#FourChildhoodToys I wish I kept...

These would be my next 4...

I REALLY wanted this as a kid...

I had hundreds of these... would spend HOURS standing them up as opposing armies - only to knock them down in a minute’s blitz...

The other thing I wanted as a kid... this!

And this...

Man alive... I wanted this soooooo much!

Oh boy, this is a rabbit-hole of memories... I loved this toy! Wish I kept it!

Jesus-H-Christ! I had 2 of these! I loved putting my soldiers on the ‘closed’ top and flipping them to reveal the missile... (just seen the price of it too... )

I also had this, which was waaay more disappointing than it looks...

Loved this - so many cool sound effects!

I had all of these... why did I not keep them!!!

Speaking of ‘disappointing’ Kenner sets... I hated this... the only good thing was sinking all the figures you didn’t like into the foam ‘swamp’...

Just been reminded of these 2! I had both and would fire the plastic disks at anything that moved!

Of all my Star Wars figures... this was, without doubt, my favourite...

Holy smoke! I had this!

This was also a very cool ship - never had the tie fighter, but loved the way the ‘wings’ could fall off in combat!

I always felt slight underwhelmed by the ‘Battle Damaged’ X-wing for some reason...

But this, this was waaaay more satisfactory! Plus you could store a ton of figures inside in a hurry!

I loved the way this bike ‘blew up’... and the little flaps on the back...

Away from Star Wars - this was played on repeat... I loved this game!

Hated these, had quite a few but none of them really made any sense...

Before Star Wars, I was big into dinosaurs, I had a load of these - my fave was the stegosaurus...

My parents tried to channel my inner engineer with this... all I remember is cutting my fingers...

I didn’t have Scaletric when I was kid, but I did have this!

Bike-wise, I had two growing up: the cool-looking Boxer (which I LOVED), and the uncool BMX wannabe, Grifter XL which weighed more than a chieftain tank...

Man... just remembered THIS! I loved that Batmobile with the missiles and flick-out blade on the front...

Alright, watches... here’s what I had through my childhood...

Outdoors, and ‘this’ was what I was throwing into the air and watching drift into the neighbours tree... and if it wasn’t that, then I was recreating dogfights with bits of coloured polystyrene and a plastic propeller...

A few other SW things I had back in the day...

Never had this - but wanted it BAAAAD!

My nextdoor neighbour had this, I loved playing with it purely for the tree closing/opening mechanism!

Played a lot of this back in the day...

This still gives me nightmares...

Always wanted this...

However, burn this with fire...

Continuing in the ‘Give-your-grandparents-a heart-attack-on-Christmas-Day’ look at games... here’s a b*stard game to chill the blood...

I had this! Can’t remember if it was any good tho...

Remembered I had this...

I had this... why did I get rid of it? WHY?!

Some more RPGs, now just a distant memory...

Always miffed this never had any sound effects...

I was too old for this as a kid... but also, as an older kid, I would stare at it with envy knowing I would play the sh*t out of it, if I did have it...

Though these were all the rage, mine were yellow and blue... it was the 80's which meant clashing colours were a prerequisite...

As a kid, I'd pour over a toy catalogue looking for stuff I knew I'd never get... things like this were the stuff of dreams...