What is the best toy you ever had?
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Boring answer but it was my push bike. Gave me independence and, back then, we could go off on our own with friends all day I our bikes, sans parents, without a care in the world. I remember those long, summer days so fondly... And Isabel !
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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Good times. Riding all day long. Ah Isabel.
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Ah Isabel.
Yes - she was known as the town bike - because... well, you know!
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Can't remember her name.
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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If I had to pick just one, it would be the American Basic Science Club series my folks got me at great expense in its time. I doubt you could even create such a thing today, with all the lawyers working so hard to prevent kids from learning anything. Even if it was possible to create again, I doubt anyone could afford it today. But among other choices, a microscope, a chemistry set, a telescope, a Tonka 9-piece construction set (the steel ones, not plastic), the original Erector Set with the heavy duty 120V ac motor with gearbox - all were excellent toys. Also fun, but not a toy, was my Marlin 101-T .22 cal rifle, which I got when I was 8, the same year every boy in the neighborhood got his first gun. Oddly enough, no one ever lost an eye, or a finger, nor did anyone ever get hurt with any of the toys and tools they won't let kids have today. We learned a thing called "responsibility" from our parents, and practiced it until we got it right. A pity it's become a lost art... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
That would be my body! Note: I consider my Self to be my mind, thus the body is probably the best toy I've had (so far).
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Not really a toy, but definitely a "Toy". When I was 12 I had my own Helium-Neon laser (and safety goggles, and a long list from mom & dad of what *not* to do with it).
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My first pc. Ah, the sleepless nights waiting for Baium. How i miss them :((
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If you want sleepless nights you just wait 'til you get children. The reward is greater and you get to buy the toys yourself.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
on the list were meccano, lego, bayko [^] for sure but not forgetting Scalectrix (still in the loft), Triang trains (sold to a grown up when I wanted a car) I had a few games but nothing was ever as mystical as one called Magic Robot [^] Perhaps best was a battery remote control car, ok so the remote was a cable about 1.5m long but hey I could control it standing up and the bell battery that powered it was a good exercise regime as it fitted in the controller. No idea what happened to it or what the car was but I had a lot of fun with it
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MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Dunno. There's too much malloc for remembering the other bits.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If I had to pick just one, it would be the American Basic Science Club series my folks got me at great expense in its time. I doubt you could even create such a thing today, with all the lawyers working so hard to prevent kids from learning anything. Even if it was possible to create again, I doubt anyone could afford it today. But among other choices, a microscope, a chemistry set, a telescope, a Tonka 9-piece construction set (the steel ones, not plastic), the original Erector Set with the heavy duty 120V ac motor with gearbox - all were excellent toys. Also fun, but not a toy, was my Marlin 101-T .22 cal rifle, which I got when I was 8, the same year every boy in the neighborhood got his first gun. Oddly enough, no one ever lost an eye, or a finger, nor did anyone ever get hurt with any of the toys and tools they won't let kids have today. We learned a thing called "responsibility" from our parents, and practiced it until we got it right. A pity it's become a lost art... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
+1 for the American Basic Science Club kits. I had more than a few chemistry sets too.
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
In addition to Lego, Technic, and Commodore 64 (all of which I saw mentioned by others), I would suggest the old Radio Shack learning kits were great. Remember, the ones that came with a manual of 160+ electronic devices you can "build" using wiring diagrams, a mix of a hundred blue, red, green, and yellow wires, and a board filled with transistors, capacitors, solar cells, etc?
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
Honestly, probably a little shovel I "borrowed" from my Moms gardening toolbox. Before they filled it in at the summer I think the pit I dug behind the house was probably at least a cubic yard in volume. Sadly I'm much harder to amuse now than when I was five. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
Construx(LEGO competitor that sadly was discontinued). Could make just about anything I could think of (cars, planes, guns, giant robots etc). It was vastly easier (for me at least) to build stuff than Lego. It consisted of various length beams with joint connectors and panels to fill in spaces. This may explain why I like coding in .NET over a "closer to the metal" language like C....
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Well, hope you didnt get this item: http://able2know.org/topic/190258-2[^]
Actually, I did. In the ABS Club kits, though not packaged separately as shown, I had a bottle of uranium oxide, a small dot of radium, and I built a cloud chamber (requiring handling dry ice, which we kids did regularly in complete safety). I also made a spinthariscope with the kit. Further down the page is a mercury maze game. I had one of those, too, but we all had fun playing with mercury from broken thermometers without such silly, harmless toys. We mostly made our own toys back then, another lost art.
Will Rogers never met me.
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The best toy I ever had was a Meccano set (Number 6). Using it you really learned mechanics, while building your own toys at the same time. I'm sad to learn that Meccano isn't around in the same way as it used to be. So while planning away what to buy for my kids in the future I'm wondering what was/is the best toys you ever had?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
It went zip when it moved, bop when it stopped and whirr when it stood still. I never knew just what it was, and I guess I never will.
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+1 for the American Basic Science Club kits. I had more than a few chemistry sets too.
I only had one chemistry set, but it was a big one in a wooden or steel case - I forget. I think Gilbert made it. I added on to it by purchasing chemicals, glassware and supplies by mail order, and became fairly adept at plumbing with glass tubing bent with the aid of an alcohol lamp and a blow-pipe, then connected by bits of rubber tubing. Happy days! :-D
Will Rogers never met me.