It's the things from your childhood thread - The Bear and Badger

equinox_code

These were the best top trumps

adkm1979

I had horror characters (some of the pictures terrified me) cars, bikes, planes, crazy cars. Ah, I miss Top Trumps, but they always seemed to put a game-killing card in there.

equinox_code

I loved the above pack. So much so that i used to pretend i was some of the characters. It always disappointed me that the chap from the cover wasn't the best one. I liked his vibe

Other faves

Totally not interesting for anyone who didn't actually own the pack

Moot_Geeza

I missed the rest of the Games Workshop stuff, but these were brilliant. No-one could beat Balgorg for speed iirc. Keeper of Secrets was my fave.

fullspectrum

SHIT

I had those

Moot_Geeza

I never understood what the symbols at the bottom meant.

davyK

I had formula 1 cars (which was odd as the engine size was the same for them all), super cars, aeroplanes, and very oddly, Wild West gunslingers ( kills, age at death etc.)

Carbon_Altered

I had a "special vehicles" one that was full of things like snow plows and massive cranes. Was weird.

equinox_code

Oh shit. Anyone else in Humpty Dumpty club? This may be my earliest memory of toys. I used to get a pack delivered once per month. It had all sorts of colouring in and things to do inside. Loved it

Coopers Green

OH MY GOD YES

Holy shit the memories. Big blue square packet with loads of activities. Really educational.

equinox_code

Yep! Blue and white pack. Really looked forward to them arriving. I'm oddly pleased to find someone else who got it too.

superflyninja

One for my fellow Irishers:

AJ

equinox_code wrote:

Oh shit. Anyone else in Humpty Dumpty club? This may be my earliest memory of toys. I used to get a pack delivered once per month. It had all sorts of colouring in and things to do inside. Loved it

This looks really familiar, but I might just be thinking of Tumble Tots. I'll have to ask my mum.

davyK

Anyone remember the Tufty club? I suspect this will be applicable to older folk

davyK

Also this...

and this....

Mal0wner

I remember the Tufty Club. An old bloke used to visit the school with a mock zebra crossing and teach us how to cross the road. I think there were public information films on telly too.

mk64

where did i get catch the pigeon from? Thats fucking weird.

I always wanted a gokart
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but they looked differently back then. Bright orange or red?

Also thought these were cool

And I wanted this, my best mates older brother had it.

I never wanted Zoids.

I eventually got this -

Never got this though which was the OG
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adkm1979

mk64 wrote:

where did i get catch the pigeon from?

It's what most people call it, in my experience.

I was never a member of any fan club. Being a member of the BoS Super Savers (with regular Super Squirrel magazine) was automatic with any kids' account. I got regular mail from a mail-order joke factory place, but again that was just part and parcel of ordering from them. Same for Special Reserve.

Anyhoo, that turned my thoughts to magazines. I got Look-In during the time it mostly looked something like this

and then moved onto Smash Hits, when it looked something like this

Matt_82

I had one like this when I was about 6 or 7. My cousin was pushing me around in it and pushed me out onto the road without looking and I was hit by a car. I was knocked out of the kart but otherwise unhurt and got up and walked away without any bother. I was very annoyed though and immediately told my parents that the person had been speeding.

When my mother went to speak to the driver, it turned out to be a woman in her 50s. She was inconsolable about the whole thing. They ended up having to get an ambulance for her which resulted in the police being involved. Despite my claims of her dangerous driving, it was obvious that a) the fault belonged to my cousin and I and b) she would have been going at well under the speed limit. Thankfully common sense prevailed and she wasn't arrested and no further action was taken.

Wouldn't have turned out like that if I had my way though. Wee shite.

adkm1979

I pushed my cousin down a lane on something similar. He was soon going faster than I could run and, when he reached the road, turned too tightly for the thing to remain upright. Realising that toppling could lead to a nasty accident, he used his forehead and the high friction of the rough road surface to bring everything to a swift halt.

Moot_Geeza

My sister got Smash Hits and Look-In, and also one called Fast Forward. There are around 30 stickers from those mags still stuck under my stairs in the secret cubby hole I found by smashing through some plaster after our loft conversion was finished. Will upload pics later.

davyK

I had a home made go-kart (called a guider locally) made from lumber and pram wheels - lived on it for the many summers - my knees never healed for a long time. A lot of time was spent looking for better, faster wheels. A few other kids in the neighbourhood were into them too so hill racing was popular for a quite a while.

AJ

davyK wrote:

Anyone remember the Tufty club? I suspect this will be applicable to older folk

I had one of these badges, despite having no idea what it was about or where it came from. Was a member of the Dennis the Menace club, though.

Tempy

Whilst older, wiser, nastier people were reading 2000AD, I was reading this

LarryDavid

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ZMM

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I missed the rest of the Games Workshop stuff, but these were brilliant. No-one could beat Balgorg for speed iirc. Keeper of Secrets was my fave.

These were epic! I had 4 sets, I think.

Have pogs been mentioned, yet?

[Deleted User]

"It's Alf! He's back... in pog form!"

mk64

I've got full sets of series 1-3 in tubes in a box but they are still worthless according to eBay where sell price seems in tandem with weight.

[Deleted User]

I have a full set of Tazos somewhere.

Blue Swirl

davyK wrote:

Blue Swirl wrote:

Wasn't Stretch Armstrong banned after some kid tied one around his neck and died? Or is that just an urban myth?

Stretch is still on the go as far as I know...he even has a dog sidekick according to the wiki called "Fetch Armstrong".

I remember the adverts for Fetch. Initially very exciting until you realised there was less you could do with him than Stretch.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I missed the rest of the Games Workshop stuff, but these were brilliant. No-one could beat Balgorg for speed iirc. Keeper of Secrets was my fave.

I had those, but the 40K version(s). Probably explains my obsession to this day.

mk64 wrote:

I've got full sets of series 1-3 in tubes in a box but they are still worthless according to eBay where sell price seems in tandem with weight.

Aye, I decided to get shot of my collection some years ago. They're worth nothing, even my weird rarities from France (Smurf pogs, anyone?). I think I kept my complete Series 1 and recycled the rest.

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