Nostalgia: Things You Had Growing Up

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,902
    but... but... it's intact?!

    oh, the humanity
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    edited April 2018
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    but... but... it's intact?!

    oh, the humanity

    Years later, I used it to recreate the cover of Led Zeppelin I, along with an Estes rocket launcher (for the mooring tower) and a cup of gas from my brother's mini-bike. :p

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  • gmcman
    gmcman Posts: 1,806
    I wanted one real bad, probably a good thing I didn't get one... but I'm getting the itch, purely for nostalgia.

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    Then it was this...and I still really want one of these.

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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    Would love to have a one seater cart ^^ for the woods.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    oldrocker wrote: »
    Would love to have a one seater cart ^^ for the woods.

    I ordered a kit like the one below for the woods. I guess I didn't properly think that one through. :p

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  • gmcman
    gmcman Posts: 1,806
    Lets not forget the Heald Super Bronc 10HP. Another one on my wish list back in the day.

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  • verb
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    oldrocker wrote: »
    Would love to have a one seater cart ^^ for the woods.

    I ordered a kit like the one below for the woods. I guess I didn't properly think that one through. :p

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    Nice shorts you got there Jimmy! :smile:
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    verb wrote: »
    Viking64 wrote: »
    oldrocker wrote: »
    Would love to have a one seater cart ^^ for the woods.

    I ordered a kit like the one below for the woods. I guess I didn't properly think that one through. :p

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    Nice shorts you got there Jimmy! :smile:

    What shorts!?! :#:s
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    verb wrote: »
    Nice shorts you got there Jimmy! :smile:

    I borrowed them from Jesse's *AHEM*....closet. :p
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    FestYboy wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    Viking64 wrote: »
    oldrocker wrote: »
    Would love to have a one seater cart ^^ for the woods.

    I ordered a kit like the one below for the woods. I guess I didn't properly think that one through. :p

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    Nice shorts you got there Jimmy! :smile:

    What shorts!?! :#:s

    Sorry, I meant Thong ! :smile:
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  • FestYboy
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    Nice shorts you got there Jimmy! :smile:

    I borrowed them from Jesse's *AHEM*....coffin. :p

    *Fixed
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    verb wrote: »
    Sorry, I meant Thong ! :smile:

    I'll wear that thong while I thing thith thong for you.

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  • verb
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    Not pressing play. Not pressing Play. Not pressing play! :smile:
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    verb wrote: »
    Not pressing play. Not pressing Play. Not pressing play! :smile:

    Yeah, because your hands are already too busy. :p
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    I think I have to say NO way on that puppy..or the video Nope Nope Nope!!
    Viking64 wrote: »
    oldrocker wrote: »
    Would love to have a one seater cart ^^ for the woods.

    I ordered a kit like the one below for the woods. I guess I didn't properly think that one through. :p

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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    I think one of the mini bikes I had as a kid had an 8hp on it. Quite fast it was.

    Way back in the day, when my Dad raced carts, they ran Wisconsin engines on them.

    Cool toys back then!!!!
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    FestYboy wrote: »

    I'll still stand by my statement. That movie was a pile of horse dooky.

    The series of books on the Dark Tower are spectacular. Best series of books I have ever read. Sadly, the movie was a complete and total travesty. Much in the same way I thoroughly enjoyed the works of Douglas Adams about the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, et al. the film, itself, was horrible.

    Stephen King has a habit of making, or allowing them to be made, horrible movies from literary works of art.

    So, in conclusion, I wholeheartedly agree that the Dark Tower film $u(k€d ****$l€$$ (h@p$

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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    Now wait a second there @halo, the first iteration of HGTTG was actually quite watchable and enjoyable, the remake however...
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  • nooshinjohn
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    Clive Cussler books were my thing growing up... they are great books. I don’t know why they need to completely reinvent the book when making a movie, but Cussler swore no more of Hollywood for his books after “Raise the Titanic”.

    “Sahara” found it’s way to the big screen decades later, and it also sucked. Too bad they just can’t read the friggin book and somewhat follow it.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    I guess I was the only nerd kid here. Didn't any of youse youts read Tom Swift? :)

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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,271
    edited April 2018
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    Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The 1969-1970 series. Best kids Saturday morning cartoon of all time. All subsequent Scooby Doo series were bad.

    edit: The violent Bugs Bunny cartoons were pretty darn good, too. The ones they aren't allowed to air today.
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  • mrbigbluelight
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    1st book of 26 regarding Freddy the Pig.

    In grade school, just about everyone got a little excited when the teacher would announce that the bookmobile would be at school the next day.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,902
    edited April 2018
    BlueFox wrote: »
    I guess I was the only nerd kid here. Didn't any of youse youts read Tom Swift? :)

    ...

    Not so much.
    I tended to read... umm... The Hardy Boys.
    I also liked "The Rick Brant Science Adventure". A little like Tom Swift, but a little more ahem down to earth. One of the later books, The Flying Stingaree, was set on the Chesapeake Bay and is actually a pretty darned good book by even objective standards (I would say).
    I also liked the short lived Chris Cool :p series -- I think the demographic was aging out of books like these by the time that series debuted.

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    EDIT: spoiler alert. No actual stingarees actually fly throughout the course of this book.
    This is science, b!†¢hes.
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,549
    I used to love reading these as a kid...

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  • Viking64
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    We had a few "Power Boys" books that I read in the 70's. I ordered all 6 of them a number of years ago for nostalgia's sake. :p

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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    edited April 2018
    FestYboy wrote: »
    Now wait a second there @halo, the first iteration of HGTTG was actually quite watchable and enjoyable, the remake however...

    The first iteration wasn’t a movie, as I recall. It was an English/British made for TV movie broken up into different parts, was it not? Forgive my memory, the last time I saw that I was probably only 8 or 9 years old. I agree that the series was very well done.

    However, the latest version was complete and total trash that a Vogon wouldn’t bother to deficate on.

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  • halo
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    FestYboy wrote: »
    Now wait a second there @halo, the first iteration of HGTTG was actually quite watchable and enjoyable, the remake however...

    THIS is the good stuff: https://youtu.be/L4q6qBuSjHk

    THIS is the trash: https://youtu.be/W1noTcqF7oM
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  • Viking64
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    We got the hockey game for Christmas 1973. It came with a small plastic replica of the Stanley Cup. I brought it to school for show-and-tell and some dink-face stole it out of my desk. :'(

    We got the Pivot Pool game a year or two later. I was astonished that one of my older brothers could sink a ball with every shot. HAHAHA

    The basketball game was from the 60's. I got Super Toe circa 1976. I was sad when my brother called him "Club Foot". :(

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,566
    I had pivot pool ..... until figured out the pool balls worked very well for my slingshot
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  • afterburnt
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    I used to read these, that's where I got my "game"!ir5pklicewhh.jpg
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