show your age with a picture of a toy from your childhood
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Snark_Wolf_Brewing
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I've still got my old Duncan butterfly yo-yo laying around somewhere.
Bigdaddyale
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nearly every finnish household/cottage has one of these in some version, somewhere:
Heck, many offices have one of those ready for a lunch time tournament 
Ogilthorpe2
The man in the black pajamas
The one I grew up with looked more like this...
Marco Brewing
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Not really a toy, but I carried this to school for a year or so...
Bigdaddyale
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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]
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
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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 :-(
And if you lost your rockets and still had engines left they turned into big bottle rockets.
Marco Brewing
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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
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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.
^tumble recovery
you both just reminded me of my first experience with a bully! i found out such things make for a great playground self defense weapon! (also earned me my first, of what would become regular, trip to the principals office!
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VApatriot
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More like weekends in high school but who's counting.
Jarts. We lived dangerously.
^ average family sizes were larger than
^ average family sizes were larger than
Ours was too. Not to mention all the neighborhood kids who came around to our yard, attracted by the specter of throwing around weighted missiles with sharp points. We didn't use the ring thingy much. Instead, we took turns trying to throw them as close to the opponent's feet as possible, without actually impaling anything vital. Surprisingly, no one was hurt, either due to the thrower's accuracy, or (more likely), the ability of the other kid to quickly move away from the point of impact.
Can't understand why they banned those things years later.
Sounds a bit like chicken with a pocket knife.
Ours was too. Not to mention all the neighborhood kids who came around to our yard, attracted by the specter of throwing around weighted missiles with sharp points. We didn't use the ring thingy much. Instead, we took turns trying to throw them as close to the opponent's feet as possible, without actually impaling anything vital. Surprisingly, no one was hurt, either due to the thrower's accuracy, or (more likely), the ability of the other kid to quickly move away from the point of impact.
Can't understand why they banned those things years later.
the ones too scared to play probably got fat, and lost toes to diabetes anyway.....
Wrt "lawn darts" and other pointy implements of potential destruction...we didn't need "toys" to commit random mayhem. I was around 10 when I got whacked right in the top of the skull by a next-door neighbor kid wielding a board with a huge nail through one end. Gushed like all hell, got carted to the doctor, but my skull was apparently thick enough to limit the damage to a long deep gouge, so I got a bunch of stitches and a tetanus shot out of the deal
Cheers!
Cheers!
Wrt "lawn darts" and other pointy implements of potential destruction...we didn't need "toys" to commit random mayhem. I was around 10 when I got whacked right in the top of the skull by a next-door neighbor kid wielding a board with a huge nail through one end. Gushed like all hell, got carted to the doctor, but my skull was apparently thick enough to limit the damage to a long deep gouge, so I got a bunch of stitches and a tetanus shot out of the deal
Cheers!
must be why you have a fancy nitro tap to pour your beer flat!
lol
One of the first toys I can remember...
i don't want to say what that makes me think of the modern age......
I was thinking that also
ahhh, 18 years old! mom was a sweety!
funny thing it didn't ferment which i why i went straight to all-grain.... and also...
and now the kids are playing with "3-rollers"!
funny thing it didn't ferment which i why i went straight to all-grain.... and also...
and now the kids are playing with "3-rollers"!
I think I was 8 when I got this for Christmas and it was my favorite toy for a few years. The fan-powered "space ship" was balanced against a counterweight at the other end of the metal rod and pivoted atop the central mast. You controlled engine speed and thrust angle to "lift off", "orbit", "de-orbit" and "land", and it came with fold-up "planetary" matt with landing sites, etc. Coolest toy ever for me back then
Cheers!
Cheers!
There was a company making and selling those for homebrewers years back. In the 90’s? I think the company was called Medicine Rock or something like that. No longer in business.
[edit] I found an old ad in a BYO magazine from 2000
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