My favourite toy as a kid....

[tonyfinster]

Re: My favorite toy as a kid....

my fave was Raving Bonkers,

Me and my best mate would shove the handles as far forward as possible and commence a furiously fas alternate pounding of the buttons with the flats of our hands until you heard the pleasing skritchy sound of the heads flying up. Happy days



Equally good was my action man skyhawk hang glider, hours of fun trying to bash it out of a tree with a long stick Or my tonka toy excavator, will try put a piccy up of me playing with it Circa 1974/5

[tonyfinster]

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Heres a piccy of myself in tonka toy world, not happy at being told off for excavating my dads veg patch, my freind from across the road was a bit camera shy and ducked at the right time.

[Paulos]

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Also had one of these
Anybody else have a Demon Driver

[babygift]

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My favourite toys were chic a boos. They were little monkey dolls that sucked their thumbs. I had one and an unusual bear one and too similar toys called gongas. (I've been collecting in my 'old age' though and now I have two chic a boos, two of the bears, and a whole family of gongas. A bit sad, sorry). My friends don't remember the chic a boos and think I've gone a bit potty collecting them but one friend remembers fuzzy felt.

[Richard1978]

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One of my friends had a demon driver.

At one time lots of the girls at my school had chic a boos.

[Trickyvee]

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One of my friends had a demon driver.

At one time lots of the girls at my school had chic a boos.

I remember the chicaboo craze. I never wanted one though, thought they were horrible little things!

[Austin Maxi]

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I had a Corgi Ultrasonic Wrecker. This was like a radio-controlled vehicle, only it worked with ultrasonic waves from a keypad. It was an American-style red truck with huge bonnet and a yellow crane winch on the back, and it had full functions although the two speeds it could go - slow, and slightly faster than slow hardly set the floor alight. It's party piece was to back up to a toy car, preferrably one of the large scale (1/24) ones, lower the crane, winch it up, and tow it away. I spent ages playing with that. Anything car-related got my attention though, and I was always playing with my Matchbox, Corgi and occasional Dinky cars.

[n3llyo]

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i had loads of action man stuff -the actual figures and several vehicles i collected them from the age of about 6 to the age of 13 when i discovered girls
my favorite was a weird half motor bike half tractor type vehicle that was called a kettenkraftrad i had them stored in all their boxes for years then when with in weeks of moving my mother gave them all away along with around 10 years of NME`s and sounds magazines and several other books and magazine collections i had stored before having the chance to get them without asking me!!

[darren]

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i had loads of action man stuff -the actual figures and several vehicles i collected them from the age of about 6 to the age of 13 when i discovered girls
my favorite was a weird half motor bike half tractor type vehicle that was called a kettenkraftrad i had them stored in all their boxes for years then when with in weeks of moving my mother gave them all away along with around 10 years of NME`s and sounds magazines and several other books and magazine collections i had stored before having the chance to get them without asking me!!

you started collecting girls.

i had loads of star wars stuff,figures spaceships etc.

thats sad that your mum gave all those things away.
must have been heartbreaking mate.

did you try to get all those things again.

[Destiny79]

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My favourite toy was my Jogging Jenny Doll, she came with a blue and white jog suit on. I lost her when i moved house one year and cant find out about her anywhere on the internet

[scotland]

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I liked my Raleigh Chopper.
But then again my Spacehopper was good too.

[ayrshireman]

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A remote control Beetle I had aged 8/9, red.

Not a brand name, and simple controls, but god I loved that toy.

[darren]

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My favourite toy was my Jogging Jenny Doll, she came with a blue and white jog suit on. I lost her when i moved house one year and cant find out about her anywhere on the internet

sorry to hear that destiny.
there where 5 in the range
Mandy, Mikey, Becky, Jenny, and Nicky.

[darren]

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I liked my Raleigh Chopper.
But then again my Spacehopper was good too.

space hopper was brilliant i had many happy times with it.
it was an odd shape but it was class.
i had a chopper as well might be getting one soon.

[Powdered toast man]

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I had a plastic SAME tractor that was red and black and quite big in scale(roughly a foot long). It was a cheap market stall toy and it was Italian made. I played with it a lot and it had very realistic details and I was mortified when my dad accidentally stepped on it, squashing it completely. I seemed to have had quite a collection of Italian made plastic vehicles in the early to mid 1980s.