I’d say the Nerf Modulus line is even closer.
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I had a James Bond Attache Case in the mid 1960’s:
My dad must have thought it was pretty hilarious, given he worked at the CIA.
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My buddies and I would do that, however, we used ancient rummage sale BB guns that didn’t have much oomph (once in a while they would get a good seal or whatever was normally lacking and would result in somebody digging a BB out from under their skin)
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In the “things you can hold over your mom’s head for throwing out of the attic, when the attic could hold a lot more stuff” category.
Hey…remember this toy you threw out the moment I was out of the house to go to college…while it was safely in the attic, a big attic…so you could make room for 5000lbs of moth eaten fabric samples and back issues of better homes and garden, and quilters monthly to a make quilt that never was made. remember this toy. Ebay it now mom…go on… ebay it.
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What I remember was what happened if the chute didn’t open and the rocket and amphibian astronaut penciled in.
Don’t go there, that way lies madness. My Aurora cars…I HAD A FREAKIN BATMOBILE!!!
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Nope on the 'big birtha" class ones with a payload section. the frog would just splatter on take off.
Now, grass hoppers…they would come back okay…just a little disoriented.
Which probably means that the species best suited to take over the galaxy will probably have exoskeletons, well except for that thumb thing. .
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Found this http://www2.estesrockets.com/pdf/2844_Estes_Math_of_Model_Rocketry_TN-5.pdf
Seems an Alpha can develop 20 g’s. Ouch. The exoskeletal thing sounds like a good basis for a SF story of human gene modding.
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Obviously you had better parents than I did.
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Does anyone remember the realistic battery powered squirt guns by Entertech from the 80’s? I had the one shaped like an uzi. Even had removable clips. I have no idea how those were legal.
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Stuff like this makes me grateful I had grandmothers who were excellent bakers, taught me how to ride a bike and swim, and cheerfully boasted about the time they pointed a gun in some fascist’s or another’s face during WWII. Nothing like hearing a story like that mixed in with tips and tricks for icing a layer cake. My maternal grandmother taught me how to shoot a revolver.
Both were pro-gun control BTW.
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Blowguns made from PVC conduit, darts of toothpicks and a paper cone, sunglasses for “safety”. Get someone just right and you could make the darts stick in your target’s forehead.
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Well I’m the biggest liberal, socialist, eoropean pinko on this forum and I had one of these and loved it to death. Testosterone sometimes trumps (!) the brain.
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I had one of these, lost the little white bullets pretty quick. Was finding them years later after the gun had been discarded. I remember filling the grenade with water and using as a crude squirt gun. Also had a Secret Agent Man briefcase that shot plastic bullets out of a hole in the side. Youth is wasted on the young.
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Here’s whats’ really inside a CIA briefcase.
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yep. I remember those. Then some cops shot a bunch of kids, and “realistic” squirt guns were banned.
As I recall, super soakers soon took over the market.
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That’s both so tragic and so classic. It wasn’t the kids mishandling their guns, but the cops mishandling their guns.
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I was the proud owner of a Johnny Seven OMA back then. It was a great, if bulky, toy. You lost all of the red, mini bullets almost immediately and, if you shot the grenade up onto the roof, it wasn’t coming down until a storm blew it down. But, the gun made you king of the battlefield.
A couple of friends had the Mattel M-16, and it was pretty sweet, too. Once kid also had an amazingly realistic Tommy gun.
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If you had really bad parents they would have shot you themselves.
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Or maybe he was tormented by the idea that other spies were living James Bond’s lifestyle, and they just weren’t telling him about it, because Secrets.
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