Most of my toys as a young kid were in my bedroom.
That's were I played the most with my toys. What a saddo!
They were mostly played with on the carpet too, a minefield for my Mum and Dad!
In summer some of my toys migrated to the garden, especially Action Men and Major Matt Mason.
For some reason it felt right to take these little people into the sunshine!
Which room did you play with your toys in readers?
I played with my toys in my bedroom and the living-room with equal frequency. Sometimes I'd play with boats and things in the sink in the kitchen (or the bath in the wee room of the house). And I also played with them in the garden - so just about everywhere really.
ReplyDeleteha ha, I like that Kid. Access all areas! But did you put them all away after play?
DeleteBedroom and sometimes bath. We had no garden, so outside wasn't an option.
ReplyDeleteDid you have special bath toys kept in there Kev?
DeleteNo but it was where I would test my clockwork Sea Wolf sub and my frogman powered by tablets!
DeleteThat's the Fizzycist in you Kev! ha ha
DeleteAlways...the 'Needmore Room'!
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ha ha, that's good Hugh. Very droll!
DeleteMostly bedroom. Living room or den occasionally. We had a reasonably big back yard, but I don't recall ever taking action figures or toy vehicles outdoors.
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is a den TC? Us Brit kids didn't have the benefit of them.
DeleteMostly the bedroom but sometimes the living room and occasionally the attic. During good weather it was definitely the back yard. Home to many a battle with mine and the neighbor kids G.I. Joe's (original 12" action figures), or haulin' out the big Tonka and Marx trucks.
ReplyDeleteWhat was your attic like Ed?
DeleteThe attic was large but unfinished. It was open - no walls, with the chimney sticking up from below and through the house roof. On e area, just at the top of the stairs had a large room sized rug that I could play on. A bit further in, just past the chimney was my first train layout - a 4' x 8' table meant for American Flyer 'S' gauge train but later used for my HO trains. I posted pics on the blog back in 2012:
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That sounds like a cool attic Ed! I've just checked those pictures on your blog - superb! What a large airy space. That layout looks really sophisticated its on a wooden support! there's a lovely looking wardrobe in the back too! What was in there? Trains?
DeleteThe layout never got further than it did sorry to say. i was still working on it when I joined the Air Force. The wardrobe was used as - a wardrobe :-). trains were kept elsewhere.
DeleteMy bedroom, me Bruv's bedroom and landing in front of both, but mostly in a small extension to the living room, provided we didn't make too much of a mess. And in the garden - having firefights with cap guns; making motorways and digging tunnels amongst the flowers for our Matchbox and HotWheels; making a treehouse for the Smurfs and staging expeditions and skirmishes with our Action Man figures. Smaller stuff and Lego stayed very much indoors.
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What a childhood Paul! Sounds idyllic! I bet your Mum and Dad weren't keen on the flower bed tunnels! ha ha. I love the idea of a Smurf Treehouse! Did you call them Schlumpfies? And I have to ask, where did you play with your SpaceX?
DeleteI don't think they minded the flower bed tunnels, Woodsie. Just raked over them after we'd done and moved on to something else. Spacex was small stuff so stayed indoors. We'd start in the front of the living room and would go colonise the dining room table. Or go exploring for the key to the 'linen closet' which is an ornate cupboard were the cookie jars were kept. :)
DeleteAnd no, we called them Smurfs. First introduced in Holland as a promo gimmick for BP in 1968 or so, which iirc was roughly when the Smurfs' own comic stories began (they started out as secondary characters in a story from another comic series). Their creator Peyo was a French-speaking Belgian who called them Schtroumpfes. So I suppose it was the (presumably Flemish) translator who invented the Smurf name. Which a decade later was also used for English. Schlumpf is their name in German, but afaik only in German.
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Do you have any SpaceX from your childhood Paul?
DeleteNo Woodsy, played to bits and all gone... As was the memory of them until they came up on the MMM discussion list back in the late 90s.
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It is strange that we forget these things Paul isn't it. It was a seeing and buying the SWORD Space Glider for £20 one evening in 1990 that made me remember!
DeleteRight bizarre indeed. But there were so many new impressions all through childhood, so maybe that's why. And it's nice rediscovering stuff!
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