my son as to take his favourite toy into school

All I had was a piece of string and a rock.

box of matches

scalextric, only had a small figure of 8 track ,but would play on it for hours.
what a donut :D

lego technic

what cars did u have, my m8 had mini coopers ,was so jealous of him

Stretch armstrong for me.

subbuteo, world cup 78 edition, never did put the batteries in the lights tho

I remember having this Robin Hood figure (at the time the Kevin Costner film was out) and it came with a zipline that you could attach to two points, tie him on and send him flying down. Must have spent an unbelievable amount of time messing around with that around the house.

blimey trying to think ,think they were the bog standard F1 cars?

yeah, i had them, happy days tho

'subbuteo, world cup 78 edition, never did put the batteries in the lights tho'

I had that! It was ace. Had the Scoreboard with the slots you could team names into a I think. It got a bit melted by the fire but we still used it!

My favourite was my set of matchbox, corgi and hot wheels cars, and the masses of track I had. I'd race them against each other, make league tables, all sorts. God I was a loser even then!

Sticklebricks

Also remember having a set of 'European Football Clubs' Top Trumps. Spent hours with them holding European Cup Tournaments etc.

sparky, trying to get my son to do that with his cars, which goes furthest etc, he dont want to know, i salute you and your league tables

Sticklebricks a great shout. Very painful to stand on though! As was Duplo!

Anyone have a wooden Brio train set?

Table hockey set. Myself and my best friend, Sandy McKay, played entire seasons with a schedule from October to April every day after school. Between the two of us, we had all the players in uniforms.

Then the play-offs right onto the Stanley Cup.

Year after year after year till we were 10 or 11.

Flash forward to University a decade later and we ended up with a flat with two other mates. Two weeks in, we went to the local toy shop and bought a 60 inch table and built a schedule that ran all winter between the four of us.

When not with Sandy McKay playing hockey, Major Matt Mason kept me busy. Believe I had everything on this page:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=major%20matt%20mason&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

super striker with the diving goalkeepers was good as well

I had that very same Robin hood thing Glossy!

I also had the wagon awell.

I was obsessed with that film in my youth, I've swear to god I've probably seen it more than 100 times!

yorky - i bet he just wants to crash them!

I bet I could NAME 15 of those carse even now!

Major Matt mason! I had his space station thing! And a powerpack for his back so he could absail down it and say random things

"Switch to reserve oxygen supplies!"

"Meteor Storm, returning to ship!"

super striker, this thread is gold, making me happy and a little bit sad at same time,diving goalies im filling up here

1) lotus super seven
2) Baha Buggy

3) Gruesome twosome

Wish I could find it Eboue. Probably long gone by now. Could drive the missus mad having that flying round the house at the weekend.

Never had the Robin Hood Wagon - I think I may have improvised and had him driving around in the Turtles' Pizza Wagon!

This may take some time, but I WILL Get there!

www.peter-upton.co.uk/striker.htm

copy and paste yorky

4) Dump truck!

5) mazda rx500

6) Lamborghini Countach

Also had a great game called 'World Cup Cricket' which was probably the cricket equivilant to Super Striker. Was a bit fiddly but quite good once you figured it out:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/87564

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/subhw1.htm
Wow just found this for any old subbuteo fans , all the old team colours

sparkmaster...my dad was an electronic whiz with a soldering iron.

My Major Matt Mason space station had more gadgets, lights and wires added into it than Mattel ever intended.

is kershaw in there grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Toys ?

I had a radio-controlled plane with which I terrorised the village until it was confiscated by my dad. However, even more loved, was my dog. Every boy should have a dog. Not just hours of pleasure but years of pleasure.

Dogs also have the advantages of agreeing with everything you say and do and taking the blame when you raid the kitchen.

Spud gun.

Not quite sure you can class a dog as a 'toy' though!?

All right, maybe my dog was more your vicious barstard than your toy, but I loved him and had more fun with him than anything that came shrink-wrapped in a fancy box.

I remember having unbreakable tonka toys(for real tough boys according to the ad).I broke them.

My winky

lol shapeshifter

Hot Wheels

7) Hot Rod Draguar.

This is going to be a lengthy quest

boring old lego trainset for me. Looking back, I can't believe how
expensive it was, even then.

keep going sparky 8 to go

Can't remember the name but there was a game where two players each had an aeroplane at either end of a pitch. Each aeroplane (world war 1 type) could move sideways, or turn a bit, and they fired ball bearings at supports under the other one - the aim was to knock the supports away to crash your opponent's aeroplane.

I fking loved it, but my best mate and I managed to break it in less than a month by being a bit "enthusiastic" in trying to move the planes from side to side to dodge the ballbearings.

Pool balls in a sock

i can truthfylly say i used to take a diana airgun to school.

I had a football game called Jimmy. It was so so simple but I loved it....then I upgraded to Subbuteo which I loved.

I also had a 4 foot x 2 foot snooker table, where you could pot up the cushions and drop them in the middle bag! I used to help Mum clear the dinner table on a Friday night and then put my table on top of it and try to get away with it being up all day Saturday too!

Happy days indeed!

I had CASCADE the ball bearing game I played it for hours.....dont ask why.

SHOOT
A football game played with Tiddlywinks, 2 Lead GKs on wires , and proper goal nets.
About 10 of us had our own Home pitches in our Homes .
MIne was a large pitch drawn on my mothers table underfelt .
This was about an inch thick, made of hair or something with a brown leather type covering .It kept the Heat from reaching the walnut dining table ,and you put a tablecloth over the top .We obv took the cloth of to play and my pitch was there drawn on the underfelt.
Beauty was , because it "sunk in" you could lob , swerve, and do all sorts to the ball "tiddlywink", it gave me an advantage ..But of course others home pitches had their quirks when you played away . A rock hard board meant shots never took off , so if you were adept with the goalie you never let any goals in .
We had a League . Prob played for around 5 years into early teens.
We had an FA Cup comp , played on one night in my house , coz of the space, as 16 used to pile in on Cup nights, including me old fella, who played in the Cup Comps.
One guys Dad made him an oversize goalie to assist him , but it was banned ... :D :D

Crossfire such an awesome game .. I'd still play it now ... for Money ;)

atari 2600


pmsl

wish Eurocoach betting had been around for my Shoot Cup comps :D :D

epic fail on my behalf. But it did inspire me to look up this marvellous site. I had ALL of these!

http://www.70er-matchbox.de/1971.htm

If I hadn't been born male, I'd have had nothing to play with.

you have a lot to learn dave

didn't have many toys, only books.

My first toy was a crossbow.


Me and my kid brother used to play William Tell, and just like on the television, I used to put an apple on his head.

If he had kept still he'd be..............55 now

A crossbow but sadly it was confiscated.

Big Charlie 10 Nov 16:33


My first toy was a crossbow.


Me and my kid brother used to play William Tell, and just like on the television, I used to put an apple on his head.

If he had kept still he'd be..............55 now

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stock car smash up

raving**ers

Subbuteo football and cricket,and ker plunk.

Hungry Hippo

Can't belive how crappp subbuteo was. Only ever fun when you scored from your own box with an illegal proper flick. The type used to remove a bogey using thumb and forefinger, none of that official scrail your nail on the blanket lightweight rhubarb.

My favourite was my thundercats tank type thing and lion-o's sword that lit up.

Thundercats are go!!!!

I knew a bloke 25 years ago who played in a Subbuteo league.

What a sad cvnt.

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Big Charlie 10 Nov 16:33


My first toy was a crossbow.


Me and my kid brother used to play William Tell, and just like on the television, I used to put an apple on his head.

If he had kept still he'd be..............55 now
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