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

[brosometal]

I came across this the other day.  With all the talk of youthful hijinks, caps, and explosions, this one should fit right in here.

http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/stunts/100000_Paper_Caps_Explosion/#38106

[Big Frank]

I saw that big ball of caps and thought, "He's gonna need a bigger hammer." I laughed so hard I cried.    I love it. When we didn't do a box at a time we took a single roll and rolled it up tighter so it didn't have the space in the middle then taped it up. I think it was louder that way. .22 ammo with the bullets pulled was fun to play with too. Powder to burn, cases to mash, and bullets to shoot out of out a slingshot. 

[PegLeg45]

When I was in high school, we had a 'cannon' behind one end-zone that we fired at football games.
It was basically a piece of 2" pipe, 2' long, welded to a square of 1/2" plate.
We would drop a couple of starter blanks down the pipe and then drop a piece of solid rod that weighed about 8 pounds down the pipe on top of the blanks and it would go boom.
Well, one Friday night it was wet (had rained all day) and apparently water had accumulated in the pipe and everyone thought someone else had emptied the water out of the pipe.
We had pre-dropped a few blanks down the pipe, and when the team took the field, we dropped the weight and.....nothing.
So one of the guys dropped in a few more....dropped the weight...and......nothing.
Yes, you guessed it....our young dumb asses dropped a whole box in and released the weight.
Well.....it finally went BOOOOOM.....and.....like a mortar, the 8 pound weight went about 20 feet in the air, landed right on top of the crossbar of the goal post (like it was scripted), and left a dent that was still there until the goal posts were replaced a few years ago.
One guy went to the hospital with singed eyebrows and a few blisters (the rest of us went to change underwear) and the cannon was officially retired for the season.
 

[Grizzle_Bear]

I missed most of these.  For the cap guns I had, the caps came in rolls and they stuck out the top after being fired.  Noise and paper shreds, my mom must be a saint.  I would have love the whole sticky caps, fake bullets, tommy guns with burst or single shot.  My folks needed to meet earlier and this wouldn't have been a problem

Ah, yes, I remember roll caps.

They were officially banned from our house after Mom vacuumed up a forgotten roll.  As they hit the impeller of the Kirby, they started going off, and they continued as they went into the dust bag, creating a most excellent fire. 

Quick action saved the vacuum cleaner, as well as the house, but the issue was in doubt for a while.

Grizzle Bear

[Big Frank]

I can see everything okay if I use Firefox but then I can't reply, quote, delete or modify a post. I finally saw the picture of the M16 that Mattel never made.

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[tombogan03884]

I can see everything okay if I use Firefox but then I can't reply, quote, delete or modify a post. I finally saw the picture of the M16 that Mattel never made.

They most definitely DID make it. I had one.

[Big Frank]

They most definitely DID make it. I had one.

I mean the photoshopped real M16, not the Mattel Marauder toy.

[tombogan03884]

I mean the photoshopped real M16, not the Mattel Marauder toy.

That wasn't photoshop, it was molded into the plastic, the selector and bolt release did not move, but they were molded just as shown in the picture, it was even 39 inches long 

[Big Frank]

It looks like a real M16 with a real M16 magazine in it and moving parts in Fuzzdaddy's picture, not the toy that's in the other pictures. Some people swear up and down that Mattell DID make real M16s too. I think they made some pistol grips that said Mattell inside them and when somebody saw that they started a rumor that Mattell made the whole gun. I still think this is just a photoshopped picture of a real M16 that someone put the Mattell name on as a joke or to back up the rumor. Look at the magazine in this picture compared to that monstrosity on the Marauder.

[tombogan03884]

It looks like a real M16 with a real M16 magazine in it and moving parts in Fuzzdaddy's picture, not the toy that's in the other pictures. Some people swear up and down that Mattell DID make real M16s too. I think they made some pistol grips that said Mattell inside them and when somebody saw that they started a rumor that Mattell made the whole gun. I still think this is just a photoshopped picture of a real M16 that someone put the Mattell name on as a joke or to back up the rumor. Look at the magazine in this picture compared to that monstrosity on the Marauder.

The one I had looked JUST like the one in the picture YOU posted, Not the out of scale one.
The reason Mattel was contracted to make the early stock parts was that they were at the leading edge in plastic molding technology at the time.