Favorite Childhood Toy.

[mookiemookie]

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

[AVGWarhawk]

Me and this baby went on many adventures.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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

You should start your own thread with that.

[danasan]

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

[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:

Apart from playing with friends in the nearby forest .

[Penguin]

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



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.

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

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]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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

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



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



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

[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


Japanese (mine where always puke green)


German


Russian



US Vietnam

[Cybermat47]

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

[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.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

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

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.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

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.