mart360

I have cascade, although its a little worse for wear, (age)

i may throw it on fleabay

Atari woody consoles, i think i have 3 of them in the garage


Mart

TopBanana

Yes, that's the one!



I used to think they were so high tech but really they were rubbish

EddScott

Transformers
Scalextric
Hornby Railways
RC Cars


(A quiet simple life of toys and sweets )



The last one, I can't do anything about. However, I've a shelf full of Transformers, an attic with a 20m scalextric track, railway I bought recently but remembered that they were actually quite dull so flogged it on. RC cars have all gone but I could probably have bought my Impreza a new engine for the amount of dosh I spent on RC cars a few years back.

Jamo

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Space hopper
eBay.co.uk: 20" SPACE HOPPER. Party Game/Novelty Birthday Gift/Xmas (item 110067340607 end time 16-Dec-06 15:49:51 GMT)
Big trak
eBay.co.uk: BIG TRAK WITH BOX POLY + MANUAL TESTED WORKING BIGTRAK (item 140063212527 end time 16-Dec-06 21:06:39 GMT)
evil keneviel wind up toy
eBay.co.uk: evil EVEL KNIEVEL STUNT CYCLE SET motorcycle kenevil (item 130058888303 end time 19-Dec-06 21:49:21 GMT)
race 'n' chase
eBay.co.uk: REDUCED........ - RACE - N - CHASE GAME (item 190060806798 end time 18-Dec-06 15:33:10 GMT)
action man
eBay.co.uk - action man, action man action man car, Vintage Pre-1985, Modern 1985-Now items at low prices
action man vehicles!
eBay.co.uk - action man, action man action man car, Vintage Pre-1985, Modern 1985-Now items at low prices
astro wars
eBay.co.uk: Astro Wars. Boxed Vintage Video Game. (item 160062955286 end time 19-Dec-06 20:05:42 GMT)
My first walkman with bright orange headphones and carry strap!
eBay.co.uk: VINTAGE CASCADE WALKMAN RADIO/TAPE+ EXT MICROSPEAKERS (item 150070321637 end time 19-Dec-06 20:00:00 GMT)
Atari console
eBay.co.uk: BOXED VINTAGE Atari 2600 games console + lots of games (item 280059426866 end time 17-Dec-06 22:18:42 GMT)
Raleigh budgie
cant find any anywhere, your f*cked. lol
Raleigh tomahawk
eBay.co.uk: VINTAGE RALEIGH TOMAHAWK PURPLE1970sORIGINAL&UNRESTORED (item 230062772743 end time 17-Dec-06 23:12:02 GMT)
Raleigh super tuff burner
eBay.co.uk: Raliegh Super tuff burner Old school BMX (item 120065042293 end time 21-Dec-06 13:39:11 GMT)
action jacks
wtf is that???
tonka trucks
eBay.co.uk: VINTAGE press steel/tin TONKA tipper TRUCK 22cm LARGE (item 170058676387 end time 17-Dec-06 13:35:01 GMT)
Tomy shark attack binocular video game
eBay.co.uk: retro tomy shark attack 3-d electronic game collectable (item 260063824502 end time 17-Dec-06 19:01:22 GMT)
Mardave meteor rc car
Vintage Tamiya Radio Control Cars through to Modern Tamiya R/C - Showroom Page
roller skates bauers (sp?)
eBay.co.uk: BAUER TURBO ROLLER SKATES SIZE 10 UK 11US (item 120061838725 end time 16-Dec-06 16:08:41 GMT) (your size?)
skate board (long bendy plastic one)
eBay.co.uk: E-Skateboard electric powered skate board skateboard (item 250060489382 end time 19-Dec-06 11:09:09 GMT) (couldnt find any banana boards)
bazoka joe's
eBay.co.uk: *BAZOOKA JOE*WACKY WOBBLER*NEW IN BOX* (item 300059707964 end time 18-Dec-06 19:20:06 GMT)
Chips in a cone
belper chippy on the main street still do them
monster munch when it was proper big!
you can get king size still
Umbongo by the gallon!
http://www.umbongo.com/images/home/hippo.png
grass stains on my jeans!
ile leave that one to your missus

pretty much all the cool stuff I was lucky enough to have as a kid!
Enjoy ads


jamo

J4CKO

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TCR - Total Control Racing, like Scalextrix but almost impossible to crash, it wasnt actually that good, what I really miss apart from the toys is the anticipation and joy offered by the brochures for the toys, the TCR catalogue provided far more pleasure than the actual set, you know choosing which set, which accessories etc, but still getting the one just up from the bases one.

I remember the Lasky's catalogue I got whilst going round a department store that had a computer section just as they were becoming home items, prob 1982/83 and that offered many hours of scanning, looking at these wonderful machines and the magical games they could play, mainly due to displaying box art rather than actual in game images, there was the Spectrum, The C64, The almost mythical Apple IIe with stuff like disk drives and printers, pure magic.

The Atari catalogue was good as well, but the other thing I loved back then were the boxes for stuff like that, used to keep having a look even once the actual item was hooked up !

So the actual toys, there was,

Big Trak, I loved mine but it didnt stop me dismantaling it, never had the trailer so my dad didnt get fruit delivered to his arm chair.

Raleigh Strika, used by many years by me, braking provided by a very powerful back pedal brake and many new rear tyres, it was refitted and resprayed for my brother, he was either genuinely thrilled or hiding his dissapointment well when it was unveiled, he was after a BMX but dad was under threat of redundancy and money was a bit tight.

Next doors BBC micro, fantastic but pretty geeky, doubley wonderful to go round there as there was always loads of crap food, video nasties, pornos, sisters walking round in their knickers and rarely a parent in attendance.

The 'Burlington' catalogue, always flopped open at the same pages....

Cheapo remote control car, scared the **** out of us one night, started up in the middle of the night in my desk drawer, sounded like someone was typing on my C64.

C64, bought for 189 quid from Rumbelows, what use it was without any storage, no tape or disk, ordered a tape unit from a company called Rotronics, allow 28 days for delivery, took six months and many letters the *****, and it wasnt very good, there was no ordering from AMazon or Play back then to have it arrive a day or two later.

Pocket Simon, good but frustrating.

Atari Woody, wonderful, Defender was great, Empire Strikes Back and bizarrely Smurf, keep nearly buying one off Ebay and then wondering where I would put it, an Emulator is good but you dont get the tactile bit or the box.

It was pretty good not having that many toys, one action man, my kids have so much stuff I think they get overloaded, it made you make your own games like me and my cousin making a death slide from fuse wire across my grandads garden and nearly decapitating him.

Matchbox and Corgi cars, main fun was to squash them in the vice in the garage.

Lego technic, my kids have loads but it isnt the same, too many pre built pieces, I ended up paying thirty quid to buy the car chassis (8860) off Ebay, smelt of **** though which spoilt it a bit, it should smell of nice fresh plastic.

Football stickers, wasnt bothered that much about football but loved the stickers ?

Trainers, Addidas LA being the daddies, the ones with the three things in the heel that semed so hi tec back then, going out in new grey suede addidas 'Tucson' trainers and not being able to do anything in case we got them dirty

ZZAP 64 magazine, Dandy and Beano.

Ghetto Blasters, love of graphic equalisers, Phillips Tandem had twin tapes for software piracy.

Aftershave, Brut was good for covering up pond odours, well it wasnt cos we got caught, Blue Stratos, Slazenger sport, Hai Karate.


Tamiya Hornet

Bug Eyed Peas

What about Meccano?
Race N Chase? Rubiks Revenge, that was hard!!
Raleigh Burners.
Anthony

BULLITT

Lego (its just not the same these days)
Meccano
Star Wars
Transformers

Fuzz

Big Trak was that the truck with the keypad on top of it.. I had one of them too..

Andy

New_scooby_04

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My train set! (sad, I know)

nathanb

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An 18 year old girlfriend. oh that body.....

mike1273

still got my Big Track and Race & Chase, don't work anymore though

Chip Sengravy

Maz

iTrader: (34)

Was there someone caled Zelda in it? I do remember Tiger Ninestein and those evil looking teddy bears. Best of all one of the robots was voiced over by Windsor Davies! Plus we always got a game of noughts and crosses on it.

Bug Eyed Peas

That is rolling back the years Maz
How about proper music? When a song got to number 1 because it was good and not the utter crap these days.
Anthony

relating back on topic wasn`t Youngstar her son or something?? He always kept saying "Yes Mother".

Fuzz

Good point !!!!

What makes it even better is that I was 27 at the time.

Well OK, she was 19. , body to die for.


Andy

KiwiGTI

Isn't that what prostitutes or a 2 week holiday in Thailand is for?

jods

Crossfire - awesome fun for two brothers with huge competitive streaks.

jods

Dude - 6 more posts for the big 10K

scoobian

the wife, daughter, house, 2 garages, new car, job
...oh the list is endless
still lets not dwell: Ive got a Scooby now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CrisPDuk

They were plastic action figures like Action Man only about 6" high instead of 12"

J4CKO

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I remember Action Jacks, they used to ride around on Big Trak !

Nowadays, similar things are availble called Corps, so the kids wander round asking anyone who will listen to help them find their 'Corps'.

orbix

One word 'spoiled'

I can remember Big Foot RC but i never had one. I used to have a small battery powered car (not rc) that you built, it had two gears, we use to race them.

I remember spending alot of time roller skating to a place called "Rollers" only to get there and then have to spend most of my Lemonade money on putting my skates right. Damn the skate police.

SJ_Skyline

My Sanity and Sobriety

pnbond007

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My:
Scalextric
Triang-Hornby railway & minic motorways
Meccano
Lego
Trik-Trak
Raleigh Chopper - with high level headrest
26" tracker
Tricky Tomy Tractor
Hotwheels track & car's

Still got load's from my childhood & most of it has gone on e-bay for lot's & lot's

Optical Race

Always wanted one of these but never got one (Back in the SteetHawk Days)



My Raliegh Choppers, Had 2 one with adjustable handlebars and one without. Was it just me that planted my face many times when standing up pedling and the 2nd gear slipping ending with me going between the cow horn handlebars.

Miss my health, My Mum and the push bike building me and my mate used to do for sweet money.