For those not familiar with this toy, you fill the rocket to a line with water. You then attach a small hand pump to the base of the rocket, latch it in place and pump it full of air. Now I'm pretty sure the actual instructions gave some kind of advisory as to how much air you should pump in to it but we always pumped it until there was so much air inside that we couldn't work the pump anymore (ie: maximum thrust mode). Aim up at the sky (very important!) and release the latch holding the rocket in place.
What happens next is pure science, but I don't know the actual words behind it. Suffice it to say that water + air pressure + forced point of release = launching rocket. Like any flying toy, these would sometimes end up on the roof, yours or your neighbors! There is also a good chance of getting sprayed by the "rocket fuel" as it launches which makes this a good summer toy.
no doubt you had this as well:
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No plastic Green Army Men or Cowboys and Indians? I had an ice cream pail full of plastic soldiers when I was a kid. Almost as full as moms vacuum cleaner was of the things.
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No plastic Green Army Men or Cowboys and Indians? I had an ice cream pail full of plastic soldiers when I was a kid. Almost as full as moms vacuum cleaner was of the things.
My buddy and I combined our's into two huge armies. We built a battle field (trenchs, OP's, tank positions). We would put the figures in there then each pick a side and use the apples from his crabapple tree to cause distruction. First guy to know all the other fella's guy's down won
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No plastic Green Army Men or Cowboys and Indians? I had an ice cream pail full of plastic soldiers when I was a kid. Almost as full as moms vacuum cleaner was of the things.
I never was interested in these as a kid. Not sure why.
... and before someone posts a wiseass remark... I never had these either..
My very first action figure was Major Matt Mason. I got it as Christmas present when I was about 3. In 1969. I doubt many are old enough to remember this one. Twas a long time ago.
And who else here is guilty of taking the .45 pistol from the CLUE game and using it with your 12" GI Joe?
I had all those gun too as well as the mechano set.
Did you have an electric train? I still have my old FLEISCHMANN HO train set.
I also fondly remember playing for hours with my electric slot car racing set.
No never had an electric train set but I would've liked one, we didn't have a basement to set one up. When I got old enough to use one with care I was more into making bows and arrows and slingshots and throwing knives. My friends and I use to build go carts as we had a big hill with little traffic to race on. One time I took the motor off our lawnmower and put it on the go cart. I used two pulleys with one on a stick bolted to the frame so I could tighten the pulley. I could get up to 30 MPH.
I was also into building model plastic planes and ships.
I have a feeling a lot of our toys wouldn't be tolerated today.
^^^^^^ Your parents must have been rich. I had to make do with a big steel nut and a square piece of cloth along with some string.
LoL. Speaking of string... I remember getting a GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip for my birthday. I figured it would be cool to watch GI Joe slide down from a kite string connected to the roof of the house using his Kung Fu grip. I tied a kite string from the roof of the house down to the ground, and proceeded to let him loose. To my horror, what ended up happening was that GI Joe lost all his fingers due to the friction of the kite string. Tried to get my parents to buy me another one, but instead, I caught hell for being on the roof of the house. Lesson learned.
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I have a feeling a lot of our toys wouldn't be tolerated today.
Oh ya. Kids are much more protected nowadays.
I can remember having an small metal plane (jet plane configuration) that was probably made out of solid white metal. I was big enoungh to fit in the palm of your hand.
Well along with the plane came a rubber band slingshot device and you would hook the front wheel landing gear into the rubber band and pull buck as far as you could go and let her rip...
That thing flew like a bat outa hell!
Could have probably put some kids eye out too if you hit him right.
They probably stopped making those when the stopped making lawn darts.
