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Post by Pigmy Pony on Dec 14, 2022 10:12:34 GMT
What was your favourite childhood toy? Have you seen the prices they fetch today?  We really should have looked after our stuff. This is one I got when I was about eight. Not particularly expensive, but a working one now wouldn't be cheap.   And this was my brother's. He got the better deal, they're going on Ebay for £700 plus, 100 times the original price.  |
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Post by firebottle on Dec 14, 2022 11:12:26 GMT
I loved my Meccano, my brother and I had shed loads of it. Don't know where it came from, probably from someone in the extended family as my dad had many siblings.
There were plates, gears, wheels, large bases plus all the usual flat and angle bars. Too many nuts and bolts to count, we made huge models of things.
Where it all went to is also a mystery, would be worth a packet now.
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Post by Pigmy Pony on Dec 14, 2022 11:33:17 GMT
I loved my Meccano, my brother and I had shed loads of it. Don't know where it came from, probably from someone in the extended family as my dad had many siblings. There were plates, gears, wheels, large bases plus all the usual flat and angle bars. Too many nuts and bolts to count, we made huge models of things. Where it all went to is also a mystery, would be worth a packet now. Meccano was great, I'd forgotten all about Meccano. I wasn't very good with it, just a 4M box (came with an electric motor), and a load of random bits that just sort of appeared. Those old kits came with a book of models that could be made from that kit, these days it seems all the kits are just for a specific model. Which once you've built it, what do you do then? I bet if you had enough Meccano bits you could make a model paramotor, big enough to carry an Action Man in loud pants  Have your own 'mini me' when out flying. |
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Post by hifinutt on Dec 14, 2022 13:48:04 GMT
one of these beauties
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Post by antonio on Dec 14, 2022 13:57:01 GMT
My favourites were plastic American Cowboy and Indian figures, also had a fort my dad made for me. My other great pleasure was an American Army Jeep peddle car, hours of fun.
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Post by Pigmy Pony on Dec 14, 2022 14:28:28 GMT
A design classic. Needs to be the one with the ball-busting gear lever to be a 'proper chopper' though Here's a nice one on Ebay, £4,695 (or best offer) to you sir.  |
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Post by nonuffin on Dec 14, 2022 15:35:11 GMT
My love was for die cast cars by Corgi, a lesser extent for Dinky which seemed cruder by comparison.
The Bentley Continental was my favourite, with steerable front wheels and jewelled lights front and rear.
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Post by lurch on Dec 14, 2022 18:00:32 GMT
I never got Corgi cars, just Matchbox ones but loved them nonetheless. Also when I was around 8 or 9 my Father gave me his Meccano that he'd acquired in the mid 30s by swapping an elephant gun (yep a real one) 😂😂 for it with an older boy down the road. It was a massive set that basically filled a tea chest complete with a couple of Meccano project books which I remember included both a huge static and mobile crane along with various lorries and steam trains. No idea, where it is now, probably back up in mums loft.
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Post by macca on Dec 14, 2022 18:42:20 GMT
What was your favourite childhood toy? Have you seen the prices they fetch today? We really should have looked after our stuff. This is one I got when I was about eight. Not particularly expensive, but a working one now wouldn't be cheap. And this was my brother's. He got the better deal, they're going on Ebay for £700 plus, 100 times the original price. 'Mr Zerox'? - just a copy that is mate. I had a similar one to that, fired missiles out of his chest at a fair velocity. I had hundreds of those 1/72nd scale Airfix soldiers. Used to set up massive dioramas in the back garden. My mother gave them all away plus all my Lego, I had a shedload of that too. Proper Lego not like the modern stuff. You could build anything with it. |
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Post by Pigmy Pony on Dec 15, 2022 8:43:35 GMT
Yeah I used to have proper Lego, always red or white bricks. Blue or yellow bricks were posh, and maybe only appeared later. It's true you could build anything with them, though mostly we just tried to see who could build the tallest tower without it falling over.
Lego (like Meccano) these days tends to be model specific - where's the fun in that? It all turned to Sh#t after their fixation with Batman kicked in.
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Post by Pigmy Pony on Dec 15, 2022 8:52:53 GMT
My first car was built from Lego.  No not really - it would have looked more like this:  |
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Post by Pigmy Pony on Dec 15, 2022 9:25:40 GMT
Sorry, I've been away, growing this beard. But I'm back now. What we talking about?  |
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Post by alit on Dec 24, 2022 15:08:46 GMT
A design classic. Needs to be the one with the ball-busting gear lever to be a 'proper chopper' though Here's a nice one on Ebay, £4,695 (or best offer) to you sir. Got one of those in silver for Christmas many moons ago, crashed it in the first week and gave myself some nasty road rash, had a tank slapper at high speed... |
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We really should have looked after our stuff.
Have your own 'mini me' when out flying.
