I think there are two very rare Subbuteo games I believe.
Did anyone here have Cluedo? I think we still have an original game from the 70's but it was a great game to play with friends or family. You could choose from 6 characters -I always like playing Professor Plum-and you went around the board taking it in turns to ask questions about the murder of a Doctor Black(although why he was murdered was never explained) someone would be selected to add three cards to a dark wallet and that was placed in the middle of the board -if you worked out who did, with what object and what room you could challenge the wallet and see if you were right. The idea was to elimnate the suspects, objects and rooms to get the solution. In the US it was called Clue and in the early 90's a comedy film was made of it. As with all games though they get updated and some of the characters have been replaced.
^ yes we had Cluedo,brilliant game
Although I don't know where our regular version of the game went but I recall us getting a Simpson's version.The same premise but you had these suspects :
Kristy The Clown as Col.Mustard
Bart Simpson as Prof.Plum
Homer Simpson as Rev.Green
Marge Simpson as Mrs.Peacock
Lisa Simpson as Miss Scarlett
Waylon Smithers as Mrs.White
The weapons changed as well,the usuals replaced with :
Poisoned doughnut
Extend-O-Glove
Necklace
Slingshot
Plutonium rod
Saxophone
The rooms changed to the following also :
Barney's Bowl-A-Rama
Krustylu Studios
Nuclear Power Plant
The Simpson House
The Frying Dutchman
Kwick-E-Mart
Burns Manor
Springfield Retirement Castle
The Android's Dungeon
Television: Did anyone see that Bill Grundy interview with The Sex Pistols that practically ruined his career after that? I only saw it much later and I don't recall it being in the papers. Apparently John Lydon(aka Johnny Rotten) was reluctant to say anything and at one point he says "oops nearly said something rude there" but it was Glen Matlock who started it, after it looked like Siousxie Sue(soon to be of Siousxie and the Banshees) made a comment that she liked him. Grundy had said something like see after the show or some such thing and Matlock pounced. Grundy saw his chance and got him to swear even more, at which point Lydon looked a little sheepish but said something in the end.
With all the worst swearwords flying about Grundy signed off, but that had basically sealed his fate. His son Tim(who also became a presenter) always maintained that his father was made the unnecessary scapegoat for that interview and that Thames had basically disowned him. I was too young to have watched that but I bet it was THE talking point for people the next day. Punk died out a few years later, but Lydon went on to have solo hits as well as later a new band called PiL and a hit called Rise.
Ah well if you're talking about girls as a child mine would be top athlete Kathy Smallwood, Page 3 girls like Jane Warner, Debbie Boyland, Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi. I did have a crush on Suzanne Dando(great legs) and US child actress (when I was about 9 or 10) Kim Richards from Escape To/Return From Witch Mountain films- she was so cute.
Did any of you ever get to London and in particular go to the then Odeon Disney Cinema in St Martin's Lane? Well I remember one birthday my Dad took me up to London and we went on the HMS Belfast ship, then went for lunch at a Golden Egg restaurant before finally going to the cinema to see 'Donald Duck Goes West' which I don't think has ever been shown on television. It was a big place with each aisle depicting a Disney character like King Louie(Jungle Book) and Mickey Mouse of course. I don't know what happened but soon after it closed or was converted. I do remember going up there by underground train and looking at the posters advertising the cartoon.
One thing i DO remember when I was a nipper was the Letraset transfer sets. Basically they were a sheet of a scene and a sheet of character transfers which you placed and rubbed on the scene sheet. I remember doing quite a few. The trick was to keep the sheet underneath the transfer sheet, so you couldn't transfer any you didn't want to place. They are something the kids ae def missing out on today, and I doubt you find many available online. Do any of you guys remember them and had any favourites?
update
Seen some on e - bay some people asking £35+ for some!! SO SOME DO still exist!!
On the very first Letts Schoolboy Diary I have from 1978(and I have over 40 yrs worth of diaries and organiser stuff) I have two Star Wars figures I put on the front(C3PO and R2D2) and they were Letraset. Remember them very well, only a few pence back then.
