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DarkJames
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Posted: 12th Jun 2010 04:07 Edited at: 13th Jun 2010 06:17
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Hey, here is a thread to put your favourite toys you played,... or you keep playing o_O (Not if you are a kid, if you are 42 :o)


my favourite toy, was a toy i cant remember its name...

maybe someone can help me,
its like a ragdoll comes with even romans variation, i cant remember its name :s

well another one is Squirmel Worm



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! Those worms were so awesome xD

I still have 2 in a pot somewhere.

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Not actually mine - it was my older brothers - but a similar slot car set was by far my favorite to play with. It probably explains my enjoyment of NASCAR today.



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Lego, I still play with it now..


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A La Carte Kitchen



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Miami Vice Action Figures. Miami Vice is still my favorite TV show.



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Posted: 12th Jun 2010 09:20 Edited at: 12th Jun 2010 09:21
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GI Joe!



Oh, and cardboard bricks...those were awesome...until stairs were built...then we had cardboard sheets again



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I have about £800's worth of knex after collecting the stuff since i was 5, Such an epic play thing XD

Kinda weird since i found my first instruction book i got the other day after 13 years. Attached a pic of the greatest walker design id seen. I used to use it as a base and create unbeliable stuff lol.


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Manta Force. When I was really young, my parents were quite poor, and couldn't afford anything but small toys. Then one birthday, I got this massive box (it seemed almost as tall as me) and in it was this entire manta force set. It was the first time I'd got anything on that scale, and I was absolutely made up!



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I used to have a Simba teddy from the lion king, but I can't find it on the internet. I miss the little thing, but it got ran over, so we have to get rid of it.

However, Playmobil for the win!



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Posted: 12th Jun 2010 17:33 Edited at: 12th Jun 2010 17:35
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Definatley lego. Loved it, still do but dont play with it.

Really lets you get creative from a young age. Maybe why im so great now.. JK


I really do love me a bit of lego :3

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I had a LOT of scalextric. Some Mk1 tracks and the rest Mk2 tracks. Along with a lot of classic cars i had quite a collection. I still have a few of my favourite ones but the rest have been given away or sold. Shame really as some might be worth a bit of money today.

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lego was my favorite
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this

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I loved these things.

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I'm rooting for K'nex in this one. It was awesome. You can actually make some really awesome stuff with it. Good for kids - it stimulates your mind.

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This was my favourite toy when I was a kid:




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I'm seconding the GI Joe post. GI was boss.

I just now realized I've had a typo in my signature for the past 3 years.
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@Jeku I wish I had that dam thing when I was a kid!

Growing up I was pore. So I loved those low cost fun
thinks, Marbles!.. The coolest ones were ball barrings(called those and the big marbles "Boulders")

parleys, bloody marry'es, cat eyes, peewees, stilleys, creamys,
swirleys, clear.. ect Those were the days.. now im just in love with my computer. Ill be looking back in another 20 years and explain the specs of the computer im on right now, and telling all how good of a friend it was! How cool it was to have CD drive or a Zip drive,

I dont know how to spell

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Had the entire set once, plus the huge GI Joe base with a bunch of action figures and one jet. Use to have epic battles, TMNT vs GI Joe. Many deaths...never got tired of it.


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In that exact color
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These ones were fun too



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Ah, I had an original GameBoy back when I lived in Germany, God that's taking me back...I was 4.

Though over Easter I found my old GameBoy Pocket with Pokemon Red in, I was soooooo excited, put in a couple of AAA's and it just gives me a black screen. I might see if I can find a second hand GameBoy Colour anywhere.

Also, I had a GameBoy Color exactly like Inspire's, until it met the same fate as my DS - work-surface->slide->floor->crack

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@lazerus

Ah, the good old knex days ^^ I have three full-sized knex boxes stuffed full with knex. My two favorite towers where:



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Knex? Psh! My Erector set growing up was cooler!




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I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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W00t!



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The logo lets it away xD.


Shame my painting sucked the Tau kept coming up looking like psychedelic drunks! And I know the age limit is like 13 and up, but we got past the age limit .

And, of course, I was addicted to these (not exactly toys):






I still play those gems .

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Video games aren't toys!

+ K'NEX for me

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I had a pretty big erection set when I was a kid, it was lots of fun to play with. K'nex was fun too, I had the roller coaster set for a while.

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Quote: "I had a pretty big erection set when I was a kid, it was lots of fun to play with. K'nex was fun too, I had the roller coaster set for a while."


Take out the "set" from the first sentance and it sounds extreamly messed up

Okay, sorry for my immaturity :p

If video games arnt toys, are the consoles?
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Toys a something you play with right? and you play video games, so they should be classified as toys.


@Melancholic: LOL, i was thinking the same thing.


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Hands down, legos. This is the greatest classic space set of all time... aside from maybe the explorian mothership but unfortunately I never got to own that one.



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Quote: "Toys a something you play with right? and you play video games, so they should be classified as toys."


Yeah but I mean, we have a whole forum for video games (and various 'Favourite video game' threads) - I think it makes more sense to stick to physical toys

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Edited - because when i had it explained to me that David R was now talking about something completely different than what he was trying to say in his first post rather than responding to the answer to his original post (wich he quoted) i see how (obviously) my post made no sense.

Silly me thinking that when people ask you about your own statement you'd reply with something relevant.

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Because you missed it mate

Hes saying that Video games shouldnt be used here since we have quite a few favourite game threads. So everything bar disks go, consoles as a whole seem to be okay.


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Oh, i see, i completely misunderstood what he was saying. I guess it's because his post makes no sense, if people want to post their favourite console or video game they had when they were growing up why moan about it? I guess it's just David R being David R.

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Quote: "if people want to post their favourite console or video game they had when they were growing up why moan about it?"


I'm not moaning - I just thought it would be cool to see actual (tangible/physical) toys in this thread considering the rest of the forum is for video games, you know?

Quote: "I guess it's just David R being David R."


Nice talking to you too

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Quote: "Edited - because when i had it explained to me that David R was now talking about something completely different than what he was trying to say in his first post rather than responding to the answer to his original post (wich he quoted) i see how (obviously) my post made no sense. "


Yeah, seems you've made quite the habit of blaming other people on your inability to read. Sneaky edits to slag other users off because you've misunderstood something = a bit out of order in my opinion.

That and the fact I've never even referenced your post or quoted you. I was replying to someone else. What are you on about? (and saying "Let's only talk about tangible toys" is pretty damn relevant to "Video games aren't toys!" as far as I'm concerned)

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You too, the unnecessary devil's advocate of the tgc forums.

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Quote: "I'm not moaning - I just thought it would be cool to see actual (tangible/physical) toys in this thread considering the rest of the forum is for video games, you know?"

I know what you mean when you put it that way.


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I still remember my dinosaur legos. They were the two best things in my childhood: Legos and Dinosaurs! They came together and BOW! Pure toy ownage.

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Quote: "Video games aren't toys!"


I was stupid enough at that age to think they were when I damaged the case to one of the games by boomeranging it across our garden, hitting our tree . The disc was alright though, because it was in our PS1 anyway xD.

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Quote: "I was stupid enough at that age to think they were when I damaged the case to one of the games by boomeranging it across our garden, hitting our tree . The disc was alright though, because it was in our PS1 anyway xD."

lol. Kids do all kinds of stuff. I did alk kinda stupid stuff as a kid...

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