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I had the 'Flying Aces' toy.
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) 4
And then we got an Atari...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:10 PM (xJa6I) 5
Stretch Armstrong. It was fun until it got a hole in it and that shit oozed out.
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:11 PM (xPl2J) 6
Maybe it was the cis-normative environment I was raised in, but I never wanted to play with
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 18, 2018 08:11 PM (pvjTE) 7
I rather liked when GI Joe was one guy instead of 750 different specialists.
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) 9
I had both sizes of G.I. Joe.
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) 10
I thought Sea Monkeys were just fascinating.
Posted by: James Homey at April 18, 2018 08:12 PM (Tyii7) 11
Oh, and I am very familiar with the Steve Austin toy. I also had the Oscar Goldman toy, complete with exploding briefcase.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:12 PM (xDf3o) 12
Major Matt Mason, and his Lunar Crawler...
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) 13
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) 15
You guys had toys? All I had to place with was my ding-a-ling-a-ling.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (UdKB7) 16
Slinky was great. One of the better gifts I got as a kid, at least until the metal inevitably creased somewhere and it stopped functioning well. Or even worse just snapped if it was one of the cheap plastic ones.
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) 17
>>>2 I had the 'Flying Aces' toy.
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) 18
Vintage Thread!
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) 19
No Erector Set?
Posted by: Bob Dole at April 18, 2018 08:13 PM (djCea) 20
Big Wheels were fine, but a kid on my block was the envy of all the kids with his Green Machine.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (xDf3o) 21
Lincoln Logs.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (yQpMk) 22
Me and my sister were talking about this, strange change machine, and creepy crawlers.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (6Ll1u) 23
I am especially intrigued by Betsy Wetsy. Is she a Rooskie?
Posted by: James Homey at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (Tyii7) 24
I had both an Evel Knievel crank up motorcycle AND the Evel Knievel electric toothbrush. I thought he was the coolest thing in history.
Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (RVcmP) 25
Comic Book Men is a great show because toy nostalgia.
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (4+5ym) 26
I only had big size GI Joes, was looking at some of the links that looked familiar either something I had or freinds. Wish I still had some of them.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (aC6Sd) 27
>>>Slinky was great. One of the better gifts I got as a kid, at least until the metal inevitably creased somewhere and it stopped functioning well. Or even worse just snapped if it was one of the cheap plastic ones.
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) 28
Shogun Warriors Godzilla with flame tongue and launchable fist. 1978. GI Joe Was reboot in 1981 was my fave growing up.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (BF6Fv) 29
remember the cartoon INCH HIGH PRIVATE EYE? Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at April 18, 2018 08:14 PM (VwqM3) 30
I road big wheels to death. Went through a few of them. The rear wheels would split from doing spinouts on the driveway.
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (xPl2J) 31
I'll never forget my 1919 Your First Speakeasy playset....
Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (SzZnW) 32
Tinker Toys.
Posted by: filbert at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (953wK) 33
Favorite toys? I've always been partial to pardons. They're fun to play with.
And Battleship. I like that one too. Posted by: Eric Holder, Commissar at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (XlbwU) 34
remember the BARBAPAPAS? Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at April 18, 2018 08:15 PM (VwqM3) 35
I had a Tubsy doll. She took a bath with you and her arms would mechanically go up and down and splash the water. Also had Chrissy, while my sis had Velvet. You could pull the hair out of the tops of their heads and make it short or long.
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) 37
Lite Brite? Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (VwqM3) 38
No gas powered airplanes on strings? I don't know how we didn't barf with those things.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (yQpMk) 39
what ? no rubik's cube ? Posted by: runner at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (bUjCl) 40
Donny Osmond pitched this bicycle in the late 60's? I 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) 41
Irright, the story of Kneivel is really rather fascinating.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM (xDf3o) 42
I got a rock
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) 46
"No gas powered airplanes on strings? I don't know how we didn't barf with those things."
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) 48
Ref the Colleco Football.
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) 50
Big Jim was cool! Button in his back, biceps that flexed, rubber coated arms that become discolored with time and didn't make the rest of the doll made of plastic. Also had a Big Jeff, and of course the Big Jim Kung Fu Studio.
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) 51
M80's. Those were always good for some excitement. Can you still buy them, or have the take-away-all-danger crowd hoovered all those right away?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilence Committee supporter at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (XlbwU) 52
Toys? You had toys? Toys were for rich kids. Sometimes while we were working in the fields we'd think about having toys and make up games with sticks and rocks we found.
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) 53
Because within 15 minutes it would be broken.
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) 54
Hotwheels.
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) 56
I have a large Erector set only missing a couple of pieces. It was a gift but have had it 20 years.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:18 PM (aC6Sd) 57
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) 60
Oh boy, here's a yootube of Tubsy. So creepy! How on earth did I ever sleep after seeing this in my tub? Thanks, Mom.
https://tinyurl.com/ybmbchm4 Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (mQ0Mc) 61
We mostly played outside, and read inside. Once we graduated from Tonka trucks in the sandbox, and moved up to black powder cannons made out of rifle shells, well, fun was had just about anywhere we wandered.
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) 62
Cap guns. I loved that smell
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (Z48ZB) 63
12" black dildo.
Posted by: David Hogg at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (CiRJp) 64
I had this thing which was basically a ball with a towel attached to it. That sounds boring but you could use it as a mace, spin it around and launch it pretty far, do all sorts of damage with it. Banned from inside use, of course. Winston the Beagle made short work of it one afternoon.
Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (1FhAQ) 65
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) 66
My family could only find a second hand Monopoly game, without the dice, markers, houses, and missing half the cards.
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) 67
Two words: Clack. Ers.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (VBKy9) 68
wasn't there some GI Joe figure called "Dr. Steel" or "Mr. Steel" with like a steel hand or steel face or something?
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (8rNrN) 69
Legos.
Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (L7t0A) 70
"I had the Cox Trainer where the wings were held on with rubber bands."
I had one too. Blue and yellow right? I broke it. Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 08:19 PM (UdKB7) 71
On one crash the pilot's torso was ejected from the fuselage, but that's the only damage I remember.
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) 72
45 Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at April 18, 2018 08:17 PM (Tyii7)
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) 74
MY BROTHER GOT ALL THE MAJOR MATT MASON SHIT INCLUDING THE MOONBASE AND BY THE TIME I GOT TO PLAY WITH THEM YEARS LATER THEY WERE ALL BUSTED TO SHIT, EVEN THE WIRES IN HIS ARMS AND LEGS.
But I'm not bitter. Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (oVJmc) 75
Two favorites;
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) 76
46 "No gas powered airplanes on strings? I don't know how we didn't barf with those things."
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) 78
Of course, Legos when they first came out. Still have the set I got for a Christmas present. Most of the pieces are there, and the box. Legos were the equivalent of kid gold.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (7UW64) 79
54 Come on, you'll get me crying for all the Hotweels and Matchbox cars I had,
All gone................ Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaa, aaaaasssaaaaaa, Bwaaaaaaaaa haaaaassss haaaaaaaa Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:20 PM (aC6Sd) 80
Am I the only one that blew this stuff up, real good?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (6Ll1u) 81
Bag of Glass.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (89T5c) 82
12" black dildo.
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) 83
That thing you would wear on your ankle that has a ball at the end and you spin around and jump over?
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (Z48ZB) 84
I never had any of those toys.
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) 85
The Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set was freaking awesome. A friend 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 at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (PtuJp) 86
apparently Dr. Steel was from the "Big Jim" line?
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (8rNrN) 87
Stuff I should've kept, since now they're "collectibles"
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) 88
Estes model rockets.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (/tuJf) 89
We had the 1963 Easy Bake Oven; could actually bake the cakes but refills could be hard to come by. I had an actual chemistry set, complete with alcohol lamp. One sister had "cowgirl" outfit complete with two cap pistols.
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (JK7Jw) Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (zr8oO) 91
83 That thing you would wear on your ankle that has a ball at the end and you spin around and jump over?
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:21 PM (Z48ZB) ------- The thing on my ankle is monitored by the court. Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (MVjcR) 92
That thing you would wear on your ankle that has a ball at the end and you spin around and jump over?
-- I remember that! And clackers. Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (mQ0Mc) 93
54 Hotwheels.
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) 94
I had to buy a Spock action figure in order to shake hands with Leonard Nimoy in 1975. Totally worth it!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (EZebt) 95
I had a big wheel. They all got flat spots on the front tire because we'd race downhill lock em up and see who could leave the longest skid marks on the sidewalk. Then all the old people would yell. Good times.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (CiRJp) Posted by: Fritz at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (bJ0w+) 97
80 Am I the only one that blew this stuff up, real good?
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) 99
not so sure I have much nostalgia for old toys. the more specialized the toy was the less fun it was to play with.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (MTjB1) 100
Hey good lookin', be back to pick you up later. With a brand new Pearl Necklace.
Posted by: Minuteman at April 18, 2018 08:22 PM (gnhna) 101
Whatever you do, don't punch Stretch Armstrong as hard as you can.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (+lOpA) 102
>>>The Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set was freaking awesome.
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) 103
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) 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) 104
apparently Dr. Steel was from the "Big Jim" line?
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) 105
I am older than all those toys
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (OdnqE) 106
Was in the toy industry for a good while and Star er collecting 3 1/2" GI Joes for my soon to be built media room. Well 2008 cam along, short sold the house. That Christmas I donated all the figures (over 300) and vehicles (35) to the Phoenix Children's Hospital. Probably the best donation I ever made
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:23 PM (BF6Fv) 107
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) 108
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) 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) 109
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. I can still smell the stuff.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (mQ0Mc) 110
The Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set was freaking awesome. A friend 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 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) 111
apparently Dr. Steel was from the "Big Jim" line?
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) 112
Great compilation, by the way!
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (Z48ZB) 113
I remember some seriously dangerous toy-like things the neighbor kids had. One was a tiny oven kit for enameling little metallic dodads. Buy the coloring powders and precut tiny metal plates. Coat and smelt.In your bedroom. Like making your own military badges. It was pretty cool.
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (K3B2k) 114
My sister's vaj!
Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (oVJmc) 115
But we had the good stuff, Cherry Bombs
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (OdnqE) 116
Lego was way better back then. I inherited my older brothers' set that was bought in the 60's. It was just a shitload of pieces that you could build anything with. You had to think and create. Now Lego is mostly kits for building specific items.
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (xPl2J) 117
Hey good lookin', be back to pick you up later. With a brand new Pearl Necklace.
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) 118
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-- Irright, the story of Kneivel is really rather fascinating. Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM --------------------- 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) 119
My uncles had a couple toys from their childhood I played with as a child at my grandparents:
-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) 120
'Am I the only one that blew this stuff up, real good'
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) 122
>>>77 ace, are you thinking of Destro?
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) 123
Best toy I ever had was this industrial strength rocking horse with a metal spring. I used it from age 1 to age 6. It was amazing. I could rock back and almost it the ground and rock forward and almost hit the horses nose to the ground. I would sleep walk and rock while sleeping.
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (4+5ym) 124
Digger the dog
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) 125
17 >>>2 I had the 'Flying Aces' toy.
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) 126
Dr Steel. Ok. My next guess was the bad guy from Inspector Gadget.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (xDf3o) 127
>>And Estes rockets. How far could you send one and still get it back? Awesome toys.
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) 128
Fisher Price telephone with eyeballs
Posted by: Hands at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (EzdLW) 129
The cool thing about Slinky is when it gets tangled you get to spend 1/2 and hour untangling it!
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (+lOpA) 130
Oh. Lawn darts for the win.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (xDf3o) 131
Johnny 7 . Seven ways to take an eye out using Plastics! Green assault style weapon.
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) 132
Flubber. Silly putty. Picking up color pictures from the funny papers. Sticking it in my brothers hair. Pretending it was a booger.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (Z48ZB) 133
Ewww.. and who could forget Creepy Crawlers....
It was an oven where you baked Plastic bugs of various colors... Posted by: Don Q. at April 18, 2018 08:26 PM (NgKpN) 134
I friend of mine in Singapore has all the first edition Transformers in the original packaging. Calls it his investment property
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (OdnqE) 135
Couple of summers we got into Estes rockets, bigger and bigger and set off with fuses like the old gunpowder barrels. Ended up firing sideways more than vertical.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (aC6Sd) 136
Toss Across
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (xPl2J) 137
-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) 139
why is every fourth plastic soldier the Guy With the Radio or the Guy With the Metal Detector?
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) 141
122 >>>77 ace, are you thinking of Destro?
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) 142
131 Johnny 7 . Seven ways to take an eye out using Plastics! Green assault style weapon.
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) 143
Lawn darts. Nothing says "family togetherness" like throwing javelins at each other.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (9Hjhc) 144
Ace is only 29 and yet his parents gave him toys from the 50's and 60's. How sad.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 08:27 PM (/qEW2) 145
Midge? MIDGE? Barbie's BFF???
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) 146
The Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set was freaking awesome. A friend
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 --- 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) 147
>>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.
Check youtube. Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (/tuJf) 148
Oh man, the Six Million Dollar Man toy, too.
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) 149
yeah, basic legos were/are the best. the more specialized they got the worse they got.
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) 150
> 133 Another smelting device made for the livingroom!
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (K3B2k) 151
Now I'm remembering the smell of the Creepy Crawler burning rubber.
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (xPl2J) 152
There was something with something like colored, wet sand that was in bottles and you squeezed it into something artsy.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 18, 2018 08:28 PM (mQ0Mc) 153
Lego was way better back then. I inherited my older brothers' set that was bought in the 60's. It was just a shitload of pieces that you could build anything with. You had to think and create. Now Lego is mostly kits for building specific items.
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) 154
Johnny Sevin One Man Army
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) 155
I bought the 'budget' version of army men from the back of a comic book.
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) 156
I still have my colleco football game. And it still works. One of the buttons kind of sticks. But it works
Posted by: Boomer at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (UXf7q) 157
Which I guess is BIg Jim SLade
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) 158
I was a bit too old, but when Raiders of the Lost Ark came out, there was an Indy action figure.
Steve Austin kicked his ass. Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (xDf3o) 159
Kenner Hydrodynamic building set
https://youtu.be/joRf6rcl-vY Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr ---- THATS IT!!! Posted by: tonypete at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (9rIkM) 160
139 why is every fourth plastic soldier the Guy With the Radio or the Guy With the Metal Detector?
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) 161
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.
one word slinkyfuck Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (MTjB1) 162
Luxury!
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) 165
When I was a child I had to play with nails. My first construction 'job' was straightening bent 8d and 16d nails for re-use. Not modern checkerhead coated sinkers, mind you. Oh no, these were the old style ones, hard as he-double-l. I would lay them on a 2X4 block and hit them with a 16 oz Plumb wood handle claw hammer. I was 8 years old.
Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (zLDYs) 166
148 Oh man, the Six Million Dollar Man toy, too.
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) 167
I would have never become a brain surgeon were it not for the Operation toy.
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at April 18, 2018 08:29 PM (BiLU+) 168
If we were good, my dad would cut holes in our front pants pocket so we'd have something to play with on Christmas morning.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (IeDO8) 169
Guillows balsa model airplanes ftw!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (8VseP) 170
why is every fourth plastic soldier the Guy With the Radio or the Guy With the Metal Detector?
Those were the first guys we blew up. Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (Tyii7) 171
Ace is only 29 and yet his parents gave him toys from the 50's and 60's. How sad.
They came with Kaboom! Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (oVJmc) 172
119 My uncles had a couple toys from their childhood I played with as a child at my grandparents:
-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) 174
118 Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 08:24 PM (RVcmP)
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) 175
"why is every fourth plastic soldier the Guy With the Radio or the Guy With the Metal Detector?"
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) 176
Irright, the story of Kneivel is really rather fascinating.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM --------------------- 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) 177
I was always entertained by the silly putty ads "you can use it to copy comics, it stretches and breaks and you can make into a ball and look how high it bounces! - you can do all kinds of things with silly putty!"
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) 178
Steve Austin kicked his ass.
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) 179
ace, yep, that water rocket was the best. Really worked.
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+) 180
...and the Mattel cap pistol functional revolvers that used plastic bullets and Greenie Stick-Em Caps that actually propel them out. Try selling those today.
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (PtuJp) 181
I had something called a Vacu-Form, I think, where you would soften plastic sheeting and then suck it down of various forms.
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) 182
Daisy BB guns. Spring action types.
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) 183
Erector sets and Lincoln logs
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (+Y4s3) 184
every so often I would get an army man with a dent in his chest. assumed he had been shot with something large calibre or hit with shrapnel.
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) 185
You hadn't lived until you played on the Slip'N Slide with on an uneven yard full of rocks ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (BiLU+) 186
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) 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) 187
Verti-bird. Yes, it only flew in a circle, but it was a real helicopter.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (gC2IV) 188
118 -
-- Irright, the story of Kneivel is really rather fascinating. Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 18, 2018 08:16 PM --------------------- 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) 189
Plasti-goop and the Strange Change Machine, baby.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (qJtVm) 190
142 131 Johnny 7 . Seven ways to take an eye out using Plastics! Green assault style weapon.
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) 191
Erector sets and Lincoln logs
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) 192
Little green Army men.
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) 193
Monk, my youngest rocked on that kind of horse in her room, wearing her pink cowgirl boots and yelling
YEEEEEE HAWWWW we've got it on video Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (xGMkv) 194
If we were good, my dad would cut holes in our front pants pocket so we'd have something to play with on Christmas morning.
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) 195
Dart guns.
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) 196
I had a man from uncle set as a kid
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (6Ll1u) 197
Superball
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 08:32 PM (/tuJf) 198
Verti-bird. Yes, it only flew in a circle, but it was a real helicopter.
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) 199
Slinkies were worthless because we lived in a ranch home. No stairs.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (qJtVm) 200
Toss Across
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) 201
Oh and Superballs. I am certain those have been banned too.
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) 202
SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN DOLL!!!!!
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) 203
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.
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) 204
I broke my first adult front teeth out on a Krazy Kar when I ducked and hit the side wheel with my teeth. A ball was being thrown at me, it was a game we were playing.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (aC6Sd) 205
Silly Putty?
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (MVjcR) 206
The cool thing about Lincoln Logs is that you could make forts for your army men or action figures.
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (xPl2J) 207
My uncle had the Planet of the Apes action figures, along with some playset where you could "trap" the figures in a net. It was cool when I was a kiddo.
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) 208
176 Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 18, 2018 08:30 PM (SiINZ)
Many a Big Wheel was sacrificed for stunt cred. Posted by: sven10077 at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (SzZnW) 209
Today's Trivia: Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, second son of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:33 PM (BiLU+) 210
My "Barbie Dream House" was from before the days of plastic as commonplace... the furniture was cardboard. Heavy duty, "not gonna be ruined in a day cardboard", but still. Even the pillows for the sofa were cardboard. Sad.
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) 211
Anybody remember Clacker Balls?
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (+lOpA) 212
Pro Bowl Live Action Football by Marx.
Posted by: Zapp Branigan at April 18, 2018 08:34 PM (nzltb) 213
Fire, firecrackers, and lighter fluid truly were the univrersal solution to all model and toy obsolescence issues in my day.
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+) 214
Erector sets and Lincoln logs
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) 215
188 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (xJa6I)
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) 216
One Christmas, I got a chemistry set.
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) 217
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) 218
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) 219
I see a lot more toys for boys here than for girls. You all know what that means, right?
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) 221
What rolls down stairs
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) 222
I had the Evil Knievel motorcycle that you'd rev up with a crank, really get it going and then release it, the thing was really fast. Got my cousin one time, she was laying on the floor and the thing got snagged in her hair.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (CiRJp) 223
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) 224
Oh yeah, and I had Stretch Armstrong who was cool until I stepped on him with my ice skates that for whatever reason, I was wearing in the house.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (SRarZ) 225
Thanks, Ace, for the fun thread. I watched half the compilation, and saw Johnny Quest's dad's lookalike.
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) 228
My brother and I had a couple of those Kenner Girder and Panel building sets. One of my favourites. Also a toy Rifleman Winchester 1892.
Posted by: Kaner at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (rR7m4) Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (FhXTo) 230
Pump rockets
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) 233
I prefer to reheat food in my toaster oven rather than the microwave. My wife calls it my EZ Bake Oven.
++ Tricky Tommy Turtle is missing. Great toy circa 1967. Posted by: Cumberland Astro at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (d9Cw3) 234
Cap guns and the rolls of caps that came with them.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:35 PM (+Y4s3) 235
Sevin?
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) 236
And Estes rockets. How far could you send one and still get it back? Awesome toys.
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) 237
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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) 238
Erector sets and Lincoln logs
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) 239
215 188 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:31 PM (xJa6I)
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) 241
Anybody remember Clacker Balls?
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) 242
Construx were better than legos. I built ships. A LOT of ships. With huge fricking engines and big ass cannon.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (d4iVA) 243
My mom (often drunk) would whip me and my brothers with an orange section of Hot Wheels track (usually across our arms as we attempted to cover our butts) whenever we didn't listen to or sassed back at her.
Would leave two nice parallel red marks at each point of contact ... Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (BiLU+) 244
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) 245
227 >>>Anybody remember Clacker Balls?
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) 247
A lot of the toys we had as kids weren't really toys.It was crap dreamed up by post WWII vets. Silly Putty? Science experiement gone wrong. Sea Monkeys? Biological warfare.That wetsand in a bottle junk? Bordom at Tarawa.
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (K3B2k) 248
...and the Mattel cap pistol functional revolvers that used plastic bullets and Greenie Stick-Em Caps that actually propel them out. Try selling those today.
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) 249
Still have my Red Ryder from the mid seventies. It has an effective range of about 15 feet now
Posted by: Boomer at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (UXf7q) 250
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 (9Hjhc) Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (2wOtx) 252
My favorite toy for Christmas was a hand made shingled wooden doll house and I had lovely antique looking furniture for it. It had windows that looked like real glass. I still have it, so if someone would like to have it for their granddaughter or little daughter I'm an open to offers, but i wouldn't know what to ask for it. I don't know if little girls play with doll houses anymore. They're probably on electronic items, which I find rather sad..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (tpDAe) 253
Corgi cars. My brother and I had an incredible set. They were so well made.
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) 255
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) 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) 256
I liked the balsa wood jet fighter plane gliders. You punched the fuselage, wings, and horizontal tail out of the sheet and put them together, pushed the u-shaped metal weight onto the nose, and you were ready for flight. Good times.
Posted by: Gref at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (AMIL/) Posted by: Sandra Flook at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (Tyii7) 258
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) 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) 259
24 I had both an Evel Knievel crank up motorcycle AND the Evel Knievel electric toothbrush. I thought he was the coolest thing in history.
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) 260
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 18, 2018 08:37 PM (9Hjhc)
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) 261
>>>I can't remember how many times me and my friends tried to do stunts on our bikes.
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) 262
JackStraw - the electric football game where it worked through vibration and basically the players all just meandered around? We had that one. It was lame, but funny.
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+) 263
Also, lincoln logs could be formed into B-17s with the use of rubber bands.
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) 265
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 We sent a few toads and frogs on some missions. Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (CiRJp) 266
231 Anybody remember Clacker Balls?
Posted by: eleven --- 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) 267
Greatest toy ever was the verti-bird.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (87EdW) 268
Anyone else put wheels on Estes rockets and do your reinactment of the Budweiser Rocket land speed record run?
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (BF6Fv) 269
Klacker balls Ya not a good thing for guys.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (6Ll1u) 270
They even had 2-stage rockets where the first stage would light the second stage, and you could put stuff in the payloads.
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) 271
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) No one I know. Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (SRarZ) 272
>>>I liked the balsa wood jet fighter plane gliders. You punched the fuselage, wings, and horizontal tail out of the sheet and put them together, pushed the u-shaped metal weight onto the nose, and you were ready for flight. Good times.
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) 273
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) 274
The Six Million Dollar Man was the best. Also had his robot nemesis, the inflatable moonbase/lab, and I think the Venus probe.
Posted by: MAGA at April 18, 2018 08:39 PM (LnOh3) 275
I wanted one of those kid ovens when I was little, so that I could make myself snacks when I was supposed to he sleeping. Parents refused. I think they thought I'd end wearing sequins and attending Liberace concerts.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (H5knJ) 276
>>Sea Monkeys? Biological warfare.
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) 277
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) 278
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) 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) 279
239 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 18, 2018 08:36 PM (xJa6I)
"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) 280
Saw this in a thrift store today:
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) 281
I seem to recall playing with (perhaps at a friend's house) a toy tank -- perhaps RC -- that would move, rotate the turret, and fire something. Recall a powder exiting the barrel, but don't recall if there was an actual projectile involved.
Very cool ... Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:40 PM (BiLU+) 282
Klacker balls hanging from telephone lines. That's what I remember. Because as toys they were joyless.
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (K3B2k) 283
Tinker Toys. I loved building ferris wheels and windmills. Wanted an Erector set or girder and panels deal, but those never happened.
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) 285
258 Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 18, 2018 08:38 PM (EoRCO)
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) 286
I'm pretty sure my Erector set is in a red wooden box, I know right where it is but haven't looked at it in years.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:41 PM (aC6Sd) 287
whoah, I think I had the Navaronne playset.
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) 288
Very, very cheap, flimsy brittle plastic, almost 2D instead of a full 3D mold.
----- Demi-ronde http://home.freeuk.net/toysoldier/ Posted by: andycanuck at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (VBKy9) 289
I had a replica 40's jeep that you peddled.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (+Y4s3) 290
Oh yeah, the Shootin Shell toy guns !
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) 291
My Obama and Keith Ellison action figures.
Posted by: David Hogg at April 18, 2018 08:42 PM (/qEW2) 292
little bro had a venti-bird.
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) 294
ace 1,000 years and 40 generations ago - or so it seems - the "job" of a young boy in SoCal (and elsewhere) was to go try and kill or maim himself after school and on weekends, with his friends, by building insanely dangerous bike jumps, etc.
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+) 295
Thanks for this thread, Ace. It's nice to talk about lighter, fun things and fun memories..
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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) 297
276 California Fairy Shrimp.
Posted by: 13times at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (K3B2k) 298
Now Lego is mostly kits for building specific items.
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) 299
Donny Osmond pitched this bicycle in the late 60's? I
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) 300
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) 301
Toys? Luxury! We played with sticks and we liked it!
Posted by: Oso at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (QX7Lq) 302
I loved my Moon Base Clavius set with functioning Monolith!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:43 PM (qJtVm) 303
Of course, most of my time as a kid was spent playing outside, climbing trees, playing jumprope, pretending I was Wonder Woman and attempting to not get injured at the local park, which had trapeze bars and hanging rings made of metal. Not to mention the concrete and metal sewer cover in front of the hard plastic swings that we needed to avoid when we "bailed out" from a high swing.
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) 305
Revell model kits.
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) 306
Frisbee and Croquet.
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+) 307
284 Wrist Rocket by Whamo.
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) 308
Anyone remember a Saturn V scale plastic toy?Had like a lander and so forth.
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) 309
wait I didn't have the Navarone playset. I think a dorky kid I knew who had ALL THE TOYS had one in his closet but I think I was too old to play with it (even though I wanted to).
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (8rNrN) 310
Back home from my cataract surgery.
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) 311
Nerf. The only gun you should be able to have.
Posted by: David Hogg at April 18, 2018 08:44 PM (/qEW2) 312
And I can see to drive OK, too.
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) 313
I had Tinker Toys! I forgot all about those things.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (SRarZ) 314
Johnny Magumba rifle set.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (H8QX8) 315
G.I. Joe. Especially when he was sporting a beard. The desert Jeep or the Jeep with trailer. Later on the helicopter
Posted by: Marcus T, Evil Wall Street Rooster at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (MCEwl) 316
My dad wouldn't let me have the xray goggles from the back of the comic books. Come to think of it I never even saw a comic book until I was 10. Never had a Coca Cola until I was in College. I think this explains a lot about me as I think back on it.
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (KdlDE) 317
I liked Spirograph.
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) 318
I have a large Erector set only missing a couple of pieces. It was a gift but have had it 20 years.
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) 319
Ah, wood burner sets. Those things were great torture implements.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (yQpMk) 320
>>>the Secret Sam gun looks like they were "borrowing" from the Man From Uncle
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) 325
Micronauts were the best because everything would shoot. Little missiles and darts would shoot out of every action character, vehicle, etc...
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) 326
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+) 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) 327
Saw this in a thrift store today:
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) 328
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) 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) 329
315 G.I. Joe. Especially when he was sporting a beard. The desert Jeep or the Jeep with trailer. Later on the helicopter
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) 331
Revell went bankrupt this week, layed off a dozen employees
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:47 PM (aC6Sd) 332
I honestly can't think of any toy that I had. All my Christmas or birthday gifts were bikes , BB / pellet guns , camping and sports stuff. I did get a chemistry set and wood burning kit. Anyone else have the wood burning kit? More dangerous than the chemistry set for me.
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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 ------------------------------------- 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) 334
I don't know if little girls play with doll houses anymore. They're probably on electronic items, which I find rather sad..
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) 335
Thinking about my favorites, none of them were really "toys".
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) 336
When I was a kid I would take birthday money or money from cutting lawns and buy either Matchbox cars or models, I loved building models on a rainy day. Had quite the collection of Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. Then one day in high school my little cousin came over and my mom gave them ALL to him! Never saw them again. Little bastard!
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (CiRJp) 337
Tanner that's pretty cool.
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+) 338
Frisbee is the most popular lame invention ever. Sport for the lobotomized.
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) 339
>>>Anyone remember a Saturn V scale plastic toy?Had like a lander and so forth.
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) 340
A wrist rocket is a toy like a m-80 or cherry bomb is a toy
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (6Ll1u) 341
Like he was looking at you and thinking:
"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) 342
All these toys perpetuate White Privilege.
Posted by: Some Stick-up-the-Butt 'Academic' at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (oVJmc) 343
201 Oh and Superballs. I am certain those have been banned too.
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) 344
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+) 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) 345
Minnfidel, still have my Matchbox. Should go check them. They're in a period-correct See's Candy box (though I don't think the boxes have literally changed a bit in the intervening 50 years ......).
Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2018 08:49 PM (QDnY+) 346
Younger brother had the large plastic erector set for the younger kids. Add Lincoln Logs, a furniture grade rubber band, imagination and good old fashioned American ingenuity and voila! A rifle that could (and did) put holes in drywall plus bruises on siblings.
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) 347
Thanks for the gumball, Popeye.
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+) 351
Look... why take a chance? At least, that's the way I feel about it.
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) 352
I was drinking coffee, with the Monday blues
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) 353
And over at my Grandma's house was a two story cabin the uncles built. they were 8 and 10 years older than me, so it was quite deserted by the time I was 6 or 7.
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) 354
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) 355
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+) 356
316 My dad wouldn't let me have the xray goggles from the back of the comic books. Come to think of it I never even saw a comic book until I was 10. Never had a Coca Cola until I was in College. I think this explains a lot about me as I think back on it.
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) 357
Frisbee is the most popular lame invention ever. Sport for the lobotomized.
I say Harrumph to you, sir. Harrumph! Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (fuK7c) 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: ace at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (8rNrN) 359
I played outside all the time. My home town was stuck in the 1950's where kids could explore for miles around the neighborhood and woods. Sports stuff, guns, and motorcycles.
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (4+5ym) 360
I had Estes rockets, too. I built and flew a number of them.
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) 361
Playdoh.
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) 363
I got a rock.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:50 PM (NWiLs) 364
>>>I liked Spirograph.
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) 365
Minnfidel, still have my Matchbox. Should go check them. They're in a period-correct See's Candy box (though I don't think the boxes have literally changed a bit in the intervening 50 years ......).
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) 366
313 I had Tinker Toys! I forgot all about those things.
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) 367
http://www.scaleautomag.com/articles/2018/04/revell-has-been-sold
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:51 PM (aC6Sd) 368
Silly Putty on the Sunday (color) comics.
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:51 PM (RfzVr) Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (2wOtx) 370
201 Oh and Superballs. I am certain those have been banned too.
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) 371
I did find playdoh too salty.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (+Y4s3) 372
nerf footballs were fun but we also had "itza" footballs. they were rubbery, inflated footballs. ours were lime green and we only used them to play smear the queer and 500.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (MTjB1) 373
I remember Matchbox had those diecast WW2 warbirds...I had zeroes, spitfires, corsairs...those things were so friggin cool.
Posted by: The Lonebadger at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (5leUT) 374
256 I liked the balsa wood jet fighter plane gliders. You punched the fuselage, wings, and horizontal tail out of the sheet and put them together, pushed the u-shaped metal weight onto the nose, and you were ready for flight. Good times.
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) 375
I got a .410 when I was 12
Fuck you. Posted by: Dan Patterson at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (AsjQP) 376
363 I got a rock.
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) 377
steely dan ?
Posted by: son-of-ceviche at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (FUy6n) 378
317 I liked Spirograph.
I loved etch a sketch, too. Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 08:45 PM (xGMkv) ============ Loved both of those, too -- also Lite Brite. Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (BiLU+) 379
Tip-It
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (Z48ZB) 380
As we got older, we got bored with the standard G.I. Joe play stuff. So we started stealing some of the reloading gunpowder and built our own bombs.
Posted by: Marcus T, Evil Wall Street Rooster at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (MCEwl) 381
Frisbee is the most popular lame invention ever. Sport for the lobotomized.
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) 382
i was gonna link the Micronauts but I watched that commercial and thought they looked even dumber than I thought they would.
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (8rNrN) 383
Okay I forgot. I did get the electric racetrack where you couldn't keep the cars in the slots. Operator error .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:52 PM (2DOZq) 384
"I never understood this "toy." It seems to be for slow children."
listen motherfucker - we prefer the term special chillrens Posted by: j2 at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (GxaUD) 385
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 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) 386
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) 387
My sister and I used to make globes by pouring liquid plastic into stemmed glass balls which you would crack open when the plastic cooled. Trying to remember the name of the stuff. You could suspend bugs and butterflies and little figurines in it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (qJtVm) 388
309 wait I didn't have the Navarone playset. I think a dorky kid I knew who had ALL THE TOYS had one in his closet but I think I was too old to play with it (even though I wanted to).
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) 390
"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"
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) 391
Didja see that David "Camera" Hogg is writing a book. And the title? "Never Again."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (+y/Ru) 392
Was talking to a job supervisor who was a job trainer or something like that. He was asking if I had Lego, tinker toys, Lincoln Logs and told him I had all those things. He said he would poll students who had those building toys as kids knowing they would do better.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:53 PM (aC6Sd) 393
Dad built a couple of shooting lanes in the basement, Daisy and Crossman put several thousand shots down those lanes.
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable russian bot! at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (0OmEj) 394
Best toy? A stick and a wheel.
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) 395
My brother had a Silver Surfer #1 comic book. Fortunately our mom threw it away while he wasn't watching.
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (KdlDE) Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (yQpMk) 397
321
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) ============== 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+) 398
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) 399
I got the Evel Knievel motorcycle launcher in 1975 or 1976 for my Birthday from my Grandparents. Lord how I wanted it. What a letdown. It went 2 feet and fell over, never worked right.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (87EdW) 400
Okay I forgot. I did get the electric racetrack where you couldn't keep the cars in the slots. Operator error .
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) 401
Go-bots. Duncan yo-yos.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (/qEW2) 402
Playdoh.
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) 403
162 -You got a kick in the groin?! Luxury!! We had to kick ourselves in the groin and only on Christmas and birthdays!
Posted by: lone Yorkshireman at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (11H2y) 404
Frisbee is the most popular lame invention ever. Sport for the lobotomized.
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) 405
I've played Axis And Allies games that started in late afternoon and ended at 4:00 AM.
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2018 08:54 PM (xPl2J) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2018 08:55 PM (IqV8l) 407
Actually I think I should buy a model. I remember it being really cool putting the Big Mo together.
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) 408
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) 409
yes, CFO mom, I was bothered when it didn't come out looking quite right.
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) 410
Unfortunately my oldest son is Asperger afflicted and didn't really know how to play with toys. Get him a Hot Wheels and he roll it back and forth a few inches watching the wheels spin.
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) 412
391 Didja see that David "Camera" Hogg is writing a book. And the title? "Never Again."
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) 413
Daisy BB gun.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (0tfLf) 414
Worst part was, my friends, the 2 Steve's each had one too, and theirs' both worked perfectly. I lost every race.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (87EdW) 415
I've played Axis And Allies games that started in late afternoon and ended at 4:00 AM.
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) 416
"Hey good lookin" guy . . .
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) 418
388 309 wait I didn't have the Navarone playset. I think a dorky kid I knew who had ALL THE TOYS had one in his closet but I think I was too old to play with it (even though I wanted to).
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) 419
Saturday mornings at the hobby shopwith my dad
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (Z48ZB) 420
As wrote had Estes rockets 2 summers, never managed the 2 stage to go off right.
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 08:56 PM (aC6Sd) 421
Didja see that David "Camera" Hogg is writing a book. And the title? "Never Again."
Grandiose much? Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (oVJmc) 422
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) 423
Nerf. The only gun you should be able to have.
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) 424
Didja see that David "Camera" Hogg is writing a book. And the title? "Never Again."
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) 425
Anyone remember a Saturn V scale plastic toy?Had like a lander and so forth.
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) 426
My dad got us a punching bag that he hung in the basement. A set of boxing gloves for me and my brother, I suppose he figured it was a good way for two youngins to burn off some energy. Of course we quickly decided it was better to ignore the punching bag and try and beat the shit out of each other. Yea, that went away.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 08:57 PM (CiRJp) 427
I got a Daniel Boone coonskin cap. That was in the 60's when Fess Parker played Daniel Boone. I had no idea at the time that it was just a rehash of the Davy Crockett cap in the 50's.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 08:58 PM (2DOZq) 428
"A wrist rocket is a toy like a m-80 or cherry bomb is a toy"
- 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) 429
i had a dawn doll.
she was really pretty. Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 08:58 PM (zr8oO) 430
When the Frisbee first came out in the 60's it was a sensation in our town. It really brought all the kids together on our street and played with it constantly until after sundown.
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) 431
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) 432
Tyco Aura AFX slot cars. Then we added the Cliffhanger wall pieces. Insanity insued.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (BF6Fv) 433
Big Jim Slade at 1.
And all those Catholic high school girls in trouble! Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (0tfLf) 434
413 Daisy BB gun.
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) 435
I have a dermatologist appointment tomorrow to check out some barnacles, so I will be shaving off my mustache and beard for the checking.. I think it will feel odd. It's been a few years since I was smooth faced.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (yQpMk) 436
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) That might be it. Posted by: Insomniac at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (NWiLs) 437
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) 438
DangerGirl, big hugs back. You still picking that Guitar?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (+Y4s3) 439
Legos, Lincoln Logs, erector sets...seriously, why the hell am I not an architect...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (lLeln) 440
This thread makes me think that I can't recall the last time I saw little girls jumping rope. Either singly, or a threesome with a long rope. I remember it being a big deal if one owned a jump rope long enough to do "Double Dutch".
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (RfzVr) 441
There's a working 2-XL in my basement.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 08:59 PM (Ud5AY) 442
Off, Goebbels sock.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:00 PM (d4iVA) 443
Had the Man From UNCLE gun set - that was the big year of the Spy Wars in my neighborhood. As I recall, it was unreliable at firing caps, so it got retired early (if the cap didn't fire, the shot didn't count).
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) 444
I learned how to make play dough from scratch. While my kids were growing up, we'd usually have some around.
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) 445
439 Legos, Lincoln Logs, erector sets...seriously, why the hell am I not an architect...
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) 446
All these toys perpetuate White Privilege.
Posted by: Some Stick-up-the-Butt 'Academic' at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (oVJmc) ======== 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) 447
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 08:48 PM (8rNrN)
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) 449
You morons realize that 3/4 of these toys would be 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) 450
I'm heading back to the farm tomorrow to play with chainsaws and brush cutters. Wish me luck.
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (MVjcR) 451
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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) 452
>>369 Thanks for reminding me.
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) 454
I had a carbide cannon. Those were fun.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 09:02 PM (UdKB7) 455
Bag Of Glass.
"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) 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) 457
DangerGirl, big hugs back. You still picking that Guitar?
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) 458
398 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) 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) 459
I used to spend hours esp on rainy days building models.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (CiRJp) 460
Big Jim Slade at 1.
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) 461
*******They had the enamelling kiln at the local club, that was a hoot, too.
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) 462
427 I got a Daniel Boone coonskin cap. That was in the 60's when Fess Parker played Daniel Boone. I had no idea at the time that it was just a rehash of the Davy Crockett cap in the 50's.
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) 463
385 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) ========== 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+) 464
Anybody have a gimp under the stairs?
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (ve0bY) 465
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) ------------ Ha! After last weekend, I have assembled a rather impressive trauma kit. Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (MVjcR) 466
Do people as a family dye Easter Eggs anymore? I used to love that as a kid.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (2DOZq) 467
I got a Daniel Boone coonskin cap. That was in the 60's when Fess Parker played Daniel Boone. I had no idea at the time that it was just a rehash of the Davy Crockett cap in the 50's.
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) 469
We had a basketball game where you set up goals at either end of the box and there were a bunch of holes with spring loaded arms to shoot the ball with.
I bet I can find a picture on the webz. Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (yQpMk) 470
The evil knevil commercials make it look like the toys run by themselves.
I always noticed that. false advertising Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (xGMkv) 471
You morons realize that 3/4 of these toys would be 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 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) 472
Ha! After last weekend, I have assembled a rather impressive trauma kit.
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) 473
Do people as a family dye Easter Eggs anymore? I used to love that as a kid.
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) 474
464 Anybody have a gimp under the stairs?
Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM (ve0bY) Luxury. Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (+lOpA) 475
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) 476
Hi Ben, get my reply?
Posted by: teej at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (ZCD4H) 477
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) 478
466 Do people as a family dye Easter Eggs anymore? I used to love that as a kid.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (2DOZq) ----- Yes. Posted by: MAGA at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (LnOh3) 479
Off Animal House sock
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (JyFLk) 480
I grew up on a ranch/farm in east TX. I can't recall ever having any toys. I lived with my grand parents. They we from Germany and they were fantastic but I guess my toys were the animals and the day to day things on a farm. I never felt deprived
Posted by: REDACTED at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (Ymy4N) 481
Weasel, did you buy a set of chain mail gloves?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (+Y4s3) 482
You morons realize that 3/4 of these toys would be 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 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) 483
One Christmas Santa sent me a Foto-Electric Football game
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) 484
That nerf football when it got wet, was like throwing a brick
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (dKiJG) 485
Way way past bedtime, could get sucked into reading this until the ONT shows up.
Good night, sweet kid dreams for all. Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (aC6Sd) 486
Posted by: Weasel at April 18, 2018 09:01 PM (MVjcR)
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) 487
We also used to crumble up sparklers and pack them in duct tape. How I still have all 10 digits I do not know.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (BF6Fv) 488
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:04 PM (CiRJp)
Glad to hear that. Those are good memories . Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (2DOZq) 489
>>You morons realize that 3/4 of these toys would be banned now.
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) 490
472 Ha! After last weekend, I have assembled a rather impressive trauma kit.
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) --------- 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) 491
How about the drag racers where you pull the strip out. Some of them sparked.
Posted by: MAGA at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (LnOh3) 492
Click-clacks.
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid, at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (dw7D4) 493
One of my brothers put five staples into his thumb in an attempt to become Mr. Machine.
That was as far as he got. Posted by: IrishEi at April 18, 2018 09:06 PM (HiDrR) 494
Best Christmas gift as a kid ever I will say was Atari. And if I was losing I'd hit the reset button launching my older brother into a fit of rage!
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (CiRJp) 495
>> I am especially intrigued by Betsy Wetsy. Is she a
>> 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) 496
You morons realize that 3/4 of these toys would be 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) 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) 497
We would go up to NC and buy a rubber tipped spear and ...
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) 498
Best cap gun I had was a no-name diecast snubby revolver, which may or may not have made it through the last move.
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) 499
Danger girl, just make yourself get it out if only for a song or two.
Two will often turn into four and... Posted by: teej at April 18, 2018 09:07 PM (ZCD4H) 500
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 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) 501
>>I grew up on a ranch/farm in east TX. I can't recall ever having any toys. I lived with my grand parents. They we from Germany and they were fantastic but I guess my toys were the animals and the day to day things on a farm. I never felt deprived
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) 502
A Christmas later, Santa sent me one of those vibrating football games with the felt footballs.
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) 503
Davey Davey Crocket, King of the Wild Frontier!!!!!
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) 504
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) 505
481 Weasel, did you buy a set of chain mail gloves?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 09:05 PM (+Y4s3) -------- 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) 506
Kids today still have Airsoft guns. Son and neighbor kids tromped around the fields for hours shooting each other. only rule was goggles. Full sleeves and long pants encouraged.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:08 PM (JyFLk) 507
I did get the electric racetrack where you couldn't keep the cars in the slots. Operator error .
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) 509
One of the most enjoyable 'toy' I played with my friends was a folded up piece of paper into a triangle.
The ladies might not recognize what I'm talking about. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (2DOZq) 510
Durham, North Carolina Bars Cops From Training In Israel After Pro-Palestinian Protest
- "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) 511
Night skip. See you on the flip side.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (d4iVA) 512
teej, I did, but there might have been a part missing. I'll get back to you in the morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (+Y4s3) 513
The first time I ever heard of anybody getting expelled from school was somebody trying to impress us as the next Bruce Lee brought a Ninja Star to our elementary school (late 60's) and was throwing it at corkboards and the like.
Posted by: ShainS at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (BiLU+) 514
We were poor I played with buttons and string.
Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (nBr1j) 515
Kids today still have Airsoft guns. Son and neighbor kids tromped around the fields for hours shooting each other. only rule was goggles. Full sleeves and long pants encouraged.
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) 516
The kid in the "tommy burst" ad was able to waste Otis Cambell.
He should have loaned the set to Barney Fife. Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at April 18, 2018 09:09 PM (UFgOG) 517
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) 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) 519
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-- Anybody have a gimp under the stairs? Posted by: Monk at April 18, 2018 09:03 PM ---------------------------- 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) 520
HO car race track set and lots of of Revell ship and plane models. I think that's when I figured that the Lockheed P-38 Lightning was the greatest fighter ever made.
Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (Pqytn) 521
494 Best Christmas gift as a kid ever I will say was Atari. And if I was losing I'd hit the reset button launching my older brother into a fit of rage!
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) 522
My dad had one Bible verse he really liked. "To those who have it shall be given, and to those who have not - even that little they have shall be taken from them."
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) 523
the thing about the Superball that made it different from all toys was that: It did what it said it was going to do.
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) 524
You know what's sad?
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) 525
I've never had Russian dolls, but I remember a Sesame Street animation of one.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (/qEW2) 526
506 Kids today still have Airsoft guns. Son and neighbor kids tromped around the fields for hours shooting each other. only rule was goggles. Full sleeves and long pants encouraged.
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) 527
Posted on the immediately previous thread because, hey, I'm a Moron:
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) 528
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) --------- 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) 529
I remember playing jacks with mom and grandma. :-)
Posted by: Infidel at April 18, 2018 09:11 PM (a3OL0) 530
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) 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) 531
And then you got one, and bounced it, and Holy Shit, that thing was in fact a Super Ball.
Bounce over your house it would. Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (yQpMk) 532
What about the simple pleasures of life? Does everything have to be complicated and high-tech?
Posted by: A Ball, a Cup, and A String at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (8rNrN) 533
My daughter inherited my dollhouse furniture, much of it damaged but she didn't seem to care. Then one day it occurred to me to look it up on ebay. Pages and pages and pages of it, all for a few dollars. It's been through five grandchildren. The boys seem to like it as much as the girls. Whatever they break I replace, so they get to play however they want.
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) 534
The Eldest Spawn's airsoft replica M-16 is now illegal in Newyorkistan...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (e9G8E) 535
I used to play with matches when i was a kid...
Posted by: John Orr at April 18, 2018 09:12 PM (bUjCl) 536
>>>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! ... 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) 537
The one ingredient that all these toys had that is lacking today? Imagination.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2018 09:13 PM (+Y4s3) 538
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:10 PM (8rNrN)
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) 539
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) 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) 540
The Eldest Spawn's airsoft replica M-16 is now illegal in Newyorkistan...
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) 541
Okay man.
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) 542
Mr. D just decided that our eggs were too old and he wanted me to hard boil them. With 1.5 drinks in me.
This could prove to be interesting. Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at April 18, 2018 09:14 PM (SRarZ) 543
>>>We also used to crumble up sparklers and pack them in duct tape. How I still have all 10 digits I do not know.
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) 544
What about the simple pleasures of life? Does everything have to be complicated and high-tech?
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) 545
Bounce over your house it would.
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) 546
oh, I also made some kind of oscillating sound thing with my electronics kit.
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) 547
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.
No crystal radio set? Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:15 PM (yQpMk) 548
Unrepeated, not unrelated
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:15 PM (JyFLk) 549
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) 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) 550
I still have my Phaser and Communicator models from the Revell (I think) kit. The tricorder though was lost long ago.
Posted by: f'd at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (UdKB7) 551
Robot Commando, by Remco
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) 552
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 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) 553
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 ******* IIRC, that actually happened once or twice! Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (e9G8E) 554
I was glad to see that my son-in-law bought my grandson a toy Bradley Fighting Vehicle instead of a tutu or something.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (+y/Ru) 555
Superballs confounded understanding, because sometimes the third bounce would have way more energy than the second.
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) 556
I liked torturing the neighbor's cat when I was a kid. She never did figure out why it smelled like burning hair all the time.
Posted by: James Comey Head Dick - leaking badly at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (KdlDE) 557
Johnny Lightning. Early-mid 60's. Had the big remote control tractor trailer rig!
Posted by: rustbucket at April 18, 2018 09:16 PM (udFeQ) 558
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) 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) 559
Man, I used to love my old Skilcraft Chemistry sets. And microscope kits and geology labs. And even better, we had chem stores that sold chemicals and lots of wonderful lab gear and glassware. You could get mercury and Geiger counters and radioactive materials in little plastic bottles.
Posted by: Fritz at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (bJ0w+) 560
I have a rock tumbler somewhere that still has the first load of rocks and sand in the drum. The kids loaded it up and then lost all interest.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (yQpMk) Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (/tuJf) 562
BTW, the two cool playsets I had (which I mistook for the Navarone battle mountain) was the Marx Prehistoric Mountain playset, and the wild west themed Commanche Pass playset my bro had.
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) 563
>>>509 One of the most enjoyable 'toy' I played with my friends was a folded up piece of paper into a triangle
the football goal game? Posted by: concrete girl at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (zr8oO) 564
It's too small to adapt to tumbl;e brass.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (yQpMk) 565
520 HO car race track set and lots of of Revell ship and plane models. I think that's when I figured that the Lockheed P-38 Lightning was the greatest fighter ever made.
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) 566
Besides wrist rockets, Whamo made many fine products, and as the name implies, most of them pretty much guaranteed a trip to the E. R. Also, slinkies make a pretty good antenna booster fo ANPRC 25 radios.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (xzqr4) 567
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7H2L3c--xA
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:17 PM (8rNrN) 568
534 The Eldest Spawn's airsoft replica M-16 is now illegal in Newyorkistan...
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) 569
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) 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) 570
You morons realize that 3/4 of these toys would be
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) 571
so superball is actually a real toy and not something off the menu at the bunny ranch?
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 09:18 PM (MTjB1) 572
We played a pickup game of baseball with a Super Ball once.
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) 573
Walk across my Lego-mined living room sometime.
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) 574
I had the evil kneivel wind up toy. I wound it up as fast a six year old kid get get it to go and stuck the wheel in my older sisters hair. She lost a goodish hunk of hair and I lost nearly all the skin off of my ass when my father caught me. Seemed like a great idea at the time.
Posted by: Son of Sam the butcher at April 18, 2018 09:19 PM (VJBq9) 575
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) -------- 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) 576
oh wow man
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) 577
Ah yes. I had an inflatable yellow light saber.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 18, 2018 09:19 PM (/qEW2) 578
Anyone saying an Atari (or any other video game/system) was their favorite toy needs to not even look at my lawn, let alone be caught standing on it.
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 09:20 PM (RfzVr) Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 09:20 PM (RVcmP) 580
I did have one really neat toy that my dad made for me. It was a Space ship Panel with knobs buttons and a xenon flash tube. If you set up the right series of codes on the dials and pressed a button the tube would flash.
Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2018 09:20 PM (KdlDE) 581
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) 582
A friend of mine and I started thinking about a Ted Bundy serial killer game one night. I think it would have sold well.
Posted by: Soona at April 18, 2018 09:21 PM (3pPRn) 583
468 Anyone remember the store called "Lionel Playworld"?......
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) 584
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 (NWiLs) 585
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) 586
My forearms are a different, and sad, story.
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) 587
583 468 Anyone remember the store called "Lionel Playworld"?......
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) 588
so, superballs are made by whamo and made out of zectron. who knew?
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 18, 2018 09:22 PM (MTjB1) 589
in the back of comic books there would always be ads for the following:
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) 590
I do remember how bad those red rubber balls in gym class hurt when you got pinged in the face playing dodgeball.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:23 PM (CiRJp) 591
>>End of game due to the ball landing somewhere in the next county.
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) 592
One of the best things to ever happen in HS was a rainy spring day where the gym teachers decided that Indoor Co-Ed Softball played with a Volleyball and Aluminum Bats would be a good way to pass the time.
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) 593
584 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 (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) 595
>584 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 (N Luxury! Posted by: Muad'dib at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (cvY7W) 596
i hear you insomniac.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (xGMkv) 597
Yankeefifth, they were truly super. Young electrons in training studied them.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (JyFLk) 598
>>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.
One bad potato killed Ace's Electrical Engineering future. Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:24 PM (3m3dI) 599
>>>577 Ah yes. I had an inflatable yellow light saber.
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) 600
561 We played a pickup game of baseball with a Super Ball once.
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) 601
I guess my experiences of learning to restore ,work on and build furniture at a very young age subbed for toys. I was sharpening chisels and planes before I started school. I started going to Canton first Monday when I was about 5. I was always fascinated by old junk. Especially broken old stuff. I am very lucky to have found my calling at a very early age
Posted by: REDACTED at April 18, 2018 09:25 PM (Ymy4N) 602
My son had Stretch Armstrong for only as long as it took for us to realize not a good toy for a house with an infant in it.
Posted by: Sal at April 18, 2018 09:26 PM (hA4a+) 603
>>We played a pickup game of baseball with a Super Ball once.
Those bruises were tiny and devestating. Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM (3m3dI) 604
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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 ------------------ 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) 605
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 ******** 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) 606
One bad potato killed Ace's Electrical Engineering future.
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) 607
Oh man, I can't believe I napped through this thread.
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) 608
i hated stretch armstrong.
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) 609
And on that note, we managed not to injure anyone boiling eggs and I'm going to bed. G'nite, Horde. Thanks for the toy memories.
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) 611
605 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 ******** 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) 613
For all the gainzzz guys out there, who had the 5 spring chest builder?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:28 PM (2DOZq) 614
Stretch appears in the movie "the Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
I enjoyed that movie and would see it again Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (xGMkv) 615
Someone mentioned Clackers upthread.
Those things were less than a 1/2 step away from medievel weaponry. Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (3m3dI) 616
>>>That particular "toy" always baffled the hell out of me.
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) 617
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Posted by: willy at April 18, 2018 09:29 PM (puf6g) 618
610 Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM
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) 619
>>>Those things were less than a 1/2 step away from medievel weaponry.
they're basically bolas. I remember people using them, and they looked... menacing. Posted by: ace at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (8rNrN) 620
Insomniac, I'm not all together sure that was a joke.
Posted by: cfo mom at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (RfzVr) 621
Johnny 7 One Man Army! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si5Rch0s7Vc
Major Matt Mason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZAGDepZc40 Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (9/8g0) 622
OT: Heh!! Pens are up 3-1. Just beat the Flyers 5-0. Did you know that the Flyers routinely torture puppies. Awful.
GO PENS!!!! Posted by: Puddleglum at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (SwhMM) 623
good night, sleep tight, DangerGirl. Don't forget your SanityProd!
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:30 PM (xGMkv) 624
had a car you put together, about six inches long. You gave it a shove and when it hit a wall or the leg of a table or chair... flew apart, and you could put it back together again and start all over.
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) 625
>>>Stretch appears in the movie "the Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
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+) 627
I built lots of plastic models, mostly airplanes, rockets, and spacecraft. One thing I always wanted was a Jupiter 2 model from "Lost in Space", but I never found one.
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) 628
>>>had a car you put together, about six inches long. You gave it a shove and when it hit a wall or the leg of a table or chair... flew apart, and you could put it back together again and start all over.
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) 629
>>Remember Viewfinder's?
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) 630
614 Stretch appears in the movie "the Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
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) 632
And -- "Hey good-looking, we'll be back to pick you up later!"
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) 633
I had a Betsy Wetsy. Also had the first Barbie Doll. That Barbie doll Christmas was a big deal. Got a brunette Barbie, a Barbie case and a bunch of Barbie clothes. Plus my great grandmother made clothes for her. Wish I still had it all.
Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (jm1YL) 634
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) ======== 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) 635
Night DG.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (d4iVA) 636
I also had an early tablet. When you made a mistake you held it up and shook it to clear the screen.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (KxbBq) 637
Major Matt Mason and the space bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ComzuZfkWDY
Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (9/8g0) 638
i had a baby catch a ball......until her arm got torn off
Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 18, 2018 09:32 PM (0O7c5) 639
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 (efC8N) 640
Like Risk or Monopoly, it's a war of attrition. May the leadenest ass win.
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) 641
>>they're basically bolas.
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) 642
610 Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM
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) 643
On Netflix there is a series called The Toys that Made Us. It's about the creators of some of the toy lines that we're talking about here, like He Man and GI Joe, but also Barbie and the Star Wars line.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP SUcks at April 18, 2018 09:34 PM (G8hDY) 644
Argggh. Thanks AOP. Viewmaster.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:34 PM (d4iVA) 645
re 636: I stole that from "Dilbert"
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (KxbBq) 646
I said slide projector but I meant the kid version where you had a long rectangle of multiple slides that you pulled through a plastic projector.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 18, 2018 09:35 PM (2DOZq) 647
421 Didja see that David "Camera" Hogg is writing a book. And the title? "Never Again."
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) 648
I used Legos to fight Boskone with my Galactic Patrol space fleet. Kinetic action for the win.
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) 650
Ace, it's in the beginning of the movie, his coworkers make fun of him for having Stretch, maybe in his office or something?
I can't recall why Stretch was there. Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:36 PM (xGMkv) 651
Favorite toy was western saloon stunt set that was a saloon with breakable table with upper level with breakable railing.
Came with cowboys and lawmen that you could have gun fights with. Posted by: Kreplach at April 18, 2018 09:36 PM (UfMVm) 652
Ace, if you're still here:
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) 653
>>It's about the creators of some of the toy lines that we're talking about here
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) 654
I'll bet Shep still has a Stretch Armstrong, if you get my disgusting drift.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:37 PM (KxbBq) 655
"Never Again?"
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) 656
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-- 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 ------------- 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) 657
605 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 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) 658
Perhaps the forerunner to atari:
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) 659
>>>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<<< 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+) 660
I've got the Youngest Spawn's cast-off My Little Pony collection in my sock drawer...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (e9G8E) 661
No crystal radio set?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:15 PM (yQpMk) ---------- 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) 662
Speaking of James Comey, it seems the last chapter of his tell-all book leads off with a quote from Alberta '90's pop singer Jann Arden, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is all agog at this, since being Leftards, Comey is a saint of sort to them. Funny as hell.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (efC8N) 663
G'night Horde. Be well.
Posted by: Minndfdel at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (CiRJp) 664
Girder and panel. The toy No one remembers but me.
Posted by: Texican ette at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (JH0gT) 665
Check this out https://i.ebay___.com/images/g/gJAAAOSwux5YKNw2/s-l1600.jpg
Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:38 PM (9/8g0) 666
AOP, you're so smart.
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) 667
"Never Again?"
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) 668
I had the Carry-All Cape Kennedy playset https://___1.etsystatic.com/065/1/10917729/il_fullxfull.791955513_cek1.jpg
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) 670
Larry Elders sort of left the surly bonds of reality with his parlor psychological assessment on Hannity regarding media guilt and its treatment of PDT.
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 18, 2018 09:40 PM (rdl6o) 671
M 80's and Cherry bombs were fine. My dad brought home carbide powder from the shipyard where he worked. Make your own acetelyne gas. Boom!
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) 672
Talking about slide projectors:
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) 673
[pi]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?
Exactly that. Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:41 PM (yQpMk) 674
Ooh, ooh, I want to play!
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) 675
had a car you put together, about six inches long. You gave it a shove and when it hit a wall or the leg of a table or chair... flew apart, and you could put it back together again and start all over.
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) 676
Pump rockets
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) 677
I loved SSPs. I always wanted to get the Railbird, but I kept getting Siamese Slingshots for Christmas/birthdays.I also loved Smash Up Derby.
Posted by: Mike at April 18, 2018 09:42 PM (c056A) 678
610 Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:27 PM
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) 679
Rich kids had a ViewMaster projector.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 18, 2018 09:43 PM (yQpMk) 680
Carry-all Playset commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI6348_VuS0
Posted by: Locke Common at April 18, 2018 09:43 PM (9/8g0) 681
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) 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) 682
Oh, Ace, you never heard of Action Man because it was a Brit toy. Akin to G.I. Joe. SAS probably wouldn't allow that name to be used.
Posted by: Weak Geek at April 18, 2018 09:44 PM (zT4Y1) 683
421 Didja see that David "Camera" Hogg is writing a book. And the title? "Never Again."
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) 684
What? I had no idea there was a viewmaster projector. Wow.
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) 685
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 I did this in Monopoly. Posted by: boulder t' hobo at April 18, 2018 09:45 PM (6FqZa) 686
Stomper 4x4s! I remember those back in high school. I even recall seeing the tracks left by one on a classmates car.
Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2018 09:45 PM (GAb0J) 687
if David Hogg wants to write a book about gun control, maybe he can use this as a cover photo:
https://tinyurl.com/ybxwd64y Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 18, 2018 09:46 PM (KxbBq) 688
I had a Patty Playpal 3 Year Old Doll. It was 3 feet tall.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2018 09:46 PM (+lVUW) 689
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.
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) 690
421 Didja see that David "Camera" Hogg is writing a book. And the title? "Never Again."
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) 691
Ok, just read a story on WZ. A gigantic asshole, fucking cocksucking asshat decided during an argument with his girlfriend to grab her four month old cocker puppy and slam it into the ground. The puppy died.
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) 692
AOP, I read about the stereoscope in Grad school, and wrote about what the subjects in the photos were, and what that said about cultural rhetoric. or something.
Posted by: booknlass at April 18, 2018 09:47 PM (xGMkv) Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2018 09:48 PM (r+sAi) 694
Rock tumbler. Lots of fun. we would collect rocks on vacation and polish them up later.
Posted by: LASue at April 18, 2018 09:49 PM (Z48ZB) 695
Late to thread and am doing page searches. No one mentioned Stratego? I used to hide the #7 guys behind the bombs so he could capture the #8 mine detector guy(s).
Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2018 09:49 PM (GAb0J) 696
I had a two-by-four.. go play! and don't come back til dinner!
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) 697
Ooh, I'm late to the toy thread. Do any of the ladies remember click clacks?
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) 698
Oh and Superballs. I am certain those have been banned too.
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) 699
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) 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) 701
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) 702
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 ... Hovercraft Built From A Vacuum Cleaner!!! SeaMonkeys!!! Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 09:52 PM (2wOtx) 703
700 They were big marble like balls on a string.
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) 704
One of my favorite toys one summer when I was 6 or 7 was home-made parachutes. Get a handkerchief or a square dish-drying cloth, tie strings to each corner and tie the other ends to a Green Army Man (and a small fishing sinker), or a small toy tank, roll it up, then throw it as high as you can. Worked every time (as long as the knots were good!).
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/) 705
Johnny Seven and Bop-A-Bear for the win.
Posted by: Dusty at April 18, 2018 09:54 PM (/AUZ3) 706
Rex B
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) 707
Hovercraft Built From A Vacuum Cleaner!!!
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) 708
338 Frisbee is the most popular lame invention ever. Sport for the lobotomized.
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) 709
In the corner of a box in the corner of my basement, there still exists an intact collection of Micronauts.
Posted by: weew at April 18, 2018 09:56 PM (Dol4k) 710
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) My queensland was an awesome frisbee dog. Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2018 09:56 PM (2DYau) 711
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Clackers. I bet they were banned. ----- 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) 712
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+) 713
*ONT is NOOD!*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 18, 2018 09:57 PM (Ckg4U) Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 18, 2018 09:58 PM (2wOtx) 715
Not for me...
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 09:58 PM (d4iVA) 716
Emmie- you going to the Cinco De Quatro?
Posted by: Infidel at April 18, 2018 09:58 PM (a3OL0) 717
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) 718
Nice thread, Ace.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 18, 2018 09:59 PM (hyuyC) 719
Australian Cattle Dogs are insane for any throwing and catching game. Ajax is never fooled by the shadow throw though.
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. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 10:00 PM (d4iVA) Posted by: irright at April 18, 2018 10:00 PM (RVcmP) 721
628 >>>had a car you put together, about six inches long. You gave it a shove and when it hit a wall or the leg of a table or chair... flew apart, and you could put it back together again and start all over.
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) 722
706, NaCly Dog. My older brother used to hound me to play Risk against him when I got home from kindergarten. Cant stand that game now.
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) 723
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.
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) 724
ONT noodishness seems stable now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 18, 2018 10:03 PM (d4iVA) 725
filbert (606):
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) 726
They are the smartest dogs. I love queenslands.
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) 727
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+) 728
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We had those toys as well. My brothers had enduro dirt bikes. Whatever those are. ------ 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) 730
One more before I go. Crazy that it appears no one mentioned Sizzlers! They were like Hot Wheels only they had little electric motors that kept them, you know, racing!
Posted by: Rex B at April 18, 2018 10:09 PM (GAb0J) 731
When I was a child, I DESPERATELY wanted a VertiBird. The arctic set.
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) 732
Nobody's mentioned Mattel's M16, the futuristic toy rifle the Army snatched off the shelf for Vietnam GIs in 1965. You can still find some if you look around.
Posted by: Bill Befort at April 18, 2018 10:36 PM (hJFOo) 733
Estes rockets; we took the rockets and found the engine backfire meant to deploy the parachute would light the fuse on a cherry bomb just fine. We lived under the northern approach to the airport and we spent the summer firing off rockets at airliners on final approach. One day we decided to load the nose cone of the rocket you could put an egg in with gunpowder my buddy stole from his father and glued a primer in a hole we drilled in the nose. We fired our masterpiece one evening when the folks out to dinner and just as the engine ignited the wind blew the damn thing over and it shot up our driveway between the two houses across the street. Our rocket hit the house on the next street over detonated on their brick wall taking a chunk out of it. We of course destroyed the evidence and played dumb until the whole thing blew over.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 18, 2018 10:40 PM (bML9A) 734
Changeable Charlie. A face in a plastic case that contained metal dust. You used a magnetic stick to arrange the dust into beards and mustaches.
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) 735
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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) 736
Wow, I have learned about so many toys. And now I want the robot from Lost in Space. Never knew that existed. Even says "Danger, Danger Will Robinson."
I may buy it. Yes, I'm an adult and I don't care. Better late than never. Maybe next Christmas. Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 19, 2018 12:59 AM (F0aU4) 737
Shrinky-Dinks were invented, patented, and sold by a woman from the UP of Michigan who became the Mayor-ette of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
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. Posted by: dad29 at April 19, 2018 08:40 AM (7Kti7) 738
Two words - comanche mountain
Posted by: Trainer at April 19, 2018 11:26 AM (7EbAY) Posted by: ELD at April 19, 2018 11:31 AM (Gaz0e) 740
Mr. Machine was the greatest toy of my life!
Posted by: CAR at April 19, 2018 01:19 PM (Hl0CT) 741
My Suzy homemaker vacuum cleaner made a great operating room respirator. In between pretending to be Snow White in my patent leather showers with the bows on them, I liked to pretend being an irascible neurosurgeon.
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Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings) George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer Top Top Tens
Democratic Forays into Erotica New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party" Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?" Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance Collective Names for Groups of People John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive" Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments John Edwards Campaign Excuses John Kerry Pick-Up Lines Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney Torments in Dog-Hell Greatest Hitjobs
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny More Margaret Cho Abuse Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed" Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means Wonkette's Stand-Up Act Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report! Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet The House of Love: Paul Krugman A Michael Moore Mystery (TM) The Dowd-O-Matic! Liberal Consistency and Other Myths Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate "Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long) The Donkey ("The Raven" parody) News/Chat
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