I've got about 20 kilos of Meccano, of various vintages that I acquired at boot sales. That reminds me, I'll have to get in touch with the Scottish fella who usually buys all I can find before I put it on eBay

What joy? Where is the joy of building a crane, looking at it and going "wow". Then what are you supposed to do?. Quite rightly, kids would rather be killing insurgents on MW3

Obviously, you pick stuff up with it.



If you don't understand what a crane does I suggest you put the games consol away.

You swivel it around to its left so its hanging over the edge of the desk using the little winding handles and watching all the pulleys work, then you drop down the bucket or hook using more little handles and you pick something up off the floor and lift it back up using more little winding handles while all the time making the noise "vvvvvvvv-vvvvvv-vvvvvvvv" with your mouth.

Hours of fun.

Teenage Mutant Hero / Ninja Turtles - now they were some cool action figures in the day!





Hey anyone remember Teddy Ruxpin from the 80's? (talking teddy bear that reads out a story and you get the book to read along IIRC). Noticed at work a while ago that that's made a comeback in the last few years.