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OK, so we all know that Lego is the dog's danglies, but what else?
This was an epic thing, IMO
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Meccano is miles better then Lego in my humble opinion..
Your humble opinion is wrong.
😉
Airfix!
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My bigtrak lasted about 10 minutes before it broke 😥
You get 'bolts' in meccano 😉
Scaletrix...
Meccano was the biz. That and a Mamod donkey boiler, and you were away. Engineering, here I come.
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+1 Scalextric
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when it came to taking your toys in on the last day of school term, everyone loved big track, donkey kong, air hockey, that spinny football game (not fussball), the Nintendo game&watch handheld LCD games but I found the ultimate was...
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I had looooooads of this stuff:
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and I never forgave my parents for giving this away
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simple, but mesmeric
+1 Flightdeck! I spent months on that.
I had a Bigtrack and the original flight deck with a grey phantom. Loved lego and Action Man and Play Mobile people.
ahhh, big loader.... I've still got one. And a Big Big Loader that links onto it. 8)
I am 32 btw.
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Completely politically incorrect now but...
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A ripped up old copy of razzle found in the local woods would provide hours of private entertainment when I were a nip as well. 😆
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The Johnny Seven Gun.
The finest toy in the world, bar none.
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Action man - the one with gripping hands.
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ahhh, big loader.... I've still got one. And a Big Big Loader that links onto it.
Me too 😉 (it was my son's 😐 )
Couple of my old favourites . . .
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Poor lad ended up with an Aladdin Sane style facial tattoo courtesy of my felt pens in the early 70s.
Sheesh look at those tiny feet! I remember having boot envy as Action Man's were much bigger 😉
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I was jealous of my young brother's Hornby train collection. Was never ever allowed to play with it 🙁
I had to make do with Sindy and Tressy ...
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Dinky toys. WW2 continued long into the 80s here.
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FWIW, I had tons of Meccano and never made a thing out of it and I had tons of Lego and constructed pretty much every plane, helicopter, spaceship, landing craft I could imagine.