Best Toy you got as a kid, that wasn't a video game

outofyourmind said:
Had a lot of cap guns

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Found a new version of that, made out of bright orange plastic. Bought it for my son so he could experience the joy. Piece of junk doesn't even work. The plastic can't get enough friction to feed up the caps. Some day I'll find my old one at my parents place. I know they have it and it's in good shape. Shot quite a few times then put away when my brother used it as a hammer against my head.
 
fordman84 said:
haha, oh yeah those were great. But I still enjoyed lining up a row of the paper caps, finding a nice pointy rock, and seeing how many caps you could set off in one swipe.
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I once used a fingernail to pop a cap.

I do not advise.

Left a perfect black half-circle in my skin right below the nail. It eventually pussed up and scabbed over but took forever to heal because I kept using my finger
 
Hu War Yu said:
I once used a fingernail to pop a cap.

I do not advise.

Left a perfect black half-circle in my skin right below the nail. It eventually pussed up and scabbed over but took forever to heal because I kept using my finger
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Ouch. Dumbest we ever did was peel the paper apart to pile all of the dots together into one mega-cap. Didn't work. Just wasted an entire roll of caps.
 
fordman84 said:
Ouch. Dumbest we ever did was peel the paper apart to pile all of the dots together into one mega-cap. Didn't work. Just wasted an entire roll of caps.
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We were pretty stupid sometimes. I think people like me and my brothers were the reason they recalled so many toys from that era. We got our Daisies taken away after the first time we shot each other. I got one brother in the back of the head, and another brother got me in the forehead. Bled like a mofo.

After that we learned not to aim at the head.
 
Hu War Yu said:
We were pretty stupid sometimes. I think people like me and my brothers were the reason they recalled so many toys from that era. We got our Daisies taken away after the first time we shot each other. I got one brother in the back of the head, and another brother got me in the forehead. Bled like a mofo.

After that we learned not to aim at the head.
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Hell in college my buddies and I went to his lake house and we would take turns tearing ass around his dirt-road neighborhood while the rest of us sat on the porch and tried to shoot him with our plinker BB guns. All we had were sunglasses for protection. It was all fun and games until one of the dipshits "misunderstood" the rules and though we could only shoot people when they were between the telephone poles marking the edge of their yard. The rule was you could shoot them anywhere BUT when they were between them since it was a pretty close shot. That moron went on to serve in the Pentagon for Obama and Trump. :L
 
PackJason said:
And these things were awesome. No one even got killed.

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“After many reports of accidents, injuries, and deaths related to the use of such darts, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission eventually banned the product in December 1988.

Kind of an interesting read.

inthe1980s.com

Jarts: The Banned Lawn Darts Game | In the 1980s

Jarts was an outdoor lawn darts game that dates back to the 1950s. It was a family-oriented game but due to various accidents, it became banned in the '80s.
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RobBase Drinks 60 Eggs A Week said:
“After many reports of accidents, injuries, and deaths related to the use of such darts, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission eventually banned the product in December 1988.

Kind of an interesting read.

inthe1980s.com

Jarts: The Banned Lawn Darts Game | In the 1980s

Jarts was an outdoor lawn darts game that dates back to the 1950s. It was a family-oriented game but due to various accidents, it became banned in the '80s.
inthe1980s.com inthe1980s.com
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Well, none of my family were dumb enough to get killed, anyway.
 
When I was 9 for Christmas I got a quality pair of binoculars, I loved them so much! It was almost like magic to me at first. I still had them as a young adult. By far my favorite gift ever.
 
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