Toys of your youth

Remember my sister having these- Acorn Green-

Lame he-man but not as lame as---

Wish I still have my Magic Deck. Green & White.

Also played the Star Wars CCG & TCG (still have decks of those). Would be well up for a game.

My friend and I went halves on a Space Hulk boxed set (the recent re-issue).

And I recently bought the new X-Wing boardgame, which is ace.

Anyway, meet you in the board games thread for a game soon.

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I played a couple of 40k games with a pal, bit slow for me, obsessed with the books now though, the world is immense, and bleak.

Can you recommend any of the books? (dredge)

Awesome... reminded me of Golden Axe.Always the Dwarf.

The only way I could play this ^

Was via this:

Because I had this:

voilà:

This addition was amazing:

So many hours lost playing:

Kid next door to me had this.

& probably an awful lot of these.

Gobots go [strike]batty[/strike] botty!!!!!! - Timmy Mallet

South beers 2nd Brithday?

This, too. I thought at the time LEGO had struck a very good balance between using simply LEGO bricks and additional specialist parts. Before then, it was all a bit too bricky for my taste and afterwards the non-bricky bits started to completely overwhelm the bricks. I'm well aware that I may just be holding this opinion because it was around when I was most receptive to it, but some friends also had lots of older and newer LEGO, and somehow I thought this was just about the best range.

this

Just for Oliver. Some more potential disasters in Legoland.

:-)

For years I've been trying to explain to opticians the blue tint/hue I want in my lenses...now I have the visualisation.

But with 6 pegs nailed around a piece of 2 -b-4, and a peg 'hinge' threaded through the elastic for better hold, and moar pain.

There was an extremely similar weapon made by the kids on my neighbourhood. It did not shoot rubber bands, but it did use rubber bands and a clothes peg. I cant remember the details but it was used to fir small projectiles of some sort.

Anyone remember hercules bangers?

They were little sticks of exploding joy.

On those peg guns, we used to use the spring from a peg and clipped it to the band, that made it awesome.
Also the peg would hold it nice and firm and allow for a longer barrel, and thus, a more powerful shot.

Glorious days.

Man, last weekend I was faced with the entire compendium of the toys of my youth when I was obliged to go through all my stuff in the parental attic like Star Wars, Subbuteo, Airfix, Tonka, Action Man vehicles, you name it. I have no idea where I’m going to put all this stuff as clearly I can’t possibly part with it. On the other hand, there could be some Turner prize material in an Airfix plane sculpture. I understand they’ll go for anything.

http://i.imgur.com/4JmcU08l.jpg

Ah, I remember seeing that. Never got to play it though. So deprived, probably. Was it any good?

Yo! Children of the 90s
Remember these?

Oh, they were amazing. When they worked.

Had great fun for about a week. Then they broke and it was straight back in the box. Still made great accessories for a pew-pew-pew match

There was an extremely similar weapon made by the kids on my neighbourhood. It did not shoot rubber bands, but it did use rubber bands and a clothes peg. I cant remember the details but it was used to fir small projectiles of some sort.

We made our own dart guns too. Wasnt powerful enough for proper darts. So you had to use a needle, some split bamboo, and the back end of a dart.

If you got the weight right, they would pierce skin effectivly.

[shudders]

I have rediscovered Lego in a big way courtesy of my three year old son, The Lego the kids get these days pisses all over the basic blocks I got when I was a wee man!