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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. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Wasn't there a comic strip of MASK or was it a cartoon? ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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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. ____________________ '10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project |
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Played this many times round the grandparents. Good memories.
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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.
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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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 |
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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:
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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 ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Ooh, just remembered...
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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 |
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 . ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
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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. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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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.
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. |
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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. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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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.
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.
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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i am sat surrounded by lego now
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 ____________________ gilera runner vxr200 (chavped)
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 282 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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