Got this idea after seeing Jmetz post on his watergun.
Whats you best childhood toy? Mine was the GI Joes action figures I think the first one I ever received was Stryker. Man the wars I had against Cobra were epic.
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Got this idea after seeing Jmetz post on his watergun.
Whats you best childhood toy? Mine was the GI Joes action figures I think the first one I ever received was Stryker. Man the wars I had against Cobra were epic.
I loved my GI Joes, cousin had the carrier and we would go crazy every family event. I also had a bunch of the old Robotech toys and they were fantastic. Then I graduated to Super Soakers and Nerf guns.
Mine were the master of the universe. I had almost every action figure and both castles. When i got a lil older it was the ninja turtles.
My daisy air rifle and then my Daisy BB gun. Oh yeah, my bicycle which gave me freedoms unknown.
sounds sad, but various Books.
Six Million Dollar Man complete with his rocket that opened up into a surgery/lab to work on his bionics.
Big Wheel - Green Machine - Sit-n-spin - legos - BMX - matchbox cars - army men - rocks - ATARI 2600
Micro machines. John Deere tractors, Lionel trains from the 50s, my bike, gas powered r/c planes, 10 pump bb guns to kill tons of rabbits, 1993 suzuki king quad 300 ATV!
Geek!Quote:
Originally Posted by KestrelBike
Mine was a plastic M14 with spring loaded cartridges and magazine my mom got from G.E.M.
And then the cousin gave me a cap powered muzzle loader that shot cork balls.
Lol parents didn't let me have guns (and i begged for a bb gun forever to no avail) until I was 18, then they got me a Mauser 98K. They shake their heads when they realize how many I have today hah.Quote:
Originally Posted by BPTactical
Oh the nostalgia!
I spent hours upon hours with my hotwheels/matchbox cars. I used to get a set of Jango blocks, and build garages and what not. Good times.
At least you didn't turn out a liberal gun hater :) You ride a kestrel? I've always wanted one.Quote:
Originally Posted by KestrelBike
I had many great ones. I was the youngest and after I came along after my dad's business started doing well, my brothers were grown, so they spoiled me. More cool toys than any kid should have had. But one that stands out was this one, we had great fun blowing the balls off the Christmas tree with it.....until Mom found out! [Rant1]
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...gerjoetank.jpg
Remember Stompers? Man I loved those things.
Big wheel, green machine, bike, YZ 80, skateboard,,
My schwinn and GT BMX bikes. I must have rode 1000+ miles on those things. Every Xmas, bday and regional race I would have to get new tire due to the amount I rode.
When I was 8 my mom got me a dune buggy so I could learn how to drive....
My dad grew up on a ranch with guns, has a collection of antiques (Brown Bess, civil war, etc) and my mom also has a very healthy attitude, they just didn't trust me haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by USAFGopherMike
I have an '07 Kestrel Talon, love it. 6 years old and still going strong (I must not ride it enough)
Evil Knieval toys, crank powered stunt cycle, sky cycle, stadium cycle, had them all.
Bicycles, like stated, freedom and opportunity to copy Evil Knieval. Plenty of incidents of bloody and broken. One summer in particular Mom actually tried to ban bicycles.
Little green army men, fire crackers and magnifying glass.
Guns, 22 lever single shot, dad used to let me get it out and clean it on Sunday afternoon while we watched John Wayne westerns on TV and 410 bolt(not toys but still made made childhood great).
24" Murray cruiser
I remember those, I had the Mogambo Hunting rifle set and later on the Johnny Seven OMA, it even fired various projectiles: bullets and rockets, grenades. I had a Mattel Tommy Burst which was a full auto cap gun and a lever action that you loaded a bullet into a cartridge case under spring pressure and it shot it across the room and at 10 feet would punch a hole through a paper target. Terrific toys for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by BPTactical
Some more I remember.....no wonder I'm such a gun freak now. When I was a kid, the only place that sold many of these was the local Safeway grocery store. And guess where I always went with Mom to.....
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...d7fa1296_o.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...attelrifle.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1..._gun_retro.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...letLoading.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/ToyGuns4.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/ToyGuns9.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/ToyGuns6.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...nicblaster.jpg
Micro Machines rocked! Numerous cap guns, "realistic" squirt and airsoft guns, Ruger 10/22, Transformers and MASK, Star Wars toys (I'd be rich if I kept them), Honda z50r and Yamaha YZ80... So many.
Good thread!
My parents decided that I would be raised without guns. At 2 years old I had seen the neighbor kids playing guns. The next morning at breakfast I picked up the spoon and went "bang, bang" with it and they knew it was all over. They promptly went out and bought me a toy gun.
As for favorite toys...
legos were always big.
The original G.I. Joes. I even had the helicoptor and the jeep. I moved into the smaller ones when they came out as well.
Micronauts were a huge favorite
Star Wars figures
I had a bunch of Mazinger Z type of metal action figures from Christmas one year.
any sort of weapon...guns, swords, etc.
A Tonka Truck and a piano. I banged all of the ridges off the piano's keys with a hammer at the age of 5. I was then forced to play it daily for the next 13 years.
Books are food. My Erector set was my most used toy. I spent as much time devouring books as I did playing with the Erector set.Quote:
Originally Posted by KestrelBike
The one I was born with.. I used to play with it constantly.
^^^Win!Quote:
Originally Posted by asmo
Ron, awesome pics! I think the M14 was the same one you showed!
Not really a "toy" but one of the greatest things was growing up in a place with LOTS of open space. Wander for hours..
The Fall Guy set, my Knight Rider big wheel, and He-Man stuff (which is crazy but I still have a bunch of including Castle Greyskull) :)
Hot wheels, TMNT, and definitely Legos!
Legos.
Started with one of these YZingers, and always had a motorcycle of some sort.
http://www.pwonly.com/pwhistory_1.jpg
Also rode bikes a ton, this pink Kuwahara freestyle bike was my prized possession.
http://bmxmuseum.com/forsale/picture...py1_blowup.jpg
Also always had BB guns, and my grandpa let me shoot his .22's whenever I wanted.
I remember one time a friend and I went out to my grandpas ranch, we were both about 10 or 11. We asked if we could shoot rabbits, he told us we could shoot as many of them as we wanted, but we had to clean them and eat them. After many hours of hunting we probably had 25-30 rabbits, we loaded them up in a wheel barrow and took them to the house. My grandpa showed us how to clean the first one, and then left us alone to do the rest. We got it done, and took them inside to grandma to cook up. I was so sick I couldn't stand even thinking about eating one, and sadly I have never been hunting again.
Tinker Toys and Major Matt Mason
I had a toy DC-7. It was far and away the favorite toy I remember. Very similar to this one:
http://toysoftimespast.com/wp-conten...02/aaplane.jpg
Put a couple of batteries inside and the props turned and the landing gear retracted. It was awesome. I also had an entire city's worth of Matchbox cars and trucks.
I wish I still had that airplane...the one in the picture sold for $899!
Huge box of Army guys,Lionel train set,six guns (cap),some kind of cork gun that came with crow targets,and yeah I loved books too.
My childhood was about as far from a "toy" store as you could get (five hours from nearest micro-airport, down muddy road surrounded by jungle in the Southern Philippines - needless to say, I was the only blond kid in school) so all the kids made their own 'toys'. We made our own kites from split bamboo and paper, slingshots were best made from guava wood, bamboo canons, etc. Oddly, my favorite (and only thing I still have from back then) is a top I carved. We'd cut a fairly round branch off a tree, hammer a nail into it and then carve a top with a knife. -Not exactly Toy's R Us fare:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psc7cd517d.jpg
From early on it was guns, First one was a plastic .30-30 that shot plastic bullets. I hear I drove my grand dad nuts with it, the story goes I slept with it. After that it was a Crossman M1 Carbine bb gun. It resembled the real deal pretty closely and frankly I wish I would have hung on it. I've looked and they're still around but there seems to be a mag shortage for those as well.
I had one of these. Got it at a garage sale for a couple of bucks. Big fun! The gun never fired the white bullets but the missile would shoot 20 feet. The periscope was handy for spying on the cute girl next door. [Shy]Quote:
Originally Posted by rondog
I forget how young some on this board are. He Man. [ROFL2]
Legos
Hot Wheels
SST Racers
Slot cars
Skateboard
This was my first bike.
http://luxlow.com/wp-content/uploads...iodelurssm.jpg
This was the one I rode the most. Pulled off the banana seat and put on a road seat. Painted it flat black. I still wonder how I survived some of the jumps we made.
http://www.pedals2people.org/wp-cont...10113-1738.jpg
I'm the oldest of six kids and we didn't have much money growing up. I had a couple after school paper routes and got to spend some of the money. When I was 11, I saw a guy make a bow string at a boy scout camp. I went home and made my own bow string jig out of 2X4s and some long nails that were in the garage. A bow string jig needs a slot down the middle of the bottom board so that one of the top pieces can slide to adjust for different length strings. I cut about a 1 ft slot in the 2X4 using a drill and a drill bit. When my parents saw what I had made they must have thought I was serious about archery. My Mom had an old Bear recurve bow and 4 or 5 arrows. We went to the local archery store and found out how long of a string it needed and bought the materials to make a bow string. With the help of the boy scout archery merit badge book, I made my own bow strings and could shoot arrows in the back yard after finishing my paper routes.
Black cat bottle rockets
no safety glasses, helmet, kneepads