Roadgeek Toys

[RoadWarrior56]

I had the Freeway USA Bridge and Highway Building Set from Kenner, Set # 26, got it for Christmas of 1964 when I was 8, one of my favorite toys of all time.  It is like the ones in the photo above, but was in a flat box, and had more pieces than Set 24.

[Ian]

I used to draw entire networks of roads on our driveway with chalk and run my Matchbox cars up and down them.

I used to do a somewhat similar thing. I'd always get large pieces of paper and draw roads (with signs and signals added) and intersections in pen or pencil then run the Matchbox cars up and down the drawn roads.

[Scott5114]

I used to stick down masking tape and draw stripes on it with Sharpie, and make signs by using the shape tools in MS Word and printing them out and sticking them to cardboard. (Unfortunately there were no Roadgeek fonts yet, so I had to make do with Blue Highway...)

[DaBigE]

I had something called Majo-Kit. It consisted of plastic sections of sidewalk with kerbing that you joined together to form streets. These sections had holes in them to place streetlights, signs and traffic lights. The traffic lights had a rotating cylinder with colored dots stuck to it and you turned it to display the correct aspect. The only problem for me is it was produced by a French company so the signs had foreign symbols.

I still have some of those stored away.  I used to love setting up cities with Majorette parts!  I used to use our old pool table (in name only, wasn't really fit for billiards) to set up cities on.  I loved how realistic their stuff was, modern cobra head street lights, etc.).  Only problem was that I only had one of their traffic signals.  Shortly after I had a few sets, the store that carried the Majo-Kits went out of business...before my parents made an attempt to buy any more sets for me.

I ended up making some crude "static" traffic signals out of 1x1 Lego bricks and taped them to the Majorette sign posts.  Occasionally I would make a few buildings out of Lego to augment the Majorette buildings.  Somehow, I ended up with a large roll of white paper as a kid, which I used to put under the Majorette and draw pavement markings on.  When I didn't have a Majorette/Matchbox city set up, Legotown ruled the table, or MicroMachines.

Ahh, those were the days! :jumping:  I would love to have those traffic "problems" to solve again!

I also still have my Playmobil traffic parts yet... cones, signs, barracades, and the traffic signals (white base with a yellow signal housing), with the verticle slider that changed the "light" (was still available in some stores up until a few years ago).