Toys you had as a kid

on request of KP, Here is the thread for toys you had as a kid.

If you can try and find examples of them for sale now and see how much they are going for.

WARNING: Some of the prices may cause you to have a toy-gasm

Did anyone have any Micro Machines when they were a kid?

Used to love going to Woolworths to get hem, they used to have a great selection there!

I have a shoe box full of them in the loft somewhere.

Had one of these as well...

here are some of mine

Castle Grayskull from he-man - Currently selling for £500 boxed with all the bits and bobs





Knight Rider pedal car (bare in mind my mum saved all year to buy me this, as a single mum i imagine it was quite hard for her to do, apparently on xmas morning i played with the box!) - Currently selling for $500 (i can only find it for sale in the US)



Thundercats Sword - Can only find the newer more rubbish one's of these.



These are my three stand out toys i remember.  i'm sure i will remember more when others start posting.

y2johnny wrote:here are some of mine

Castle Grayskull from he-man - Currently selling for £500 boxed with all the bits and bobs





Knight Rider pedal car (bare in mind my mum saved all year to buy me this, as a single mum i imagine it was quite hard for her to do, apparently on xmas morning i played with the box!) - Currently selling for $500 (i can only find it for sale in the US)



Thundercats Sword - Can only find the newer more rubbish one's of these.



These are my three stand out toys i remember.  i'm sure i will remember more when others start posting.

Thunder Cats takes me back!

I had a feature wall with their wallpaper on at one time in my bedroom and a matching duvet set!

karlypants wrote:Did anyone have any Micro Machines when they were a kid?

Used to love going to Woolworths to get hem, they used to have a great selection there!

I have a shoe box full of them in the loft somewhere.

Had one of these as well...

Super van city sells for about £50, and some of the rarer micro machines can go for that on their own too!  i'd dig your collection out if i was you KP.  Gives you an excuse to relive your kidulthood!  i only ever had a few, don't think i ever bought them are had them bought me, more traded for other stuff or acquired as you do when your a kid

karlypants wrote:

y2johnny wrote:here are some of mine

Castle Grayskull from he-man - Currently selling for £500 boxed with all the bits and bobs





Knight Rider pedal car (bare in mind my mum saved all year to buy me this, as a single mum i imagine it was quite hard for her to do, apparently on xmas morning i played with the box!) - Currently selling for $500 (i can only find it for sale in the US)



Thundercats Sword - Can only find the newer more rubbish one's of these.



These are my three stand out toys i remember.  i'm sure i will remember more when others start posting.

Thunder Cats takes me back!

I had a feature wall with their wallpaper on at one time and a duvet set!

i remember going to (i think it was called) Bollington with primary school and you had to take your own quilt.  mine was a sonic the hedgehog one

I had micro machines and the thunder cats sword as well. I was well chuffed when I got micro machines that could change colour when they were hot or cold. Very cool, well I thought so anyway. Used to love the micro machines computer game as well.

Bwfc1958 wrote:Used to love the micro machines computer game as well.

I think I still have Micro Machines 2 for the megadrive, used to love the track that was on the breakfast table with the blue table cloth and what looked like Kellogg's Honey Nut Loops spilt all over it!

light up yoyo's, i always had a yoyo for some reason, i loved them


i also remember having these one's as well



always got one of these for xmas and ended up having it hidden off me by boxing day

karlypants wrote:

Bwfc1958 wrote:Used to love the micro machines computer game as well.

I think I still have Micro Machines 2 for the megadrive, used to love the track that was on the breakfast table with the blue table cloth and what looked like Kellogg's Honey Nut Loops spilt all over it!

I've got that in the loft somewhere with my megadrive.  and NES, and SNES, And Atari STe etc etc

karlypants wrote:

Bwfc1958 wrote:Used to love the micro machines computer game as well.

I think I still have Micro Machines 2 for the megadrive, used to love the track that was on the breakfast table with the blue table cloth and what looked like Kellogg's Honey Nut Loops spilt all over it!

That's the one! Classic. I liked the snooker table track.

Loved this as well.

Bwfc1958 wrote:

karlypants wrote:

Bwfc1958 wrote:Used to love the micro machines computer game as well.

I think I still have Micro Machines 2 for the megadrive, used to love the track that was on the breakfast table with the blue table cloth and what looked like Kellogg's Honey Nut Loops spilt all over it!

That's the one! Classic. I liked the snooker table track.

Loved this as well.

Never had a mr frosty but the girl next door but 1 did.

ETA:  that is in no way, shape or form a euphemism

There's a childhood museum near where I live, took a look around on Sunday and saw some old toys I remember having. Favourite was Tracy Island  -

y2johnny wrote:

Bwfc1958 wrote:

karlypants wrote:

Bwfc1958 wrote:Used to love the micro machines computer game as well.

I think I still have Micro Machines 2 for the megadrive, used to love the track that was on the breakfast table with the blue table cloth and what looked like Kellogg's Honey Nut Loops spilt all over it!

That's the one! Classic. I liked the snooker table track.

Loved this as well.

Never had a mr frosty but the girl next door but 1 did.

ETA:  that is in no way, shape or form a euphemism

I always wanted one of these but never got one, I remember always browsing back of the Argos catalogue looking at the toys and seeing this in it!

bwfc1874 wrote:There's a childhood museum near where I live, took a look around on Sunday and saw some old toys I remember having. Favourite was Tracy Island  -

i always remember watching blue peter and thinking "next year i will definitely build the tracey island"
















i never did

forget supersoakers............................who had one of these bad boy water guns

bwfc1874 wrote:There's a childhood museum near where I live, took a look around on Sunday and saw some old toys I remember having. Favourite was Tracy Island  -

They were bloody expensive at the time, around £40 if I remember rightly!

No wonder Blue Peter made a DIY version!

To be honest, I think my dad was just as keen to get it.

Pro Shot Golf. It was bloody ridiculous. It was basically a golfer on the end of a stick,but,having said that,we had hours of fun with it.
Until,that is,my Dad decided that the sponge green used for putting on would make a great insole. 
That left us trying to putt across a green blighted by a giant,foot shaped hazard,that made the game even more farcical.
He even put some sand in it and told us to use it as a bunker.Bastard.

boltonbonce wrote:Pro Shot Golf. It was bloody ridiculous. It was basically a golfer on the end of a stick,but,having said that,we had hours of fun with it.
Until,that is,my Dad decided that the sponge green used for putting on would make a great insole. 
That left us trying to putt across a green blighted by a giant,foot shaped hazard,that made the game even more farcical.
He even put some sand in it and told us to use it as a bunker.Bastard.

I'm sure my dad had one of these and I used to play with it down at my grandads, although there was no green with it.

You had to control the golfers arm with a looped handle type thing that went up and down and the arm would swing from left to right?