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Fun fact, I can hit an egg at 50' with a slingshot :^)
HAHAHA That's nothing. I can shot a house fly off a clothes pin at 20 feet with a BB gun. LOL! And all that was left was a mangled mess and a wing.
Fun fact, I can hit an egg at 50' with a slingshot :^)
Nice thread
The batman returns Kenner batmobile/ bat missile
Did the Ecto-1 have the siren? I love that sound.
Same. We had a big book of Bible stories for children that had an illustration of David fighting Goliath with a sling. I was eight, it was the 70s, and my mother was helping me to be the most stylish kid on the block by cutting the torn legs off a pair of my brown corduroy pants and turning them into shorts. Yeah, I don't remember ever wearing those abominations, but I do remember taking the scrap material, some twine and making me a cool sling to chuck rocks in the field behind my house. It could zing a rock darn hard.Been thinking lately, I'd like to make an old school slingshot. The kind with a long thong of leather you swing, then release an end to launch. Supposed to like a gunshot in power. That would definitely be useful against the robot swine.
https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_the_unheard_story_of_david_and_goliath
When I was really little, I had a Show & Tell I loved. That was my main record player for a long time, even after I graduated to listening to the Beachboys and the Beatles on it :^D
I had to make do with the scaled down McDonald's toy version of this.Nice thread
The batman returns Kenner batmobile/ bat missile
I begged and begged my mom to get me this. The Black Seas Barracuda. But alas, the answer was no. It was too expensive she told me, even for Christmas.
The one I ended up settling for.
The Renegade Runner. It had no steering wheel, but it did have a compass. So they always knew what direction they were drifting in, even if they were powerless to change it.
I always wanted a Brio set but they were super expensive. Now I could afford one but social pressure (all in my head) holds me back. That didn't stop me from buying the suitcase full of Lego though.Funny, the Black Seas Barracuda is ine of the toys I wanted so badly in preschool because one of the classrooms had one. I thought it was the coolest thing, especially with the little gold coins and treasure chest (not sure if they came with set).
Also reminds me that I loved playing with wooden blocks, cardboard bricks, and those little wooden train sets (the ones that had cars linked magnetically):
I remember playing with TMNT toys in pre-K, as well as playing pretend with my friends. I was always Donatello.
From time to time, my father would start telling the story about how he was so poor growing up that he only had one thing to play with. Before he could get the next sentence started, my mother would interrupt and tell him that that was enough!
I don't remember exactly how old I was before I figured out what that thing was he played with...
modified it pretty heavily and won a couple of first place trophies at the local hobby shop races.