real retro.

[gibbleking]

this bike malarky aint real retro.....this is where its at man.....springs yeah man ...you should see the travel on this little beauty....

 

[saltyman]

 

[FluffyChicken]

retro :shock:
That's a modern scientific educational tool I'll have you know..


(and the kids always break and stretch them and the plastic ones are just not the same)

 

[gibbleking]

you can tell mines old....it was made in england....

 

[stewlewis]

Wasn't it annoying when it got slightly stretched and didn't sit flat anymore, or when your little sister would twist the spring the wrong way.

Used to love these too:

Wonder how fast they would go with today's neodymium magnets?

Cheap toys that were ace:
Wooden Jacobs Ladder.
Gyroscope.
YoYo.
Diablo.

 

[gibbleking]

i spent ages trying to untangle mine...was always getting knotted .....

 

[FluffyChicken]

i spent ages trying to untangle mine...was always getting knotted .....

I bet you loved it when it happend, the joy of the puzzle (I know I do an I untagle them quite often still, the satifaction when it's all done and good again )

 

[GT-Steve]

I'm only 20 or so years into my lifetime Slinky ban :cry: :cry:

gutted :cry: I can't even remember what they're like to handle, anymore (though I can still remember the sound they made )

 

[gibbleking]

i spent ages trying to untangle mine...was always getting knotted .....

I bet you loved it when it happend, the joy of the puzzle (I know I do an I untagle them quite often still, the satifaction when it's all done and good again )

hence the wall of rubiks cubes behind it.....
used it on the stairs the other day with my kids .....they loved it.

 

[tintin40]

I had one of those when i was oh so small