Toys of your youth

Most of the kids in my school had one of these:

I had to make do with:

If it's good enough for Richard Gere it's good enough for you, young lady!

Win.

Now Christmas is coming and toys are on my horizon for my 6 year old. However, they don't (as many things do) seem as good as they once did. For example, the Nerf gun is good fun, but its soft foam dart is poor when compared the lethal fire power of the sekiden gun and it's plastic pellets. Don't get me started on Action Man...,

Sekidens - ah, now there was a fine pistol!

yes!

I also had a whole variety of these from when my brother was a kid.

Still got our Screwball Scramble at my parents somewhere

Still got tonnes of Starcom too! Loved this stuff

Loved that little fighter.

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If this is turning into 'boy soldier' thread then.

I had the Diablo, superior in every way.

I used to melt lead down and drop it into the underside of the cable cutter part.

That makes the most awesome projectile, and as it is always the same size/weight, you could really work your aim up to a very good level.

We played that too! Lobbing darts at each other was pretty popular too. My mate accidentally stuck one in his brother's head. We really had to pull to get the fucker out.

These were also incredibly ace:

Best toy I ever had.

And these! worst trigger action ever! squeeze....nothing, squeeeeeeeze...nothing........, squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze - action! all or nothing!

We played that too! Lobbing darts at each other was pretty popular too. My mate accidentally stuck one in his brother's head. We really had to pull to get the fucker out.

These were also incredibly ace:

Best toy I ever had.

My parents didn't want me to have this exact "toy". Thankfully my nan thought different and I managed to "pursuade" her to buy me one.

So much fun!

Loved that little fighter.

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Is that a GAT gun? My mate had one but we were teens by then, absolutely terrified of it, the darks and the pellets absolutely killed and he couldn't be trusted with it

He later upgraded to a G10, and now lives in California and owns a couple of real handguns. And a crossbow!

This is such a boy thread. I bet you all had Barbies and Care Bears but just wont 'fess up.

Cindy and My Little Pony actch

Didn't you just Grand parents or Uncles who knew what children really wanted and needed in life.

Absolutely.

My dad gave me a nice little lesson on what not to do with it. I reckon I was 12 when my nan gave it to me.Mum was livid. I used to shoot one of the neighbours garage doors with the lead pellets until he asked my dad if I his son had an air rifle. I guess it wasn't a good idea shooting out of my bedroom window instead of doing my homework.

I had a G10 BB gun - awesome!

That looks like a real gun. I once bought a replica Browning BDA380 to fire fireworks cartridges with. Again, parents were not impressed and had to hand it back to the person I bought it from.

#naiveteenager

Spoilt gits.

I only got the oval scalextric, so shit.

Was never allowed guns either, woe is me