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Spirograph

Think everyone had one of these sometime as a kid i had mine from a jumble sale with (looking back)possibly half the things missing so am glad i only payed 5p or so. Anyways did anyone make the patterns?   And if you did what do you do with them?  You wouldn't put them on your wall would you? No. Its was s**e, but because its retro it ends up in this topic.

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On 03/12/2018 at 20:47, evo1 said:

Spirograph

Think everyone had one of these sometime as a kid i had mine from a jumble sale with (looking back)possibly half the things missing so am glad i only payed 5p or so. Anyways did anyone make the patterns?   And if you did what do you do with them?  You wouldn't put them on your wall would you? No. Its was s**e, but because its retro it ends up in this topic.

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LMAO wow forgot they were ever out

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6 minutes ago, becks said:

These were sweet machines , i always peeled the black sticker from the center of the stick , so the screw was visible and the stick forever tacky :) flicking the on/ off switch ,  to make them make weird noises , then laughing like idiots .

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Over in 80s electronic toys topic😉

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On 17/12/2018 at 20:17, evo1 said:

Matchbox Race And Chase 1982

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As you can see from the video it just didnt work really, but as a 9 year old this was great.

 

Had one of these liked it but always wanted a.........(no not scalextric) but .......TCR wow the changed lanes ffs this was light years ahead back then but they never took off like scalextric did

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TCR  Total Control Racing By Ideal. Late 1970s till Mid 1980's

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TRUCK RACING COST £34.99 IN 1982 Argos.

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TRAILER CUTOFF.

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The product was withdrawn from the market in the mid 1980s (after a brief attempt to reinvent TCR as a slot racing system, which was incompatible with all earlier cars and track).TCR may have failed next to its most obvious competitor Scalextric for these and other reasons. TCR cars were matchbox sized and much smaller than Scalextric cars. This did mean that (relatively) more track could be laid out in one room.  TCR was also doomed by the new regulations for child safety. The system required at least 2 amps to correctly drive all the cars and jam cars used. The original set released in the early 1970s gave the customer a 1/2 amp transformer which was reported to give children electric shocks when they went to fix a stalled or 'de-railed' car. As a response Ideal changed the transformer in the mid 1970s to a 1/4 amp transformer; this was barely enough to run one car, when players used 2 cars plus the jam cars it was very hard to maintain the rhythm needed to keep the cars rolling properly with such low amperes. Sales for the product dropped off dramatically because of the change.  Tyco

had the same problem with the first Command control sets (1978). In the 1990s Tyco revamped the system. They bought the rights to 'TCR' from Ideal and were able to lower the voltage to increase the amperes and skirt the child safety laws. This gave the customer a 1/2 amp back, for 3 years Tyco tried to make a go of the command control revamp called 'TCR' but it never caught on, stalls and derails were always a problem. It is not until you run these systems on custom power supplies that give the racing set the full 2-2.5 amps of power it needs that it really shines.

In the UK the amps problem seems to be slightly different, for example, the Zig-Zag Jam Raceway set had a 3/4 amp power pack. There are higher amp sets that contain mark 3 cars such as the later Crossfire, these sets have an 'uprated' power pack which is 20 Volt 20 VA which equals 1 amp.

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Would of loved one of these back in the day but at £34.99 in 1982 that was a lot of money to some people.

But to have one now if you look on Ebay Prices are doubled plus because of the retro/collectors.

 

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Magic Robot (Merit) 1950s

Gone back a bit on the date here, as it was until the 1970s i got one from a jumble sale.  So again if all the bits was there cant remember just remember as a kid playing with this robot thing on a board.

After all these years of not understanding and watching the video down below i now understand, but its taken me nearly 40 years.

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Wow we had both of those games. I had forgotten about both of them, didn't even recognise the names before watching the video. 

Numbers Up, quite often, it was a frantic scramble to complete it before the clock run out. Such a simple idea, probably the electronic timer that was exciting to kids.

Stay Alive, best played with 3 or 4 people, rather than 2. It's the sort of game that even now as an adult I would play if I had the opportunity.

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8 hours ago, Marlon36 said:

I had one of these Cadbury smash Martians, a quick wind of the key at the side and then it would scuttle off across the kitchen floor.

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Good call here, totally forgot about this one. Great memory's there.

8 hours ago, wearecity said:

Mousetrap was good, but a pain to set up and the end trap used to regularly fall down, when the dice roll rumbled the board. 

Never had a robot of any sort. 

Also fall down when you tried to turn the handle to start it off and everything would move on the board so it wouldn't work anyways.

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18 minutes ago, evo1 said:

Good call here, totally forgot about this one. Great memory's there.

Also fall down when you tried to turn the handle to start it off and everything would move on the board so it wouldn't work anyways.

For mash get Smash was the slogan I think they also used to laugh at the way humans made mash(peeling them and boiling them)

 

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14 minutes ago, 1969kappa said:

For mash get Smash was the slogan I think they also used to laugh at the way humans made mash(peeling them and boiling them)

 

My oldest 8 loves this smash as it is still made today but not by cadburys by batchelors. Tastes shit!!!

 

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