Small Scale Military Headquarters

My kids really have taken a liking to these guys. Can't blame them - at their age, I loved my Fisher Price adventure team parachute.

Anyways, my 2 year old found a good use for the parachute. Ends up, if you're busy playing and don't want to go back into the house, they make a really good kleenex.

Maybe that's why TRU keeps ordering these.

Morian Miner wrote:My kids really have taken a liking to these guys. Can't blame them - at their age, I loved my Fisher Price adventure team parachute.

Anyways, my 2 year old found a good use for the parachute. Ends up, if you're busy playing and don't want to go back into the house, they make a really good kleenex.

Maybe that's why TRU keeps ordering these.

Note to self: Don't buy used paratrooper figures from Morian Miner.

Morian Miner wrote:I loved my Fisher Price adventure team parachute.

Hahah I had one of those! And the submarine with the octopus, and van and the helicopter, hang-glider, etc. They all saw some hard use in the sandbox back in my pre-GI Joe days.

Too bad I'll never have kids. Or maybe it's a good thing since they'd bust all my toys.

Rowsdower wrote:
Too bad I'll never have kids. Or maybe it's a good thing since they'd bust all my toys.

You are missing out. Nothing like hearing every time you bring a package in from the front door "now Dad, are you going to share that with me?"

"You don't even know what it is?"

"I know you need to share it with me."

I had the parachute and the boat with crew and shark - was my favorite bathtub toy - not the parachute.



memories -

Years ago when I was into R/C planes I took out of my back workshop a aprx. 1/6 scale Stuka I had just finished . It had about a 80" wingspan. I had it in my front living room and went into the back room and came out later to see my 2 year old son(at the time) riding it like a big wheel. Well, he snaped the fusalage in half right at the cockpit. I was standing there in disbelief when my wife walked in. She looked at me the plane and my son and said well it should not have been in the living room in the first place. Not the same story as the parachute but in the same lines.

The sub was the best bath toy, it had pincers! I never got the boat.

I was a spoild only child and got everything else though. I'm tempted to buy them on Ebay but the thought of them having been in some grubby kids bathtub...eek

moldy bathpee water...

my wife would say the same thing if my kids broke any XD -

I do remember a couple of my favorite childhood toys fondly, and sadly regret that they would never be allowed today. For example, a howitzer, probably about 1/6 scale, that was spring-loaded and could fire a hard plastic shell about 25-30 feet. Or my all-time favorites from age 6 to about 10: Shogun Warriors and a big Godzilla from the same series. The big 2 foot tall versions with missile launchers, flying fists, and launching plastic battle axes. The flying fists would go at least 10 feet and would easily give you a black eye. Factor in that one had a battle axe blade on the wrists with pointed edges... Yeah, they were dangerous. Yeah, my friends and I would have Shogun Warrior wars that left us covered with bruises. But we always had fun! Micronauts were good for powerful missile launchers, too.. None of this "never leaves the launcher" stuff of the 80's.

yeah back in the days when the made realistic toy guns - remember intertech waterguns? they were always a hit at summer camp - I had the UZI - or the water ballon launchers you could buy at WM?
Not the ones that sling a ballon 10 feet they have now -

back in 1994 we were sending balloons through the side of the summercamp cabins - would knock a board loose and rip through the screen windows - could stand on one end of the campground and send water balloon mortars 50-70 yards away - no one had any idea where we were launching them from.
youd have to have the guy holding the balloon and sling elevated on a sturdy wood crate or anything 2-3 feet off the ground - and two others to hold the two ends.

Yep, back in the days when parents said "kids will be kids" and "that'll teach you not to duck" instead of "let's sue!". I remember my mom's reaction when I got a black eye during a Shogun war.
Mom: Were you shooting at each other?
FD: Yes
Mom: Did you try to get out of the way?
FD: No, we were trying to see who was tougher.
Mom: So who won?
FD: Uhhh....
Mom: I thought so. Show some common sense next time.

And yes, there were a lot of these kinds of conversations during my childhood. My dad "let's fire off a black powder cannon in the parking lot after fireworks show" provided WAAAAY too much inspiration. Ahh the stories I could tell...

My favorite GUN toy was a plastic, about 1/6, Gatling Gun that fired BB's repeatedly when the handle was cranked! Made short work of a Lego defense system and any plastic soldiers behind it! And in the tub I had a plastic submarine that would fire torpedoes. Still have the sub after all the years! And the wheels to the Gatling Gun!

My old man bought a deck gun a friend of ours had made... Took it to the firing range, wheeled it out while all the guys at the club just stared at us. We wheeled it to the line, loaded a pop can we filled with cement into it. Aimed it at the far end of the yard and fired it... The impact blew a portion of the hillside apart.

We stood there and just watched what we had done, and the guys at the range just stood with their mouths open at us. Funny as hell.

All the talk of dangerous toys reminds me of the SNL skit with Dan Akyroid... All the recalled toys from that year, like "Bag O Glass", hah.

This is a funny thread.

Me and a couple friends used to shoot water balloons with a 3-man balloon launcher. We aimed it at the people cruizing Main St. at night. We were a block and a half away. They never could tell where they were coming from. The water balloons just came strait down out of the darkness. We never actually hit anything though.

PLEASE tell me SOMEBODY remembers this!!!

back in the late seventies, maybe early 80's (around the time of the NERF flying supermanhero type thinggy) there was a spiderman product that came in a tube, "spideys web" or something like that..??? andy you squeezed the tube on contact with one item, then lifting up, and gently VERY GENTLY keep queezing the tube, and connect your spidey web to another point of contact..and then you could build your own webs..

i cant find anyone my age who remembers this, or "AIR JAMMER" road rammer cars you pumped up with air in a canister, or the cars that ran off of water from a sponge underneath the car...

I remember the air jammer cars, but never had one. I did have a plastcic rocket that you could pump full with air and launch it--it would go up to about 20-25 feet into the air.

All you need these days is mentos and diet coke

My favorite toy as a kid were those huge plastic and metal lawn darts. Heavy enough to throw them a pretty good distance. Dangerous as hell though. My dad took them away after I nearly hit the neighbor's dog right in front of them. Big trouble, great times.

Mark

Ah yes, the infamous Chinese siege darts, designed to be dropped from towers and kites on unsuspecting infantry. Ours got taken away when my stupid cousin wanted to prove he could throw one hard enough to make the tip go all the way into the ground. It did--right through his shoe and the skin between his big and second toes.

I remember the air jammers, and lawn darts - we had those at my grandmother's house - we also had little soft pellet hand guns we would take to school and when the teacher would turn her back about 10 guys would fire at one another point blank range - the class would duck and laugh - when teacher would turn around - she would say what is so funny - as a little yellow BB rolls by her foot.

I remember a large spiderman that could climb a line of string or something -

all time favorite is still the three man balloon laucher


and for real good time fun - when i was a teenager - before paint ball -

BB/pellet gun wars - get yourself safety goggles, mouth guard - used my football mouth piece and a cup, throw on the camo and hours or war/capture the flag in the woods.
and nothing like a pellet to knock you off your feet at a full run - we had a one pump rule - that no one followed.

What gets me is, back in the 80s if you busted your ass doing tricks on your rad Mongoose BMX bike, your mom took you to the ER and called you careless. Nowdays mom takes the kid to the lawyers office and calls him the plaintiff!!

nowadays the doctors call Children's services for lack of supervision...

STUKA wrote:nowadays the doctors call Children's services for lack of supervision...

Lol, of course.