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

[jcav]

 

[day_trippr]

aka "What ends up on the roof five minutes after unwrapping"

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

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These da*n things never worked for us. We'd see the cool TV commercials. Get all hopped up thinking we'd be Australians, but they would not return.

 

[jcav]

Yes definitely a learning curve, kind of a sidearm snap/flip of the wrist as you throw it. Mine did end up on a neighbor's roof!

John

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Yes definitely a learning curve, kind of a sidearm snap/flip of the wrist as you throw it. Mine did end up on a neighbor's roof!

John

Or, a friend getting hit in the face.

 

[Tom R]

My brothers and I went through too many of these to count:

And even more of these:

The printing on the horizontal stabilizer reads "North Pacific" on one side and "Bend Oregon" on the other. I always wondered how to adjust it to go to either location, and how could it know the direction to go? No kidding.
Good times.

 

[bracconiere]

@Jayjay1976

you rode a bike with out one of these? all the kid made BMX track riding i did in the hills, a necessity

https://www.amazon.com/Goabroa-Wrench-Truing-Bicycle-Tension/dp/B07VCDCTBS/ref=asc_df_B07VCDCTBS/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=366418911815&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=753358559274478937&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030244&hvtargid=pla-816053239640&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=79098076267&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=366418911815&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=753358559274478937&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030244&hvtargid=pla-816053239640

which reminds me of:

20" Wheel Set Plastic MAG 6 Spoke Rear Freewheel BMX Cruiser Lowrider Bicycle | eBay

Rear: 6 spoke plastic mag Freewheel. Set includes 20x1.75 Front Wheel and 20x1.75 Rear Freewheel. Single speed freewheel is not included.

www.ebay.com

those...i hated them with a pasion they weighed like 20lb's a piece or so it seemed to my 12 year old legs!...

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Basil wood planes. Another toy that didn't work as advertised. Especially, the one's with the rubber band propeller wind up.

We had more fun with a folded-up paper "air plane".

 

[bracconiere]

You can start a fire with them by running a rock across them. Not that we ever did that. Took too much work might as well steal a pack of matches everybody smoked.

what did you do? fill them with gas, and have a sparker ready to set them off? (damn, that WOULD have been f'n COOOL!)

 

[Ki-ri-n]

I remember these two one x-mass. Palyed with them till 2 or 3 AM laying on my grandparents shag carpet.

 

[firerat]

Now you can be like Kevin from home alone!!

 

[day_trippr]

Those look like the "Erector Sets" and "Stratego" games of a couple decades prior

Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

I remember these two one x-mass. Palyed with them till 2 or 3 AM laying on my grandparents shag carpet.

i love RTS's so generals looks like i wish i was old enough to remember it, or just had it.....

 

[Ki-ri-n]

i love RTS's so generals looks like i wish i was old enough to remember it, or just had it.....

Not that old hey?
what about this:

I think mine had a motor that actually turned it over and you could watch it run.

 

[day_trippr]

Whoa. Way Back Machine stuff. I built one of those "Visible V8s", probably was a Revell model. Don't remember the crank, it ran on the starter motor.
Pretty cool actually, even the "spark plugs" would light in proper sequence...

Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

Not that old hey?
what about this:

I think mine had a motor that actually turned it over and you could watch it run.

closest i can get is something like this in the early 90's.....your's is obviously bigger...

 

[Ki-ri-n]

closest i can get is something like this in the early 90's.....your's is obviously bigger...

Gotta put that in my sig

 

[bracconiere]

Gotta put that in my sig

strangley, i always want to have a famous quote. really hoped it wasn't something like that, lol

 

[bracconiere]

damn my math sucks./....

 

[Knkbrand]

 

[Bigdaddyale]

 

[Toy4Rick]

 

[Jayjay1976]

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I still play with my Jarts.
Jarts are the thinking man's cornhole.

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

I remember these two one x-mass. Palyed with them till 2 or 3 AM laying on my grandparents shag carpet.

OMG! The old Girder & Panel Building Set from Kenner Toys! I had some of those when I was a kid. I remember spending the better part of a week building a replica of the Mackinaw Bridge with them, just to see if I could.

 

[Dimax]

Mine has Mega Bass Boost

 

[Electric Brewer]

Can't post a picture of it here. But you might catch my drift with this picture.

 

[aces-n-eights]

I was into HO scale slot cars for a while. My best friend entered a contest where he designed a track and actully won the contest. They sent him all the parts to create his design - pretty epic at the time...

 

[day_trippr]

When I was a kid the first HO scale slot cars ran on AC vibrator motors - literally a chattering relay coil with a blade that would engage one tooth on the drive gear for the rear axle and push it a microscopic distance before retracting and then hitting the next tooth on the next cycle, and so on. Pretty noisy for such a small toy, but they did work.

When my sons were old enough to spot a car back on the track the cars and controllers were far advanced. I built them an epic layout in the basement, with almost 100 feet of track, and a digital lap counter I built using optical sensors under track and a lighted arch above them. Worked great, and the whole neighborhood was into it - for about a year, before they moved on to other things.

My wife found the steamer chest full of the track, controllers, power supply and cars last fall. My oldest son's boys are 9 and 11, and might get into it, but they are hard-core Lego Masters right now so no time for building race courses

Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

damn, i forgot about the slot car arcades. don't know if it was HO scale. but they had buildings with huge wooden tracks for big slot cars. cool parts and stuff, thanks for the memories!

 

[Konadog]

Had a friend that his dad owned an arcade and slot track. The days they were "officially" closed were the best "friends and family" days!

 

[Snuffy]

 

[Iowa Home Brewer]

We had to invent our own fun. We would blow on these and race them. Damn I'm old.

 

[Konadog]

Have to laugh at that one @Snuffy Still have mine after 40 years!

 

[Snuffy]

Have to laugh at that one @Snuffy Still have mine after 40 years!

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Is that a Daisy or a Crossman? My dad gave my younger brother and me a pump pellet/bb rifle for Christmas in like ‘73. Woe was unto the varmint population for a square mile that year.

 

[Konadog]

It's a Daisy, and it still works, just had to keep it oiled.

 

[Dr_Jeff]

How about a SuperBall and I still have the Major Matt Mason figure that I had as a kid, don't know what happened to the other guys.

 

[John475]

Wow times have changed.

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

Wow times have changed.View attachment 719740

Indeed...

 

[day_trippr]

^minion prototype^?

 

[GrogNerd]

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”