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i recently picked this "1977/8 look in annual" and thought this article maybe of interest hence the post,the title comes from the text.
"phosphated by a huge fire machine" this is the machine to be on this time of year !
" D,ont for get to click the pics to read the text"
dave

A huge fire machine sounds good right about now! Sadly, I never gave a second thought to beating up my models as a kid.

Squid wrote:A huge fire machine sounds good right about now! Sadly, I never gave a second thought to beating up my models as a kid.

The only new in the box i can remember was a matchbox superfast white hoovercraft,all my others came from jumble sales ,i was more into actionman,aeroplanes etc
dave

Being born in 1978, few--if any--of my childhood models were Lesney products. I don't recall owning anything larger than a 1-75, so no childhood Corgis for me. Thiugh I did fall far and hard into that rabbit hole as an adult!

Squid wrote:Being born in 1978, few--if any--of my childhood models were Lesney products. I don't recall owning anything larger than a 1-75, so no childhood Corgis for me. Though I did fall far and hard into that rabbit hole as an adult!

You're making me feel old. I was a junior in college in 1978!

Bill, I didn't mean it to come across that way.

The two of you are making me feel even older. I was already six years out of the Army well into my first career at that point. Goodness, I'm as old as dirt

I was 13 in 1978,so this maybe not the first time i have encountered this annual,flicking through it, 1978 wasn,t so bad,we had star wars,close encounters of the third kind,at the pictures,logans run and ufo ,doctor who ,and charlies angels,bionic man and woman ,the fonz ,tomorrows people and benny hill on the telly (three channels remember that )i thought i would never say this but those were the days
dave

MOKOSEX wrote:I was 13 in 1978,so this maybe not the first time i have encountered this annual,flicking through it, 1978 wasn,t so bad,we had star wars,close encounters of the third kind,at the pictures,logans run and ufo ,doctor who ,and charlies angels,bionic man and woman ,the fonz ,tomorrows people and benny hill on the telly (three channels remember that )i thought i would never say this but those were the days
dave

Here speaks a Man who knows good telly when he sees it!

I was only 20 in 1978 and those three TV channels were all we needed, not like today with endless unherd of tv companies jumping onto the freeview platform just to give us more reality and food based programmes like it is a new idea!

Squid wrote:Bill, I didn't mean it to come across that way.

Not to worry. I plan to be around for a long time!