August 31st, 2009
#840 – Sprung
In some ways I think I had the reverse experience of this. There were many toys I had with little missiles or other small projectiles that were glued in place on the space ship or robot. I was amazed when I grew up and saw that they started making functional missile launching toys again. I wonder if there is an interesting story behind that.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:45 am
This explains a lot of Biff’s invincibility: Nature provided him with a survival mechanism.
August 31st, 2009 at 3:08 am
Spare wrist joints?
Regards,
James
August 31st, 2009 at 3:30 am
@James
Of course, it’s right after spare heads 1, 2, and 3, as well as spare arm 1
August 31st, 2009 at 6:49 am
just this last weekend, i was feling really nostalgic for my lawn darts.
August 31st, 2009 at 6:51 am
Ahh, the toys of youth. One that sticks out most is one my brother had, it was a plastic molding mini-factory you could make you own toys with. The fumes were incredible. One I had was a metal moon rover with a huge metal lunar landscape that made the so much noise you could wake the neighbors, in the next county. Oddly enough it suddenly disappeared never to be seen again.
August 31st, 2009 at 7:01 am
My childhood also predated many safety regs. Lawn darts, hot metal injection-molding toys, “incredible edibles,” “easy-bake” ovens, 19 different kinds of projectile-launchers, cheap stamped-metal BB-guns, caps that actually contained explosives, cheap legal fireworks, chemicals from which you could make bigger fireworks with ease…
I’m lucky to have all my body parts in their original places.
August 31st, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I guess everyone’s back in school…
August 31st, 2009 at 3:54 pm
The story? Well, they started gluing the darts in place when, apparently, some child somewhere choked on a “Battlestar Galactica” toy missle. Immediately thereafter, they either glued them all in place, or were SUCH big, clunky things that the wimpy little springs in them couldn’t propel them as much as 5 feet. Needless to say, they were so large that you couldn’t conceive of swallowing them.
I miss those BattleStar Galactica toys–despite most of them having NO relationship to the old show, they were kind of neat. I still remember feeling gypped when my Micronauts missles (the next toy craze) were non-functional.
August 31st, 2009 at 5:14 pm
OH SWEET LORD, I see why they traded that for the scary clown face…..
August 31st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Good old mace-in-the-box.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:42 pm
LOL, Mace-in-the-box, the “Try And Put The Pin Back In” grenade game, the Little Doctor Bonesaw, I bet Biff has all the real classics!
August 31st, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I wonder if his eyebrows got caught in the pedal, and then went it went backwards to release the mace his eyebrows becake biff.
August 31st, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Okay Biff needs an eyebrow-cut.
He could lose an eyebrow on that thing.
August 31st, 2009 at 9:48 pm
@Glenn;
Hah! Be envious of me! When I got my GI Joe recoilless rifle on a jeep, that sucker could launch missiles that would choke a ten year old, and send them 20 feet or more. You actually *could* put an eye out with that thing, if you were sufficiently persistent and/or unlucky!
Of course, in my day, it was the original GI Joe, about 13 inches tall, and fully equipped with dangerous accessories.
August 31st, 2009 at 9:59 pm
If things keep going this way I am wondering what it will be like in another generation.
“No toys, there to dangerous”
August 31st, 2009 at 10:00 pm
@Tyler
You just try to get near Biff’s eyebrows with a pair of scissors. You wouldn’t even be able to find if they can actually be cut before I or someone else tackles you all secret service style.
September 1st, 2009 at 10:52 pm
@ Kree:
Lol on the Red Dwarf reference!
September 9th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
My story of safety regulations didn’t happen in the nursery, but rather in the kitchen. My father handed me a knife when I was really little. My mother freaked out “She’s gonna cut herself”(I am a girl). But I knew how to handle a knife without really trying.
September 26th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
spare wrist WHATS?
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I’m thoroughly convinced Biff’s parents were trying to kill him.