OT- Strange toys you remember having as a kid

[Extra Point]

It was a truck with a rocket launcher. You cocked the lever back which was also the launcher, and it coiled a spring and it clicked in place. Then you put the rocket onto the launcher. Press a button and the spring uncoiled propelling the truck and at the end of it's run the rocket launcher rose and fired the spring loaded rocket. lol.
Also, a helicopter set that had two helicopters, one on either end of basically a stick balanced on a center stalk. There was a controller that powered the helicopters and they would make the 'stick' spin around the center stalk and you could make them dip or climb or go into reverse.

 

[Source]

Robot Commando

http://www.bigyellowdogllc.com/blog/2015/12/27/how-robot-commando-led-me-to-god

 

[Babybull244]

Evil Knievel Stunt Stadium - worth about 700 bucks these days,,,lol

& was it Super Toe = the dude you hit on the head would kick a field goal?

Good times

 

[snowboarder]

Rockum Sockum Robots

 

[PSU_Nut]

Lawn jarts. We used my friends shed as a giant dart board. They would go through the half inch plywood with ease.

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Space 1999 eagle model and detachable space vehicle...I played the hell out of that toy!!

 

[Finster Baby]

Clothespin super hero set with toilet paper capes. I challenge anyone who can say they had those as a kid.

 

[newell138]

I remember maybe in the back of Boys Life magazine, there was a form you would attach a dime and mail in and get back a model of the Apollo moon lander you could put together

 

[Randal7]

GAK. The whole idea was to throw it against the wall, put it in your sisters hair, make as big a mess with it as possible.

 

[RUinPinehurst]

Wham-O's "Super Elastic Bubble Plastic." Early 70s. Ok. Never actually had this, but I remember the TV commercials and my mom's "hell, no" expression. What were they thinking? A toxic semi-liquid that, using a straw, you blow bubbles with.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

and of course....

 

[RUtix4me]

http://oddies.com/10-weird-toys-from-around-the-world/

Good list worth a view, inflatable toast was my favorite.

 

[phs73rc77gsm83]

My favorite was my Official Red Ryder bb Gun, but then I shot my eye out...

 

[LC-88]

I had Light Bright back in the late '60s/early 70s. The one with the small colored pegs that your baby brother or sister could choke on. You could also unscrew the lightbulb and stick your pinkie in the socket.

Also Kerplunk (sp?) Plastic cylinder with a bunch of holes half way up. You would put thin plastic, sharply pointed "sticks" through the holes to form a "web". Insert marbles. Then start pulling the sticks out. Who ever had the fewest marbles fall won.

Dunebuggy Wheelies. Greatest child exercise system ever devised in the early seventies. It was an electric motorized little dunebuggy. NOT radio controlled. You had a controller/battery pack with forward/reverse and steering levers attached with about a four foot chord. You had to run after the dam thing in order to play with it. I was a chubby seven year old when I had it. I figured out why my Mom bought it for me a few years later when I was older and wiser.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-197...k-Up-Truck-REMCO-Remote-Control-/151385541885

Jarts were king! One of my neighbors got hit in the head with one. Didn't penetrate. You did NOT want to yell "heads up" with those things. "Duck" was the better choice. Jarts were not eye socket friendly.

 

[greenknight]

Jarts were great until banned.
Stretch Armstrong

 

[RU4Real]

I remember having a box full of little, plastic body parts - arms, legs, eyes, ears, etc. You could stick them in a potato and make funny characters.

 

[UMRU]

I'm still hoping my x-Ray vision glasses will work as advertised some day.

 

[Knight Shift]

I got one of these when I was 11 or 12. I could not imagine a kid getting one of these today, as the helicopter parents would be petrified of the harm and chaos that would ensue. We lived on a hill overlooking a river. There was always a collection of bottles and cans that washed up on the riverbed that we lined up and shot at.

 

[RU4Real]

I got one of these when I was 11 or 12. I could not imagine a kid getting one of these today, as the helicopter parents would be petrified of the harm and chaos that would ensue. We lived on a hill overlooking a river. There was always a collection of bottles and cans that washed up on the riverbed that we lined up and shot at.

Ah, yes... Many a streetlight was felled by the mighty wrist rocket.

 

[RU in IM]

SSP (super sonic powered) Racers. The cars got their speed from a plastic zip cord pulled through a slot in the chassis that made the wheels spin. (early 70s)

 

[jmg75]

An A. C. Gilbert Chemisty Set. Did an experiment involving invisible ink and I set my desk on fire and damn near burned down the house. Looking back I can't believe the chemicals and tools they put in those things. One of the most dangerous toys ever manufactured. And a hell of a lot of fun.

 

[Knight Shift]

Ah, yes... Many a streetlight was felled by the mighty wrist rocket.

Also got one of these when I was 13 or 14, a pump air pistol.

 

[zappaa]

Great Garloo
The Fighting Lady Ship
007 James Bond Attaché Case
B29 Ball Turret Machine Gun
Super Helmet Seven
My Schwinn Apple Crate
HO Trains and slot cars
Mattel Grenade Launcher
Air Cooled tripod machine gun
Creepy Crawlers Plastic Goo

 

[beaced]

When I was a kid toys were not "strange". They were simple.Nothing was considered 'HIGH TECH". That term didn't exist. (Try 'New Fangled".) I was crazy about toy guns. Remember climbing the wall when I was given one of the "six shooters"(cost 25 cents) when they first came out. The gun "broke" in front of the grip,there was a face plate that rotated and accepted a flat round paper disk that had six evenly spaced little mounds of explosive powder. you closed the gun,pulled the trigger and the firing pin struck the powder and you were the Lone Ranger killing bad guys. Every time you pulled the trigger the cylinder rotated and you could get off six shots very quickly.In retrospect perhaps that WAS the 'high tech" of 1932.

 

[DHajekRC84]

Lawn jarts. We used my friends shed as a giant dart board. They would go through the half inch plywood with ease.

have a set. found em when cleaning out my aunt's estate a year ago.

found a nearly brand new Mr. Erector Set (the kind with the nuts, bolts, metal bands NOT the Pump thing LOL) and an Atari like new in the box.

 

[wasiman]

A ship that shot rubber darts after you projected a picture against the wall or the refrigerator. You would look in a mirror and shoot down the projected image which were jets and bombers.

 

[DHajekRC84]

Great Garloo

Creepy Crawlers Plastic Goo

one of my favs!

 

[koleszar]

Big Trak- the 1st programmable truck. I got this one year it looked like some type of moon vehicle you punched commands into a keypad and the truck would follow those commands. This was high tech back in 1979.

Nerf darts- they were cool me and my brother used to shoot them at one another. Basically you put the dart on a shaft then punched the plunger as hard as you could causing the dart by air power to launch.

Bobba Fett- I got the one that had the little missile that fired on his back pack. They discontinued it after some stupid kid shot it down his throat and choked to death.

 

[rutino]

Incredible Edibles - you squeezed a candy goop into a mold and baked "candy." Not exactly what "edibles" means today lol

 

[DHajekRC84]

Mighty Matilda and another ship that opened in the middle which exposed Rockets that launched.

 

[Rt18traffic]

I had Light Bright back in the late '60s/early 70s. The one with the small colored pegs that your baby brother or sister could choke on. You could also unscrew the lightbulb and stick your pinkie in the socket.

But with refills you could make bugs bunny and bozo the clown! Aside from the simple choking or electric shock issues, you left that light bulb on for a couple hours at at time. Children and hot light bulbs, what could go wrong?

 

[zappaa]

Mighty Matilda and another ship that opened in the middle which exposed Rockets that launched.

Good one, had it

 

[zappaa]

Who on here can say they owned a Schwinn Sting Ray with Chopper handle bars?

 

[RU4Real]

Who on here can say they owned a Schwinn Sting Ray with Chopper handle bars?

Yup.

 

[LC-88]

Who on here can say they owned a Schwinn Sting Ray with Chopper handle bars?

Had a Blue Beard, not a Schwinn. Chopper setup, high sissy bar, rear racing slick tire.

 

[LC-88]

I got one of these when I was 11 or 12. I could not imagine a kid getting one of these today, as the helicopter parents would be petrified of the harm and chaos that would ensue. We lived on a hill overlooking a river. There was always a collection of bottles and cans that washed up on the riverbed that we lined up and shot at.

Funny and not so funny Wrist Rocket story. When I was eight (1972) my friends had a tree house made of 2x4's and plywood. One day we were playing "Army", 4 on 4. My side "captured" the tree house. When the other side tried to retake it, we started throwing acorns at them. Two of the kids on the other side lived there. Was their tree house. So they ran inside and got their WR's, and a big bag of 3/8" steel ball bearings. They started shooting at us in the tree house. Laughed at them until the ball bearings started penetrating the plywood walls. Needless to say we surrendered, and hauled a$$ out of the tree house. I moved to NJ later that year. I went back in 1976. One of the two brothers that shot at us that day lost an eye to a ball bearing from a WR the year before. Sad.

 

[runuts]

No better toy was ever invented then the Johnny Seven OMA, I kicked ass with this when me and my friends played war

 

[Zombo NJ]

lots of good ones

Big Lou was cool

Had the 007 briefcase for a day..shot the rubber knife at grandma and it went bye bye (yeah II was a dumb kid)

Big Bruiser tow truck was cool

anything GI Joe...the sub (Sea Wolf) i think was good...but my
brother wrecked that with a cherry bomb in the pool

good times?

 

[phs73rc77gsm83]

Two more from the sixties: Six Finger (shot darts, caps, was a light, pen, etc spy stuff); and Dick Tracy Two Way Wrist Radio.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

When I got Skittlebowl I was happier than the kid on the cover..