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Our childhood toys

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Morturn said:
The one thing I remember about childhood toys was the advertising and artwork on the box depicted how you will have an amazing experience way over and above anything you could imagine and with a high degree of realism.
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Yes i agree the action toys had backgrounds which made you want one on the TV great marketing.
 
You could buy “Caps” for cap guns in little rolls coiled up in a small round paper box. We used to fold them over, double or triple etc to make a louder bang.

One day I struck a whole box with a big stone, the resulting band nearly deafening me.
 
Donbogen said:
it was much more fun when we upgraded to bangers
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There was a bicycle shop sold fireworks but sometimes they wouldn't sell bangers or jumping jacks to boys, or younger children or if they didn't like the look of you, or your banger amount was limited. Saying that I never saw girls buying fireworks. I always got a box for my birthday from nan and Grandad. I knew what my present would be. But I was never allowed to light them or hold them except sparklers."Please to remember the fifth of November, Light up the sky with Standard foreworks." Now they sound like a battle zone.
 
mw0njm. said:
talking of Ouch! my nephew had a Pump action ping pong ball gun but some how it broke in half;)
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I had a rocket launcher it looked like a gun it had a blue lattice 'cradle' a red launcher base and it was yellow the size of a cucumber. We put it on the floor at my birthday party and it shot up in the air and everyone tried to catch it. I couldn't see what all the fuss was about but the party went with a bang. I remember mum saying, "who gave him that!"
 
Time Traveller 66 said:
Yes i agree the action toys had backgrounds which made you want one on the TV great marketing.
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'Real tough toys for real tough boys, Tonka!' I was bigger though past the toy age then. A Kid I was at school with ended up working with mum. He used to call her Tonka. She loved that, not. And the locomotive that would run in a straight line I thought that was a swiz, Gran bought me one I have seen it on here I think. It was green, tin with a red cow catcher. I liked it though. And the Battle Of The Little Big Horn game, that was a let down. I was duped by the advert. Are you sure you want that, yes mum, will you play with it?, yes mum. I found out later than mum used to buy them all on tick. She struggled. Had I known I wouldn't have asked for some of the toys, but I so loved my farm. ,
 
I've still got a lot of my dolls, sadly mostly scalped as I fancied myself as a would be hairdresser. I also loved getting a Post office set, had hours of fun with that.
 
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