Todays kids are wimps...

[Berean]

Anybody have these? I remember having a set that included a VW bug.

[razorduck]

Originally Posted by Berean

Anybody have these? I remember having a set that included a VW bug.

That's hilarious! I had forgotten about those. I did have a set of those. It took 5 minutes to put the parts back on after crashing them and about 2 seconds to crash it!

[PQ]

Originally Posted by Darth Camaro

I still have a set of those from my grandfather. I don't know why they took them off the market, I did'nt know anybody that got speared in the foot

No, but hit in the head. :(

I remember we had the ones where the fins would slide to the end of the shaft when you threw them. lol

Originally Posted by 2ndgenz28

And when I think about it, the color red it was and the plastic, it makes me think of that Disney movie The Black Hole

I remember Black Hole being a state of the art blockbuster smash movie of the ages. I was 9. lol

Originally Posted by thesnoopster

Who remember these cartoons ???

I remember ALL of those. Damn memories.

Originally Posted by Prochargedchevyi

Believe it or not, but my old Mongoose and Diamondback are still upstairs in my parents barn - equipped with some awesome early 90's plastic, 5-spoke mag wheels. I remember mowing lawns for an entire summer to buy a 3-piece sprocket and pedal set that weighed like .5lbs lighter. I guess I got into molding at an early age.

And to not totally derail the thread, yes, today's kids are mainly a bunch of Lilly livered softies.

What ever happened to stitching yourself up with some crazy glue and taking an aspirin for the pain?

I loved those yellow mag spoke rims. lol

And I don't think TJ minds the derailing of the thread. lol

Originally Posted by Prochargedchevyi

Believe it or not, but my old Mongoose and Diamondback are still upstairs in my parents barn - equipped with some awesome early 90's plastic, 5-spoke mag wheels. I remember mowing lawns for an entire summer to buy a 3-piece sprocket and pedal set that weighed like .5lbs lighter. I guess I got into modding at an early age.

And to not totally derail the thread, yes, today's kids are mainly a bunch of Lilly livered softies.

What ever happened to stitching yourself up with some crazy glue and taking an aspirin for the pain?

I loved those yellow mag spoke rims. lol

And I don't think TJ minds the derailing of the thread. lol

You see what I did there.

Originally Posted by Berean

Anybody have these? I remember having a set that included a VW bug.

Never got them, but saw them advertized. I think I started growing out of toy cars as they were coming out.

[Berean]

Originally Posted by PQ

Never got them, but saw them advertized. I think I started growing out of toy cars as they were coming out.

I think they came out in 72 or 73. The set I had with the VW was around 75 or 76.

[2ndgenz28]

Originally Posted by PQ

I remember Black Hole being a state of the art blockbuster smash movie of the ages. I was 9. lol

Yea, it was so cutting edge then, but was really kinda lame.

I even member it look cool on the Viewmaster disc's

[Berean]

Sid and Marty Croft were awesome!

[PQ]

Originally Posted by Berean

I think they came out in 72 or 73. The set I had with the VW was around 75 or 76.

Oh damn. I guess I just couldn't get any. Must have been traumatic for me at the time lol.

Originally Posted by 2ndgenz28

Yea, it was so cutting edge then, but was really kinda lame.

I even member it look cool on the Viewmaster disc's

Viewmasters.................. I forgot about those.

Originally Posted by Berean

Sid and Marty Croft were awesome!

Hell ya........ All of those. Cept far out space nuts. I dont remember that one. Wow. I cna't believe how corny some of that was. I remember being totaly afraid of that dynosaur in LOTL.

The wonderful wonderBUUUuuuuuuuug. LMMFAO

[2ndgenz28]

Originally Posted by PQ

Viewmasters.................. I forgot about those.

One of the first portable movie players, just a really slow frame rate

[PQ]

Originally Posted by 2ndgenz28

One of the first portable movie players, just a really slow frame rate

But the 3d was awewseome.

[2ndgenz28]

Originally Posted by PQ

But the 3d was awewseome.

Must be the color red

from red tic-tac-toe
the red monster robot black hole
to red viewmasters
you say 3d

and I think about them Nintendo Virtual Boy 3d units that were red, and so were the 3d grafix, all red tones, as was viewmaster like how you used it. Member almost buying one when they got near free new. But once I played a display it was no sale
Good 3d, all red tone grafix? blah

[Captain Vlad]

Originally Posted by SILVERHAWK

How about the almost indestructable all metal Tonka trucks (unless you had explosives as earlier mentioned)

My aunt backed her '78 Monte Carlo over my prized Tonka road grader. The cab was smashed.

That's it. The rest still worked.

[PQ]

Originally Posted by Captain Vlad

My aunt backed her '78 Monte Carlo over my prized Tonka road grader. The cab was smashed.

That's it. The rest still worked.

Tonka rocked. Big Yellow trucks.

And they worked. I remember the crane dump hopper. That was so cool.

[thesnoopster]

Tonka Trucks Ruled.... about 5 years ago I was helping my grandfather clean around his garage...under a pile of old car junk, my old tonka truck from 1979 was in the rubbish .... LOL ...and it still rolled...with a little limp

And I remember all them shows, you look at them now and be like "I used to be addicted to this?!?!" LOL

[TJTKSDMJ8]

Originally Posted by PQ

And I don't think TJ minds the derailing of the thread. lol

I'm a UT Alum .....Derailing is a way of life right now...

(PQ that was for you)


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