Back when christmas toys were real fun

[Snags]

Ever throw a can of spray paint into a 55 gallon drum with a fire going?:eek :eek

Thirty foot flameballs are cool.

 

[NewOldCokeDave]

That's kid stuff!!

A coffee can half full of ********** is MUCH better! Of course it would have a kill zone of about 50 feet.. Not recommended.

*******'d out by me, as I don't want any of you yokels blowing yourselves up..

On the more sane side we made a H20 rocket out of a 5 gallon water cooler bottle (plastic one) Glued fins on it and got a surplus nose cone from a S2A missle.. Used liquid nitrogen and water as the propellant.. Got about 200 ft of elevation.. That one flew a few "missions" until it augered into George Lucas' windshield on his 750i (He wasn't in it at the time, fortunately, or I'd probably be typing this from a prison library right now) (I used to work at LFL and we'd keep ourselves occupied with "projects" after productions were completed.)

The crowning glory was the 6 ft Tesla coil, which arcs were featured in "Howard the Duck".. We wanted to build a rail gun, but the head office put a halt to our "labwork" after the "Windshield Incident"

 

[BluesForDan]

NewOldCokeDave - that cracked me up.

Does anybody remember the toy where you heated up the plastic bugs, dinosaurs, etc and then squished them back into little bricks?

Creepy crawlers and all those other fun, safe electric oven toys. Kids today don't know what they're missing out on. Burns, skin grafts, all new belongings after burning the house down. Fucking safety nazis, don't let kids have fun anymore :fu

one of my favorites were these real styrofoam bricks. You could build the neatest and tallest towers with them. I had saved those for years and years, but I think they finally fell prey to my father's constant urge to throw shit away.

 

[NewOldCokeDave]

one of my favorites were these real styrofoam bricks. You could build the neatest and tallest towers with them. I had saved those for years and years, but I think they finally fell prey to my father's constant urge to throw shit away.

No I was deprived.. They hadn't invented styrofoam yet... :lol2

 

[juniorspecial]

I was majorly into blowing stuff up.. That little past-time didn't end until I was in my early twenties and I blew up a pitchers' mound at a deserted baseball field very late one evening and left a 6 foot crater where it once sat. :nono I figured that I'd better quit while I was ahead and still had all my fingers and eyesight, and hadn't killed or hurt someone or ended up in jail. :eek

Stupid as it sounds, I remember all the guys in my neighborhood standing around in a tight little expectant circle. We were watching the wick of a FIRECRACKER, which had been placed in a MILK BOTTLE, burn down and go off!:ahem

Yes, we all got a little cut up, but probably not as bad as we deserved!

We all, thankfully, learned something from that experience. :ahem

 

[hank]

Did you at least have the "Dream Castle??" or how about the Barbie 'Vette or Mustang??

If not, then I can't help you! :lol2

Nope.

Always wanted the "Barbie Does Dallas" doll.

 

[Karaoke Karl]

 

[doodman]

How about those books that had those wierd markers (looked like a yellow highlighter) that you would rub the pages and messages, X's & O's, arrows, and answers to quiestions would appear? I liked those.

I was into models, too.
Tinkertoys.
Lincoln Logs.
Stretch Armstrong and, of course, Stretch Monster.
I always liked figures- GI Joe, 6 million dollar man, Star Wars, etc.
Video Games (for Atari, Vic 20, and Intellivision)

I'm sure there are more, but those come to mind first.

 

[Snags]

We used to light shit on fire all the time.

Hours of entertainment can be had with gasoline and illegal fireworks. We started a fire one time that brought three fire trucks. The firemen were pissed until we showed them our "cover": We brought a model rocket setup along in the event of, er, "problems" such as what occured. If they would have known what REALLY started that fire, it would have become a police matter.

Did anyone here ever build a golf ball cannon? You can fuck up a lot of shit with them, too.

How about soaking Evil Keneval in gasoline and jumping him through a small fire? WEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

 

[TT100]

Regarding models, my little pals and I got bored with building fighter planes and battleships so we started building "distressed" models. Finish a plane, melt off a wing, build a shot up airframe where the wing broke off, smoke it with a match and hang from your ceiling. Looked like Midway or the Battle of Britain in our bedrooms.

The dumbest thing we did was try and re create the nuke test at Bikini Atoll. In a kiddie wading pool on their back porch we floated several model destroyers, aircraft carriers etc, and dumped in a quart of gasoline. Threw the match in and FOOM!!!

Instant inferno! We freaked out as the flames were reaching the edge of the roof and really lost it when the pool melted and poured water and flaming gasoline all over the patio! Jesus Christ, we scattered like roaches running home fast as we could.

The house didn't catch fire but there was nothing left of the models except a few charred grey plastic blobs.

Then there were the M118 (?) booby trap flash simulators... How did I live past 10?

 

[doodman]

Regarding models, my little pals and I got bored with building fighter planes and battleships so we started building "distressed" models.

I used to paint them with blood all over the seat and windshield. My mom got pissed. But not enough to get involved. She just kept on buying me stuff to stay occupied so I wouldn't wake her up.

Merry Christmas, Mom.

 

[Chef Greg]

This was my favorite Christmas toy.....

 

[PatentAppliedFor]

Regarding models, my little pals and I got bored with building fighter planes and battleships so we started building "distressed" models. Finish a plane, melt off a wing, build a shot up airframe where the wing broke off, smoke it with a match and hang from your ceiling. Looked like Midway or the Battle of Britain in our bedrooms.

We did that with Battlestar Galactica & Star Wars models -)

 

[lpnv59]

This was cool:

The one I had was a Vac-U-Form and it was very cool!!!
http://www.spookshows.com/toys/vacuform/vacuform.htm

 

[prakashananda]

and speaking of which...

An M-80 in a garbage dumpster makes such a sweet sound...

 

[Snags]

Re: and speaking of which...

An M-80 in a garbage dumpster makes such a sweet sound...

Try an M-80 with the fuse cut down and frayed, taped hammerhead-style to the top of an illegal rocket with the nose cone removed to fit the M-80. When the charge goes off that would normally be the sparkly display, that M-80 goes off way the hell up in the air. It echoes for MILES.