"War Toys": What Happened?

[The Blowhard]

It's sad that the kids today can't play with decent "war toys". Screw skateboarding and video games, break out the plastic M-16's, Rocket Launchers and grenades.
We are raising a generation of sissy boys!

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[furie]

yeah. GIJoe now sucks. and they used to make some kickass vehicles for GIJoe.
I always loved the Wolverine rocket-launcher(except for the fact it came with a chick driver...).

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[Ralphy Ramone]

Hey,do you remember Wasp guns?They had the red plastic caps that you placed in the revolver's chamber.No projectiles,just a good'ol deafening blast!And they looked real too!Kinda.

"kill'em all,let Mattel sort them out"

[IkeaBoy]

What happened? We've become so pussified and safeguarded that we don't trust children with anything that could possibly hurt them. We must make everything soft and too big to swallow so that no harm can come to anyone ever.

Also, guns *Gasp* we can't show little Billy the gun because if he fires the toy gun then he'll fire a real gun someday or playing dead might harm his inner peace because death is a bad thing amd feeling dead will disrupt his emotional growth as a human being.

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[Doogie]

I had the star wars stormtrooper blaster rifle and Han Solo's gun (which had a small controversy in and of itself...it was a replica German pistol). No kid has any war toys today and that is why heaven forbid that we have to depend on these people in the future...they have no experience playing war in the bushes or even smaller war games like tag and what not

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[IkeaBoy]

I had the ghostbusters power pack, it could help in the war against supernatural forces...

Oh so sue me. I grew up in the period between slight pussification and complete pussification.

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"My review of 2001 the year is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey- overlong, hard to follow, and only enjoyable if you're really really stoned." - Lewis Black

[The Blowhard]

Back in the 60's, you could actually buy a plastic Nazi helmet and a Luger. I know, I had them when we played war.
GI Joe was also available in Nazi, Jap, French and British, all dressed in their WW2 uniforms. And then think about the cartoons. "Tom and Jerry" were very similar to "The Simpsons'Itchy and Scratchy". Same with the Warner Brothers and Walter Lantz stuff. Back then, parents did their jobs, before this age of "victimization". It's really sad.

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[Captain Rooster]

send the little pussy brats to my place..I'll hook them up with a few 9MM or old AKs

sweet sweet carnage

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

We just used rocks-- they were free and caused just as much damage.

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[The Blowhard]

Hell, in Brooklyn, the best place to find cool stuff was at construction sites at night. Rocks, bricks, dirt bombs and mud..nothing better!

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[Tall_James]

Nothing was more fun than playing with those big GI Joes (Heckler, we're from the same era I guess)

You'd set them on fire and throw them off the roof. Or attach bottle rockets to them.

My favorite GI Joe was the one with the Neoprene dive suit that looked like the one James Bond wore in "Thunderball". All orange and badass.





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[The Blowhard]

I will never forget my Frogman GI Joe, my Nazi and Jap GI Joes and my GI Joe Space Capsule.

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[Captain Rooster]

Bobby's first sub atomic munition playset was a fave of mine :)

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[legroommusic]

I got my nephew a pair of rubber nunchucks. He wants to be a ninja. I think GI JOE came out with ninja action figures. He ought to grow up okay....I hope.

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[Ralphy Ramone]

I still have the Gemini Space Capsule w/the cardboard record.IN THE BOX!($$$).I always knew the future was in Plastic!

"kill'em all,let Mattel sort them out"

[IkeaBoy]

Great legroom, you just started your nephew on the way to becoming a mass murderer. What's next, you're going to tell us you let him watch R movies!?

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[The Blowhard]

Topped. War toys are as American as apple pie!

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[The Blowhard]

Topped again..I wanna see how some of the "Girly Men" on the board respond.

[flipper21]

Can't buy a goddamn toy gun these days without the little orange tip identifying it as a toy. Pure pussification. War was a common game when I was growing up. I don't recall the name of it, but I had this 4 ft. long bazooka that you pumped up and it made a beautiful boom when the trigger was pulled.

We also used to make grenades out of old pill bottles and firecrackers. You drilled a hole in the cap, stuck the cracker in it and lit it with the "punk" taped to your gun barrel a la a bayonet. Those were the days.

Anyone else have Big Jim? (the action figure, not your uncle from the tool shed!) You pushed his back and he chopped a fake log. I had his camper, until I put a soup can of gasoline inside, dropped an M80 in it an pushed it down the street. I think I was grounded for about 2 weeks after that one.

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[A.J.]

For my 5th birthday I got a kick-ass toy machine gun that my liberal mother made me get rid of. She said that she "saw the Kennedys and Martin Luther King killed by guns" and wouldn't have any guns in her house.

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