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Post by WildKnight on Sept 28, 2011 7:00:56 GMT -5
Anything with projectiles was awesome when we were kids, because the missiles actually fired out with enough power to hurt (or at least seriously irritate) people.
I saw a kids glasses broken by a Centurions missile once.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 10:36:19 GMT -5
Wow, I guess dad wasn't kidding when he said, "Careful you could put your eye out with that thing." I knew toys like BB or pellet guns, or sling shots were dangerous, but I never thought a a toy missile would do anything like that. One "toy" he had was a strong sling shot. It was able to break bottles, kill rabbits, and other small game. I didn't go around slaughtering animals, but sometimes I had to keep them out of the garden, keep them from getting into the addict, etc. Most of the time we cooked what I killed. I'm not really much of a hunter, but those were also pretty fun toys.
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Post by Black Sam on Sept 28, 2011 12:58:12 GMT -5
I was pretty awesome with a BB-gun. We lived in the ghetto when I was in high school, and had a mouse problem. My basset hound was a pretty good mousecatcher, but whenever we caught one in traditional traps, they only died about half the time. Otherwise they trashed around and freaked my mom out a lot, so my job was to locate the trap and finish the job with my BB-gun.
That was what happened to the original Boba Fett action figure, by the way. Some kid shot his eye out or something dumb, so the later models lacked the awesome spring-loaded rocket action. Bummer...
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Post by WildKnight on Sept 28, 2011 13:04:51 GMT -5
That was what happened to the original Boba Fett action figure, by the way. Some kid shot his eye out or something dumb, so the later models lacked the awesome spring-loaded rocket action. Bummer... Close. They never actually shipped the original with the working rocket launcher. There's some debate over whether it was determined that it would be unsafe, or just too expensive to produce, but only the original solicitations for the figure (and not the figure itself) featured the working rocket launcher. Last Christmas, they sold an old-school Boba Fett figure with a working rocket launcher with the advertising that people had "waited 40 years to get it"
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Post by roxolid on Sept 28, 2011 17:26:02 GMT -5
Only American import I can remember* is Battle of the Planets. Before then we got mostly home grown stuff, which was a bit crap in most respects. Well, Dangermouse, Bananaman and various euro stuff. And of course Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Captain Scarlet, Fireball XL5 and various other puppet/string derived entertainment. (Think I'm missing one but can't remember).
I'd forgotten about the first Thundercats episode. Didn't they have to leave their planet or something?
Semi-related: Not sure if anyone knows this, but did the kids in the D&D cartoon ever get home?
*Edit: Until the mid eighties, by which time He Man, She Ra, and various other stuff came along. GI Joe never caught on in Britain, but Transformers did in a reasonably big way.
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Post by WildKnight on Sept 28, 2011 17:38:34 GMT -5
Dangermouse was awesome.
In the original Thundercats, they had to flee Thundera due to a catastrophe (like Krypton!). The fleet was attacked by the mutants, and most of the Thundercats died. Third Earth wasn't their home, it was an alien world that they crashed on.
And yes, the D&D kids got home. I think they went back, though.
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Post by WildKnight on Sept 28, 2011 17:41:40 GMT -5
Correction; the "going home" episode of Dungeons & Dragons was written, but never produced. Apparently it's out there in the form of a radio play, though.
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Post by Black Sam on Sept 28, 2011 18:16:19 GMT -5
Dangermouse was awesome. In the original Thundercats, they had to flee Thundera due to a catastrophe (like Krypton!). The fleet was attacked by the mutants, and most of the Thundercats died. Third Earth wasn't their home, it was an alien world that they crashed on. And yes, the D&D kids got home. I think they went back, though. Dangermouse was awesome. It bore repeating, shut up.
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Post by WildKnight on Sept 28, 2011 18:24:17 GMT -5
Black Sam ladies and gentlemen! Let's give him a big round of applause!
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Post by Black Sam on Sept 28, 2011 18:31:20 GMT -5
You're too kind.
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Post by Black Sam on Sept 28, 2011 18:32:16 GMT -5
You should move to Kansas. We could be the old dudes from the Muppet Show for Halloween. I'll get you hired on at my crappy job. Come on, you know you wanna...
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Post by WildKnight on Sept 28, 2011 18:36:14 GMT -5
Crappy job > no job (most of the time)
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