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"Millions of "enlightened" TV viewers spit tofu in mortal terror "...or...

..."A surprise revisit to the happiness of my childhood."

Think of the place that America was when these were part of your Saturday morning.

Better or worse now, and with things like this nowhere to be seen?

-Toy gun commercials-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArIpPFjJGS0

I'd like to search out whomsoever uploaded these and buy him/her a prime rib dinner. For a few minutes, I felt the closest to being a kid again as I have in 40 years. I hope you wonderful folks enjoy them as much as I did.

ETA- Anybody notice a pre-adolecent Kurt Russell and Billy Mumy?
 
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That's Kurt Russel in the second toy commercial, the Sonic Blaster.

Different times then, and I hope one day we go back there.

Those were the days when common sense was common.
 
Well, the Bad Guy, in that Tommy-Gun Detective set, next to last, was Otis, the drunk off Andy Griffith. That must be how he can afford to get drunk all the time - burgling.

I liked that capgun/watergun. That was kinda neat. Never even heard of that one.
 
Man, that brings back some fond memories. When was the last
time you saw kids playing "Guns, Cops & Robbers, or Cowboys
& Indians"? The second ad(with Kurt Russell)makes me think
that if a kid were wandering around playing with an toy that
looked like that these days, SWAT would probably be called. My
favorite is the third to the last, with the kindly town cops
admiring the realism of the toy guns. Definitely not nowadays.
I guess its just a sign of the times we live in.:(
 
I enjoyed that, thanks for sharing!!

I find it odd how toy guns of all kinds suction cup, cap, etc are all considered bad for kids. Yet people let young children play first person shooter games that are a thousand times worse than anything we dreamed up as kids.

Do kids play things like cops & robbers, Cowboys and Indians, army anymore, I know they require imagination on a group level. I know that they dont like kids to imagine things anymore...

(shaking my head in disgust) where did we go wrong?
 
Look up videos of kids playing with airsoft guns on Youtube. They may not be able to bring a cap gun to school, but they've got some neat stuff waiting for them when they get home.
 
Saw Bill Mumy in one of those commercials. I had some of those when I was a kid...and to be honest, they still kind of appeal to me (probably most the rest of us, too). Commercials like this would give some people these days a nervous breakdown, then those same people would look for a playstation to play Call of Duty or whatever.FTR I showed this to my mom...she made comment to the little kid playing detective with a shoulder holster...then made a snide comment about how little boys never grow up and pointed to what I'm wearing under my jacket...(only it ain't a toy!)
 
Oh yeah...

I remember. This was part of a whole host of things in society that indoctrinated baby boomers, like the Spartans of old, and prepared us for war. All of my male role models were Vets, mostly II WW, and the movies were full of the images of war, with those returning receiving a "heroes welcome," and we "played war" all of the time. It has been said that coming home was the hardest part of Viet Nam for those who survived, do to the expectations, and preconceived ideas that had formed in our minds years before. I had a Fanner 50, and some other stuff, but most of that stuff was on the seen after I was already getting ready to enjoy the really swell Mattel stuff. I remember striping the hand guard off of a M-16 in a bunker in the Me Cong Delta, and seeing "Mattel Manufacturing Co., or something like that on the inside-what a rush. Flapjack.
 
Sometimes I feel like they past 50 years of "progress" have been anything but.

Now you can give your teacher "the finger" without repercussion, but raise your thumb and extend your pointer finger and it's an automatic suspension.
 
kozmic said:
Sometimes I feel like they past 50 years of "progress" have been anything but.

Now you can give your teacher "the finger" without repercussion, but raise your thumb and extend your pointer finger and it's an automatic suspension.
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Since I am in absolutely no mood to get my wee wee wacked any more then it already has, I'll just say, "...ain't that the truth?" ;)
 
Speaking of toy guns, Who remembers the ones with the little plastic caps? After I got my old muzzleloader shootable last summer (pis in safe queen thread) I noticed how the percussion caps looked nearly the same. So I took my old muzzleloader and a percussion cap and the kids out back in my surbub yard in the subdivision figuring they would think the little snap was kind of cool. Those real ones for muzzleloaders are much louder than the ones we had in our toy guns ;)
I thought for sure the police would show up soon, luckily it was July 3 so people probably figured they heard fireworks.
 
Every year

Those ARE great vids. Every Christmas I would get some new kind of gun. That's the only time we could afford those outrageous prices ($5.95) for fancy toys. And we loved them. We were continuously playing some kind of gun game.
 
Have you seen the nerf guns that kids play with today. My son has everyone of them. He has a belt-fed nerf m60 like gun mounted on a tripod. He has a rocket like launcher that you pump up to fire. Yeah- he was the one to visit as far as his friends were concerned. He has went from nerf, airsoft guns to pellet rifles to real guns and he is only 13! He has his own gun safe too. He is a very responsible kid. He is also an only kid as well. Both of us built an AR last year during the summer. He built one after I built mine. He mounted his own scope on his deer rifle last year too. I keep telling him that I won't be around forever and he needs to learn to problem solve on his own. He is learning and progressing quite well. Sorry I got off topic.
 
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