Childhood Toys

[Dmitri]

Same, except we made those ourselves, out of wood or very thick wire (picture not mine):


The wood ones would use very thick rubber bands and have a leather "holder" that would launch small pebbles at very high speeds.


Also made something very similar to this, except with much better elastic bands and shooting bent pieces of 3 mm aluminum wire (as shown above):


I stopped participating in those "war games" after one day I got a nice shiny bright-red V-shaped imprint of one of those wire pieces just a couple of millimeters from my eye...
Ah, the stupid youth.

[edededed]

I was a peaceful kid.

[Doc Stier]

These Wrist Rocket style slingshots can propel marble sized metal ball bearings with sufficient speed and power to hunt and kill small game, no problem.



However, I would only consider them to be toys for older boys. Younger boys will do better with one of these:



Doc

[Dmitri]

Yeah, that last pic is exactly what we played with - add some decorative grooves with the knife and partial encrustation with blue or black electrical insulation tape.

P.S.
Oh wow... I don't mean to derail this, but... Holy crap... LASER-GUIDED slingshots!!
http://www.slingshotsusa.com/product_in ... ucts_id=30

[Steve James]

[dragontigerpalm]

Don't forget the Cootie Game. (sorry - don't know how to post pictures)

[Bär]

[Darthwing Teorist]

Same, except we made those ourselves, out of wood or very thick wire (picture not mine):


The wood ones would use very thick rubber bands and have a leather "holder" that would launch small pebbles at very high speeds.


Also made something very similar to this, except with much better elastic bands and shooting bent pieces of 3 mm aluminum wire (as shown above):

Same here, except we made a version of the top one out of some smaller wire to shoot the 3 mm Vs. But these were forbidden weapons as parents hunted them with extreme prejudice for the reasons you explained above. We also used some PVC tubes to shoot paper cornets at each other. Some of the less scrupulous kids added needles to the cornets. We also made darts out of 4 wooden matches, a needle, a piece of paper (for the fins) and some string (to hold the contraption together).

[Dmitri]

We also made darts out of 4 wooden matches, a needle, a piece of paper (for the fins) and some string (to hold the contraption together).

Yup, same here! Apparently children's violence knows no cultural boundaries...

I remember those mofos hurt like hell...

Freakin' idiots, weren't we?!

[Darthwing Teorist]

Fun times!

We used the darts to pretend that we were ninjas or secret agents and practiced mostly on inanimate targets. Only once some dude got me with one in the leg but I got the fucker back.

We hurt each other more often with pins on chairs.

[Palmer]

[Dmitri]

We hurt each other more often with pins on chairs.

One of these by any chance?

[Darthwing Teorist]

We hurt each other more often with pins on chairs.

One of these by any chance?

Exactly those.

[Ben]

I had GI-Joes, transformers, BB gun, and 11 acres to explore.

[meeks]

just realized - no one's posted:

tonka trucks (dump truck, backhoe/caterpillar and tansport truck)
AFX sets (boo yah!)
hot wheels cars and track with loop-de-loop