Posted on 12/23/2015 10:45:28 AM PST by w1n1
Blast from the past a rare early 60's tv commercial for Mattel's Tommy Burst submachine gun detective set. Maybe somebody still have this hidden in their attic.
The detective set comes with the Tommy submachine gun, shoulder holster, snub-nose 38 and an ID badge.
Go here to see this classic commercial from Mattel.
And you won’t even shoot your eye out!
Just the thought of a child playing with a toy gun gives liberals the vapors. I have my daughter shooting an AR-15 (when she was 9, no less) as my background screen at home.
Damn I had one of those. That Thompson was cool.
I wanted one of these so badly that when I (naturally) didn’t get one, I went down to my wood shop (I was about 11 years old) and made two life-sized wooden ones (with the drum, even) so that my younger brother and I could have machine gun fights, a la “The Untouchables”. If I could have only one thing back I had as a kid, it would be these two wooden machine guns I made then.
Of course, now I have two of the real thing (full auto Thompsons, not Tommy Bursts), so that does take a bit of the sting off.
I remember my first toy gun from around 1950. It was made by a neighbor and looked like a Thompson smg with a drum magazine. cut from a board.
My next set were pistols bought in Springer NM. A two gun cap set bought at Macroon’s store! 1951!
Back then no one batted an eye when a kid played with one.
Is that The Man from Uncle set?
I also had a "Fanner 50"
and a "Johnny Seven OMA".
That thing has a grenade launcher, it’s on the assault weapon ban list.
Yes, used to own it.
VTG RARE 1964 MATTEL ZERO M TOMMY BURST CAP GUN WITH RED EYE SCOPE MCMLX
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-RARE-1964-MATTEL-ZERO-M-TOMMY-BURST-CAP-GUN-WITH-RED-EYE-SCOPE-MCMLX-/121844592777?hash=item1c5e80f089
Best Christmas gifts EVER!!
You did not grow up with Mattel. Anyone who did knows why that little hole is in the butt of the pistol, and what Greenie Stickum caps were for. It actually shot. Not very far or well, but... About .30 cal brass case with a stout spring, and a grey plastic bullet.
In fact I wore that rig to my Aunt Dorothy & Uncle Ed's for Christmas dinner. (Apparently, it was makeup for not being able to wear it to church, the only other time I normally wore a suit jacket or blazer.) First time I ran into Hoplophobia, and gun free zones.
I’d bid but I am broke because of Christmas.
Besides Amazon had replacement jeep fenders on sale.
This is the AK-47 toy my kid got from Santa last year.
There was a set of three rifles I remember from the 60s. There was a lever-action western rifle and a hunting rifle with scope and an M-16.
I had the Monkey Patrol set. It even had a “Bouncing Betty” booby trap.
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