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Show your Age, Toy's you Grew up with

cr8crshr said:
Nice Tin Plate there Snake!!! Me??? Still playin' with trains also. HO mainly but have Lionel O Gauge too for around the tree at Christmas. My Brother 69a100 has our Dad's Tin Plate plus some that he acquired on his own...cr8crshr/Bill:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::usflag::usflag::usflag:
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have HO / and some N and Z gauge as time goes bye it sits in the boxes now when granddaughter was around it was out she loved trains
 
JDmac72chrgr said:
You WISH you "PLAYED" with THAT!!! :lol:
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In all honesty, in the early 70's I did have a couple of similarly equipped playmates, both dark brunettes, however. I still contend to this day, it was me, and not my red Charger that was the magnet. :D
 
I had no toys.


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AAAHHH 45 records, no one posted that as "toys"; Play that song at 78!! Single must've been #1 for YEARS up there in MASS!!! RC YOU GOLD DIGGER ****!!!
 
A game we used to play at school and afterwards was Conkers. Using horse chestnuts with an old bootlace through the middle, the idea is to smash your opponents conker - various methods of cheating were deployed, including (but not limited to) boiling said nuts, and coating with clear nail varnish in an attempt to harden them up.

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Since the town I went to school in had dozens of these old Chestnut trees, the game could go on for months each year.

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@kiwigtx : boys being boys, were the conkers used as "testing how much pain" each could take?? Lol lol.
 
THAT explains a TON!! (please refer to @kiwigtx's avatar picture and read the shirt!!):rofl:

School master wouldn't allow conkers used to conk each other these days!!
Childood memories and bruises of our youth, how did we survive with our "toys"??
 
We used to whirl those chestnuts-on-a-string and see how much distance we could get them to fly.
 
mrhemi said:
I've still got my Wilesco steam engine around somewhere as well. Put a lot of fuel and water through that as a kid. I always had interesting school science projects because they were "steam powered". Too bad the government wouldn't let me count all that steam time towards a Stationary Engineer's license, lol.
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My live steam Tractor was a MAMOD from I think Germany. Picture is not mine, mine is in better shape. I boggles my mind what us kids had to play with.
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Combination spear, rifle, sword, magic wand, club, shovel, and fire starting material. Rare. Hardly ever seen these days. We had a zero cost, never ending supply too..lol.
 
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Army Men.
I had shoe boxes full of these things.
Wonder what ever happened with them after growing up, and leaving home.
Dad, most likely thru them out.

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Weapon ? We used a plastic drinking straw, got a bag of peas at the grocery store, and away we went, looking for targets... maybe YOU !
 
YY1 said:
Must have been after the Evel Knievel contract ran out.

Clearly the EK mechanism but not the figure or bike shell.
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Team America stuff was super hot from about 1977-81 .
 
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