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Back When Toys Were Fun! UPDATE 9/29/21
- Thread starter Iron Mike
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Brokeneagle
Master at Arms
:laugh:
That's just GOLD!
I remember those days - I think we had more fun than they do now - wouldn't be politically correct now even if you could get them to go outside.
I actually had one of those 50 cal mg's with the belt. I used to keep it under my bed.
Thanks Mike nice find.
Ian.
That's just GOLD!
I remember those days - I think we had more fun than they do now - wouldn't be politically correct now even if you could get them to go outside.
I actually had one of those 50 cal mg's with the belt. I used to keep it under my bed.
Thanks Mike nice find.
Ian.
Plastik Smurff
Well-known member
Now them's toy's 
Er,did ya have batteries in them B/C times ? :fencing
.Kurt.
Er,did ya have batteries in them B/C times ?
:fencing .Kurt.
kryptosdaddy
Active member
I had some kinda big rifle that shot foam bullets from a belt and launched plastic grenades. No fun today in the nanny state.
Gung Ho!
First problem today is getting the kids outside, you never see a bunch of kids out running in the woods playing army or even a pickup ball game anymore.
First problem today is getting the kids outside, you never see a bunch of kids out running in the woods playing army or even a pickup ball game anymore.
iambrb
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I remember when GI Joe's were 1 foot tall, Johnny Quest stopped the bad guys or monsters by shooting them, and Lawn Darts were the norm. I think every fam on the street had a set of Lawn Darts.
One kid across the way had saved his allowance and bought the big card board model that had the outside painted like a tank and g you could actually get into! I think the ad was in a War is Hell comic book.
One kid across the way had saved his allowance and bought the big card board model that had the outside painted like a tank and g you could actually get into! I think the ad was in a War is Hell comic book.
iambrb
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iambrb
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On the cereal aisle! :woohoo:
kryptosdaddy
Active member
That Johnny seven has got to be it! Boom! lol.
I still have a working tracer pistol- you remember those- shot the little disks? used to punish my cats with it.
I still have a working tracer pistol- you remember those- shot the little disks? used to punish my cats with it.
kryptosdaddy
Active member
Dont forget tree houses- we had a mutant maple tree that had 4 trunks. My dad got into the middle of those and reaching as far as he could nailed two 2x6 boards across each pair. When done he hands me the hammer and says something like 'now it's your turn, what can you do'?
I was about 10....
Boy he regretted that- we raided his garage, the neighbors trash piles, house construction sites and everything else and built that thing up to 3 stories, I'm afraid of heights, my little brother isn't- Kevin climbed as high as he could in the tree and nailed a couple of short boards way past the point where the tree would support my weight.
from there we would punish the neighborhood with crabapple loaded sling shots and grenades from magnolia cones! We made spears out of the center sprout of those big sticker plants whose name I can't remember. And none of us died or was seriously hurt!
And all this ^^^ took place over our sand box- Dad had gone out and bought a truck load of cross ties and sectioned off parts of the yard with them. he boxed in the area under the maples and filled it with sand and we in return filled it with metal Tonka trucks and pieces of dead Gi Joes who didn't survive whatever war they were fighting.
meanwhile the cats in the neighborhood filled it with their nutty buddies- lol- they were there constantly, much to the delight of my Shepard and later my Weimeraner.
And we didn't get sick either.
Kids today just don't get it.
I was about 10....
Boy he regretted that- we raided his garage, the neighbors trash piles, house construction sites and everything else and built that thing up to 3 stories, I'm afraid of heights, my little brother isn't- Kevin climbed as high as he could in the tree and nailed a couple of short boards way past the point where the tree would support my weight.
from there we would punish the neighborhood with crabapple loaded sling shots and grenades from magnolia cones! We made spears out of the center sprout of those big sticker plants whose name I can't remember. And none of us died or was seriously hurt!
And all this ^^^ took place over our sand box- Dad had gone out and bought a truck load of cross ties and sectioned off parts of the yard with them. he boxed in the area under the maples and filled it with sand and we in return filled it with metal Tonka trucks and pieces of dead Gi Joes who didn't survive whatever war they were fighting.
meanwhile the cats in the neighborhood filled it with their nutty buddies- lol- they were there constantly, much to the delight of my Shepard and later my Weimeraner.
And we didn't get sick either.
Kids today just don't get it.
I got that tank as a Christmas present way back in 1964 or 65. I also got a howitser one Christmas that fired a "shell",that was really a plastic ball loaded on a compressed spring in a shell casing. You loaded said "shell" thru the breech, and fired away. Out thru the muzzle went the ball.
iambrb
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OK, one more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPdWzWltPI&feature=related
tell me that none of you that playes with this ever made the sound from the TV show when he would do 'bionic' stuff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPdWzWltPI&feature=related
tell me that none of you that playes with this ever made the sound from the TV show when he would do 'bionic' stuff!
I've done the Bionic sound when playing golf...picked it up somewhere..
Vertibird, I remember it well. Had it setup on my train set.
Had friends who had the Evil Knievel stuff, never saw it do what they had it do on those commercials.
Vertibird, I remember it well. Had it setup on my train set.
Had friends who had the Evil Knievel stuff, never saw it do what they had it do on those commercials.
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