TOYS...................................................................

I had that, too!

I had reels from "Winnetou", with Lex Barker and Pierre Briece, "The Rescuers" and "UFO":

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Yesss! My Maya the Bee slides were my favourite!

On topic as well: a colleague posted a photo on fb of her daughter who had found a typewriter at her grandma's house and loves it! I remember having a typewriter too and I was addicted to it. I was 11-12 years old I think.

I remember what I wrote and I even kept some of it. When we moved years ago I went through some boxes and found some of the typed stuff. Mostly analyses of my school friends and classmates like who had a crush on who, and who had a fight with who so basically a diary of the social relations in my group haha

I also remember writing an adventure story, just with ink on paper, and I read to my sister what I wrote each day and she thought it was good and exciting! But I never found those papers again.

Oh my word! Yes!
I had some Disney-related ones (I remember one of Donald Duck thinking having struck gold, inadvertently breaking into Uncle Scrooge's money warehouse and being presented with a massive bill for repairs), but mostly it's non-fiction for me too. There was a set of the seven wonders of the world, but it was presented in three parts: the 'classic ones' (the colossus of Rhodos, the hanging gardens of Babylon, et cetera), but then there was a set of the seven *natural* wonders of the world (I only remember the giant California redtrees from that set), and the seven wonders of teh modern world (I only remember orbital satellites from that set).

Damn, going through that site, I sure would have liked this set.

Bless! It's possibly what all little boys do.

Well, that would have qualified you for the secret service, or wouldn't it? Observing people and writing dossiers and stuff? :non-existend spy emoticon:



I had a type writer, too, a mechanical one first and an electric later. I remember exatly what I wrote and I - too - still have some of that stuff: A space opera series revolving around Major Eike van Helder and his crew of special agents and their spaceship Amazing Starlight. It all was modelled after Captain Future - who would ever have guessed?!

"Major Eike van Helder": I was determined that my space hero would NOT have an English name.
- "Major" denotes "Major Tom" of David Bowie and Peter Schilling fame.
- "Eike" is a boy's and sometimes a girl's name, that is common in northern Germany.
- "van Helder": My hero was born on the coast of the German north sea, yet his ancestors were from the Netherlands. The name derives from the city den Helder. Also the name includes the German word "Held" for "hero".

So, Major van Helder and his crew went off with their ship "Amazing Starlight" and saved the Galaxy over and over again. I miss the unrestrained, playful fantasy of my 12 year olf former self!

Volker

I don't remember these at all.

Nope. Not even in their boxes.

This links in with Ray Harryhausen, it was the nearest ( a 'sad' nearest ) I could get to getting my hands on Ray's lovely and fully poseable models that would taunt me remorselessly every time I saw some documentary on how Ray made his movie magic.