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ahh yes i had a few of those james....in fact i am getting a little glassy eyed looking at them :)....ok i am bringing out the big guns now......who had one of these?.....you could do the biggest drifts in this animal....the original green machine.....they were mad

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i had one of these bad boys in blue with yellow wheels and a white crappy plastic seat when i was about 3 years old (i am sure you guys know them....there a classic model)My big brothers had full size bikes and the old man used to take us to the traffic school in brunswick...i came into the makeshift servo they had there and ran into the "golden fleece" petrol bowser and bent the handlebars and the old man gave them a bit of a tune up with a wheel brace to get me back on the road again :)

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I use to play with myself a lot...sadly i still do ;)

Oh, and RC cars. Well befor ei could drive i was a RC geek :D . Try these on for size, all that money from working at the markets, helping out at a nursery, cleaning a video shop and Real Eastate Agents and flinging hot dogs got me...

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Which was basically the same thing as,

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Which was the same as...all you needed were the different shells :D

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My very first real RC car

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My favourite...

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The i got real silly and inherited my brothers Kyosho Burns...and then i wasted way too much money on one off these, A Schumacher procar, 4wd belt driven, FRP Chassis, electronis speed control...shit, i could buy a set of semi slicks for what this silly thing was worth . WAY too much money spent on too mnay RC Cars:(

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...even with all these i still played with myself a lot :)

I did my school work experience at 16 in model shop. Good old Beatties in the UK. I had the Grasshopper II car that I saved up from 13 weeks of my paper round. I did a purple spray job on it and it looked sh|te but I thought differently at the time.

Also had an assortment of model trucks including a Renault AE500 Magnum (Mack over here), Scania, Ford Aeromax to name a few.

I found a radio controlled car mag from 1986 the other day in my stuff. Maybe I should ebay it! :P

James - did you win it?

I had too much.

I had one of those blue trikes with the yellow wheels (Cyclops) and I remember I even had a key that i jammed into it to pretend it was a car.

Transformers galore, untold amounts of matchbox cars. Ninja turtles. Atari, sega etc. My mum was "confiscating" cars off me at that time cos id be so concentrated and make such a loud noise with them that nerves would start showing on my face.

Train sets. . From the time I learnt to speak until i was about 10, I was obsessed with train sets. Ive had every variation.

AFX slot car sets, most destroyed due to excess water/oil on track, burnt out motors etc.

R/C cars. Ive had wayyy too many.First one was a Nikko Eagle buggy in like 1988 then a Nikko Super Fighter 4WD 9 battery in like 1989. Various tamiya/kyosho models after that. Bought a new kyosho inferno Nitro buggy in december last year and blew about 600 bucks cash + modding/repairing it.

Lego. Its all I ever got from relatives for christmas/birthday, somehow though I kept losing a lot of it due to my parents constantly throwing/giving away my toys. Best lego I ever got was this huge jungle setup with monkeys,treasure n gold coins n shit i f**kin loved it .

When my brother got a little older, I had a trusty batman figure and me n my bro would battle it out for hours, he would usually take Robin or a superman.

Now I have nothing. Apart from my R/C car thats about as far as it goes for toys.

I do have ONE thing left tho. When I was 3, for christmas my old man bought me a little toy of the Mascot from the AGE newspaper - I.C POTA. I called it Inky. I still got it packed away somewhere,I wonder if itd be worth a bit. Id never get rid of it regardless.

Transformers! Optimus Prime was easily the favourite :D

Also had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... a Mechano set, Lego, a rocket launcher kit (Was awesome, go to the Hobby shop near Melbourne central, they have a whole section on it :D)... makes me want to be a kid again :D

I had a remote control car but after an incident with the sand pit and trying to "fix it"... well... I made it worse and lost parts :D

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