Toys you had when you were a kid (nostalgia)

[rdeane]

Boy, do I feel like a dinosaur! I played Jax a lot. I was never very coordinated and didn't win much, but it was fun.

[Silly Moustache]

You Guys must be a olt younger than me (well, who isn't?)

My earliest passion was Dinky Toys Die cast models of mostly British cars, lorries, buses, agricultural and military vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinky_Toys

They also made British and other European racing cars and for some reasons some American cars.

They were 1/48 scale so mainly about three-four inches long, but some models , like the "Mighty Antar" Centurion Tank transporter were probably about a foot long.



I was also into cowboys and Indians but tyhe toy cap guns and holsters were rubbish and usually broke in a week or so, but I wasfrnds wih a boy whose Dad was a pilot for El-Al and he brought back a hand tooled double gunbelt with two glistening nickel plated (toy) Colt 45s which were so good that other kids were gob smacked by them.
I have no idea what happened to them but I sold off my dinkys for my first leather jacked when I was maybe 13.

I had a British built Elswick Jetstream bike before my Raleigh racer.

[brad4d8]

American Flyer trains, superseded by HO when I got serious about modeling.

[Fogducker]

The toy I DIDN'T get was a Lionel electric train! To this day I still covet them. I know, I know, I can buy them now if I want but it ain't the same as 1948 and on to my teens!

Fog

[KevWind]

Circa 55-56

[Highroller]

Early 60's, with NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs in full swing, anything space related was pretty hot stuff.

I was a big fan of Fireball XL-5, Gerry Anderson's "Supermarionation" (ie: puppets) TV show, about Steve Zodiac and the XL5 defending the Earth from interstellar threats.

I had the full blown playset, complete with rocket firing missiles! It's weird to think of it now, but it was pretty common for toys back then to do stuff that could take your eye out!

[Silurian]

Some of my favourites.

Evil Knievel.



Six Million Dollar Man.



Then came the Atari 2600.

[Dru Edwards]

Hey RP, yetp, that's Dataman. I spent many an afternoon perfecting my math skills on that.

Any chance you'll look at getting the Schwinn Jaguar now, as a vintage bike? I image it's a collectors item and costly.

Originally Posted by RP

Is this it, Dru? As for myself, I loved the freedom that bicycles offered at a time and in a place where bicycling was our primary means of transportation. Alas, I wanted but never got my dream bike, a Schwinn Jaguar...

[TBman]

Originally Posted by Highroller

Early 60's, with NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs in full swing, anything space related was pretty hot stuff.

I was a big fan of Fireball XL-5, Gerry Anderson's "Supermarionation" (ie: puppets) TV show, about Steve Zodiac and the XL5 defending the Earth from interstellar threats.

I had the full blown playset, complete with rocket firing missiles! It's weird to think of it now, but it was pretty common for toys back then to do stuff that could take your eye out!

Wow, that brought back memories. I was a big fan of Supercar also. I had forgotten all about those two shows.

[Riverwolf]

Original G.I, Joe
Hot Wheels track
Lincoln Logs
ANY machine gun or rifle.
By age 11-12 all us boys had .22's and could buy shells at the country store.

[ghostnote]

Originally Posted by eatswodo

One of my favourites was my Meccano set - aka Erector set here in the US.

Yes, I loved my motorized erector set. My siblings and I - there were 7 of us - used to integrate our toys into large games that we'd invent as we went along. We'd use my erector set to drag my brother's Lincoln Logs onto my sister's board game, where we'd build a garage for another brother's Matchbox cars - we did lots of things like that. Then we'd get bored and go out to play with someone else's new toboggan. Of course, after that we'd come inside cold and hungry only to be yelled at by mom for not putting away our giant master work that we had on the living room floor...

[Steve DeRosa]

• Remco science kits (the ones in the "coffee can" containers)
• Silly Putty
• Mattel "Shootin' Shell" derringer belt buckle (TMK they used an actual .32 rimfire brass case, which would be loaded with a plastic bullet and a Greenie Stick-em Cap on the rear - unfortunately they readily lent themselves to conversion into useable weapons)
• Duncan tops/yo-yos
• Hubley "The Rifleman" lever-action cap rifle (oversized lever, like Chuck Connors' original from the TV series)
• Tonka trucks (the real ones, made from stamped steel - weighed a ton)
• "Steve Canyon" flight helmet and mobile rocket launcher
• My favorite: my Gilbert chemistry set, which I used unsupervised in our bathroom - and which I understand were pulled from the market in the mid-60's when some enterprising young folks discovered some very, um, creative uses for the contents...

[Acousticado]

The “Super Ball” just came to mind. Man, that thing would bounce high and far.

[hubcapsc]

Originally Posted by Acousticado

The “Super Ball” just came to mind. Man, that thing would bounce high and far.

That made me think of "clackers"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers

-Mike

[Brucebubs]

Originally Posted by Acousticado

The “Super Ball” just came to mind. Man, that thing would bounce high and far.

I honed my cricket catching skills as a youngster with many hours of super ball bounced against the side of the house.