@Fatman posted:Thanks John ... It's not always about "serious" stuff to me , I like to look at things thru the eyes of a young kid and often measure "worth" in terms of smiles per mile hence my collection often has items like this shuttle set or other tin track type items.
A lot of Big Value trains were bought by a father to play with and the poor kid often didnt get a look in LOL !
Sometimes we all get too serious, and thats when the ridiculous becomes fun again !
Here's just some of the weird and wonderful I have
Your toys are indeed "weird and wonderful," @Fatman! They are the domain of children and those with your rare gift of being able to "look at things thru the eyes of a young kid." These and others I've seen in the forum revived a lost memory of toys I had in the 60s. One was a brightly-colored tinplate police car. The memory movie is brittle with age, but that police car (or others I had) were either the kind you pulled back on and then released, or the kind that you pushed forward several times before releasing. They made a wonderful whirring sound.
