Mattel Fanner Fifty, anyone remember these?

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..................................
 
I had one of all of them at one time or another. The early ones that used roll caps, the Shootin-shell kind and the detective snub. Also the Winchesters and the Tommy-burst. I will always remember one Christmas that I got the Shootin-shell model. On Christmas day all the women folk were in the kitchen, fixing Christmas dinner, and I walked in with my Fanner 50 and "massacred" them. I can still hear my aunt screaming. Little plastic bullets were bouncing all over. What great toys. I just wished the Tommy burst was battery operated, so I didn't have to keep pulling the bolt back.
 
When I was about 6, my Granddad bought me a "Kentucky" rifle that was about as real as it could get. It took regular percussion caps, on a fixed nipple, and fired cork balls. The lock was some kind of cast pot metal and the barrel was thin walled steel tubing. It was all fun and games until my dad saw that I was busting firecrackers and loading the powder under the cork balls. Loaded like that it put good dents in our metal garbage cans.
I wish I knew were it ended up.
 
While I had a Fanner Fifty at one point a couple of my aunts worked for Kilgore, so most of our capguns and caps were Kilgores. Talking about homemade toy guns, when I was about 7 my Dad made me a toy Thompson. Even had a drum magazine made from a cut down coffee can.
 
Yeah, but did you also have a Mattel Buckle Gun? I'm pretty sure that was the last toy gun I ever bought. I was really into derringers about that time.
 
walnutred said:
While I had a Fanner Fifty at one point a couple of my aunts worked for Kilgore, so most of our capguns and caps were Kilgores. Talking about homemade toy guns, when I was about 7 my Dad made me a toy Thompson. Even had a drum magazine made from a cut down coffee can.
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Home made guns were cool too,us kids had no money......Artsie Butt ( same guy who put red ants in my pants:eek:) used to make the most awesome ones.....his dad owned and operated a home heating fuel delivery business and he and my older brother were best friends...and between all the wood scraps and old pipe and paint we made some good ones....and BTW, Artsie only put them red ants down my drawers that one time, next time he tried,I broke his nose:D
 
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