Posted on 12/22/2009 5:41:19 PM PST by HospiceNurse
I had that Dream House and just loved it, but today I would rather have the gun.
What a great thread. I read all the comments and I remember all those wonderful toys of the early and mid sixties.
My sister had the Easy Bake Oven and yes I had a Johnny Seven!
Had the Vac-U-Form, and Mattel sold ThingMaker guts which fit the Vac-U-Form heater. My brother got that kit for his birthday when it came out. When we ran out of stuff, (PlastiGoop, styrene sheets) we'd experiment with available stuff (plastic, resins, etc) and get yelled at for stinking the place up. I never thought of polymer chemistry at all at that age,(9) until I was suddenly allowed to have my own production shop.
My brother had one of those helicopters. You could fly over a little fake town or installation and pick up a ring I believe.
Old dude here... yeah I remember that commercial, and man, did I ever want one!
Never got it.
We had tinker toys and my next door neighbor had bunches of Lincoln logs.
Yeah I had a few years when I wanted something special and got socks and pajamas instead.
I googled various toys based on posts here. It’s amazing what I had forgotten!
My best friend used a 1903 springfield stock! :)
Thanks, thecodont! Great link.
And lookee here... they actually have a PICTURE of my white Whirlybird!
Hah! Not only did I get a toy gun for Christmas when I was in first grade, I also bought it in for as the favorite toy I had received that year.
Times have really changed.
Today's plastic could be stronger than the pot metal used in the frames of toy revolvers in the "old days". Could be, might not be in every case.
Remember, today lots of real firearms have considerable plastic in their frames and receivers.
Like this? Mattel Tommy Burp or like this Tommy Burst
Nope! Like this !
Wrong...The add you linked to is typical pussified vanilla crap...Not even within orders of magnitude of the old fashioned masculinity of the 1964 add...
For people who don't like to click on the links, here's the Burp Gun in the packaging.
That one looks like it might have used the same “action” as the Tommy Burp, linked above, but in a “Grease Gun” platform.
My brothers and I had snub-nose cap guns, but they didn’t use paper strip caps. The cylinders swung out like a real gun and you loaded it with a plastic “speed-loader” type of thing that probably held ten or twelve shots. They looked like BB caps, just all joined in a circle.
They would shoot a flame out of the barrel, in the dark, about six inches long.
That was cool.
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