It's the things from your childhood thread
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1. This thread is great.
2. How has no-one posted this yet? Am I just a bit older than you guys? I mean, come on. To this day, when people ask me about favorite Xmas memories, best gifts etc., I automatically think of this. Xmas is for giving? No sir, it's for receiving the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
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Check out this beast:
Google image search for 80's toys threw it up, I never owned it (or even heard of it). I did inherit loads of damaged Star Wars toys off an older cousin though whilst we're on the subject. They were all in pretty shitty condition though. -
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Fuck me. That is awesome. Surely not a commercially available toy?That was awkward and unsettling, never post anything like it again.
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No idea. I wish I had one as a kid though.
The plane reminded me of Air-Fix which I fucking loved. I was gutted when my parents informed me they'd cleaned out the attic and got rid of my miniature Luftwaffe.
Mine weren't quite so professionally painted.
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Yes, those are fingers for legs, with the boots placed on the tips. Was absolutely amazing.
It's difficult to find the words to describe how much I loved that last one. -
Sorry, I've been raiding my parents photo albums. When I found 'spaceship Christmas' I was gutted to find that there was only a photo of my brother holding our Millennium Falcon, even though Santa gave it to both of us.
Anyway, some photos. First up, me meeting my Donald Duck, who said various Donald Duck phrases when you pulled the drawstring in his back.
About the same kind of age, in our AA pedal-carrecovery truck:
Playing Chequered Flag. My dad has regretted this moment for the rest of his life:
On a caravaning holiday (I'm sure this photo was taken in Elgin) reading a choose your own adventure style Indiana Jones:
The flash has caught it,but that's the Orco figure who you could slip a cable-tie-like bit of plastic through, rip it out and he'd spin about on the table. The keener-eyed amongst you might also spot the BMX helmet I got that year:
Of course, I wanted the helmet, but I found it distracting when getting up to this sort of lark:
Me with my Lego castle, which was hinged to clip back into square with a tiny courtyard in the middle. Working drawbridge and portcullis, bitches. My brother with his Lego pneumatic excavator, where you could flick levers back and fore then pump a piston to move the arm various ways:
A troll (although not a Russ one), the Wheels of Fire compilation (Turbo Outrun, Chase HQ, Power Drift and Hard Drivin') for Atari ST, and some awesome early 90s fashion:
The awesome paint-job I gave my Tamiya Madcap:
And finally, just because I'm worried you think my childhood was all plastic toys and computer games, this is me clarted from head to toe, building a dam on a camping holiday:
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Tomy Super Cup!
Best ever thing. So noisy. And the corners! Genius, shove your subbuteo up your arse. -
That aircraft carrier was indeed available to own - an american GI Joe toy
Not sure if it was an american only toy. Never knew anyone who had it.
Nothing tops the Falcon were cool xmas toys though. Still have the shell of mine in the attic along with some other stuff.SFV - reddave360 -
Awesome photos andy.
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Another Tomy Super Cup fan, great fun.
Cricket Subbuteo was more fun than the footie version, I only knew one lad who owned it though and he never let us play with it. I remember it being a bit more advanced than this but image search isn't giving me much to work with.
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Liveinadive wrote:Awesome photos andy. Highlight, dat sofa in photo 1
Indiana Jones caravan holiday pic is my fave. He looks properly engrossed/concerned. -
Someone post pics of those planes made out of foam which you slotted together and put a propella on the nose and whoosh. Broke after three throws but cheap and great fun.He could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG
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Send messageLarryDavid wrote:All my mates and me got these for Xmas one year, I think there might've been a 'premium version' with some kind of futuristic helmet too. They were supposed to bring the experience of the lazer-tag arcade right into your (parent's) living room, unfortunately the lazer's were almost useless at anything less than point-blank range and they also used up batteries at a Game Gear-type rate. Still, the guns look mega-cool and when you're a kid just running around the house making lazer noises is endlessly entertaining.
Didn't have one of those, but had this:
Sadly, I was the only person I knew who got one. Still, my brother and I had a ton of fun playing an elaborate version of hide and seek (one with the headset, one with the gun) until we realised the gun was totally inaccurate; you could shoot at 45 degrees or more from the target and it would still register a hit.For those with an open mind, wonders always await! - Kilton (monster enthusiast) -
Sounds incredibly accurate to me.
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I nearly succeeded in getting Lock-On with monthly payments from Index a few times, after tonnes of nagging. I'm glad I didn't now. I just wanted it because Sega.
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Alpha Probe and Alpha Star from Fisher Price. The beginnings of a life-long obsession with sci-fi.
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Liveinadive wrote:Awesome photos andy.
Highlight, dat sofa in photo 1
Seriously, out of all those photos I was mesmerised by that sofa too! Excellent.
Good photos adkm. You were proper spoilt as a kid weren't you!
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I had that shuttle! At the start of my post with all the photos, I mentioned 'spaceship Christmas'. I knew I should've just told the story.Jaco wrote:Alpha Probe and Alpha Star from Fisher Price. The beginnings of a life-long obsession with sci-fi.
One Christmas, my mum asked my brother and I what we wanted for Christmas, and all either of us said was a spaceship. Letters were written to Santa, asking for a spaceship, and my mum tore her hair out wondering what elsesheSanta would bring us. Anyway, she got me that Fisher Price shuttle, and my brother a spaceship that made 'climbing' noises when you pointed it upwards, 'diving' noises when you pointed it downwards, and a 'laser' noises when you pushed the button on it, complete with flashing red LEDs on the front. She was chuffed.
Then, when talking to people about our presents, they told her that we must have meant a Millennium Falcon when we asked for spaceships, because that's what every kid wanted that Christmas. Mum rightly pointed out that we knew our Star Wars names and, if we'd specifically wanted a Millennium Falcon, we'd've asked for one, but we'd only asked for spaceships. After a while, though, she panicked, and thought she'd better find one, but there wasn't one to be had. Everywhere was sold out. Eventually a friend of the family traced one in Nottingham, and it would be sent up.
Mum waited, and waited, and waited, and it was never arriving.
Christmas Eve came, we went to bed, and my mum and dad set up our presents, hoping that we hadn't meant a Millennium Falcon. Then a lorry arrived in the street. A delivery driver with, apparently, the last Millennium Falcon in the UK. It was late, he was meant to have finished hours earlier, but he knew all of his packages were toys and he was going to keep going until they were all delivered, the sweet fellow. The Millennium Falcon got put on the floor between mine and my brothers presents, and in the morning it was pointed out that Santa meant it for the both of us.
My mum has pointed out that it was the only time she ever got obsessed with getting a must-have toy, the only time she ever went to such lengths to get something, even though neither of us had asked for it. Mental.
Looking out the photos earlier, my parents commented that they didn't remember us having so many toys. My mum never worked when we were growing up, and my dad was only a salesman. I never had as many toys as most of my friends. I think it was that combination I mentioned earlier of lots of aunties and uncles, and a birthday soon after Christmas. That Millennium Falcon story is totally uncharacteristic of my mum.Outlaw wrote:
Seriously, out of all those photos I was mesmerised by that sofa too! Excellent. Good photos adkm. You were proper spoilt as a kid weren't you!Awesome photos andy. Highlight, dat sofa in photo 1 -
Here in tha Jay there is, not terribly surprisingly, a pretty healthy trade in mint boxed/not-so-mint boxed/unboxed ol' toys including your original monster dolls from Gojira and Ultraman and that all the way up to very current stuff. You'll find it in the big specialist comic-book stores in the dreaded Akihabara, Nakano etc.
Pricing can be all over the place, all based on no doubt convoluted rareness metrics that only the deeply autistic have the energy/desperation for. Those Battle Beasts, for instance, in their original unopened placcy bags will set you back a tenner each.
Less said about the resin/vinyl mai waifu statuettes with coy/not-so-coy upskirt features the better. Doomed race I tell thee. -
I had this Moot. Only yesterday I sourced a pic to put into this very thread, but you beat me to it. Received it one Christmas from a friend of my parents. Very simple game, but it was great fun.
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