Friday, 8 January 2016

WHEN DID YOU GET YOUR TOYS AS A KID?

When did your stash of comics, toy soldiers, assorted space toys and all your other playstuff increase the most when you were a kid?

Which one was it:

1. Christmas?
2. When you were ill?
3. Summer Holidays?
4. Other Holidays and Festivals?
5. Birthdays?
6. At weekend with your spends?
7. Other times?

10 comments:

  1. Summer holidays,leslie
    Brown's the toyshop in stockton.At least 5 trips over 2 week holiday they had it all.

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    1. That's interesting that Tony. I'd always assumed it was Xmas for everyone but then thought maybe not. Were you on holiday in Stockton?

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    2. Yes summer hols to visit relatives, spoilt rotten with cash from uncles and aunties. Funnily enough
      It was the service stations on the motorway that supplied us with marvel,dc or American book comics as we used to call them.This was the late sixties

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  2. Yes, I remember racks of comics in various places especially in the summer when all the summer specials were avaialable. So did you get most of your toys in the Summer too?

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  3. Yes we usually got an Aurora model on arrival, something from the local newsagent in Yarm in the afternoon,then at least 3 trips to Brown's to stock up on more Aurora, britains,mego etc.Even the local vg store had brilliant toys and even the hardware store had Aurora kits!

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  5. Christmas was usually 3 big presents bikes,action man etc. Birthdays one big one and money.Being sick usually comics.

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  6. on my birthday and christmas.. but at the end of school in summer too.... lego and toy soldiers.. but some space toys.. matchbox adventura 2000 series... i have some veichles again.... 40 years old toys... ew

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  7. Well done EW on getting back those Adventure 2000 die casts, They always reminded me of small UFO SHADO mobiles, which I adored as a kid.

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