100 greatest toys on 4:)

[simon1]

Just watched 100 greatest toys on ch 4, brill total blast from the past:)!!
Lego number 1 tho?!! He-Man, transformers, scalectrix, star wars. My top 3 would have been, transformers, Games console's, and He-man:)
Consoles I had
First computer, spectrum 128,commadore amiga 500, super nintendo, sega mega drive, playstation 1, playstation 2, xbox 360, playstation 3, a lynx handheld, gameboy, psp. I think thats it:)

Come on then what were you all in too? Im 30 so 80's toys were my thing.

[mattydred]

didnt you have a atari2600 or amstrad cpc464?

[Steve]

Hot Wheels and Evil Kineval

[SimonV6]

[quote=simon1;578647]Just watched 100 greatest toys on ch 4, brill total blast from the past:)!!
Lego number 1 tho?!! He-Man, transformers, scalectrix, star wars. My top 3 would have been, transformers, Games console's, and He-man:)
Consoles I had
First computer, spectrum 128,commadore amiga 500, super nintendo, sega mega drive, playstation 1, playstation 2, xbox 360, playstation 3, a lynx handheld, gameboy, psp. I think thats it:)

Come on then what were you all in too? Im 30 so 80's toys were my thing.[/quote]

well I guess lego because its been going since the 40's, so i guess loads of kids played with lego, were as the others mention are quite new in relative terms?

[Steve]

What was it that Wossy quoted - 62 Lego bricks for every man, woman and child on the planet or something?

I wonder how many of them are now residing in a landfill site somewhere?

[derrick]

What happened to Meccano ?

[Gaza07]

Meccano was a long time before He-Man and transformers, I had meccano when I was a kid but it was Action man or tommy gun in them days :D:D:D

[Adrian]

spent hours building lego,had tonnes of the stuff,also me action man spent many hours running up the stairs and chucking him out the window with his parachute on :D

[Dedcalm]

Lego and action man took up most of my time as a kid - luckily my son is almost to the 'playing lego' age, he is already interested in the models and taking them to bits... he just does not like the building yet... if you build it they will come :) so I get to play building stuff (lego city at the mo), really looking forward to moving into technical in a couple of years though :)

however one gripe i have about Lego is that they seem to mold parts these days to suit a design whereas in my day you had to use ingenuity to solve these issues... its a little sad IMHO that this element has been partially removed.

[Rotorhead]

Toys: Mainly Transformers, Star Wars, Lego and some Lego Technics.
Computers: Amiga 500, PC (Intel pentium 200)
Consoles: SNES, Gameboy (original) my brother had a Megadrive so got to play on that when ever I wanted.

Lego was the best, wish I had some left :)

[rachel]

Barbie , and my little pony for me :)

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so cute !!!!!!!

[spunkmyer]

[quote=mattydred;578668]didnt you have a atari2600 or amstrad cpc464?[/quote]

I had the CPC6128 with green monitor before that I cut my programming teeth on a ZX81, just remember not to move the dam thing after spending a hour typing.

Was really enjoying the show shouting I remember that and that and that, then wife said "How old are you":ack2:. Cow!!!!

[andy_richmond]

who remembers Centurians or how about MASK

[Heli-Bren]

ZX 81, ZX Spectrum, Vic 20, Commodore 64, Atari, Astro Wars, Meccano, Lego, Tonka Trucks, Fuzzy Felts, Action Man, Evil Knievel, Six Million Dollar Man, Lone Ranger, Space 1999, Captain Scarlet, Rebound, Frustration, Space Hopper.........They dont make toys like they used to !

[pgkevet]

Totally spoilt you lot... best toys were cap pistols, boxes of matches, and old packing case and some pram wheels..or for the really wealthy.. a bicycle. The meccano..but one never could afford enough.. and another wealthy prezzie was a toy bricklaying kit... you could boil the constructon afterwards to dissolve the mortar and build another house...

In tough times we had to make do with the neck of a slaughtered goose.. trim out the windpipe and syrinx and use it as a whistle...