Childhood Action Figures

[Dave D]

Did anyone have these? I had hundreds of them. You bought them in dustbin containing x10 figures.

 

I used to make football teams out of them and stage matches on my subutteo pitch  

 

 

 

[Tony Moanero]

Yeah, I had those. I preferred Monster in My Pocket, which were a similar size, though.

[VladimirIlyich]

I still have Ram-Man

 

Although, only the one. Not like this chap

 

Ram Man? Where exactly did you ram him?

[Dave D]

Ram Man? Where exactly did you ram him?

 

This is why you werent allowed one. 

[Dave D]

Yeah, I had those. I preferred Monster in My Pocket, which were a similar size, though.

 

Thats right, they were different colours.

 

They tended to be my European teams. I would take the subutteo pitch downstairs for away European fixtures.

[General Dryness]

I still have Ram-Man

 

Although, only the one. Not like this chap

 

 

That display case is errrr rammed. With Ram Man.

[Strontium]

I still have Ram-Man

 

Although, only the one. Not like this chap

 

That's that fool who was trying to corner the Ram-Man market by buying them all off eBay and creating artificial scarcity. Didn't work, obviously.

[Dave D]

That's that fool who was trying to corner the Ram-Man market by buying them all off eBay and creating artificial scarcity. Didn't work, obviously.

What a weird product to choose for such an enterprise.

 

Although had he been successful I could have auctioned my Ram Man at Sotherbys.

 

Damn it 

[Section_31]

These threads make me realise how lucky I was to grow up when I did. what do kids do for fun these days? play 'fruit Tetris' on their nan's ipad with their earphone in?

 

The reason we had an imagination was because the alternative was pure boredom. And look how we turned out? a bunch of middle aged men talking to our internet friends about toys.

[VladimirIlyich]

These threads make me realise how lucky I was to grow up when I did. what do kids do for fun these days? play 'fruit Tetris' on their nan's ipad with their earphone in?

 

The reason we had an imagination was because the alternative was pure boredom. And look how we turned out? a bunch of middle aged men talking to our internet friends about toys.

The best of both worlds!

[Dave D]

These threads make me realise how lucky I was to grow up when I did. what do kids do for fun these days? play 'fruit Tetris' on their nan's ipad with their earphone in?

 

The reason we had an imagination was because the alternative was pure boredom. And look how we turned out? a bunch of middle aged men talking to our internet friends about toys.

 

Hilariously true.

[Dave D]

I cant be too criticaI of todays generation.

 

I had a phone at quite a young age. Have to admit, got a bit addicted to it  

 

[Bjornebye]

These threads make me realise how lucky I was to grow up when I did. what do kids do for fun these days? play 'fruit Tetris' on their nan's ipad with their earphone in?

 

The reason we had an imagination was because the alternative was pure boredom. And look how we turned out? a bunch of middle aged men talking to our internet friends about toys.

 

 

Post of the bank holiday weekend 

[Captain Turdseye]

Not action figure related but do any of you lads have daughters that play with those LOL surprise dolls? My girls went through a phase a while back of blowing all of their pocket money on them. They were only £8 each but they gathered about 12 of the things between them before getting bored. I remember thinking to myself at the time that they were a waste of money and the very definition of cheap tat.

 

Fast forward to now, my youngest has been banging on about some PJ Masks headquarters toy. £70-£80, a waste of money and the very definition of expensive tat. She’s got £20 saved up and one of my birds mates has agreed to give her £30 for all the Peppa Pig toys she never plays with anymore.

 

Back to the LOL dolls, another one of her mates has revealed she’s got the whole collection and pointed us in the direction of people on eBay paying between £20 and £100 for the first generation ones. Turdsette is more than happy to get rid of one of hers to get her hands on the new toy she wants but I’m gobsmacked at the money they’re changing hands for. Apparently there’s people going into shops with torches to shine on the packaging and work out which one is inside. People are fucking stupid. If you haven’t seen them I can’t stress enough how crappy they are. They were a rip off at £8.