Reply to: Retro Toys - Toys you had as a kid

[RSoles]

Computacar
programmed by the card in the slot underneath. Still got one (which I bought from Metropolis in Warwick ( ok, plug)).



Turning circle about twice the size of the average living room........

[OnceStonedRose]

Wow

**Note to self... read thread prior to posting...

[TestMangler]

I could never work out how to buy a pair - they always wanted paying in $!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Specs_(novelty)

'My mate' was so keen (at about 9 years old) that he got his mum to get $ from the bank from his birthday money and send the little tiny order form and wait about three months for them to arrive !!

[mudskipper]

'My mate' bought a pair. They don't work. They just make everything blurred

I could never work out how to buy a pair - they always wanted paying in $!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Specs_(novelty)

[TestMangler]

I always wanted those! Still do, mind.

'My mate' bought a pair. They don't work. They just make everything blurred

[mudskipper]

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 ?

I always wanted those! Still do, mind.

[administrator]

Action man with parachute but without eagle eyes poor Yorkshire folk and all that.

Also a board game called 'Sorry' that used to come out everytime we went to see the grandparents. Didn't like to play with Gran though as we thought she was cheating saying Sorry out of turn. It wasn't until we were older my mum said that's cause she'd wet herself and was nothing to do with the game.

We still play Sorry with our kids, superb game!

[DaveB]

That is a replica of the rifles we were issued with when I was in the army. Better than the plastic SA80s that they have nowadays anyway.

Yup. Brit version of the FN FAL known as the L1A1 SLR. Standard issue until 1984.

[shaunbhoy]

I remember dropping my Slime on the gravel drive!

Is that a euphemism??

[Martin Scroatman]

Big Trak would have counted until it was re-released last year.

Anyone else experience the horrors of things like:
The octopus falling off the window part way through its descent and landing in fluff/carpet/dirt?
The polystyrene plane catching a gust of wind and disappearing forever?

These were serious 1980s first world problems.

I remember dropping my Slime on the gravel drive!

[shaunbhoy]

My brothers and I had one of these each.



The fact that the "bullets" wouldn't go more than about 10 feet at most meant we usually resorted to shouting BANG at each other.

That is a replica of the rifles we were issued with when I was in the army. Better than the plastic SA80s that they have nowadays anyway.

[LondonManc]

Big Trak would have counted until it was re-released last year.

Anyone else experience the horrors of things like:
The octopus falling off the window part way through its descent and landing in fluff/carpet/dirt?
The polystyrene plane catching a gust of wind and disappearing forever?

These were serious 1980s first world problems.

[shaunbhoy]

I had one of these bad boys when I was about 7 or 8!!

[DaveB]

Had one of these when I was about eight, but the end of the barrel snapped off during a particularly frenetic battle. Then an uncle, who had no idea that I'd previously had one, gave me another a Christmas or two later

My brothers and I had one of these each.



The fact that the "bullets" wouldn't go more than about 10 feet at most meant we usually resorted to shouting BANG at each other.

[NickFitz]

Had one of these when I was about eight, but the end of the barrel snapped off during a particularly frenetic battle. Then an uncle, who had no idea that I'd previously had one, gave me another a Christmas or two later

And I've still got the rare Corgi Yellow Submarine with yellow and white hatches, like the one in the box in this photo, with the more common red-hatched variant in front:

though mine is very far from mint condition, and the box would have been chucked out on the birthday that I received it, probably in 1968

More on the original Corgi Yellow Submarine and its many later variants: Corgi Toys Yellow Submarine... - Themed Collections