In the spirit of Christmas... your favorite toys as a tot.

[cheechako]

gas powered glow plug engine? a toy for kids.? sounds safe . flying it near some high volt wires would be the perfect spot

I had one of those - not the exact one. You would hold onto a handle with two control lines and fly around in a circle. So, yeah - fly into power lines, the side of a house, or some random neighbor kid... at least that was the theory.

I tried many times on many different days and never, ever got that engine started. The most frustrating toy I ever owned!!! I had much better luck with Estees model missiles... er, model rockets.

 

[SSHZ]

Always my favorite toy while growing up......

 

[eye exaggerate]

When I was a tot, I had the battery powered tot. When I was a teen, I had a big-boy toy - my one and only motorcycle in life:

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...YZ 80 back in the day!

 

[cheechako]

I never had one of these...

 

[eye exaggerate]

I didn't have that but I used to like playing with these

...dude, those were so awesome!

 

[eye exaggerate]

...had a cox engine dune buggy! Those were awesome. 'Cept, sometimes I used the gas for other purposes, but hey, the town needed some excitement

 

[cheechako]

...had a cox engine dune buggy! Those were awesome. 'Cept, sometimes I used the gas for other purposes, but hey, the town needed some excitement

That reminds me:


Lighting the end of the cardboard box (while full) is really neat. It was almost natural that we thought wrapping a bunch in duct tape with one as a fuse would produce similar results. No, kids, do NOT try that at home.

 

[cannabineer]

All i had was the old, yellow masking tape. When that smolders, the smell is unique. cn

 

[HotCheetos]

Man, fireworks laws changed in the 1960s but even in the 90s as a kid were we scoring PRIMO stuff. It is hard to get the really impressive, high explosive stuff.

Giant bottle rockets that started and finished off with flash power M80 quality reports. I can't find 'em any more. We'd light a few backwards down beer bottles and throw 'em at things. Good 'ol Longneck grenade. Shit, bottle rockets hardly even pop off nowadays. Or a really good whistler salute or buzz bomb that truly is a BOMB. I don't know where they all went.

Kids these days are getting ripped off with plastic cap covered fugazi salutes THAT DON'T EVEN BLOW UP THE KRAFT TUBING! Are you KIDDING ME?! A good M-80 back in the day, even as little as about 10 years ago, would blow up a melon like a Gallagher mallet.

Where did all the good cherry bombs and silver torpedos go? I mean a good, real cherry bomb, hard as a rock, pocket change fragmentation grenades. Not your goddamn ping pong ball and cardboard nonsense, a cherry bomb! If you don't use sawdust and a ball mill, it isn't a cherry bomb.

God are kids getting RIPPED OFF these days.

 

[fdd2blk]

Man, fireworks laws changed in the 1960s but even in the 90s as a kid were we scoring PRIMO stuff. It is hard to get the really impressive, high explosive stuff.

Giant bottle rockets that started and finished off with flash power M80 quality reports. I can't find 'em any more. We'd light a few backwards down beer bottles and throw 'em at things. Good 'ol Longneck grenade. Shit, bottle rockets hardly even pop off nowadays. Or a really good whistler salute or buzz bomb that truly is a BOMB. I don't know where they all went.

Kids these days are getting ripped off with plastic cap covered fugazi salutes THAT DON'T EVEN BLOW UP THE KRAFT TUBING! Are you KIDDING ME?! A good M-80 back in the day, even as little as about 10 years ago, would blow up a melon like a Gallagher mallet.

Where did all the good cherry bombs and silver torpedos go? I mean a good, real cherry bomb, hard as a rock, pocket change fragmentation grenades. Not your goddamn ping pong ball and cardboard nonsense, a cherry bomb! If you don't use sawdust and a ball mill, it isn't a cherry bomb.

God are kids getting RIPPED OFF these days.

some kids where lighting smoke bombs in a field behind a neighbors house in my town a few years back. the grass caught fire and the house burnt down. they IMMEDIATELY outlawed all fire works. over 1 incident. as if nobody who owns a home has insurance.

and then there was the whole "lawn dart" incident. we used to play those all the time. we'd actually TRY to hit each other. we also used to shoot arrows straight up in the air and see how close we could get them to land to us when they came back down. ah, the good ol' days.

 

[eye exaggerate]

All i had was the old, yellow masking tape. When that smolders, the smell is unique. cn

...masking or electrical tape, matches, and a place to run to Sulfur smoke bombs were, in retrospect, iffy

 

[cannabineer]

I improved my formula from "iffy" to whiffy. 35 years later and my sister is still furious. cn

 

[ArcticGranite]

This thread rocks- thanks. A walk down memory lane to simpler times.

Creepy Crawlers. Incredible Edibles too. Can't believe my folks let me use such an intense heat source. Can't believe I used to eat the edibles. They tasted bad to me but I still ate them.

 

[cannabineer]

Sweet mother of Jeff; my elder sister had Creepy Crawlers. One birthday she got a huge bottle of glow-in-the-dark Plastigoop. cn

 

[gioua]

Sweet mother of Jeff; my elder sister had Creepy Crawlers. One birthday she got a huge bottle of glow-in-the-dark Plastigoop. cn

WOW... now that is a trip... thats the entire setup with plates and all.. as a kid we only got to see this on tv and in the stores never knew anyone with this...

 

[guitarjamman]

Swamp Thing...

And also whatever this was:

 

[joeyjoejoe]

simon always won

we had super soaker parties at peoples houses

the rich kids had these

i was armed only with one of these and some water ballons

 

[TigerClock]

 

[joeyjoejoe]

still fun to this day(glow in the dark of course)

 

[srh88]

im not a tot anymore but i think scooby gave me one of my favorite gifts ever..

but really..

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