Mister No's Pics & Vids

@ Super

These are some 15 (or so) year old. With minor exceptions (Freddie came just last week).

When I was a kid (some 45+ years ago) there were some great toys over here, Super. Look at this tin/plastic imported DDR (German Democratic Republic) Tram from late seventies (?), for example:



I still keep that one! 

Or these traditional hand-made and painted Croatian wooden toys: 






@ leylandvictory

I was storing them inside the boxes, as I mentioned earlier. Despite that, some of them were discoloured (regular Thomas, Edward, Gordon), and some were not (Talking Thomas).

I’m not sure of your own toys history, but I always understood that the yellow discoloring was caused by a chemical reaction due to exposure to nicotine.

That's what I was thinking too, Muddy, but I'm not so sure anymore... How then would we explain the fate of these (kept together all the time) guys:

Unless they were BNIB when you opened them and you are 100% sure that you can account for their whereabouts for their entire life, anything is possible...
But if you are absolutely sure that they have never EVER been exposed to smoke, then it will most definitely dispel the ongoing nicotine theory once and for all.

They might be exposed, but if they were, they were exposed together. If they are of the same age and everything, then how could this happened? One is slightly discoloured, the other isn't.

I'm not that upset with all that discolouring thing, I was just courious why is it happening...

Here is the new video:

[Super]

@ Super
Look at this tin/plastic imported DDR (German Democratic Republic) Tram from late seventies

I love that streetcar, about how big is it?

Lenght: 17 cm over buffers! 
Height: 8 cm (without pantograph)

(The big headlamp on the roof is my childish "customization", and I misplaced somewhere the enclosed figurine of the driver).

That one is friction motor version (no rails needed), but there were other versions in different colours, with different car numbers, and also a wind-up version sets with rails:

[Super]

Thanks Mr-No
So cool. Love the graphic painting on them.

There were some really great toys and extraordinarily ingenious board games Made in GDR in the seventies.

I remember the day (now almost fifty years ago) when my dear Granny bought me this Blechautobahn (I have it to this day, and I don't know where it is at the moment, but I found the same one on YouTube):



I didn't want to go to sleep that night, I wanted to play with it all night long!