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My friends bought me a much wanted Mr Frosty for my birthday a few years ago. I unashamedly blubbed when I unwrapped it :lol: I can't imagine the state I'd be in if someone bought me a Speak and Spell :lol:

My favourite toys included the Weebles Tree House, Rainbow Brite, My Little Ponies and my ZX Spectrum (could've played Dizzy til the cows came home). I also loved my Cindy house, stables, horses and cart. I cannot understand why my parents wouldn't allow me to have real straw in the stables :huh:
 
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My Little Ponies were my favourite, remember Bow Tie, Applejack and Cotton Candy?I also liked my weebles, shuffly farm, Cindy (but not Barbie), my playvillage amongst others. I never did get the Cindy stables but I had a brown horse named Star and a grey whose name now escapes me. I used to race them up and down the living room until one day the worst happened....galloping too hard, the greys leg snapped off below the knee. Superglue didn't work so it had to be fixed back on with sellotape, with a tasteful tissue bandage to hide the tape.
 
I had tons of numbers 100 and 99. Simple things please simple minds :lol: I think I still have a load of Finger Frights at my mothers. I will have to have a look for them.
 
The good old days of the ZX spectrum Griffin,now that brings back memories,all those wonderful colour clashes!
The Magic Knight games (Spellbound,Stormbringer etc...),Dizzy, a various assortment of football managements games (all the horse racing ones were pretty naff to be honest).
Split Personalities,Motos and Milk Race (did anyone ever finish that race) were faves of mine.
U can still play a lot of the games through the following site.

World of Spectrum

I used to enjoy Test Match,a good fun game.
I think the batsman went along a similar line to Tryptych's horse in the send he had many repairs done to him over the years after getting broken.
 
Originally posted by Arkwright@Nov 16 2005, 08:47 PM
The good old days of the ZX spectrum Griffin,now that brings back memories,all those wonderful colour clashes!
The Magic Knight games (Spellbound,Stormbringer etc...),Dizzy, a various assortment of football managements games (all the horse racing ones were pretty naff to be honest).
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How can you say such a thing! I loved playing Grand National on mine! Grittar, Greasepaint, West Tip, Drumlargen :lol: It was fantastic if you had the patience for it, which none of my cousins or brother did and I could easily win it every time.
 
I had a game called They're Off - it consisted of 4 LPs to represent four races and the records all started the same but had eight different endings as the commentaries changed halfway through . Noel Whitcomb of Daily Mirror Punters Club fame did the commentaries . You had stake money and had to bet a certain amount - problem was I got to know the commentaries so well as soon as for example Noel would say " Admiral's Road is getting the better of Perfect Scouse " I would know which horse would win well before the end - which rather spoiled it for anyone else .
 
I used to have horses that were jointed at knee, hock, fetlock etc so you could make them jump, rear etc. (big improvement on Sindy's horse) Also had the riders (Anna & Peter, I think they were called) and all the accessories. I was totally obsessed! I used to build stables, make New Zealand rugs, hold show jumping classes.

I also kept coloured pet mice (got to about 70 at one stage) and most of them were named after racehorses - Grundy, Wollow, Meld, Orange Bay, Tachypous, Anaglogs Daughter, I'm a Driver, Buckskin etc.
 
Originally posted by Griffin@Nov 16 2005, 09:57 PM
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My friends bought me a much wanted Mr Frosty for my birthday a few years ago. I unashamedly blubbed when I unwrapped it :lol: I can't imagine the state I'd be in if someone bought me a Speak and Spell :lol:

My favourite toys included the Weebles Tree House, Rainbow Brite, My Little Ponies and my ZX Spectrum (could've played Dizzy til the cows came home). I also loved my Cindy house, stables, horses and cart. I cannot understand why my parents wouldn't allow me to have real straw in the stables :huh:
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Ah - Mr Frosty!!!!! My favourite - I was a deprived child didn't have one... :cry: My best mate did though & I used to get into trouble for putting too much of the squash cordial in with my ice... :shy: :lol:

Weebles were great too, I had a load of My Little Ponies too (including Cotton Candy!!! :lol: ). One of my favourite toys was my Sindy dapple grey horse & it's gig until my bloody brother sat in the gig & broke it - naturally I then hurled his favourite helicopter down the stairs & knackered it in return - boy, did I get a walloping for that!! :lol:

As for Fuzzy Felt, Buckaroo, Guess Who?, Wade figurines - they were great! Haven't got past Buckaroo or Magic Robot yet (how cool was that - how DID it work??!!) but I'm guessing Connect 4 is there somewhere, along with my favourite game ever - Operation.
 
I remember the game Ardross is on about. Think it was a friend who had it, but it was what got us all involved in our love for racing... :D
 
My parents had very little money to spend on us when we were kids (there are 4 of us) so we had a christmas stocking each (that included a tangerine and chocolate money) and our main present was normally something to wear. We normally had money from relations.... which I recall lending to my Dad. :nerd:

I did love singing as a child so my Dad gave me a second hand tape recorder once.... :blink:
 
My worst ever Christmas present was a (broken) bar of soap in the shape of a deep sea diver given by an uncle. My elder brother (his godchild) got a big airoplane with an engine and flashing lights. I was so jealous it spoilt the whole Christmas. It was the same every year, he used to give my brother a big present and me some sort of binable crap, but that was the worst ever.

The best present I ever got was the Scalelectrix(sp?). I got it for my own son a couple of years ago and it wasn't nearly as good - the track is much flimsier than it used to be, and keeps bending, making the cars go off the tracks.
 
...........don't forget the nuts.......didn't use to like nuts as a child used to swap them for my sister's tangerine...................ahhhhhhhh the good old days!!
 
Originally posted by simmo+Nov 17 2005, 11:21 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (simmo @ Nov 17 2005, 11:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-BrianH@Nov 16 2005, 08:31 PM
I got an apple and a tangerine once...
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An apple and a tangerine, you were lucky....... [/b][/quote]
I was once told Santa brought me present but burglars came and stole it just after he left...
 
Originally posted by simmo+Nov 17 2005, 11:21 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (simmo @ Nov 17 2005, 11:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-BrianH@Nov 16 2005, 08:31 PM
I got an apple and a tangerine once...
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An apple and a tangerine, you were lucky....... [/b][/quote]
Fairly lucky, they were between the seven of us though...
 
Originally posted by BrianH+Nov 17 2005, 12:47 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (BrianH @ Nov 17 2005, 12:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by simmo@Nov 17 2005, 11:21 AM
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@Nov 16 2005, 08:31 PM
I got an apple and a tangerine once...
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An apple and a tangerine, you were lucky.......
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Fairly lucky, they were between the seven of us though... [/b][/quote]
No you was really lucky there was 42 of us and we got a piece of used coal between the lot of us.
 
My two all-time best pressies were Super Soccer (7-a-side magnetic football and if I may say so myself I was quite brilliant at it) and Escalado.

I wanted Scalectrix but was always told it was too expensive.
 
Scalextric was infuriating - you were always 1 piece of track away from being able to make the best circuit ever.
 
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