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Mattel Tommy Burst Machine Gun Set
AShooting Journal ^ | 12/23/2015 | J Hines

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.



TOPICS: History; Hobbies; Humor
KEYWORDS: submachinegun; tommygun; toys
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To: w1n1

Anyone else remember a bazooka like toy that shot a ball of air?


21 posted on 12/23/2015 11:17:19 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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To: w1n1

I had the Secret Sam Attache Case. You could press a button to snap a picture or shoot the gun from a hole in the case.


22 posted on 12/23/2015 11:18:23 AM PST by drjimmy
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To: w1n1
Good stuff win1

When my Dad was a little boy, he and all his friends would go to the Saturday morning 'picture show' with their cap guns.

The first time the bad guy would come on the screen, all these kids would jump up and fire their cap pistols......ha

23 posted on 12/23/2015 11:24:04 AM PST by djone (Boasters are seldom seen on the battlefeild....)
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To: CrazyIvan
' a bazooka like toy that shot a ball of air'

The one I had shot ping pong balls...

24 posted on 12/23/2015 11:25:38 AM PST by djone (Boasters are seldom seen on the battlefeild....)
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To: w1n1

Me and my cousins David and Stevie would make rubber band guns from a piece of wood and a clothes pin. All day gun battles there.

Man, I’m old.

David made a double-barreled rubber band gun by attaching two clothes pins to a piece of wood.

I found out the hard way about weapons escalation. I thought I had him after he shot a rubber band at me and missed. I came charging in to get him and he shot me in the forehead with his second rubber band. I was astonished more than hurt.

Older cousins teach you the hard lessons when you don’t have an older brother.


25 posted on 12/23/2015 11:25:51 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: catnipman

The bb guns these days are pretty cool. My son has an AK 47 replica that is full auto. We gave it to him a couple for xmas a couple of years ago. We gave him a jumbo size container of bbs which he used up in a couple of days. Bbs all over the backyard. Lol.


26 posted on 12/23/2015 11:25:54 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: CrazyIvan

There was a gun toy that fired pingpong balls by compression.

Dad taught me how to use a jigsaw & I made wooden guns that used rubber bands cut from an innertube.

Much later in Vietnam we made `mini mortars’ from 7.62mm tracer & also .50 cal tracer. Kabooms followed by yuks.

“The difference between men and boys....., etc.”


27 posted on 12/23/2015 11:27:24 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: CrazyIvan

Oh he’ll yea I remember that one,I loved that thing.


28 posted on 12/23/2015 11:27:30 AM PST by crosdaddy
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To: w1n1

My neighbor had one of those Tommy guns. It would chew through a roll of caps pretty darned quick and generated a respectable amount of smoke.


29 posted on 12/23/2015 11:29:00 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: blueunicorn6

“and an M-16.”

Red `flash-hider’ that went back-and-forth and a `bolt’ you pulled to give yourself about 20 shot noises?
I had one of those.

My ten year old buddies and I played `Combat’ in the piney woods, red dirt of Ft. Benning, off Auger Avenue, with our Mattels.
Our parents would tell us, “If you see any unexploded ordnance, don’t pick it up.” Or at least don’t bring it home.
Yeah, like we had to be told.
We knew a kid who went out on the mortar range and picked up a `dud’. That was all she wrote for him.


30 posted on 12/23/2015 11:32:00 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: w1n1

Toy guns are not dead. Check out these Max Action toys:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdnd_gtXgYXYEYlONXTGjaw

My boy has kept them in business for years


31 posted on 12/23/2015 11:32:43 AM PST by Sybeck1 (John Hardy Allen 10-6-44 - 11-23-15)
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To: Bratch; w1n1

I also had a Fanner 50. I think I eventually gave it to a younger cousin when I was in high school. And had the Thompson sub-machine gun, but the one with the “50 round drum” that had a noise maker in it that sounded like it was firing. One pulled back a ‘bolt’ on the right side.


32 posted on 12/23/2015 11:35:49 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I had one too. So did my brother. Great toy.


33 posted on 12/23/2015 11:39:18 AM PST by WhirlwindAttack ( The gun doesn't care how you feel about it)
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To: tumblindice

Yep, I think that’s the one.

I think they all made a firing noise, too.


34 posted on 12/23/2015 11:41:46 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: w1n1

Did it take a roll of perforated caps?

I had something like that when I was little. I got my finger stuck in the feed mechanism and when my father got home he had to take the thing apart to get my finger out. Don’t know what happened to it after that.


35 posted on 12/23/2015 11:51:24 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: w1n1

Back in the 60’s my cousin got one of the coolest Christmas gifts ever. A Johnny Rebel cannon


36 posted on 12/23/2015 11:53:24 AM PST by mware
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To: mware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1O5ny7Q1g


37 posted on 12/23/2015 11:58:10 AM PST by mware
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are those toy guns with built in radios?


38 posted on 12/23/2015 12:39:41 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: blueunicorn6

I have a book of cover art from men’s adventure magazines from the 1960s. One shows a soldier under fire with an M-16, being tended by a buxom nurse, while the VC storm the wires.

The M-16 shown is an exact copy of a Mattel toy M-16, complete with all the errors.


39 posted on 12/23/2015 12:42:49 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Boogieman

They’re from the old show “The Man from UNCLE” in the 1960’s. They’re supposed to be a camera, a radio and a film camera.


40 posted on 12/23/2015 12:43:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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