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

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Had one of these too. But it never officially flew. I wanted my Dad to assist but couldn't wait.

So I hooked up all the strings to the controller and took it out in the back yard thinking I'd spin around and let centrifugal force keep it airborne.

Made 2 turns and it crash landed. Those fix landing gear legs stuck and it cartwheeled, braking the right wing off right inside the landing strut.

Not structurally sound enough to fly after that.
 
PackJason said:
And these things were awesome. No one even got killed.

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Yep! And WITHOUT all those stoopid "obvious warnings" printed on the box.

You know... like "DON'T throw these at other kid's heads" or "these tips are sharp and may make painful holes in other people's bodies", etc etc... :heh:
 
Hank Kingsley said:

Had one of these too. But it never officially flew. I wanted my Dad to assist but couldn't wait.

So I hooked up all the strings to the controller and took it out in the back yard thinking I'd spin around and let centrifugal force keep it airborne.

Made 2 turns and it crash landed. Those fix landing gear legs stuck and it cartwheeled, braking the right wing off right inside the landing strut.

Not structurally sound enough to fly after that.
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I had a Sprite airplane and I did the exact same thing to it.

I don't even remember where I got it, maybe sent off for it.

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outofyourmind said:
I was into the Estes Rockets.
Lost more than I recovered.


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We had Jet-X engines. Little solid fuel units.

We'd strap them to a Hot Wheels car and let it rip. A Deora had a nice flat rear deck to strap it to.

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Prolly the best gift i got as a kid was the daisy pump bb gun. I had it a few season and shot so many mice and rats at the burn pile. That was some fun times. The pump was kick ass cause you could juice it up.

I lost it one year ... then found it the next year in the woods. It was weathered and wouldn't hold air after that. :pout:I ain't been right since.
 
dikowt dowg said:
Prolly the best gift i got as a kid was the daisy pump bb gun. I had it a few season and shot so many mice and rats at the burn pile. That was some fun times. The pump was kick ass cause you could juice it up.

I lost it one year ... then found it the next year in the woods. It was weathered and wouldn't hold air after that. :pout:I ain't been right since.
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I actually had a daisy, but not a pump one, the kind you cocked once with the trigger guard, and then fired.
 
outofyourmind said:
I was into the Estes Rockets.
Lost more than I recovered.


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I think every kid into rockets got started with one of these


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outofyourmind said:
I was into the Estes Rockets.
Lost more than I recovered.


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I got right into those. I didn't get them as gifts though. My folks were not into them so it wasn't till I had some money before I got those going. I launched insects...i sent some stuff into space. I learned if they went up too high, by the time they got back down to earth, they were miles away. Other times I burned up the parachutes during one of the stages and well..that never ended well.

But back then we had those hobby stores in town where you could buy those rockets and get help on how to build them. They also had model cars we glued together and painted, those airplanes attached to strings we used to fly in circles. Then it was remote airplanes.

Man...how times have changed. You can still get stuff, but a store where some dude helped get you going ... that shit is dead.
 
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This was a mindless toy. You could throw it down as hard as you could and watch it rocket way the fuck up.

But I liked going to this concrete wall/ceiling alcove at the bottom of our highschool. You'd throw the ball on one bounce against the wall and get out of the way as it bounced about.
 
dikowt dowg said:
Prolly the best gift i got as a kid was the daisy pump bb gun. I had it a few season and shot so many mice and rats at the burn pile. That was some fun times. The pump was kick ass cause you could juice it up.

I lost it one year ... then found it the next year in the woods. It was weathered and wouldn't hold air after that. :pout:I ain't been right since.
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Had to buy it myself, does that count? It's my first line of home defence.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
These were way more fun than banging off caps with a hammer or rock.

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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.
 
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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If I was feeling rich, I'd get a whole roll and whack it with a sledgehammer.
 
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