Toys from when we were kids!!!
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I remember,, 0 -
quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
I remember,,
And your still alive?
Hear is another. Notice the accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXfOWMgWYLk0 -
my ac gilbert chemestry set[^] 0 -
I had a Thing Maker, Johnny Seven, my sister had a an Easy Bake Oven, and my cousin had and Vac-u-former. 0 -
I still have my most prized toy. It holds six cartridges to which caps can be stuck. Still works, though it is now a wall hanger. 0 -
One of my favorite "toys" ( I won at a local fair in a sack race of all things ) was a Mattel shootin shell Winchester fired caps on the back of a brass shell which fed from the magazine and also had a blastic bullet spring loaded into each shell the hammer hit and overcame the tension and fired the bullet ( my dad and uncles lost all of them with in a week [:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!] )
I recall us having the creepy crawler / thing maker and my sisters having the easy bake ovens , my younger brother the chemistry set
oh the good old days a few burns and shooting your eye out all in the name of fun when kids had common sense [:0][:0][:0]
man If had one of the Johnny 7 set ups I would have been the envy of the neighbor kids
DANG GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS0 -
quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
I had a Thing Maker, Johnny Seven, my sister had a an Easy Bake Oven, and my cousin had and Vac-u-former.
I call my toaster oven an Easy Bake oven. Pretty close to the same thing. My niece used to cry because I wouldn?t eat any of the cakes or cookies she made in her Easy Bake.0 -
I too had the "thing maker". I used it to make fishing lures. Put a hook in before curing. Looked cool but never caught anything [:D]. 0 -
I always wondered if they would work for that ,, [:I][:I]
quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
I too had the "thing maker". I used it to make fishing lures. Put a hook in before curing. Looked cool but never caught anything [:D].0 -
I've still got the first toy that was given to me back in 1949. It's a metal wind up dog that still works. 0 -
I had the Eliminator TS-7....basically the early 90s version of the Johnny 7. I remember they stopped selling them mid-late 90s because kids kept hurting each other with them because they were being that stupid.
Mine is still at my parents house...my son plays with it every once in a while.[:)]0 -
what ever happened to YARD DARTS 0 -
they were called jarts..... 0 -
This one may be safe, the ones I saw were two forks bolted together. And they would come apart at the very worst time.0 -
Sticks are still made to this day.
I still have a toy horse that my parents got me when I was about 2 years old. All my boys rode it when they were toddlers.0 -
I can't believe they left out Jarts. Those things were truly dangerous.
I had the Thing Maker and Six Finger. Pretty much ruined the Thing Maker melting down toy soldiers and dinosaurs.
The Six Finger was good for major cool points at school.0 -
Between getting a free kite at our local Zephr gas station for a fill up and making my own toys, most of the TV commercial stuff was just wishful thinking for this kid growing up!
I was allowed to use my dads tool shed and his tools to create my own "boats" which I floated down the backyard creek. I'd use cheap electrical tape to strap frogs on board as a captive crew.
The backyard willow tree was the best source for playtime, not only as a fort built a few feet above ground but the limber branches made some cool shooting bows and the cattails made great arrows!
Slingshots became a local competition in the making of the very best which also inspired young minds to get creative.
I would not trade a single minute of my childhood for all the fancy store bought toys made during those days!0 -
I love the last one the water wiggle. They said it can wrap around you like a boa constrictor LMAO!! The propaganda about these toys is amazing. I guess kids should stay indoors out of the sun(shin cancer too)and not ride bikes(wheelie bar)and not do anything to avoid injury.
Gee imagine if some day they could put all these games on TV or a computer. That way no kids would ever get hurt. They might become obese from lack of exercise but heck that never hurt anyone right?0 -
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
This one may be safe, the ones I saw were two forks bolted together. And they would come apart at the very worst time.
We used to use 10 speed forks. Just beat them in with a hammer and try not to hit a bump! (We didn't have a welder.)0 -
quote:Originally posted by mjrfd99
Bad product.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-darts-banned
They were bad only if they were not used as intended. Like the way we did![:D]
The kids in the neighborhood would stand around in a circle while someone threw it up in the air as high as he could. If it came towards you and you moved, you were a chicken. I guess we were all chickens because no one ever got hit!0 -
Spent many days making lead soldiers. Some of the molds were old in the fifties.wish I knew where they all went 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Fazer1
Spent many days making lead soldiers. Some of the molds were old in the fifties.wish I knew where they all went
If it's anything like my house, get a good metal detector and start digging!0 -
quote:Originally posted by wiplash
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
This one may be safe, the ones I saw were two forks bolted together. And they would come apart at the very worst time.
We used to use 10 speed forks. Just beat them in with a hammer and try not to hit a bump! (We didn't have a welder.)
no welder either, we just used to beat the forks off spyder bikes together as hard as we could, two one way then put the arch of one backwards, you could get as many as five beat together at a time, only living on a gravel road they didn't stay together more than a short ride or two..... still have a small chunk of gravel and oil in the side of my knee from one of those rides right after the neighbors had oiled the road to cut down the dust, if we had had video cameras back then we would have definately been on americas funniest videos.....0 -
I did the same forks off a 26 inch bike and the wheel off a 16" bike .. one kid had a set his dad made out of steel tubing a lot like the photo , rest of us just used what we could scrounge and as stated hammered together ,
quote:Originally posted by wiplash
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
This one may be safe, the ones I saw were two forks bolted together. And they would come apart at the very worst time.
We used to use 10 speed forks. Just beat them in with a hammer and try not to hit a bump! (We didn't have a welder.)0 -
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic - I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it.
My brother had one of those gas powered airplanes on a string. You fired the thing off then held on for dear life, while it roared in a circle, I never got the hang of it.0 -
I had a Wham0 Air Blaster. That thing was fun! I didn't know it was dangerous.
My sister had an Easy Bake oven she used to make some good cookies and brownies.
When I was 12 I got a toy percussion rifle, a Kentucky rifle. You put a Greenie stickum cap where the cap would go, you put a cork ball down the barrel, the cap would shoot the ball about 30 feet.
I thought I would spice it up, I put the powder from 5 Black Cat firecrackers down the barrel, used a marble for a bullet.
It did go off, what a noise! Put a 1/2 inch hole in the neighbor's concrete block basement wall.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El6t8lcz0V4
Recognize this guy with the Agent Zero Sonic Blaster?
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What no Fanner Fifty? 0 -
Yes! The Fanner Fifty, I had one. 0 -
I still have Two: 1960? Big Bang Cannon - still Works.
1964? Remote/"Radio" Control Schoolbus - still would work, if motors had remagnetised magnets. Used a Spark-gap Transmitter! Used to make neighbors go nuts when they were watching TV!0
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