Which Toy Is Coolest....?

[HereWeGoAgain]

Loved my chemistry sets.

I thought I was going to blow the house up.

I got in trouble for supplementing my kit with the pool chemicals.

 

[Yousaidwhat]

Testor's model rockets

Awesome

We used to fly rockets a lot.

After a few shots with one if it was showing too much wear and tear we would load the nose cone with match heads soaked in lighter fluid and watch them burn up on reentry.



Started a couple brush fires that way

and of course we would shoot them at each other from time to time

Surefire rockets. Reliable and dangerous.

More fun than...

A barrel full of monkey's

 

[Yousaidwhat]

Loved my chemistry sets.

I thought I was going to blow the house up.

I got in trouble for supplementing my kit with the pool chemicals.

And anything under the kitchen sink.

 

[Yousaidwhat]

My all time favorite.

Before paintball guns.

The homemade potato gun.

Man! Did we live dangerously.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Loved my chemistry sets.

I thought I was going to blow the house up.

I got in trouble for supplementing my kit with the pool chemicals.

And anything under the kitchen sink.

If it had a skull and cross bones or the Mister Yuk sticker you knew it had to be good!!

 

[rightwinger]

Remember paint by numbers?

 

[rightwinger]

Testor's model rockets

Awesome

We used to fly rockets a lot.

After a few shots with one if it was showing too much wear and tear we would load the nose cone with match heads soaked in lighter fluid and watch them burn up on reentry.

Started a couple brush fires that way

and of course we would shoot them at each other from time to time

We used to have Estes Rockets

We would take a cherry bomb or ash can and insert the fuse into the ejection charge. It would explode instead of the parachute deploying

 

[Yousaidwhat]

The amusing thing about it...

They all had the "Good housekeeping" seal of approval!

 

[Yousaidwhat]

Remember paint by numbers?

Came in handy when it was raining.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The amusing thing about it...

They all had the "Good housekeeping" seal of approval!

I always ended up with the"Good ass whipping seal of disapproval"

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Remember paint by numbers?

Cant say I ever used one of these.

 

[Moonglow]

I loved this too! But it was my sister's......

That toy looked cool in the toy catalogue. But it took about a month to get rocks that looked like the picture. We would open it up after about five minutes and ask....What is taking so long?

We let ours run until it stopped, yet no shiny rocks....

 

[Moonglow]

My fav toys were,

 

[Bonzi]

Remember paint by numbers?

I never was good at staying in line(s)

 

[Yousaidwhat]

I was just getting to that!

Was just thinking. We'd be considered terrorists in this day and age.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

t.... lastly I had a bank like this. Wish I still had it. Exact same!

Yea, now I remember about one also just like that I had and was red. I spent lots of time feeding coins into the bank. It was fascinating. I haven't thought about that for probably 30 years or more!

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

This Add-a-matic coin counter was probably my favorite toy when I was little. I often went grocery shopping with my mother, and I would try real hard to add up each item we bought and try to get the correct total. I can still remember waiting at the checkstand to see if I had gotten it right.

I also would spend a lot of time when on the street counting VW Bugs with that clicker. There were tons of VW Beetles back in the mid-sixties.

 

[petro]

The Jackie Stewart AFX slot car race set...

Doubt it still works, but the entire setup is still in my basement.

 

[whitehall]

I can't remember actually playing with toys beyond a couple of days after Christmas. Collecting toys is a different concept. I remember the basics like a bike and a pocket knife and a BB gun but who really played with "Mr. Potato Head" for more than a couple of days?