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Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 10, 2006, 03:10:09 pm
As a child what was your favourite toy? Mine was my etch a sketch and toy piano.
Title: Toys
Post by: on June 10, 2006, 03:12:16 pm

erm............


My Bionic man figurine with his arch-nemesis Maskatron!

Title: Toys
Post by: on June 10, 2006, 03:14:10 pm
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=606 3932309
Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 10, 2006, 03:21:22 pm
I have a doll called Dusty the air hostess and she wears a blue , red and white skirt, jacket and blouse. She has jointed arms and legs and is in great condition . If I could find her shoes I'd put her on ebay as there doesn't seem to be another when i did a search.
Title: Toys
Post by: on June 10, 2006, 03:22:29 pm
You don't see many like that on Easy Jet nowadays.
Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 10, 2006, 03:24:39 pm

I could buy this outfit and dress her up. My parents swore blind there wasn't other outfits in the shops to buy to dress her up and 30 yrs later I found ou they were lying.


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kenner-DUSTY-Doll-VOLLEYBALL-SPORTS-SE T-Outfit-MIB-74_W0QQitemZ9527411199QQcategoryZ344QQtcZphotoQ QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 10, 2006, 03:25:21 pm
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Post by: on June 10, 2006, 03:25:30 pm
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Post by: smurfboy on June 10, 2006, 05:24:55 pm
I loved my activity centre when I was a babby. Kids today would find it hopelessly lame - there was a spinning bit of plastic and a thing you squeezed to make it squeak - but I loved it. My mom tried to give it away several times to jumble sales etc. when I was older  but I never let her!
Title: Toys
Post by: oldspice on June 10, 2006, 07:27:05 pm

I loved little pretend post office sets that you could buy from the Post Office. i also loved Plasticine and Betta Build.


I longed for an etch-a-sketch and i got one when i was 12.

Title: Toys
Post by: minty on June 10, 2006, 07:29:16 pm
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Post by: goldencup on June 11, 2006, 05:30:21 pm
I loved Betta Build too (Oldspice and I have discussed this one before) and my Hornby clockwork trainset.  I used to build stations, arches and tunnels for my trains to go through. Yes, I was a tomboy.
Title: Toys
Post by: oldspice on June 11, 2006, 07:09:34 pm

I think a lot of us were. I remember a conversation about Tuff shoes with the compass in the heel! What with our Betta Build and our train sets, why didn't more of us grow up to be engineers?

Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 11, 2006, 07:46:33 pm
I should have been an engineer after all those years playing with Meccano.
Title: Toys
Post by: goldencup on June 12, 2006, 08:42:26 am
Perhaps the three of us should retrain.  They say it's never too late!  I loved meccano too and my friend and I managed to build a working 'Spiromatic' with it (if anyone remembers that) that cost a fraction of the real thing.
Title: Toys
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on June 12, 2006, 10:21:04 am

My favourites were Lego, rollerboots, bike and Sindy. Also I liked playing with my computer (first a ZX81 then a Spectrum +) but I guess they don't really count as toys.

Title: Toys
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on June 12, 2006, 10:24:29 am
Quote from: oldspice

I loved little pretend post office sets that you could buy from the Post Office.


Oh yes, I had one of those too!

Title: Toys
Post by: Jules Grimm on June 13, 2006, 03:25:03 pm
My favourite toy was a little teddy bear - it was my mom's before it
was mine so it's very worn down, but it's still around. 
Title: Toys
Post by: on June 13, 2006, 08:58:43 pm
Quote from: Cherry_Ripe

... I liked playing with my computer (first a ZX81 then a Spectrum +) ...



You only had to look at the ZX 81 with a 16k memory pack stuck on the back of it and it would crash!


10 PRINT "I'm bored off my tits with this garbage."big grin

Title: Toys
Post by: kevvosa on June 13, 2006, 09:46:36 pm
I used to play with model Daleks, and as we had a coal fire, I used  to 'crash' jam tart tins onto it pretending it was an alien planet. I always got told off for it though.


Title: Toys
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on June 14, 2006, 09:12:02 am

Quote from: Black-KnightYou only had to look at the ZX 81 with a 16k memory pack stuck on the back of it and it would crash![/QUOTE


Yes and the poor thing didn't like getting hot, the cooling system was a glass of water balanced carefully on the top!

Title: Toys
Post by: chocolate chick on June 14, 2006, 04:20:40 pm
Mine were my lego set, baby shivers and barbie. I desparately wanted a train set from the early learning centre but I never got one.
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Post by: smurfboy on June 14, 2006, 04:27:30 pm

Quote from: chocolate chick
Mine were my lego set, baby shivers and barbie. I desparately wanted a train set from the early learning centre but I never got one.


Baby Shivers scared the crap out of me!

Title: Toys
Post by: chocolate chick on June 14, 2006, 04:30:48 pm
She was better once her baby was taken out!
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Post by: wjp666 on June 16, 2006, 01:50:31 am

Magna-Doodle (knocked the spots off the old etch-a-sketch)


Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 16, 2006, 01:55:26 am
and is your name katie?
Title: Toys
Post by: wjp666 on June 16, 2006, 01:56:47 am
nope - but those things ruled! theyre different these days...  not as cool. or maybe its because i'm 29 now and not 6... wjp66638884.0395601852
Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 16, 2006, 02:03:44 am
possibly.
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Post by: wjp666 on June 16, 2006, 02:04:42 am
still - magna doodle was just brilliant. second only to my star wars figures.
Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 16, 2006, 02:05:34 am
You still collect?
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Post by: wjp666 on June 16, 2006, 02:07:37 am
heres the p*sstake - i had nearly every damn figure and ship, and my evil brother stole them and gave them to his kids to wreck. it still causes pain to this day. i even had a vinyl cape jawa! and those things are like goldust now!
Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 16, 2006, 02:10:33 am
Did you kill your brother?
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Post by: wjp666 on June 16, 2006, 02:13:27 am

oooooooooooooooooooooh - i'd pay a lot for five minutes alone with him. anything else i could forgive...


just the thought of my Wookiee in the hands of an 8 year oild makes me shiver!

Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 16, 2006, 02:14:05 am
I think a lot of men would agree.
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Post by: wjp666 on June 16, 2006, 02:14:49 am
i even had a fully working ewok village for christs sake!!!!!!! nooooo....
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Post by: minty on June 16, 2006, 11:26:41 am
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Post by: goldencup on June 16, 2006, 04:43:26 pm

Quote from: wjp666
i even had a fully working ewok village for christs sake!!!!!!! nooooo....


I still have!  And a Yak Face.  (No comments please...)

Title: Toys
Post by: loulou on June 16, 2006, 06:53:09 pm
You have a face like a yak?
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Post by: lorri on June 20, 2006, 03:13:48 pm
Quote from: Black-Knight
Quote from: Cherry_Ripe

... I liked playing with my computer (first a ZX81 then a Spectrum +) ...



You only had to look at the ZX 81 with a 16k memory pack stuck on the back of it and it would crash!


10 PRINT "I'm bored off my tits with this garbage."big grin


 


 


ok how old do i feel now !!!  think i was married time i got a zx81 lol !! as a teenager i had a commadore64 with the tape that took about half an hour to load a really basic game, even then 9 times out of ten after u had waited all that time it came up error lol, but hey it was cutting edge then !!!!!!