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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: mware; w1n1

here’s a Johnny Reb Cannon for sale on eBay for only $197.50:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1961-Remco-Johnny-Reb-Cannon-and-Ramrod-/231641452981?hash=item35eee811b5:g:5cMAAOSwPcVVv5uu


41 posted on 12/23/2015 12:44:09 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
My dad taught me muzzle consciousness with toy guns.
Playing cops and robbers was just another lesson on it.
That is the purpose of toy guns to me.
42 posted on 12/23/2015 12:50:33 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I had the M16 too, It was one of the most memorable gifts I ever received.
43 posted on 12/23/2015 12:52:41 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Gee, and “Argosy” used to be such a relatively classy pulp mag in the olden days.


44 posted on 12/23/2015 12:55:54 PM PST by greene66
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To: catnipman

If I had my old Mattel I’d offer to trade you for your real one.


45 posted on 12/23/2015 12:56:16 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Sybeck1

Agreed. I’m heavily invested in Nerf guns (for my kids! Really!)

Pride and joy is the belt-fed Vulcan Nerf machine gun. 6 D-cell batteries, fires at a rate of about 130 rounds/darts per minute.

The beauty of the Nerf stuff is that there are plenty of people who post modifications on increasing firing rate and distance online. One guy jacked an RC car battery into his Vulcan and got it up to 500 rounds per minute.


46 posted on 12/23/2015 1:12:39 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: w1n1

And to think, we used to go out and play with this stuff in the street and in the woods, and never a worry about gettin’ shot by the cops. (Not the cops’ fault - but the world has moved on.)


47 posted on 12/23/2015 1:21:25 PM PST by Mr Radical
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To: w1n1

I had one. It was great.


48 posted on 12/23/2015 1:22:08 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Bratch

I had the Fanner 50.


49 posted on 12/23/2015 1:22:49 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: dhs12345

“We gave him a jumbo size container of bbs which he used up in a couple of days. “

I just hope he didn’t shoot his eye out! :-)


50 posted on 12/23/2015 1:50:20 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: PLMerite

“Don’t know what happened to it after that.”

Mom probably made dad throw it away.


51 posted on 12/23/2015 1:54:17 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: tumblindice

“Or at least don’t bring it home.”

I believe that’s the line of the year on FR.


52 posted on 12/23/2015 1:55:44 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: PROCON

Har!


53 posted on 12/23/2015 1:57:52 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: catnipman

No. Lol. But the squirrels knew to avoid our backyard. The bbs are plastic these days and although they will won’t kill or maim will hurt a bit. Shredded the paper targets. The kids would have gun fights in the park. With protective glasses of course. Don’t want to put an eye out!


54 posted on 12/23/2015 2:18:42 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: greene66
Wrong magazine. I have it before me right now. It is NEW MAN October, 1967


55 posted on 12/23/2015 2:45:05 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: massgopguy

I had the Mattel Tommy gun and the Man from Uncle set, that must be why I’m so disturbed.


56 posted on 12/23/2015 3:06:05 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Ah, yes. What a genre. I have one example buried deep in some nook around here somewhere, from maybe about 1965. I recall that coffee-table book that came out, documenting the various covers, but never got it. Perhaps a tad too tawdry for my tastes. Although I love the older pulp covers, sporting the old Norman Saunders style of cover art. Not that some of the 1930s horror pulp covers didn’t get a bit too tackily gruesome at times as well. I have a few issues of “Dime Mystery” and “Terror Tales,” but their covers are luckily not ‘too’ tasteless.


57 posted on 12/23/2015 4:14:00 PM PST by greene66
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To: greene66

***but their covers are luckily not ‘too’ tasteless.***

I have the coffee table book (IT’S A MAN’S WORLD).

http://javasbachelorpad.com/itsamansworld.html

It is great and some of the info, such as the claim that a purchaser of a magazine took four seconds to glance over all those offered, so the covers had to reach out and “grab” his attention.


58 posted on 12/23/2015 4:26:03 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yep, I think that’s the one.

Still have a preference for the older pulp era, though. Although I guess the “Spicy” pulps could have been technically considered a precursor to the ‘men’s adventure’ mags. But the “Spicy’s” hotsy-totsy qualities still seem to refreshingly reek of a pre-Hugh Hefner worldview.


59 posted on 12/23/2015 4:33:04 PM PST by greene66
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To: w1n1

Isn’t this a Mainway product, like the Sac’O’Glass and the Sac’O’Nails?......


60 posted on 12/23/2015 8:53:19 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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