Toys You Wish You Still had

[Heedless Horseman]

Having noted a 'Castle' query no the forum... got me thinking.
I was 'Spoilt Rotten' as a kid... don't shoot me...
But in the 60s... when Westerns were all the rage...and toy figures... Britains / Timpo, cost pennies... or maybe less...

I had a Western Street... about 4ft long... commercially built / prepainted 'wood'' ... not bad , as I remember!
Ma also got a Whitley Bay shop man... Tthink his speciality was Bicycles!)... to build a whole Western Fort from plywood... all 'Saw cut'.. with 3 biuldings with hinged roofs... and again, about 4' square! All for an' little boy! Times were different, then... 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Used to have 4 short sections of hardboard road, still got one.

[Steve J]

Hmmm, off the top of my head:

- My Action Man in his original outfit circa 1969.
- My Airifx Afrika Korps and 8th Army in 1/32nd scale.
- My original White Dwarf figure bought back in the 1970's.
- My original D&D books and supplements from what is now called 1st Edition.
- My White Dwarf magazines, issues 1-7.

I'm sure there's more, but that'll do for now.

[Techno II]

Toys I wish I still had ?

Pro shot golf.....awesomely good fun...until you'd trodden on the polystyrene 'balls' , umpteen times, so they flew the equivalent of 500 yards.

All my old Subbuteo soccer teams.....and the cricket Subbuteo game.....The Subbuteo Rugby game was complete and utter pants.

I've still got a lot of the old board games from my childhood/youth......though I really wish I hadn't sold all my original metal Talisman figures.....Or the very original Chaos All-stars (wot I made and painted)....But then....what would I do with them ?  )

Like I've said umpteen times before....The nearest I ever get to gaming is taking on the computer at chess....and I can't get a decent level.
I either beat the poop out of that...It's so hopelessly stupid....or the tiniest little tweak (upwards).....and it beats the poop out of me.

Cheers - Phil.

[fsn]

As a kid I spent a lot of time in hospital. When my parents visited (maybe twice a week if I was lucky) they would bring me either one Timpo cavalryman or two infantryman. I had a wooden fort and a saloon and wagons too. 

[Ben Waterhouse]

My old Elastolin castle and knights, my old Airfix Waterloo farmhouse set

[Raider4]

Pretty much everything . . . /sigh.

But then I'd need a couple of 40' containers to store everything in. I already have a 'spare' bedroom full of crap I can't throw away, you know, 'just in case'.

Special mentions go to all the LEGO I lobbed out, plus my Scalextric and Hornby. Also all the comic books. And, as someone else said, all my original D&D/AD&D books & early Citadel miniatures, including a full run of the 'Imagine' magazine put out by TSR UK. My original board games. We've bought new versions of Monopoly & Cluedo for the kids - they're not the same. Particular fond memories of Haunted House.

I never had a Mamod steam engine - would love one now, but it would probably just sit on a shelf looking cool*.

* For some definition of 'cool'.

[steve_holmes_11]

As a kid I spent a lot of time in hospital. When my parents visited (maybe twice a week if I was lucky) they would bring me either one Timpo cavalryman or two infantryman. I had a wooden fort and a saloon and wagons too. 

That sounds wonderful.

I had a few Timpos. the first of my plastic toys to succumb to deplasiicisation (Drying out and crumbling).
I suppose it's the lead rot for plastics.

Several years back, a blogger form the USA recommended an auto (car) product designed to revitalise classic car dashboards.
He used it to soak his ageing plastics to save them from crumbly doom.

Perhaps the same rot will do away with single use plastics faster than we expect. I live in hope.

[Heedless Horseman]

Timpo plastics were still ok 50 years after... gave a bag to 'odd job man'... for 'grandkids' last year! THEN looked up prices on ebay!!!
They may have become less able to 'stress bend'... but definitely not disintegrated.

TOTALLY inaccessible parts of garage will still contain 'Victor!' comic annuals, Airfix / Mil Mod mags, Bellona Battlegrounds, various Toy guns and Dinky / Corgi  vehicles! Etc.!
Will probably still be there, when I'm not!
When someone eventually 'clears' house... hope they are interested in 'archaeology', sale and re-use rather than landfill.

[Westmarcher]

Looking back, although there was stuff my younger self wished I had but never got, I did quite well for toys, models, games and comics, etc. (I had the U.N.C.L.E. Mauser also - wonder how many they sold? - and the U.N.C.L.E. Luger with detachable silencer, arm stock and telescopic sight). But although I had some great stuff which I fondly remember, I don't really wish I still had them (except perhaps my Subbuteo pitch which would be useful today for wargaming - and possibly my plastic Airfix ACW soldiers).

But as a 'grown up,' I do regret selling off my 6mm collection (almost 20 years back) for only £210(!). 

There's also "Toys You Wish You Had" and in this category, I recall a board game one of my pals had called "Mine a Million" (aka The Business Game). This included little trucks and canal barges which you used to transport your cargo to a port for onward transmission to other ports in little ships. I wouldn't mind having that just to show my eldest daughter who still loves playing board games in her adulthood.

[Heedless Horseman]

Not being 'Sport' minded, my Subbuteo teams got relegated... but the football and rugby pitches were my games mats for many years!
Boards Games... which will still be somewhere...
'Monopoly' and 'Risk'... but early teen gang preferred 'Diplomacy'... less 'open' war... more 'treachery'!
When younger, 'Escape From Colditz' was a much enjoyed game. Reissued fairly recently... might be worth looking at as xmas prezzy?

REAL LOL!!! Forgotten about ...
My kiddy age plastic plastic Swords, Helmets and Armour will still be there... don't think they will fit! 'Bouncing' around on a 'Space Hopper', (long gone  !), with sword, helmet and breastplate!!! 
Have Cine to Video of little me... in full Battledress... with a pneumatic 'Sonic' rifle... still there... sniping from a stone abbuttment round the corner... still there too!
God... GETTING OLD!!! 

[Leon]

1. My Matchbox cars collection which I'd been assembling for over a decade, only to return from school one day and find that my mother had 'donated' the whole lot to the local nursery.  She claimed that I didn't play with them anymore so couldn't see the point in keeping them.

2. My original Magic cards, all 1st edition of the game.  There's about a 5% chance that they're hiding in a box of old stuff in my parent's loft but I'm not holding out much hope.

3. My original HeroQuest from the very early 90's, along with their first expansion pack as well.  I've no idea where this ended up.

[Heedless Horseman]

Matchbox Cars! Well, going off topic.. again...there was a Middle School palyground 'game', called  'Stock Car Smash Up', (Or Something!). 'Rules' were to knock other Matchbox cars out of the marked Netball semi-circle. Intent was... DESTRUCTION! 
I had an OLD Matchbox 'Wrecker Truck'... and it Did! 

[FierceKitty]

There was a stream running through my school grounds. Few "ships" ever made it to the finishing line when we played Poohsticks; shore-based artillery was a major component of our ruleset.

[Heedless Horseman]

Garden has a small 'stream'... many 'E Boat / MTB 'battles'... with clay clods!... but... 'tough' little boats, in those days! lol.