Toys from your youth

[Mustaine]

Fav character from fav toy growing up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Shadow_(G.I._Joe)

[Rino]

     I remember this one....



     and this one is now almost impossible to find

[WMLute]

The toy I can't seem to find a picture of (and i've seen one recently somewhere durn it) was a large WW2 era aircraft carrier.

It had these little foam f4u's and you would pull this lever on it to launch the planes.

I LOVED that thing.

[Rino]

The toy I can't seem to find a picture of (and i've seen one recently somewhere durn it) was a large WW2 era aircraft carrier.

It had these little foam f4u's and you would pull this lever on it to launch the planes.

I LOVED that thing.

     My brother and I used to have little wars with a cruiser that shot missiles and aircraft and a little
tank you could ride that shot those little white plastic bullets from it's cannon.  Used to drive my parents
nuts stepping on all that plastic aftermath 

[TOMCAT21]

I know what your talking about , lute..It was made by Mattel

[SunBat]

We used to get those little green soldiers and set them up in the dirt out in the barn and shoot at them with our BB guns from up in the hay loft.  It was hours and hours of fun. 

Another thing that I used to love to do was draw little stick figure airplanes dogfighting each other.  I would sketch them in different positions as they moved around the page fighting each other.  Sometimes when nobody can see, I still do that in meetings when I am bored.   

[Masherbrum]

The toy I can't seem to find a picture of (and i've seen one recently somewhere durn it) was a large WW2 era aircraft carrier.

It had these little foam f4u's and you would pull this lever on it to launch the planes.

I LOVED that thing.

My brother had it.   I believe it was called "Attack Carrier w/ 2 Flying Ace planes".    They were Hogs.   Yes, it was Mattel.


My favorite would have to be my still in a garbage bag "Cobra Rattler" or "Optimus Prime".    But then, I think of the fun my brother and I had playing this:



We'd double up rubber bands on the Crossbows, etc.   

[SunBat]

The toy I can't seem to find a picture of (and i've seen one recently somewhere durn it) was a large WW2 era aircraft carrier.

It had these little foam f4u's and you would pull this lever on it to launch the planes.

I LOVED that thing.

Weren't they yellow corsairs?  I vaguely remember them I think.

[Reschke]

The toy I can't seem to find a picture of (and i've seen one recently somewhere durn it) was a large WW2 era aircraft carrier.

It had these little foam f4u's and you would pull this lever on it to launch the planes.

I LOVED that thing.

Oh heck yeah I remember that thing. I also had some of the foam F-15's and some other jets that you could launch off of slingshot type things. You could set the wings in place and I think it was called "1975 Mattle Model#9375, Attack Carrier Flag Ship w/2 flying ace planes"...got that off another board just a minute ago. http://www.megomuseum.com/community/showthread.php?t=7192

I had tons of airplanes that launched off the carriers too. I wonder if my parents still have that thing in the shop??? They kept all kinds of junk from that time when I was a kid.

[Anodizer]

What about this?

Or better yet.....

I had the home version, plus I had a membership at one of their facilities..

[Treize69]

[Anodizer]

     I remember this one....

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     and this one is now almost impossible to find

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I had the helicopter..  I think it was called the Whirly-Bird playset or something..  It had a little hook and you could try and pick up things with it..

And the water-rocket was awesome..  They sold them at the Ice-Cream shop up the street.  We used to go on little sprees and launch these the whole day..
We tried to get a few to explode by over pumping them..  But they just sprung leaks..  I launched one at a car once and this dude chased me through
backyards until I sneaked into a neighbors garage and hid there until he was gone..  

[Treize69]

How much money do you think the average AHer wasted on wind up balsa airplanes in his or her youth?



I still get a few of these every summer. For my "nephew".

[Elfie]

Tonka trucks.

[DrDea]