Bloody GoGo's !!!
 

My two sons are really into this craze of these GOGO thingys.
In case this has passed you by, these are them

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Little feckers are littered around the house, I am stood on enough of them to cause me to teach the kids new swear words and I cant remember any of their names.

So remember some of your crazes ?? :D

I remember Smurfs amongst many and laugh at the fact that nowadays they wouldnt have been allowed , not with all the lead content in the paint :lol1:

kinder suprise toys :lol1: I distinctly remember the crocodiles, must have been about '93 that.

Ker-Knockers! :D Or otherwise known as Clackers Clackers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They got banned because they were so dangerous ;) and kept breaking arms etc :D I was an expert with them :smug:

How many children have you got so that you cant remember their names?

Les

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How many of you olduns had these to play with?

Very quick leslie :thumb: :lol1:

I had a more modern version like this made of tin :D

I had one of those as well. :luxhello: Used to love that.

I had a tank thing called 'Big Trax' :)

Me too and the bloody clackers :)

I am talking about crazes, the things that drove your parents to bloody distraction because you begged and begged them to get you the next craze sweeping the nation..things like cabbage patch dolls, marbles etc

Used to play marbles like nobody's business. Dad gave me a lovely velvet drawstring bag that one of his expensive brandy's came in and I used that for all my marbles. ( though I have since lost my marbles :wonder: )

best one was when he came back onshore after being on the oil rigs for a month and presented me with a **** off ball bearing from one of the drilling platforms.I used that for marbles and won every blooming game :smug:

I can't remember, it was that long ago :( :D

This seems to be one with same material/colours/format that I can recall>

I used to love them!:D Boys used to go round, round and round around them with a long string. Then they used to swing their arm to throw it hard on the floor! Chopping the air, it would hit the ground by landing on the nail point. Watching it spin for ages was mesmerising :cool: Personally, I was useless in spinning them :(

Tonka trucks??? :D

I still love Tonka trucks :notworthy :cool:

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These were a huge craze in my junior school, if you got a special ringpull you got a GOLD one :luvlove:

They used to change hands for some serious currency, i.e. favorite pens, footballs, cards you name it you'd swop it for a GOLD one.

And the biggest craze of all that I was involved in.......



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:notworthy

old skool gameboy, might have to dig this out of my old stuff
wiley

i cleared my dads out the other day and in the attic I found a binatone games thing with about6 or 8 games (the old bat and ball and square target for the shooting one) and an astra wars.

also found my old roadmap where I used to play with my cars (must admit I p!$$ed on that a few times in my younger years as it soaked things up well :D )

Our 1st Game Console.....:lol1: :lol1:


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Mattel Intellivision (1980)

I've still go one of those somewhere. Dread to think what the battery compartment will be like as you can bet I left batteries in it!

Tonka Rules:thumb:
I was RUBBISH at clackers, ended up firing them out of a home made cannon, I preferred a good read, or a ride on my Chopper;)

I had about 3 GOLD spinners. I used to love them and got quite good with them. The only trick I wasn't that good at was "rocking the cradle"

They were great,i think they did Fanta and 7UP one's too:wonder:

Sticker albums

If only I got royalties on Yo-Yo's:cry:

Duncan YoYo - The Original World's #1

My brother had one of these I got his hand me downs :freak3:

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For some reason, ball bearings had to be pronounced 'ball bearians'! :lol1:

Painting by numbers.............ooh, I loved that smell! :D

I remember marbles:D having an uncle who worked for English China clay I relished declaring "dropsies" with a 3 kg ball bearing on some poor saps marble

Evil Knievel,i had one of them some 20+ years ago:)

Can any one remember TCR total control racing, from the 80's the handset had a switch that allowed the cars to change track, so much more fun than scalextrics.

good times