house

[Big Rod]

CoolC said:

I can't believe

hasn't been mentioned yet.

I remember one Christmas my grandad presented my brother and me with a HUGE box of track (he'd been collecting it all year from car boot sales) that was enough to make a track around the whole house

I was just Googling for a picture of the 70's figure of 8 with speed bank sides.

Couldn't find one though.

[Mobile Chicane]

Bruggy said:

The space hopper is probably THE most useless toy ever and I suspect most were discarded and left outside by lunchtime on Xmas day

Nooooo.... you lack imagination. My friends and I held spacehopper gymkhanas in the garden - great fun.

[jackal]

Andeh said:

jackal said:

the original horror trumps ... i remember when my whole school went horror trumps crazy
Death was the ultimate card IIRC

How can Death only have a killing power of 95?

cos Thor can give Death a good shoeing:

[jackal]

few more faves:

[Davey111]

Davey111 said:

Optimus Prime and Scalextric (no idea if that's the correct speeling).

I remember getting my first scalextric at christmas and refusing to open any more presents untill my dad had set it up. Really want to get a set now!!!

CoolC said:

I can't believe

hasn't been mentioned yet.

I remember one Christmas my grandad presented my brother and me with a HUGE box of track (he'd been collecting it all year from car boot sales) that was enough to make a track around the whole house

Thats fine, just pretend I'm not here

[PhantomHumper]

Davey111 said:

Davey111 said:

Optimus Prime and Scalextric (no idea if that's the correct speeling).

I remember getting my first scalextric at christmas and refusing to open any more presents untill my dad had set it up. Really want to get a set now!!!

CoolC said:

I can't believe

hasn't been mentioned yet.

I remember one Christmas my grandad presented my brother and me with a HUGE box of track (he'd been collecting it all year from car boot sales) that was enough to make a track around the whole house

Thats fine, just pretend I'm not here

PhantomHumper said:

On Topic: All I needed was Lego and scalextric.

and me

Edited by PhantomHumper on Wednesday 3rd December 10:47

[BAHN-STORMA]

Mobile Chicane said:

Nooooo.... you lack imagination. My friends and I held spacehopper gymkhanas in the garden - great fun.

You're a chick... Right???

[RobboC]

Loved my Amiga 500 more though.

Shadow of the Beast!

[just0007]

What a lovely trip down memory lane, putting the lego and scalectrix together to make bridges and tunnels waz kool!

Race and chase anyone, corvette yellow bridge and j-turns I would buy it now if they still made it.

[uriel]

I love this set. Always wanted to be a truck driver.

[Roop]

Mobsta said:

Bigfoot!

Cool. I had one of these...!

[Roop]

jackal said:

whitechief said:

ahh, i remember the frog changed it all
it was mostly plastic so didn't appear good quality but in fact it was much more robust and lasted far far better. It spelt out the demise of the rough rider, the baja buggy and the Super Champ which I had. It was near the top of the range for its time but it was actually terribly flawed because all those brittle metal wishbones kepy craking into pieces at the slightest provocation.

Hrm : Brittle you say...? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUmd4t6KXE (Mine's the red and white one doing the monster jumps)

[ol]

Some more from my childhood:

Castle Greyskull:



The 'Thunder tank'



Bonds Aston complete with ejector seat (still got mine!)



I used to play with these for hours. Cue mate coming over, taking about 200 army men each, setting them up at opposite ends of the room and rolling marbles into the 'enemy forces!'

[JB Rugby]

Philips MSX. There was a game that had to be loaded with a tape player called The Dambusters... absolutely unplayable, as you had to change views between cockpit, engineer, bomber and gunner and evrything took 15 minute to load. Brilliant platform with conventional cartdridge game though. Loved it




I'm off to ebay now.

[Mr Will]

complete with cannons which actually fired!

Still got it in loft, might dig it out over christmas

[stinkysteve]

Crossbows and Catapults anyone?

The memories on this thread are brilliant!

[Chrispy Porker]

Bren Gun.
( I was in the cadets)

[whitechief]

TIGA84 said:

I had one of these before I got a frog, I can remember getting the kit home and shutting myself away until I had built it, the satisfaction was great.

[Mobsta]

Roop said:

Mobsta said:

Bigfoot!

Cool. I had one of these...!

I bet you also wished it was radio controlled!