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the_tyrant 01-02-13 12:41 PM
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 01-02-13 01:40 PM
I guess mine was this:
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/al...3464303066.jpg
Apart from playing with friends in the nearby forest .:D

Penguin 01-02-13 01:58 PM
Mine was certainly Lego and I was the first Playmobil generation, it came on the market when I was 2.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._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.


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Originally Posted by the_tyrant (Post 1987190)
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 01-02-13 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1987157)
LOL Mark :)

Platapus 01-02-13 08:03 PM
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-art...NameSector.jpg

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

Stealhead 01-02-13 09:31 PM
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/...ps33bd9328.jpg

Japanese (mine where always puke green)
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/...ps99180038.jpg

German
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1e0590a5.jpg

Russian
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/...ps92f7dcbd.jpg


US Vietnam
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/...psf3a81a48.jpg

Cybermat47 01-02-13 09:49 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^
I love modeling, but I'm more into ships and aircraft.
Mind you, Tamiya makes some pretty good 1/35 infantry :sunny:

mookiemookie 01-02-13 10:06 PM
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 01-03-13 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Cybermat47 (Post 1987362)
^^^^^^^^^^^
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 01-03-13 12:34 AM
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Originally Posted by danasan (Post 1986738)
It's much better with the decent soundtrack :yep:

My favorite:

http://www.rund-ums-rad.info/wp-cont..._hiriser08.jpg
Dang! I always wanted one of those :rock:

Jimbuna 01-03-13 03:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Stealhead (Post 1987404)
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 01-03-13 03:52 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stealhead (Post 1987404)
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 01-03-13 04:32 AM
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 01-03-13 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1987373)
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 01-03-13 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1987338)
OMG!!!

I had one of those too. Awesome game.

:)


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