Slater
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| posted on 6/2/25 at 11:16 AM |
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Built a Spitfire!
Check out my Xmas prezzie, just finished it last night....
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Spitfire 6Feb25
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Why do they call Port Harcourt "The Garden City"?...... Becauase they can't spell Stramash.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 6/2/25 at 11:26 AM |
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 cool, I've never had meccano, you might need quite a bit of airspeed to get it to fly though...just fit a car starter motor 
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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nick205
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| posted on 6/2/25 at 01:43 PM |
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Nice
Meccano never caught me as a child, but Lego caught me fair and square (still has me now). My mum kept my childhood lego and gave it to my kids, who
were equally caught by Lego. Lego Technic did it for me big time!
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gremlin1234
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| posted on 6/2/25 at 01:57 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Nice
Meccano never caught me as a child, but Lego caught me fair and square (still has me now). My mum kept my childhood lego and gave it to my kids, who
were equally caught by Lego. Lego Technic did it for me big time!
just about to give our previously enjoyed lego, to the primary school that we went to
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nick205
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| posted on 6/2/25 at 02:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by gremlin1234
quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Nice
Meccano never caught me as a child, but Lego caught me fair and square (still has me now). My mum kept my childhood lego and gave it to my kids, who
were equally caught by Lego. Lego Technic did it for me big time!
just about to give our previously enjoyed lego, to the primary school that we went to
Good call - keep it being enjoyed 
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JC
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| posted on 7/2/25 at 08:38 AM |
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I was Lego all the way……until an aunt picked up some Meccano at a jumble sale! I was just really getting into it when the rubber keyed wonder of the
zx spectrum burst into my life!
Ironically I was bought a ‘the spectrum’ reproduction a few weeks ago!
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jacko
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| posted on 7/2/25 at 02:05 PM |
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Wood f1 car
I’ve just put this together it was a Xmas present
G
555
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Slater
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| posted on 8/2/25 at 04:02 PM |
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Nice F1 car! and yes I was 90% Lego as a kid (10% meccano), I had the original technical lego stuff, car chassis, crane and quite a few others. ZX
Spectrum 48K too, with games like manic miner, jetpack willie, ant attack! all loaded via a cassette tape. Those were the days....
Why do they call Port Harcourt "The Garden City"?...... Becauase they can't spell Stramash.
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jacko
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| posted on 8/2/25 at 09:42 PM |
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When I was a kid we had a spinning top a skipping rope and a leather foot ball and jacks xxxx
Not that I’m getting old haha
G
[Edited on 8/2/25 by jacko]
555
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scudderfish
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| posted on 9/2/25 at 07:22 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Slater
Nice F1 car! and yes I was 90% Lego as a kid (10% meccano), I had the original technical lego stuff, car chassis, crane and quite a few others. ZX
Spectrum 48K too, with games like manic miner, jetpack willie, ant attack! all loaded via a cassette tape. Those were the days....
I got one of these for Christmas
https://retrogames.biz/products/thespectrum/
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Slater
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| posted on 9/2/25 at 10:24 AM |
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wow never thought I'd see the Spectrum brought back to life, that's a cool Christmas gift. I remember some of the basic programming:
10 PRINT "my name"
20 GOTO 10
Then watched as the screen magically filled with my name.
Why do they call Port Harcourt "The Garden City"?...... Becauase they can't spell Stramash.
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