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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: waspy on 02 April 2008, 19:19:40
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What did you have as a child & so wish you'd kept :question
You can usually find a replacement on ebay etc, but it's never the same :(
There's loads of things i gave away as a teen-anger thinking i don't want these young things any more, but when you get older still, you think i wish i'd kept that :'(
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Nothing I wish I'd kept, they have all been replaced with bigger, better, faster toys!!!!
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None, they have all been replaced with bigger, better, faster toys!!!!
Uhm, that's one way of looking at it ;D
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All the Dinky, Corgi Matchbox toys i had. When i was a kid all i cared about was them & my bike. Every Xmas b'day i was given airfix, spirograph etc that never got used. Also loved Scalextric but always got told off for putting corgi/matchbox cars or lego houses on the track & crashing into them!
Seemed like a good idea to me when i was 7 or 8. :)
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What did you have as a child & so wish you'd kept :question
You can usually find a replacement on ebay etc, but it's never the same :(
There's loads of things i gave away as a teen-anger thinking i don't want these young things any more, but when you get older still, you think i wish i'd kept that :'(
My left hip!!!
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All the Dinky, Corgi Matchbox toys i had. When i was a kid all i cared about was them & my bike. Every Xmas b'day i was given airfix, spirograph etc that never got used. Also loved Scalextric but always got told off for putting corgi/matchbox cars or lego houses on the track & crashing into them!
Seemed like a good idea to me when i was 7 or 8. :)
Seems like a good idea to me now & that's the kinda thing i'd do, i'd get away with now too ;D ;D
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What did you have as a child & so wish you'd kept :question
You can usually find a replacement on ebay etc, but it's never the same :(
There's loads of things i gave away as a teen-anger thinking i don't want these young things any more, but when you get older still, you think i wish i'd kept that :'(
Hornby Train Set
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I always credit the Meccano set that my dad bought me for my seventh birthday for first promoting my interest in spanner twirling. After numerous warnings off my mum that if I left it all over the floor after playing with it she would "bin the lot" I still did and mum carried out her threat! :o :'(
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wish i could of kept my sense of adventure and lack of fear. i often sit back and think of the things me and my friends used to get upto and wonder how i'm still here and in 1 piece. ;D ;D ;D
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Raleigh Chopper and a football. Didn't have many toys - or need many :y
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All the Dinky, Corgi Matchbox toys i had. When i was a kid all i cared about was them & my bike. Every Xmas b'day i was given airfix, spirograph etc that never got used. Also loved Scalextric but always got told off for putting corgi/matchbox cars or lego houses on the track & crashing into them!
Seemed like a good idea to me when i was 7 or 8. :)
I wish I had kept my 6 wheel tirrel that I had for the scalextric.
Have my own scalextric now and I have a my little lad has a cracking trainset...... ::)
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
Yeh, i remember TCR Total Control Racing (or in your case)
My mate had one of these & i loved it :y
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We couldn't afford Scalextric (have one now though :y), but had the Matchbox one - Superfast.
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We couldn't afford Scalextric (have one now though :y), but had the Matchbox one - Superfast.
I saved up for mine & i think it was around £50.00, i had the Porche challenge, one silver & one gold, then i found i could electrocute Woodlice on the track & never looked back ;D ;D
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I've got a collection of early diecast & some scalextric but all from ebay, none of my originals. Had a new Raliegh Chopper (a blue one) cool at the time but they were a pig to ride if we're honest.
3 speed Sturmey archer gears, stop pedalling while you change gear! Nostalgia!!!!!!!! :D
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
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I used to play with my hair............... :( ;D
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Are you bidding Cpn? Set it up on a sheet of 8x4 & we can have a Lakes Tournament!! ::)
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Closest I could see for Timbuk was this:
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/af/86/08f5_2.JPG)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scalextric-SCOOBY-DOO-The-Mystery-Machine-Van-Car_W0QQitemZ360037921615QQihZ023QQcategoryZ4781QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Closest I could see for Timbuk was this:
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/af/86/08f5_2.JPG)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scalextric-SCOOBY-DOO-The-Mystery-Machine-Van-Car_W0QQitemZ360037921615QQihZ023QQcategoryZ4781QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
break Off
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Closest I could see for Timbuk was this:
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/af/86/08f5_2.JPG)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scalextric-SCOOBY-DOO-The-Mystery-Machine-Van-Car_W0QQitemZ360037921615QQihZ023QQcategoryZ4781QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:y :y :y :y
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Closest I could see for Timbuk was this:
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/af/86/08f5_2.JPG)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scalextric-SCOOBY-DOO-The-Mystery-Machine-Van-Car_W0QQitemZ360037921615QQihZ023QQcategoryZ4781QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:y :y :y :y
And you can break off too
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Mechanno - still have
Lego - sold
Minic - sold
Train set - stock got - track sold - eventually working up to Peco Streamline
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Closest I could see for Timbuk was this:
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/af/86/08f5_2.JPG)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scalextric-SCOOBY-DOO-The-Mystery-Machine-Van-Car_W0QQitemZ360037921615QQihZ023QQcategoryZ4781QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:y :y :y :y
And you can break off too
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D TPMS
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Closest I could see for Timbuk was this:
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/af/86/08f5_2.JPG)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scalextric-SCOOBY-DOO-The-Mystery-Machine-Van-Car_W0QQitemZ360037921615QQihZ023QQcategoryZ4781QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:y :y :y :y
And you can break off too
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D TPMS
>:( >:(
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Closest I could see for Timbuk was this:
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/af/86/08f5_2.JPG)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scalextric-SCOOBY-DOO-The-Mystery-Machine-Van-Car_W0QQitemZ360037921615QQihZ023QQcategoryZ4781QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:y :y :y :y
And you can break off too
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D TPMS
>:( >:(
PMSL ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Here we go .... eyes down .. look in .. its another "quote-a-thon"
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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big scalextric (covered the whole loft) with jps lotus and mini cooper,but mostly my hair /bits of leg/energy/and lack of cynicism ;D
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I had quite a few star wars figures aswell as an x-wing fighter, wish i'd kept hold of them.
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i still got my original optimus prime boxed up in the loft somewhere from 1984 :o
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I remember TCR racing, thinking back I don't think it ever worked properly.
My one toy I really enjoyed was a large bag of Lego.
It would cost a fortune at todays prices, but to be honest I don't know what happened to it.
For all I know, Mum and Dad probably threw it away. :'(
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
try this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TCR-Total-Control-Racing_W0QQitemZ120240293869QQihZ002QQcategoryZ73260QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Dont think they have a little red van though. ;D
Closest I could see for Timbuk was this:
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/af/86/08f5_2.JPG)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scalextric-SCOOBY-DOO-The-Mystery-Machine-Van-Car_W0QQitemZ360037921615QQihZ023QQcategoryZ4781QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:y :y :y :y
And you can break off too
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D TPMS
>:( >:(
Don't be so grumpy or you'll end up kickin Jess in the morning. lmao.
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go to be one of these loved it when i was a kid cost my folks a fortune for batteries though
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/adam5172/f885_1.jpg)
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go to be one of these loved it when i was a kid cost my folks a fortune for batteries though
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/adam5172/f885_1.jpg)
Bro had one of those
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The girl from next door, we used to play "show me yours and i'll show you mine" ;D
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The girl from next door, we used to play "show me yours and i'll show you mine" ;D
I suppose it went to Doctors and Nurses next? ;)
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The girl from next door, we used to play "show me yours and i'll show you mine" ;D
lmao ;D ;D ;D
with me it would be my bike, a BSA tour of Britain
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The girl from next door, we used to play "show me yours and i'll show you mine" ;D
I suppose it went to Doctors and Nurses next? ;)
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Hello nurse I have a pain ;)
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I still have mine!
Dad brought it just before i was first born hopin i was a boy!
its still in the box and now worth a fortune.
a hornby train with track. ( ont ask me which one i dont know) but dad wont part with it even though its mine. i want it for my son cos hes train mad!
(the other one i which i and kept but i gave to charity was my natwest pigs. cos they as a set now are worth a fortune too.)
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The girl from next door, we used to play "show me yours and i'll show you mine" ;D
I suppose it went to Doctors and Nurses next? ;)
::)
Hello nurse I have a pain ;)
........you will have a real pain when i have finished wth you ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
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i still got my original optimus prime boxed up in the loft somewhere from 1984 :o
Stick it on Ebay, worth an absolute fortune nowadays!!
Not many things that I had when I was younger that I wish I had now, as has ben said before - when you get bigger so do the toys.
But I will confess to having just bought an airfix helicopter of Ebay the other day. It arrived at the office this morning and I had a whole 10 minute flashback to my youth whilst I was carefully unwrapping it all and unfolding the instructions out :D
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The girl from next door, we used to play "show me yours and i'll show you mine" ;D
I suppose it went to Doctors and Nurses next? ;)
::)
Hello nurse I have a pain ;)
........you will have a real pain when i have finished wth you ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
:o ;D ;D
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Best toy I ever had was a bit of old junk that I crafted into a nozzle that held the top of a 2 litre plastic coke bottle with a perfect seal. Had a feed from the garden hose to fill it with water, and a feed from a foot pump in case more pressure was required. pump up the bottle and release... :o
I perfected the ratio of air and water required for maximum height, and things started to get a little scary with respect to the neighbour's greenhouse, so I tied a 150 foot length of kite string to said bottle thinking that'd keep my little rocket under control. Nope. String pulled tight and snapped, bottle carried on regardless. :o
Had more fun playing with that than I would with any expensive toy.
I suspect it's a good thing I didn't have an air compressor then. I have now, though... ::)
Kevin
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Remember caps, they used to come in a little round cardboard box which was wrapped in a paper tube. One day I placed about three boxes still wrapped in the paper tube on a kerb and whacked them with a lump hammer, I had ringing in my ears for days ;D
Another on was get a big nut and two bolts and put as many caps in the nut as possible and tighten the bolts into either end of the nut then throw it in the air, when it hit the deck it would explode and sometimes come apart. It was hours of fun until it went through Martin Craigies front window, my dad beat the living daylights out of me, them were the days ;)
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.. and then there were the home made explosives... Pop round to see my mate whose Dad ran a garden centre for some potassium nitrate... Never got a particularly loud bang but managed to vapourise a length of copper pipe in record time.
And people moan about the price of toys, etc. The things I got most of my enjoyment out of were practically free (and probably not legal, but never mind).
Kevin
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another fave was my catapult. but it er...............was.. erm, taken off me for knocking the local bobbies helmet off ,and no i couldn't sit down for a week afterwards :D :D
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Throwing matches with tin foil wrapped around the head onto the coal fire at home ::)
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another fave was my catapult. but it er...............was.. erm, taken off me for knocking the local bobbies helmet off ,and no i couldn't sit down for a week afterwards :D :D
PMSL ;D
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another fave was my catapult. but it er...............was.. erm, taken off me for knocking the local bobbies helmet off ,and no i couldn't sit down for a week afterwards :D :D
PMSL ;D
man, that Bobbie could run .I got i clip round the ear off him ,then a proper tanning off my Dad ,it worked though because i was never brought home by the police again (never caught again i learnt to run faster) ;D ;D
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I still have mine!
Dad brought it just before i was first born hopin i was a boy!
its still in the box and now worth a fortune.
a hornby train with track. ( ont ask me which one i dont know) but dad wont part with it even though its mine. i want it for my son cos hes train mad!
(the other one i which i and kept but i gave to charity was my natwest pigs. cos they as a set now are worth a fortune too.)
The older ones are better as toys, the newer models are a bit too fragile. That said there are some toy ranges again from both Hornby and Bachmann (less detailed, cheaper), but my boys only play under supervision and do have an expensivish loco they bought shared.
If you get him a train se he may continue the great hobby when he is an adult.
At our last house (garden was a big bigger, but was flatter) I built a garden line, about a 20m to 30m run, and I ran stuff collectors would rather leave wrapped up and not taken out of the box.
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I used to experiment with empty coke cans, a tube, and some Mr Fothergills ::)
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Race n Chase...Remember that? The car's could do a handbrake turn.
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I just remembered another one i had..... Whirly Bird, how cool was that when you were a kid in the 70s ::)
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I just remembered another one i had..... Whirly Bird, how cool was that when you were a kid in the 70s ::)
Wasn't that the helicopter that went round in a circle and had a hook underneath?
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I just remembered another one i had..... Whirly Bird, how cool was that when you were a kid in the 70s ::)
Wasn't that the helicopter that went round in a circle and had a hook underneath?
Yup ;)
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
Yeh, i remember TCR Total Control Racing (or in your case)
My mate had one of these & i loved it :y
Yeah! I had a TCR and also a matchbox powertrack, I think that is what it was called. (The one with the headlights so you could race in the dark) :y
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
Yeh, i remember TCR Total Control Racing (or in your case)
My mate had one of these & i loved it :y
Yeah! I had a TCR and also a matchbox powertrack, I think that is what it was called. (The one with the headlights so you could race in the dark) :y
What was the 'matchboc'?? one called. It had a slotted spring going round and you got little stick things to put on any matchbox car.
Really technical with my description arnt I :D :D :D
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scaletrix and mechano :y :y
my kids have psp, ps2,ps3,nintendo wi,32" telly, video, dvd player, laptop each, pc,2 hi fis, 2 portable stereos, mobile each, mp3 each, and more
i didnt need all that stuff, my parents sent us out till lunch time then afternoon then evening and they didnt have to worry about ringing us every hr to see where we was, because we had a great crack with no worriesof being stabbed robbed or mugged. and we never had none of the stuff kids have nowadays.
richie
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Scaletrix great then even better now you no you cant just keep your finger flat down
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scaletrix and mechano :y :y
my kids have psp, ps2,ps3,nintendo wi,32" telly, video, dvd player, laptop each, pc,2 hi fis, 2 portable stereos, mobile each, mp3 each, and more
i didnt need all that stuff, my parents sent us out till lunch time then afternoon then evening and they didnt have to worry about ringing us every hr to see where we was, because we had a great crack with no worriesof being stabbed robbed or mugged. and we never had none of the stuff kids have nowadays.
richie
I wouldn't have wanted it to be honest - I couldn't have been happier playing footie in the field, or falling off my Chopper by trying to ride it through half built houses on the building site
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scaletrix and mechano :y :y
my kids have psp, ps2,ps3,nintendo wi,32" telly, video, dvd player, laptop each, pc,2 hi fis, 2 portable stereos, mobile each, mp3 each, and more
i didnt need all that stuff, my parents sent us out till lunch time then afternoon then evening and they didnt have to worry about ringing us every hr to see where we was, because we had a great crack with no worriesof being stabbed robbed or mugged. and we never had none of the stuff kids have nowadays.
richie
I wouldn't have wanted it to be honest - I couldn't have been happier playing footie in the field, or falling off my Chopper by trying to ride it through half built houses on the building site
They fence them off now, had loads of fun on building sites, sued to build 'caps' or in the woods. Kids are just as safe playing out now, it's society and the media that seems to frown on it. imho
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TCR, but it never ever worked properly ::)
Yeh, i remember TCR Total Control Racing (or in your case)
My mate had one of these & i loved it :y
Yeah! I had a TCR and also a matchbox powertrack, I think that is what it was called. (The one with the headlights so you could race in the dark) :y
What was the 'matchboc'?? one called. It had a slotted spring going round and you got little stick things to put on any matchbox car.
Really technical with my description arnt I :D :D :D
Matchbox motorway, sticky pins fell off and springs got tangled then it was breaked.
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wish id kept my matchbox superfast track i would have passed it on to my boys instead of having to buy the new inferior hot whees that dont work