Quote from: Fenton on 08 September 2013, 09:20:08 AM
Having some skill and experience in legal matters I think you should be aiming for damages in and around   3 sherbet dips, and packet of half eaten spangles ( raspberry flavour) and maybe the defendant not being allowed to play with his TCR set  for a week

Morning Fenton.

If you are acting on behalf of Mr H, I dont much fancy Sherbet Dips I am however partial to Curly Wurly, Space Dust and Cresta Pop!

Out of interest my wife's Grandfather was the man behind the advertising campaign for Space Dust and Jolly Green Giant Sweetcorn

Cresta Pop and Space dust...part of your 5 a day ( well mine anyway when I was a kid)

I will see what I can do on the Curly Wurly front for you

Curly Wurlys = god fodder.
The barman at our collage bar got a box in as a laugh whilst I worked there, sold the lot in five minutes! Always on a constant restock since.
They were 18p in 1992, then they took the crisp joke off, and the price dropped to 15p!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 September 2013, 11:50:27 AM
Curly Wurlys = god fodder.
The barman at our collage bar got a box in as a laugh whilst I worked there, sold the lot in five minutes! Always on a constant restock since.
They were 18p in 1992, then they took the crisp joke off, and the price dropped to 15p!

They used to be bigger and more crumbly 

I told Mrs Techno about this thread, and asked......
"What was your 'toy' that you always wanted ?"
"Oh.....A pony." Was the reply.

I ask you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury to note the use of the word 'A'.
So how come we've got four of the little 'boggers'......And four more of the somewhat larger variety !
Cheers - Phil.

See...childhood deprivation makes for obsession in later life.   

Incidentally, a pony is not a toy.  What plastic crap did Mrs Techno want?   

Please don't say decapitated woman's make up head 

Quote from: Nosher on 08 September 2013, 09:14:37 AM
I have this morning instructed my lawyers to begin to build the case against Mr N Harwood Esq. for opening personal skeletons in closets and invoking childhood memories best forgotten. I will be claiming for substancial damages brought about by this most heinous of crimes...

I'm going for significant damages Nik!

Nosher mate, your solicitor seems to be even slower than the ones 'progressing' my house sale...

Quote from: nikharwood on 13 September 2013, 09:11:38 PM
Nosher mate, your solicitor seems to be even slower than the ones 'progressing' my house sale...

I'm paid by the hour

 

Quote from: Fenton on 13 September 2013, 09:14:44 PM
I'm paid by the hour

Quote from: nikharwood on 13 September 2013, 09:11:38 PM
Nosher mate, your solicitor seems to be even slower than the ones 'progressing' my house sale...

Yep, been there. Put in an offer on the house in August, finally moved in at the end of November. There's got to be an easier way... 

All,
    I kinda can't believe this one hasn't been posted already, or maybe all you lucky bastards had one.  But my toy that got away is right here:

http://webdebris.com/70s/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/marx_battleground_play_set.jpg

It was 1979 or 1980, and a friend had one.  We lived on an Air Force base and the BX had them for about $40, and I begged and begged and begged, but never got one.  Via the friend that had one, I was able to trade stuff (usually marbles) for pieces, and ended up with some trees and some barbed wire, some German troops, some US troops, the US halftrack, LCVP, and jeep (with driver). 

I look back and I believe that's where it all started...

Jack

Quote from: bigjackmac on 15 September 2013, 02:03:17 AM
All,
    I kinda can't believe this one hasn't been posted already, or maybe all you lucky bastards had one.  But my toy that got away is right here:

http://webdebris.com/70s/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/marx_battleground_play_set.jpg

It was 1979 or 1980, and a friend had one.  We lived on an Air Force base and the BX had them for about $40, and I begged and begged and begged, but never got one.  Via the friend that had one, I was able to trade stuff (usually marbles) for pieces, and ended up with some trees and some barbed wire, some German troops, some US troops, the US halftrack, LCVP, and jeep (with driver). 

I look back and I believe that's where it all started...

Jack

Not that exact one but LOTS that were similar 

Happy days

I asked for something nice in the stocking, but apparent 'being married' means I can't have those any more   

Quote from: Fenton on 07 September 2013, 06:32:14 PM
Also this

I had Crossfire, it was actually pretty good :-)

For me, it was this:

It could be an aircraft, a helicopter, or ... something else, I can't remember what. But it was three toys in one!

I did have an Action Man tank though. I didn't know it at the time, but it was a Scorpion:


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Quote from: Russell Phillips on 15 September 2013, 07:13:23 AM
I did have an Action Man tank though. I didn't know it at the time, but it was a Scorpion:

I had the Armoured car



and the radio



With the big camp commander.

The armoured car sucked because it wasn't a tank  

The radio was brilliant though: you inserted the three coloured discs and they played suitable war messages:

"FSN to base...where is the armour."
"Base to FSN...jog on..."  

Quote from: get2grips on 15 September 2013, 07:27:15 AM
and the radio



With the big camp commander.

The radio was brilliant though: you inserted the three coloured discs and they played suitable war messages:

"FSN to base...where is the armour."
"Base to FSN...jog on..."  

I'd forgotten about the radio. I shouldn't have - he was my first Action Man. I could never work out what he was saying, though.

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I heard that they used the announcer from King's Cross Station to do the voice overs for those.
Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: Techno on 15 September 2013, 08:01:49 AM
I heard that they used the announcer from King's Cross Station to do the voice overs for those.
Cheers - Phil.

Well, you learn something every day: can't see that one ever coming up at the pub quiz though 

Action man- stood in weird poses to get him to balance, holding a rifle in a pose that would be luck to hit a barn from the inside.  Who had 'Real Gripping Hands' that broke at the knuckle?  Who else pulled the feet off trying to remove his boots?  And I bet you all had clothes for him knitted by your nan!

didnt have gripping hands...yeah my mum knitted stuff for him...also took him ages to dry out once he had been scuba diving in the bath...My action man was one of the original GI Joe's that my aunt set from the states for my brother about 5 years before action man was released in the UK