Retro Toys - Toys you had as a kid

[TestMangler]

We've got both. They're still made.

I had this sonic gun, which was a listening device. It had a plastic radar dish on it. I was tulipe and never actually worked. I took it apart. Cardboard tube, single wire and plastic dish.

Could have been an early amstrad

Did you never have 'x Ray Spex' which allowed you to 'see through clothing', usually sold mail order in American comics and bazooka joe bubblegum packets ?

[MarillionFan]

Did you never have 'x Ray Spex' which allowed you to 'see through clothing', usually sold mail order in American comics and bazooka joe bubblegum packets ?

No but I did buy some Rhyponol which has the same effect.

[TestMangler]

No but I did buy some Rhyponol which has the same effect.

Is that anything like Rohypnol ? Possibly an illegally imported Indian fake version. Like that Kamagra you buy all the time.

[rl4engc]

Tons of Lego Technic, including 8860:



Once it was built, I used to drop it from my bunk bed so I could carry out repair work on it..

Crossbows and Catapults was another good one.



Downfall:



Marbles, Spirograph, "Bolt N Build", Fuzzy Felt..

I feel sorry for some of todays kids whos idea of games is some tulip on their parents iPad..

[OwlHoot]

Slinky

(when they first came out in the 1960s, I think, unless thay've actually been around since 1890 or something)

edit: As always, there is a Wikipedia article on them and it appears they were invented in the 1940s.

[TheLordDave]

Tons of Lego Technic, including 8860:



Once it was built, I used to drop it from my bunk bed so I could carry out repair work on it..

Crossbows and Catapults was another good one.



Downfall:



Marbles, Spirograph, "Bolt N Build", Fuzzy Felt..

I feel sorry for some of todays kids whos idea of games is some tulip on their parents iPad..

Crossbows and catapults was awesome, I re ought it a couple of years ago on eBay. It's in the stick for when my son is old enough to play it.

[LondonManc]

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Was gutted when I got this. The adverts made it look fecking awesome, tanks exploding, carnage - proper warfare! All it was was a bit of string that made some plastic noggins push up through the board and knocked the tanks over. Rip off. I wanted explosions!

Badly wanted this, never got it



My brother had the Enterprise MF posted in the first OP, he always had better toys than me.

[LondonManc]

Was gutted when I got this. The adverts made it look fecking awesome, tanks exploding, carnage - proper warfare! All it was was a bit of string that made some plastic noggins push up through the board and knocked the tanks over. Rip off. I wanted explosions!

Badly wanted this, never got it



My brother had the Enterprise MF posted in the first OP, he always had better toys than me.

Totally agree on both points. Mouse trap had more action.

[Martin Scroatman]

Crossbows and catapults was awesome, I re ought it a couple of years ago on eBay. It's in the stick for when my son is old enough to play it.

In the where?



I recall an amazing travel game called Spot-A-Lot that kept us young whippersnappers quiet on many a long car journey.

It was a board with magnetic pieces (Just as well in my father's old Citroen Ami 8!) and the object was to progress one's piece around the board in the same manner as any other board game such as snakes and ladders or ludo except there were no dice.

Instead, there was a pack of cards and each card detailed a series of artifacts that one may observe through the window of a moving car with each of these being allocated a score that reflected the likelihood of observing that item. So, for example, a cow would get you 2 points and an airfield 10 points. Upon seeing something on the card, the player would move his piece the commensurate number of places on the board and then pick up another card to repeat the process and so it would go on until somebody reached the end.