Cool 1970s toys from my childhood..

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Got this for xmas 1971. Notice the BOAC livery.

Still the most beautiful plane ever built!

[70s kid]

Being in to sci fi the Battlestar Galactica movie and subsequent t v series was a god send..and so were the toys!

[70s kid]

As a sci fi loving kid in the 70'S you can only imagine the effect a show like Space 1999 had on me. As usual with an Anderson production, there was bags of merch to spend pocket money on from candy cigs to lollys to die cast models. This Letraset was one of three different scenes that you could place rub on transfers of Koenig and co.

[70s kid]

A lot of toys/games from the late 60's had a space theme (wonder why??) Including this tiddly winks inspired game with a novel space race twist. I remember this only because it was on a games shelf at my nans for years literally next to where she kept the unsliced Hovis.
Darn,cant upload as the only Google images are .webp files.

[70s kid]

Xmas 1979 main present, wish I'de of chosen more wisely.

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Remember these things....



Not sure if this is the exact one I had, but I remember when I used to take it round to a mate's house how all the little balls rattled like mad as I ran along!

Also how disappointed I was that the gun wouldn't fire nails very effectively when I tried to put on on the magnet at the front!

[70s kid]

The green eyed monster raised his ugly head once again when one of my brothers recieved this on his bd. I was the one who was into space stuff!
My dad owned a Hanimex super 8 cine camera, projector and screen (no cheap video camcorders then). Apart from the usual holiday footage he would film a home made 'production' (short themed movie) with me and my brothers as crew and cast. We did Dr Who with me as the titular time lord dressed up in mums (only) floppy hat, scarf and raincoat, with a wardrobe doubling for the TARDIS. However we also did a scene set in a rocket cockpit he titled SPACE 4. 'Special effects' included using the lift/tower part of the Streak Around above set up against he Saturn V model like a makeshift 'launchpad'. Once he filmed the lift ascending the model rocket it was hard cut to us lot dressed in 'space clobber' (matching Pippa Dee pjamas ) piloting the ship fron a console made of hardboard with tiny painted ceramic tiles for buttons. All good fun.

[70s kid]

One of my luckier brothers was presented with this gem on xmas morning 1975 (which i refer to as the Bohemian Rhapsody xmas ) anyhoo.. i played sensible and went with family board games such as Monopoly and Scrabble..when i could of had this!

[70s kid]

One of my brothers got this for his bd 1976. I thought it an odd choice for an AM vehicle personally i would have gone for a tank or jeep, perhaps he asked for one and this is what he got.

[70s kid]

Missus had this HAVOC doll given to her circa 1976. This aint no Barbie. Just goes to show that girl power existed even in the seventies.

[70s kid]

Got this for xmas 1971. Notice the BOAC livery.

[Semi42]

Got one of these xmas 76. My Action Man phase lasted about 6 months. Again this is the Cherilea 'unofficial' or 'spurious' Sheridan tank model as opposed to the inferior Palitoy Scorpion tank.

I had the spurious jeep, I remember the windscreen was harder plastic and didn’t last 5 minutes , my mate had the motorcycle/sidecar we would play for hours with them and for some reason , they were all called “Jim”

[70s kid]

Got one of these for my birthday and took it to school, was the most popular kid that day!

Would never have took mine to my school would have got mugged : 0 owning it did inspire me to paint a UFO dog fight on my bedroom wall with humbrol oil paints.

[Semi42]

Nah, lotus engine, bought it 17 years ago when they were dirt cheap, being a mechanic helps as it gets regular maintenance/ tinkering

[70s kid]

impressed me so much that I bought a full size one

My dream also but havent the money. Although i hear they were fairly unreliable ( Rover engines?) Wouldnt put me off though even if it were true.