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.
Anyone else remember a bazooka like toy that shot a ball of air?
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.
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
The one I had shot ping pong balls...
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.
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.
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.”
Oh he’ll yea I remember that one,I loved that thing.
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.
“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.
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
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.
I had one too. So did my brother. Great toy.
Yep, I think that’s the one.
I think they all made a firing noise, too.
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.
Back in the 60’s my cousin got one of the coolest Christmas gifts ever. A Johnny Rebel cannon
Are those toy guns with built in radios?
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.
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.
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