Cool Toys That Have Gone by the Wayside

[DoggyDaddy]

We actually had one of these, and I still remember my brother getting it from my aunt:

I had one of these! My mom was the target of many an ambush...

 

[DoggyDaddy]

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Mad fun with this Evel Knievel toy and my SSTs.



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Loved the SSTs! Right after I got mine, they repaved our road, nice and smooth. Those things would fly! And seem to just go forever. Good times!

 

[SpiritClump]

I used to love to play with erector sets

 

[Indycar:v1.1]

The full sized GI Joes. My favourite was my Joe with the Gemini Capsule.

The capsule as a Mercury! Mercurys were solo ships, Gemini was a tandem and Apollos had a crew of 3.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I had one of these....They called it a Strange Change Machine....Mom called it the "Pour some cold water on your fingers and I'll pop your blisters tomorrow machine..."

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I had one of those, I'm thinking 1969ish. The creatures came in the form of little flattened blocks and you put them in the cooker so they'd open up.

I also had a geology set with lots of different mineral samples. One of those samples was a chunk of asbestos.

 

[Rookie]

I had a cap gun that looked like a snub nose revolver that actually shot plastic pellets.

 

[mrjarrell]

The capsule as a Mercury! Mercurys were solo ships, Gemini was a tandem and Apollos had a crew of 3.

Maybe. The capsule was never ID'd on the box.

 

[Leadeye]

I would bet there's quite a price tag on those today.

 

[Rookie]

Found it.
Bang! Bang! You're dead! | sixthseal.com

 

[Redtbird]

Used to get a set of 'cowboy pistols and holsters' every Christmas.

Had a "pop-gun". It was lever action and the same size as a BB gun, but when you pulled the trigger it only made a loud "BANG!"

At one time I had close to a hundred little green army guys. We'd set them up and shoot at them with a BB gun.

A neighbor kid and I used to play Army. I had some real Army stuff my brother got for me, pack, Army belt, canteen. My friend had a REAL Japanese Army rifle! Can you imagine seeing a kid playing with something like that today. SWAT Team raid! LOL!

We'd sometimes shoot kitchen matches out the barrel of a BB gun and watch them light when they hit the sidewalk.

 

[blue edge]

Hands up Harry

 

[bulletsmith]

Killed by common sense, not PC. We played with these for years, never died.

 

[Gabriel]

 

[Chippp1961]

I still have the spacesuit.....Everything else is gone...That was by far one of the sets they had....Ah the Sear's and J C Penney Wishbooks!!!!

Kids today have no idea how much fun a catalog can be....Or what anticipation is...

Now excuse me...Someone is playing rap music real loud and I need to go outside and shake my fist at their car and tell them about 8 track tapes and the Sugarhill Gang....

I had one of these....They called it a Strange Change Machine....Mom called it the "Pour some cold water on your fingers and I'll pop your blisters tomorrow machine..."

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Believe it or not but I still have mine, in the box.
Mom found it in the basement 4 or 5 years ago.
And yes,i tried it and brought one of the critters back to life and put him back into a cube.

Also had and maybe still do the Johnny 7 Rifle, I know for sure one of the grenades because its hanging above my work bench.
BTW: The trigger housing came out and was a pistol

Klackers,full size GI Joe's,Jarts I might be on memory lane

 

[Zoub]

Charcoal lighter that really worked. The kind that would burn back up the stream and make the metal can explode, breaking your arm. Not mine but I saw it happen.

Roman candles that hurt when they hit you.

I may have a set of original Jarts in my hands next week.

.049 engines

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

I have a set of Jarts I built up from pieces I found at garage sales. Some spare parts, too We had a set when I was a kid, and it just pissed me off so much some bureaucrats were able to say I couldn't have them, that I decided to have them anyway.

 

[Shadow8088]

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[Shadow8088]

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[cbhausen]

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Mad fun with this Evel Knievel toy and my SSTs.



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tbhausen and I had both when we were kids, along with jarts, klackers, gnip-gnop, and of course, rock 'em sock 'em robots. Man, from what I see today's toys really suck. With two kids coming I guess I'll find out.

 

[BrownDog]

My favorite toy was given to me when I was 5 years old, a Johnny Eagle Red River set.