Toys from your childhood

[Bluethemaway]

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Had this but the minis came off the track to easy for me.

 

[Kompany Car]

I had this very set. Nearly burned the kitchen down View attachment 71066

Ah the days of making nitrogen triiodide. All you needed was a bit of the ammonia based window cleaner and the iodine to make things go with a bang. Mix the two together and then evaporate it slowly, and the purple powder thats formed is very unstable.

 

[mackenzie]

Had a little toy stable given to my grandfather by a work mate, whose own children had no interest.
I played with it for years. Got toy trees and fencing, and lots of horse and animal figures. Debenhams (I think it was them but might have been Pauldens) in Manchester had a whole floor of similar toys at that time. I thought I'd gone to heaven when I went there a couple of years later ;-)
The "playing" was all in the imagination

 

[Gabriel]

Not so much toys but Jacks and pitch-and-toss. Games played as far back as the Ancients, with variants are found across cultures, yet I wonder if they will now die in the West.

 

[Kompany Car]

Had one of these...

Just found out that if you have one now they are worth £200.

 

[bennyboy]

Easily amused in the 70's.

 

[Marklr]

I vaguely remember having this game.

 

[kaz7]

Kerplunk was a brilliant game and etcha sketch was really good too

 

[Cheer Up Peter Reid]

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When the transformer packed in on my Scalextric, being a dab hand with a soldering iron, I decided to bypass the transformer and pass the mains feed through direct. More power = faster, right?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I used to angle the bowlers triangle to do spin bowling....little red balls all over the lounge at times.