villaajax Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Anyone remember Subbuteo? to take my mind off my long boring unfulfilling job, I've found out my old Subbuteo stuff and have decided to make some custom teams, so I'll be starting with Villa 1980-81 I'm planning to recreate the Holte End from subbuteo stadium parts :oops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Nice. Always been a plan of mine to (when I've actually got a games room) build a cardboard stadium around a Pro-Action Football pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracker1234 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 What are they in the background? Legs from what? Action figures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 What are they in the background? Legs from what? Action figures? Yes they are, part of my wrestling figure collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claret75 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I loved Subbuteo, had the astroturf pitch instead of the felty ones. Had the grandstands and scoreboard as well, but you couldnt take a throw-in with those things in the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Nice. Always been a plan of mine to (when I've actually got a games room) build a cardboard stadium around a Pro-Action Football pitch. Same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 10, 2011 Moderator Share Posted February 10, 2011 I still have an astroturf pitch , complete in tube, stored under my bed. Also still have a Subbuteo Rugby set but seem to have lost my Subbuteo Cricket set. Never owned a Subbuteo Fishing game though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 My perfect cousin Kevin. He always beat me at Subbuteo, 'cos he flicked to kick and I didn't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I still have loads of it at my parents but it's in terrible condition (very played with). I was a very lame child, I did a league all by myself. Used to play every fixture and write down all the scores and stats. I found one of my books a couple of years ago and I used to make up transfer rumours and news reports. My favourite was... "Tottenham have been fined 20,000 pound after fans threw missiles at the Arsenal team bus following their derby clash". I'm pretty sure Arsenal wouldn't need the team bus for Tottenham! As it's been previously mentioned, WWF Hasbro figures were another I'd spend hours on my lonesome playing with. I did my own supershows in my Hulk Hogan tent in my back garden. I still have all of them too. I did have friends honest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 I still have loads of it at my parents but it's in terrible condition (very played with). I was a very lame child, I did a league all by myself. Used to play every fixture and write down all the scores and stats. I found one of my books a couple of years ago and I used to make up transfer rumours and news reports. My favourite was... "Tottenham have been fined 20,000 pound after fans threw missiles at the Arsenal team bus following their derby clash". I'm pretty sure Arsenal wouldn't need the team bus for Tottenham! As it's been previously mentioned, WWF Hasbro figures were another I'd spend hours on my lonesome playing with. I did my own supershows in my Hulk Hogan tent in my back garden. I still have all of them too. I did have friends honest! Who needs friends when you have Doink with real feel hair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 And Berzerkers lovely felt vest. Please give me your Akeem and Demolition figures. :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheltenham_villa Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I used to play out football matches using my mask and gi joe action force figures. I used to record the commentary on my tape cassette recorder. :oops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 The reason my French side is Montpellier is because they were my favourite Subbuteo team that I had. Lovely kit. I didn't ever play it properly though, used to use the little 'Monsters in my Pocket' figures (below!) as players too I'm planning to recreate the Holte End from subbuteo stadium parts :oops: Fuckn awesome, do eeeeet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Oh man I am really enjoying the 'confessions' of how sad some of us were as kids. Keep em coming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I did the whole match report thing aswell. This thread made me dig the book out. "Chesterfield played their new signing Clarence Seedorf, from Real Madrid having swapped clubs with Kevin Davies." Simple pleasures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Cup Final Special Edition Small Heath subbuteo team released... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 10, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 10, 2011 Anyone remember Subbuteo? to take my mind off my long boring unfulfilling job, I've found out my old Subbuteo stuff and have decided to make some custom teams, so I'll be starting with Villa 1980-81 I'm planning to recreate the Holte End from subbuteo stadium parts :oops: OK, I have GOT to get the camera out and hope it can do a decent macro shot. Because I still have my - although I say it myself - **** awesome 81-82 Subbuteo Villa team. Hand painted, back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Accidently broke the goals a few times by standing on them, so dad made some out of metal at work, trouble was if you shot and hit the post it went miles. Suppose if you scale up it would be like Ash hitting a screamer and the ball rebounding to New St. Mind you we took it serious we even played Anthems before internationals. Fleetwood macs Albatross was the German Anthem because it was an instrumental Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Used to play a bit of Subbuteo at my gran's with my uncle's old players. Me and my brother used to play a similar game with those Corinthians football models, good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 10, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted February 10, 2011 I bought a full set complete with pitch, crowd, various cups, the queen to present the cup, scoreboard plus names of every team in the english leagues loads of teams, pitch, goals etc etc for...wait for it....£3.50 from Oxfam. best thing I ever bought. I don't think I ever really knew how to play it but it didn't stop me spending hours playing it. I was a bit obsessive about the pitch though. I hated when it was creased, i had to keep re-ironing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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