Author Topic: Poll: Your Favorite Toy... (Read 5685 times)

hblair · « **Reply #15 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:47:00 PM »

Pellet gun, Had may a good pellet rifle battles with my brothers and neighborhood kids. Of course, if you had the pump type, there was a one pump rule.(we all broke it of course, don't tell anybody) It was all cool til I popped my brother in the neck with a 5 pump shot when he raised up above cover for a sec. He started yelling and callin me these nasty names. Then my position was assaulted with a barrage of pellets. I was fearing for my life. Then I did the manly thing and ran like crazy for home. Mom and Dad woulda kicked our butts if they knew half the crap we pulled.

But anyway, I had the Evel Knievel bike too, and the little vinyl van that went with it.

A few other favorites: methanol powered P51 string guided airplane. Methanol powered dragster that ya tied to something heavy and let it go in circles. Man, that thing was loud.

deSelys · « **Reply #16 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:48:00 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs1:
A High Standard "Sport King" .22 caliber semi auto pistol with extra 10 round clip.

This was your favourite pre-elementary toy???? Ugh...some parents are pretty confident in their family's guardian angel.

I have to admit that it would have been my fav toy too at this age...that or a Porsche...

Ripsnort · « **Reply #17 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:51:00 PM »

de Selys, I had my first shotgun at age 9, and later that fall, I shot my first duck!

Its a different world we live in today (and drastically different parental values)

hblair · « **Reply #18 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:53:00 PM »

I was toting a Smith and Wesson revolver to 2nd grade. What's the big deal?

eskimo2 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:55:00 PM »

ROTFLMAO!!!! Hblair!

eskimo

SirLoin · « **Reply #20 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:56:00 PM »

Anyone remember U-Fly-It?...Basically it consisted of a control stick,a runway with catapult,a 30' length of fishing line tied to the control stick on one end a door knob on the other.The plane would launch off the runway and scoot up the line,then a swivel connection would turn the plane 180 and with carefull stick adjustments you could do a 3 pointer!I would always pretend the plane was an F4U(not the supplied Piper Commanche) and the runway was a carrier deck!(Not an unfurled black piece of cardboard)..

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #21 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:59:00 PM »

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For me it probably was a crank-up Evil Kinevil Motorcycle. It had a base with a crank on it. Rev it up like mad and it would load E into an inertia rear wheel / fly wheel. It could jump and wreck just like the real guy. The bike was about 10 inches long.

I had one of these (my brother too). Man that was a cool toy... till I blew it up with firecrackers.

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Then there was this ship/helicopter deal, where you pretended to do air/sea rescues...the ship was white styrofoam, the helicopter was attached to the ship by a 2 foot metal rod, a cable ran through it to the rotor, and you could control forward/backward and up/down.

I had one of these too. It had a hook on the helicopter that picked up either a basket with a soldier or just the solder with some kind of wire contraption (can't really remember). That toy was awesome... until I blew it up with firecrackers.

Eventually, every toy would wear out its welcome, then it would meet the ultimate toy: firecrackers. It was the only fitting way to dispose of a device that had served you so well.

The only toy to escape the firecracker distruction graveyard was our bb gun. One day my brother tried to shoot a fly off of our picnic table in the backyard. The BB ricoche'd off of the wood into our livingroom window... a 4'x5' (one of 3 sections) piece of plate glass. My dad came home and broke that bbgun into a few hundred pieces while I asked him if he'd rather be using firecrackers to do that.

AKDejaVu

Regurge · « **Reply #22 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:59:00 PM »

Aaah good old Eval Kneival. Now THAT was a toy

I remeber that base creaking and whining as I put all my weight into revvin it up. That bike could smack straight into a wall at full speed and keep right on ticking. And what with that huge flywheel and exposed gears it taught a good lesson about stickin fingers where they dont belong

Kieran · « **Reply #23 on:** December 06, 2001, 03:00:00 PM »

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". . . an official Red Ryder carbon action bb gun, with a compass and a stock and this thing that tells time."

"You'll put your eye out, kid."

A Christmas Story, 1983

Nifty · « **Reply #24 on:** December 06, 2001, 03:00:00 PM »

Legos, Star Wars, and GI Joe were my fav elementary toys. Middle school involved shooting the various elementary toy figurines with the BB rifle.

Of course, playing "doctor" with the neighborhood girls was my favorite elementary school diversion!

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #25 on:** December 06, 2001, 03:02:00 PM »

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That bike could smack straight into a wall at full speed and keep right on ticking. And what with that huge flywheel and exposed gears it taught a good lesson about stickin fingers where they dont belong

LOL! I was just thinking how this toy taught me what a "blood blister" was.

AKDejaVu

Buzzbait · « **Reply #26 on:** December 06, 2001, 03:04:00 PM »

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Two favourite toys:

1) My parents had a cottage on a river in Ontario Canada. One summer at age 10 I found a tiny 8 foot homemade plywood Hydroplane (without an engine) drifting upside down and full of water, on the river and rescued it. After posting notices and having no one claim it, I took possession. Putting the family 6 hp on it yielded a boat which would do around 35mph. I had more fun on that boat than just about anything...

Only problem was that because it had no keel, it took about 200 ft to turn around doing full speed. Half that time you were going sideways.

2) A best buddy of mine when I was 11 had a grandfather who was an ACE machinist. (He was German by descent and had spent WWII in a Tank Factory and was still an ardent admirer of Uncle Adolf...

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Anyway he built his grandson a 3 horsepower Go-Kart, complete with a 2 speed gearbox and clutch, racing tires etc. We raced that Kart in empty parking lots all over our neighbourhood, (illegally

) We also took it on the street a few times, but gave that up after a Cop car chased me for 4 blocks. (I lost him in the park by taking an exit route that lead through the `Jungle Jim` and Monkey bars...

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Ahhhh the good old days

hblair · « **Reply #27 on:** December 06, 2001, 03:22:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Nifty:
Of course, playing "doctor" with the neighborhood girls was my favorite elementary school diversion!

Ahh, yes. The old days of the 'private' medical practice.
Got caught in the closet when I was five with the preachers daughter by the preachers wife. She did not take kindly to my gynecological pursuits.

hblair · « **Reply #28 on:** December 06, 2001, 03:32:00 PM »

Anybody remember the "Sizzler" race cars and track? They were rechargeable and the track didn't have slots. Fun stuff there.

Then there was the "TCR" set. Slotless race cars, first I remember that didn't run off batteries. You could change lanes and the whole bit. We had some cools toys back then huh?

SOB · « **Reply #29 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:00:00 PM »

Star Wars, GI Joes, & Transformers, but the most used had to be the legos.

SOB