Author Topic: Poll: Your Favorite Toy... (Read 5287 times)

eskimo2 · « **on:** December 06, 2001, 02:17:00 PM »

List and describe your favorite pre-teen (elementary school age) toy:

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.

My cousin (Kraz) had a Verti-Bird. It had a motor and batteries in a base that would twist a 2 foot cable that would turn a real propeller on a little plastic helicopter. You could control the pitch of the chopper as well the power. It could hover, fly around in circles at about 900 mph, or anything in-between. The sound and wind from that thing was so cool.

Later elementary school:
A runner sled. I rode each one to complete destruction (it was either the sled or me).

eskimo

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:25:00 PM »

Anything that had "Estes" or "Cox" printed on it.

skernsk · « **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:27:00 PM »

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.

That was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title of the post

#2 would be the adventure people parachute. throw the dorky adventure people guy away and grab you favorite GI Joe instead. Argyll and I chucked that thing around till our arms fell off. We got the HALO thing down to a science

#3 Those styrofoam airplanes you get at the corner store with the goofy blue propeller.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:29:00 PM »

Contribution: Firecrackers. I cannot think of a prize more sought after during my youth.

Condemnation: This really should be in the O'Club

AKDejaVu

mason22 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:34:00 PM »

firecrackers AND G.I.Joes on a dirt/sand road in east texas.

then came BOOBIES

( . y . )

lazs1 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:39:00 PM »

A High Standard "Sport King" .22 caliber semi auto pistol with extra 10 round clip.
lazs

eskimo2 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:39:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Anything that had "Estes" or "Cox" printed on it.

Rip, that comment just gave me a big'ol woody!

My brother (0osik) used to blow $100 on rockets regularly.

eskimo

sling322 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:40:00 PM »

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Originally posted by skernsk:
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#3 Those styrofoam airplanes you get at the corner store with the goofy blue propeller.[/QB]

I bought one of those at the flight museum this year at the con. Its kinda funny how they have like 8 different models, but they all look alike.

funkedup · « **Reply #8 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:41:00 PM »

Legos

Ripsnort · « **Reply #9 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:42:00 PM »

Dang, forgot about my #1 favorite: BB gun. Red Ryder I believe was the make? Someone help me here....

deSelys · « **Reply #10 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:43:00 PM »

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Originally posted by eskimo2:

...My cousin (Kraz) had a Verti-Bird. It had a motor and batteries in a base that would twist a 2 foot cable that would turn a real propeller on a little plastic helicopter. You could control the pitch of the chopper as well the power. It could hover, fly around in circles at about 900 mph, or anything in-between. The sound and wind from that thing was so cool...

900 mph??...sound and wind should have been awesome indeed

Firecrackers and 3" tall plastic Star Wars characters...I still have the latter somewhere, but most of them bear ugly burn marks

Arlo · « **Reply #11 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:45:00 PM »

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

eddiek · « **Reply #12 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:46:00 PM »

The Evel Knievel deal was one of my favorites too.......used to line it up with my sister's Barbie dolls, crank her up tight and ole Evel became a miniature Hell's Angel, sent Barbie and her wimpy boyfriend Ken flying when I set it loose.

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. Used to move it near my sister and buzz her over and over with it, that is, until I hit her hard head with the rotor and made her cry....then I found out the ship flew too! My dad threw it out the front door, was a week before I was able to sneak it back in the house..

Ripsnort · « **Reply #13 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:46:00 PM »

Ah, missed the "elementary" word...BB gun wasn't til age 8...rockets and planes at 10... At 6 it was Boobies and GI joes (Serious, friend and I found a Playboy mag at age 6, gawked at it for a week, they didn't show much in 1966... hid it in the bushes..then it rained

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eskimo2 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 06, 2001, 02:46:00 PM »

Legos and BB guns!
I used to spend entire days making stuff out of Legos!
Used to spend about an hour a day shooting BB guns as well!

eskimo