Awesome stuff from my childhood poll

To paraphrase Marlon Brando in the Godfather
' You have made a happy man feel very old...'

None of these were around except Lego when I was a child

We had roller skates that you altered the size of with a key and at Christmas I once got a lump of coal until some jealous oik stole it!

Edited by Man Erg - February 28 2007 at 12:14

prog-chick wrote: Do kids still climb trees???

Yes - but only if they can get a qualified Health And Safety inspector to run a full risk assessment of the site, followed by formal climbing applications in triplicate to the appropriate authorities to prevent compensation claims to local councils in respect of their providing inappropriate arboria, leisure-climbing for the use of.

cuncuna wrote: Jim Garten wrote: I suppose a discussion of Pogle's Wood is out of the question... I'm too old for this thread, aren't I? If you have one of those, then I envy you beyond human comprehension. That is a cute looking toy.

Shows how things have moved on - that's not a toy - it's a still from the actual series; good old stop frame animation, eh?

Where's Ray Harryhausen when you need him?

Rentaghost!

Very bad, now I come to think of it, but strangely fascinating at the time...

And Pole Position I used to like too, for some odd reason.

I agree about Bagpuss.  My cousin puts on Bagpuss videos for her son even now.

Here a few scenes from "Raumpatrouille" ("Space Patrol"), the tv-series I remember from my childhood. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvcpz3-UFF4&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv5B1AAuBw&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Q4llO90p8&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5SD1mTEzM&mode=related&search=

And this is something special: A video someone made to the title music by cutting scenes together. Look at the funny way they all dance in the Starlight Casino!
The music is of course heavily overdubbed; the organ, however, is part of the original soundtrack, as are the brass parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPVpg0HY6qw&mode=related&search=


Edited by BaldFriede - February 27 2007 at 23:26

NINJA TURTLES!!!

I remember back in late 80s and early 90s  while i was living in my birth place,Sarajevo before the civil war,i used to watch on my satellite Ninja Turtles,Transformers,Schtrumfs..Good old days..

Edited by DarioIndjic - February 26 2007 at 23:48

I was thinking something between legos and Ninja Turtles. I still have 5 huge boxes of legos, must be well over 12 kilos of them, and I do build with them occasionally. Though I used to have every possible turtles figurine. I saw every possible episode. or as far as I can remember. But as turtles was something more personal, and legos was something more of the social kind, I gave my vote to the turtles. You see, I always played with legos only with my brothers and sisters, never alone.

I remember all of that. My buddy and I still sing the Run Joey Run song.

Viajero Astral wrote: Oh, the happy days of my life Ninja Turtles is one of the best cartoons of all time.Somebody remember Astroboy? or G-Force?

I almost forgot about "Happy Days." We also had the Fonz!

Well, I was born in the 1930's, so my childhood memories revolve around listening to the wireless, and sh!tting bricks at the sound of air raid sirens..

Ok, I'm not that old, but Thundercats and Ninja Turtles were after my time, and by the time 'Saved by the Bell' was broadcast in the UK I was too old to think 'Screech' was funny. I just wanted to stamp on his head!!

No, my memories are of Fingerbobs, Mary Mungo and Midge, and the gloomy melancholy that was 'Bagpuss' Americans wont know what the hell I'm talking about, but Bagpuss is basically the reason so many kids these days are being raised by depressed parents with no ambition. The music and the image of the lonely depressed and neglected child that owned and loved 'that saggy cloth cat' was etched into the minds of children up and down the country. Thatcherism also played an obvious part in the current malaise among youth, but it's mostly down to that f***ing cat!