marzjennings
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- Houston, Texas, USA
I remember getting a Super Flight Deck one Christmas and thought it the best thing ever.
Toys of your youth
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BoldonLad
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- Location
- South Tyneside
Thats the one. Those metal rods sticking out of the green base, during construction would never pass muster for health and safety now!
Mind you, nor would our home made bows and arrows, the arrows tipped with nails, flatten by placing them on the railway line, to be squashed flat by passing trains.
Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
That's what I got at Christmas one year when I asked for "something to wear and something to play with"
BoldonLad
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- South Tyneside
Boogies we called them. I actually made one for my children, in the 1970's. They loved it, and, still have the scars, but Mrs @BoldonLad Mk1 did not approve
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
I had that. One of those toys that took ages to set up and then you quickly got bored.
Mo1959
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- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Anyone remember the mini golf game? Golfer on the end of a stick with a trigger to make him hit the ball. You could even change the clubs. 
lazybloke
Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
If visiting the Lake District, a visit to Stott Park Mill is an interesting morning to see how those bobbins were made.My dad made me and bro' many of these.
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He also made us a castle and a 'wild west' fort. They were made from wood,unlike the shop bought cheapo plastic ones. He made them at work in his lunch break. They'd take months to make,but they were so well made.
I remember him coming home one day with a Roman Empire/ army style catapult,about 2 foot by 1 foot. It launched missiles like billyo!!
Plus I can laud Box Hill (loudly) to annoy northerners
I had that as a kid, I remember it as being much bigger, involving a wire out of an upstairs bedroom window to the far end of the garden!
Chromatic
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- Gloucestershire
I had one of those.Anyone remember the mini golf game? Golfer on the end of a stick with a trigger to make him hit the ball. You could even change the clubs.
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
There’s clips on youtube. Still looks good fun. Lol.
newts
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- Isca Dumnoniorum
I was given a secondhand set of Bayko in the early 70's, played with more than lego. It's up in the loft somwhere.Thats the one. Those metal rods sticking out of the green base, during construction would never pass muster for health and safety now!
Mind you, nor would our home made bows and arrows, the arrows tipped with nails, flatten by placing them on the railway line, to be squashed flat by passing trains.
Found this pic on a site selling Bayko stuff
Profpointy
Legendary Member
One of my relatives, a kindly old gentleman was recounting a stake-out in Malaya (as it was called then) "they gave me the Bren gun, as I was considered a good shot with a Bren gun" which I found quite a shock .
Off topic now, a couple of snippets came back to him on the incident. The officer had asked him "would you mind going on this stake out?". Officers didn't normally ask politely like Sergeant Wilson when giving young conscripts orders. Anyhow he was in charge of two other young soldiers more or less straight off the boat. They went to the stake-out spot and he aligned the Bren on a forked stick to aim at the door of this hut, so they could shoot at the same point at night. They each did a couple of hours' "watch" albeit it was dark. My relative awoke to see the other guy fast asleep slumped over the Bren with his finger gripping the trigger, fortunately without setting it off. He took the gun off him and did the rest of the night himself as he didn't trust the new boys not to cock it up. The night passed without incident and no-one came or went to the hut, no shots were fired, and that was that. He'd seen some horrible things with massacred families (by the other side). He'd been on his way to Korea, but the boat had been diverted as Korea had finished before he'd got there
My slightly younger, but still now elderly uncle thought his was the luckiest generation as his was the first not to have anyone shooting at them, which is quite something, and emphasised by the above story, and indeed Drago's quip
Sorry, way off topic for a light hearted thread
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Profpointy
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My mate had an action man who'd lost an arm in a parachute accident. True, not a joke, as the paratrooper outfit came with a parachute, and you chucked him in the air and he'd float down, but the parachute didn't
open properly if at all and his arm smashed off on landing
