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Old 21-12-2016, 12:36
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I think mine was back in the early 1960s, a Triang Trionics Kit.

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Old 22-12-2016, 19:55
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Little professor,
Scramble, similar to space invaders
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Old 22-12-2016, 19:59
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Merlin. Think I must have drove my parents mad cos it made a racket! Kids nowadays would think it's shit but I loved it
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Old 22-12-2016, 20:00
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This early video game thing. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/u...DPIC-31304.jpg
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Old 22-12-2016, 20:12
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Not sure which was first, but I had a Corgi Frisco Disco record player, a Stylophone & a mini Casio keyboard.
I am very jealous!!! I always wanted a Frisco Disco, but Santa never brought me one.

Not sure which was my 1st electronic toy, but I remember loving my Nintendo Game & Watch 'Snoopy Tennis'
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Old 22-12-2016, 20:12
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That little hand held Nintendo donkey Kong game. Probably would go for a fortune on ebay now.
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Old 22-12-2016, 20:46
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In the mid 60s when I was about 11 I was given a Phillips Electronic Engineering kit. It came with electronic components like transistors, resistors, capacitors and a book of instructions. I built various circuits like a flashing light, a light sensitive circuit, and a transistor radio, Do they still make educational toys like that. I really enjoyed it but I was a bit nerdy.
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Old 22-12-2016, 20:47
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I had a "Simon" and I loved it. Also had the "Little Professor" that has already been mentioned.
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Old 22-12-2016, 22:52
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In the mid 60s when I was about 11 I was given a Phillips Electronic Engineering kit. It came with electronic components like transistors, resistors, capacitors and a book of instructions. I built various circuits like a flashing light, a light sensitive circuit, and a transistor radio, Do they still make educational toys like that. I really enjoyed it but I was a bit nerdy.
In the 80's when I was a kid I had a Tandy 75 in 1 - and there was a 150 in 1 as well. This was full of similar experiments which you linked up with pre-set lengths of wire. I don't think kids are encouraged to do physical things like this any more, more online puzzles etc. Shame, as my manager is crying out for new blood in the workplace and no one is there with even the smallest bit of electronics experience.
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Old 23-12-2016, 00:17
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A calculator
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Old 23-12-2016, 00:47
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A hoover , it made a noise and came with loads of polystyrene balls that you threw on the floor and then sucked up, was very impressed.
Also remembered the daschund dog, which you pulled at it's gold chain and it yapped and walked. I called mine ,quite unoriginally, Dachsy. the lead broke quite early and was useless after that.
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Old 23-12-2016, 01:03
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SIMON - the game where you had to copy the sequence of bleeps/lights that the game emitted.

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Old 23-12-2016, 15:57
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A toy electric guitar.
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Old 23-12-2016, 16:30
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I remember as a child seeing an advert for a new set of children's power tools. I pleaded with my parents to get me the circular saw and imagined all the wonderful things that I could build. They eventually caved in and bought me one. Imagine my disappointment when I opened the box to find the circular saw and several wafer thin sheets of polystyrene (and it struggled to even cut through those).

I couldn't find a picture but while searching I did find a very funny article on

The 8 most wildly irresponsible Vintage Toys.
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Old 23-12-2016, 16:47
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Simon .. that beeping sequence game from the 80's
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Old 23-12-2016, 16:59
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If it classes as electronic, it would be a crystal set that my mum built for me when I was about 4 years old, nearly 70 years ago.
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Old 23-12-2016, 17:03
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I remember as a child seeing an advert for a new set of children's power tools. I pleaded with my parents to get me the circular saw and imagined all the wonderful things that I could build. They eventually caved in and bought me one. Imagine my disappointment when I opened the box to find the circular saw and several wafer thin sheets of polystyrene (and it struggled to even cut through those).

I couldn't find a picture but while searching I did find a very funny article on

The 8 most wildly irresponsible Vintage Toys.

that's hilarious.

Loved "involved blowing up a bubble of hot glass until it burst in your face, as if that's not how every single project would end anyway."
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Old 24-12-2016, 00:34
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Earliest battery-op toy I can remember having was a Palitoy Talking Dalek (you pressed a button on the top of its head that activated a small motor that played a small plastic record with recorded Dalek phrases)
First electronic hand-held was the brilliant Merlin. I liked it as you could play nine separate games on it. The shape of it always reminded me of the Battlestar Galactica ship, only red.
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Old 30-12-2016, 15:51
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Probably a Bigtrak, or a Starbird Avenger
Not my first electronic toy (can't remember what would have been right now) but my God, I remember the Starbird Avengers. They were brilliant! I had one and I loved it. I also had the Starbird Command base. Remember that?

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Old 30-12-2016, 15:56
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Probably a Tamagotchi or a Game Boy.

I also had a hand held Kareoke Machine which needed batteries but not sure that was a toy.
Well.. I suppose it was really lol
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Old 30-12-2016, 16:20
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Tri-ang railway set.
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Old 30-12-2016, 16:44
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Little professor,
Scramble, similar to space invaders
Scramble was a side stroller.
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Old 30-12-2016, 18:26
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Nintendo Entertainment System
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Old 30-12-2016, 19:05
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Race and chase ,but it was rubbish the cars always came off the track and you had to use this rubber thing to wipe over the tracks ,pants
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Old 30-12-2016, 19:06
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Also had a radio that you could hear people talking on cb radios used to spend hours in bed under the covers hearing people chat
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