Well my Christmas holidays are nearly over and I got to thinking about that old post-Xmas tradition when I was a kid of taking toys to school.
It must have been in early January when we did it and it was in Primary School. We got to take in our fave Christmas toys and show them off to the class!
I have a feeling I took my Mod Monster toy and my Mystery Action Army Jeep. They must have caused a stir especially Mod Monster dropping his pants!
Do you remember taking toys to school readers?
I remember taking my toy gemini spaceship to primary school (and I have a replacement now!) and someone had a dyna-soar (the SWORD one) in the sand pit!
ReplyDeleteWow, it was Cape Kennedy at your school kev! Must have been a crash landing in that sandpit! I never had the Gemini I don't think. Is that the one advertised in TV21?
DeleteI think so, it is the Clifford toys one. Very accurate really.
DeleteI remember taking toys to school in my schoolbag or pocket, but only because I didn't want to be parted from them, not to show them off. I did take in my J. Rosenthal (Century 21) Thunderbird 2 once (to show off this time) and the teacher put it on top of a waist-high cupboard next to the blackboard for the class to see. I remember other kids bringing in toys from time to time, like Action Man, Zeroids, and Major Matt Mason.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the perfect display spot in class for your TB2 Kid! Do you remember if you had the mole or the land rover in the pod?
DeleteInk well dwelling Kellogg's Crater Critters were a fave at junior school, Woodsy. Those old wooden flip-lid desks offered an imaginative lunar habitat for Bugsy Backbone and gang. A little later, Palitoy's Little Big Man also secretly infiltrated the feral playground once or twice. This time during the first days of a five year stretch at secondary school. Taking toys to school was a game of risk, especially if toys were discovered or fell into the hands of the self-proclaimed cool kids, those eternally taunting, habitually mean, bike-shed smokers :)
ReplyDeleteRemember, I had a Johnny Seven Tone. I would have helped you extinguish the smug puffing of those mean bikeshed smokers! Glad to hear your Little Big Man got an education. Did he take his O'Levels? As for Bugsy Backbone, I wanna be in his gang too!
DeleteQuote - 'Remember, I had a Johnny Seven Tone' Huh, that's it, rub in the fact that you had one as a kid... knowing full well that Santa, no doubt under the influence of merry bloomin' sherry consumed at your house, forgot to bring me mine! However, I'm not sulking... it's just that you'd better have a good excuse ready when a puzzled Mrs K asks you why I'm tearful and refusing to eat my tea tonight. 'Remember, I had a Johnny Seven Tone'... huh :D
DeleteEat one bowl of butterscotch Instant Whip Tone and two bars of Amaizin Raisin and you will forget all about my Johnny Seven! ha ha
DeleteDefinitely a recipe for inducing 'Johnny Seven Amnesia', Woodsy, ha ha.
DeleteI remember arranging the books in my wooden desk to form an undersea kingdom for my Lone Star Frogmen to 'swim' around.
ReplyDeleteAt age 11 I remember taking the London Underground at lunchtime a few stops to go to a Woolworth's to buy a plastic torpedo firing submarine. On returning to school I discovered that the torpedoes if fired on the classroom wood floor could go about 15 feet. In water (the bath) it was more like 3 feet.
One one occasion during a 'wet lunchtime' when going out was banned and the classroom play was compulsory I assembled a FROG Brand, 1/72 construction kit of a Hawker Hunter.
Cap pistols were normally banned but I do remember at different times taking a small Lone Star Secret Agent pistol which was easily hidden. It was a Secret Agent weapon after all.
Agent Terranova, licence to model! ha ha. You really were James Bond Junior in the classroom! I think the Lone Star frogmen also turned up in the 007 Undersea Battle Game, which I've never seen in the flesh .. or the rubber.
Deleteand taking the London Underground age 11 on your own was quite something Terran!
DeleteTimes were different in the late 50's. During school holidays nothing was more fun than a Red Rover childs bus ticket for unlimited daily travel. A packed lunch, good book or comics to read, Ian Allen 'Spotter' books of trains or buses. Detailed London Transport full colour route maps and off we'd go! No adult supervision.
DeleteSounds quite idyllic Terran. When are we going!
DeleteA very sore point with me, I took my Task Force 1 in on toy day after xmas and after revving its friction motor across the floor boards, one of the wheels came off and promptly rolled off to fall down a knot hole! I was gutted! Another time a few years later, i got the white Joe 90 dart gun target set for my birthday and took it to school. Shot a dart across the playground, only to losse that down a grating. I had the poor caretaker rooting around in the cellars to find it, but to no avail.
ReplyDeleteWhich School was it, which school? Its full of original C21 toy parts!
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