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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:03:42 PM EST

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[#1]

Flip flop foot.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:05:20 PM EST

[#2]

Wrong.

BB guns were the greatest childhood toy of all time.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:06:38 PM EST

[#3]

I used to take the glider versions and tape bottle rockets to them...……….made my own ME 163 Komets with them

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:06:45 PM EST

[#4]

Wrong

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:06:48 PM EST

[#5]

Fanner Fifty or the Daisy air rifle.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:07:35 PM EST

[#6]

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Wrong.

BB guns were the greatest childhood toy of all time.

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I was gonna say something else, but I would have been wrong.

This right here. Close it down.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:08:37 PM EST

[#7]

Bike
BB gun
Cap gun
Sprinkler

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:09:31 PM EST

[#8]

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:09:39 PM EST

[#9]

I like the super ball by Whamo! and I like the rubber ball and paddle by either Bolo or fli back. But the greatest of them all was the Sears catalog women's underwear section.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:10:08 PM EST

[#10]

4 finger formation

Should be echelon

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:10:09 PM EST

[#11]

YES!

I used to ride my bike a few blocks to the hobby shop across the highway to get these. So much fun as a kid. Always ended up having to replace the rubber bands I'd use them so much. Until finally the prop would break and then you'd have to get a new one.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:10:33 PM EST

[#12]

All the above plus this

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:10:38 PM EST

[#13]

This.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:11:11 PM EST

[#14]

Wrong. Greatest toy of all time is Mr. Happy.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:12:53 PM EST

[#15]

Wrong!

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:12:58 PM EST

[#16]

SPNI, but these were cool too.

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:14:07 PM EST

[#17]

These have all been good. I'll add...

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:15:31 PM EST

[#18]

These were great fun . . .

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:15:36 PM EST

[#19]

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Fanner Fifty or the Daisy air rifle.

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Fanner Fifty, with greenie stick'em caps.

Got a dual set for Christmas as a kid.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:16:08 PM EST

[#20]

Legos had the most playtime per cost ratio for me.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:18:43 PM EST

[#21]

This was the most badass NERF gun for it's time. Fully automatic running on a pneumatic system. 20rd drum up front. Emptied in like 5 seconds. Actually kind of hurt getting hit on bare skin from close enough. I tried to fix mine and lost some parts, plus some were broken anyway. Wish I still had it.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:19:04 PM EST

[#22]

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:22:21 PM EST

[#23]

Of course nothing in childhood was as important as this:

This was everything.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:25:17 PM EST

[#24]

Gi Joes ftw

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:25:34 PM EST

[#25]

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Never got one of the Green Machines, but I did get this

Rumbler X3

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:28:15 PM EST

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:30:27 PM EST

[#27]

If that's what you think your childhood sucked

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:31:32 PM EST

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That’s nice of you.

I’m a grown ass man and I just got my toy stuck in a tree.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:32:10 PM EST

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I'm a grown ass man and I just got my toy stuck in a tree.

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Shoot it out with the far superior BB gun

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:32:29 PM EST

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We had some Arfcommer clocked at 50 mph downhill on one of those greenmachnes. Geez. No thanks.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:34:20 PM EST

[#31]

all solid contributions. add in hot wheels.. not matchbox garbage, real deal hot wheels.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:36:55 PM EST

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:36:59 PM EST

[#33]

Pong, it was mesmerizing

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:37:31 PM EST

[#34]

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Green machine for the win.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:37:44 PM EST

[#35]

1. my toy gun collection during the 80s (we had awesome non neutered toy guns)

2. my awesome g.i. joe collection (small ones from the 80s/90s)

3. my tubs of legos

4. making my big sister's life hell

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:39:17 PM EST

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THAT is a great BB gun

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:39:55 PM EST

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This.

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Correct

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:42:41 PM EST

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Winner

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:52:57 PM EST

[#39]

Aw man, that brought back memories! Back in 75 my family just came to the US and lived in an old AF Base in Moses Lake, Washington. Japan Airlines used the airport facility to train its pilots flying across the Pacific. They held a contest one time and the basis is to see who could make that rubberband powered airplane fly longest in two tries taking off from a tabletop. Of about 100 kids, I won first place which was a gas-powered, wire controlled P-51. For an 8yr old, it was a pretty proud moment.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:54:03 PM EST

[#40]

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Bike
BB gun
Cap gun
Sprinkler

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I’ll drink to this.

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:54:34 PM EST

[#41]

Holy fuck what happened to your foot?

Posted: 3/21/2020 5:55:36 PM EST

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Posted: 3/21/2020 5:58:59 PM EST

[#43]

BBgun and Castle Navaronne.

Posted: 3/21/2020 6:00:42 PM EST

[#44]

Big wheel.
I bet I covered 5000 miles on mine as a kid. My dad had to order replacement front wheels on several occasions.
i guess I've always been a traveling man of sorts....

Posted: 3/21/2020 6:04:30 PM EST

[#45]

My favorite toy of my childhood was actually an M1911A1 "rubber duck". I think it came from my Dad's Artillery battery's arms room - was being discarded as they were moving to the Beretta.

I took that damn thing everywhere. It's no wonder I love the 1911 to this day.

Posted: 3/21/2020 6:05:15 PM EST

[#46]

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Aw man, that brought back memories! Back in 75 my family just came to the US and lived in an old AF Base in Moses Lake, Washington. Japan Airlines used the airport facility to train its pilots flying across the Pacific. They held a contest one time and the basis is to see who could make that rubberband powered airplane fly longest in two tries taking off from a tabletop. Of about 100 kids, I won first place which was a gas-powered, wire controlled P-51. For an 8yr old, it was a pretty proud moment.

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That’s badass. Mine won’t fly straight, but it will do maybe 10-12 seconds airborne flying in a circle.