Mattel Fanner Fifty, anyone remember these?

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and or have one?? I did and sure wish I still did. I do remember breaking it multiple times but somehow dad always fixed it
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YouTube - Shootin' Shell 45 cap gun commercial ( Mattel )

If you did have one, watch the youtube video for a blast from the past. If'n your too young watch it anyway to witness one of the most awesome toys of "my generation":cool:
 
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I had one, in fact it was probably my last toy gun. It was so great to finally have a toy gun that looked just like the ones the tv cowboys had. I saw one not too long ago at a gunshow and it was priced higher than many of the real thing.
 
Yup, Bestlookin' toy gun I had. I didn't know until I watch the video that it even had bullets.. We didn't have TV back then
 
My two brother and I each had one with the leather hoslter. I forgot that they shot plastic bullit.
 
I had a pair of them along with a double holster rig. Mine fired roll caps inserted in the left side of the frame. I still have at least one of them somewhere.

LTC
 
LTC said:
I had a pair of them along with a double holster rig. Mine fired roll caps inserted in the left side of the frame. I still have at least one of them somewhere.

LTC
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That was the New Jersey/ Massachusetts/California compliant version.....only kidding:eek:
 
I dont remember if it was my first toy gun or not, but the first one I can remember: My uncle came home from world war two. I remember someone dropping him off in front of our store with his gear. That night he poured out on the floor the following guns. A P-08 luger, a P-38 walther, a .32 browning, and a 9mm Radom. All had nazi markings, holsters , tools, and in top shape. Many years I inherited most of them when he died.
I was about 4 or 5 years old but remember it like it was last week. My dad also was gone most of the war too, but now home. Dad told me to pick one of those pistols. For some reason I picked the Random. Dad traced it on a board, sawed it out, even roughly made checkering on the grips etc. It looked pretty real! I wish I still had it, dont remember what happened to it, but it was around my folks house for many years.
Here is a picture of my uncle Eldon Bruhn. He came home a little screwed up, never married, finaly commited suicide. I belive he had two purple hearts, I think 6 bronze and silver star. Also a presidential citation. He was with the gliders in the 82nd. Once he survived a landing where just he and one other lived out of 14 guys.
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I remember a kid that I used to play with had a set of big pistols like the fanner 50 but his took the caps that were disk shaped, round like a full moon clip they fit on the back of the clyinder and had 6 buttons that fired with the hammer. Jeff
 
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I had one. I also the the Shootin Shell version, a rolling block rifle and the derringer belt buckle. The Shootin Shell vesions had a plastic bullet that was pressed in to shell casing with a spring. When the hammer hit it-out came the plastic bullet.
 
feralmerril said:
I dont remember if it was my first toy gun or not, but the first one I can remember: My uncle came home from world war two. I remember someone dropping him off in front of our store with his gear. That night he poured out on the floor the following guns. A P-08 luger, a P-38 walther, a .32 browning, and a 9mm Radom. All had nazi markings, holsters , tools, and in top shape. Many years I inherited most of them when he died.
I was about 4 or 5 years old but remember it like it was last week. My dad also was gone most of the war too, but now home. Dad told me to pick one of those pistols. For some reason I picked the Random. Dad traced it on a board, sawed it out, even roughly made checkering on the grips etc. It looked pretty real! I wish I still had it, dont remember what happened to it, but it was around my folks house for many years.
Here is a picture of my uncle Eldon Bruhn. He came home a little screwed up, never married, finaly commited suicide. I belive he had two purple hearts, I think 6 bronze and silver star. Also a presidential citation. He was with the gliders in the 82nd. Once he survived a landing where just he and one other lived out of 14 guys.
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Thanks for paying tribute to your uncle in this thread, so many of our fathers, brothers and sisters who serve and protect us suffer great emotional injury.....and never complian. He's a hero in my book, sincerely. Thank you for sharing.
 
I had one also as well as a lever rifle replica that fired the same plastic bullets and used the Greenie Stickem Caps. I could use the same "ammo" in both the rifle and revolver. I remember shooting at paper cups in the house with it. I now have the adult versions( Colt SAA's and Winchester 92) and they take .44 WCF(.44-40) cartridges but the idea is the same. I think the Airsoft guns are similar in some respects. I wish I hadn't destroyed them playing with them but I sure enjoyed them.
 
I had one of the belt buckle derringer shootin shells, that used the greenie stickup caps. My fanner 50 came with the swivel holster that fired the gun when you pushed down on the grips to get the barrel up where it was supposed to be. A couple metal parts of the holster stuck thru the trigger guard and pulled the trigger for you.
 
My brother and me used to slam a wicked big rock onto a roll of caps to get a wicked big bang:eek:........CAPS RULED:rolleyes:
 
I had one of those!

I remember the Greenie Stick-um Caps, and those gray plastic 'bullets' that would shoot with reasonably accuracy for about 6 or 8 feet.

The peel and stick caps were kind of expensive, as I recall.

It was a lot of fun. I have no idea what ever happened to it. I was pretty hard on my toys, as I recall.
 
I only had the cap guns of the 90s with the roll of 50 caps on a red ribbon (you could set 'em off if you scraped them with a nail or something, too) and the solid plug in the barrel. All of the sides of the revolvers spun up and you put the roll of caps on a peg and fed it up into the hammer. It was supposed to be self-feeding, but that rarely worked for crap. Not only that, but the triggers were prone to wearing out badly. I even think I snapped a hammer in half once. I think I also had one that was a break action cap gun that still used a roll, but it broke in half, so it's gone. I don't know if I even have them around anymore, but I need to check one of these days. I probably have some old caps laying around though.
 
Got one plus a few

This version of the "fanner" has the "Cowboy out of Africa" grips, a special edition for a movie of the same name. Think it may have starred Chuck Conners. Also a Nichols Stallion 45, a Shootin shell snub nose 38, a trooper and a "Dick". Yeah, I know, I'm a pack rat. All from childhood way back when.


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Yes, I remember the Fanner Fifty with fondness. Matter of fact, when I start thinking about my childhood days, I go into my study and pull out the old fanner. I still have the revolver, the gun belt, and all the shells with the bullets. The gun belt also has the large belt buckle with the deringer that pops out and fires when you pushed your stomach forward.
I still have several of my old cowboy guns along with the space guns so prevelent during my childhood. (I am long in the tooth.)
Well made toys. Played with hard, worked all the time, and best of all, made in the USA. And the only plastic was the handles and bullets.
 
I was a kid in the 50s. I had several Fanner 50s.
"If its made by Mattel, you know it swell".

Rule 303
 
rimfired said:
This version of the "fanner" has the "Cowboy out of Africa" grips, a special edition for a movie of the same name. Think it may have starred Chuck Conners. Also a Nichols Stallion 45, a Shootin shell snub nose 38, a trooper and a "Dick". Yeah, I know, I'm a pack rat. All from childhood way back when.


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I had all of these. May still have the Hubley Trooper. (Top right) I made a horsehide holster for it.

My mother gave my cap guns to other kids while I was away in the USAF. They'd be valuable now. Mother was anti-gun.

Did you guys have the Colt .45 that looked like a Colt 1860 Army .44?

T-Star
 
Great Thread! I pulled mine out and looked at it... brought back a lot of kehl memories! :-) Thanks!
Bob Best
 
The kid across the street from me had the full set, pistol, rifle, belt buckle derringer and the target. The target is what i remember best. It was a small mechanical bad guy with a bullseye on his chest. You started the clockwork going and he would slowly raise his hand. When it reached level a cap would fire. You could stop him by hitting the bullseye with a plastic bullet from your gun. It was a great toy.
 
fanocool said:
My brother and me used to slam a wicked big rock onto a roll of caps to get a wicked big bang:eek:........CAPS RULED:rolleyes:
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I used to take an entire roll of the red paper caps, set it on it's edge on the curb and smack it with my dad's claw hammer. Most of the roll would explode at once and what didn't would go off with a couple more blows from the hammer. I think that was the beginning of my tinnitus...
 
Still have mine, and thankfully still have the memories of using it too.
 
Fanner Fifty

Carried one 'til I was about 9.
Wish I knew what happened to it.

Found one on e-Bay and it's down
in the safe with the 'real' guys.

Look under Toys / Cap Guns,
and bring your checkbook.

But there is nothing like the smell of freshly popped
Greenie Stick Em caps..................................
 
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