Coolest toy for the guys

Finnforest wrote: Oh yeah Ian....I'm on my way over man get out the pretzels and beer. Seriously though, you weren't playing that game at 10 were you?

Not I, but it looks fun!

Looks vintage....is it some sort of "escape from behind the German lines" WW2 game?

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:

POGS.

Snow Dog wrote: Anyone knoiw this...

 

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

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.

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