Your favorite toys as a kid?

[John in Covina]

John, you didn't happen to have this one, did you?
http://airgun-academy.pyramydair.com/blog/2005/07/crosman-m1-carbine-bb-gun-looks-like-its-ancestor/

Nope but that is prety coll. Mine was like a model 700? It was a basic pump.

 

[Old Rogue]

Nope but that is prety coll. Mine was like a model 700? It was a basic pump.

I had one of those also. You can actually still buy them, I saw one in Walmart recently. It looked pretty much identical to the way I remember mine.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Now the Crossman Model 350/M1 Carbine with the wooden stock (produced only in 1965-66) is on my Holy Grail list. Heck, from what I've been reading about it, I'd even settle for the straight Model 350.

 

[shazzabanazza]

Indeed I am!

One of the things I collect are vintage toys. It seems like the coolest toys were either the ones from before your time or after you had "outgrown" them. I had the whole lot when I was a kid: Hot Wheels, Matchbox, etc.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?53893-What-do-you-collect-other-than-Hats/page6

Good on you! I am a collector too. I collect Barbies. I also collected some Hotwheels (just the ones I like) and I have a thing with caravan models so I collect them too! I shall check out your link later..best get on an write my essay!

 

[Pompidou]

Born in 78, I was a child of the 80's and thus, went from He Man and Go Bots action figures to a Nintendo Entertainment System, and once hooked on videogames, never turned back. My toys were action figures and videogames. The latter still are.

 

[djd]

Action Man (the British GI Joe), Lego, Dinky and Corgi toy cars, Hornby trains and Airfix model aircraft....

Action Man and Lego were my staples when I wasn't outside playing war and shooting imaginary Nazis with a selection of toy guns!

 

[Mocheman]

Action Man (the British GI Joe), Lego, Dinky and Corgi toy cars, Hornby trains and Airfix model aircraft....

Did you see the episode of James May's Toy Stories where he and some kids made a life size Airfix spitfire model? It was fantastic.

One of my favorite toys growing up were Micronauts

 

[djd]

I did see the James May thing yes. Those kids seemed a bit bemused by it all!

Micronauts were very slightly after my time. My brother had some though. When Star Wars came out I was very keen on the action figures.... (secretly I still am)

 

[Atticus Finch]

John, you didn't happen to have this one, did you?

http://airgun-academy.pyramydair.com/blog/2005/07/crosman-m1-carbine-bb-gun-looks-like-its-ancestor/

I did. I still do. I found it when I was cleaning my parents' house about a month ago.

AF

 

[Atticus Finch]

sometimes we'd go to Kelly's Lake at the end of Lake Drive in Copiague by Montauk Hwy / Merrick Road to shoot a variety of item we could float in the water and sink by shooting.

Reminds me of a verse from an old John Prine song:

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

AF

 

[Stray Cat]

Outdoors: a football. (I must explain: English football, rounded one.. with black and white patches)
Indoors: STAEDTLER® Noris® and lots of paper.

 

[DNO]

When you're born in '52, I suspect all of your toys have become classic. In my case it was Dinky toys and Britain's soldiers. Adding firecrackers into the mix lead to some interesting results.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Outdoors: a football. (I must explain: English football, rounded one.. with black and white patches)
Indoors: STAEDTLER® Noris® and lots of paper.

Sounds like you were very keen on drawing and artwork.

 

[John in Covina]

When you're born in '52, I suspect all of your toys have become classic. In my case it was Dinky toys and Britain's soldiers. Adding firecrackers into the mix lead to some interesting results.

We used to make all sorts of models planes, tanks, ships and blow them up with firecrackers. We used to sit and work up all sorts of miniature demolition events to get the most out of every bang. One favorite was to launch small juice cans with firecrackers.

 

[DNO]

My parents were still finding buried Dinky toys for years and years after I left home.

Sounds like we had similar activities, John. I don't know how many of my toy soldiers required toothpicks to keep their heads on, but it was quite a few. In Toronto, we could only get firecrackers in the week or so preceding Victoria Day (closest Monday to May 24th) so the neighbourhood used to echo to the sounds of firecrackers every day after school. Lots of toys and cans blown up.

 

[John in Covina]

Sounds like we had similar activities, John. I don't know how many of my toy soldiers required toothpicks to keep their heads on, but it was quite a few. In Toronto, we could only get firecrackers in the week or so preceding Victoria Day (closest Monday to May 24th) so the neighbourhood used to echo to the sounds of firecrackers every day after school. Lots of toys and cans blown up.

In my area of NY all fireworks were totally illegal. So we were engaged in receiving dangerous, illegal, smuggled goods.

My dad laid down the ground rules:
One never hold and light a firecracker,
Two never try to throw a lit firecracker.
Three: Always place a firecracker into the spot where you intend to use it and get away to a safe distance after lighting.

I have had a few extremely fast fuses and gotten pelted with debris but never got burned or hurt or blew off fingers using the rules.

 

[DNO]

In my area of NY all fireworks were totally illegal. So we were engaged in receiving dangerous, illegal, smuggled goods.

My dad laid down the ground rules:
One never hold and light a firecracker,
Two never try to throw a lit firecracker.
Three: Always place a firecracker into the spot where you intend to use it and get away to a safe distance after lighting.

I have had a few extremely fast fuses and gotten pelted with debris but never got burned or hurt or blew off fingers using the rules.

Sound rules, indeed.

 

[Stray Cat]

Sounds like you were very keen on drawing and artwork.

Yes I was (drawing, doodling and writing.. and still am ).. those were my father's favorites.. So I got used to them.
I still use those.
I could just never stop having them in my pencil case. STAEDTLER® are classics!

 

[scottyrocks]

I did see the James May thing yes. Those kids seemed a bit bemused by it all!

Micronauts were very slightly after my time. My brother had some though. When Star Wars came out I was very keen on the action figures.... (secretly I still am)

Not secretly any more!

 

[scottyrocks]

In my area of NY all fireworks were totally illegal. So we were engaged in receiving dangerous, illegal, smuggled goods.

My dad laid down the ground rules:
One never hold and light a firecracker,
Two never try to throw a lit firecracker.
Three: Always place a firecracker into the spot where you intend to use it and get away to a safe distance after lighting.

I have had a few extremely fast fuses and gotten pelted with debris but never got burned or hurt or blew off fingers using the rules.

I never knew anyone who followed the rules!lol