Who Had Creepy Crawlers?

[ZR9B]

Cox dune buggy was metal flake red...Long gone when it caught fire...then my sister got me a 57 chevy testers one wheel peel.....what a joke..threw a rod like in a day...how bout the yellow cox dragster that you had to have the string on the ground for it to follow...now that was fast...we still play with the model rockets...

 

[wannadrag]

had the creepy crawlers...lead solders...dont pour hot led in them if the mold is wet..not good...cox pull start dune buggy, airplanes had a helicopter that after I put a bigger tank on it I never saw it again....

Got the cox dune buggy for christmas around 1972 and still have it.

 

[bigredbird]

The chemistry set is #3 on the list of the Worlds Most Wildly Irresponsible Toys. #1 was a toy called Atomic Energy Lab. I don't remember that one. It actually came with Uranium. I'm not kidding, look it up.

Original price in 1951 was $49.50 -- one set just sold on eBay for $3,000. :icon_eyes:

 

[99ss]

it is amazing how us kids from the 60 and early 70's were able to grow up and not die from toys ... kids have lost something today for sure.. but they dont know any better... all they have now is video games.... but the airhog stuff is cool but useless when a slight breeze comes up

 

[tpodwdog]

ok,,,,heres one for ya....SST.....evil knevel motorcycle...pull the rip cord and that thing would wind up and go the speed of light. many a knik knaks destroyed around the house as a result of that thing flying up the ramp and thru the air... they had race cars like that too. we used to see if we could hit eachother from across the room....the good 'ol days...long gone. too much emphasis on safety...no wonder kids today are such pussies....they never had a chance to do real kid stuff like we did!

what was that helicoptor that went around in a circle? i remember my mother telling me to put it away...and i wouldnt...so she appeared from the bathroom with a toilet plunger and commenced to beating that thing into a million pieces right there in the middle of the living room. to this very day she brings it up and how bad she feels about it still....that was in 1972...funny stuff!

 

[Bruzilla]

That helicopter was the masterful piece of American ingenuity and engineering known as the Vertibird, and I had a couple of them.

I hope you learned something from the smashing incident. When my sons were little, like three and four, we went for a walk and they found a Batman Pez dispenser. The whole way home all we heard about was who found it first, who saw it first, who touched it first, and on and on. When we got home, I told them I would decide who it belongs to. I got a hammer, smashed the thing into a gazillion pieces, separated the pieces into two piles, and gave each of them a pile.

After that, whenever there was a question of ownership, I would offer to intercede and both boys quickly said "no, that's okay... we'll work it out."

 

[Bear R.-]

no creepy crawlers for me.i was born in 70 so i dont know if they had em.if they did my dads for sure didnt get us that.But,me and my brother got the BBguns w/rubber pellets.and took a bird out w/it, 1st time out in the backyard.as my older brother was going to look at it "bam",shot him in the leg or ***.i forget which.but they got taken away right then.my older brothers were in the army.and home on leave,so that pissed em off good.well no creepy crawlers for me.but you see the damage i did....God Bless....... Bear R.-

 

[tpodwdog]

VERTI-BIRD......... thats it...thanx Bruz. i loved that thing and she knew it. good idea about the hammer....THAT'LL LEARN 'EM !

 

[Bruzilla]

Too bad she smashed it. Those things sell for $100 and up these days. I have one at the house that's a remake that came out about fiver years ago. I taunt all the former helicopter guys I work with with it.

 

[Bear R.-]

those were the days of " Childhood bliss".man, born in the day was the **** .we lived it.Bear R-

ok,,,,heres one for ya....SST.....evil knevel motorcycle...pull the rip cord and that thing would wind up and go the speed of light. many a knik knaks destroyed around the house as a result of that thing flying up the ramp and thru the air... they had race cars like that too. we used to see if we could hit eachother from across the room....the good 'ol days...long gone. too much emphasis on safety...no wonder kids today are such pussies....they never had a chance to do real kid stuff like we did!

what was that helicoptor that went around in a circle? i remember my mother telling me to put it away...and i wouldnt...so she appeared from the bathroom with a toilet plunger and commenced to beating that thing into a million pieces right there in the middle of the living room. to this very day she brings it up and how bad she feels about it still....that was in 1972...funny stuff!

 

[moparmarks]

I searched and found that the Erector set and Chemistry set I had were made by a company called Gilbert Toys. You can't buy them anymore. Wonder why????? The chemistry set is #3 on the list of the Worlds Most Wildly Irresponsible Toys. #1 was a toy called Atomic Energy Lab. I don't remember that one. It actually came with Uranium. I'm not kidding, look it up.

The Erector set. One of the greatest toys ever made. Had 3 of them put together. Could build some awesome things, cranes, bridges, ect. Back when this country put out more engineers.
The chemistery set. Had a couple of them too. Could also walk into your local toy store and buy a bottle of Mercury too. Had both Mercury and Uranium but I live in the land of Uranium here so no biggie.

 

[ZR9B]

SST demo derby cars were cool...took a sst pulled the t strip..then put the wheel to my sisters hair....that was an *** kickin I didnt forget for some time..

How about TTP turbo tower of power....same as sst but ran on air. had a hand full of them.

 

[Bruzilla]

The one that landed me in solitary was a cheap plastic revolver. It had springs in the cylinder, and you pushed in grey plastic bullets into a cylinder, then rotated the cylinder so the gun frame would hold the bullet in. Once you were loaded up, you pulled the trigger and as a chamber aligned with the barrel, the bullet would come flying out. No problem with that.

Where the problem came up was you only got six bullets, and my sister and I were having a gunfight on the stairs and quickly ran out of ammo as we lost the bullets. So being quick thinkers, we determined crayons were the same diameter as the bullets, so we could break off 1" pieces of crayons and use them in place of the bullets. They worked great... except every time we fired and missed, the crayon bullets would leave a nice streak of color on whatever they hit, mainly the walls. Mom and Dad were not happy about hundreds of colorful little marks on the walls.

 

[tpodwdog]

remember the STAR TREK guns that shot out these little multi-colored disc wafer things? hours of fun with that chasing the wafers all over the neighborhood!

remember glow in the dark putty?....THAT STUFF STUNK BADDDDDDDDDDD !

 

[super-bee_ski]

Still have a little scar from my wood burning set. Consider it to be educational.
Remember when you could buy a chemistry set at the store. I think they were made by the same company that made the Erector Set. Another great toy.

I too have a small but discernable sacr from my wood burning set!
Left hand, slightly between the thumb and webbing for the index finger!
TOO FUNNY!

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When I was growing up in Plum, we lived directly across RT 286 from the Holiday Park VFD. My sister had one of those super chemistry sets and we were watching the episode of Star Trek where Kirk makes gunpowder to kill an alien and my sister and I ran up to her chemistry set to see if she had charcoal, potassium nitrate, and sulfur, and she had all three, so we tried to make out own cannon. We took it out in the backyard and lit it off. It didn't fire the ping pong ball we loaded in it, but it made this massive plume of black smoke that the guys at the VFD saw.

A few minutes later, we saw one of the fire trucks going up and down our street looking for the source of the smoke, but all the evidence had been cleaned up by then.

I'm laughing so damn hard here!
Bruzilla, your killing me. ! LOL
That is just one funny story!
All this from the "toy manufactring generation" that invented LAWN DARTS !!

 

[Moparsmitty]

When I was growing up in Plum, we lived directly across RT 286 from the Holiday Park VFD. My sister had one of those super chemistry sets and we were watching the episode of Star Trek where Kirk makes gunpowder to kill an alien and my sister and I ran up to her chemistry set to see if she had charcoal, potassium nitrate, and sulfur, and she had all three, so we tried to make out own cannon. We took it out in the backyard and lit it off. It didn't fire the ping pong ball we loaded in it, but it made this massive plume of black smoke that the guys at the VFD saw.

A few minutes later, we saw one of the fire trucks going up and down our street looking for the source of the smoke, but all the evidence had been cleaned up by then.

You know that you're having real fun when the cops or fire dept. show up to see what all the noise and smoke is about!

 

[Budnicks]

:iamwithstupid: I haven't read the whole thread, but you guys are all reminding me of some old toys from my ill spent youth, Red Ryder Big Tex, Model 94 Lever action western Riffle {something like that} that shot little red plastic bullets, I use to shoot my sisters all the time, "real child safe", I had fun with it thou, it would never get produced today...LOL... Bruzilla I do remember the Creepy Crawlers {or it might have been Incredible Eatables, I'm not sure}, my sisters had an oven thing & you mix ups some goop & poor/inject them or something, in some kind of mold, weren't the ovens powered by a light bulb ??, my older sister Candy had a pet "chipmunk", Alvin - I fed him some, of the nasty rubbery sweet stuff, he would eat anything you gave him almost, anyway after a short while, he had the squirten' shooten' shits, all over my sisters bed, poor little guy, I feel bad now, my sister wanted to kill me, when she found out latter, that I fed him that kind of stuff, I didn't do it to hurt him, I was young & dumb, also he was fine soon afterwords & I didn't know any better, he was still my little buddy...

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I was big into Hot Wheels my older sisters were big into, beaten' me with the orange track pieces..

 

[64BEL]

I still have my Cox Sandblaster car. I should dig that thing out.

 

[99ss]

I remember when you could buy gun powder and make your own bombs to blow up in a field and it wasnt a homeland security issue.

 

[Bruzilla]

You know that you're having real fun when the cops or fire dept. show up to see what all the noise and smoke is about!

My Dad had the best one. He and my uncle were kids in the 1950s, and spending the 4th of July at my grandparent's cottage on the Allegheny River. The river is real wide where they were at, and there's cabins and cottages on one side and railroad tracks on the other. My Dad and Uncle Ken went to some hardware store, and bought a bunch of fireworks that he said looked like they were from the 1920s or so. They had huge rockets and those old pinwheels that spun around.

So they're lighting these things off, and they see a train coming down the tracks on the other side of the river. There's a brakeman walking along the tops of the cars, and they decide to put a show on for him by lighting off a bunch of these huge Wily Coyote-looking rockets. They got a couple off, but one of them had a pole that was mostly rotted away and it broke when the rocket fired. Instead of going up it started across the river towards the train, and right for where the brakeman was. The rocket either hit one of the cars or the banking for the tracks, but it exploded and there was a huge cloud of sparks, flames, and smoke that obscured their vision of the train, and when the car that the brakeman had been on came clear of the cloud, the brakeman was gone!

My Dad said he and Uncle Ken were sitting outside the cottage about an hour later when a Pennsylvania State Trooper came rolling up the street and made a couple of passes before he stopped where they were. The trooper asked them if they had seen anyone lighting fireworks, and they of course said "no". The trooper was looking around, and they had cleaned up all the traces of the fireworks but there were burn marks on the phone poles from the pin wheels and lots of scorched grass from the rockets. The trooper kept asking them if they were sure they hadn't seen anyone lighting off fireworks even as he's standing right over all this burnt grass, but they denied, denied, denied. Then the trooper told them a train had come into Tionesta, a town about 20 miles away, and a brakeman had been hanging onto the side of one of the cars after claiming he had been attacked as the train passed this spot, so if they were to see anyone lighting off illegal fireworks, they should give the state police a call. They said they would certainly do that.

So apparently the brakeman saw the rocket coming at him, started climbing down one of the side ladders, and hung there for dear life for close to 20 miles until the next stop. And people wondered where my sister and I got our issues from.