Favorite Childhood Toy.

[Armistead]

This one one of my favorites I remember. Funny thing when you went down a big hill, you had to let go of the handles and hang on. It was a blast on hills covered in ice.

http://www.timewarptoys.com/krazykar.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

My Hornby Advanced Passenger Train, if I'd been allowed to play with it. My father bought it for xmas but the APT project had been cancelled (but later sold on and used successfully) he thought it'd be rare and worth something so I wasn't allowed to play with it except fewer than a handful of times.

I still have one boxed, hardly used, Hornby APT and am open to sensible offers.

http:// www.lskauctioncentre.co.uk/media/73516/932.jpg

It's also a good job I double checked my phone's autocorrect of this post or else I'd have a Horny APT, and that's just scary!

The toy that I was allotted to play with, and I certainly got my money's worth out of was my Millennium Falcon (and other SW stuff).

[Sailor Steve]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Scan0015-1.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

Aww, is that ickle Steve?

[Oberon]

It's also a good job I double checked my phone's autocorrect of this post or else I'd have a Horny APT, and that's just scary!

That would have been a more sensible reason as to why the project was cancelled than the real reason. :haha:

My favourite toy...now you're asking, I did have a lovely Tomy train set, that took up the entire floor of the spare room, had a big bridge and everything. That used to be fun to watch the trains go round. And then there was the teddy bear that my Mum and Dad got for me when they went out once and my Nan was looking after me, I still have that bear. :yep: But alas the Tomy train set has long disappeared into the past.

I still have my Thomas the Tank engine die-cast toy collection somewhere though, up in the attic I think. Including some with the legend of "Made in West Germany" on the bottom. :doh: Shows my age! :haha:

[danasan]

snip



It's much better with the decent soundtrack :yep: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXXmeP9TvBg)

My favorite:

http://www.rund-ums-rad.info/wp-content/images/radtypen/puch_hiriser08.jpg
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXXmeP9TvBg)

[STEED]

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4600885780087440&pid=15.1
http://spaceart.de/produkte/mondbasis-alpha-1-eagle-frachter-dinky-spn009-c.jpg

Space1999 Dinky Eagles. :yeah:

[Jimbuna]

Don't you dare come on here with a description of what your favourite was STEED :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEC-lWSlmI






*sitting with finger poise above the ban button* :)

[Armistead]

It's much better with the decent soundtrack :yep: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXXmeP9TvBg)

My favorite:

http://www.rund-ums-rad.info/wp-content/images/radtypen/puch_hiriser08.jpg


We use to cut forks off other bikes then shove them into the existing forks and make choppers our of our bikes. That bike would've been a prime chopper conversion...

[STEED]

Don't you dare come on here with a description of what your favourite was STEED :o

There are two ways to answer that and if you want them the cost will be £25,000 worth of Gold. :har:

[STEED]

http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/images/wacky/props/weapons/spud-gun-all-3.jpg

Come on chaps we all had one...Spud gun. :03::DL

[GoldenRivet]

I must have over 1,000 traps on this bad boy

http://www.thekickisgood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ussflagg-1.jpg

[Jimbuna]

There are two ways to answer that and if you want them the cost will be £25,000 worth of Gold. :har:

LOL :)

I always remember being about five years of age when my parents bought me an electric train set (don't recall scale) fully laid out with hills and scenery etc.

They purchased from an enthusiast, it was mounted on something like a 12' x 12' board and came with custom built trestles for standage.

I was probably far too young to appreciate it and in hindsight it was probably something my father enjoyed and appreciated far more but the distant memories are still there.

[Armistead]

I must have over 1,000 traps on this bad boy

http://www.thekickisgood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ussflagg-1.jpg

Well, that explains it..

[Red October1984]

I must have over 1,000 traps on this bad boy

http://www.thekickisgood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ussflagg-1.jpg

That thing looks amazing. I bet that was fun to play with. :ping:

Too bad that it opens up, cuz if that thing floated, I would never play with anything else. Haha. This thread brings out the kid in all of us.

[Jimbuna]

Looks like an extremely cool toy :cool:

[Madox58]

I had the G.I. Joe Space Capsule set.
Was a big NASA fanboy back then and had all the stuff you could get from some club my parents hooked me into.
:)

Had Lunar Lander models and all that really Cool Crap!
:yeah:

[eddie]

Spent a lot of time winning the war with these!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Thony/toysoldiers_zpse91d6d8d.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

Well so far GR's carrier is the toy I'm most envious of so far! :yep:

[Red October1984]

Well so far GR's carrier is the toy I'm most envious of so far! :yep:

+1 :woot:

[Cybermat47]

Spent a lot of time winning the war with these!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Thony/toysoldiers_zpse91d6d8d.jpg

What war? All I can see is American troops and a dog :sunny:

[magic452]

I had three favorites.

A really big Lionel train set.
A Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.
A custom made bow and three matched sets of arrows. Target, bird and hunting broad head. Got a few deer with that sucker when I got older.

Magic

[BossMark]

Lego
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego

[U570]

Lego
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego
Who didn't grow up with Lego? It has got to be one of the most influential toys in the last 2 centuries.

[HunterICX]

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2127/2006ae7838x.jpg

That and Lego

HunterICX

[Jimbuna]

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2127/2006ae7838x.jpg

That and Lego

HunterICX

Most definitely....also tried Meccano but soon tired of it, probably too complex.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/20030514_160101-Meccano_set-rt1.jpg

[mookiemookie]

http://i.imgur.com/NuiEb.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3616/3320446943_36376353c3.jpg

http://markettheme.com/demo/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/destro.jpg

http://underscoopfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/MASK-Hurricane-57-Chevy.png

http://www.apreche.net/~apreche/images/boulderhill.jpg

Hah..at one point I had a die cast plane collection that rivaled Jims:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XGTEq-HaL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/ERTL-FORCE-ONE-MCDONNELL-DOUGLAS-F-4-PHANTOM-II-PLANE-1036-MIB-MOC-DIECAST-1989-/00/s/MTAyNFg3NjQ=/$T2eC16RHJHoE9n3Ke-J!BQejDtfgfg~~60_35.JPG

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/ERTL-FORCE-ONE-F-117A-STEALTH-FIGHTER-PLANE-1048-MINT-DIECAST-1989-USAF-/00/s/NzUwWDY3OQ==/$(KGrHqJHJEsE-js(zPJ)BPqHrJcdbg~~60_35.JPG

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Vintage-1980-Fisher-Price-Huskey-Farm-Set-331-Tractor-Trailer-Bull-and-Farmer-/00/s/NzQ2WDk5OQ==/$(KGrHqVHJF!FCSLM)yb8BQl4gE0tRQ~~60_35.JPG

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPPzGbeDG-k/S5tfm4nXwRI/AAAAAAAAA6I/-_UbVyE8NiE/s400/Fisher-PricePlayFamilyActionGarage%23930.jpg

[AVGWarhawk]

Me and this baby went on many adventures.


http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/1218719701_ddf37f16e6_b.jpg?w=600&h=462

[Herr-Berbunch]

Hah..at one point I had a die cast plane collection that rivaled Jims:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XGTEq-HaL._SL500_AA300_.jpg



:har: You should start your own thread with that.

[danasan]

Yes, let's have a SR71 Blackbird thread. I had one of those too:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q46nrnGdiiM/Tom20b5doII/AAAAAAAALmw/XaT4xOgVsWo/s1600/lockheed-sr71-blackbird_3.jpg

[the_tyrant]

I have to say, my favorite childhood toy was my first mobile device, a Palm lifedrive. Got it a long time ago

I had music, videos, and wifi!

I spent so many playing with all the emulators.

[Schroeder]

I guess mine was this:
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/54/1012554/6132613464303066.jpg
Apart from playing with friends in the nearby forest .:D

[Penguin]

Mine was certainly Lego and I was the first Playmobil generation, it came on the market when I was 2.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/First_Playmobil.jpg/640px-First_Playmobil.jpg

As Playmobil has always been on the expensive side, I combined the two worlds, for example I built my pirate ship for the Playmo guys from Lego.
Oh I also had tons of plastic soldiers, inherited a huge amount from my cousin when he grew out of it.


I have to say, my favorite childhood toy was my first mobile device, a Palm lifedrive.
I had music, videos, and wifi!


This is really freaking sad.
The equivalent for me would have been the ghettoblaster, the tv and the ham radio. All things I had access to and certainly spent a lot of time with. Though it would never come to my mind as my favorite toy(s).

[Jimbuna]

Hah..at one point I had a die cast plane collection that rivaled Jims:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XGTEq-HaL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/ERTL-FORCE-ONE-MCDONNELL-DOUGLAS-F-4-PHANTOM-II-PLANE-1036-MIB-MOC-DIECAST-1989-/00/s/MTAyNFg3NjQ=/$T2eC16RHJHoE9n3Ke-J!BQejDtfgfg~~60_35.JPG

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/ERTL-FORCE-ONE-F-117A-STEALTH-FIGHTER-PLANE-1048-MINT-DIECAST-1989-USAF-/00/s/NzUwWDY3OQ==/$(KGrHqJHJEsE-js(zPJ)BPqHrJcdbg~~60_35.JPG





LOL Mark :)

[Platapus]

I have many fond memories of nice toys as a kid.

Probably, if I had to pick ONE, I would have to go with

http://www.decodesystems.com/boris-chess.jpg

As both an introvert and a chess nut, having a machine where I could play my favourite game by myself was a great thing.

1977.

My close second would be

http://www.dicemaestro.com/games-articles/gfx/CodeNameSector.jpg

Also 1977. 1977was a good year for asocial introverts who liked to play games, but had no friends. :D

[Stealhead]

I had the G.I. Joes and Legos but my personal favorite where these bad boys.

These are AirFix 1:32 but as a kid in the US at least where I lived you could get the same molds in a big bag they where smaller though 1:35 roughly about 20 or 30 came in each bag.I had several bags worth or British,German,and Japanese and maybe one bag of Russians and I also had some Korean War era Chinese Peoples Army figures as well.

I used to dig extremely elaborate WWI style trench systems in the dirt and play with the soldiers in them.I would even have interlocking MG nests.

I also had US troops Vietnam style.

British
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q527/datsun260zyojimbo/12505_pd304532full_zps33bd9328.jpg

Japanese (mine where always puke green)
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q527/datsun260zyojimbo/12505_pd294452full_zps99180038.jpg

German
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q527/datsun260zyojimbo/12505_pd286991full_zps1e0590a5.jpg

Russian
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q527/datsun260zyojimbo/4597_pd1070845_11_zps92f7dcbd.jpg


US Vietnam
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q527/datsun260zyojimbo/4597_pd183000_1_zpsf3a81a48.jpg

[Cybermat47]

^^^^^^^^^^^
I love modeling, but I'm more into ships and aircraft.
Mind you, Tamiya makes some pretty good 1/35 infantry :sunny:

[mookiemookie]

I used to have gobs of those Vietnam era green plastic army men. Like a whole grocery sack full. I would set up gigantic battles in my mom's garden in the front yard.

[Stealhead]

^^^^^^^^^^^
I love modeling, but I'm more into ships and aircraft.
Mind you, Tamiya makes some pretty good 1/35 infantry :sunny:

Oh no these where toys not models they where made of a softer plastic not polystyrene.Most likely they took the molds for the models and reduced their size and used a more play friendly plastic.I just can tell that they used the Airfix(or who ever owned before Airfix) molds and made toys from them.I just used those pictures because they are as close as I can find to the toys I had.

I did alot of scale modeling as well but more as a teenager mostly aircraft in 1/48 and 1/72 scale. Tamiya are very good but a tad pricey I loved how you could build something in a static mode with gears and such down or up and the doors and all fit nice and flush closed most other companies you could not do that without crafty work to make things look correct.Dragon where pretty darn good as well. My favorite Tamyia was the 1/48 scale A6M2-n Rufe.I also had every F4U that they made.I made the 1/35 scale PBR 31 MK.II as well that thing was sweet i spent at least a month on that one getting it right mostly with paint and weathering.

[Onkel Neal]

It's much better with the decent soundtrack :yep: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXXmeP9TvBg)

My favorite:

http://www.rund-ums-rad.info/wp-content/images/radtypen/puch_hiriser08.jpg
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXXmeP9TvBg)

Dang! I always wanted one of those :rock:

[Jimbuna]

Oh no these where toys not models they where made of a softer plastic not polystyrene.Most likely they took the molds for the models and reduced their size and used a more play friendly plastic.I just can tell that they used the Airfix(or who ever owned before Airfix) molds and made toys from them.I just used those pictures because they are as close as I can find to the toys I had.

I did alot of scale modeling as well but more as a teenager mostly aircraft in 1/48 and 1/72 scale. Tamiya are very good but a tad pricey I loved how you could build something in a static mode with gears and such down or up and the doors and all fit nice and flush closed most other companies you could not do that without crafty work to make things look correct.Dragon where pretty darn good as well. My favorite Tamyia was the 1/48 scale A6M2-n Rufe.I also had every F4U that they made.I made the 1/35 scale PBR 31 MK.II as well that thing was sweet i spent at least a month on that one getting it right mostly with paint and weathering.

Bdefore plastic they were made of lead....I had some passed down to me from my grandfather but boy the detail was absolutely awful.

[Cybermat47]

Oh no these where toys not models they where made of a softer plastic not polystyrene.Most likely they took the molds for the models and reduced their size and used a more play friendly plastic.I just can tell that they used the Airfix(or who ever owned before Airfix) molds and made toys from them.I just used those pictures because they are as close as I can find to the toys I had.

Ah, I see. Sorry for the mistake.

[THE_MASK]

My fav toy was an arm with the LEM on the end . it was battery powered and the arm would spin around and you had to land the LEM on the moon . Never seen one on the net .

[Armistead]

I used to have gobs of those Vietnam era green plastic army men. Like a whole grocery sack full. I would set up gigantic battles in my mom's garden in the front yard.

Yea, make a dirt hill, cover them with army men and blow them up with firecrackers...

[sharkbit]

http://www.dicemaestro.com/games-articles/gfx/CodeNameSector.jpg



OMG!!!

I had one of those too. Awesome game.

:)

[MH]

http://pr0gramm.com/data/images/2009/06/original-game-and-watch-donkey-kong-nintendo.png

and other video games

.....and building warplane replicas, mostly ww2.

[nikimcbee]

http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/pasttreasures/items/426251/catphoto.jpg

http://www.retropedalcars.com/images/Marx-Big-Wheel.jpg

[HundertzehnGustav]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8qWdulntl0E/TZTkeKRKmeI/AAAAAAAAACI/TZba4qPK8Oo/s1600/8.png

This stuff can still make me dream.

[Red October1984]

This stuff can still make me dream.

You are never too old to play with Legos. :yeah: :arrgh!:

[nikimcbee]

You are never too old to play with Legos. :yeah: :arrgh!:

I used to build lego U-boats as a kid (with working torp tubes:haha:). And that's with the old ghetto sets, not the cool sets you can get today.

[Cybermat47]

I used to build lego U-boats as a kid (with working torp tubes:haha:). And that's with the old ghetto sets, not the cool sets you can get today.

I saw a Lego Fokker Dr.1 once. It was an actual, licensed set.

[HunterICX]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8qWdulntl0E/TZTkeKRKmeI/AAAAAAAAACI/TZba4qPK8Oo/s1600/8.png

This stuff can still make me dream.

I still have this one assembled on top of my shelf
http://www.nerdlikeyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/lego-pirate-ship-play-set.jpg

and used to have this one:
http://en.bricker.ru/images/sets/6090_brickset.jpg

HunterICX

[Red October1984]

I used to build lego U-boats as a kid (with working torp tubes:haha:). And that's with the old ghetto sets, not the cool sets you can get today.

Teach me your secret O Great One! :yep:

[nikimcbee]

Teach me your secret O Great One! :yep:

I have a picture some place, I'd have to look for it.:hmm2: It just takes some good planning and imagination to build cool stuff.

[mapuc]

I've got no picture of my favorite toys, that I had during my childhood.

But even though I got it for my 3 years birthday I remember it very well

You have to understand that we were very, very poor, so all these things you had was only things we could dream of.

Back to my so beloved toy.

It was a homemade truck/lorry with a real cabin and I could tip the ....(can't remember the name) that could be filled with sand or other things.

My dad made it not just a good job in making all these things possible, he also made so tuff that I could sit or jump on it( I had a real temper as kid)

He also made some dollhouses to my sisters.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I've got no picture of my favorite toys, that I had during my childhood.

But even though I got it for my 3 years birthday I remember it very well

You have to understand that we were very, very poor, so all these things you had was only things we could dream of.

Back to my so beloved toy.

It was a homemade truck/lorry with a real cabin and I could tip the ....(can't remember the name) that could be filled with sand or other things.

My dad made it not just a good job in making all these things possible, he also made so tuff that I could sit or jump on it( I had a real temper as kid)

He also made some dollhouses to my sisters.

Markus

Nice one and from the heart....major kudos for your father :sunny:

[soopaman2]

Thunder thunder thunder....

THUNDERCATS-HOOOOOOOOO.

How about GI joes and Transformers?

No children of the 80's? Or just cast iron tricycles, and pet rocks?:har:

[Eichhörnchen]

I keep meaning to dig this one up.... I know that Jim won't mind

I had a cap-firing Winchester. To me it looked just like a real one and you loaded the chromed plastic bullets through a sprung flap at the side, just like a real one. They then spun into the air from the top on cocking with the lever, just like a real one

[Skybird]

Toy blocks. Simple uniform, uncoloured wooden toy blocks. I looved them, sicne allways. My fantasy knew no limits, I build a galaxy of worlds with them. And some really malicious, evil, sick-minded execution machines. :up:



Second came chess figures, which I did not use as chess figures exclusively but also as toy soldiers and toy cowbays and toy indians, doing battle with them in the worlds I built with the bricks before. Call it 3-dimensional chess :D That way, my first chess set died multiple miserable deaths when I was five and six, and many pawns ended in the before mentioned execution machineries.



I also had a wonderful teddy bear, a really beautiful baby-grizzly. For the softer side in me. :yeah:

[Mork_417]

Mine was a Science Fair Microcomputer trainer.
http://oldcomputermuseum.com/microcomputer_trainer.html
https://i.imgur.com/JkXfBqf.jpg

A strong second was LEGO.

[Sailor Steve]

I know that Jim won't mind
You know nothin', Jon Snow.

[Sean C]

You are never too old to play with Legos. :yeah: :arrgh!:


Like many here, one of my favorite toys was Lego. My favorite cartoon was Voltron, but we were too poor for me to get the set of lions that joined together to form the "Defender of the Universe".


A week ago I had a birthday and my sister sent me this:




https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KhhHxRkc9ec/WzW5cYt-MLI/AAAAAAACgvA/YIRMYSfeBPsmSdqUP0ljBW-29hf7CQs8QCLcBGAs/s1600/LEGO%2BIdeas%2BVoltron%2B2.png





2,321 pieces and it stands almost 18 inches tall when assembled into Voltron. I was instantly a kid again! :rock:


PS
I wish I could post pictures of the one I have, but nothing I've tried works.

[Eichhörnchen]

That's a lovely post, buddy... what a great sister :up:

I use "Imgur" to post pictures... if you want then PM me and I'll tell you how

[Sean C]

This is for Eichhörnchen for helping me...

https://i.imgur.com/n3RV7E8.jpg


Thank you!

[Sean C]

...and here are some pictures of my Lego Votron:

The lions:
https://i.imgur.com/F6tpOMs.jpg

Voltron:
https://i.imgur.com/uhw88c7.jpg

...with sword and shield:
https://i.imgur.com/QxyrG6c.jpg

[AVGWarhawk]

GI Joe helicopter and jeep.

http://the-adventurers-club.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/06/capturecoptertimhare.jpg

http://www.mysite4u.com/toys/gijoe/images/GI_Joe_Jeep_7000_with_Trailer&gun_jpg.jpg

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/l8NOn4s.jpg

In the antique shop in Grantham recently, Moira found this remote-controlled police car from the 1960s, which I had as a kid for Christmas one year. I thought it was the most amazing thing (my brother got a London Cab). It was so lovely to see this favourite toy once again. What a piece of crap

[STEED]

In the antique shop in Grantham recently, Moira found this remote-controlled police car from the 1960s, which I had as a kid for Christmas one year. I thought it was the most amazing thing (my brother got a London Cab). It was so lovely to see this favourite toy once again. What a piece of crap

So how much did you get for it on eBay? :haha:

[Eichhörnchen]

Wasn't your favourite childhood toy a stick?

(Hey don't forget Reece's birthday is tomorrow)

[Bleiente]

^ :k_rofl:

[STEED]

Wasn't your favourite childhood toy a stick?

(Hey don't forget Reece's birthday is tomorrow)

Nah...Cricket bat. :O:

Reece who?

[Bleiente]

... :o

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/ihnXlvK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ZGvnFgb.jpg

The plastic 'Swoppet' knights were my favourite; the parts were all interchangeable... swords came out of scabbards, visors could be up or down. The one below is my own... I kept them all because they were prized possessions.

They were relatively expensive even when I was a kid, so I'd either get one knight on foot with my weekly 2/6d pocket money, or save it for 2 weeks and get a mounted one for 5/- (five shillings)

https://i.imgur.com/VKhBK5S.jpg

I also have the two siege machines shown in the catalogue page, but I bought these not long after I got married when I came across them at a toy-fair, because my own had disappeared somewhere over the years

[Platapus]

Legos are wasted on children. :D

[Ashikaga]

Basically all Star Wars toys from 1977-1983 and Lego and Playmobil.

Apart from that airfix and matchbox model kits.

[Rhodes]

He-man, Transformers, G.I.Joe's (the 80's ones), lego and had a few Meccano to build something more.


Eichhörnchen, recognize something here?
https://preview.ibb.co/cfm4M9/IMAGE00212.jpg (https://ibb.co/mBkLuU)
https://preview.ibb.co/bXDquU/IMAGE00213.jpg (https://ibb.co/hwHGZU)
https://preview.ibb.co/m3WbZU/IMAGE00215.jpg (https://ibb.co/i62Tg9)
From my father's toy's. I did play with some, and as you said, the interchangeable pieces and the weapons that could be draw from the scarabs and holsters, was something wonderful.

[em2nought]

Even as a child I found it kind of odd that I could have hundreds of 3 inch American soldiers from Vietnam, but there were no NVA or Vietcong available EVER. :hmmm:

[Eichhörnchen]

From my father's toy's. I did play with some, and as you said, the interchangeable pieces and the weapons that could be draw from the scarabs and holsters, was something wonderful.

Nice that you keep them there on the shelf, but some of those knights look like they've been through quite a few battles :)

I also have all of the American War of Independence figures (some are my original toys, some replacements)... including the scout with his buckskin coat, which only came in boxed sets and wasn't on sale individually, so he is more scarce. I'll take some pics later

[Eichhörnchen]

My Britains AWI toy soldiers.

https://i.imgur.com/r8NwzKc.jpg

There was a field gun in this series but the crew were not 'swoppet' figures, since they were one-piece one-colour mouldings and entirely painted (like most other plastic toy figures of the time)... although they were modelled to match with these more sophisticated multi-part figures

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/lQ0dsRu.jpg

Britains brought out some beautifully sculpted and animated toy figures at this time (the 1960s) like this rider from the showjumping series. He was modelled in an 'unbreakable' vinyl material, whereas the horse was in the usual polythene plastic. the reins, saddle and stirrups were also in brown vinyl plastic, which gave even more realism to their models at that time

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/jVV74cY.jpg https://i.imgur.com/u2M9w2X.jpg

There were many variations in the parts on these: many different weapons, helmet & visor styles, armoured legs & torsos, saddle types, shield shapes, horses (shape, colour and surcoat styles)... the scope for creating your own attractive models was endless

[Rhodes]

Nice that you keep them there on the shelf, but some of those knights look like they've been through quite a few battles :)


Oh yes, several battles according to my father. The storage during the years was also not perfect for that kind of plastic since in a attic, very hot in summer, the temperature differences did make the plastic to became more "breaky". He did save a few that were in better shape.

[Eichhörnchen]

I read somewhere that talcum powder was sometimes added to the plastic used to produce toy figures to make them easier to remove from the moulds, and that this has led to their early deterioration

You just dare not risk anymore pulling these knights apart to swap them around... the plastic can break very easily

[Aktungbby]

MY FAVORITE TOY https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IF0AAOSw2JxbrCSp/s-l300.jpg https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yXgAAOSwXy1brCSj/s-l1600.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvQdl-05WEE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvQdl-05WEE)

[em2nought]

The increased risk of ovarian cancer when talc is used in the genital area could be caused by talc particles traveling into a woman’s body and causing inflammation, which creates an environment that allows cancer cells to thrive. Because talc particles can remain in the body for an extended period of time, conditions may be ripe for cancer to grow for several years. In fact, some experts estimate that one particle of talc would take eight years to dissolve.

Additionally, talc has been linked to breathing difficulties in young children. While it is extremely rare that inhaling talc is deadly, it has been known to happen. In fact, some babies have developed breathing difficulties and died after becoming covered in talc.

Some studies have also linked talc with an increased risk of lung cancer. These studies have analyzed the cancer rates of talc miners, but because they have been complicated by the fact that, unlike the purified talc in consumer products, talc in its natural form may contain varying amounts of asbestos and other minerals, making the evidence a bit unclear.:o :oops: :dead: MY FAVORITE TOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvQdl-05WEE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvQdl-05WEE)
Damn, can't even prevent chaffing anymore. :wah:



I've never seen that toy before, it's awesome. Those sailors look too squared away though. :03: They should have made a Soviet model with some glow in the dark plastic sailors and reactor compartment. :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

James Bond Aston Martin

https://i.imgur.com/ISZO4QK.jpg