Externet Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 (edited) Hi all. Name the favorite toys, the ones that stayed in your retina, the ones you had, the ones your rich friend had and you always drooled for... Starting... - Pedal firetruck... well, I was like six. Unforgettable. Zero plastic. - A building blocks set. Not Lego, did not exist then ! - 9 transistor radio. Had shortwave band ! Fixed it when was ~15 - Lionel electric train given used from rich people, and still in the family. Real all metal. - A free-flight diesel engined model airplane balsa kit, given to me by someone out of the family because was too complex to put together. I did, and crashed first launch as I was reluctant to give full trottle. - An electric boat, about 30cm, made with real wood, 'D' batteries and perfect metal fittings, zero plastic; a perfection masterpiece that should had cost a brutal amount to my poor dad salary. But he saw me drooling for it on a store window. - A firetruck, with a pressurizable reservoir, hose and valves. Tadpoles grew to frogs in it, as I forgot them for a week+. Ah... metal cast, zero plastic. - A CocaCola metal delivery truck with dozens of individual 1cm bottles, and cases and shelves for them. - A Schuco Mercedes benz, windup, with working gear shifting and steering. All cast metal too. - A .177 caliber air pistol. Nobody else had or seen one. - A galena radio. This kicked me into electronics engineering. Envy from friends: - Real chemistry set, when you could really make experiments without today's legalese intrusion, - A vacuum-forming set. Made objects from plastic sheets... still want one. - Bicycle So sad to see kids today hooked to the f'kn Nintendos and other screen crap. Your turn... Edited August 29, 2014 by Externet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Tinkertoys, especially the year I got the really large set that had an electric motor for Christmas. A real chemistry set The Fright Factory. Johnny Seven toy gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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imatfaal Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I inherited my brothers chemistry set when he went to medical school - which meant a pre-teen got hold of a chemistry set that was way too dangerous for an A'level student. very cool. I had a steam traction engine that ran on a meths burner - it never really worked as well as it should but I loved taking it apart to clean and fix it. Chris across the road had a lovely vw beetle that we stripped and repaired at an aggregate age of about 24 - it was about 3 years after we got it running that he was finally allowed to drive it legally. But best of all was pressie from big brother of a book describing how to make paper models of the regular polyhedra by this amazing guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Wenninger. As you can see from my avatar - paper modelling has never let me go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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