Buying back your childhood toys?
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There is no point in denying it. I am using the fact that I have a young child, as an excuse to buy back some of my childhood toys.
Some toys have obviously improved due to the advancement of cheap tech: Decent radio controlled cars and other vehicles for as little as £10, electronic games, all that sort of stuff. But a great deal of modern toys are just cheap, s
tty, plastic landfill. Even stuff made from metal seems to be cheap garbage. It is a race to the bottom to sell parents as much crap as possible just because they can make it cheap.
Armed with these excuses, I have begun to buy some of my old stuff back as I am convinced that it is better than what you can buy today.
So far, this includes:
Micro Machines - Lots of the cars themselves and also the 'Travel City' sets.
a BMX bike
Britains Farm Toys
Nintendo GameBoy (fortunately I still have most of the old games from the teenage years)
Next on the list are some Tamiya RC cars. I had the Thundershot, Manta Ray, and Midnight Pumpkin as a kid...
Anyone else got their rose-tinted spectacles on and buying their old toys back, or buying the toys they wanted but couldn't get their hands on at the time?
Some toys have obviously improved due to the advancement of cheap tech: Decent radio controlled cars and other vehicles for as little as £10, electronic games, all that sort of stuff. But a great deal of modern toys are just cheap, s
tty, plastic landfill. Even stuff made from metal seems to be cheap garbage. It is a race to the bottom to sell parents as much crap as possible just because they can make it cheap. Armed with these excuses, I have begun to buy some of my old stuff back as I am convinced that it is better than what you can buy today.
So far, this includes:
Micro Machines - Lots of the cars themselves and also the 'Travel City' sets.
a BMX bike
Britains Farm Toys
Nintendo GameBoy (fortunately I still have most of the old games from the teenage years)
Next on the list are some Tamiya RC cars. I had the Thundershot, Manta Ray, and Midnight Pumpkin as a kid...
Anyone else got their rose-tinted spectacles on and buying their old toys back, or buying the toys they wanted but couldn't get their hands on at the time?
Le Gavroche said:
Anyone else got their rose-tinted spectacles on and buying their old toys back, or buying the toys they wanted but couldn't get their hands on at the time?
Oh yes, in my case Lego sets that I couldnt afford when younger.All I would say is buying your childhood toys when older gets Very expensive Very quickly!!
I wont say how expensive but there is a 6x10 foot box room full of boxes. Much to my wife's annoyance.
That's a lot of boxes.
You have been warned
Five years before I met my wife I got absolutely legless in the pub one Friday night discussing this kind of thing with my mates.
Came home, fired up eBay, bought the PK Ripper BMX I had always wanted as a kid!
Fast forward fourteen years I'm now married with a 9yo kid. There's a PK Ripper hanging up in the garage for him to ride when he is big enough! Not quite there yet .....
I've also taken the opportunity of fatherhood to massively expand 'his' Hot Wheels collection and can't wait to get him a Tamiya RC car in a couple of years when he is old enough to enjoy the build himself.
You've got to have some payback for 18yrs of poverty, yes?
Came home, fired up eBay, bought the PK Ripper BMX I had always wanted as a kid!
Fast forward fourteen years I'm now married with a 9yo kid. There's a PK Ripper hanging up in the garage for him to ride when he is big enough! Not quite there yet .....
I've also taken the opportunity of fatherhood to massively expand 'his' Hot Wheels collection and can't wait to get him a Tamiya RC car in a couple of years when he is old enough to enjoy the build himself.
You've got to have some payback for 18yrs of poverty, yes?
sherman said:
Dangerous site Le Gavroche said:
Next on the list are some Tamiya RC cars. I had the Thundershot, Manta Ray, and Midnight Pumpkin as a kid...
I’ve recently bought a few kits that I really wanted to buy when I was a child but couldn’t afford; one of my best Christmas presents ever (apart from my Grifter) was a Tamiya Falcon. I lied to my parents that the kit came complete with radio gear otherwise they would not have bought it as it was right at the top of their budget. My paper round eventually paid for a second hand Acoms radio set. I worked in a large RC model shop when I was older and it was a really happy period of my life, so merely having the new kits in the corner of my office make me happy every time I look at them…I picked this up when I was on holiday in Florida last week - I owned a secondhand RC10 when I was young and it was on a different league to my Tamiya Falcon….
GasEngineer said:
That reminds me of another childhood “toy”; my two friends and I clubbed together and bought a secondhand Webley Tempest (it was £15, so £5 each). We used to each have it for a week at a time, and the (covert) “handover” day was usually a school day. You can imagine pitching up at high school with one of these nowadays…how times have definitely changed!I managed to hold onto all my lego and star wars toys from when I was young, got 2 massive boxes of lego all loose
Star wars was all from car boot sales and things so not great condition, worth pennies now so no point selling
Lego was loads of sets of things, every bday and xmas it was all I wanted, binned the boxes and instructions years ago, luckily the lego website is really good and you can download the instructions, I dread to think how many hours it look me to find all the pieces and build the few sets ive managed to do so far
As its been said, old stuff is really expensive, I always wanted the mask hideout, saw it on ebay for over £100, I still have the Rhino truck
Star wars was all from car boot sales and things so not great condition, worth pennies now so no point selling
Lego was loads of sets of things, every bday and xmas it was all I wanted, binned the boxes and instructions years ago, luckily the lego website is really good and you can download the instructions, I dread to think how many hours it look me to find all the pieces and build the few sets ive managed to do so far
As its been said, old stuff is really expensive, I always wanted the mask hideout, saw it on ebay for over £100, I still have the Rhino truck
I’ve just discovered loads of my old toys in my parent’s loft. Much of it is Britains, but mine is of the WWII, Wild West, Knights and Turks variety though, not the farm stuff. I had two Kubelwagens and one is still boxed.
I also found plenty of Subutteo bits, Airfix and Tamiya kits, Ladybird books and Playmobil (though it was called Playpeople in my day).
Lovely nostalgia trip, but I’m not sure I’d be trying to buy it again. I’ll sell what I can.
I also found plenty of Subutteo bits, Airfix and Tamiya kits, Ladybird books and Playmobil (though it was called Playpeople in my day).
Lovely nostalgia trip, but I’m not sure I’d be trying to buy it again. I’ll sell what I can.
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