toys of the 70's and 80's - Page 5

egg&chips · 08-01-2007, 21:51

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Originally Posted by entwisi

heh, now your talking, Hotwheels, I had loads, we used to set it up on teh stairs and send teh cars down to smash into the skirting. That was till me mum noticed all teh dents

I could never get mine to loop the loop though. I don't think we could afford enough track

flashy · 08-01-2007, 21:57

egg n chips...everytime i see your name i wanna run to the kitchen

egg&chips · 08-01-2007, 21:59

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Originally Posted by flashytart

egg n chips...everytime i see your name i wanna run to the kitchen

Ahh but if only you could see my face...

then you'd run to the lavvy!

flashy · 08-01-2007, 22:02

i love egg n chips, aint had it for years (egg n chips that is)

entwisi · 08-01-2007, 22:03

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Originally Posted by egg&chips

I could never get mine to loop the loop though. I don't think we could afford enough track

It was all about the 'drop' or if like me you had the 'launcher' which used an elastic band.(Of course I swapped it for a much stronger one for added 'zoom'

)

I had one other rather annoying habit with my cars. I was never actually happy with the colours they came in so I used to scour the baskets outside car accessory shops for cheap aerosols. When I bought a car the first thing I did when I took it home was dismantle it and spray it a colour I liked(Which strangely enough was Black in 95% of cases! )

katex · 08-01-2007, 22:04

Tonight I dropped a whole container of wooden cocktail sticks ... went everywhere ... found myself playing 'Pick up Sticks' without thinking .. just loved that one .. getting the black one at the end was the best moment ever.

Took me ages to get those sticks back in their container though ...playing against meself, so to speak...

jackyalex · 08-01-2007, 22:35

i had a stawberry shortcake doll in the 80s and all that i can remember is that you squeezed its belly and you could smell strawberry from its mouth,did anyone else have one of those

flashy · 08-01-2007, 22:55

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Originally Posted by jackyalex

i had a stawberry shortcake doll in the 80s and all that i can remember is that you squeezed its belly and you could smell strawberry from its mouth,did anyone else have one of those

they still sell those too, i saw one when i was in manchester the other week

jackyalex · 08-01-2007, 23:12

blimin eck its amazing whats still about

panther · 09-01-2007, 10:54

there was nowt better than your own go-cart! u would get some old pram wheels, and wood...anything you cud get your hands on, and spend all day making it only to destroy it later by crashing it cuz you no brakes

and having to leave it outside only to find some ****** nicked it!!(what was left of it)

.....lol them where the days

entwisi · 09-01-2007, 10:58

Tring to get them to actually stay together going down the hill on the Spring Hill field(where teh 'new' school is now) was hard enough without having to worry about brakes

The number of times the 'steering' bar with teh front wheels on would just come apart was unbelieveable and they worry about H&S issues nowadays. They would have had a heart attack if they saw what we got up to. Rope swing anyone??????

panther · 09-01-2007, 11:04

these days people just sit in front of a computer

entwisi · 09-01-2007, 11:27

Nah, surely not.... that would be totally non-fun

egg&chips · 09-01-2007, 17:40

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Originally Posted by entwisi

Tring to get them to actually stay together going down the hill on the Spring Hill field(where teh 'new' school is now) was hard enough without having to worry about brakes

The number of times the 'steering' bar with teh front wheels on would just come apart was unbelieveable and they worry about H&S issues nowadays. They would have had a heart attack if they saw what we got up to. Rope swing anyone??????

You should have gone down Charter Street and right onto lonsdale street instead Entwisi, the added danger of pensioners exiting the Post office on Thursdays gave the ride added zest!

entwisi · 09-01-2007, 18:25

we did actually ride out bikes down charter street and down teh side of teh Springhill WMC because there was a manhole cover there that made you do big wheelies or a jump.

The PO was closed about that point. It was just a corner shop