Thread: Toys you got for Xmas as a kid

Originally Posted by Kwang

Then I found girls

Staring dumbstruck at girls and beating off 5 times a day while dribbling over the underwear section of Kays catalogue in the school toilets is not really a hobby.

^ you seem to have a fair amount of very specific knowledge there, Loops...

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^ oh dear... Nowadays, you could sue your parents for such cruelty!

Originally Posted by Looper

Staring dumbstruck at girls and beating off 5 times a day while dribbling over the underwear section of Kays catalogue in the school toilets is not really a hobby

Can someone red looper for me, I just laughed milk out of my nose all over my laptop!

Went up in the loft the other day and found some old xmas presents still in good order as well might try them out tomorrow.
Could be worth a few £.

^
Oh yes, that brings back memories.
I got a Mamod for xmas when I was 8 years old.
Kept me amused for ages.
Ran on methylated spirits.
Why my parents let me have meths and matches when I was 8 years old still amazes me

I got one of these once, but I don't think it was particularly for me...

Nice bits of kit them KT

Mom would always tell us we were going to shoot an eye out. Dad would laugh it off.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I got one of these once, but I don't think it was particularly for me...

That's the Flying Scotsman set. That was the one I had too. I made a little rural landscape out of chicken wire and paper mache for mine, even had a tunnel... sigh.

Just found it is still for sale today



Hornby Model Railways - Flying Scotsman Train Set

Originally Posted by Thetyim

^
Oh yes, that brings back memories.
I got a Mamod for xmas when I was 8 years old.
Kept me amused for ages.
Ran on methylated spirits.
Why my parents let me have meths and matches when I was 8 years old still amazes me

Lol. True enough. Nowadays you'd get taken into care by the social services, and your parents arrested.

The best bit was setting them on fire afterwards!

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Nice bits of kit them KT

I actually thought i had left them behind when i moved house about 20 years ago,was well happy when i found them again.

Sir Wilson

What were the cheap polystyrene ones that took 5 seconds to put together called, I had loads of them

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

The best bit was setting them on fire afterwards!

I'll second that one ,, I remember building Donald Cambells Blubird model ,, it was a poxy thing when I looked at it after I finished it , so out into the back garden before Dad got home with a box of Swan Vesta,s it was

Originally Posted by Kwang

Sir Wilson

What were the cheap polystyrene ones that took 5 seconds to put together called, I had loads of them

I forget, I preferred the harder plastic ones. (that you put together with glue and painted them, though I rarely painted them until after I had glued them together, cos I was too impatient.)

Originally Posted by Bung

King of the sand pit:

1965 ? I had the exact same model. They must have kept the same design for 20 years..

^this was an rubber band burner.


got this exact model when i was 13 i think. still have it

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by Bung

King of the sand pit:

1965 ? I had the exact same model. They must have kept the same design for 20 years..

Had one. Dad ran it over, just like the dog.

Originally Posted by Necron99

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by Bung

King of the sand pit:

1965 ? I had the exact same model. They must have kept the same design for 20 years..

Had one. Dad ran it over, just like the dog.

my 3 brothers and i all had a dump truck and a couple front end loaders to fight over. All steel though. not this plastic shit they have now.

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by Bung

King of the sand pit:

1965 ? I had the exact same model. They must have kept the same design for 20 years..

The real thing hasn't changed much either so you can prolly buy the same toy today.

We used to put "D" size rocket engines 6 to 8 in the dump bed then launch the down the street. Until we hit a neighbors car and did some damage

Lucky pricks I usually got clothes