Show your Age, Toy's you Grew up with

[dual fours]

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Was there a cap Pistol called the WASP? Looked like a stub nose Detective .38 Special only in a .22 size gun. You would put the red ring of caps in the swing out cylinder. Eight shots I think.
EDIT: I looked it up online, yes that was the one, but oh my, ours had no orange barrel cap/plug that I remember. I know that I had at least two on me at one time.

 

[ricks_RR]

Do you mean, Melanie... the singer ?

yes good catch janis sang one too .

 

[ksurfer2]

When I was a kid, we made do with whatever we could find.

 

[QOTHL]

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A DICK shooter?

 

[Nevada dan]

remember steel skates that tied on to your shoes

 

[ZR9B]

I still have mine

 

[snakeyes]

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we used them old skates to play hockey on the streets and alleys

 

[Duckmanreno]

Erector sets.
Had them in the late 60’s. I didn’t read every post but with so many mechanical types on the site, some of you must have had them

 

[kiwigtx]

We had 'hand-me-down' toys from older family members. Growing up on dairy farms, toys were really an evening activity.
One cool toy we had was a Hornby clockwork trainset very similar to this one. Of course we had to hand it back when the next generation came along.

They are worth an absolute fortune now.

 

[69a100]

Dad used to let us kids play with this, I still have it somewhere??? No joke!

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

When I was a kid, we made do with whatever we could find.

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Wasn't that used more as PROTECTION from gators down there in FLOR-I-DA???

 

[HawkRod]

Played with many of the toys shown. One that I didn't see yet was model rockets. We used to glue to tops shut on the rocket so it would come down and impale itself into the ground. Yeah, not too smart....

We also combined the balsa airplanes shown earlier in this thread with model rocket motors strapped to them. Of course, it was often too much for the balsa plane and tore the wings off, but it was fun!

 

[ZR9B]

I still have a few rockets from when I taught my two kids about them

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

Played with many of the toys shown. One that I didn't see yet was model rockets. We used to glue to tops shut on the rocket so it would come down and impale itself into the ground. Yeah, not too smart....

We also combined the balsa airplanes shown earlier in this thread with model rocket motors strapped to them. Of course, it was often too much for the balsa plane and tore the wings off, but it was fun!

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[Scott Engelhardt]

When I was a kid, we made do with whatever we could find.

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At least you had a stick, my mom cut holes in our pockets so we had something to play with

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

At least you had a stick, my mom cut holes in our pockets so we had something to play with

DDDAAAAAMMMNNNN!!!! THAT'S POOR, but bet you ALWAYS HAD A SMILE!!!

 

[dual fours]

Played with many of the toys shown. One that I didn't see yet was model rockets. We used to glue to tops shut on the rocket so it would come down and impale itself into the ground. Yeah, not too smart....

We also combined the balsa airplanes shown earlier in this thread with model rocket motors strapped to them. Of course, it was often too much for the balsa plane and tore the wings off, but it was fun!

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Strapping the rocket ''engine'' to a 1/24 scale model car had a thrill. Then we found other things to do with the fuse, then we found Nichrome wire and batteries.

 

[MoparGuy68]

Skateboard with Road Rider wheels. I had Road Rider 4 on mine..

Farrah was riding on these wheels the same time I had mine. A Dodge Dart was harmed during the shooting of this skateboard chase.

 

[dual fours]

I not sure when the WRIST ROCKET came out, but it was a deadly sling shot.

 

[YY1]

I had this.

Note the CID callout on the hood.