[william clark]

Don’t forget the Johnny Seven OMA and the Electro-Shot Shooting Gallery.

[lovesdogs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeilikDkkx8&feature=related

Creepy crawlers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43UU0RBLXNs&feature=related

head shrinker kit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqd5EQXD-g&feature=related

tommy burst mattel toy machine gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCrWk96DMHs&feature=related

marx shooting gallery toy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rAiii4LA3k

Suzy homemaker toys

Sorry about the links.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Ah, were is so easy to make liberals heads explode!

[SeeSharp]

I had a chemistry set that came with a collection of acids that I doubt even adults could buy today.

[guitarplayer1953]

My wife learned to burn food on the Susie home maker oven. I use to tell the joke of my wife's first meal that she cooked for me before we were married 20 years ago. I would tell people that she treated me like a god and served me burnt offerings of chicken.

[SnakeDoctor]

SnakeDoc

[justlurking]

I had the Creepy Crawlers kit. It was great fun.

I also had one of these:

I wish I still had it: it's reportedly worth quite a bit if in good condition.

[frithguild]

[circlecity]

That Marx Shooting Gallery was one of the greatest toys ever. I spent many an hour on that and had a blast. Along with Rockem Sockem Robots maybe my favorite toy of all time as a kid.

[Sacajaweau]

circa 1955...We all carried pen knives to play mummily peg...Have no idea how to spell it...But it was a cool little knife/hand manipulation game...concentration and practice, practice, practice!!!

[norraad]

Talk about blasts from the past, I once taught in an rural High School that had a shooting range in the basement(no longer in use).

[TigersEye]

I had a plastic Civil War cannon that actually shot plastic cannon balls. It had a ram rod to cock the spring in it. I'm guessing the cannon balls were about 3"s in diameter. They got lost pretty quickly but we could still point it at each other and go "BOOM!!!"

But that was nothing compared to what we picked up at the the Army Surplus store. Like de-milled pineapple grenades. We must have killed each other about ten thousand times.

[decisis]

I remember a toy gun that would shoot this little satellite across the room with great force, if you put it in a kid’s face and shot him in the eye I imagine he would go blind. Then there were “cracker balls” if you threw them on a hard surface they would make a loud sound almost like a firecracker, not some little wimpy snap, this was more like a boom. And they were small and round and in bright colors so I guess some kids would eat them like candy and blow up their mouth so of course they were banned. I remember a lifesize cardboard version of the Mercury capsule, it was great for a kid you could go inside it, nothing dangerous about it but it was really cool. There are some cool toys now too but the element of danger is gone and that was fun. Now the only element of danger is that toys are made in China with all kinds of toxins in them.

[Nepeta]

Modern toys are so...tame. So are modern playgrounds, which appear to have been designed to avoid all chance of a scraped knee or a bruise.

[stylecouncilor]

Dark Shadows Groovy Horror Head Toy Commercial

[paulycy]

The Johnny Reb Cannon was GREAT fun!

[mickey finn]

Along with lawn darts, another banned toy included the awesome glass clackers that were prone to shattering in the users face when clacked too hard.

Me and my brothers had both.

[Route395]

Some of my toys growing up:

[stylecouncilor]

Gaylord the robotic pup

[Budge]

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