Toy Nostalgia.

[Anubis]

Just found this while I was looking for pictures of those ships. A sub. I never knew there was a sub. I'd have deffo wanted the sub over any of the others.

 

[bigbak]

You didn't, you really didn't I had that and there were holes cut in the cardboard base, you pulled the string and a piece of plastic popped up through the hole and knocked the tank a little.

 

It was shit 5 minutes after I opened it and it never got any better.

 

Really? I got one for Christmas many moons ago. It was under my parents bed and my brother and I would get it out to plan on when they'd gone out on the lead up to Christmas.

 

A great game. You had to give the string a good pull to knock the tank off.

[Dougie Do'ins]

He's etched his last sketch.

 

[chris71]

He's etched his last sketch.

 

 

Those bloody things, unless you wanted to draw joined up squares and rectangles all day you were better of with a pen and paper.

[stevebaby]

My principal toys of choice as a kid were toy soldiers - I discovered the holy grail once in the late 80s in a Rhyl gift shop, some Japanese toy soldiers. Damndest thing I've ever seen, never seen their like before or since:

 

Just look at the little cunt with the sword there, even in molded plastic they still scream 'evil'.

 

Airfix 1/32 scale.

I had every set of Airfix soldiers and every tank and military vehicle. Multiples of each. My youngest brother burned the lot when I left home. I found him guilty of the crime of plasticide and sentenced him to a life of torture.

[VladimirIlyich]

Airfix 1/32 scale.

I had every set of Airfix soldiers and every tank and military vehicle. Multiples of each. My youngest brother burned the lot when I left home. I found him guilty of the crime of plasticide and sentenced him to a life of torture.

 

He should have committed Hara Kiri if he was an honourable man.

[MokTheAfflicted]

I could pend hours in Beatties, loved that place. Bet it's closed now.

 

Been closed for years I think. I used to love Hobbies in Tarleton Street. My mate bought a Walther LP53 air pistol from there - fucking amazing weapon!!

[zigackly]

Before our speccy we had something we called the telly game, it had pong and other games on it. It was an orange rectangular box and had probably 8 buttons for choosing the game you wanted to play. I think it came with atari like joysticks. It connected to the telly...

 

Any ideas what this could have been? It would have to be late 70's early 80's, by 1982/3 we had a speccy.

 

Binatone Pong. Still got one, and it still comes out sometimes when I've got mates round.

 

Bit surprised no-one has mentioned Star Wars figures. I must have lost about a hundred in the back garden and am still gutted I couldn't afford a Millennium Falcon.

[Mike D]

[Guest LFD]

 

Yeah I had them.

 

Repped.

[Mike D]

ta mate

 

I remember having a ghost which had a big eyeball on a string and you would smack it and it would fly out. also had a helicopter to put the figures in.

they also did figures where the eyes popped out

I had a microphone thing shaped like the ghost catcher that when you talk into it it made a ghostly noise, im holding it at the back left here..

 

with my sister and 3 mates with their proton back packs, I never had one but remember they had a big yellow sponge. lad at the front right had the Ghostbusters tower house, remember him standing on it trying to climb up a lampost in the street and it giving way and he went right through it.

 

also check out the Starcom in the window, that was my mates with the red hair, his Auntie used to get him them from Canada, great stuff!

[Guest LFD]

Yeah I remember the back packs, but I didn't have one of them, unfortunately.

[Lee909]

I had loads of action figures as a kid.Wish I had kept them but my mum always wanted to get rid of things not being used.

My nan kept everything,not like them hoarders you see on TV but she kept loads of stuff in the back two bedrooms and it drove my mum nuts so I had to get rid of things instead of keeping them.

Old WWF figures

He-Man,I had most of them.He-Man on Battlecat,Skeletor on his Panther.

Star Wars

A-Team

 

I may start buying them back to relive some old memories.

[setreal]

Binatone Pong. Still got one, and it still comes out sometimes when I've got mates round.

 

Bit surprised no-one has mentioned Star Wars figures. I must have lost about a hundred in the back garden and am still gutted I couldn't afford a Millennium Falcon.

 

My grandad had a TV-set with a built in Pong and with two cable controllers coming out the back. They looked like small walkie talkies. There were, I think, three different game modes (Pong, something Tennis-ish and a similar third one. There also was another game on it that consisted of a white square dot moving on the screen that you had to shoot with some kind of gun. We never had that gun, though. This was early to mid 80s, the TV set was a Grundig I think.

[Mike D]

[Red Dawn]

Action Force.....

 

 

this bad boy was cool...

 

[Lee909]

The perfect gift 

[Strontium]

They're reissuing loads of He-Man figures as Masters of the Universe Origins, they look just like the old figures but with better articulation. I've only got a Sky Sled and Battle Cat so far.

 

 

I never had the Prince Adam figure as a kid so I was made up to get this.

[RedKnight]

I had the Prince Adam figure.

 

I had loads, them and Thundercats, until my mum gave them away without asking me. Joke's on her now though, her house is full of my old stuff I refuse to throw away and I think it stems from losing my Masters figures.

[Tony Moanero]

20 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

They're reissuing loads of He-Man figures as Masters of the Universe Origins, they look just like the old figures but with better articulation. I've only got a Sky Sled and Battle Cat so far.

 

 

I never had the Prince Adam figure as a kid so I was made up to get this.

My brother bought his son some of those last year. They look good but I prefer the Super7 Filmation figures.

 

[Tony Moanero]

My brother’s lad couldn’t have been interested in the Masters of the Universe Origins figures, as I received He-Man, Skeletor, Beast Man and Mer-Man for Christmas!

[Tony Moanero]

This book looks boss. Due to be released in March/April this year.

 

[Tony Moanero]

 

 

 

[General Dryness]

I had every toy in that post. Wish I still had them now.

[Tony Moanero]

1 minute ago, General Dryness said:

I had every toy in that post. Wish I still had them now.

I still have the Millenium Falcon and At-At.