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Old 7th May 2016, 07:42
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tartare
 
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Actually, I have unresolved F-4 issues from my childhood.
Dad comes back to NZ from the UK.
From Harrods I gets the Dinky Toy Harrier with the switch on top that rotates the nozzles and retracts the centre gear at the same time, and the Dinky Toy Jag with the plastic canopy that springs open and ejects the dayglo orange pilot.
Well he got lost in a couple of days.
But my younger sister - my bleedin' sister gets the Dinky Toy grey USS Saratoga F-4 with the white plastic detachable Sarjent Fletchers!!!
Dead envious I were.
Never been the same since.
Not even the Dinky Toy Tonka with the swing wings, or the Sea King that had a battery powered rotor and could winch up the plastic Apollo 11 capsule it came with could make up for it.
There was something covetous about that Phantom... I'd nick it, but she always found it...
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