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Wish They Did This When I Was A Kid Thread


jay dh
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i came across a Freester 24V Electronic Car and it got me thinking. there are so many things kids have now, i wish were around when i was a kid

how cool is this little car (tad pricey tho)- http://www.agameshop.co.uk/ishop/992/shopscr1025.html

i did love my ketticar (sp) tho

are there things around now that you wish were around when you were a kid?

Jay

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A lot of the stuff kids nowadays have IS stuff we had!

My Little Pony

Furby

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles

Tamagotchi

I had all of the above and I cant believe it's all coming back! :thumbsup:

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tamagotchi is back?

i knew there were better versions of it now but didnt know that name was still around

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I honestly can't think of anything around now that I wish I could have as a kid.

I really believe that some kids toys are getting more and more ridiculous. Where can they use their imagination and creativity? It's all delivered on a plate for the instant food, TV and PlayStation generation. I know people were probably saying the same things in the 80's... but popular games/toys included Connect-4, Guess Who, Mr Pop, Etch a Sketch, Transformers, Rubix Cube and the like which encouraged a thought process.

Kids toys are all too commercial, image conscious and expensive these days.

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I honestly can't think of anything around now that I wish I could have as a kid.

I really believe that some kids toys are getting more and more ridiculous. Where can they use their imagination and creativity? It's all delivered on a plate for the instant food, TV and PlayStation generation. I know people were probably saying the same things in the 80's... but popular games/toys included Connect-4, Guess Who, Mr Pop, Etch a Sketch, Transformers, Rubix Cube and the like which encouraged a thought process.

Kids toys are all too commercial, image conscious and expensive these days.

couldnt agree more! :thumbsup:

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How about putting this the other way around.. are there things that were around when you were a kid, that you wish were around now.

Remember the long piece of string.. it had 2 handles at either end.. and a plastic oval shaped ball on the string.. you pulled the 2 handles apart on your end and the ball shot down to the other end of the string.. then your friend sent it back.. hours of fun.

I found a slightly different version of this a while ago.. same thing but it was a sponge ball that you soacked with water and sent to your friend.

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Kids toys are all too commercial, image conscious and expensive these days.

Too true!

Luckily Lucys still at the age where some of her favourite toys only costed about £3 :lol::thumbsup:

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I used to spend most of my time a sa kid makind things (usually toy cars, go karts, and dens) out of bits of wood and things I could find.... I useed to always take things apart to see how they worked, and without fail get them back together and working again!!!

The only realy toy I played with was LEgo and later Lego technic... which I learnt even more from, then I moved onto the DIY radio controled cars, then the petrol RC cars....

Changing a headgasket used to be a five minute job :(

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Good Point Karma...........Car engines were much more straight forward when I was a kid. No computer, basic Electronics...........fixable !

They don't even look like engines now !

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has anyone seen those kids bikes that are like lo-rider motorbikes?

they have full on wide tyres like a motorbike, and lo-rider handle bars! saw a kid on one the other day and thought i wish ide had one!

also well wanted night vision goggles as a kid!

(although to be honest, i still well want some! :lol: )

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Lego :yes: and anything car related, used to be a little shop in Bridlington, used to go there with my Gran and Grandad to the caravan and they sold pukka Siku toys

http://www.sikudirect.com/

expensive but awesome scale models, always wanted a massive mobile crane they did but it was worth a fortune!

always used to get one on holiday and could never decide which one i wanted :lol:

would love to have them all again though, as even though they were pricey they got 'played' with ;)

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always played with toy cars lego(an technic), mecahno (sp), and then got into hornby trains, oh and ive always collected cars used to get a model every time i went on holiday got a fair few days gone model and alot of 1.18 scale burago ones, got the mclaren F1 when it first came about i was so chuffed and my dad took alot of persuading to buy it me at 35 quid when i was only about 10

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ooh had some proper HPI RC cars! awesome fun and proper down to the last nitty gritty, especially the Nitro engined ones!

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got the mclaren F1 when it first came about i was so chuffed and my dad took alot of persuading to buy it me at 35 quid when i was only about 10

sweet ive got the orange mclaren F1 XP1LM back in my room at home, thats the coolest f1 ever!

oh yeah forgot how sweet lego was.... :D

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I quite like the idea of those kiddy food makers you can buy, like a smaller safer version of the things adult use..I know there is a candy floss maker amongst other things..I would've loved that.

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