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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 7:11:02 GMT
Well we had Darda cars but my dad was a bit heavy about them and we only got to play with them on wet Sundays... I used to dearly want to just play all the time with them.. I have still got one of my old ones but it's got a dead motor. So I bought some track (eBay second hand) and cars (same) for my girls. They love it. Brilliant little high quality Diecast cars with incredibly powerful little pullback motors. Great toys these are ! Should be getting the track today so after school it's play, play, PLAY! This is the Darda beach buggy. By later in the week we will have green, red, orange and blue ones and some other cars. About 2 inch long. Really flies with a new motor in it !! I love 'em and luckily they still make the motors. They do wear out after a while. Example track Time machine stuff for me 70s and 80s. Also good for general zooming around on solid floors although they do rapidly pick up hair and need the axles cleaning. All fully dismantle able but the spring is massive and awkward to wind back into its tiny housing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 9:38:44 GMT
My Grandad used to make Tanks out a Woodbine packet, remember playing with them when I was round theirs.
Lego at home, then gaming stuff really, my dad was into it also so we always had a console of some kind and then PC's, we also had pinballs, arcade cabinets and a pool table.
Must be where I get my love of retro gaming stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 10:07:14 GMT
Cotton reel tanks was a standard thing in my childhood. Later I had a set of Bayko 😎
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 10:12:14 GMT
Used to have the track thing also Andrew, remember we had that much we could make a track from upstairs, down the stairs and into the dining room.
To be honest though we used to go out a lot, if it was dry we were out on our bikes, growing up in a little village we had loads of places over the fields that we used to go, the village bobby would often take us home for getting up to no good, but all harmless stuff.
Mrs lad goes out once in a blue moon, prefers to sit in his room with curtains shut playing xbox, how the world has changed.
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Post by patty on Apr 12, 2021 10:31:00 GMT
a wind up green train..loved it. It was kept at my grans..little sis n big bruv also had trains but don't remember theirs Made bows n arrows and played with big bruvs mechano .. I wanted a gun but didn't get one We did have dolls n prams but I used my pram to transport bricks Then mum brought us a Sindy each(Barbie too tarty)..but don't really think i played much with that My brother de capitated my teddy bear.......
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Post by perkwunos on Apr 12, 2021 10:35:02 GMT
Slinky.
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Post by Trina on Apr 12, 2021 11:40:27 GMT
I had a 'Slinky' spring as well.*That is not a pervy or kinky remark.😁
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 12:37:43 GMT
Yes we had those. Called then "stairwalkers" rather than slinky.
Being a very large house (4 floors and BIG) there were a lot of stairs for these to walk down. Outdoors we had dinghies in the pond, ponies in the stables, bow and arrows, swimming pool, tennis court etc etc but the Darda cars were the coolest thing in that house as far as I'm concerned.
Just wicked.
I like the fact they are so small yet so capable. Proper little cars they are.
Looks like I won't get the track until Wednesday as the post office depot only open 8-10am today and tomorrow and I am in wrong place at that time of the day.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 12:58:58 GMT
You big kid!
tbf, I am playing with a raspberry pi at the minute, I have managed to download and install nearly every game you can think off from the early days, Atari 2600, Commodore 64 and plus4, Nintendo, super Nintendo, mega drive, game gear, playstation 1, Gameboy... all for free.
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Post by thebfg on Apr 12, 2021 15:32:44 GMT
My Grandad used to make Tanks out a Woodbine packet, remember playing with them when I was round theirs. Lego at home, then gaming stuff really, my dad was into it also so we always had a console of some kind and then PC's, we also had pinballs, arcade cabinets and a pool table. Must be where I get my love of retro gaming stuff. I've no idea how old you are but you can't leave it at just "consoles" I started with an atari and an amstrad 128 bit pc. One year I got a Sega master system, my brother got a mega drive and my eldest sibling my sister got an amiga 500. It wasn't until the early 90s when we got a windows pc running windows 3.1. I expect my wifi enabled washing machine has more computing power than all of them put together.
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Post by Jim on Apr 12, 2021 17:29:23 GMT
Sekiden Pea gun. Pea shooter. Lego. Hercules bike. 3 rail Hornby train set and Minic track and cars. String and tin can phone. Proper fireworks, 1p & 3p bangers, Catherine wheels, jumping jacks, banger gun made of steel conduit with one end hammered shut with a brick. Bamboo cane, nail and string fashioned into a throwing spear. Or made into a bow and arrow. My brothers mate had action men. We were poor.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 17:40:19 GMT
We had an outhouse. Bloody cold it was.
Much better to use one of the 4 other ones inside the house !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 22:46:42 GMT
Wasn't the slightest bit interested in football then (or now) but my brother and I thought this was the best. BOBBY CHARLTON CASDON TABLE TOP FOOTBALL
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 6:21:47 GMT
A football. That was it Rog
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Post by ianali on Apr 13, 2021 6:28:53 GMT
A football. That was it Rog Was anything more required? Between the age of 5 and 14 I played football. Little else mattered to me.
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