Cool 1970s toys from my childhood..

[70s kid]

Never owned any of these or wanted to...Denys Fishers ' Cyborg' and arch nemesis Muton range of macarbe action figures:

And the obligitory spaceship:

[70s kid]

Hang on they went one better...

[70s kid]

Time to bump my own thread. Lets start with this, a brilliantly loaded and detailed Corgi model:

[70s kid]

So, wonderful wife got me this for my birthday..because its what i wanted.

[beccabear67]

I always coveted other kids' fuzzy felt sets, but I suspect if I got one now I'd find them underwhelming! Anyway, I had some cool Lego, I can't complain (other than there being ten of us living in crumpled-up newspaper in t'middle of road, getting up half hour before coming home from working all day at fac'try).

[tex]

My brother had a spyrograph which with pins and a pen could draw all sorts of circular patterns. I never really got to play with the thing myself as five years later when I came along all there was were bits and pieces of the set! It doesn't seem like they could do much.

I did get something called a Lite-brite which was basically a box with a black grid on one end and a light bulb behind. You put a sheet of black paper behind the grid and poked clear plastic coloured pegs in to create 'art'. Eventually there would be a problem finding black paper to refill with and it would sit.

I bought a spirograph about 3-4 years ago, not as much fun as i had remembered, I also bought subbuteo....again the memory was better than the reality

[beccabear67]

My brother had a spyrograph which with pins and a pen could draw all sorts of circular patterns. I never really got to play with the thing myself as five years later when I came along all there was were bits and pieces of the set! It doesn't seem like they could do much.

I did get something called a Lite-brite which was basically a box with a black grid on one end and a light bulb behind. You put a sheet of black paper behind the grid and poked clear plastic coloured pegs in to create 'art'. Eventually there would be a problem finding black paper to refill with and it would sit.

[Semi42]

My sister was into arty crafty stuff . She usually got stuff like shaker maker, colour dip and one thing that the name escapes me, it was making jewellery and key rings and stuff from epoxy resin

[70s kid]

Got to love the internet! Not clapped eyes on this since i got for xmas 75.

[70s kid]

As i stated earlier in the thread, the 'official' Palitoy Action Man helicopter ,above, is imo inferior to its Cherilea counterpart below. For a start the Cherilea's rotor spin was battery opporated as opposed to the Palitoys 'pump button' mechanical action.

[70s kid]

Worst present ( xmas 77) i have ever asked for! Used it once.

[70s kid]

I only ever had the little robot dog figure from the Battlestar Galactica toys, though I loved the series and read the comic book. The rest of the figures, even the Cylons all looked ****! Glad the ships were well done at least. I also had one Buck Rogers figure, a little Twiki robot. So the Galactica dagget and he got to hang out with a few Micronauts and some Star Wars stars.

I got to try the boxing robots game once when a kid brought theirs to school. I used to play the pocket version of a game with pegs named 'Master Mind' a lot... black and white pegs were yes or no about the four colored pegs someone would put in on one end of the case top... you had six tries to get four white/yes pegs...

Two of my brothers had the Cylon raider and the Colonial Viper respectively. Although the models were quality, i felt the scale of them was too small, the pilot figures only being about 15mm high. You cant really interact and play with micro figures of that scale ( the concurrent Star Wars figures were three times bigger and so more practical, this size setting the template for all future action figures). So.... i made my own Viper from a toothpaste tube box, paper, card and sellotape. I made the Viper to scale with these....


Star Toys 'Action Jacks' were cheap (50p each) and plentiful at the local toyshop. Note that the skier has a helmet similar to that of Battlestar Galactica Viper pilots, so naturally that was his new vocation once seated in my newly made cardboard Viper. The Viper i made sounds pretty hokey but it actually looked pretty good though i say it myself.

Thanks to those that have replied in this thread thus keeping it going!

[Semi42]

My sis had this, took a good while to get it set up but once it was, it was mesmerising

[Semi42]

I loved the letraset action transfers , I got the Kung fu one a few times only because it had it had a transfer of a guy getting poked in the eyes with a spurt of blood squishing out
there was also a small letraset available at the local newsagents called mini toons ,

[George 1978]

I was surprised that the black swivel chair quiz show Mastermind (which is still going on Monday evenings) used practically the same name as that "Master Mind" game, considering that they both launched the same time and had more or less the same name. But the again, there was a darts contest on BBC 2 back in 1981 called "Bullseye" just a month before Jim Bowen's namesake game show started.