multiple shapes in scene?

I downloaded 4.3.4f1 onto a Windows7 HP g7 notebook. I thought Angrybots looked pretty cool so I tried following through some noob tutorials.

I can only get one shape to appear in my scene at a time and it is always wire regardless of Textured setting. For example, I create a cube. Then I create a cylinder and move it over a little from the cube. But I can only see one of those figures in the Scene at a time. I can see them both sitting there all nice and textured in the Game frame, but not in the Scene. All the tutorials and books depend on my seeing both shapes and show them in the Scene together so you can combine them together like in making a tank or some combination of figures.

Is there some setting or option I need to check so can see multiple shapes in the Scene frame and texture them there? Thanks!

I tried to upload a couple of images to show what I mean but I’m getting parsing error. Ever have a day that nothing seems to work??? So I created a web page to put the images on at: http://arowberry.byethost14.com/ByetFront/showntell.html

is there any code on the cylinder and cube? (if yes you must post it)
are they created in code or in the editor?
any lights in the scene?

Use the Layers drop-down menu to set the visible layers to “Everything”.