Coolest toy for the guys

Don't get me going on POGS.  I'm fairly certain there are about a thousand of those somewhere in my house.  I had the old stuff.  Son had the other stuff.  POGS, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  And of course the Silverhawks.

Edited by jammun - February 21 2010 at 13:06

Dean wrote: anyone remember these classic failures:     Both launched with a huge amount of hype around the same time as Trivial Pursuit.

anyone remember these classic failures:

harmonium.ro wrote: This is what I was playing with when I was of the tender age of 4 (up to 8 years): There was only one kind of board game, called "Don't get upset, brother!"; this is a more modern version of it: This is a mini version of it: After communism fell, an adapted and much simplified version of Monopoly became very popular, but I can't recall its name. Also, hugely popular were the cowboys and indians (the same kind of small figurines like the WW2 soldiers posted earlier in the thread), but I had none, and had to be friends with other kids who had. Chinese miniature cars were also great.

Seems we shared more or less similar toys and games; that 'Don't get mad, man' game was enormously popular. It was printed on a cardboard - on the reverse side there was often a board for chess, Chinese checkers or something similar. The only other board game that could compete was Monopoly, but not before 1986.

Other than that, I loved car models, mostly Burago ones in 1:18, 1:24 or 1:43 scale:






I still have my collection, buried somewhere in the forgotten box, with Renault 5, Fiat Regata, Talbot Matra and other European automotive bizarre early 80's models.


And I must mention my first videogame. I loved this thing:



As for the outdoor activities, I was never too fond of sports, but I loved my bicycles.


Pony bicycles (folding ones) were extremely popular until mid-80's, when BMX hit the market here.
However, I never had neither, I was riding Bronco and Peugeot bicycles

This was my first true love as a kid. I dreamt of becoming a carpenter, but somehow ended up becoming a historian instead.



I also enjoyed my huge playmobil and lego collection, and a marklin model railroad during my early teens.

This one was pretty cool, every game randomly changed which holes contained oil and how much.  EAch player was a speculator. 

Snow Dog wrote: Anyone knoiw this...

 

POGS.

Slartibartfast wrote: Model airplanes: I had glued together something like this, but I think much bigger.

I prefered the AVRO Lancaster over the B-17 - but I had a B-17 because of the local connection to where I lived at the time - boats ans ships were boring, jets were uninteresting to build, anything with a prop was much more complicate therefore more fun. But my real passion was for cars - I was a plastic petrol head as a kid (we lived 5 miles from Englands only drag strip) - built dozens of USA muscle cars and hot-rods, dragsters and choppers. I have no idea why (because I now think it ugly) but this was my favourite when I was 10: