When I was a nipper I had many fabulous toys including a train set that I didn’t appreciate. I eventually sold it and bought my first “grown up” bike with the proceeds.
The thing I craved the most though was a Scalextric, an itch that I didn’t scratch until I was in my 40s and now me and my kids have way too much. The Tamiya thread has got me wanting an RC car but I suspect I’d get more out of building it than using it.
The other thing that I want is one of these…
but looking at the going price I’d have to sell a bike to afford it.
I can remember being taken through Hamleys as a child by my mother and seeing a toy car that you could drive which had a real petrol driven motor. I’d never wanted anything more in all my short life. It was a steal at around a thousand pounds which was almost the price of a new car at the time!
Mogrim, glad I never got it now, it looks shit! Can remeber wearing out the page in the catalogue (which dates it for you) by staring. Was better off with a shoe box.
I always really wanted Scalextric too……I got this instead…
Turned out to be a massive result. Was loads better. Cars that could u-turn and jump over ramps.
The cars were Matchbox sized so for extra entertainment value we used to get one of the cat’s furry catnip filled toy mice, skin it and put the skin over the cars so the cat would chase it. The look on the cats face when it touched the electrified track was priceless.
i wanted more or less every new toy that Jason Warne got (BMXes, video games, TCR racing sets etc etc), but i had (have) a younger brother and he had no siblings so i think that with hindsight, i won tbh…
What I really wanted was a Raleigh UltraBurner. My mum saved up 20 pences in a jar for ages to get me a BMX, unfortunately I was always was an impatient little bugger and as soon as it got to £80 I insisted she buy me the cheapest BMX available from the local shop (think the UltraBurner was £120). Mag wheel cracked on the first jump on my first visit to Shoreham BMX track and there endeth my BMX career.
Rorschach, I was lucky enough to have that and this
One of them was even better than you thought it could be, and played with every day. The other one was megatron… Too big for my 6 year old hands, didn’t stay in the gun shape very well, didn’t transform very well and the robo shape kind of sucked too.
i begged and begged for this for almost a year and finally got it – i recall an entire summer playing with it, and to this day, I’m convinced I could make a good sh0ow of landing on a carrier deck……skip to 1.45 to avoid the most boring man ever….
I had (and still have) loads of Scalextric, Lego and matchbox/ burago/ lledo cars but I always wanted what my mates had:
– Bigtrak
– Screwball Scramble
– He-man toys
– Transformers
– Micro Machines (come in collections of 5)