Toys from your childhood

Bluethemaway said:
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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.

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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.
 
pirate said:
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
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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
 
bluebc said:
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.
 
idahoblues said:
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
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the field behind our house was an ex RAF base, been abandoned since the 1950's, all the buildings were knocked down but there were loads of overgrown roads. Our last bomb we put under kerb stone at the side of one of the roads. It made an almighty noise and blew the kerb stone about 20 feet into the air, thats when someone called the police.
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
Finally, the beginning of a strange path. I had this confiscated from me.

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What is it about chemistry sets getting confiscated, I remember my older brother getting one for Christmas, and WE (as in me as well) were grounded and early bed because my stepdad, a diabetic, had found someone had injected something into his insulin, it coincided with the first ever showing of ‘The Sweeney”, so missed that, was gutted but even more so when I got into school the next day and all my mates were saying how brilliant it was.
 
idahoblues said:
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
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Do I know you ?
 
pirate said:
the field behind our house was an ex RAF base, been abandoned since the 1950's, all the buildings were knocked down but there were loads of overgrown roads. Our last bomb we put under kerb stone at the side of one of the roads. It made an almighty noise and blew the kerb stone about 20 feet into the air, thats when someone called the police.
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I suspect small scale IEDs played a bigger part in childhoods a few decades ago than many of us would like to admit. We stopped when we accidently put a smallish crater in the local bowling green, if some of the old fellas had found out who had done it we'd have been torn limb from limb.

If you did some of that stuff these days you'd be hauled off on a prevent programme or stuck on some sort of watch list.
 
Barcon said:
Haha.
The memories come flooding back. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to let a kid have that in his bedroom?
I set fire to my mattress.
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Same here. My dad built me a Formica work surface in my bedroom and I noticed it had Flame retardant and Fireproof stamped on the underside. It wasn't. Nor were the curtains.
 
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Seeing as we're all semi pro pyromaniacs, outside of my chemistry I was obsessed with trying to make fireballs with deodorant, the idea was to cup my hands together and have a mate spray inside, it would then be lit and and I'd try and throw it whilst shouting hadouken
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
Seeing as we're all semi pro pyromaniacs, outside of my chemistry I was obsessed with trying to make fireballs with deodorant, the idea was to cup my hands together and have a mate spray inside, it would then be lit and and I'd try and throw it whilst shouting hadouken
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Lol. There's definitely critical mass on here for a dedicated firestarter thread!
 
pirate said:
so you made explosives?

i did with my chemistry set in the 1980's
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Boots and a bike ride to Yates Garden Centre Timperley provided me with enough chemicals to fuel my pyromania.
Weedkiller ( pre fire suppressant days ) and pond filter charcoal granuals from Yates and glycerine and pottasium permanganate from Boots. Fortunately Heath and safety in those days didn't exist. Therefore, the worlds first Scud Missile was conceived at No 93 Hope Rd, Sale back in the early 70's.
 
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