What was your favourite 4 toys as a child?

[Colin W]

Mine was……..

Train Set
Action Man Figures
Toy Tractors
Star Wars Figures

[El Sid]

Can't say I really remember this far down the line but I did enjoy my Corgi cars and Triang trains. I also read a lot.

[Trev B]

Can’t recall playing with toys although mum and dad bought me a chemistry set - that was fun. I had a bike which I used to ride over the fields and around the Commons on. I spent great amount of time outdoors, birds nesting, building dens, and watching wildlife — I’ve never grown up I suppose

[John Liddle]

Meccano!!!

[Bill53]

Train set
Scalextric
Meccano
Lego

[Leonardo]

I remember that I liked to do something instead of playing with toys, so my favourites are:
Bike (and still I like it):
roller-skates;
skates;
skis

[tesarver]

That was a long time ago,

blue and gray plastic soldiers
Tonka Pickup Trucks
Model car kits
Comic Books (The Phantom was my favorite)

[ST-EOS]

Airfix models, bicycle.
Then years later when number one son arrived, Lego, train set, dinky/corgi vehicles, scalextric track and cars, radio controlled car.

[Glezga]

Action Man
Star Wars
Pogo Stick
Stretchy Hulk

[NathCarr91]

For me it was

K-Nex
Meccano
Lego
And lastly but not certainly not least, my Gameboy and any Pokemon game . Im a 90s kid so Pokemon was all the rage!

Although in my 30s now I still love it

[@imagesBV]

Scalextric
Meccano
Airfix kits
..and a plastic camera that took 35mm roll film

[Daisy M]

Can’t recall playing with toys although mum and dad bought me a chemistry set - that was fun. I had a bike which I used to ride over the fields and around the Commons on. I spent great amount of time outdoors, birds nesting, building dens, and watching wildlife — I’ve never grown up I suppose

I think that Trev and myself lived an identical childhood mainly because my parents couldn’t afford many toys, but I had freedom.

[Trev B]

I think that Trev and myself lived an identical childhood mainly because my parents couldn’t afford many toys, but I had freedom.

So so true David. I learnt so much about wildlife during my childhood. I can remember being somewhat bullied in my younger days because I spent time out photographing birds - now its the 'in thing' everybody's doing it.
A few years back I was giving a talk on badgers to a local Natural History Group in Sidmouth. At the end during a questions period, I was asked by a member of the audience how I gained my knowledge and interest in my subject. I explained it started as a childhood thing spending my play time in the countryside. There was an elderly gentleman sitting in the front row who just sat tight after everyone left and I was packing up my projection equipment. He eventually came over to me and said ' You told us a lie, I know how you gained your knowledge, by skipping off school - playing truant' It was my old geography teacher, who I had not seen for the best part of fifty years. His family eventually invited me to his 100th Birthday party. The sad thing was, what he said was true!!!

[tigerburnie]

A bike
my first fishing rod which was more of a toy than a real one, but it worked
Triang train set
We used to make a lot of our stuff, my Dad made us trollies and sledges, even a working Ballista that was supposed to have fired tennis balls, but it threw quite large rocks a fair distance.