Do you like finding/buying stuff from your childhood?

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That's pretty awesome, Toy Soldier!

Yeah, Toy Soldier, that's an awesome collection you have there!

Thanks!

I have thought about a few other toys I had as a kid that I might want to reaquire, but the ones I think about most are as Prof_Pretorius mentioned out of my price range.




Getting one or more of these is probably number 2 on my imaginary wish list. These were called Zeroids and came out in 1968. They were one of the few things I really got excited about just from watching TV commercials. The pic above might be from a TV advertizement and would have been right up my alley looking like something out of the space movies of the time. I have a very fond memory attached too. My Dad always had multiple jobs and so was nearly always working. But one Saturday, he took a rare day off and unexpectedly took me to a distant department store and bought me one of them. I was pretty excited. I can't remember if it was Zerak, Zobor or Zintar ( ), but think it was the bluish one. That and once when I broke my foot where the only times I remember getting a gift outside of my B-day or X-mas. I think they go for about $300 these days.



This 'thing' however has always been on the top of my imaginary wish list. Its Robot Commando and was quite large being over 1 1/2 feet high. It was battery operated and had a control unit attached to the robot by a wire. You could make it move on treads, and turn. The armament was the coolest part though. Remotely you could have the red head cover raise up and fire two missles out of the head. You could also have it start slinging ping pong balls out of one of its arms. You loaded the balls in the body like a magazine and they fed into the arm one at a time. I probably would never have gotten such a toy, except my uncle worked at the factory and my parents had him buy it with his employee's discount. I got it when I was about 4 at Christmas. That same X-mas my older brother and sister got a puppet show set, with booth and curtains and puppets. Later on Christmas day they set up chairs for the rest of us and gave a puppet show. But half-way through the performance I slipped away unnoticed and then launched a surprize attack on the puppet show. Oh and he also had spinning eyes that would hypnotize you. This is going for about $600-$700 currently.

I also like robots. I still have my little R2-D2 and the Playmo space robot (the one on the left in the picture below; I never had the astronaut).

books, I want a personal library and I'll shriek of my childhood books or books that my parents had that I like are thrown out - I'm trying to secure enough books for said personal library (I don't care if childrens books are part of it, I want it to be big and wide ranging)

various coins that aren't the regional fare and/or aren't from this time period, stamps of the same order, and old computer games/video games seem to fit the bill too, and I want to keep my lego (it's in storage at the moment)

I have gone on Ebay to buy a three pence coin from the 1890's. I wanted to buy a half crown, but they were pricey. I like the pre-decimal coins.