Lego that was just a pile of bricks instead of some complex kit with an instruction manual. Remember leaving mine too close to the electric fire and the whole lot melting into weird and wonderful shapes.
I didn’t sit there while it happened! Certainly smelt very strange afterwards though - the bricks, not me.
I remember my dad trying to get me into Mechano, ie the nuts and bolts **** that a 7 year old had to be some Isambard Kingdom Brunel type savant to make anything with. In terms of Lego, only the normal stuff was any good, the Duplo was patronising even for a 4 year old, and Lego Technic was **** with all the pneumatic pumps and crap.
And did people actually get Rubix Cubes for Xmas? It is/was the most ****y gift you could give a child, the chances of solving it by chance are 1 in 43 quintillion, so you're several trillion times more likely to win the lottery than solve a Rubix Cubes unaided. Learnt how to solve one a few years ago, and can do the bitch in under a minute now.
Anybody remember these from the 60's Bubble gum trading cards featuring horrific acts from 2nd World War and American Civil War. Amazing we grew up to be such well-balanced adults:
I used to have dozens of those boxes of minature plastic soldiers, covering all different eras and wars. Used to love those. Apart from when it took about an hour to set up a battle scene, then our dad would come in from work, accidentally trample all over them and then throw a handful in the fireplace in a rage because he hurt his feet.
Then of course it was all the Star Wars toys. Think I blew literally all of my pocket money on those for years. A few other random toys I recall having from back then were: - Stretch Armstrong. - Dr Who Tardis that made the Doctor magically 'disappear' and 'reappear'. - a toy boxing ring with 2 fighters (with spring loaded arms) that you would battle with a friend. - Bionic man action figure.
Me too. Used to have all the sets. Apparently you were meant to paint them up but I couldn't be arsed. They were all different coloured plastic anyway. Used to mix them up so I could have historically innaccurate battles - British and Russians against Germans and American Cavalry. Still have various scars on the bottom of my feet from treading on them.
Yeah, now let's see how these Vikings get on against the Japanese WWII infantry division. Meanwhile, Napoleon's army is under attack from a combined force of ancient Romans plus English commandos.
booooooooooo I can remember melting toy soldiers down for lead weights for fishing the vintage lead soldiers nowadays cost a fortune at auctions
