James Mays Toys
21 December 2005, 09:00 PM
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Anyone else watch this just now? Nearly laughed my **** off when he outbid the geeks for a train set and then threw the box away 
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Originally Posted by Milamber
Anyone else watch this just now? Nearly laughed my **** off when he outbid the geeks for a train set and then through the box away
21 December 2005, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Milamber
Anyone else watch this just now? Nearly laughed my **** off when he outbid the geeks for a train set and then through the box away
Is there a repeat?
Ta,
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21 December 2005, 11:28 PM
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I was there ......
....in the RAF museum at Hendon when he was filming the clip of the lego Lancaster - took all morning for a few seconds of tape - they kept having to stop for kids shouting nearby 
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21 December 2005, 11:59 PM
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I've got a full meccano no 10 set in the original drawers, with all the manuals etc. Additionally I have the steam engine, a few electric motors, clockwork motors etc. Meccano rocked and I can't believe how much my grandad paid for it for me! 
A quick search for completed auctions on ebay earlier tonight shows the no.10 set alone goes for £2k. Never selling it though, it's my pride and joy.
Simon
A quick search for completed auctions on ebay earlier tonight shows the no.10 set alone goes for £2k. Never selling it though, it's my pride and joy.Simon
22 December 2005, 03:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Milamber
I really wanted that Airfix plane that landed on the aircraft carrier when I was younger, can't believe how crap it looks now
when it worked 
AAhh the joys of standing on Lego
no doubt I'll have it to look forward to in a few years once my son is old enough to play with it
22 December 2005, 06:17 AM
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thought it was good but he should have junked the box infront of the collector's etc, like he say's they were ment to be played with not just collected , kid's today have very little imagination if not none !!! they get bored far too easy they would have been well fcuked back then
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He made a very good point throughout the show. I'm only 27 and remember my childhood being all about scalextric, hornby trains and so on. You made your own fun and then you packed it all away before tea, unlike kids today where they expect fun to appear before them with a PS2 controller dropping into their hands.
And he was spot on about the modern day meccano and lego too - Why have all these custom pieces? Half the fun was taking apart the digger/truck/bus that you were supposed to build and putting together something completely different like a tank or plane. You can't do that with this modern stuff.
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And he was spot on about the modern day meccano and lego too - Why have all these custom pieces? Half the fun was taking apart the digger/truck/bus that you were supposed to build and putting together something completely different like a tank or plane. You can't do that with this modern stuff.
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22 December 2005, 12:41 PM
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22 December 2005, 02:27 PM
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lol ah memories i also had that action man'n'parachute that never opened, the number of times i threw it out of my bedroom window even at 3 storeys it never opened. limbs remained attached though...oh if only we had a rifle too...
i also had that action man'n'parachute that never opened, the number of times i threw it out of my bedroom window even at 3 storeys it never opened. limbs remained attached though...oh if only we had a rifle too...
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An utterly brilliant programme. Brought back a lot of very good memories. It really makes you wonder about today's kids and their total lack of imagination - everything has to be completely real for them.
Funny to see him socialising with Andrew Frankel and Colin Goodwin!
Funny to see him socialising with Andrew Frankel and Colin Goodwin!
22 December 2005, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Petem95
I wonder if 5th Gear will copy the idea, and have a spin-off show;
'VBH's Toys' maybe?
'VBH's Toys' maybe?
22 December 2005, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve Sherwen
Is it repeated at all?
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22 December 2005, 07:47 PM
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i also had that action man'n'parachute that never opened,
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So who's off to get their old scalextric and hornby sets out?
What a fanastic program, if only there were more programs like this than the normal stuff they pump out. If only they would do a follow up to cover the 80s I'd be in heaven.
What a fanastic program, if only there were more programs like this than the normal stuff they pump out. If only they would do a follow up to cover the 80s I'd be in heaven.
22 December 2005, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by dsmith
Big Trak here we come ;-)
I thought they'd do a bit on Cross Fire - I saw it in the background at one point.
I thought they'd do a bit on Cross Fire - I saw it in the background at one point.
Big Trak's were ace
still got mine in my folks loft, tractor and trailer units both in their boxes Downside was the beasts amazing appetite for D cell batteries
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