Mattel’s 1960 “Tommy Burst” TV commercial
I would have given my right arm to have one of those when I was a kid.
[ Many thanks to Dave for emailing me the link. ]
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Bkwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 2:05 pm Link To Comment |
Cops are not antsy, we just don’t want to get shot at… Its no fun. Do you?
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DJwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 11:20 am Link To Comment |
Haha, brought to you by Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
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Martinwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 9:54 am Link To Comment |
I just bought some cap guns for my daughters. They love ‘em! Two minutes of lecture about eye and ear safety, and not a problem since.
Ahh, the good old days.
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Rusty Raywrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 8:28 pm Link To Comment |
I had a plastic FAL. Then things got all SciFi and I moved onto plastic blasters…..
Cheers – Rusty
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Jimwrote on September 03rd, 2010 at 11:25 am Link To Comment |
“Cops are not antsy, we just don’t want to get shot at… Its no fun. Do you?”
There was a day when a policeman wouldn’t assume a 12 year old with a gun was an armed criminal planning to shoot. Those days are gone, and that is to be lamented.
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Sven Weichbrodtwrote on September 06th, 2010 at 2:14 am Link To Comment |
…and another one
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Arthur B. Burnettwrote on September 03rd, 2010 at 5:21 pm Link To Comment |
Greetings from Texas,
Another blast from the past. Both my brother and I had the thompsons and the snub nosed revolver. We didn’t get them in the set. I don’ t recall the holster having a snap.
We also had the M-14 like Big Daddy mentioned. Ours were battery powered.
The only complant I had about any of these weapons of childhood was the plastic construction. We played hard and the guns weren’t long term investments. Only the Snub Nosed Revolver survived long enough to be packed away.
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Big Daddywrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 6:00 am Link To Comment |
I had one of those tommy guns and a bolt action Springfield. There was this program called Combat with Vic Morrow???? and he had a tommy gun so I had to have one. Then I got an actual working plastic M-14. It was great stuff, all I ever wanted to be was a soldier. That was until I became one and found out being a soldier at that time in the US Army was being more of a janitor.
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Erikwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 3:54 am Link To Comment |
“I would have given my right arm to have one of those when I was a kid.”
I’d like to have one now! Much cheaper, lighter, shorter, easier to clean then my 1927A1.
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Stevewrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 12:33 am Link To Comment |
I had the late 60′s model. Not quite a fancy but I played with it for hours on end. Guess I was always destined to be a gun nut. Last Christmas all my nephews were playing with toy guns, so I found one for my daughter and said “you need this, go play with the boys”. For New Years we went shooting together. I think she is hooked too.
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Nickwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 12:05 am Link To Comment |
Isn’t that BG Otis from Mayberry? Looks like he was on the wagon and on the prowl.
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Robwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 12:42 am Link To Comment |
Just checked eBay. One guy has bidding going on, currently at $55. Other guy has Buy It Now price of $425! :O
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canduranduwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 1:51 am Link To Comment |
Here’s the ebay ad:
Happy Bidding!
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Jimwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 2:26 am Link To Comment |
It’s a shame cops got so antsy and made this sort of toy unproducable.
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canduranduwrote on September 02nd, 2010 at 2:21 am Link To Comment |
Also found this for about a hundred bucks:
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SpudGunwrote on September 01st, 2010 at 10:57 pm Link To Comment |
Dark city streets, film noir, black and white, dangerous criminals around every corner – Now I know where the inspiration for those S&W Bodyguard promos came from.
In fact, it was so film noir, the kid should have been smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey and slapping dames.
That was an awesome commercial, but you could never get away with that kind of advertising today.
I liked the flip up iron sights and the 10 round magazine makes it California legal.
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…and another one
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Mattel-Gorilla-Tommy-Burst-Cap-Gun-/260660265412?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb09001c4#ht_500wt_1154
Greetings from Texas,
Another blast from the past. Both my brother and I had the thompsons and the snub nosed revolver. We didn’t get them in the set. I don’ t recall the holster having a snap.
We also had the M-14 like Big Daddy mentioned. Ours were battery powered.
The only complant I had about any of these weapons of childhood was the plastic construction. We played hard and the guns weren’t long term investments. Only the Snub Nosed Revolver survived long enough to be packed away.
Thanks, this was fun to see.
“Cops are not antsy, we just don’t want to get shot at… Its no fun. Do you?”
There was a day when a policeman wouldn’t assume a 12 year old with a gun was an armed criminal planning to shoot. Those days are gone, and that is to be lamented.
I had a plastic FAL. Then things got all SciFi and I moved onto plastic blasters…..
Cheers – Rusty
Cops are not antsy, we just don’t want to get shot at… Its no fun. Do you?
Haha, brought to you by Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
I just bought some cap guns for my daughters. They love ‘em! Two minutes of lecture about eye and ear safety, and not a problem since.
Ahh, the good old days.
I had one of those tommy guns and a bolt action Springfield. There was this program called Combat with Vic Morrow???? and he had a tommy gun so I had to have one. Then I got an actual working plastic M-14. It was great stuff, all I ever wanted to be was a soldier. That was until I became one and found out being a soldier at that time in the US Army was being more of a janitor.
“I would have given my right arm to have one of those when I was a kid.”
I’d like to have one now! Much cheaper, lighter, shorter, easier to clean then my 1927A1.
It’s a shame cops got so antsy and made this sort of toy unproducable.
Also found this for about a hundred bucks:
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Thompson-M1A1-Military-Dr-Magazine-AEG-Airsoft-Gun-/270628034460?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f02b0179c
Here’s the ebay ad:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300406225175&rvr_id=133057042331&crlp=1_263602_263622&UA=WXI8&GUID=c86b15fa12a0a0aad3d257c2ff06e5a1&itemid=300406225175&ff4=263602_263622
Happy Bidding!
Just checked eBay. One guy has bidding going on, currently at $55. Other guy has Buy It Now price of $425! :O
I had the late 60′s model. Not quite a fancy but I played with it for hours on end. Guess I was always destined to be a gun nut. Last Christmas all my nephews were playing with toy guns, so I found one for my daughter and said “you need this, go play with the boys”. For New Years we went shooting together. I think she is hooked too.
Isn’t that BG Otis from Mayberry? Looks like he was on the wagon and on the prowl.
Dark city streets, film noir, black and white, dangerous criminals around every corner – Now I know where the inspiration for those S&W Bodyguard promos came from.
In fact, it was so film noir, the kid should have been smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey and slapping dames.
That was an awesome commercial, but you could never get away with that kind of advertising today.
I liked the flip up iron sights and the 10 round magazine makes it California legal.