favourite toys

cherokee · 23-08-2006, 20:54

My 16 yr old and i was having a natter today over our fav toys as youngsters and he was gobsmacked when i told him that mine was a big wooden fort with soldiers etc and my train set, racing cars and action man . I was a right tom boy and hated girlie things like dolls and prams ......
So come on you accywebbers , what was your fav toy as a child ?

simon · 23-08-2006, 20:56

Simon.................

shillelagh · 23-08-2006, 21:13

My books - i know they weren't a toy as such but i loved my books and ive still got a couple of them now! Also i had my cuddly toys which lived in my bed - now they live on top of the wardrobe looking down.

I did have the mainly girly toys dolls - tiny tears and sindy, my pram that i played with was my sisters same with the cot mind you i slept in that cot for a couple of nights until my cot was delivered when i was born! The thing was i was 6 when my niece was born and mum used to look after her and i used to get the same pressies as she did - can you imagine it you are at high school and we'd gone back after xmas what did you get for xmas - a girls world - i was 13! That way when she came up here she had the same things to play with as when she was at home. Can remember one year i wanted a table tennis table so my dad built one in the back garden and for my birthday party we all had tea round it. Also it took 2 table tennis nets to go across it! lol

My niece was like you as well cherokee - she wanted an evel knievel for xmas and her mum (my sis) wouldnt buy her one but grandma did (my mum)! lol Its what they call granny power - if mum wont buy it you granny will! lol

grannyclaret · 23-08-2006, 21:20

A game my dad made one christmas,,it was called bagatelle,,,we hadent much money ,and it must have taken hours and hours to make,but me and my brother thought it was great.......THOSE WERE THE DAYS when xmas was about giving pleasure and not how much money things cost

cherokee · 23-08-2006, 21:23

HAHA nice one jen ......my aunt once bought me a tiny tears doll and i got my action man to beat her up ..then i tied her to a pole and cammed her face up and set my indians and cowboys on her, my mum went mad , but i thought it was so funny ..that story gets loadsa laughs off my kids now though

gem5665 · 23-08-2006, 21:25

Action Man I would tie one of his wrist to some cotton and daggle him out of the upstairs window. had my mum jump 6 ft in the air more than once . my bike never off that thing ,I was a tom boy, anything i could crash into them Mum got me and my sister tippy tumble dolls one year mine was tumbling over blocks very soon.

katex · 23-08-2006, 21:31

My brother's Meccano. Didn't like dolls, but love babies now.

Tinkerbelle · 23-08-2006, 21:37

My play post office

At primary school we'd just gone through a phase of collecting each others addresses and telephone numbers. Sooo

during the summer holidays I decided to send out invites to a party to all my friends at school for 3 week later than the date I sent them out. (There was no party really and forgot about it a day later.) I addressed all the envelopes with the little play stamps that you get in the set!

When I got back to school after the holidays they all told me that the post man had knocked all their parents up and they had to pay the 12p (I think it was at the time) postage costs.

Len · 23-08-2006, 21:44

Chemistry sets and electronic kits. With the Electronic kits you could wire up, with direction a crystal radio, a two transistor radio and many different sound generators all good fun. Can’t say I learnt anything but still good fun.

katex · 23-08-2006, 22:09

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Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

My play post office

At primary school we'd just gone through a phase of collecting each others addresses and telephone numbers. Sooo

during the summer holidays I decided to send out invites to a party to all my friends at school for 3 week later than the date I sent them out. (There was no party really and forgot about it a day later.) I addressed all the envelopes with the little play stamps that you get in the set!

When I got back to school after the holidays they all told me that the post man had knocked all their parents up and they had to pay the 12p (I think it was at the time) postage costs.

Trust you ... no heart that Post Office, have they ?

garinda · 23-08-2006, 22:15

A ventriloquist dummy called Charlie.

My God he was a foul mouthed evil little man.

maccawozzagod · 24-08-2006, 19:06

Star Wars figures - guess what my five year old will be getting for his sixth birthday next month.

ANNE · 24-08-2006, 19:49

My books and a baby doll I called Jean.

AccyMad · 24-08-2006, 19:55

I loved my 'Chatty Kathy' doll, think she was probably my favourite and a teddy I got from my great grandad when I was 2 years old - still got him ?? years later

ANNE · 24-08-2006, 20:00

Accy Mad. I'm sooooo jealous. I went mad for a chatty Cathy but never got one.
Didn't have a teddy either.