"KirkyV" (KirkyV)
08/15/2014 at 12:04 • Filed to: None
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"KirkyV" (KirkyV)
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Essentially, my childhood boils down to this, a bunch of old video games - I found our old Sega Mega Drive up there - and enough Lego to destroy the feet of several large-ish towns. (Grubby toy cars below.)
(Yeah, I think my Dad was big on the Porches. The Millennium Falcons were all me, though.)
(The Renault 5 Turbo's a little more my speed, and I know there's a 205 up there somewhere...)
There are a lot more up there, but this post's already stuffed with pictures. I suppose I'm trying to compensate for all the missed commenting opportunities brought on by the .giftrolls.
JGrabowMSt
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 12:05 |
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dat XJ220!!!!
505Turbeaux
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 12:05 |
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if you didn't grow up in Europe you are my hero for having Renaults and Citroens.
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KirkyV
> 505Turbeaux
08/15/2014 at 12:10 |
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/h5w45lecrfuu…
No heroic accolades for me, I'm afraid; I'm European. I do still like my French cars, though.
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505Turbeaux
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 12:11 |
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nice!
carcrasher88
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 12:16 |
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Wow! This is quite the selection. Mind if I share this to LaLD ? Someone else would have to give you authorship there, but the least I could do is share it there.
Some people have made multi-part posts of their collections, so you could make this part 1, then make parts 2, 3, etc. with new posts.
Edit: Never mind, someone already did.
Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 12:20 |
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Those thunderbirds toys though, thuderbird 2 with the submarine inside it was amazing to me as a child. Shared it to live and let die cast too, thought the guys on there would get a kick out of this.
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KirkyV
> carcrasher88
08/15/2014 at 12:20 |
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I suppose I'll have to put together a part 2 at some point, then! Thanks for the offer.
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KirkyV
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
08/15/2014 at 12:24 |
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Thanks! Yeah, I've always been a bit of a Thunderbirds fanatic. I had Tracy Island, all the Thunderbirds - in Tracy Island scale and larger - and a bunch of miscellaneous toys. It's a shame I didn't think to take pictures of all the videos - cassettes - we're getting rid of; there's masses of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray.
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 12:31 |
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I couldn't afford the tracy island but always wanted it. Managed to get most of the thunderbirds except that space station one (6?) in the same scale. Wonder where they ended up, haven't seen them in years. I had a big collection of tapes I'd recorded from tv too.
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KirkyV
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
08/15/2014 at 12:33 |
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It, like pretty much all gigantic kids' toys, was fucking crazy expensive. I've no idea how my parents managed to afford it. The space station was 5; 6 was a biplane.
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 12:38 |
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Yeah I remember it being way more than all of the models in that scale combined so I got the models instead. Just remembered they did a relatively recent movie based on thunderbirds that had different toys and I got a couple of those too. Guna have to find them to hand down to my little brother.
philipilihp
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 12:44 |
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Thunderbird 2 was always my favorite! One of my friends had it and whenever I was at his house that is always what I would play with.
EL_ULY
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 14:37 |
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COOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!
Sn210
> KirkyV
08/15/2014 at 19:07 |
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Nice collection! I added you as an author on live and let diecast, feel free to post part 2 over there
fintail
> KirkyV
08/16/2014 at 00:14 |
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Ah the Matchbox RR Silver Spirit, I remember that casting.
What's the black ~1970 MB?
Matthew Phillips
> KirkyV
08/17/2014 at 11:59 |
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I'm loving that Astra
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KirkyV
> Matthew Phillips
08/17/2014 at 12:04 |
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I'm not! I'm not the greatest Vauxhall fan. (And, by that, I mean that, with one or two exceptions, I wouldn't have a Vauxhall if they paid me.) It is a cool model, though; I've actually got two.
I do actually have two childhood toy cars from the marque that would later furnish me with my current, actual car, but - irritatingly - one's kinda broken, and the other somehow managed to disappear between my finding it in the loft, and deciding to take pictures.)
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KirkyV
> fintail
08/17/2014 at 12:13 |
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/c8cx7dn9y49y…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9sa8e2du5ukx…
http://pics.imcdb.org/0is511/octopus…
It's a 280SE, from the Bond films—Octopussy, specifically. Roger Moore nicked it off some Russian General, and then drove it around on some train tracks.
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fintail
> KirkyV
08/17/2014 at 12:56 |
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Very cool I remember the car in the film. I take it that is a later issue special edition tied to Bond films?
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KirkyV
> fintail
08/17/2014 at 12:57 |
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Indeed. The tyres are removable, for maximum train-car authenticity, and there are mock bullet holes in the bootlid.
