Why Can't Toys Be Like This Anymore........

[twyacht]

Had to share, as my father sent this to me to remind me of a different time. Mattel used to be a "real toy" company, but alas,,,,this will put a smile on your face,..

[Hazcat]

WOW!  I remember that commercial!

[MikeBjerum]

I was young enough then to not remember that commercial, but gotta ask mom why I didn't get one of them.

[twyacht]

I checked the Barack Obama website and sadly,.... the Tommy Burst, would be banned under his Assault Weapons Ban

Damn.....

[Fatman]

I don't remember the commercial, but if I was old enough to see it i probably begged for one. At the tender age of 7, I did get a 1911 that fired bullets you pressed into a spring loaded case. You then loaded those into a magazine (don't start!). I used to shoot at the metal living room clock.

I guess that explains why I prefer 1911s over anything else. Forty years of .45 

Edit: I love the internet:



Heh. They call it a clip.

Found one for sale, $500:

[Sponsor]

[Dakotaranger]

As a kid I would have begged for this one:

[Rob10ring]

These are all so cool and really reflect what a different world we're living in now, when it's difficult to even find decent squirt guns at a store with as gunny a name as Target. My dad still has his 2 gun Roy Rogers set in better condition than those at the Roy Rogers Museum.

Does anyone know if there's anything to this photo? I am a Photoshop professional and it looks like there been some work done here, but did Mattel get into guns?

[tombogan03884]

These are all so cool and really reflect what a different world we're living in now, when it's difficult to even find decent squirt guns at a store with as gunny a name as Target. My dad still has his 2 gun Roy Rogers set in better condition than those at the Roy Rogers Museum.

Does anyone know if there's anything to this photo? I am a Photoshop professional and it looks like there been some work done here, but did Mattel get into guns?

I Had one of those  I was going to post about it as I read this thread. It was a toy that looked Just like an M16 same size as well, The bolt release and safety were just molded in not movable, as I remember it made some kind of machine gun noise. Another thing about the Mattel M16, it was this first toy gun I owned that was not metal.
Does any one remember "Six Finger" ? it was a toy gun that 's barrel looked like a finger, you could shoot your friends with little rubber bullets.

[Big Frank]

I couldn't see anything until I hit reply. Now I see everything except the Mattel M-16. I found some pics. I never had any on these toys. 

[Big Frank]

I don't even see the 3 pics I just posted either. I don't know what's going on here.