Toys from your youth

[Sox62]

I had one of these.

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SST cars.

 

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I used to play with these...they are called "sticks".

and if you combine them with stones, they can break your bones. 

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What about this?

Wow, Laser Tag, I had almost forgotten about that, I had that when I was about 9, that was probably one of my favorite toys when I was a kid.  My gun stopped working after about a year though, still had the vest and sensor up until a few years ago, but I threw them away.

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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.

I remember those! They were damn near the length of a coffee table.
Never got one but always wanted one.
Thew kid next door had one we used to play with all the time.

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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.   

Ya still make the little machine gun sounds when you draw the bullets too right? LOL

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

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

My best friend and I gave up buying the ones in the little plastic bag.
We just bought the balsa wood and designed our own.

Many many hours doing that

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I was a little old for this one. buy my buddies kid brother had one that he used to ride around like a nut on the cul de sac we lived on. riding it as fast as he could and then spin out doing doughnuts.
I still laugh when I think of the insane expression on that little kid riding that thing
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[Nilsen]

I was hooked on lego for a decade (or dare i say 3  ). No end to what you could make  Only other things that interested me for awhile was Star Wars DOLLS and their rides hehe. Still have many in mint condition around.

[WMLute]

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.

no, it wasn't hand held, it was too large to hold. 

I just saw on a toy bbs that mattel made hand held, and a larger carrier.

and the F4U that I remember was light blue...

crud, now I gota find it.

(edit: FOUND IT!  Flying Aces Carrier! Woot!)

[Chalenge]

Baseball bat and glove basketball and a bike until I was ten when I got a rifle and a chemistry set a telescope and an archery set. Toys?  

[DiabloTX]

http://www.hotbirdsplanes.com/

That's the one I'm most fond of.  Well, before Star Wars...then it was nothing but Star Wars toys.

[SWrokit]

Used to play this for hours on end.  Eventually upgraded to the electronic version (high end) which was nothing more than a noise maker lol.



Then there's Jarts.  Great game.  Banned in the US and Canada I think in the 80's for obvious reasons.  My brother and I didn't help fight the ban when we would sharpened the tips and use the cats and dogs for artillery practise    (Damn we took a beating for that  )

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[Rich46yo]