Most pointless Subbuteo add on you had?

[Walt Jabsco]

What was the crapest add on to the pitch etc. I had a couple of terraces and a few fans (m pocket money would not allow for the purchase of enough packs of fans to fill the terrace and thus warrant a seated area). bearing in mind my ground resembled a county league one it seemed stupid of me to purchase the TV Tower...but purchase it I did..must have been for South Today or something...

[Brixtaan]

I had the tv tower too !!!!!!

so i'll go for the little pickett fence.
great thread.

[Italiaseagull]

I had a policeman and dog, who had no fans to control! :lolol:

[Walt Jabsco]

I had the fence to...though I will have to chance my idea and say the most crap was either the thrown in or corner figures.

[tinx]

definitely the thrown in figures, they truely were a waste of time, I seem to recall they broke rather easily as well.

[Marc]

I had one floodlight in one corner :p Came in a set of two but I sat on one of them the day I bought it!

[MRRF 10]

i had the fence, but then i trod on it, and broke it, it hurts

[Walt Jabsco]

Did anyone have to sponsor boards that went with the fence..? I was retricted to crap green trellace.

[Beeneys gloves]

Throw in and corner takers were so funny, about twice the size of a normal player, also the corner ones could kick it fucking miles.

I had the fence, that was a waste of time, also had the European cup which was again double the player size, and even went so far as to have stick on numbers on the back of some teams

Anyone have the Brazil team? they were always painted all black!

Also hated the noise when u stepped on a player and crushed him, u could hear everyone of their plastic bones snap!

[granny weatherwax]

in the World Cup Edition ( 1972) you got a whistle, which drove my parents to distraction.

Also, the floodlights. Anyone try to play in the dark with just the floodlights on! No

[tinx]

I had Brazil and yep mine were all black as well.

[Gritt23]

I had a team in tracksuits !

What were you supposed to do with them? Warm up? just have them out on the pitch while you were having your dinner and waiting to play?

I also had a bench with manager, physio etc sat on it. Took ages to balance them carefully, and would knock them over again within seconds.

[Herne Hill Seagull]

I had the works - fence, scoreboard, TV tower and pitchside crew, ambulance crew, several chunks of terracing (including the corners) with hundreds of supporters which I painted and glued onto them, floodlights, the bloody lot. Time you'd set the lot up you couldn't get near the bloody pitch to play the game. Had some pretty rare teams too, like Boavista and Peru. :blush:

Absolutely no sodding idea what happened to it all.

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Gritt23


I also had a bench with manager, physio etc sat on it. Took ages to balance them carefully, and would knock them over again within seconds.

I stuck mine down on it with U-Hu glue.

I had the numbers for the back as well and yes, all my brazil team were black.

I remember customising certain players, like putting a dob of glue on a man u players head to make it took like a bald bobby charlton.

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Originally posted by Gritt23


I also had a bench with manager, physio etc sat on it. Took ages to balance them carefully, and would knock them over again within seconds.

I glued them on Gritty! It meant you got a blob of smoky plastic on the bench under their tiny arses, where the glue reacted with it, but at least they didn't fall off every 15 seconds.

[Hannibal smith]

I had enough Terraces to fill 2 sides of the pitch but I never had anyone sat in them - Poor old Subbuteo players must have been like playing for Wimbledon.

I also had the European cup - Why I don't know it was massive in comparison to the players.

[Beeneys gloves]

I remember one of my liverpool players broke so i glued him back on and he was ever shorter so he was Peter Beardsley straight away, quality

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Originally posted by Richie Morris


I had the numbers for the back as well and yes, all my brazil team were black.

I remember customising certain players, like putting a dob of glue on a man u players head to make it took like a bald bobby charlton.

Yep - numbers too. I painted Steve Foster's headband on! Christ, I'm feeling sadder by the minute. At least I'm among friends, by the sound of things!

[REDLAND]

Halftime score board, it was so fiddly to get all the scores in, I trashed it eventually rubbish add on !!

[granny weatherwax]

what about the bails on the Subbuteo Cricket game. You could never get them to stay on and if you did, when you bowled ( Bowler with a triangle attached to his base which you twanged at the bat) if it hit the green crease bit, they would fall off again!!!

ARSE

[zefarelly]

numbers where stupid because they always came off on your fingers

silliest of all was an orange ball for playing on the snow . . . .no one had a white pitch did they?

I had that 5 a side thing with the walls as well . . . .quality, the ball would go round and round for ages. . . .

my Joe Corrigan in Brightons goal got broken so many times the glue build up meant he only had one mono-leg :lolol:

how is my subbuteo Dave?

[granny weatherwax]

I had the original west ham team and put Humbrol Black Paint on one of them to be Clyde Best!!!

I could never get the numbers to stay on

[Walt Jabsco]

[i]Had some pretty rare teams too, like Boavista and Peru. :blush:

Absolutely no sodding idea what happened to it all. [/B]


I had Peru as well..the only team in the world to play in a miss world sash!

[granny weatherwax]

excellent Zef.....!!!

[Italiaseagull]

Originally posted by zefarelly
silliest of all was an orange ball for playing on the snow . . . .no one had a white pitch did they?
?

Popkins did! :lolol:

http://www.ubeaut.com.au/Talc2.jpg

[Walt Jabsco]

The different balls were brilliant, my favourite was the ones with the black hexagons on that looked like they were from 1970s.

BEST ADD ON?
My Italia 90 style goals..you know the ones that went out square at the back..made every goal look amazing.

[tedebear]

My cousins had a tooheys beer seller for their world series cricket set - he was in a little ice cream van - funny thing was the set was marketed for ages 7 and up :lol:

[cheeseroll]

i purchased the AMAZING ! THE BALL STAYS IN THE NET, it was supposed to end all disputes in case the ball came back off the stanchon. it was actually a piece of double sided sticky tape to be affixed on the net or behind the goal line. 20p in 1972.

[Italiaseagull]

http://www.bagpipes.com/other/Subbuteo-ww.jpg

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by cheeseroll
i purchased the AMAZING ! THE BALL STAYS IN THE NET, it was supposed to end all disputes in case the ball came back off the stanchon. it was actually a piece of double sided sticky tape to be affixed on the net or behind the goal line. 20p in 1972.

Why do the premier league bother toying with the idea of video refs when that could solve every dispute!

[zefarelly]

we used to get bollocked by my mum for putting drawing pins in the table when I got my world cup goals, with the little loops to hold the net out :cool:

[Walt Jabsco]

My dad invested in a piece of chopboard to stop us damaging the dining room table.

[jonnyboylennon]

Originally posted by Richie Morris
The different balls were brilliant, my favourite was the ones with the black hexagons on that looked like they were from 1970s.

BEST ADD ON?
My Italia 90 style goals..you know the ones that went out square at the back..made every goal look amazing.


I had them as well, they were couloured green red and white for the italian flag! Oh happy days.

[Brixtaan]

the worst part was the pitch.Our carpets were wonky causing all sorts of trouble

[Italiaseagull]

Did anyone used to force they're younger brothers into placing a weeks pocket money wager on the match, then cheat in order to win it? ???

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Italiaseagull
Did anyone used to force they're younger brothers into placing a weeks pocket money wager on the match, then cheat in order to win it? ???

I was the younger brother in my house and my brother is 6ft 8 and about 17 stone now...so this was NOT big or clever in m opinon.

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Originally posted by Brixtaan
the worst part was the pitch.Our carpets were wonky causing all sorts of trouble

What was the name of that expensive rolled up pitch which always came out flat - the Subbuteo equivalent of Astroturf? That would have solved your problems Brixtaan. Only the posh kids with rich folks had that in my experience.

[Jambo Seagull]

Originally posted by dave the gaffer
in the World Cup Edition ( 1972) you got a whistle, which drove my parents to distraction.

Also, the floodlights. Anyone try to play in the dark with just the floodlights on! No

The floodlights were the absolute bollox!

[Wozza]

I had Subbuteo Rugby - and I fucking HATE rugby. Now that was useless.

[Brady's Old Lady]

I had a scoreboard - you could slot in cardboard names of the teams and the goals scored were on a sort of flywheel affair. Problem was it only went up to 9 for each team.

Most of my games used to finish 32-28 or something similar.
Thats what I used to love - the realsim!!

[Goring Gull]

Floodlights, still have them in my parents loft along with about 20 teams, pitch fences etc etc.

[Brady's Old Lady]

Originally posted by Wozza
I had Subbuteo Rugby - and I fucking HATE rugby. Now that was useless.

I could never understand why they didn't do subbuteo gymnastics!!

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Wozza
I had Subbuteo Rugby - and I fucking HATE rugby. Now that was useless.

My friend has that and we use it as tactics table for our uni rugby team

[Van der Gully]

Perhaps we should have done this on a poll because I am another vote for floodlights. Mine came in the box with everything else, I reckon you would have had to surround the pitch with them to have stood any chance of seeing your players, total waste of plastic and money.

[Jambo Seagull]

Originally posted by Wozza
I had Subbuteo Rugby - and I fucking HATE rugby. Now that was useless.

Got that for Xmas one year. All I can remember is the scrum being reprsented by some huge rugby ball shaped UFO into which you had to throw a smaller rugby ball. It was pants. Subbuteo cricket was much better.

[Goring Gull]

I reckon you'd have needed Abramovich type finances to afford to build a complete stadium round you pitch and fill it with Fans only to render it useless as you then couldn't reach properly to play the match.

[Minghawk]

I got the astropitch when I was at uni, along with the Italia 90 goals.

managed to pick up the England 1966 team at an Oxfam.

Anyone for an NSC tourny?

[Minghawk]

forgot to say about the useless stuff that was also in the oxfam box.

Along with the 1966 team, I got the throw-on guys

8 foot giants who could lob the ball so high that it hit the ceiling.

also came with a royal box and royal figures to present the FA cup

[Minghawk]

hey, I've just noticed -

I'm now Robert Codner 'the black pearl of Shoreham'

must get my NOBO shirt out of the wardrobe

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Minghawk


also came with a royal box and royal figures to present the FA cup

A ROYAL BOX??! WOW! Anyone else seen this possibly mythical toy?

[curly]

floodlights, absolutly rubbish no good trying to play in the dark

[Seagulls over Lewes]

I painted a white head band round one of my Brighton players for Steve Foster only for him to be sold to Aston Villa about two weeks later.

I had floodlight well 3 of them and the first time I played with the lights out broke one straight away.

One of my mates had the astro pitch, stands, crowd etc,etc which we always set up, only for a missed kicked shot to go into the crowd and create the biggest bundle ever.

Worst buy has got to be the goalkeepers on springs IMHO.

[Scotty Mac]

subbutteo..............

brilliant! i've still got mine downstairs!

the floodlights.........not only were they crap, but they didn't look anything like floodlights!

i had 2 camera stands (no idea why!), and those small camera people. and the stickers that went on the fence as advertising boards. and the coaches for the dugout and the manager with his coat! i also had the grandstand, and 2 smaller stands, and one corner stand.

did anyone else have the linesmen? how come there was no fourth official?

and my brazil players were black as well!

[Scotty Mac]

brighton v england in the european cup final under floodlights...........we were in extra time........

then my dad came in and knocked over a floodlight, which in turn crushed about 5 players..........it was a long night glueing them back on!

[Seagulls over Lewes]

http://freespace.virgin.net/s.hannah/pics/goon2.JPG

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Seagulls over Lewes
http://freespace.virgin.net/s.hannah/pics/goon2.JPG

Surely the fencing in of the crowds would mean this ground wouldnt pass the taylor report?

[Scotty Mac]

the photographers as well!

this threads given me the urge to dust the pitch off and have a game!

[cheshunt seagull]

I remember having a strange piece of green plastic which was supposed to be a launching pad enabling you to put the ball into the air for corners, at best you would project he ball onto the mass of inanimate figures massing in the box.

[Walt Jabsco]

Why the hell are there almost a dozen dug outs with people sat in them behind the goal in that pic above?

[Scotty Mac]

http://www.csls12034.pwp.blueyonder.c o.uk/subbuteo365/images/gallery/ebaystadium1.jpg

thats my kind of ground!

[Wozza]

And two cameramen are right next to each other.

Oh, and that's a shite defensive formation too.

[Scotty Mac]

anyone remember the ball boys as well?

[Walt Jabsco]

If that is our ground scotty then hats off to you..also, how about hosting the first ever NSC Subbuteo Tournament? perhaps before a game one week? Transport it to a pub etc?

[Scotty Mac]

Originally posted by Richie Morris
If that is our ground scotty then hats off to you..also, how about hosting the first ever NSC Subbuteo Tournament? perhaps before a game one week? Transport it to a pub etc?

im up for that!

but my ground consists of just 3 stands! im sure if everyone bought what they had we could make a pretty impressive ground!

[Walt Jabsco]

Ok I am on to it!

[Theatre of Trees]

Originally posted by Scotty M
http://www.csls12034.pwp.blueyonder.c o.uk/subbuteo365/images/gallery/ebaystadium1.jpg

thats my kind of ground!

With Leyton Orient's type of crowd

[Scotty Mac]

and with the camera stand tucked away in the corner!

tv highlights from there will there be pretty crap!

[Pevenseagull]

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/Pict8022.jpg


:)

[Pevenseagull]

Is that Union Jack wotsit on the right?

gloriously pointless



http://www.subbuteofan.it/images/C/C114.jpg

[Wilts]

Quality thread!

The pitch was the worst thing by a mile. Used to put it on the dining table, which wasn't actually big enough. So corners were taken from the edge of the penalty area. My teams were always therefore direct and had no width.

Thank the Lord for the foam-type pitch thing that I got for about my 6th birthday.

[Theatre of Trees]

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/Pict4325.jpg

I've only got the Queen left, the other VIPs disappeared long ago.

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/Pict4326.jpg

I think this is the most pointless item ever made. A record of crowd noises of only about 10 minutes either side.

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Theatre of Trees
[B


I think this is the most pointless item ever made. A record of crowd noises of only about 10 minutes either side. [/B]

WE HAVE A WINNER!

[Only 2 Kerry Mayos]

I also had the European Cup. You could fit about half a dozen players inside it!

Can't believe no-ones mentioned the dog eating players. I never had a dog but anyone I know who did always lost players to the dog throughout the game.

[Scotty Mac]

what about the fa cup?

[Theatre of Trees]

I seem to recall playing somebody who as soon as he was losing would deliberately stand up and tread on one of my players. After 5 minutes the pair of us were reduced to seven a side.

[Scotty Mac]

the old long ball. launch it from end to the other!

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Only 2 Kerry Mayos
I also had the European Cup. You could fit about half a dozen players inside it!

Can't believe no-ones mentioned the dog eating players. I never had a dog but anyone I know who did always lost players to the dog throughout the game.

As I said on another thread my og (sally RIP) ate the leg off a star wars figure..but cant remember her ever eating a player. Many a ball..but never a play..got one stuck on her foot once.

[Van der Gully]

We had a cat who used to watch the games, he used to interact from time to time, not satisfied with remaining on the sidelines he would run onto the pitch, scattering the players and knocking the ball under the settee.

As a kitten he had also developed an unhealthy interest in scalextric, watching the cars going round the circuit for a while, before jumping onto the track and chasing after them. After a time we turned this into a spectator sport and just built an oval track, boy was he quick around those banked corners.

Sadly Charlie George (named after the Arsenal legend) died from Meningitis when aged 9, he had lived life in the fast lane but gave us hours of pleasure from his crazy antics.

(I cannot believe I am posting this drivel)

[Scotty Mac]

i remember when games were cut short through floodlight failure!

used to have get a torch out!

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Van der Gully

Sadly Charlie George (named after the Arsenal legend) died from Meningitis when aged 9, he had lived life in the fast lane but gave us hours of pleasure from his crazy antics.

(I cannot believe I am posting this drivel)

That is quite possibly the most poignantly touching sentance i have ever read on NSC.

[Turkey]

I done up a team in the stripes and made 'em look like the Brighton players. Gave them all numbers on the back too.

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Turkey
I done up a team in the stripes and made 'em look like the Brighton players. Gave them all numbers on the back too.

fancy putting them in the NSC Cup then?

[Turkey]

They're long gone now.

[Walt Jabsco]

awww...
So many people on this thread, so few who want to get involved in the cup....


I thought for a brief moment that I was going to fullfill a lifetime ambition and have a thread placed in the NSC Gold.

[Walt Jabsco]

I had a sniff in the attic last night and found an old Jules Rimet trophy...which was nice.

[Storer68]

subbuteo FISHING????????

OH YES IT EXISTED. THO NOT SURE HW IT WOULD FARE IN THESE PC TIMES


http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/Pict4911.jpg

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/Pict4905.jpg

[Storer68]

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/Pict4909.jpg

[Walt Jabsco]

How on earth did you play subbuteo angling?

[Hiney]

Scotty, that is fecking class.

The goalies with the springs on the back were shite.

[Silver flying chariot]

I use to have the ballboys, the bench, the policeman with the dog, the scoreboard. I use to conduct an F A Cup style draw with the team names from the scoreboard in a box. Amazing how many times Brighton got Man utd and beat them away!!!!

What great memories! they were, I use to blue tack the broken men together. They use to have a better shot with the blue tack on!!!!

I had a few blood bath masacres as well, Stand fell on the pitch crushing 11 players and the floodlights also squashed the many a left back when they fell over. :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[Storer68]

Originally posted by Richie Morris
How on earth did you play subbuteo angling?

Apparently.................... .....

This is an infamous set. It's Subbuteo's crack at a more standard board game, and dates from the early 1970s. It only seems to have existed for a couple of years, but it did last long enough to get two different box lids. The object of the board game is to finish with the heaviest catch of fish.. You do this by using the UFO shaped dicer (seen in all its glory on the Miscellaneous page) to move your plastic fisherman clockwise around the board. At each corner of the board is a tackle shop, with one being the start and master tackle shop. Every time you land on a tackle shop (or pass the start), you can gain another piece of tackle. Before you can start to fish you need a rod, a reel, a float and a keep net, plus matching line and hook (there are four different pairs of these you can collect). If you want to catch big fish, you also need a landing net. So the start of the game is a race to collect all the tackle needed. The other squares on the board contain places to fish (rivers, a lake, a gravel pit etc), fishing permits (allow you to fish anywhere) and day tickets (allow you to fish at certain places), plus four different types of bait to collect (which match up to the four different line/hook combinations). There are also "splash" cards which add an extra degree of chance to proceedings.

[Storer68]

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/Pict4514.jpg

C185: Crush Barriers.
A set of twenty crush barriers for use with stadium terracing.


A very simple grey plastic loop which slotted into the terracing and did look exactly like their real life counterparts.. If like me, you had one grandstand and fifteen spectators, twenty crush barriers seemed a little excessive. Of course, the subbuteo crowd are all seated, and therefore don't actually need crush barriers anyway... which is a shame, because having a few crush barriers with half a dozen supporters leaning on them would be great for representing rainy evenings at the Goldstone... The set is new in 1981, and the final appearance is 1983 (and it's another item on the request only lists of 1982-83)



ahhhhh memeories

[Theatre of Trees]

http://www.subbuteoworld.co.uk/top30/1beatlesinner.jpeg

For half time entertainment,here's the subbuteo Beatles. I kid you not. It is one of the rariest items made by Subbuteo, if you have a mint set in a box of John, Paul, Ringo and Ken hidden away somewhere it could earn you £600.

Have to admit being a bit of a collector, recently purchasing a good condition Test Match subbuteo box set. Fab game.

[Scotty Mac]

i wish i had crash barriers!

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Theatre of Trees
http://www.subbuteoworld.co.uk/top30/1beatlesinner.jpeg

For half time entertainment,here's the subbuteo Beatles. I kid you not. It is one of the rariest items made by Subbuteo, if you have a mint set in a box of John, Paul, Ringo and Ken hidden away somewhere it could earn you £600.

Have to admit being a bit of a collector, recently purchasing a good condition Test Match subbuteo box set. Fab game.

Can you get 'the who'?

[Scotty Mac]

how about queen?

we are the champions at the end of the game. that would be good!

[Tom Hark, Preston Park]

European Cup

We NEVER won it... :(

[Lush]

I never had a Subbutteo and this thread makes me feel as though I missed out. I insist that this goes in NSC Gold.

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Lush
I never had a Subbutteo and this thread makes me feel as though I missed out. I insist that this goes in NSC Gold.

sob..sob..could my dream of starting a thread which gets moved to NSC Gold be about to come true..:)

[Turkey]

That depends on how many pints you buy me. ;)

[Lush]

BO ZZZZZ AAAAAAAAAA! Turkey's not playing nicely!!!!@!!!!!!

[Walt Jabsco]

Originally posted by Turkey
That depends on how many pints you buy me. ;)

I am coming to the next meet with Emilysmum as shes in barnsley and im in hull..so definitely going to be there. how many would it take? (God I sound ever so slightly gay asking you that)

[Turkey]

Originally posted by Lush
BO ZZZZZ AAAAAAAAAA! Turkey's not playing nicely!!!!@!!!!!!

:lolol:

[Turkey]

Originally posted by Richie Morris
I am coming to the next meet with Emilysmum as shes in barnsley and im in hull..so definitely going to be there. how many would it take? (God I sound ever so slightly gay asking you that)

Sort out this fanzine and I'll let you off. :D