show your age with a picture of a toy from your childhood

[Snuffy]

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

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Oh, man! We really, really wanted these to work!

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

 

[day_trippr]

They'll never be the same after that South Park episode

 

[Jayjay1976]

They fly better with school handouts and homework. Not the first one I learn to make but one of the best hang time fliers if you get wing modified right.

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That is still to this day the only successful paper airplane I can make. Every time I gain access to a high place I just hafta fold one and let her glide. IMHO, the single best use of a piece of paper since the constitution.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Why don't they make stompers anymore? Maybe that's where it all went wrong...

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

"Sea-Monsters". Oh, yeah, we all envisioned having rule over them. Also, did anyone have any luck with "Sea Monkeys"? Not us.

Or, how about the plastic "Ant Farm" that initially seemed OK until it got knocked over.

 

[Jayjay1976]

I had sea monkeys when I was a kid, but it wasn't until my late 30s that I learned to raise them large enough to ride around on while grasping a trident.

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

"Sea-Monsters". Oh, yeah, we all envisioned having rule over them. Also, did anyone have any luck with "Sea Monkeys"? Not us.

Or, how about the plastic "Ant Farm" that initially seemed OK until it got knocked over.

Pretty sure I had some sea monkeys that lived for a little bit.

Had the green plastic ant farm - don't remember how that ended either

 

[Ogilthorpe2]

One of my uncles had one of these. We used to beg him to drag it out and set it up every time we were at his house. I’m sure he regretted ever showing it to us the first time.

 

[ba-brewer]

 

[ba-brewer]

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

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I've still got my old Duncan butterfly yo-yo laying around somewhere.

 

[Bigdaddyale]

 

[Kharnynb]

nearly every finnish household/cottage has one of these in some version, somewhere:

 

[day_trippr]

Heck, many offices have one of those ready for a lunch time tournament

 

[Ogilthorpe2]

The one I grew up with looked more like this...

 

[Snuffy]

 

[batman72]

My fave when I was 6

 

[Marco Brewing]

Not really a toy, but I carried this to school for a year or so...

 

[Snuffy]

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/han...lated-background-rounded-pebbles-44883768.jpg

 

[Bigdaddyale]

Not really a toy, but I carried this to school for a year or so...
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This was my lunchbox. Cold baloney and miracle whip on white bread sandwich

 

[day_trippr]

Whoa. Flashback to the more serious '60s military-ish tv series. Along with "Combat". Saw every episode of both.
For balance, towards the end of that decade, there was "F Troop" and "Hogan's Heroes"...

Cheers! ["It is BALLOON!" is still in my lexicon]

 

[VApatriot]

 

[Dr_Jeff]

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I built a number of those, we would run out of engines real quick.

send it up then chase it all over the neighborhood, only to find it up in the top of a tree or on top of a house :-(

 

[ba-brewer]

And if you lost your rockets and still had engines left they turned into big bottle rockets.

 

[Marco Brewing]

I had one called the mosquito. Launched it and never saw it again.

 

[Bigdaddyale]

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If you want to rebuild some Estes rocks of your youth -here you go

 

[Bigdaddyale]

I had one called the mosquito. Launched it and never saw it again.

 

[Dr_Jeff]

I had one called the mosquito. Launched it and never saw it again.

My younger brother had one of those, it didn't have a parachute or a streamer, if I recall correctly, often times it would break a fin when it came down, so one or two flights for it and out of the game for the day.