Toys from your childhood

[Protein Junkie]

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Didn't have even half of these.....but the concept was the same, solid plastic wrestlers with no moving parts.....

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Finally, the beginning of a strange path. I had this confiscated from me.

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Chemistry set always smelled of farts to me and many other kids

 

[Barcon]

Chemistry set always smelled of farts to me and many other kids

I used to fart in the test tubes and then get my mates to pull the cap off and smell it.
Just sayin.

 

[Jamshopbridge]

I had this.
Did you put flints in the back wheels so they'd spark?

I totally forgot about that! Thanks for reminding me...I reckon my old man had them for his zippo

 

[blue b4 the moon]

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I had a 'posh' one with as well as the big circles there were also lots of single strips where you could make your own outside random shape to go around.

Was all wasted in me I just wanted to go as fast as possible inside the template.

Possibly this one.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

 

[Millo]

Timpo Wild West Fort.
I got this for Christmas the year I stopped believing in Santa. I figured how could Santa visit every kids house in the World and have time to build my fort as well. My dad must have been up half the night building it.

 

[idahoblues]

we ended up making black powder (not with stuff from the chemistry kit
we stopped after we made a fertilizer bomb and set it off on the field behind our house. the police were less than impressed

We had a whole summer of making pipe bombs, started out with little lengths of copper ended up on Bonfire night when me and a friend made one out of his mum’s outdoor spinning clothes dryer shaft. We threw this four foot long bomb onto the main fire, when it finally went off a ball of flame shot twenty foot in the air, some windows broke in nearby houses and there was shrapnel embedded in the fencing, can’t believe no one was hurt or killed, needless to say that was the end of our career

 

[KS55]

Test match
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Owzat. Two metal cylinders, one for runs and an appeal the other for umpires verdict.
We used to play test matches between England and Aussies, complete with scorecard. Players included Benaud and Davison for Aussies and Barrington and Statham for us. Hours of magic fun.

 

[55yr old teenager]

We had a home made one. Wooden planks to sit on, with a piece of string attached to the front wheels to steer it. And a.piece of string to pull you along. I lost control one day and broke my front tooth in half. I vowed never to go out again. I was only 9 at the time. Not going out ever again lasted until the next day

 

[dronefromsector7G]