The toy you were never: bought / given / allowed / saved up for / always wanted.

[petercooman]

Git 

Let's put it this way:

Wife makes a shopping list, teels me where it is and 5 minutes later i forget there even was one.

I take a miniature, put it down somewhere, 10 years later i can pinpoint its location to within 1 meter easily  

[get2grips]

Let's put it this way:

Wife makes a shopping list, teels me where it is and 5 minutes later i forget there even was one.

I take a miniature, put it down somewhere, 10 years later i can pinpoint its location to within 1 meter easily  

Guru 

[get2grips]

With my first real paycheque I bought a mini race Scalectrix, set it up in my classroom, and the three male me,bets of staff at school all suddenl had really important reasonsnnot to go to that staff meeting...

You could put a teabag in your room and I wouldn't go to a staff meeting to hear Gove's latest bollocks 

[Fenton]

With my first real paycheque I bought a mini race Scalectrix, set it up in my classroom, and the three male me,bets of staff at school all suddenl had really important reasonsnnot to go to that staff meeting...

About 15 years ago we decided to put everyones scaletrix together, so once everyone had been into their attics and outhouses,the  buying of a few more pieces of track and some new cars we set it all up ended up with a back straight of 25 feet long

[get2grips]

About 15 years ago we decided to put everyones scaletrix together, so once everyone had been into their attics and outhouses,the  buying of a few more pieces of track and some new cars we set it all up ended up with a back straight of 25 feet long

Bet they still came off on the bend 

[Fenton]

yup 

This was one of my faves growing up



I even got the plastic fort that came with the box

[get2grips]

I even got the plastic fort that came with the box

Yeah, I remember that    Cracking toy!

[HPFlashman]

I fullfilled most of my outstanding childhood wishes a couple of years ago when we went on hols in UK and quite by chance stood at a red light and saw the magic words "Hornsby Visitor Center" on a sign.

That was a quite costly but strangely fulfilling experience... 

[Ithoriel]

I even got the plastic fort that came with the box

Long since lost the gates and internal buildings but still have the fort itself.

[get2grips]

Don't know much about the scale: would it work with 10mm?

[Steve J]

Ah the Roman Fort. I also had the FN rifle and recently saw a pic of me and my bruvver holding them outside a Welsh Aunts house. From memory the end of the barrel snapped off rather easily .

[get2grips]

I love the phrase:

"Flexible Safety Bayonet"...oxymoron or what 

[Nosher]

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...

It was the summer of 78. All was well with the world. I was 10. My mates and me were playing Japs and Commando's around the twon centre of Scarborough at the start of the school holidays. It was a slow news day on a balmy day with my hometwon bathed in sunshine. It was so early in the School Holidays that most of the tourists had not yet arrived.

An eager (bored) young Media Guru from the Scarborough Evening Post gathered us boys together on the steps of the local Bingo Hall, less than 200m from my front door and Mum's place of work - Wright's the Butchers. Snapping away us boys posed in typical heroic stances armed with a variety of hand guns, machine guns, bows and arrows (Who brought that kid...?) and the much vaunted FN which Dad had recently bought me on return from one of his tours of duty with the Aldershot Concrete Company. Little did I know the pain that was about to be invoked after the snaps the young media guru appeared in that evenings Evening Post...

Returning home victorious from the bloodstained battlefields of Peasholm Park, the Battle of Scarborough Castle, the Assault on North Bay Beach and the last ditch stand of the Commando's at the Gaitey Bingo Hall, I was immediately sent to my room with no tea and had my FN confiscated. Grounded for a week my world came crashing down around my ears. Confused by my Mum's fury, I finally plucked up the courage to ask what I had done wrong - after all surely 5 minutes late home looking like a ragamuffin and with a ravishing appetite cant have been the cause of Mum's angst???

What followed was an hour long ear bashing about the level of disrepute I had brought upon the family. How the family couldn't show their faces in public and what would the neighbours think...

There on the front page of the news was our last ditch stand at the Bingo Hall. "Isn't that great though mum? I'm famous!" I then got a clip round the ear for being cheeky for my troubles! On closer inspection, my new jeans, Bought less than a week ago, were torn at both knees, there was a spurious looking stain around my groin area (which was the result of a very well aimed 'Water Grenade', my hair looked like I had been dragged through a hedge, and my face was covered in sugar/chocolate/icecream residue which when mixed with sand from the Assault on North Bay Beach was the final nail in my coffin

I'm going for significant damages Nik!

[Fenton]

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

[fsn]

I had a stick that looked like a Sten.