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grr666
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PostPosted: 15:31 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another one has just popped into my head. Oddly I remember the jingle from the tv ads.

"Rough Riders 4x4 - you can try to stop 'em"

I had a Knight Rider, A Team van and Dukes of Hazzard models. Used to love setting courses up for them to drive over.
I kind of remember a little gearstick that stuck out of the roof...?

Which prompted me to remember that I also had a set of A team Action figures. More TV Jingle memories.

"They're the A team - You know they're soldiers of fortune.
They're the A team - Helping people in need.
You can pretend that you're Hannibal, Murdock or Face
or maybe BA Baracus you know each one is an ace!
Each is sold separately with rifle and gear
If there's trouble to face you know the A-teams here"


I may have a word or two wrong but that's more or less how the advert went.
They were pretty cool toys, A team was HUGE at the time and I was 11, they were one of the last things I played with before
I became too mature and sophisticated for all that toy nonsense. Laughing
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PostPosted: 15:33 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just remembered that a few years ago I went through a massive spree of buying up MASK toys. I got Firecracker and Hurricane and a couple of others. I think I put them in my parents loft... I'll have to dig them out.
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PostPosted: 15:35 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wasn't there a comic strip of MASK or was it a cartoon?
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PostPosted: 15:45 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had the Manta Force stuff which (iirc) was Mattel's answer to the space-themed 'shoot stuff and other bits can also explode(read:spring loaded)' toys of the time. Spent more time with construction toys though: meccano, lego/technic, that sort of stuff.
Spent fucking ages messing with the battery-powered controller kit for lego technic (can't remember the name of it). I remember building a rudimentary plotter with that thing.
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PostPosted: 16:33 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

grr666 wrote:
Wasn't there a comic strip of MASK or was it a cartoon?


Cartoon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CqemAT4iwI&t=79s

My mate had a lot of MANTA force stuff. I also had StarCom stuff too:

https://starcomhq.com/images/other/pkg_starfleet_set_back.jpg
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PostPosted: 17:01 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Played this many times round the grandparents. Good memories.

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PostPosted: 17:07 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

But my faveroute was of course Lego. I used to have a large collection similar to this. I spent hours and hours building things.

Seems these days it more about specific kits with large, pre-made parts. Thumbs Down

I remember once for my birthday, my grandma gave me a big box of it, passing it off as new. My dad, a brother of three, had painted inside a lot of his Lego as a kid, so he knew it was his, turns out the box had loads of dads old Lego in it. To be fair, looking back, that only made it better.

I still have it all in my loft, ready to pass down to my kids.

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PostPosted: 17:18 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Got the Thunderbirds re-run when I was a kid, getting this was a big deal:
https://thetoyshopblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/tracy-island.jpg

Loved Thunderbirds, remember crapping myself during an episode so I didn't miss it Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:21 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

grr666 wrote:

"They're the A team - You know they're soldiers of fortune.
They're the A team - Helping people in need.
You can pretend that you're Hannibal, Murdock or Face
or maybe BA Baracus you know each one is an ace!
Each is sold separately with rifle and gear
If there's trouble to face you know the A-teams here"


Seriously?

That reads like Carter Pewterschmidt guessing the A Team theme.
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PostPosted: 17:59 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

angryjonny wrote:
grr666 wrote:

"They're the A team - You know they're soldiers of fortune.
They're the A team - Helping people in need.
You can pretend that you're Hannibal, Murdock or Face
or maybe BA Baracus you know each one is an ace!
Each is sold separately with rifle and gear
If there's trouble to face you know the A-teams here"


Seriously?

That reads like Carter Pewterschmidt guessing the A Team theme.


In your face Jonny, I got it bang on. Middle Finger Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:20 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

grr666 wrote:

Not questioning your memory... just that someone wrote that in the first place

Maybe I have a career in songwriting ahead of me after all Thinking
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PostPosted: 19:39 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tracer1234 wrote:
But my faveroute was of course Lego. I used to have a large collection similar to this. I spent hours and hours building things.



https://s20.postimg.org/6qmui19ot/Screenshot_2017-07-19_at_17.03.17.png


Same here, my mum has all mine in the loft at their house. There's absolutely stacks of it, a tub about 1/2 cubic meter of loose bricks/bits, dozens of kits like the police station, fire station, boats, probably about 20 technics kits, a couple of the train sets.

I get up there and pinch it all back.


Another thing:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O2a4iLxg5DQ/maxresdefault.jpg
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PostPosted: 20:35 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tracer1234 wrote:
Lego.

I still have it all in my loft, ready to pass down to my kids.

https://s20.postimg.org/6qmui19ot/Screenshot_2017-07-19_at_17.03.17.png



Inb4 "what do we want all that crap for Dad?", before turning back to the latest video game and not speaking again until dinner time Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:37 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me it has to have been a tie between Scaletrix and technical logo. I spent years playing with both.
Only thing I've probably spent more time on was my mountain bikes.
Radio control cars, BMX and even off road motorbike riding was short lived 2-4years tops in comparison. I never had a devoted hobby or obsessive interest like football/cricket/fishing/cycling. I just had a go at lots of things and got bored or didn't give them my all or devoted attention.
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PostPosted: 20:46 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ooh, just remembered...

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PostPosted: 20:56 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mainly matchbox cars and road blasters

Which were toy cars with plastic armour and guns

Also toy guns that looked like guns and where the right colour and made of metal
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PostPosted: 21:54 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
Tracer1234 wrote:
Lego.

I still have it all in my loft, ready to pass down to my kids.

https://s20.postimg.org/6qmui19ot/Screenshot_2017-07-19_at_17.03.17.png



Inb4 "what do we want all that crap for Dad?", before turning back to the latest video game and not speaking again until dinner time Laughing


Lol, My kid will play with lego! He/she will learn to love it. Even if its just fathers day and my birthday to keep me happy Laughing .
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Space lego was my thing. All my space lego was kept at my Nans and I played with it when I went over there to sleep when
my parents shifts clashed, they both worked as bus conductors at the time. Space Lego was quite a new thing back then.
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PostPosted: 22:44 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lego was for girls, boys had Meccano.

I was always an easy child to choose christmas presents for, "more Meccano" I had boxes of the stuff. One year when money was particularly tight my stepfather just got a load of sheet steel and made me a huge amount of parts including such delights as a digger bucket. Clapping

When I was about 7 or 8 I was given the gears set, I remember being fascinated by the worm gear. It taught me how gear boxes, clutches and other mechanical marvels worked.

Meccano, gears and a stationary Mamod steam engine; pure heaven for a prepubescent boy.

My sister gave it all to her kids and when they "outgrew" (how can anybody with a Y chromosome outgrow Meccano?) it, she sold the lot, and didn't even let me know, let alone pass on any of the proceeds. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lego was brilliant, loved it. My Granddaughter still plays with my old stuff (with some girly sets added).

Talking of the latest video game, I remember when my Mum bough me this.....

Binatone games console, Tennis, football and shooting. What would todays kids think of that then Folded arms

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PostPosted: 23:04 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

The earliest console I had which I can remember was a 'Grandstand' version of that^^^
Tennis (2p), squash (1p), skeet (light gun) was all I remember. The hand held controllers were just single dials.

My first colour console was a Mattel Intellivision. I remember mum and dad saying it cost a bundle.
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PostPosted: 23:05 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polarbear wrote:
A Johnny 7. Wub

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.bY32CahahLjhkHdDIZpDOgEsC2&pid=15.1&P=0&w=314&h=191

My Grandad bought it for me. My mother was not impressed.


I really really wanted one of these but at the time they cost £4/19/6 which was a small fortune and so it was not to be. Sad

On the plus side I had a drawer full of Meccano, a Mamod stationary engine, a refractor telescope that I spent hours watching the night sky with and a fairly decent chemistry set. Thumbs Up

Then there was the Etch-a-sketch, a set of lead soldiers that I was given by an uncle and my Beatles guitar...
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PostPosted: 23:38 - 19 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Islander wrote:
fairly decent chemistry set. Thumbs Up


From the days you got stuff in the kits that wasn't just a pretty colour change. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 00:21 - 20 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you see him (the night rider) when you looked up into the night sky?
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PostPosted: 08:07 - 20 Jul 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

i am sat surrounded by lego now Embarassed Embarassed

went through a stage of depression and stress and it was recommended to me

being an adult I could by decent models

some tecnic but mainly the lego city sstuff
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