100 greatest toys ...

Someone, you'd be a,aaed how many adults still buy Lego for themselves.

Autocorrect fail.

im tempted treble, to buy lego, not twister. but lego is rather expensive nowadays.

Lego is also rather simplified these days, is it not?

Top Trumps - oh, yeah!

Yeah, the prices of it in Bluewater are enough to make you weep. £50 for a little Lego hospital.

planes, boats, cars, bikes - was right into TTs!

They just had yoyos. Anyone remember the coca cola yoyo craze in the late eighties playgrounds? Maybe I'm a bit younger than the rest of you.

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Dec 13, 2014 -- 1:49PM, treble wrote:

Yeah, the prices of it in Bluewater are enough to make you weep. £50 for a little Lego hospital.

Was going to get my nephews some for Christmas - until I saw the quality.  Not a patch on the 70's original kit.

Dec 13, 2014 -- 1:51PM, Ibrahima Sonko wrote:

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Could buy some real estate with that!

Certainly overpriced, was reasonably priced when i was a nipper.

But then again it has a resale value.

I had a fair collection, IB - until I lost all my toys in transit at Kuala Lumpur airport many moons ago.

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^are you Arabian?

Risk!!

Just build up on papua new guinea

i had lego for every xmas/bday. i had loads, sadly my dad robbed it off me when i was about 16.

Forget fifa. This was the king of football games. I had all the teams, the stadium, floodlights, scoreboard. The lot.

I had the floodlights too, never could get into subbeuto, preferred the press the head football game.

forever snapping the players

plasticine was great but it always ended up the brown greenish colour.

Blu Tak rules!

and Slime

I had an Atari 2600

Atari, probably the greatest toy i had barring lego/spectrum but at the time it was epic. Still remember getting up at 4am to open the fecker

decathlon treble ?

Preferred Centipede and F1

never cracked Rubik's

I did. Right against the fckin wall when I couldn't do it.

never played those treble.

Decathlon broke so many joysticks, the 10th event was the 1500m and you had to wiggle for the whole race. I knew how daley thompson felt i can tell you

Dec 13, 2014 -- 2:06PM, treble wrote:

I did. Right against the fckin wall when I couldn't do it.

did rubik, but it took me days.

loved playing D&D, sat round a table rolling dice.

Top 20 time... never was bothered with Action Man.  bit of a poof, imo.

Action man, i once found him on 3 different shelves in the airing cupboard, my brother thought he was smart

Love Airfix. Still do em, although Tamiya are much better cars.

Airfix was my pocket money.  Planes.

hang them from the ceiling ?

Yep and take your grans eye out.

Connect4 - an old girlfriend beat me EVERY time we played.  I shagged her better

Connect4 becomes useless when you get 2 decent players. Just endless stalemates.

I would still love a proper Hornby train set. Some of the old trains are worth thousands!

Dec 13, 2014 -- 2:19PM, treble wrote:

Connect4 becomes useless when you get 2 decent players. Just endless stalemates.

My bird was nice - I liked to surrender at the time

MECCANO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the crane !!

love trainsets, would love a big attic to build one in.

cleudo, guess early and try and ruin the game

I have only played Cluedo once - never again.

Cluedo is a good game.

enjoyed cluedo

I HAVE THE POWER!!!

I had loads of he man figures. He man, tell! Man at arms, that bee thing and battle at.

Never had.  Enjoyed the cartoons tho!

That should have said Teela and Battle Cat.

im a bit old for he man.

Skeletor - he was my fav, sent shivers right up my spine.

I sent my mom an email just now, telling her how spoilt i was.

she sent back:


you taking the piss or what ?

Dec 13, 2014 -- 2:32PM, Ibrahima Sonko wrote:

I sent my mom an email just now, telling her how spoilt i was.she sent back:you taking the piss or what ?

Did you sign it, "He-Man"?

no

Did you sign it, "She - man"?

foydc

TP has caused many an argument

Are yes, a quality game.  Not for idjuts

cheese

slice of pie

scaletrix

had it, hated it, poor mans TCR

Never had Scaletrix - preferred my motorbike

scrabble - one of the best ever!

i had a few of those tril

lived in a village as a kid, always on a motorbike on gravel pit behind the house.

I still remember the letter / number ratio to this day

only ever had PlayStation 1-5.

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I'm in the wilds of Scotland, Ib.  More than just gravel pits up here

Stil not into any of this modern PiSh.

Not peeked at you list Ib but Lego's not been mentioned yet.

Top 3?  1.00000000000000000000000000000001

ps4 gta, you can ride motorbikes all day long. race, jump & rob all on any bike you like.

Enjoy

maybe we can play online together sometime

As long as you have a huge knob.  Us gurlz enjoy a big un

my brother had g1 jockey on the wii, very funny to watch the fat cont trying ride a close finish.

everyone on the internet has a huge won.

if you dont have a big won, you are only one advert click away from all your dreams coming true.

LEGO, the daddy

Some great games from the past there. Sad that kids today are only interested in smoking hash.

Lego rules, along with Meccano!

Nice one Ib, enjoyed the laugh

Dec 13, 2014 -- 3:00PM, themightymac wrote:

Some great games from the past there. Sad that kids today are only interested in smoking hash.

Better parenting would fix that, mac.

good fred, nostalgia makes you warm inside. i tried to share it with my mom but she tried to ruin it, she wont be getting any nice emails very soon.

Sent my daughter an email today, she posted it on her tw@tter page, which was great too.

I've no eye deer wot ur story is Ib but I hope your Mum and you are friends again in time for Christmas.

I lost mine to cancer a few years ago and I miss her very much.

i would miss mine too, i would miss her blunt replies as earlier posted. I feel for you and good luck.

Its all good trill, afterall xmas dinner wouldnt be the same without her cooking it.

Good luck t, hope we can catch up on the ps4 in the future.

My favourite game didn't make the top 100. Blackjack, baggsy I'm bank.

Poker dice as well of course, I was never into space invaders or play stations or whatever else is on the list. Pull up a chair and get your pocket money out and lets roll them dice.

Never played those games slippy.

Longstoryshort, i put my poker set at mothers for the 3 times we would play it max each year.

My little nieces beg me to play cards with them, both below 9, before the dinner, i think they have a little of their fathers genes etc and i do my bit to keep them entertained.

They can play, especially evie. the next minute their mum is telling me i am turning them into addicts. what do you do...............

I have loads of old toys ,mostly bought from carboots over the last 30 years  tend to keep the ones in good nick ,have loads of old dinky and corgi cars most in their original boxes ,batman ,james bond ,green hornet etc ,but the one toy I could never afford as a kid but would have loved one was the Austin j40 pedal car a magnificent toy of its time and worth around £1400 -£2000 in good nick now ,if you can take the time to google it or youtoob it you may see what I mean !

I case it hasn't been mentioned  Escalado

She`s right, you are turning them into addicts.

Three card Brag was my favourite game as a kid.

I came across e bay for the first time a few years ago and most of my time on it since has been spent looking at toys, most recently Disney cars for my son but before that it was nearly all vintage toys, some retro ones from my own childhood and some more older ones which I just happened to come across.
Most of the time bought things I never even started looking at as you click on a sellers other items and you end up seeing something you were not looking for but like.
Not unusual if I had a good day at the office to go onto e bay and end up spending anything between a couple of hundred quid and well over a thousand in one night. Now I have a room literally full of old toys.
I think once you get to age 40 you want to have the old toys you never had as a child but more likely the old toys you did have as a child but have since lost. The toys you opened up on Christmas day and spent playing with your dad are not just toys - they are memories you never forget. And one of the only things I don't regret buying on e bay was an old game of super striker football, the one with the moulded sides and Wembley fast pitch surface which I got for Christmas in about 1980. Still get goosebumps remembering opening seeing my Christmas present that year and spent boxing day playing it with my daddy in between cheering on his horses on tv.
Well, i bought the game on e bay a few years ago and I think I paid £100 for it. I only ever had the original man utd and Newcastle teams which came with the original boxed set but I have now bought every single one of the teams which I never even knew existed. I even ended up finding the full set of 8 international teams which were in pristine condition in their original boxes. Each team cost something like £3 when new but I paid over £500 for them years later.
Keeping them until my son gets a little older and giving it to him.

unfortunately my kids( teenagers and older  now )show no interest in the old toys but I keep collecting and one of the great thrills is coming across stuff that I bought 20 or 30 years ago for a song form a carboot that I forgot a had ,I uncovered a plastic beatles toy guitar made in the 60s by selco has the bands faces and facilimile signatures on the front ,I just keep buying stuff as long as its reasonably cheap ,paddletoe if you can get to some decent carboots early in the morni ng you can pick up some real bargains ,bought a boxed simon game a few weeks back for £2

We have some very small car boot sales where i live but they are not anything like those you get in England such as the ones you see on tv. Would love to spend a whole day going around one of those. The one old toy I would like to get is a 1960's triang lotus f1 car. Before my era as a child but they don't makes things like that anymore. Seen a few of them on e bay but your talking about £1,000. And then there is the transport cost as am in n.ireland. Got a rocking horse for my wife two years ago and the delivery cost of it alone was £400.