Toy submarines from yesteryear.

[sipowicz]

I was showing Dino some videos of our newest nuclear class subs and I remembered having a toy sub when back in the sixties...it took fizzy pellets and would go under water after putting the pellets in...does anyone remember having one of these?

 

[jeffsmith]

I remember those
I also remember one I owned had Torpedos too

 

[2fingers]

Used to have one, never did work right. Seems like it would turn over on its side or something like that.

 

[TACC1]

Sure thing, had a couple of them. What were they, an inch-and-a-half long? And it was baking soda; just put some in a recess on bottom, put in a plug that had a small hole in it, and put it in the
water. It'd sink 'til water got thru the little hole and the fizzing
started. I could watch that for a long time. Hardly on a par with
todays remote control models. Hot stuff back then. TACC1

 

[dasnake]

hey sip

1950's, kellogg's or post had a plastic sub as a prize, you put baking soda in it and it would sink and float and swim, cool then, wish i could find one now.

 

[jkc]

See my "On the Beach" thread...

 

[Rule3]

I had a Seaview Toy as a kid.

 

[DeathGrip]

Plop plop fiz fiz made them like rockets.Just never seemed to know what side was up.

I wonder what a Mentos would do in one......talk about a +P load.

 

[pilgrim6a]

There was one that came with an electric train set. I don't remember if it was Lionel or American Flyer. It was carried on a flat car. It had a rubber band powered prop, rudder and dive planes. It also used baking soda. It was about 8" long. Worked ,after a fasion.

 

[anothermiller]

Didnt have one but had a metal boat that you put a small candle inside. It heated a thin pan and made a popping sound, moved it right along.

 

[LedFowl]

I had some skindivers that worked like that submarine. You put the pellet in the fin on one of the diver's feet.

 

[Fishslayer]

I was showing Dino some videos of our newest nuclear class subs and I remembered having a toy sub when back in the sixties...it took fizzy pellets and would go under water after putting the pellets in...does anyone remember having one of these?

Yup. Had one in the tub.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Had the sub and the skin diver. I was really excited to get them both. They would sort of go down then up inthe water, but the action was too subtle to be really captivating, and you had to sit real still in the tub or they would just get sloshed around.

The candle boats I have seen much more recently. My family was in the toy business, and had those tin boats for sale, made in India. They actually worked pretty well, but the art work was pretty cheesy, both on the metal and on the unbelievably flimsy cardboard packaging.

 

[NFrameFred]

I had the frogmen when I was a kid. I remembered them being somewhat fun. Years later I stumble across a set somewhere in a novelty shop and bought them and brought them home to my kids. Now even though that was 30 years ago they were already playing with the Nintendo video games, so . . . let's just say they were not particularly impressed with the baking soda frogmen . . .

 

[labworm]

1950's, kellogg's or post had a plastic sub as a prize, you put baking soda in it and it would sink and float and swim, cool then, wish i could find one now.

As a kid I really liked them, matched up with my frogmen.
But the poster I think had something different.

 

[enfield]

Didnt have one but had a metal boat that you put a small candle inside. It heated a thin pan and made a popping sound, moved it right along.

Yep - steam powered. Had one of those and the baking soda sub also. Loved them both.

 

[Iggy]

I had them corn flake frogmen and submarine.

 

[Erich]

Torgo - Baking Powder Submarines & Baking Soda Submarines

 

[JcMack]

I remember my mother had to buy me my own can of Redman baking powder to power my fleet of subs. I had a big sub made of sheet metal no doubt "made in Japan". It had a wind up key and twin propellers. Second voyage in the tub it was attacked by Zeros.

 

[Texas Star]

I had them.

T-Star