I remember a metal commercial airline plane I received for my 10th? birthday.
It was preassembled and at least 2 feet long and 2 feel wide, maybe 10" high.
Spirograph gave me hours of pleasure as well as hangable artwork.
A collection of die cast Hotwheels cars were great fun
Hobbytex saw me concentrating for hours and coming up with stunning artwork.
String Art was one of my favourite pastimes.
Hammering small nails onto a painted board, using different coloured string saw some marvellous textured artwork hanging on my walls.
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Meccano, Roller Skating and Dinky Toys were my passion
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Rupert bear book…it fell apart I read it so often I loved little Rupert 
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Talking of Dinky Toys I had one of these.
You could tear off a single cap and sandwich it between the interceptor and the projectile. When you released the spring loaded mechanism by pressing a little button on the side it went BANG!! Another UFO bit the dust!
I dread to think what one of these boxed and in pristine condition is worth these days.
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How many UFOs did you bring down? 
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Oooh…I lost count, one 747 but I was just a kid and the instruction booklet wasn’t very comprehensive 
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I used to spend most of my pocket money in Woolworths on an Airfix kit.Usually a fightet plane.
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Woolworths … happy days!
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I had a Lite Brite, a slinky, silly putty, magic 8 ball, miniature toy kitchen. Most of them have negative memories attached. I bought the Lite Brite as an adult to see if it would be fun. I don’t remember using it.
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It must have been so many to lose count. Definitely in the hundreds. 
You ended up with a few hanging from the ceiling then.
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My favourite toy was a little German tin kitchen my mum got in a jumble sale. You put paraffin tablets in it and could really cook! Health and safety would have had a breakdown nowadays 
It was a bit like this one
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Did you cook any patty cakes and biscuits for afternoon tea? 
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My most treasured gain was an almost new red J40 Austin peddle car that was not redeemed from the family’s pawnbrokers. I enjoyed it and so did my 4 girls. It’s still in the family despite many offers from interested buyers and it will most probably remain in my family. Its in original colour with reupholstered seat due to many children enjoying it over 70+ years and according to one of my daughters, it has enjoyed a new set of tyres at the same time as the body-shop gave it a professional respray in original red shade.
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The mind boggles…how times have changed.
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Awesome that you have kept it for so long. Looks amazing. Generations of your family to come will continue to enjoy this “toy”
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Yes, it really is an amazing ‘toy’ for kidults 
If anyone has one in need of parts, then this company will always fill any need for a price.
THE J40 MOTOR COMPANY - The J40 Motor Company
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I’d forgotten about those but I do remember my first one was a Lysander and my favourite was a Canberra bomber
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Too many toys to mention. My dad actually owned a toy shop. Unreal now that I think back.
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The trickiest thing about construction kits was the final stage, the decals.
They were incredibly delicate, I remember floating them in a bowl of water until they could be gently removed from the backing paper… you didn’t get a second chance!
One or two of my planes had roundels in some rather unusual places.
It was like little gas hobs more than oven so I used do do little pancakes in the mini frying pan, sausage slices, soup, chips, baked beans, a few grains of popcorn and tea from boiling the mini kettle
It was very dangerous by modern standards and I did burn my fingers but I loved it and in those days children weren’t as protected, learn by experience! And my brother used to love me making him mini treats 
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