What did you play with as a child?

[reecejackox]

footballs an scooters

[Zizu]

Football … end of

I didn’t care for pretend play , toys , pantomimes or other kids


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[Alf]

Empty washing up liquid bottles filled up with water. You couldn't beat a good water fight during the summer six weeks holiday.

[Zizu]

Empty washing up liquid bottles filled up with water. You couldn't beat a good water fight during the summer six weeks holiday.


Maybe bits of card on your bike spokes to sound like a motor bike ?


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[Zizu]

I remember the times when the only thing I had to worry about was how to get our football from under the neighbours car when playing footie in the street !!


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[Mystic Mock]

Football
RoboSapien
Plushie Cats & Dog Toys
Toys in general
Video Games (if that counts)
Connect4
Chess (although I was bang average)

[Crimson Dynamo]

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But instead of trying to hit the steel balls against the puck and score a goal I used to set up all my wee plastic toy soldiers on the board and then execute them all - the game was who ( and what country) survived ( I had German, SOuth African, Russian and British soldiers, Airfix)

[Cherie]

Dolls, teddies, bike, guns :laugh:

[bots]

my secret sam case

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[Cherie]

my secret sam case

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:joker: very nice kit

[AnnieK]

Skipping ropes
Elastics
Two balls against the wall
Footie

We spent most times playing out...eating with our coats on so we could get back out as quickly as possible

Agree with alf, nothing better than a water fight with washing up bottles in summer

Potato and cap guns etc

God I am so old.....buy they were the best times

[Zizu]

Skipping ropes
Elastics
Two balls against the wall
Footie

We spent most times playing out...eating with our coats on so we could get back out as quickly as possible

Agree with alf, nothing better than a water fight with washing up bottles in summer

Potato and cap guns etc

God I am so old.....buy they were the best times


Yeah. When it was safe to play out and not have to worry about anything .. very different today sadly

I feel genuinely sorry for the youngsters growing up nowadays


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[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

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Used to love this

[Kazanne]

Proper girly me,lol,Barbie House and dolls,Cabbage Patch dolls still have one called Nicolette with her certificate,lol,,Fashion House, Lego and loved anything arty

[thesheriff443]

I played with dirt and mud

[Zizu]

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Used to love this


Oh yeah .. guess I did have .177 air pistols / rifles plus my treasured Webley .22 pistol !!


Whyyyy did I sell that beautiful thing !!!!!


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[Zizu]

I played with dirt and mud


We stuck lolly sticks into melting tar on hot , sunny days ..


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[rusticgal]

Tiny Tears and Sindy....:laugh:


....and I loved my Roller Skates.

[Mystic Mock]

I just remembered that I used to love Table Football/Soccer.

Also still to this day I love playing Air Hockey at the Arcade.

[Zizu]

I just remembered that I used to love Table Football/Soccer.

Also still to this day I love playing Air Hockey at the Arcade.


I used to love ‘collecting’ Subbuteo teams but never played the game itself .

Rather play proper footie outside


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[Crimson Dynamo]

the amount of hours me and my brother spent playing this!

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[Alf]

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[Alf]

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[Kazanne]

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My brother had one of these,they are worth a fair bit now Alf in good condition and in box.

[Crimson Dynamo]

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I got that in 1977 as i recall, one of my best ever Chrimbo gifts

[AnnieK]

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My brother had this

[Crimson Dynamo]

My brother had one of these,they are worth a fair bit now Alf in good condition and in box.

An Evel Knievel 1973 Stunt Cycle is worth around £1000 at mo

[Beso]

Rugby ball, hated subuteo, to much pain on the fingers for my liking.

Slinky.
Toy soldiers I positioned all the way up the stairs then rolling marbles down at them one by one until every last soldier was knocked down. I had about 50 marbles but I still had to creep down the stairs avoiding rhebremaining soldiers as I cleared the dead ones away before picking up my marbles and creeping back up the stairs to get the rest of them.

I also used to throw a tennis ball as hard as I could at the stairs, as I played goalie at the bottom saving the rebound. Had a list of all the goalies in the english l 1st division league at the time..joe Corrigan, Clemence, shilton, to name but a few. Great times for kids with an imagination of thier own.

[user104658]

Toy soldiers I positioned all the way up the stairs then rolling marbles down at them one by one until every last soldier was knocked down. I had about 50 marbles but I still had to creep down the stairs avoiding rhebremaining soldiers as I cleared the dead ones away before picking up my marbles and creeping back up the stairs to get the rest of them.



:omgno::omgno::omgno::worry::worry:

[Beso]

:omgno::omgno::omgno::worry::worry:


Can you understand my disappointment in you now.:pat:

[Mystic Mock]

I used to love ‘collecting’ Subbuteo teams but never played the game itself .

Rather play proper footie outside


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Subbuteo is a good game as well.

And obviously the real thing can be fun too, even though I play worse than a Conference player.:joker:

[jet]

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I got this for a birthday and still have it stashed away somewhere. It was one of my fave toys. It no longer works but I can't part with it. :hee:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Subbuteo is a good game as well.

And obviously the real thing can be fun too, even though I play worse than a Conference player.:joker:

I had Subbuteo but never actually played football. I used the figures as rival gangs and had fights with them on an old felt cards table. I used knives and forks as streets

[bots]

I forgot meccano .... that got a lot of attention when i was a lad

[Zizu]

I forgot meccano .... that got a lot of attention when i was a lad


My dad was an engineer so of course I was given a Meccano set .. I had zero interest plus the screws were far too small and fiddly … anyways I just wanted to be out playing football.

I recall getting a Chemistry set presumably as I wasn’t bothered about normal toys or games .. but I used to mix all the chemicals together till there was nothing left - just made loads of foul smelling concoctions


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[Crimson Dynamo]

My dad was an engineer so of course I was given a Meccano set .. I had zero interest plus the screws were far too small and fiddly … anyways I just wanted to be out playing football.

I recall getting a Chemistry set presumably as I wasn’t bothered about normal toys or games .. but I used to mix all the chemicals together till there was nothing left - just made loads of foul smelling concoctions


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i ruined my mum's sheepskin rug with my chemistry set, now that was a huge drama :worry:

[Zizu]

i ruined my mum's sheepskin rug with my chemistry set, now that was a huge drama :worry:


I recall spilling some Vimto onto on a wooden table top … seconds later it had taken all the varnish off !!

My mum went crazy and said look what that stuff is doing to your insides !!

Never had it after that and we always had Ribena instead ..


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[AnnieK]

i ruined my mum's sheepskin rug with my chemistry set, now that was a huge drama :worry:

I ruined a really expensive silk blouse of my mums by chucking it on top of a marker pen that ran all over it,then I cut the offending blouse up and hid it in the bottom of my wardrobe and feigned innocence when she asked me if I'd seen it.

Little did I know months later (after I'd long forgotten about the incident) mum would find the remnants in my wardrobe (I had fully intended in moving scene of crime into my brothers room but forgot). That was a fun homecoming from school :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Mystic Mock]

I had Subbuteo but never actually played football. I used the figures as rival gangs and had fights with them on an old felt cards table. I used knives and forks as streets

A very creative idea.