What were your favourite childhood toys/games
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Nice question
I liked making Airfix models.
BB guns and air guns were fun as well. I liked shooting.
Also games consoles/the computer.
I also used to like making stuff out of household materials, “craft” I think it’s called?
My favourite board game was Monopoly!0 -
Some good ones there @66Mustang1
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My favourite toy when very young was a metal rocking horse called peter. I called everything peter except for Fred my guinea pig.
I too liked airfix models and the soldiers, I bought a lot of them and had wars all over the place. Furniture made great cliff tops.
I never liked board games except for chess, but I didn’t play that much.
I also liked using the empty washing up liquid liquid bottles for a submarine at bath time or a space rocket, or as a fire engine much to the annoyance of bees I’m ashamed to say. Great fun. I enjoyed making various animals out of acorns and matchsticks too. Oh yes, cardboard boxes made great knights helmets, me and a friend or two would often be seen bashing each other with small sticks playing knights in armour, probably no the brightest thing to do...ouch!
last but not least I really enjoyed climbing trees. Oaks or fruit trees in the summer ...yum!0 -
Cats Cradle!0
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I used to love fuzzy felts and had one of those pretend post office counters where I would sell all my relatives a dog license for three pounds1
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Mouse Trap is a fantastic one, used to love that.
We used to play things like Kerplunk, Connect 4 and Marble Run, as well as the classics like Monopoly and Cludo.
I also used to play with the toys from Toy Story, particularly Woody and Buzz.
I used to love trains as well when I was a child so there was a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine stuff too, I used to build my own tracks and run the toy trains on them.
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Mousetrap screwball scramble Ker plunk buckaroo frustration scrabble monopoly chess0
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Fuzzy felt and stickle bricks0
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Stickle bricks!! I could play with them right now.
I used to have an A la carte kitchen and a big yellow teapot too0 -
@Cher_Scope I used too like action men too and GI Joe international hero lol0
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And finders keepers polly pocket and these teddy things called popples0
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@willow12 I remember those! Did you have a tamagotchi too?0
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@Cher_Scope yes had one those 2 and sea monkeys lol0
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@willow12 I remember being so upset when my tamagotchi died. I sneaked it into school and everything haha!1
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@Cher_Scope yes I did same as you lol lol0
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Great idea for a thread, i unsurprisingly loved star wars and still do, have a nice collection in my star wars room, also liked evel knievel i had the stunt cycle and had lots of fun with it, i used to love getting art supplies drawing pads etc at christmas time, it was a great time, no abuse etc went on during that whole two weeks of christmas, as long as the tree was up i was safe,0
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Some great memories coming out here of both mine and my son
He loved toy story and Thomas tank1 -
Bayko - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaykoJigmapsFuzzyfeltPompom makerKnitting NancySnakes & LaddersRiskMonopolyCluedoEtch a SketchSolitaireCard games like Snap or Patience & Clock Patience2
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