You mean like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kc_uiM7jY
This is what we played with as kids.
No schools got shot up back then... ever.
Man, the comments-
Some people are such giant wusses it’s not even funny.
Waah!: the irritating legacy of hyperventilating liberals.
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Marx made some cool stuff. Many hours of my young childhood spent on the Krazy Kar.
Missing Kenner, A.C.Gilbert (erector sets), Aurora and Eldon(slot car sets), Revell (models), Ideal (Battling Tops, Ker-Plunk), Remco (Rush’s Radio Broadcast Station, my own rocket blast-off set with real control tower), (independent) Kenner (Spirograph) and Parker Brothers (great board games, now owned by Hasbro).
Now it is all Hasbro and Mattel, with Milton Bradley barely around. One good thing are the vintage upscale sets. I have gotten a proper Stratego set for my six-year old son, and we spend hours at it. Just like the real set, only with a wooden box and a twice folding board for easy storage. WELL, worth the money. We also got the original, Art Linkletter approved pre-PC Life. Classic Risk is easily available on eBay (Wooden armies... the ONLY way to go). Pre-PC Monopoly Is also available in a numer of editions, some over-priced.
Yeah, these came out at about the same time that troops in Viet Nam were being transitioned away from the M14, to be replaced by the M16. Even though it wasn't made by Mattel, the grunts started referring to the plastic-looking M16 as a "Matty Mattel".
We don’t have television, but do watch YouTube. I try to expose my kids only for commercials for products that no longer exist (so we cannot be badgered into buying them!). This is my six year old’s favorite: (toy gun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqd5EQXD-g
Oddly, he also likes a Mr. Clean commercial where the mousy librarian type takes off her scarf and glasses and assembles a Mr. Clean ray gun and takes care of the kitchen. (Yes, Mr. Clean still exists, but Sivana Jr. doesn’t really want the product, he wants the non-existent cleaning self-assembled ray gun).
I miss the days when commercials told a story or made a straight pitch rather than simply bombard the viewer with images.
As a kid, playing ‘Army’ was a real blast. Imagine fifty or sixty kids divided into two teams rampaging through the neighborhood and our Mothers tracking us by the sounds we made and sharing coffee and snacks with the neighbors and saying ‘Boys will be boys’.
I wish we could go back to that simpler time. And work to prevent the destruction the nimrods and progressives have foisted on the American people.
My 9 year old is getting a realistic AK-47 and bolt action rifle from Santa. That AK looks like it is straight from Moscow with an orange tip
Looked for toy assault rifles for the grand kids at Walmart for Christmas presents.Red tipped ya know.They only had pseudo weapons made in total day glow colors.Finally found what I wanted at Big Lots and a lot cheaper.
One of the best Christmas presents I received back in 57’ was a Mattel cap firing Grease Gun and a whole carton of roll caps. Thing was a wind up model that ate caps at an awesome rate. Wish I still had it.
One of the best Christmas presents I received back in 57’ was a Mattel cap firing Grease Gun and a whole carton of roll caps. Thing was a wind up model that ate caps at an awesome rate. Wish I still had it.
Here’s to Hopalong Cassidy.
It’s a different world now. Cops are being shot at by “teens” (euphemism for non-White thugs)
Cops no longer assume that the citizen has good intentions. The presumption of innocence is gone.
I bought an airsoft Beretta Px4 Storm to use as a practice pistol since it is practically identical to my carry weapon. The weight is a little off, but not by as much as you’d think, as the barrel is actually metal. It’s freaking awesome for building muscle memory of holster draws and the like. It’s accurate enough for indoor and backyard practice. Ammo is a lot cheaper too.
Holy gun violence, Batman! I just checked Ebay to see what my old double-holster Fanner Fifty setup would bring these days and saw prices at $150! Heck, you could get a holster and a pair of real guns for that back then!
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”
The problem isn’t toy guns — it’s fatherless kids running wild.