Members Willjag Posted May 6, 2013 Members Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Anybody got the old Subbuteo original Partick Thistle team (HW 029)? Was just looking on the web for something else there and came across this ad! Used to have this one years ago but gave it to my nephew. Certainly wouldn't part with it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryza Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 You'll always find the HW and LW teams ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0&_nkw=partick+thistle+subbuteo&_sacat=0&_from=R40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 I've got one, but don't know if it's HW 029. How can you tell? (Can't see anything on the box). Think mine is older than in the photo, as the goalie is the old wire-stick variety, rather than the plastic stem. I also have an entire Jags team of the old flat 2-D players (including goalie) that slotted into their bases. Subbuteo: loved it when I was a wean. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willjag Posted May 7, 2013 Author Members Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 (edited) The number should be at the foot of the box Jaggernaut. You used to have a picture of one of the players as an avatar IIRC didn't you. Looked like the real deal to me. If it's all in good nick, you've got a very desirable item there. SO WHAT'S RARE? There is no doubt that some heavyweight teams are more rare than others. Numbers: 1,2,5,7,8,13,16,41,42,50 and 100 turn up more than most. Where as numbers: 29,32,62,69,70,71,97,98,122 and 123 to name but a few hardly ever turn up. As a general rule those team colours that by the mid 70's were not a listed team are the hardest to find. Also most of the teams with references from the mid hundreds onwards are also very rare. It's logical if you think about it. As a collector in the 70's most people brought the top league and World Cup teams of the day and that was it. If a team didn't sell it wasn't painted. Base colour is also an important factor to the 'Hard Core' collector. A more common reference can increase in value just by its base colouring and combination. Finally location. It stands to reason that certain teams will be more common in certain parts of the country than others. For instance, no.23 Partick Thistle and no.73 Clydebank are quite hard teams to find but have been turned up in Scotland more often than in most other parts of the UK. Edited May 7, 2013 by Willjag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 The number should be at the foot of the box Jaggernaut. You used to have a picture of one of the players as an avatar IIRC didn't you. Looked like the real deal to me. If it's all in good nick, you've got a very desirable item there. SO WHAT'S RARE? There is no doubt that some heavyweight teams are more rare than others. Numbers: 1,2,5,7,8,13,16,41,42,50 and 100 turn up more than most. Where as numbers: 29,32,62,69,70,71,97,98,122 and 123 to name but a few hardly ever turn up. As a general rule those team colours that by the mid 70's were not a listed team are the hardest to find. Also most of the teams with references from the mid hundreds onwards are also very rare. It's logical if you think about it. As a collector in the 70's most people brought the top league and World Cup teams of the day and that was it. If a team didn't sell it wasn't painted. Base colour is also an important factor to the 'Hard Core' collector. A more common reference can increase in value just by its base colouring and combination. Finally location. It stands to reason that certain teams will be more common in certain parts of the country than others. For instance, no.23 Partick Thistle and no.73 Clydebank are quite hard teams to find but have been turned up in Scotland more often than in most other parts of the UK. All tres intéressant. Nothing on the box that I have. But it'll be my new avatar soon, as the current one has done it's job of seeing us safely over the finishing line at the end of the season. A few of my previous avatars have been not Subbuteo players but hand-painted (not by me) Airfix footballers, 2" high. I've got 16, all in various Thistle outfits since the 60s. There was a guy who sold them on eBay and who would also do them to commission, but he's no longer active, unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Kerr Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 <<<<<< I did these for a friend a couple of years ago. Full team with a few wee "conversions" to make some personalities stand out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy davie Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Subbuteo was just the greatest game ever. There was nothing quite like buying your new team and getting them on the pitch. I used to get mine at that sports/toy shop at the bottom of Great George Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hit The Bar Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Agreed! The best bar none.IMHO computer games can't match the thrill of "flicking to kick" Used to be part of a Subbuteo league in school...happy days!! I remember that shop in George st...Inter Sports I think it was called...got most of my teams from Pitchers Sports in Dumbarton rd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 (edited) All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit There was one in the gang who had Scalextric And because of that he thought he was better than you Every day after school you’d go round there to play it Hoping to compete for some kind of championship But it always took about fifteen billion hours to set the track up And even when you did the thing never seemed to work It was a dodgy transformer again and again A dodgy transformer again and again It was a dodgy transformer again and again A dodgy transformer that cost three pound ten So he’d send his doting mother up the stairs with the stepladders To get the Subbuteo out of the loft He had all the accessories required for that big match atmosphere The crowd and the dugout and the floodlights too You’d always get palmed off with a headless centre forward And a goalkeeper with no arms and a face like his And he’d managed to get hold of a Dukla Prague away kit ‘Cos his uncle owned a sports shop and he’d kept it to one side And after only five minutes you’d be down to ten men ‘Cos he’d sent off your right back for taking the base from under his left winger And come to half time you were losing four-nil Each and every goal a hotly disputed penalty So you’d smash up the floodlights and the match was abandoned And the dog would bark and you’d be banned from his house And your travelling army of synthetic supporters Would be taken away from you and thrown in the bin Now he’s working in a job with a future He hands me my Giro every two weeks And me I’m on the lookout for a proper transformer …errr Edited May 7, 2013 by The Jukebox Rebel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davie Thistle Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 (edited) ..........luved it! I'm auld enuff to mind the chad Valley flick football game? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251270648675?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649 then Subbuteo came out fantastik! we used to have league and iternational games in oor wee block - maisionette! in shitehill! great care free days of being young!! Edited May 7, 2013 by Davie Thistle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglemon Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Agreed! The best bar none.IMHO computer games can't match the thrill of "flicking to kick" Used to be part of a Subbuteo league in school...happy days!! I remember that shop in George st...Inter Sports I think it was called...got most of my teams from Pitchers Sports in Dumbarton rd. Got my Subbuteo in Pitcher sports too along with football tops and Adidad Uraguay mouldies. Great wee shop. I used to play in the Glasgow Subbuteo league at Victoria Drive school. Won Div 2 in my 1st season. I know some of the main guys still play and a few are Jags fans. It still goes on in reduced form at Woodend tennis club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balmedie-Jag Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Was at Kelvingrove museum seeing the football exhibition a few weeks back - they are pushing subbuteo big time in the gift shop - lots of OF team packs no jags - bloody typical ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Back in the 80s I thought I got the Thistle team, but I should have known when it was marked Thistle/Southampton. Nothing like our strip. At least Watford would have been close to this season's home strip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryejag Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 We are still playing subbuteo on a Monday night at Woodend, great game! If any of you fancy coming along you will be more than welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willjag Posted May 7, 2013 Author Members Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 I never, 'flicked to kick' when playing. I preferred the 'push' method. I had about a dozen teams and manged to sort them into the 18 1st Divison teams of the time and play out a whole league season on my own. I always started off the season promising to myself that I'd play it out and not manipulate the results. Thistle always seemed to win the league though funnily enough. We'd always beat Celtic and Rangers and the only points we'd lose would be shock results to diddy teams! Broken players would be glued back together but the glue was crap back then so goal keepers never ever stood up again to a good firm shot and when the glue ran out, players were melted back onto their stand and would instantly become small stature players like Jimmy Johnstone or Gordon Strachan. Kept me amused for years that game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 (edited) I never, 'flicked to kick' when playing. I preferred the 'push' method. I had about a dozen teams and manged to sort them into the 18 1st Divison teams of the time and play out a whole league season on my own. I always started off the season promising to myself that I'd play it out and not manipulate the results. Thistle always seemed to win the league though funnily enough. We'd always beat Celtic and Rangers and the only points we'd lose would be shock results to diddy teams! Broken players would be glued back together but the glue was crap back then so goal keepers never ever stood up again to a good firm shot and when the glue ran out, players were melted back onto their stand and would instantly become small stature players like Jimmy Johnstone or Gordon Strachan. Kept me amused for years that game. So you played with yourself for quite a while then WJ? Edited May 7, 2013 by jagfox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willjag Posted May 7, 2013 Author Members Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Many many years Jagfox. Still find myself doing it to this day but not with Subbuteo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglemon Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 I never, 'flicked to kick' when playing. I preferred the 'push' method. The push method was a cheaters charter and the first thing that was drummed out of you at Subbuteo league. It would be used to drag players half the length of the pitch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 I never, 'flicked to kick' when playing. I preferred the 'push' method. I had about a dozen teams and manged to sort them into the 18 1st Divison teams of the time and play out a whole league season on my own. I always started off the season promising to myself that I'd play it out and not manipulate the results. Thistle always seemed to win the league though funnily enough. We'd always beat Celtic and Rangers and the only points we'd lose would be shock results to diddy teams! Broken players would be glued back together but the glue was crap back then so goal keepers never ever stood up again to a good firm shot and when the glue ran out, players were melted back onto their stand and would instantly become small stature players like Jimmy Johnstone or Gordon Strachan. Kept me amused for years that game. Ha ha! We always had the pitch laid out on the floor, so inevitably we'd kneel on some players and they'd be broken. As we commentated on the game as we played it, this was always reported as an off-the-ball incident. There was always great anticipation when a player made his first appearance after a long lay-off because of his broken leg(s). Would his speed, ability to run in a straight line, balance etc be affected by how well or poorly his bones had knitted (i.e. been glued) together? What a game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 I always started off the season promising to myself that I'd play it out and not manipulate the results. Made me laugh out loud. I used to do the very same thing but with Lego football. The ball was a marble, approximately 60% the height of the lego man. I had leagues, cups and Euro adventures the lot. Now I Wish I'd kept the jotters with all the results! Made me the statto and lister that I am today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spandau Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 In winter I used to sprinkle talcum powder on the pitch and use an orange ball. In 2nd year at the high school I got 19/20 in Technical for my wooden replica of the old City End, complete with matchstick crush barriers 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryza Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Might be a good time to show my Jags/Subbuteo tattoo. Dunno what happened on the upload but cant rotate it. Was thinking of getting a Jags tattoo for ages, finally came to the day and still wasn't sure, had a Subbuteo T-shirt on at the time and this is the end product. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Kids these days?? They havent got as good as us subbuteo veterans.. Wasnt there an actual team called FC Subbuteo? Maybe the old brain cells are a bit misty!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 Might be a good time to show my Jags/Subbuteo tattoo. Dunno what happened on the upload but cant rotate it. Was thinking of getting a Jags tattoo for ages, finally came to the day and still wasn't sure, had a Subbuteo T-shirt on at the time and this is the end product. That is excellent. Anybody else got Jags tattoos to show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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