toys i liked as a kid

[zabadak]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

No, not quite - the wheel itself was made up of two disks separated by a metal pole about 3" long and the top ran around the edges of those.

That pole went through both disks to provide handles.

Imagine the one above - the silver stud in the middle connects two of those disks (but metal).

[Mulletino]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

Like this?

[staffslad]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

Thanks, mate. I had many hours of fun with them.

[zabadak]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

Brilliant, except there was no "handle" - you would put your fingers where the "top" would run and this would flip it so that it ran inside the tracks on the metal disks and so go the other way!

[EddyP]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

My Mum gave almost all me & my brother's Star Wars collection to a school fair, but it was when no-one was interested in Star Wars & we had just about outgrown them.

The same thing happened to me but I discovered that Star Wars toys are so much better these days https://www.menkind.co.uk/movie-tv/star-wars

[victorbrunswick]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

I had the Airfix soldiers. Shows how much I knew back then but I used to play with my American Civil War soldiers with my Matchbox Models of Yesteryear cars! I believe in reenactment circles that would be called farb.

[Twocky61]

Re: toys i liked as a kid




Has to be for me 'Steer 'n' Go' = this was a pre Sega Rally game where a car on a disc shaped roadway had a magnet under the disc that moved the car which was controlled by a car fascia with a steering wheel powered by batteries in the 'car radio' pane'l

[zabadak]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

I used to have a car thing called Trik Trak:



My parents clearly didn't think this through - you have to nail track corners (only, as in the pic) to the floor then send a battery-powered car through the course you created! No way they would go for that!

[Twocky61]

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[Twocky61]

Re: toys i liked as a kid




Out of it's box

[Mulletino]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

Steer n Go is awesome! I remember wanting one as a kid.

I did have this instead though:



Came with aluminium stickers which you pushed a pin through then stuck to the bottom of your matchbox cars.

[Twocky61]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

Steer n Go is awesome! I remember wanting one as a kid.

I did have this instead though:



Came with aluminium stickers which you pushed a pin through then stuck to the bottom of your matchbox cars.

That's cool Mulletino

[Mulletino]

Re: toys i liked as a kid

Here's a video of it in action, yup, it was that noisy!