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Club G40 => General Chat => Topic started by: hayesey on November 22, 2009, 08:24:41 pm

Title: your top toys
Post by: hayesey on November 22, 2009, 08:24:41 pm

just watched the last in the series of james may's top toys. Some great stuff but today's episode about scalextric I particularly enjoyed because I had loads of scalextric as a kid and it was easily my favourite "toy".  So much so that I still have a fair amount of it!  Haven't used it for nearly two years though, it'll have to come out of the loft again:

(http://derby.polog40.co.uk/photos/18122007/slides/slide_Image026.jpg)

(http://derby.polog40.co.uk/photos/18122007/slides/slide_Image027.jpg)

that was my living room floor around christmas 2007. 

My other favourite toy was Lego Technix, particularly Technix because normal lego was a bit too easy and I preferred the actual building of the lego things than actually doing much with them afterwards.  I still have a load of lego too but don't use that anymore! I do still have my lego technix jcb (with working pneumatics!) in my office as a kind of ornament though.  I like to think messing with lego technix was a good grounding for a lot of what I like to mess with on cars these days, I learnt how things like planet & sun differentials, and pneumatics/hydraulics worked from messing with lego! 

So what are/were your top toys as a kid?

Title: Re: your top toys
Post by: neil_dubgt on November 22, 2009, 10:25:28 pm

lego technix was ace. I had the pneumatic jcb lol and various other bits n bobs


cant believe you dug it out the loft haha. classic

Title: Re: your top toys
Post by: hayesey on November 22, 2009, 10:29:59 pm

nah those pics are from a couple of years ago, prob the last time I had it out.

Title: Re: your top toys
Post by: grayg40 on November 23, 2009, 12:29:32 pm

i also watch james on tuesdays. the track was ace last week.
my childhood toys were scalextric which i was also going to nab from my dads loft and set it up in mine and get a couple of mates round for a race. i also had lego, some of my dads old mecano and lots of cars(most of them got destroyed) pity.
But my best childhood toy had to be Airfix. 

Title: Re: your top toys
Post by: vwmk3jon on November 23, 2009, 01:20:44 pm

My toy has tits! lol.

I had some scalextrix too. little figure of 8 track. Was all good till i was given some track my dad had when he was young and it wouldnt work with the new stuff :(

Had a big ass box of lego, a huge trainset, toy cars....the list goes on.

My mate still collects toy cars. Literally some in ever room of the house!

Title: Re: your top toys
Post by: hayesey on November 23, 2009, 02:11:56 pm

just took a picture of my lego jcb:

(http://derby.polog40.co.uk/photos/lego_jcb.jpg)

I think I was about 10 when I got it.