What was your first or favourite toy?

[michael 118]

I just finished watching that old toy program with James May, and i was just wondering what toy you all first remember first playing with, or indeed your favourite childhood toy

 

[floppybootstomp]

Oh come on, if I answer this I in trouble, this a family forum....

 

[arbour]

Could have been a tonka toy
Or
Action Man.
First one i got was the spaceman
And yes the red devil paratrooper never did work properly

 

[floppybootstomp]

Oh all right, serious, it was probably a soft toy, dog, teddy bear or something, but I can't remember.

First toys I can remember were a big blue metal toy car and a big red metal toy crane. Probably both, by today's standards, health hazards, both covered in lead paint and with moving parts that trapped tiny fingers.

But hey, I still alive, I still got all my digits and I still sane, well, sortta

 

[michael 118]

Oh all right, serious, it was probably a soft toy, dog, teddy bear or something, but I can't remember.

What about train sets?

 

[floppybootstomp]

Train sets came later.

They were either Hornby or Triang.

Remember getting a train set one Christmas, musta costa fortune, Triang Continetal Railway set, one silver Swiss Locomotive/Engine and two silver coaches, one with a 'cockpit' style viewing gallery on the roof.

12 volt DC transformer to power, used to play with it for hours.

My Mum never worked, my old man weren't that well paid, yet they got me and my sister this incredible stuff.

It's maybe taken me this long to apreciate that.

Oh, later, lots of other things, mostly airfix kits, soldiers and stuff

 

[Quadophile]

At six months (1959) sitting on the toy

 

[michael 118]

Aw arent you a lil sweet thing Quads

 

[floppybootstomp]

Hey Anis, cheer up, ya grumpy git

Nice pic

I gotta similar one from Brighton Pier, funnily enough, me and me dad - dad smiling, me looking none too happy

 

[Rush]

Handsome dad !

By Quad

At six months (1959) sitting on the toy

Now we know where your good looks came from

 

[Quadophile]

Yet another toy I am sitting on circa 1962 playing the harmonica

 

[michael 118]

Looks like your eating it Anis

 

[michael 118]

Oh my dad has the old trains sets, he has 'Nelly' and 'Britannia' amongst some others. He thinks they are worth something, but i doubt it!

 

[Quadophile]

Looks like your eating it Anis

That is why I ended up being an audiophile instead of a musician

 

[itsme]

We were so poor my first toy was Ummmmmmmmm.....

A doll Yes but a china one! not what your all thinking that came later

 

[Kiwi2022]

Hey, a girl's gotta have some secrets!

 

[itsme]

Hey, a girl's gotta have some secrets!

Dis will do