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Toy Nostalgia Thread
Molly Wetsy, 1950s.
Assorted commercials from the 60s, including Slinky, the toy you give to nephews you don't like. Also, Mr. Machine and Mr. Potato head. Mattel "Tommy Burst" Detective Set, a cap-and-safety-slug kind of gun, including tommy gun and snubnose revolver. Looks cool. 1960s. Marx Sound-o-Power Military and Western Rifles, looks like 1960s. Doesn't seem to launch anything, but makes a nice racket. Secret Sam spy kit. Barbie's Dream House, 1960. Malibu Barbie Camper Set, 1970s. Rock'em Sock'em Robots, 1960s ad. Rock'em Sock'em robots, 1975. Action Jackson, 1972. He doesn't look like an action hero. He looks like a lounge-rat at the Regal Beagle. Here's a 20 minute long compilation of old toy commercials, including GI Joe toys, Marvel super hero dolls, I mean action figures, and something called "Action Man" I never heard of, which is just a genericEasy Bake Oven, 1963 ad. Easy Bake Oven, 1972 ad. Donald Duck Hippety-Hop, early/mid 70s. I never understood this "toy." It seems to be for slow children. This is another toy I was pretty sure was intended for slow children: Shrinky Dinks. Shogun Warriors vs. Godzilla toys, 1970s. Mego Planet of the Apes dolls, I mean action figures. Several commercials, including one of Ape City and one of the Fobidden City. 1970s. And obviously: The Mego Star Trek toys. Several commercials. I can't find a commercial for this, but here's the "Earthquake Tower" danger playset, with real swaying action and a stupid little record with earthquake/emergency sound effects. U-Fly-It toy plane, which I actually got to play with once. It was ass. It was just a plane on a string where you could slow the movement along the main guide-wire by tightening another string. I've never seen this toy, but it's another toy plane -- the "Air Devils" -- and it looks kinda cool. Flying Aces flight deck with a couple of foam "jets" that are catapult-launched from a aircraft-carrier-styled deck with a pistol-grip launch trigger. Big Wheels from 1978. Merlin, the amazing electronic device that let you play seven incredibly boring games with just one overpriced toy. 1980. Colleco Football, the game that took about two hours to completely master and BTFO. Pretty soon you were scoring touchdowns just by winking at the thing. He-Man Castle Grayskull commercial. 1980s. Here's a long compilation of a bunch of commercials. Bash-o-saurus? What? Zany Zappers. Good Lord. It's like a Seizure in a Box. And -- "Hey good-looking, we'll be back to pick you up later!"
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:09 PM (xJa6I)
My parents sure got tired of me shooting everyone with USN foam aircraft.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:10 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 18, 2018 08:10 PM (VwqM3)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:10 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:11 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 18, 2018 08:11 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:11 PM (xDf3o)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:11 PM (xJa6I)
Basically, if it had a gun, I wanted it.
This in a VERY gun-phobic house.
In some ways, I was lucky.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:12 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: James Homey at April 18, 2018 08:12 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:12 PM (xDf3o)
You have no idea how many times he ran into my Sisters Barbie Dream House...
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:12 PM (NgKpN)
No Mainway toys?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2018 08:12 PM (eXA4G)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (VwqM3)
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (UdKB7)
But overall, far better than a lot of the informercial extras type junk I received many years.
Posted by: Sjg at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (gDSJf)
me too. I liked it.
The best flying toy I had, which I couldn't find an ad for, was that water/air pressure rocket thing.
Man, that thing went pretty high.
Also, very dangerous as a weapon, though you couldn't really aim it well.
If you could aim it well, there would have been a lot of injuries from it.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (8rNrN)
Does Dungeons and Dragons (the cardboard-box, three-stapled-rulebook version) count?
I mean, it's a game, not a toy, but . . .
Okay, toys . . .
Matchbox Cars.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (953wK)
Posted by: Bob Dole at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (djCea)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (xDf3o)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (6Ll1u)
Posted by: James Homey at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (4+5ym)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (aC6Sd)
i don't understand what you were supposed to do with it, besides letting it crawl down stairs, which basically stopped working by the third stair.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (BF6Fv)
remember the cartoon INCH HIGH PRIVATE EYE?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (VwqM3)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (953wK)
And Battleship. I like that one too.
Posted by: Eric Holder, Commissar at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (XlbwU)
remember the BARBAPAPAS?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (VwqM3)
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (mQ0Mc)
Posted by: davidt at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (djCea)
Lite Brite?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (VwqM3)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (yQpMk)
what ? no rubik's cube ?
Posted by: runner at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (bUjCl)
https://youtu.be/ktyRiTv9qsI
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (xDf3o)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (6Ll1u)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: In Soviet Russia, Tobor colludes with you at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (L7t0A)
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (Tyii7)
Because within 15 minutes it would be broken.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (xPl2J)
Yes, you would own it in two hours. Once the battery wore down the computer defense got slower and slower. You'd score a TD on every play.
You have to play with the
AC adapter for a real challenge.
Posted by: ArthurK at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (Z6/GF)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (7UW64)
Wish I had ace's time machine so I could go back and keep all those old toys until eBay came along. But nooo, I had to sell them off at yard sales in the 80s.
Posted by: Hands at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilence Committee supporter at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (XlbwU)
And one time, when mom was sober, we made Popsicles. But toys were only something we dreamed of.
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (MVjcR)
I had the Cox Trainer where the wings were held on with rubber bands.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: In Soviet Russia, Tobor colludes with you at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (L7t0A)
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (VwqM3)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (aC6Sd)
Had the original-era, pre-Kung Fu grip GI Joe, and a bunch of the accessories. Liked the Mercury space capsule, although I always thought there was something less than realistic about the sliding glass patio door entry hatch.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (eXA4G)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (Z48ZB)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (oVJmc)
https://tinyurl.com/ybmbchm4
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (mQ0Mc)
And Estes rockets. How far could you send one and still get it back? Awesome toys.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (Z48ZB)
Posted by: David Hogg at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (1FhAQ)
Every race car track set I ever got broke within minutes.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (VwqM3)
We had to substitute pieces of Kaboom! cereal for those parts.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (xDf3o)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (VBKy9)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (L7t0A)
I had one too. Blue and yellow right? I broke it.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (UdKB7)
We also had an O gauge railroad, slot car track, and Estes rockets. I guess I had a reasonably privileged childhood.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (yQpMk)
You saved America's kids by drinking America's liquor cabinet.
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Shemp! at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (Tyii7)
But I'm not bitter.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (oVJmc)
A Hydrodynamic building set - colored water, pipes, tanks and a pump. What could go wrong?
And a Mattel Power Shop - never made a thing except sawdust. Great fun.
Posted by: tonypete at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (9rIkM)
Because within 15 minutes it would be broken.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (UdKB7)
I actually flew those for years... ended up designing and building my own...
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (xDf3o)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (7UW64)
All gone................
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaa, aaaaasssaaaaaa,
Bwaaaaaaaaa haaaaassss haaaaaaaa
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (6Ll1u)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: David Hogg at April
your dad is going to be pissed when he finds out you have been in his nightstand again.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (Z48ZB)
My Pop bought me a REAL toy . . . a Marlin 39A Mountie. Got years of fun out of it. Still have it, too.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (QlELg)
1963...
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (PtuJp)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (8rNrN)
Starsky & Hutch Board Game
$6 Million Dollar Man doll
GI Joe helicopter
Big Jim stuff
Pet Rock
Dapper Dan doll
Posted by: Hands at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (JK7Jw)
Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (zr8oO)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (Z48ZB)
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The thing on my ankle is monitored by the court.
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (MVjcR)
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I remember that! And clackers.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (mQ0Mc)
Posted by: In Soviet Russia, Tobor colludes with you at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (L7t0A)
Oooh yeah. I had a length of track and a loop. The whole purpose was to arrange things so that the Hot Wheels car was destroyed when you were done.
Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (1FhAQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: Fritz at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (bJ0w+)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (6Ll1u)
Black powder, FTW.
Yes, we blew everything to smithereens.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Goldilocks at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (zz1sH)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Minuteman at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (gnhna)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (+lOpA)
I had a skyscraper set and I think a bridge set from the same line, which gave you a guide as to how to build cantilever bridges, draw bridges, suspension bridges, etc.
The suspension bridge was a pain in the ass because it involved a LOT of thread.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (7UW64)
Had a friend whose Dad was really into the rockets...
We had the gas power planes...
He would set up SAM sites, and try to shoot down our planes....
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (NgKpN)
I had the Big Jim Sports Camper!
I didn't realize until later it was the same as Barbie's Camper with different graphics.
Looking back, 'Big Jim' sounds kinda....gay.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (OdnqE)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (BF6Fv)
90 colorforms!
mine had snoopy and woodstock
Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (zr8oO)
Those were for when you were sick. We had Mary Poppins.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (8rNrN)
Two people racing down a set of stairs.
"Juggling" it between your hands.
Two people holding it and creating wave motions.
I don't know what to say, the physics of how it functioned were really interesting to me as a kid.
And of course there was: swinging it around or holding one end and throwing it as a weapon (usually how they end up broken)
Posted by: Sjg at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (gDSJf)
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (mQ0Mc)
1963...
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM
Yep, had one too. Man I had forgotten all about that.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: ace
GI Joe character Destro had a metal head. Maybe it's him.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (9Hjhc)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (Z48ZB)
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (OdnqE)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Minuteman at April
dude, if you go back to pick up your girl and she is wearing a brand new pearl necklace you should just keep on going.
she was not missing you.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (MTjB1)
--
Irright, the story of Kneivel is really rather fascinating.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM
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I know. I've seen a few documentaries about the guy. The guy basically went through life writing checks with his mouth and then cashing them with his balls. Probably not a great role model for the yoots of America but I thought he was off-the-charts cool when I was a kid.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (RVcmP)
-They had the rumble football game with the metal table that vibrated and you had the players rushing into each other with no rhyme or reason.
-They had this awesome moon station toys with a habitat, a rover, and two astronauts- with full space suits.
-They had this race track for hot wheels that had plastic track that you could make in different lengths and loops and such. The motivator was a 'garage' that had two spinning motors that whipped those things out of there at variable speeds. It was such a cool toy. Finding the cars that did the best on the track (Think it was a blue Gran Torino that I loved- I think I still have that car at the apartment somewhere.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (d4iVA)
Remember plastic cowboys and Indians? Even if they teamed up they could not defeate the mighty US Army. They didn't even have flamethrowers.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (IqV8l)
no, i found it on ebay. It's called "Dr. Steel." He has a steel hand. He's from the Big Jim line. Which I guess is BIg Jim SLade, which commenters mentioned earlier, but I don't really know about.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (4+5ym)
diggin he goes with you
when you explore
just pull his leash
he'll go for a walk
he's your dog for sure
Posted by: Asko at April 18, 2018 08:25 PM (kNq+3)
me too. I liked it.
The best flying toy I had, which I couldn't find an ad for, was that water/air pressure rocket thing.
Man, that thing went pretty high.
Also, very dangerous as a weapon, though you couldn't really aim it well.
If you could aim it well, there would have been a lot of injuries from it.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (8rNrN)
They had a couple different sizes for that one.
There was a little six inch red plastic rocket.
Then there was a 12" monster. That would go up about 5 stories. I think it had a parachute but...it never worked.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (xDf3o)
I had a science teacher in middle school who was a model rocket freak. He ran a club where he showed us how to build custom electronic launchers and very cool rockets.
We might have taken some advantage of this knowledge.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Hands at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (xDf3o)
If you survived until the next Christmas, they consider half your Seal training to be complete.
Look it up, I know you'll want one.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (IeDO8)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (Z48ZB)
It was an oven where you baked Plastic bugs of various colors...
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (OdnqE)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (xPl2J)
-They had this awesome moon station toys with a habitat, a rover, and two astronauts- with full space suits.
Sounds like the Major Matt Mason line.
Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: McGyver at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (l2zDx)
Also, the Guy Who Is Frozen at the Last Moment of Throwing a Grenade.
It's just a weird pose. He can't... you know, he can't maneuver and stuff when he's always in that end-point-of-a-throw position. He basically just has to stand there while other people move up.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Hands at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (EzdLW)
no, i found it on ebay. It's called "Dr. Steel." He has a steel hand. He's from the Big Jim line. Which I guess is BIg Jim SLade, which commenters mentioned earlier, but I don't really know about.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (8rNrN)
"Big Jim, former tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, is outfitted with various whips, chains, and a s**uall appetite that will knock your socks off!"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (xJa6I)
If you survived until the next Christmas, they consider half your Seal training to be complete.
Look it up, I know you'll want one.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (IeDO
Older Brother had one... I was NOT allowed to touch it!
Damn it!
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (9Hjhc)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (/qEW2)
Who did Mattel think they were kidding? I had LOTS of Barbies (and Francines, and Skipper). Midge, with her freaking old lady hair and those unsightly big freckles -- Midge was THE MAID. LOLOL!!
Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (QU+qf)
and I used to combine all our parts from both our kits and spend all day
making really big buildings.
1963...
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell
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Oh yeah! After we played so hard with it that the corners of the panels broke off and would no longer attach to the girders properly, my buddies and I combined all our sets into a mega *sky* scraper and set it alight.
Damn near burned down the garage - whoda thunk plastic would burn that hot. Dad was really pissed.
Posted by: tonypete at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (9rIkM)
Check youtube.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (/tuJf)
Here's the Six Million Dollar Man toy commercial all by itself.
Odd that being 29 years old I remember the 6 Million Dollar Man action figure
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (SiINZ)
had some lego boat which was really cool. had several hull pieces which were water tight, but only a few pieces to build the super structure. even though it floated who cares because who wants to get your legos all wet and or soapy and possibly moldy? even had keel pieces to keep it upright.
cool but ultimately stupid.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (mQ0Mc)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM
Yep. My brother and I shared a room and had an ice cream bucket full of them. We shared a room and our beds were parallel so we'd divvy them up and have Lego wars! Which was like trench war fare, you'd pop up and throw one at each other. One day I decided more weight was better so I put a bunch together and made a Lego MOAB. My poor brother peered up just as I let it fly. Hit him right in the mouth, blood everywhere. I won the battle that day, but lost the war to my mom and the wooden spoon.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (CiRJp)
Guy my mom was seeing who was stationed at Ft Riley gave me one for Christmas when I was 9.
Next year was better. Mom got me a Daisy Model 1894 Spittin' Image and the old guy who ran a bait shop/fishing gear shop where I hung out some and who gave me my early fishing lessons (Thanks Dutch! ) gave me a Zebco 33 fishing reel with a rod.
Posted by: teej at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (ZCD4H)
Very, very cheap, flimsy brittle plastic, almost 2D instead of a full 3D mold.
First time I understood 'let the buyer beware'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Boomer at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (UXf7q)
Big Jim Slade is from Kentucky Fried Movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ96dy93mP0
Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (oVJmc)
Steve Austin kicked his ass.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (xDf3o)
https://youtu.be/joRf6rcl-vY
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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THATS IT!!!
Posted by: tonypete at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (9rIkM)
Also, the Guy Who Is Frozen at the Last Moment of Throwing a Grenade.
It's just a weird pose. He can't... you know, he can't maneuver and stuff when he's always in that end-point-of-a-throw position. He basically just has to stand there while other people move up.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (8rNrN)
And everyone knows the BEST Army Men, are the ones laying down with a Machine gun!
or kneeling with a machine gun....
and the Tanks of course...
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (NgKpN)
one word slinkyfuck
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (MTjB1)
The only toys I ever had were hand-me-down clackers and jarts. The clackers were chipped.
Posted by: Fritz at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (bJ0w+)
Toys! All we got was a kick to the groin AND we was lucky to have that
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (Z48ZB)
Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (zLDYs)
Here's the Six Million Dollar Man toy commercial all by itself.
Odd that being 29 years old I remember the 6 Million Dollar Man action figure
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (SiINZ)
Kanye implied today that time is not linear...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (IeDO8)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (8VseP)
Those were the first guys we blew up.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (Tyii7)
They came with Kaboom!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (oVJmc)
-They had the rumble football game with the metal table that vibrated and you had the players rushing into each other with no rhyme or reason.
Ah, that. I never could get that to work well. It got to the point where I was excited to make forward progress.
Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (1FhAQ)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (/qEW2)
How cool was Evel Knievel?
He is so cool I was drawn to the site of grave like a homing pigeon here in Butte.
These people either love him or hate him...
I just thought he was the cat's pajamas as a kid....
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (SzZnW)
They were always the first ones hit. And the first ones lit on fire. I had many a zip bombs stuck to my flesh from those brave burning guys.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM
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I know. I've seen a few documentaries about the guy. The guy basically went through life writing checks with his mouth and then cashing them with his balls. Probably not a great role model for the yoots of America but I thought he was off-the-charts cool when I was a kid.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (RVcmP)
I can't remember how many times me and my friends tried to do stunts on our bikes. I can't believe we ended up in one piece.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (SiINZ)
No- those 3 things were the only things it did.
After 7 1/2 minutes you threw it in the trash.
Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (UFgOG)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks
And that's the bottom line
Cuz Stone Cold said so
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (9Hjhc)
Probably not a big brand/famous toy, but a plastic tank, about a foot long, batter powered, treads worked, main gun shot a plastic projectile out if you pulled back the little handle at the back of the turret.
Perfect for smashing through fortifications built of Lincoln Logs, or Erector Set stuff, and manned by those plastic Army men (those are still sold, basically unchanged).
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (PtuJp)
Later the heating part got used to make some kind of plastic jelly creatures.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (yQpMk)
One looked like a 410, one was a little bitty black rifle and one kid had the one that looked like a 007 Pistol.
Shooting each other all over the neighborhood but only below the head and time outs if you yelled oooow! to long.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (+Y4s3)
army men were way better than star wars figures if for no other reason than army men never lost their guns and you never got into arguments about who the guns belonged to.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (7UW64)
Oh man, one of my favorite "Dad moments" was the afternoon we took my Estes rocket out to a nearby field. We launched it until it wasn't straight enough to stay on the rod anymore. Then my dad helped me suspend it from my room's ceiling as a trophy.
Posted by: pookysgirl is reporting from the planet Hoth at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (gC2IV)
--
Irright, the story of Kneivel is really rather fascinating.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM
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I know. I've seen a few documentaries about the guy. The guy basically went through life writing checks with his mouth and then cashing them with his balls. Probably not a great role model for the yoots of America but I thought he was off-the-charts cool when I was a kid.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (RVcmP)
I've seen his grave in Butte, MT. It's very nice, though most of the cemetery is going to seed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (qJtVm)
If you survived until the next Christmas, they consider half your Seal training to be complete.
Look it up, I know you'll want one.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (IeDO
Older Brother had one... I was NOT allowed to touch it!
Damn it!
Posted by: Don Q.
I let my younger brother touch the hard plastic bullets. Unless he ducked.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (IeDO8)
Posted by: Ben Had at April
you could never have too many lincoln logs.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (MTjB1)
Used to line them up and pop 'em with my BB gun.
Posted by: Hands at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (EzdLW)
Same. Always nice to have some variety from aluminum cans.
Posted by: Sjg at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (gDSJf)
YEEEEEE
HAWWWW
we've got it on video
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (IeDO
Luxury, you had pockets!
All we had was assless chaps!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (n9EOP)
Many types and sizes, some with removable suction cups so you could REALLY annoy your brother/neighbor.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (6Ll1u)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (gC2IV)
One of my brothers had that. It was fun
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (xPl2J
I asked for Toss Across every Christmas for 5 years. Denied.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (Z48ZB)
How many kids were hit in the face after throwing one straight down on the sidewalk as hard as you could? Good times.
Posted by: tonypete at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (9rIkM)
Or "action figure" if you prefer. To say I loved my Six Million Dollar Man toy would be a huge understatement. I was obsessed with it. One of my favorite all time toys as a kid.
Posted by: Max Power at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (q177U)
Bones heal, chicks dig scars, and America has the highest doctor to daredevil ratio in the world.
Posted by: Captain Lance Murdock at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (xPl2J)
He also had a Battlestar Galactica (sp?) playset with action figures.
My toys I loved as a kid:
Remote control Barbie Corvette
Barbie pool play set (was an asswhip to set up because held almost a gallon of water)
Matchbox cars (my favorites were the Lotus Esprit and the purple Dodge Charger MKIII).
Some mermaid dolls that I could play in the tub with.
Perfection
Trouble
Mr. Mouth
Our TI99 computer with voice simulator. Very cool technology for the time.
Not a toy but stickers and sticker books were way popular and I was very into them.
Garbage Pail kids cards.
Oh, nostalgia.
Toys I wanted but never got:
Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine
Easy Bake Oven
Hot Wheels race car track (with the loops and the track that went up the wall)
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (SRarZ)
Many a Big Wheel was sacrificed for stunt cred.
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (BiLU+)
But GI Joe didn't mind the crummy ambiance when he came over to see Barbie while Ken was gone.
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: Zapp Branigan at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (nzltb)
Some July 4ths saw more ships destroyed than Midway or the Battle of Savo Island.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (+Y4s3)
I think I have an almost complete Erector set in the original red metal box around somewhere!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (n9EOP)
The entire town is dying....
that happens when you create a one party bobsled course of corruption.
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (SzZnW)
144 plastic bottles, many containing poison.
I think only my apathy towards chemistry saved the neighbors, our pets, our neighbors pets, my brothers....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (xJa6I)
We had a plastic shotgun. Load rubber darts that had suction cups on them and shoot your brothers with it.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (SiINZ)
For nostalgia, I like to watch old tv ads for cars and trucks:
Chevy pickup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4OeiMjvtk
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (VwqM3)
Time for Inclusion and Diversity training at the aceofspadeshq!!
Posted by: girldog at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (g5YYQ)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (oVJmc)
Alone or in pairs,
And over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It's log, log, log
It's log, it's log,
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good. "
Everyone wants a log
You're gonna love it, log
Come on and get your log
Everyone needs a log
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (3JQ/p)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (CiRJp)
why is every fourth plastic soldier the Guy With the Radio or the Guy With the Metal Detector?
Because those are the guys that died horrible deaths by lighter fluid or fire cracker
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (PtOP4)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (SRarZ)
AND I think Big Jim is named after Big John.
Big Bad John.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (2wOtx)
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Kaner at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (rR7m4)
Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (FhXTo)
Ornithopter
Balsa wood airlanes
Wrist rockets
Metal cap gun that looked like a Luger
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: Maddog Mattis at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (9rIkM)
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (RVcmP)
++ Tricky Tommy Turtle is missing. Great toy circa 1967.
Posted by: Cumberland Astro at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (+Y4s3)
Okay. What do you expect. It's spring,,, sort of.
And gardening on the brain.
Yeah. I'm gonna go with that.
You'd see right through blaming auto-c.
Posted by: teej at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (ZCD4H)
OMG, I loved Estes rockets. The amount of study that went into each launch (because launches were expensive). A rocket engines, C, D rockets?
And fuck pre-fabs. If you didn't build your own out of a kit with balsa and tubes you were a sissy. Of course, if you're 12 and clumsy one of the rocket fins might fall off and then you learn interesting effects of rocketry.
They even had 2-stage rockets where the first stage would light the second stage, and you could put stuff in the payloads.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (fuK7c)
The best flying toy I had, which I couldn't find an ad for, was that water/air pressure rocket thing.
Man, that thing went pretty high.
Also, very dangerous as a weapon, though you couldn't really aim it well.
If you could aim it well, there would have been a lot of injuries from it.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (8rNrN)
I had that too. I don't remember what it was called.
Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Ben Had at April
and it had a hook and a fort to land it.
the pilot induced oscillation experienced by beginners was always fun. they would apply too much power, the helicopter would take off straight up until the tether was maxed out then the tether would rebound and slam the helicopter into the floor.
you know, putting the tether up on a pedestal would have been more fun.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (MTjB1)
The entire town is dying....
that happens when you create a one party bobsled course of corruption.
That makes me sad. Butte was the first and almost only sign of industry and commerce in the state coming in on I-90 from the East.
They even had an active SHIPBUILDING industry. Which seems crazy but I guess the river works for transport.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM
Yes, I was away at drama camp, and it was the first time I realized....
Posted by: Shep! at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (d4iVA)
Would leave two nice parallel red marks at each point of contact ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (BiLU+)
164 Creepy crawlers
Incredible edibles.
Posted by: LASue
Creepy Crawlers had the red hot cooking plate. I still have the scars from it. Recommended for ages 4 and under.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (IeDO8)
Oh yeah, ouch!
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (RfzVr)
Every single pair ended up hanging from telephone wires.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (PtuJp)
I don't think even the cap guns that just made noise are anywhere to be found these days. Used to take up 10 feet of shelving at the supermarket, but now you'd probably have neightbors calling the police because thinking they are real guns.
Posted by: Sjg at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (gDSJf)
Posted by: Boomer at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (UXf7q)
Posted by: irright
Has anybody in the history of the world ever played the mousetrap game properly?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (9Hjhc)
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (2wOtx)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (zr8oO)
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (RfzVr)
Poor Ken. He could never compete with the masculinity of GI Joe.
Posted by: pookysgirl is reporting from the planet Hoth at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: Gref at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (Tyii7)
He is so cool I was drawn to the site of grave like a homing pigeon here in Butte.
These people either love him or hate him...
I just thought he was the cat's pajamas as a kid....
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (SzZnW)
He was on a radio call show once and when the radio guys called him they woke him up and he ripped them a new ass for a few minutes then hung up.
I think he forgot he was supposed to be ready when they called him. It might be on the interweb somewhere.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (RVcmP)
We had the whole set, My Brother got the Dragracer and we got the truck and not mention the Motorcycle that you winded up.
I remember watching his special tv shows.
I also got the BattleStar Galactica ships.
Dad worked in retail as an auditor so when came back from trips he would bring us toys.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (dKiJG)
Yes, we played it with our son when he was little. It was still fun!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (tpDAe)
Some guys discovered this unimproved wooded lot where nature had basically conspired to set up a complete motocross cycle. Kind of a natural rollercoaster ride.
There were steep hills (very steep) going over big mogul-like bumps and it was all in this heavily-wooded kinda pit-like area. You'd just get your bike to the top of the hill and then hang on for dear life trying to make the turns and not get thrown into the pit in the middle of it.
No permanent damage. But it was like the speederbike chase in Return of the Jedi, only more intense, because, like, it was real and you were flirting with injury.
I was often thrown over the handlebars on the moguls. Had my eyes slapped by twigs and leaves a lot but no actual injuries. lot of bruises and head-knocks, though.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (8rNrN)
Erector Set - have it, in the garage, in the red wooden box. Haven't checked it in a while, some corrosion, I think.
Have about 10 cars from the Lionel train set working, may restore a few more. O scale, I think. Post-war, up til the early 60s.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM
We sent a few toads and frogs on some missions.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: eleven
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Yes?
Posted by: Maddog Mattis
There was a story going around that some kid blasted both temples and died from using them. Think nunchuks but with wooden balls instead of sticks on the end.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (IeDO8)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (87EdW)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (BF6Fv)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (6Ll1u)
Just never put a 2nd stage engine in the first stage. One of my friends did that and the parachute delay was just enough for the rocket to nose over vertical towards the ground when the 2nd stage ignited. That thing might have been pushing C when it hit the ground.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (9Hjhc)
No one I know.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (SRarZ)
oh yeah, they were cool. Not a lot of color, though, if I remember.
Color counts a lot with kids.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (8rNrN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-gHqov5w8
1972 Chevy Truck pulling a 747 tv ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-gHqov5w8
The major airlines have all retired their 747's last year. I always wanted to fly on a 747 and never did. Never will.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (VwqM3)
Posted by: MAGA at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (LnOh3)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (H5knJ)
Sea monkeys are brine shrimp. Ask me how I know.
Ant farms. Now that was weirdly interesting.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (/tuJf)
We had a GI Joe Howitzer that fired a plastic shell. I can't imagine any of the toys we had being allowed today. Even the TV shows. What my little nieces and nephews watch are such pablum.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (SiINZ)
Man, that thing went pretty high.
Also, very dangerous as a weapon, though you couldn't really aim it well.
If you could aim it well, there would have been a lot of injuries from it.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (8rNrN)
I had that too. I don't remember what it was called.
Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (sdi6R)
I had one of those! Even had a little golf-ball sized spherical "satellite" at the top. They went pretty good, too.
Back home from my cataract surgery. I can almost read the desktop screen with the surgicated eye, unassisted by reading glasses. The reading glasses I am used to using are too strong for it. And I can see to drive OK, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (efC8N)
"River?"
Eh, I just work here for another few months and then we head back to Louisiana to finish her career and head home to Ohio finally.
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (SzZnW)
Famous World War II Battle of Navarone Giant Play Set
https://2warpstoneptune.com/2012/11/01/marx-navarone-play-set/
By Marx!
Not only did we get kickass toys, we got kickass WAR toys that would make these millennial pussies curl up and cry!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (oVJmc)
Very cool ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: That Deplorable SOB Van Owen at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (lApJ5)
I live a block away from his old house here, he had a legendary temper they still talk about.
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (SzZnW)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (aC6Sd)
I think they also made an Old West play set and Dinosaur World play set (which were virtually the same thing, just with a different paint job).
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (8rNrN)
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Demi-ronde
http://home.freeuk.net/toysoldier/
Posted by: andycanuck at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (VBKy9)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (+Y4s3)
Also had a spring powered missile launcher.
Girders & Panels was a lot of fun.
One of the best was a motorized cap firing tommy gun - about the only toy that ever got stolen when I left it outside.
Amazing how all of the toys I wore out and broke have turned into costly antiques !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (Mbmmf)
Posted by: David Hogg at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (/qEW2)
I always wanted an easy bake oven. Never did get it. We did have a good time with our pogo sticks. Barbies just got their heads ripped off. I think I got one.
Posted by: Infidel at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (a3OL0)
Posted by: your kid sister's pet mouse at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (UdKB7)
We had the canyons, which offered the tantalizing prospect of rattlesnakes (seasonally) as well.
These days, I don't think any 12-yr old boy has been in the canyon near their house. It's unbelievable.
Of course in some places there are illegal or homeless encampments to deal with, which is nice, and which our parents didn't have to think about.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (tpDAe)
Has anybody in the history of the world ever played the mousetrap game properly?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (9Hjhc)
I think so. I played it many times. Another one in the same vein was Crazy Clock. I don't know whether they were made by the same company or were competitors.
Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM
*******
I've inherited the Eldest Spawn's cast-off Star Wars and Bionicles sets... I use the bits to make foldable mobile and tablet stands...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (e9G8E)
forget. A swing bike. I actually road one of these. Scary stuff. Ain't
America great!
https://youtu.be/ktyRiTv9qsI
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (K3B2k)
Swing bike! A car club crony of mine had some of those, and got to be real good with them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (efC8N)
I had the Matchbox orange Mercedes 450.
I had the Matchbox horse trailer, which I could tow with the orange Mercedes because it had a trailer hitch.
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (VwqM3)
Posted by: Oso at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (QX7Lq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (SiINZ)
F4U Corsair
Mitsubishi "Zero"
B17 Flying Fortress
P38 Lightning
B29 "Enola Gay"
I built 'em all and hung them from strings from the ceiling. Zero was diving to escape the Corsair on his tail .
Heated up a fork to make bullet holes in the Zero from the Corsair. Splattered a little silver paint for torn metal edges effect.
I guess models were toys.
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (2wOtx)
Threw a Lawn Dart as high as I could once in the back yard, and it came down piercing the bill of the baseball cap my younger brother was wearing ...
causing everybody but him to collapse and Roll On The Ground Laughing.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (BiLU+)
And ball bearings.
Posted by: That Deplorable SOB Van Owen at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (lApJ5)
Definitely most lethal "toy" ever.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (+lOpA)
I only realize now, I had a lot of space toys as a kid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (8rNrN)
Did you get IOL implants? What kind? I am going to need some and I want the premium kind.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: David Hogg at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (efC8N)
I just scheduled mine today but I'm very nervous about it, been putting it off for over a year!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Marcus T, Evil Wall Street Rooster at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (MCEwl)
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (KdlDE)
I loved etch a sketch, too.
but I played outside, in a little wooden hoghouse as a cabin, with a real bonanza style horse tie up for my real pony.
really. that was the shit
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (aC6Sd)
As a Canuck, I had the British Empire equivalent, a Meccano set. Still have it, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (efC8N)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (yQpMk)
I was trying to find a commercial for the Man from Uncle Gun kit, which I believe was a big deal at the time, but couldn't. I found Secret sam and Jonny 7 instead.
I would've linked Johnny 7 but I didn't know it was a big thing.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (dB1+n)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (8rNrN)
The CEO of the toy company must of been like, "So... does this toy shoot stuff?"
designer: "Um no. I don't think it does."
CEO: "THEN IT"S CRAP!! Make it shoot stuff out of every orifice. AND I MEAN EVERY ORIFICE."
designer: "Yes sir!"
Great toys. I loved them.
Posted by: bananaDream at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (yRBj9)
back yard, and it came down piercing the bill of the baseball cap my
younger brother was wearing ...
causing everybody but him to collapse and Roll On The Ground Laughing.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (BiLU+)
Jarts were awesome. We used to throw them up in the air and try to avoid being hit by them. Safety first!
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (SRarZ)
Famous World War II Battle of Navarone Giant Play Set
https://2warpstoneptune.com/2012/11/01/marx-navarone-play-set/
By Marx!
We had a playset one was of Vikings and I think the other was a Calvary fort.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (9Hjhc)
Yes. My favorite game as a kid. I used to love the Rube Goldberg cartoons so it was right up my alley. I still enjoy the Rube Goldberg type videos on youtube.
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Marcus T, Evil Wall Street Rooster at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (MCEwl)
My uncles had the bigger size (almost doll) GI Joe figures. I agree with Lileks- he had that scar and the thousand yard stare.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2018 08:47 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:47 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:47 PM (2DOZq)
My cousin had the mousetrap game that ripped off Rube Goldberg. It was pretty cool.
Posted by: irright
Has anybody in the history of the world ever played the mousetrap game properly?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM
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I'm not sure we ever played it right, but it was fun to watch the thing work when set off.
Much later we tried to play a game called "Axis And Allies" that takes longer than WWII lasted to set up. I'm not sure we ever actually played.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:47 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM
Fear not, Fen. Goddaughter the Older loved my mother's childhood dollhouse. There's hope for humanity.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2018 08:47 PM (8VseP)
We built our model rockets. We built our HO train sets, cars, and locomotives. We argued with friends over the superiority of steam vs. diesel layouts. We scoffed at people who intermingled cars that wouldn't have been together.
Even the Creepy Crawly thing involved making something out of dangerous heat and cancer goo, so I'm not sure that was a toy.
Slinky was a toy. I think the hand juggling part was like that 80s thing with the clacker balls where there are five in a row and you just watch kinetic energy knock them around until it stops.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 08:47 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (CiRJp)
Models I remember: the Ontos vehicle, a Navy seaplane (Coronado, or Neptune?), and, fittingly for today, the 76th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, the USS Hornet (the one that launched the raid, and was sunk later near the Solomons - the model came with 16 little B-25s, which you painted Army green).
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (QDnY+)
You must not be any good with them. I can make all kinds of throws, left, right, backhand, forehand, upsidedown, off the index finger, off the thumb. Curves left, right, skips off pavement. We got high and played Ultimate.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (yQpMk)
I think I had something like that, or my dorky friend did. Yeah, he had it.
I had a few models. I know Revell was a big brand. I had the USS Missouri. I think it was mostly just a snap-together so I didn't have to buy all the glue and stuff.
Actually I think I should buy a model. I remember it being really cool putting the Big Mo together.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (6Ll1u)
"Kid, I've seen things. What the hell are you doing playing with dolls? Go out and do something fun. Kiss a girl. Shoot a commie."
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: Some Stick-up-the-Butt 'Academic' at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (oVJmc)
How many kids were hit in the face after throwing one straight down on the sidewalk as hard as you could? Good times.
Posted by: tonypete at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (9rIkM)
Our son's Dr has a HUGE I guess you would call it a gum ball machine filled with rubber balls, after his visit he gets to turn it and his ball comes spiraling out.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (QDnY+)
Have the engine and three cars from the American Flyer line, none of the three rail crap in my dad's house!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (QDnY+)
Later we glued tacks on the Lincoln Log bullets for added value.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (l7Kbv)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (tpDAe)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: DaviW at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (JlWF+)
Posted by: Remo Gaggi at April 18, 2018 07:23 PM (rznWS
Look, I know its off topic and such, but I was just thrilled as hell someone posted my favorite quote from the legendary film "Casino". As an aside, my dad knew one of the Balistreri boys, the sons of the guy who was the Milwaukee mob boss, who was the inspiration behind the composite character Remo Gaggi. Balistreri was a boss of bosses, and was not a man to be trifled with.
Posted by: The Lonebadger at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (5leUT)
Bold print on 6am my morning news
The headline read Knievel had passed
'Nother childhood superman gone too fast
Foolish nerve contagious pride
No fear of the impossible, he took us for a ride
And he said
Give life your best shot No matter what they say
Yeah we're all speeding toward our judgement day
It's not the dates son it's that small thin line
Do you want it on your tombstone
You almost tried
Posted by: teej at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (ZCD4H)
All Mine!
when it rained, we had these metal barn sets, with fences, animals etc, and then the Fort Apache play set. lying on your belly on the floor, making epic stories happen.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (xGMkv)
The big GI Joes, endless hours jumping them and matching them up against Mike Power, Atomic Man.
What the hell happened to toys?
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz IVANOVICH at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (AASEZ)
All the screaming and yelling drove our poor mother crazy.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (KdlDE)
I bought the 50 piece fishing tackle box from the back of a comic. Yes it was disappointing. I always wanted that submarine.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (2DOZq)
I say Harrumph to you, sir. Harrumph!
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (fuK7c)
it's not nearly as good as they're making it sound. It only went about 20 feet and the jumps were nothing to write home about. Obviously, the thing didn't stick the landings. (Which made it a realistic recreation of the oeuvre of Evil Knievel, I guess.)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (4+5ym)
Then I bought and built a large one. I put a lot of work into that one, and it was my masterpiece. I took it out to a local park and launched it. It flew high into the sky. I saw the parachute deploy, then it drifted towards the sun and I lost sight of it.
I never did see it come down.
Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (+Y4s3)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (3JQ/p)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (NWiLs)
booknlass - did you get as upset as I did when you would be going too fast and miss a cog and screw up a pattern? I loved the Spirograph, but was such a little perfectionist that it drove me nuts.
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM
I had really nice cases for them, they were in mint condition. I was so bummed my mom did that. I bet they'd be worth something now. Oh well.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (SRarZ)
Rainy days in the den....
Erector sets, tinker toys, Lincoln logs, and Danielle Boones Old West Outpost Fort!
With plastic Settlers and Indians! and Horses! And Cowboys from some other set...
Entire small towns were pillaged by the Indians on Rainy days...
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:51 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:51 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:51 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (2wOtx)
How many kids were hit in the face after throwing one straight down on the sidewalk as hard as you could? Good times.
Posted by: tonypete at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (9rIkM)
Superballs. Dear Lord.
OK, I had a superball (think it is still at my parents house.) It was again, on of my uncles from the 60s. That thing was amazing. It was unbelievably dense and bouncy.
I loved that thing so much, working out how high you could bounce it. It had almost no loss of energy (you would lose maybe 2-3" from the initial drop.)
I then got a more modern one from my parents for some christmas or birthday in the 80s. It sucked. You would lose at least half of the energy between bounces. Sad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (+Y4s3)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: The Lonebadger at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (5leUT)
Posted by: Gref at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (AMIL/)
I loved those. Knocked down a lamp or two with them. Yet another toy I was banned from playing with inside.
Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (1FhAQ)
Fuck you.
Posted by: Dan Patterson at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (AsjQP)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (NWiLs)
I actually did get a genuine Pet Rock for Christmas one year.
Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: son-of-ceviche at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (FUy6n)
I loved etch a sketch, too.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (xGMkv)
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Loved both of those, too -- also Lite Brite.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (Z48ZB)
Posted by: Marcus T, Evil Wall Street Rooster at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (MCEwl)
I say Harrumph to you, sir. Harrumph!
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (fuK7c)
It's all good. We got a "harrumph" gotta that guy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (8VseP)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (2DOZq)
listen motherfucker - we prefer the term special chillrens
Posted by: j2 at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (GxaUD)
The guy basically went through life writing checks with his mouth and
then cashing them with his balls. Probably not a great role model for
the yoots of America but I thought he was off-the-charts cool when I was
a kid.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (RVcmP)
I was in the same room as him once. Went on a Spring Break road trip from Vancouver to California. Went to a club in Hollywood (now long gone, I think), called Filthy McNastys. Sure enough, he was there. Didn't have to courage to go up and greet him, but he was there, with a posse. Also went to the Starr Club, owned by soul singer Edwin Starr, and he put on a fine show.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (efC8N)
I had really nice cases for them, they were in mint condition. I was so bummed my mom did that. I bet they'd be worth something now. Oh well.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (CiRJp)
While I was away in the Navy, my Mom sold my entire collection of Epic and Erie magazines... most in plastic... complete collections...
at a Church sale for like 5 cents apiece...
To this day, I've never told her what those were worth...
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (qJtVm)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (8rNrN)
And that is why you go out and pay 4 times the original price on Ebay.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (BF6Fv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (8VseP)
We have that and my boys and I used to play it. I'm unbeatable though, doesn't matter which countries I play. No mercy is what I always say. I guess that's why they don't want to play anymore. Maybe I can trick them into playing again by saying I'll let them win.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable russian bot! at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (0OmEj)
And it's ready for a reboot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAGHT4FdeTc
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (KdlDE)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (yQpMk)
Frisbee is the most popular lame invention ever. Sport for the lobotomized.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 18, 2018 08:46 PM (dB1+n)
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Actually, Ultimate Frisbee (especially played on the beach) is a tremendous sport and workout. Frisbee Golf is fun too.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (87EdW)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM
I had one, it was a Tyco. The cars had working lights on them and we'd put towels up over the windows to make it really dark.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (+Y4s3)
Ben! *squishy hugs*
I loved Play-Doh...I had the Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop as a kid. I was only allowed to play with it in my dad's workshop. It made a mess, but was so much fun.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: lone Yorkshireman at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (11H2y)
I say Harrumph to you, sir. Harrumph!
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (fuK7c)
Hacky Sack.
Worst ever.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 08:55 PM (IqV8l)
I did all glue together plastic models as a kid. My Dad would tell me about balsa model airplanes that he had made. He'd make Japanese Zeros and put a cherry bomb in them and watch them blow up.
I made a couple of balsa airplanes as a grown up, but I never got as far as putting the paper skin and dope on them so I have a couple of interesting airplane shaped skeletons.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 08:55 PM (fuK7c)
I had this toy that looked like a rocket ship but ran real slow on this little track with one loop. Can't remember the name. Got boring real fast, but for some reason I always remember that one.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2018 08:55 PM (r+sAi)
plus, all the pieces and the little spaces for keeping them: I was carrying it over to my friend's house in the winter, and a couple pieces of that spirograph fell out into the snow. had to wait until the snow melted to find them!
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 08:55 PM (xGMkv)
My second son is moderately autistic and fun for him is flinging a string up and down.
My two youngest are pretty normal but many time would rather watch some kid playing with a toy on YouTube rather than playing with their own toys.
Posted by: MAGA at April 18, 2018 08:55 PM (LnOh3)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (+y/Ru)
I have new ideas of my own, Dad!!!! I can think of things all on my own, Dad!!! I'm special and shit!
Posted by: David 'Goebbels' Hogg at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (87EdW)
Posted by: Mark1971
Like Risk or Monopoly, it's a war of attrition. May the leadenest ass win.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (9Hjhc)
Did he go on to live a quiet normal professional life? Or did his brief moment of fame followed by decades of being a punchline drive him to booze and ruin?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: Hands at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (8rNrN
I was that kid. I harassed my parents without mercy until a Navarone set magically appeared on my 7th birthday. I was very popular in my hood, as a result..
Posted by: The Lonebadger at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (5leUT)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (Z48ZB)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (aC6Sd)
Grandiose much?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (oVJmc)
There used to be these kits that let you mold weird little creatures but I can't remember the name.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (NWiLs)
Creepy Crawlers? Another thing the neighbor had that I didn't get, but had the privilege of playing with.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: David Hogg
When Pop-Tarts in the shape of guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have Pop-Tarts.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (cp1if)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (+y/Ru)
He should have gone with Mein Krap. Maybe he can get a forward from Jimmy Drama
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (SiINZ)
I think I had something like that, or my dorky friend did. Yeah, he had it.
I had a few models. I know Revell was a big brand. I had the USS Missouri. I think it was mostly just a snap-together so I didn't have to buy all the glue and stuff.
Actually I think I should buy a model. I remember it being really cool putting the Big Mo together.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (8rNrN)
I had the Revell Saturn V, as well as the Apollo spacecraft one.
And don't give me those namby-pamby snap-together ones. We need to be talking those model kits you had to glue together with that controlled-substance model glue.
Even now, I have an unassembled Revell kit for the Babylon 5 Starfury in my display case, right behind the assembled model from a second kit.
Someday . . . someday . .
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (953wK)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:58 PM (2DOZq)
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Put 'em together, a wrist rocket and a cherry bomb, and you've got a toy!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 08:58 PM (+y/Ru)
she was really pretty.
Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 08:58 PM (zr8oO)
We also invented Dodge Frisbee and nobody complained about getting hit in the head.
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at April 18, 2018 08:58 PM (PtuJp)
My two brothers and I would entertain ourselves for hours at night in our small bedroom playing Nerf Basketball.
...
So many holes in the sheetrock.
To this day I can still entertain myself for hours laying on my back and throwing a ball at the ceiling and catching it. Baseball is best but tennis will work.
Sometimes I throw/catch the ball at the ceiling in the hotel on road trips.
Helps me think.
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 08:58 PM (2wOtx)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (BF6Fv)
And all those Catholic high school girls in trouble!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (0tfLf)
*Fistbump*
The weird part. My Dad bought me one for Christmas, but it was actually a more powerful model than the red rider. Then, we had so much fun playing with it, that he bought himself a Red Ryder. We would shoot nuts out of trees and have the best times.
I love my Dad.
Posted by: David 'Goebbels' Hogg at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (SRarZ)
That might be it.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (NWiLs)
358 >>>I wanted that Evel Knevel toy so bad when I was young. I didn't get it.
it's not nearly as good as they're making it sound. It only went about 20 feet and the jumps were nothing to write home about. Obviously, the thing didn't stick the landings. (Which made it a realistic recreation of the oeuvre of Evil Knievel, I guess.)
Posted by
I am calling BS I was able to get it land.
We also got Space 1999 Eagle 1, and you could make all kinds of different ships.
Anyone else bring their toy guns to school and play? I can't imagine what would happen today if my son did that. He and I would be in jail.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (+Y4s3)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (lLeln)
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (Ud5AY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:00 PM (d4iVA)
Anything you could dummy up could be a valid device, so there was model building involved as well. My James Bond Pocket Aqualung was widely admired (2 empty CO2 cartridges set in a block of wood). Allowed you to survive poison-gas attacks.
Best cap gun I had was a no-name diecast snubby revolver, which may or may not have made it through the last move.
The woodburning thing became my first soldering iron, later.
They had the enamelling kiln at the local club, that was a hoot, too.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at April 18, 2018 09:00 PM (Mbmmf)
I'd sit and play with them with it. I'd use koolaid to scent it and color it with food coloring.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:00 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (lLeln)
I am wondering for the 4 millionth time why I did not go into engineering like my Dad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:00 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: Some Stick-up-the-Butt 'Academic' at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (oVJmc)
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That's why the Muslims never invented any of them. They are too pure and noble.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 09:00 PM (/qEW2)
I still have a Harley Davidson model in the box. I figure my laziness as a young teen may turn out to be worth something.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:00 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (MVjcR)
My two brothers and I would entertain ourselves for hours at night in our small bedroom playing Nerf Basketball.
All the screaming and yelling drove our poor mother crazy.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (BiLU+)
---------------------------------Nerf Basketball should get kickbacks from the drywall industry. Especially in college towns
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (RVcmP)
I had the micronaut battlecruiser. Man was that great! It launched parts of itself off and its wings were guns! And the magnetic centaur dudes were cool too.
I have pieces of it all in a box up in the attic still but not a complete set of anything.
Posted by: bananaDream at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (yRBj9)
Posted by: MAGA at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (LnOh3)
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 09:02 PM (UdKB7)
"Mr. Mainway, your company manufactures the following so-called harmless playthings: Pretty Peggy Ear-Piercing Set, Mr. Skin-Grafter, General Tron's Secret Police Confession Kit, and Doggie Dentist. And what about this innocent rubber doll, which you market under the name Johnny Switchblade? Press his head, and two sharp knives spring from his arms. Mr. Mainway, I'm afraid this is, by no means, a very safe toy."
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 09:02 PM (2wOtx)
Two words: Quikclot Sport Brand Advanced Clotting Sponge.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:02 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (+Y4s3)
Been slacking. Work is a nightmare and I'm beat by the time I get home. Been doing close to 10 or more hours a day. Haven't taken much time to do anything. Pretty sad.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 09:02 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (NWiLs)
I remember the smell. And colorful. Primordial childhood memory.
Probably the last thing I'll see when I die.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (CiRJp)
And all those Catholic high school girls in trouble!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (0tfLf)
Kentucky Fried Movie.
Saw it as a impressionable college boy.
Made an impression, it did.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (953wK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez,
A hoot? Easy for you to say!!!
** sniff **
Posted by: Zombie Fawn Liebowitz at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:58 PM (2DOZq)
I recently found a Picture of me and my Brother, in coon skin caps, with flintlock rifles...
Davey Davey Crocket, King of the Wild Frontier!!!!!
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (NgKpN)
The guy basically went through life writing checks with his mouth and
then cashing them with his balls. Probably not a great role model for
the yoots of America but I thought he was off-the-charts cool when I was
a kid.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (RVcmP)
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My dad grew up with Bobby Knievel in Butte, MT, and they stayed in touch especially whenever he came to Las Vegas where we lived.
My dad said he always "wore pants with no pockets" -- meaning he never paid for anything, expecting everybody else to pick up the check.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (ve0bY)
456 I'm heading back to the farm tomorrow to play with chainsaws and brush cutters. Wish me luck.
Two words: Quikclot Sport Brand Advanced Clotting Sponge.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:02 PM (yQpMk)
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Ha! After last weekend, I have assembled a rather impressive trauma kit.
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (2DOZq)
Hah! Same. It was so disillusioning to find out we were having retread childhoods.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (EoRCO)
I bet I can find a picture on the webz.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (yQpMk)
I always noticed that. false advertising
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: Minndfdel
In fairness, they have to wear a helmet, knee & elbow pads, and a safety vest to go outside. And who wants to go out dressed like a dork?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (9Hjhc)
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (MVjcR)
Full Gothic Plate and a Greatsword?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM
Yep, just did with my girls a few weeks back.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (ve0bY)
Luxury.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (+lOpA)
I am going to say of the toys I got, not sports stuff which I wanted, but toys...
the electronic football got the most play. Feel the Buzz!
shockingly our parents never went crazy.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: teej at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (ZCD4H)
I had the Battlestar Galactica (1978 version) Viper and Cylon ships. The ones that fired the red plastic pellet or whatever it was. Then I think some kid choked on one of them and they got pulled real quick.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (2DOZq)
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Yes.
Posted by: MAGA at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (LnOh3)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: REDACTED at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (Ymy4N)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (+Y4s3)
Posted by: Minndfdel
In fairness, they have to wear a helmet, knee & elbow pads, and a safety vest to go outside. And who wants to go out dressed like a dork?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM
My girls have been allowed to be kids. We live in a rural area so. They are both becoming better shots than me.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (CiRJp)
A Christmas later, Santa sent me one of those vibrating football games with the felt footballs.
I remember getting a Milton-Bradley "Pacific" game. Island-hopping theme.
And the best ... A Renaissance chess set.
Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (dKiJG)
Good night, sweet kid dreams for all.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (aC6Sd)
If you're not using a two man crosscut saw, you''re not really going back to the land!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (BF6Fv)
Glad to hear that. Those are good memories .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (2DOZq)
My toys were mostly tools, come to think of it...
My Dad learned to hate getting me a Soldering Iron once I started modding the remote controls.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (Ud5AY)
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (MVjcR)
Full Gothic Plate and a Greatsword?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (d4iVA)
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Not quite, but I can perform minor surgery and dress all types of wounds now.
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: MAGA at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (LnOh3)
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid, at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (dw7D4)
That was as far as he got.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (HiDrR)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (CiRJp)
>> Rooskie?
You're thinking of Natasha "Betski" Wetski. They're going to use her as for their Russian model sexbot line.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (CiRJp)
You think they wait until 6? Smartphones/tablets are the modern day TV babysitter. There are parents giving them to 3 year olds and younger.
Posted by: Sjg at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (gDSJf)
Suction cup bow and arrows. The suction cups would fall off but we would still shoot the hell out of each other.
How do we still have eyeballs?
Just miraculous.
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (2wOtx)
Caps in a cap gun made a little pew pew. We would set a whole roll of caps on a rock and hit it with another rock.
If you could get nearly all of the roll to go off at once it was awesome.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (fuK7c)
Two will often turn into four and...
Posted by: teej at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (ZCD4H)
I have pieces of it all in a box up in the attic still but not a complete set of anything.
Posted by: bananaDream
Holy shit, I had all that stuff too...man, that was beyond cool...
There's a story regarding Hornetroid I'll tell sometime. It's...odd.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (lLeln)
It's Lo-og
It's Lo-og
It's Big
It's Heavy
It's Wood
It's Lo-og
It's Lo-og
It's beeter
than bad
it's good!
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (Ud5AY)
I had one that had a cork football. That damn thing never did anything. The guys just rolled all over the place
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Don Q.
We took the kids to Disney World and it was my first time. Guess what I bought? that's right. a coon skin cap.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (xGMkv)
I got a rock.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM
*******
I imagine Vic did too... But he would have been grateful!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (+Y4s3)
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No, but I do have a nice long handled set of pruning shears and a couple of long sleeve shirts!
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (2DOZq)
Wait. You mean you WEREN'T supposed to set up the track to launch the cars as far as they could go????
I must reexamine my life.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (l7Kbv)
Posted by: 11B40 at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (evgyj)
The ladies might not recognize what I'm talking about.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (2DOZq)
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"Gimp" is such an ugly word. I prefer handicapable involuntary sex partner.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (+Y4s3)
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM
We used to have BB gun wars in the woods. Some kid would always break the rule of no more than 3 pumps of air.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (CiRJp)
He should have loaned the set to Barney Fife.
Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (UFgOG)
I had the micronaut battlecruiser. Man was that great! It launched parts of itself off and its wings were guns!
...
You just KNOW that Micronauts and the Battlecruiser is on a drawing board somewhere at DARPA.
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (2wOtx)
Welding gloves and apron come in handy as brush protection, and they can be had cheap.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (yQpMk)
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Anybody have a gimp under the stairs?
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM
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You're not going to get my real name that way. Now, get back under the stairs.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (CiRJp
Agreed. I would sneak out of my room late at night to fire up some Combat or Astroid every chance I got. It was like heroine made out of pixels....
Posted by: The Lonebadger at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (5leUT)
Of course that verse is about faith - but dad thought it was about material things.
When I was 28 I had a really bad year: got robbed out of business, lost my car, got run over by a truck while riding a bicycle - the list goes on and on.
Since I was down so far dad decided it was time to invoke his Bible verse.
I had a Lionel train set from the 1950's Steam locomotive with the little pills that would make smoke come out of the chimney on it. Pretty nice set up. It was the one remaining toy I had from my child hood.
Yes, even that little bit I had was taken from me.
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (KdlDE)
The packaging had all this hype about it doing these incredible bounces and you'd be like, "More ZIONIST LIES from the #FakeNews toy ad-copy media."
And then you got one, and bounced it, and Holy Shit, that thing was in fact a Super Ball.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (8rNrN)
I have a bad ass slot car set and a bonus pack of track in my basement and I can't find a kid who wants them!
They aren't brand new, but they are pretty damn close. Came with a locker filled with stereo equipment I bought.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (Ud5AY)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (JyFLk)
I played a LOT of Paintball when it first started...
Goggles... Tshirt... cammy pants, and a bandana around my neck...
It was our belief that if you got hit? you deserved it...
Rough Riders... State Champs of Hawaii 4 Straight years... 85 to 89.
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 09:11 PM (NgKpN)
Anybody else have the Heathkit electronic kits . . . I think I had the Heathkit 40 and then the Heathkit 80. (We're talking 60's or maybe early 70's here.)
It was pretty amazing to be able to basically put together a transistor radio and it actually worked!
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:11 PM (953wK)
518 No, but I do have a nice long handled set of pruning shears and a couple of long sleeve shirts!
Welding gloves and apron come in handy as brush protection, and they can be had cheap.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (yQpMk)
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I have welding gloves! I have a small TIG (MIG?) welder for building target frames.
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:11 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Infidel at April 18, 2018 09:11 PM (a3OL0)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (yQpMk)
Not sure the maker's name. I got card with the data. Fixed focus, no fancy shite. Surgery took 15 minutes, local anaesthesia. My best description for the sensation is "weird". Not painful, not scary, just a weird space to be in. Like I was lying on my back in a rippling river, looking up through the water at the Sun. Trippy, even.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (efC8N)
Bounce over your house it would.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: A Ball, a Cup, and A String at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (8rNrN)
The difference between girls' play and boys'? The same manufacturer also made boy stuff. Three-inch plastic trucks can go for seventy-five dollars. Why? There are very few of them. The girl stuff is cheap because much of it is still around.
Posted by: Wenda (sic) at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (Kr0FZ)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: John Orr at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (bUjCl)
It was pretty amazing to be able to basically put together a transistor radio and it actually worked!
...
I had some electronics kit but it turns out I wasn't as science-oriented or smart as I thought and I quickly got bored after merely making a dimmable light.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:13 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 09:13 PM (+Y4s3)
And the super bowl was actually named that indirectly because of the super ball.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:13 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM
*******
I imagine Vic did too... But he would have been grateful!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (e9G8E)
A rock, Pure Luxury!
I got dirt! But at least I got all I wanted!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 18, 2018 09:13 PM (n9EOP)
In fairness, there's a AS Mp5 in the closet of my boy's old room that would get you shot by the police in some cities. Those airsoft weapon are realistic.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM (yQpMk)
And I'm outta here.
Long three days and not feeling well. Upper resp crud from 2 months back returned.
Someone, I think from here, told me back then that that would happen.
Love each other fellow babies
Posted by: teej at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM (ZCD4H)
This could prove to be interesting.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM (SRarZ)
I used to go out to my Dad's workbench and take a liquid filled golf ball (they were a thing at the time) and drill it out, drain the liquid and putlighter fluid in it with a piece of string sticking out.
It never worked. Thank goodness. My parents obviously didn't give a darn about what I was up to as long as I was being quiet.
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: A Ball, a Cup, and A String
Mexico's favorite toy for 340 years!
https://youtu.be/zLIRWTNDYIY
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM (9Hjhc)
Posted by: Grump928
An unrelated error at our grade school - early January, bring in your favorite Christmas present. friend of mine took out a ceiling tile in our gym with a Superball.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM (JyFLk)
Like, I did the first five or six things in the instructions that involved lights or sound. the "Basic" stuff for dumb people.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM (8rNrN)
No crystal radio set?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:15 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:15 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:13 PM (8rNrN)
At one time, I actually had memorized the color stripe thingies on the resistors, by working with those Heathkits.
Yeah, that's gone now.
And, I never actually made anything by myself . . . I was just really, really good at following instructions precisely.
Yeah, that's gone now too.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:15 PM (953wK)
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (UdKB7)
Lots of Kenner stuff, incl. hydro set.
Strombecker race track.
Lionel O guage Super Chief layout.
Guess I was spoiled.
America WAS great.
MAGA!
Posted by: chicongo johnny- cig smuggler at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (5CirR)
It was pretty amazing to be able to basically put together a transistor radio and it actually worked!
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:11 PM
YES!!! My dad was into radio and was an electrician. And it was something we liked doing together. He still has a radio we built in his workshop!
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (CiRJp)
boy's old room that would get you shot by the police in some cities.
Those airsoft weapon are realistic.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM
*******
IIRC, that actually happened once or twice!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (+y/Ru)
You got used to throwing a baseball or tennis ball at the corner of the wall in the basement and each successive bounce would lose energy. Superballs were witchcraft.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: James Comey Head Dick - leaking badly at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (KdlDE)
Posted by: rustbucket at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (udFeQ)
It was pretty amazing to be able to basically put together a transistor radio and it actually worked!
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:11 PM (953wK)
Yep. Which is why I've been an electronics tech for the last few decades.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (l7Kbv)
Posted by: Fritz at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (bJ0w+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (/tuJf)
They were both pretty baller. They "mountains" were the exact same mold with different paint and different minor add-ons (a rock bridge with the dinosaur one, a falling boulder for commanche pass), but they were cool.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (8rNrN)
the football goal game?
Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (zr8oO)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (Pqytn)
In Hawaii in the late 80's I was part of a War Game Club... miniatures.. Napoleonics.... WW2.... all kinds of stuff...
But one of our Faves was Mustangs and Messerschmits... Based on Model Airplanes... and the deal was that you could 'fly' anything you built a model of....
Was a hoot? We got to the point of actually keeping track of 'kills' for our models, and painting them on....
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (xzqr4)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto
A 6th grader at local middle school brought an Airsoft to school recently. Hilarity did NOT ensue.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (JyFLk)
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:11 PM (MVjcR)
I've used crabber's gloves for clearing brush, but I think I'll try the welding gloves (which I use for the wood stove).
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (n9EOP)
banned now. Shit to kids even play with toys anymore or do they just get
a smart phone at 6 years old?
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (CiRJp)
Walk across my Lego-mined living room sometime.
Posted by: pookysgirl is reporting from the planet Hoth at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 09:18 PM (MTjB1)
Once.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (/tuJf)
Let me guess:
Somebody actually hit a pitch.
End of game due to the ball landing somewhere in the next county.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:18 PM (953wK)
Posted by: pookysgirl is reporting from the planet Hoth at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:18 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: Son of Sam the butcher at April 18, 2018 09:19 PM (VJBq9)
I've used crabber's gloves for clearing brush, but I think I'll try the welding gloves (which I use for the wood stove).
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (n9EOP)
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I have a decent pair of leather work gloves so my hands survived last weekend's battle unscathed. My forearms are a different, and sad, story.
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:19 PM (MVjcR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URx1DzwZcXY
I really wanted one of those. It was like a real life ROBOT!!!!
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:19 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 09:19 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 09:20 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 09:20 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 09:20 PM (KdlDE)
I had a carbide cannon. Those were fun.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 09:02 PM (UdKB7)
I finally got one! Haven't tried it yet, but I may have the continent's largest stash of calcium carbide. About 6 drums of it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:21 PM (efC8N)
Posted by: Soona at April 18, 2018 09:21 PM (3pPRn)
They had everything.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (EoRCO)
I had a Lionel train set, because my dad had one when he was a kid and wanted me to have one, too. Electric train sets were enormously popular for decades, but their popularity was waning by the 60s when I was a kid.
Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2018 09:21 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM (NWiLs)
At one time, I actually had memorized the color stripe thingies on the resistors, by working with those Heathkits.
Yeah, that's gone now.
And, I never actually made anything by myself . . . I was just really, really good at following instructions precisely.
Yeah, that's gone now too.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:15 PM (953wK)
Color code????
Bad Boys Rape our Young Girls but Violent gives willingly... get some now...
Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White..... Gold Silver None....
Yeah... Navy Electronics Tech.... LOL
Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM (NgKpN)
That's why I like the welding gloves with their long gauntlet style.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM (yQpMk)
They had everything.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (EoRCO)
Let Lionel Playworld turn that frown upside-down. Had a kangaroo mascot, IIRC.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM (MTjB1)
7 FOOT FRANKENSTEIN: OBEYS YOUR COMMANDS!
FLOATING GHOST: OBEYS YOUR COMMANDS!
FLYING VAMPIRE BAT: OBEYS YOUR COMMANDS!!!!
For like $4.99.
I really wanted to believe that I could have these things and they woudl "obey my commands," but somehow, I couldn't quite believe it.
I fantasized about them a lot though.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:23 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:23 PM (CiRJp)
That was the last pitch. The ground balls that game before it should have been a warning.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 09:23 PM (/tuJf)
I, of course, immediately grabbed the bat and declared myself 'Up First!'...
as I had an inclination it would all end badly.
Very badly, indeed.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:23 PM (3m3dI)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM (NWiLs)
You could have played with the light bulb since wasn't being used .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (zr8oO)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM (N
Luxury!
Posted by: Muad'dib at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (cvY7W)
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (JyFLk)
One bad potato killed Ace's Electrical Engineering future.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (3m3dI)
I also had a knock-off "Space Sword." I felt like such a hobo poser.
It wasn't bad, though. It did light up. And it kind of telescoped out, with plastic segments that extended out away from the next one.
But it was definitely a knock-off.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:25 PM (8rNrN)
Once.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (/tuJf)
Japan had a game show where they had Pro baseball players see how far they could hit them, it's on YouTube.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 18, 2018 09:25 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: REDACTED at April 18, 2018 09:25 PM (Ymy4N)
Posted by: Sal at April 18, 2018 09:26 PM (hA4a+)
Those bruises were tiny and devestating.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM (3m3dI)
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My favorite toy was the dead rat I found in the
basement. I think it was a rat, anyway. My folks kept the lights off
when they locked me down there.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM
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Dead rat/ corndog. Many thing are just a matter of perspective.
Posted by: Dude on fourth day of diet at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM (RVcmP)
basement. I think it was a rat, anyway. My folks kept the lights off
when they locked me down there.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM
********
I'm guessing you really enjoyed playing with the jack and tyre spanner in the boot of the family car when you went on vacation, too...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (3m3dI)
Which brings up the question that's haunted me from my youth:
What the fuck is the deal with Mr. Potatohead, anyway?
That particular "toy" always baffled the hell out of me.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM (953wK)
My vintage toy was a Mattel Mickey Mouse Club projector. It was black plastic and looked like a newsreel type movie camera. It had various slide strips of cartoons or nature "shows". There were 45 records for sound. We'd go into this large walk in closet for darkness and project the cartoons on the wall. That was high tech for the late fifties.
I should have taken better care of it. It's a Disney collectible now.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM (+lVUW)
One thing, though: It was heavier than you'd guess and could be used as a halfway dangerous sap, if you held it by the legs and just swatted someone with it.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (CiRJp)
basement. I think it was a rat, anyway. My folks kept the lights off
when they locked me down there.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM
********
I'm guessing you really enjoyed playing with the jack and tyre spanner in the boot of the family car when you went on vacation, too...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM (e9G8E)
I wasn't allowed. They did let me play "wheel chock" when they changed a flat.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (953wK)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (2DOZq)
I enjoyed that movie and would see it again
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (xGMkv)
Those things were less than a 1/2 step away from medievel weaponry.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (3m3dI)
i never understood it. Was the original just the plastic pieces that you stuck on to a real potato, instead of the plastic one you got later?
I think this might have been just after the widespread manufacture of plastics and people were just thinking of stupid cheap shit they could sell made out of Space Age Plastics.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: willy at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (puf6g)
Remember Viewfinder's?
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (CiRJp)
Slide projector .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (2DOZq)
they're basically bolas.
I remember people using them, and they looked... menacing.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (RfzVr)
Major Matt Mason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZAGDepZc40
Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (9/8g0)
GO PENS!!!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (SwhMM)
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (xGMkv)
also... anyone mention Tinker Toys? Loved playing with that stuff. Built a tank with a rubber band so the turret turned when you pushed it along.
Still love my Chatty Comey doll.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (KxbBq)
i liked that movie too but I can't remember stretch armstrong in it.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Sal at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (hA4a+)
Many years later, long after I stopped building models, I finally found one and bought it. Alas, it remains in its box unassembled.
Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2018 09:31 PM (sdi6R)
aw shit I was trying to remember a toy like this -- I remember that.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:31 PM (8rNrN)
I found an old 8mm porn and made porn discs out of my sister's view finder.
Mostly because I could and also because you couldn't rely on Forest Porn.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:31 PM (3m3dI)
I enjoyed that movie and would see it again
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (xGMkv)
The cinematography at the last half of the movie was worth watching it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:31 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 09:31 PM (NWiLs)
Except for Walgreens and Osco all of the other stores mentioned in that commercial are long gone.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 09:31 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (jm1YL)
That particular "toy" always baffled the hell out of me.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM (953wK)
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It's meant as a kind of allegory for Michael Jackson.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (KxbBq)
Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (9/8g0)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (CiRJp)
Viewmaster? An update of the 1890's stereoscope. It used round cards with stereo pairs of 16 mm slides set across from each other, and a lever ratcheted the card around, so you could view successive pairs of images.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (efC8N)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable
We played Risk when I was in high school and college. That got vicious to the point where my younger sister would run off in tears. The trick to winning risk was you'd make a side deal to not attack another player, then after you got rid of the weakest player, turn on your ally.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:33 PM (+lVUW)
They fuckin' hurt.
My sister had a pair of green and white ones that I got routinely pelted with.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:33 PM (3m3dI)
Remember Viewfinder's?
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (CiRJp)
Viewfinders were great in the pre-internet age.
I still have one of those with a ton of discs.
Think there is one of parks of the US.
Another on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:33 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP SUcks at April 18, 2018 09:34 PM (G8hDY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:34 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (KxbBq)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (2DOZq)
Grandiose much?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
That's what's dumb about gun grabbers. They really believe you can legislate murder out of existence.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP SUcks at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (G8hDY)
I can't recall why Stretch was there.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:36 PM (xGMkv)
Came with cowboys and lawmen that you could have gun fights with.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 18, 2018 09:36 PM (UfMVm)
Action Man was big in Britain and Ireland. Those kids thought G.I. Joe was the knockoff.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 18, 2018 09:36 PM (HiDrR)
There was a toy designer that lived across the street from a house we rented, every summer on Long island.
He had an entire shop filled with toys that he had designed and used to let us take one home every summer.
And he never once tried to bad touch us.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:36 PM (q8fGT)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:37 PM (KxbBq)
What an asshole. Seriously.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP SUcks at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (G8hDY)
The History-ignorant-narcissist is strong in that one.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:37 PM (953wK)
--
Remember Viewfinder's?
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (CiRJp)
Viewmaster?
An update of the 1890's stereoscope. It used round cards with stereo
pairs of 16 mm slides set across from each other, and a lever ratcheted
the card around, so you could view successive pairs of images.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM
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Loved that. In retrospect, it was like someone else browsing the internet while you looked over their shoulder and just appreciated just seeing anything new.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 09:37 PM (RVcmP)
jack and tyre spanner in the boot of the family car when you went on
vacation, too...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto
Sure, if by vacation you meant the drive-in.
Many of the toys I played with were home made by me, like slingshots. I did have a Slinky, it's useless if you don't have stairs.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 18, 2018 09:37 PM (0ogQG)
Gnip Gnop! "While you're gnipping he's gnopping." I want to say this was 1972.
Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2018 09:37 PM (GAb0J)
with stereo pairs of 16 mm slides set across from each other, and a
lever ratcheted the card around, so you could view successive pairs of
images<<<
My Grandmother had Viewmasters and about 150 reels/wheels. Those things were IMAX for Kaboom kids.
Posted by: Fritz at April 18, 2018 09:37 PM (bJ0w+)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:15 PM (yQpMk)
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I built every radio kid my parents would let me get. I still have all of them, and I'm sure with a little time and TLC they would still work.
The fascination with this type of stuff lead to getting a degree in Electrical Engineering/Marketing, and a nice career selling industrial electronics.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (vOaza)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (efC8N)
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (CiRJp)
Posted by: Texican ette at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (JH0gT)
Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (9/8g0)
The Viewmaster was one of the toys i wanted so badly for Christmas that I woke up at the crack of dawn Christmas morning, snuck downstairs and took it upstairs with me to play with it before 'official' christmas.
snuck it back down, and put it back, then acted surprised. at the age of 9 or so.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:39 PM (xGMkv)
What an asshole. Seriously.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP SUcks at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (G8hDY)
The History-ignorant-narcissist is strong in that one.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 09:37 PM (953wK)
In the whole family - I recall a story on Twitchy where his sister was trying to get people in their "movement" to wear armbands in solidarity.
I am not making that up.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 09:40 PM (G8hDY)
Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:40 PM (9/8g0)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2018 09:40 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 18, 2018 09:40 PM (rdl6o)
Hrothgar. I had my cataract surgery two years ago now. I went from 20/500, yeah, no shit, to 20/35. I use reading glasses for just that. It's life altering.
Posted by: Winston at April 18, 2018 09:41 PM (wgCUV)
I remember the old 8mm movie cameras and projectors. I remember my grandparents got theirs out once and we watch all the old home movies. Stuff I remember:
-My grandparents and the kids at the grand canyon. My Dad was ten years older or so than his next youngest brother, so he is standing there, thin as a rail. Two of my uncles are in striped shirts. Everyone is sporting crew cuts. This was probably mid to early 60s or so.
-A Christmas video. My grandparents had one of the aluminum trees with the color wheel and light in the back. That was cool. My great grandfather Frobel sitting in a chair. The carpet in the living room that they did not change for 30 years (electric blue, it was.)
Thinking back on it, it has a kind of haunting quality. A lot of passed on family members in those videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:41 PM (d4iVA)
Exactly that.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:41 PM (yQpMk)
Major Matt Mason, Sgt. Storm, the guy in the yellow spacesuit, and the alien. I had several MMMs; the newest on would become Mason, and the others were generic moon explorers. Plus the Space Crawler, the Space Station, the Space Sled, and those little red tractors that came with the doll.
When the wires in the limbs broke, it was a sure thing that the limb would soon come loose. I had several amputees in my squad.
Johnny West, with all his accoutrements -- revolver, treasure chest, bags of gold, skillet, coffee pot, to name a few. Plus his horse (Blaze?) and all that gear. A cousin had even more JW stuff than I did, including the villain with his hidden Derringer and stiletto.
Bing Bang Boing, a set of platforms with balloon elastic stretched over the tops like a drum. You bounced small metal marbles off the heads; the idea was that the marbles could go from the taller platforms to the shorter ones. In reality, the drum heads tore quickly. Big Christmas disappointment.
Rebound, a marble game owned by the same cousin. Can't describe it briefly; look it up. Made by Ideal, I think.
Also by Ideal, Ker-Plunk. Marbles sat in a tube on a nest of plastic sticks. The goal was to draw out sticks without letting marbles drop. As more sticks came out ... Yeah.
If you haven't guessed, I could rattle away on this topic for hours.
Posted by: Weak Geek at April 18, 2018 09:42 PM (zT4Y1)
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:31 PM (8rNrN)
I've worked in software all my life. I can't tell you how many projects I described as that car.
Posted by: DR.WTF? at April 18, 2018 09:42 PM (T71PA)
Ornithopter
Balsa wood airlanes
Wrist rockets
Metal cap gun that looked like a Luger
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (qJtVm)
That's my list too!
And a mini power tool set that included a circ saw, sabre saw, and drill. Real blades that you could cut balsa with.
Also had a hot glue gun now that I think about it.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 18, 2018 09:42 PM (V1D0R)
Posted by: Mike at April 18, 2018 09:42 PM (c056A)
Remember Viewfinder's?
Posted by: Minndfdel
Yup. Had that too. The strip slides for my projector were similar, but it seemed so much cooler because you projected them onto a wall, and it looked like a movie projector.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:43 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:43 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:43 PM (9/8g0)
for Christmas that I woke up at the crack of dawn Christmas morning,
snuck downstairs and took it upstairs with me to play with it before
'official' christmas.
snuck it back down, and put it back, then acted surprised. at the age of 9 or so.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:39 PM (xGMkv)
If I am not mistaken, you could get 16 mm cameras set up to take stereo pairs, and send the film out to be processed, and made into cards like that. All a stereo pair is, is the same picture taken twice, from a slightly different viewpoint.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:43 PM (efC8N)
Posted by: Weak Geek at April 18, 2018 09:44 PM (zT4Y1)
Grandiose much?
Posted by: Mr. Peeble
His name will be on that book. Someone else will write it. Kind of like all of Obama's books.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 18, 2018 09:44 PM (SwhMM)
Remember "Mad Men" when Draper described Kodak's slide wheel as a carousel?
my great aunt traveled the world and would show us pictures when she returned, with one of those. projected on the wall in the dark, where we kids slept on the floor.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:45 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: nerdygirl
I did this in Monopoly.
Posted by: boulder t' hobo at April 18, 2018 09:45 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2018 09:45 PM (GAb0J)
https://tinyurl.com/ybxwd64y
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:46 PM (KxbBq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:46 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Weak Geek at April 18, 2018 09:42 PM (zT4Y1)
That was my favorite childhood toy. Our drum heads lasted fairly well, but I seem to remember getting some replacements.
Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at April 18, 2018 09:46 PM (/A+Cl)
Grandiose much?
Posted by: Mr. Peeble
On the other hand, "Never Again" is much better than the title he was going to go with; My Struggle.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 18, 2018 09:47 PM (SwhMM)
I can think of a few good punishments for this crap sandwich.
Apologies to the 'ettes for the language.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:47 PM (d4iVA)
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:47 PM (xGMkv)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2018 09:48 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 09:49 PM (Z48ZB)
Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2018 09:49 PM (GAb0J)
Actually, we couldn't afford most popular toys when I was a kid.. no big deal.. we got some of them for Christmas from aunts and uncles.. but late 50's, early 60's, toys were kinda scarce.. you made your own.. and I never felt cheated..
I do remember getting a tonka-toy dump truck for Christmas one year.. woo hooo!
Having 3 brothers, we played outside a lot.. having a rubber ball and a bat meant there's a fast-pitching game..
We seemed to play in the alleys a lot too.. was fun!
I've had one job or another since I was 9 yrs old.. always bought my own shit.. Duncan yo-yo! walk the dog!
Kids are spoiled these days..
My kids had lots of those toys in the list though.. easy-bake oven, etc..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 18, 2018 09:50 PM (5tSKk)
They were big marble like balls on a string.
I used to hit myself in the head all the time.
I know, phrasing.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2018 09:51 PM (2DYau)
How many kids were hit in the face after throwing one straight down on the sidewalk as hard as you could? Good times.
Posted by: tonypete at April 18, 2018 08:33
I was just going to post about superballs. I had a lot of these toys, got some nice Diecast farm implements from my farming grandparents.
Unfortunately my folks took them back to the farm as I grew older for my cousins to play with. Of course they destroyed them.
Had many of the other toys mentioned. Including an E-Z Bake oven. For my conservative parents to buy that for me in the early 60s is remarkable. Heck, I just liked to eat and thought cooking food was cool.
Posted by: Farmer at April 18, 2018 09:51 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 18, 2018 09:50 PM (5tSKk)
Stormy Daniels got the Sleasy-Bake oven. It guided her entire career.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:51 PM (efC8N)
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2018 09:52 PM (9tO1t)
Stormy Daniels got the Sleasy-Bake oven. It guided her entire career.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:51 PM (efC8N)
Stripper pole sold separately
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 09:52 PM (SiINZ)
things and they woudl "obey my commands," but somehow, I couldn't quite
believe it.
I fantasized about them a lot though.
Posted by: ace
...
Hovercraft Built From A Vacuum Cleaner!!!
SeaMonkeys!!!
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 09:52 PM (2wOtx)
Clackers.
Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2018 09:52 PM (9tO1t)
I bet they were banned.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2018 09:53 PM (2DYau)
We played paratroop attack on bunkers we made for our toy soldiers...and around the 4th of July we also dropped firecrackers on the bunkers: parachute bombing, for as long as our firecrackers and the supply of Grampa's "borrowed" handkerchiefs lasted.
Posted by: Gref at April 18, 2018 09:54 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Dusty at April 18, 2018 09:54 PM (/AUZ3)
I ruled in Stratego. Risk, not so much.
I have vague memories of the Game of Life. Something about kids and life insurance, ISTR.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2018 09:54 PM (hyuyC)
SeaMonkeys!!!
Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 09:52 PM (2wOtx)
Come on... x-ray glasses. You know what I'm saying.
Back in the days before the internet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:54 PM (d4iVA)
You must not be any good with them. I can make all kinds of throws, left, right, backhand, forehand, upsidedown, off the index finger, off the thumb. Curves left, right, skips off pavement. We got high and played Ultimate.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (yQpMk)
Throwing a "bad" Frisbee toss into a crowd of college girls was a perfect way to introduce oneself.
And if you were tossing with a dog who caught it, the women were even more talkative and impressed.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2018 09:55 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: weew at April 18, 2018 09:56 PM (Dol4k)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2018 09:55 PM (UsCnO)
My queensland was an awesome frisbee dog.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2018 09:56 PM (2DYau)
Clackers.
I bet they were banned.
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They were. Because they could shatter, I think.
I used to have a set, fun toy. We had bb guns, lawn darts, Honda trail 50's, good times.
Posted by: willy at April 18, 2018 09:57 PM (puf6g)
I had a James Bond briefcase that had a convertible gun in it. The core was what looked like a Luger that shot a plastic bullet about 7/8" long. Had a wire stock with plastic butt, scope that slid on and a long barrel. Had a little plastic case with a secret passport reader: a pane of red plastic that you put the included business cards in to read something or other.
Had to sell it a few years back along with the full sized GI Joe with a footlocker full of frogman and astronaut stuff.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 18, 2018 09:57 PM (GdWl+)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 18, 2018 09:57 PM (Ckg4U)
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Posted by: Infidel at April 18, 2018 09:58 PM (a3OL0)
I used to have a set, fun toy. We had bb guns, lawn darts, Honda trail 50's, good times.
Posted by: willy at April 18, 2018 09:57 PM (puf6g)
We had those toys as well. My brothers had enduro dirt bikes. Whatever those are.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2018 09:59 PM (2DYau)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2018 09:59 PM (hyuyC)
I once tried the laser game people play with cats. He quickly figured out that I was making the dot and always moved over to where I was and inspected the laser.
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Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 10:00 PM (RVcmP)
aw shit I was trying to remember a toy like this -- I remember that.
Yep. We Would run them into the fireplace hearth. They were called Wreck Em something?
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 10:00 PM (Z48ZB)
And it looks like no one mentioned Dont Break the Ice yet either.
Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2018 10:01 PM (GAb0J)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 10:00 PM (d4iVA)
They are the smartest dogs. I love queenslands.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2018 10:02 PM (2DYau)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 10:03 PM (d4iVA)
I'm old enough (65) to remember when Mr Potatohead required a real potato, which was the last time he was cool. My family was a typical lower-middle-class '50s American family - mom, dad, 4 kids born 2 years apart - and like the others we went through a 10-lb bag of Idaho potatoes just about every week, having them boiled or mashed or baked just about every night. The ugliest potatoes were the best for Mr Potatohead: you could make far more interesting faces from an ugly misshapen warty potato (and the various tack-on body parts) than you could ever make from a smooth plastic body with the pre-drilled holes always in the same places. The introduction of plastic bodies for Mr Potatohead was a major landmark in the decline of American Culture.
Posted by: Dr Weevil at April 18, 2018 10:03 PM (yPnLb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2018 10:02 PM (2DYau)
They are awesome.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 10:04 PM (d4iVA)
my great aunt traveled the world and would show us pictures when she returned, with one of those. projected on the wall in the dark, where we kids slept on the floor.
Wow. Sleeping on a pallet on the floor, which was nothing but a blanket. Used to do that a lot back then.
Climbed a lot of trees, too. A. Lot. Of. Trees.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 18, 2018 10:04 PM (GdWl+)
We had those toys as well. My brothers had enduro dirt bikes. Whatever those are.
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I knew kids who had those and they had the trampoline down the street, too.
Rock'em sock'em, hot wheels, skateboards with steel wheels..kids are missing out these days.
Posted by: willy at April 18, 2018 10:04 PM (puf6g)
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 10:06 PM (KdlDE)
Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2018 10:09 PM (GAb0J)
I never got a VertiBird.
I hate all of you.
So much.
*sniff*
Posted by: Captain Comic at April 18, 2018 10:30 PM (kXhle)
Posted by: Bill Befort at April 18, 2018 10:36 PM (hJFOo)
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 18, 2018 10:40 PM (bML9A)
Man, the more I read this thread, the more I remember.
I had a LOT of toys and games -- and books! -- while growing up but nobody around to play with me. (Younger sister doesn't count.) Farm family. Toys would move from the house to the empty hayloft in the oldest barn. There they stayed. The Johnny Lightning track that never worked well. Dynamite Shack game. Eventually, MMM's space station and gear.
I spent a lot of time in that loft.
Posted by: Weak Geek at April 18, 2018 11:10 PM (zT4Y1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-gHqov5w8
1972 Chevy Truck pulling a 747 tv ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-gHqov5w8
The major airlines have all retired their 747's last year. I always wanted to fly on a 747 and never did. Never will.
I have that truck (in ochre and white). '72 K10 Cheyenne Super.
Though the anemic 350ci gave way to a 468ci big-block some years back.
It's like driving a sports car compared to my crew-cab dually...
Posted by: Shepherd Lover at April 19, 2018 12:21 AM (9qqkH)
I may buy it. Yes, I'm an adult and I don't care. Better late than never. Maybe next Christmas.
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She ...ahhh.....became a PC harridan in later days, and finally departed office after spending a shit-ton of tax money on new City buildings.
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