quatorze 1 #76 October 9, 2002 When the GI Joe toys started making the sounds of gunfire for kids, push a button ---"BANG" , that was the down fall of the imagination of todays youth. I'm not afriad of dying, I'm afraid of never really living- Erin Engle Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #77 October 9, 2002 >you know the one that really gets me? lego. I totally agree. Nowadays you can snap together parts A,B and C and that's it. Building something out of your head just isn't going to be the same>and meccano? anyone else have that? i loved that stuff! I always wanted those but they weren't widely available in Finland. I did get loads of the "technic"-legos though.Erno Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #78 October 9, 2002 and tonka toys. not the new wimpy plastic crap that poses as tonka, i'm talking the old, all metal, sharp edged variety. we used to sit in the big dump trucks and race them down hills. my father actually bought a dump truck load of sand and we would play in that for hours and hours. and die-cast toys. anyone remember when they were toys, not 'collectables'? we actually took them out of their packages and played with them! how dumb were we. we could have retired on the money we made selling them on ebay. and chemistry sets. can you imagine what you would get in a chemistry set today? water and sugar. anything else would open the manufacturer up to too much liability. is there anything left to stimulate a child's imagination?"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #79 October 9, 2002 "is there anything left to stimulate a child's imagination" Crack? sad but possibly true.-------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dp1l 0 #80 October 9, 2002 Ok, when you were children, didn't it bug you when the old people went on about how things were in the gool old days, and "young people today, blah blah blah"? In the same breathe, they also went on about how tough things were, and they had to wrestle crocodiles to cross a river to get to school, etc etc? They will grow up just fine - the same as we did, and our parents before us, etc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #81 October 9, 2002 "They will grow up just fine - the same as we did" Gawd, I hope not what has the wee man done to deserve that??? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #82 October 9, 2002 true, but don't you think that there is a widening gap between childhood and the real world? we were allowed to do things that might hurt us, but we learned from those experiences and were better prepared for life. we learned to use tools to build thngs like go-karts and treehouses. everything is given to our children pre-assembled. they go from being over-protected in some ways to being under-protected and under-prepared in others. our parents did have it rougher in some ways than us, and we had it rougher than our kids in some ways. we didn't have to deal with the gang violence at school and such that our kids do today. no doubt our children will tell their children how rough they had it as well. i guess it's just one of those circle-of-life things."Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #83 October 9, 2002 Oy! Shuddup! This is an old people's thread for complaining about "those darn kids" and for reminiscing about the "good ol' days". Go away! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #85 October 9, 2002 Man, I love Lego! I have tons of them, and now that I have a child, I can play with Legos and say I'm just doing it for my baby. My wedding cake was 3-tier. The lower 2 tiers were made out of Lego blocks. The bride & groom cake toppers were also Lego. I shit you not! http://www.jennandjustin.com/photos-family-wedding4.asp Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #86 October 9, 2002 >How old is old? Old enough to be complaining about them kids today...26 Erno Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #87 October 9, 2002 Legos and Matchbox cars ruled! And our matchbox cars were metal, not the plastic shit. I also agree with the good ole Tonka Trucks. The kind you could wail at your brother, hit him in the head, give him a concussion and 6 stitches and he was right back for more. Now another question: Who was taught to use hand signals while riding your bike, but never did it because it was too dorky? _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #88 October 9, 2002 [raises hand] i was too busy doing wheelies down the middle of the street with no helmet on with my homemade chopper bicycle that had no brakes. anyone else build a chopper by bolting (usually precariously) a second set of forks to the original ones? big old banana seat with the big backrest and the ape hanger bars? man, were we ever cool! oh well, it was the 70's! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,090 #89 October 9, 2002 >some of the 'deluxe' sets had windows, doors, sloped parts for roofs > and wheels. you actually had to use your imagination to build > something. Yep. We used to build lego cars and race them down the driveway. The one that made it the farthest without shaking itself to bits won. We'd always fight over who got the "good" wheels and who'd end up with a car with one real wheel, two gears and a skid. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #90 October 9, 2002 My kids have something better than I had. It took me a while. It's this track thing that you set up with a ball-bearing. The ball goes down the track and hits all kinds of cool kinetic stuff and eventually makes it down into a collector. Really neat Rube-Goldberg stuff. I like it better than the legos, cause it's not like building a model, it's a box full of stuff you make into something cool. How bout Hotwheels when it was just cars, yellow track and the red tongue things you never had enough of? Enough of that track and any kind of hill and you were in business! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KATO33 0 #91 October 9, 2002 QuoteLike someone else said, you can still get this, you just have to leave the city (and not let TV raise your kids) I don't think you have to leave the city to be inventive I got my first bike when I was five I rode it until I was ten It was "Franken bike” by then. We made go carts out of old shopping cart wheels and curtain rods and wood. And no everybody didn't make the team and there were winners and losers get over it. Blue Skies Black Death Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KATO33 0 #92 October 10, 2002 Okay I just read this whole Thread and thanks. I was ROTFLMAOWTIME reading some of the experiences. WhOOO Hoooo and Thanx again. Blue Skies Black Death Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
