Attracting more players in the main arena or what ever it's called today.

[waystin2]

Exactly my experience too.   I ran a string from a tree and sent a Mitchell down the string after setting it on fire with some gasoline.  My mom came and caught me.  Not too interested in the drama I was trying to create!

The thrill is still alive and well!

 

LOL Don't forget firecrackers!  I thought I was the only firebug on the block!   

[OldNitro]

And Testors model glue, worked like Napalm!

[Shuffler]

And Testors model glue, worked like Napalm!

Exactly... green army men, jeeps, tanks, all out by the fire pit. Set them up with a few dobs of glue. Thump matches at them and the war is on.

[1stpar3]

  Launching bottle rockets off them or putting them in exhaust...was even pretty cool when they "Popped". Yes, I forgot about that. Eh, was all good...he got shot down Gi Joe's and Green army men HATED ME   Also,No Sis...no idea what happened to your RC Barbie Jeep My love of bombing GVs was Early Onset AH Addiction

[waystin2]

Laughing and remembering this stuff is great! 

[The Fugitive]

Laughing and remembering this stuff is great! 

This could be the biggest reason the game has such low numbers. That kind of "activity" just isnt the norm any more. I know my kids never bothered to build models.... just the one time when we made it a family fun day... even tho I have been building models for years and even have a specially built "closet" that opens to become a "work station" for building models. The kids never took it up.

Today is more video games for kids "living" those adventures where we spent our time making those adventures. Once the computer game came along we dove in and have made it a part of our lives. The next generation has always had that opertunaty to disappear INTO those worlds.

[TequilaChaser]

This could be the biggest reason the game has such low numbers. That kind of "activity" just isnt the norm any more. I know my kids never bothered to build models.... just the one time when we made it a family fun day... even tho I have been building models for years and even have a specially built "closet" that opens to become a "work station" for building models. The kids never took it up.

Today is more video games for kids "living" those adventures where we spent our time making those adventures. Once the computer game came along we dove in and have made it a part of our lives. The next generation has always had that opertunaty to disappear INTO those worlds.

I have an S-3A Viking  AMT/Ertl  Wings Aviation Collection Model, I have had for nearly 30 years, been sitting and waiting to build, but now with my physical condition with Cervical Spinal Stenosis at the C7 & T1 Vertbra, my motor skills/hands would make it very hard for me to put together the way I used to build them... also, need to find the decals of the VS-24 squadron I was in, to make it like I want it....it has VS-35 decals

got any ideas? or want to assemble it for me.....I still have my air brush setup but figured all my paints, et have long been dried up/ruined.... first model car was age 4 50 Ford Tudor, then came B-17G, P-40, P-51, F6f-3 and about a 4' x 4' x 4' cardboard box loaded to the top with model planes ...that's where they ended up after setting on fire, army men blowed up, tanks and stuff blowed up, set on fire....

Dad told at 9 yrs old, that if I wanted anymore models, I would have to use my Tobacco priming/tractor driving money to get them....that he did not buy them for me to build, then destroy playing war..rofl

TC

[CptTrips]

Dad told at 9 yrs old, that if I wanted anymore models, I would have to use my Tobacco priming/tractor driving money to get them....that he did not buy them for me to build, then destroy playing war..rofl

LoL.  It's funny what first hooks us.

For me it was seeing the movie "The Great Waldo Pepper".  I loved that movie and became fascinated with WWI aircraft and read everything in the library I could find on WWI air combat.  I built a big cool model of a Sopwith Camel.  Rigging those dang bracing wires was a B*TCH!  I wouldn't dare destroy it.  It hung from my ceiling until probably maybe my sophmore/junior year in high school.  Then I noticed girls and lost interest in that airplane stuff for many years. 

About a year or so later, "Baa baa Blacksheep" came on tv and I like that too. 

I guess that's why my first love was always WWI, but WWII is a close second.

 

[Condor]

I used to stage battles with my plastic models also which usually culminated in burning one or two. In the winter I would do it in the basement where my mom hanged the laundry to dry. Guess where all the soot particles ended up. My backside still hurts thinking about it more than 60 years later. :e

[AKKuya]

You get some Snap Tite ships.  Once built, place in a bathtub filled with water for them to float.  Then, get a BB gun and take turns playing "Battleship" for real.

[ccvi]

You get some Snap Tite ships.  Once built, place in a bathtub filled with water for them to float.  Then, get a BB gun and take turns playing "Battleship" for real.

But... then nothing burns   

[Shuffler]

But... then nothing burns   

Only way for naval battles is glue on ship for fire. Bottle rockets fired in water. Makes explosions and creates fog/most on water.
Must be done outside on quite day, no wind.

[1stpar3]

Only way for naval battles is glue on ship for fire. Bottle rockets fired in water. Makes explosions and creates fog/most on water.
Must be done outside on quite day, no wind.

Used sisters "baby Pool"...DID NOT KNOW an M 80..depth charges, would blow holes in bottom and sides I do now...Mom and Dad BOTH got me for that one Missed every boat I had in it too. Was still fun, blistered back side heals and I had a short memory span I found one of my planes, an F5 TigerShark(still have several been moved 100 times since built) both engine and exhaust areas are melted! Missing part of wing underside panel also. Figure the bottle rocket must have went pop and took it out  If memory serves, I put Model Rocket engines in that one? The "Chute Charge" in them caused the front engine melting? Pretty sure that one flew for a bit

[Meatwad]

I had a lot of model rockets and liked to experiment with the motors. Took one rocket and jammed it full of motors and ignited it. Went up and went poof in a glorious way, motors went shooting all over the place in the air. Still not sure of what they hit

Out of rockets (for some reason) and found a nice D motor. Being smart I found a metal pipe and decided to play ICBM. It did fly......went up slow, turned to the side, and shot straight into the garage. Put a hole right through the wall 

[hitech]

Maybe that first part ...."HTC has never been big on advertising." should have been "HTC has never seen a good return on advertising".

Once again you are incorrect. We saw a good return on TV and were running adds continually for many years. I have posted previously about advertising that didn't work, only to point out that find something that does works is not a simple task. We tried many forms of advertising before we found something that worked.

HiTech