What was your favourite toy as a child? I remember unwrapping this and being well chuffed.

I loved Zoids. They were great.

Lego or Mechano

Still my favourite now…

i loved this http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/bigtrak/blowup/bigtrak.jpg but my commodore 64 was my best present ever!!!! 😀

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Scalextric & bikes. The end!

Johnny Astro – a baloon and a fan – brilliant

Johnny Seven – all the guns you could ever want

and of course

and, need I say?

Home made catapult, spent ages carving a branch into shape and making the sling, took ages to master using it.

But one of the best boy toys I ever made and boy did I get into all types of trouble using it 😉

Swapped it for a naff air pistol, that was a mistake looking back!

Eagle Eye Action Man, Britains toy soldiers, :?:Train set, Black Widow Catapult

yes agree i should have added those as well Whos_Daddy. 😳

mousetrap
or there was this other one… I can't remember the name of it but you basically had to try to land on the moon.. your lunar module was a silver coloured baloon ( they supplied about 3 if I remember ) which you fixed to a cardboard base and then you controlled it via a little fan mounted on the corner of the moonbase.
wayyyyyyyyyyyy before commodore 64 are any of them fancy smancy games.

Flightdeck was ace played with that for hours

Lego and I had a train set 🙂

grynch – click my johnny astro link
pigface – flightdeck was rubbish, i wanted it, one of my mates got it and it sucked. Johnny Astro rules. It did then and it does now. So there.

I had one of those KITT cars, awesome! Penny Racers were also cool in that genre.

Favourite toy? Lego was the staple which was always returned to, Star Wars and Transformers phases were also tucked into my childhood 🙂

I was very attached to an extremely tatty blue elephant called "dog". Had it till I was about 16, when it vanished mysteriously. 23 years later and I still wonder where it went 🙁

bigbutslimmer.. not exactly as I remember it but yes… that must have been it … you had it too then eh?

GTDave – a friend of mine had one of those, I was jealous!

I think we should create a johnny astro forum… who knew there were others !! LOL

No way – I had one of those Kitt cars.

Most of my fave toys were car related.

I had a battery powered Bigfoot that was good, various RC cars (never a 'proper' one though), a 32 wheel thing that had articulated sections that could get over some massive obstacles, a track thing that came in sections that were 'poseable' so you could make hills out of it. It had large red turning circles at the end.

And Big Loader, which is now in a Thomas the Tank Engine guise.

And of course, lego, meccano & scalextric…

Were they called "RoughRiders"? I had one of them I loved the switchable high-speed 2WD, low speed 4WD option and customisable gear knobs"

Personal favourite was Lego, particularly Technic stuff. Lego's really gone downhill in my opinion these days though, there's so many function-specific parts I think that some of the engineering creativity has been lost.

and/or

enjoy

Yeah, I think they were called Rough Riders. I think I had two of the A-Team ones they did as well.

And then there's Darda (or Dada?) Motors as well. They were great – much better than Hot Wheels.

Without a doubt – Just wished I had kept it in the box and not buried my my Evel figure in the garden, like some sort of pre David Blaine magic stunt. Would be worth £100's now….

Loved this bike for years I cried buckets when I had to get rid of it.
(not this exact bike , this is just a pic I ripped of t'interweb 😈 )

I loved Space Lego, coolest lego theme.

http://gizmodo.com/5018990/lego-secret-vault-contains-all-sets-in-history

Evel Kneivel was rubbish; rev it up and…..falls over.
Big Track was rubbish; programme for hours and…..the dog would get in the way.

I liked my Action Man. I was given an elder neighbours complete collection in about 1982. I had everything!
Also liked Scalextric and Micronauts. And Airfix 1:32 plastic soldiers. And the Multipose kit ones too. Ace.
And Tamiya kits a few years later. LRDG lorry & SAS Willys jeep particular favourites…

Evel Knievel was ace 🙂 – just had to keep repairing things like footpegs.
Favourite – probably lego – but across the years I had (and still have some of these in the loft) – Johnny Astro, Action Man, Little Big Man, Matt Mason, Lone Ranger, Flightdeck, Corgi Rockets…

Only recently bought a decent amount of Scalextric for a road summer party the other year, that's sitting up on boxes in the spare room 😉

Action man obsessed, also airfix kits, toy soldiers (used to spend hours painting them) and generally anything to do with war was good. My Chopper bike was also the business.

Just looking at the chopper picture, i'm sure mine never had a rear mech it had a geared hub! Tell me i'm not wrong!!

Bike, sledge, Scalextric & my big brother train set, old 3 rail hornby most of which I still have

That's my childhood right there in 3 images.

grahamh – how did the Golden tune-up Key work? I can't remember although I'm sure I had them.

well spotted doog – sturmey archer hib gears iirc (and mine's wasn't pink either)

+1 for the johnny astro forum

spacehopper, football and my first bike kept me fit for life.

meccano
bike

BBC? pffft, I was always a Speccy;

This was the first computer at home, none of that rubber keyboard rubbish 😉

Golden key, from what I remember it allowed you to remove the wheel assembly and swap them between cars..