Greatest Toy Of All Time

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1. Hahaha … shattered pelvis not included

   1. Good one

2. Nahhh… everyone wanted a Secret Sam attaché case when I was a kid.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t6Bd0MwEh8

   “Ginger!”
   “Mary Ann”
   “Ginger!”
   “Mary Ann”
   “Ginger!”
   “Mary Ann”

   1. H.R. – Wow! Secret Sam attache would be a great gift in 2023! Of course it would be illegal in Canada.

3. I dunno about that. I had a lot of fun with the slingshots my Old Man made for me.

4. I met Evel in the early 90’s at a bar just outside of Atlanta. I then watched with interest while he used every trick in the book to try and pick up the hot bartender about 20 years younger than he. After a significant amount of rejection he left. Afterwards, I asked her about it. She laughed and said, he’d been there a number of times that week, but she doesn’t date guys in town for tax evasion hearings.

   Never meet your heroes.

5. Not the Johnny Seven One Man Army?

   https://youtu.be/si5Rch0s7Vc?si=s47Tmj7okC-0pD6T

   1. “Not the Johnny Seven One Man Army?”

      That was my first thought as well. I remember being very excited to get mine.

6. And like every ad of the day, never once shows an actual jump!

7. When my cousin was 5 years old, he saw Evel Knievel on TV. The next day he proceeded to build a ramp to jump over a fence with his bicycle. He made it over, the bicycle did not.

   1. qwerty – Did he makes it to 6? Did he reproduce? Was there tax evasion involved? So many unanswered questions.

8. Q: What do you call a weevil who dons an American flag cape and jumps a motorcycle over a line of buses?

   A: Weevil Knievel!

9. For me it was those Cox airplanes, and Star Trek model kits.
   Space 1999 toys and kits were pretty cool as well.

   1. Space: 1999 The Hawk model was bitchin’.

      https://cedarcreekhobbies.com/products/mpc881_mpc-mpc881-space-1999-hawk-mark-ix-1-72-scale-plastic-model-kit-nib?variant=42923944345825&currency=CAD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwLmQnbesgwMVCWJHAR2ijwCZEAQYAiABEgKGLvD_BwE

      RNrn

      1. I had one of them. And an Eagle, the Enterprise, a type II phaser, a Cox .049 powered plane that I could fly in circles by string control, R2D2, a Tie Fighter, a space shuttle, and a tricorder…

10. Yeah but did the Evil Knievel figure have Kung Fu Grip?

    RNrn

11. I remember his big Snake River jump.. A real virial event.. The moment he launched, he bailed.. Lame O..

12. I remember those pull-start racers with the big lead or steel wheel, man those were fun.
    Little boys are supposed to build ramps and do jumps with their bikes.
    When I was a kid, we had this steep hill that emptied unto a grass field in a park.
    After some rain, or early in the morning when the grass was still wet, we’d race down the hill as fast as we could, then lock up both wheels on the wet grass, and see who could stay up for the longest.
    …and the modern Karens that pass for mothers these days are scared of lawn darts.
    ^&%&*(^*()&() bubble-wrapped pussywillow buttercup generation!