Childhood toys

[tellingbone]

Originally Posted by wearysloth of course I might just have imagined I had this bulimic love child of Alien and bugs bunny...

I had one of those I also had a few of these: Major Matt Mason was right up there with Action Man as my favourite toy.

[David Brent]

In the sixties I always had dreams of having one of those deluxe red Austin pedal cars as a child. The one's that had real headlights.
Of course they were too expensive for my family so I stuck to the Corgis and Dinkeys.

Dave.

[jez1969]

I used to have a Ricochet racer. Loved it...you loaded 3 cars into spring loaded "cartidges" and shot them out of a gun and down a ramp...mine glowed in the dark too..whoooooo. Think that was around 1976 or something.

[Carmel]

Originally Posted by DB7 Like the subject of the female back I'm saying no more once again! So you weren't a Ken and Barbie child Carmel?

No i hated the blooming things and still do, i remember the movie camera my dad bought for me i think its still in my mums attic. I also loved my chopper bike especially behind the bike sheds after school.I went to a private convent school so it was even better because the boys grammer school was behind the girls school oh the memories.

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Carmel No i hated the blooming things and still do, i remember the movie camera my dad bought for me i think its still in my mums attic. I also loved my chopper bike especially behind the bike sheds after school.I went to a private convent school so it was even better because the boys grammer school was behind the girls school oh the memories.

Girls from convent schools were always the most fun - they'd been taught all about all the wicked things

Steve

[Harleybloke]

Glad Carmel is back posting! I had missed her so.......................

[Carmel]

Originally Posted by Harleybloke Glad Carmel is back posting! I had missed her so.......................

Thankyou for missing me.

[Carmel]

Originally Posted by Steve Crook Girls from convent schools were always the most fun - they'd been taught all about all the wicked things Steve

Talking about convents i remember a nun who would go mad if she caught you wearing patent shoes she would yell at us and calls us a disgrace because the boys could get a glimps of your knickers in the reflection, i didn't see how i defo think that nun was on some kind of medication she had to be and not the type the doctor gave her either. if my mother new half of what i got up to in school she would of been long gone.

[Harleybloke]

Originally Posted by Carmel Talking about convents i remember a nun who would go mad if she caught you wearing patent shoes she would yell at us and calls us a disgrace because the boys could get a glimps of your knickers in the reflection, i didn't see how i defo think that nun was on some kind of medication she had to be and not the type the doctor gave her either. if my mother new half of what i got up to in school she would of been long gone.

Oh she's such a tease..............................

[samkydd]

Originally Posted by DB7 So what was your favourite childhood toy?

[samkydd]

Originally Posted by David Brent In the sixties I always had dreams of having one of those deluxe red Austin pedal cars as a child. The one's that had real headlights. Of course they were too expensive for my family so I stuck to the Corgis and Dinkeys. Dave.

My favourite too but worth even more of a fortune nowadays. £1500 upwards for a good one. They were based on the Austin Somerset and manufactured I believe by disabled miners, and the quality of the workmanship was just superb. If only we'd been wealthy.......

[samkydd]

I could never have afforded one of these at the time but it was on every boy's Christmas wish list:

[davidb]

on a lighter note than who would be the best mayor of london ,the victor boris or the loser ken ,why not discuss favourite childhood toys ? were you a lego or meccano person ?action man or stretch armstrong ? did you impress the girls by getting your chopper out ,or bmx and doing a few wheelies ? maybe you grew up in more austere times and only got an apple ,an orange and a clip round the ear at xmas or birthdays ?

[donna]

Originally Posted by Dame Starry When I was 7 years old, this was my favourite toy: ....then, when I was 15, I decided I'd outgrown it and moved up a notch! YDSL x.

OH Starry I used to dream of getting a switchboard for xmas, only got a set of phones, but loved them too , some xmas s were a letdown, I remember asking for a black piano music box with a ballerina inside and instead got a wee wooden house with a wolf on the roof that played , Whos afraid of the big bad wolf, so disappointed, oh the memories.

[billy bentley]

They came in a box of 24 or 48, I can't remember now and I had hundreds of them, mostly "Grey" Confederate U.S. Civil War figures and just enough "Blues" (Union Army) to overwhelm. I think it was the influence of those very graphic Civil War bubble gum cards, but for some reason I was firmly in the Confederate camp. I'm pretty certain I had no idea of why the Civil War had been fought, but the "Greys" were the underdogs, so just like Cup Final thats who you rooted for.