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One of my greatest disappointments!

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Corey Fumimasa
CFM Salvage
#1 - 2013-05-03 12:45:20 UTC
I got a neat space ship looking toy for Christmas. It was made of this awesome soft, ivory coloured palstic; a ship of sorts, with 3 or 5 crew members. It could be taken apart and made into 5 individual ships, the "wings" of which were like pistols that shot out darts with big rubber bumpers on them.

Apparently the rubber bumpers often broke off and the plastic shaft became a sharp missile propelled by a powerful spring. The toy was recalled, and one day my mom packed it up and we went to the store to return it. I got to pick out any other toy that I wanted! I got 2! They were Buck Rogers space ships each with a guy.

They were made of cheap, hollow sounding plastic. And a bit to large for a little kid to play with. The figures fell apart soon after as they were pretty cheap. Nothing like the guys on the ship that was returned.

I always missed that ship. And I still wonder what happened to the company that made it. It was a well made toy that had a flaw which could have been easily fixed. Instead the toy was destroyed and I imagine the company that made it along with it.

This was 35 years ago or so. Did you ever have such a toy? Or a great childhood disappointment that is perhaps the reason for you playing Eve?
Carte Dor
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2013-05-03 12:50:56 UTC
You have far to much time on your hands to be able to post this much on the forums. Blink
Corey Fumimasa
CFM Salvage
#3 - 2013-05-03 12:55:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Corey Fumimasa
I'm home watching the kids today. We played hide and seek, ate some toast, and counted all of their transformers. At this point we are reading kids books, then we read a few forum posts together =-) They often get bored with the forum posts and I have a few minutes to think and write.

Lulz Big smileBig smileBig smileBig smile
Pepper Solette
Doomheim
#4 - 2013-05-03 13:01:25 UTC
I remember going to s 6 cinema drive-in with my family when i was a boy. The screens were all around us and all you needed to do what change the channel on that speaker you hooked onto the window seal.

Well, my brother and I are in the back of this station wagon. (I had Milk Duds). Yes, i remember all this that vividly. My parents were there to watch something else when my brother and i saw a spaceship movie. Turns out it was Buck Rogers. Well, needless to say we got our parents to change the channel on that thing and we had an AMAZING time.

That year, i got a metal Buck Rogers fighter. I loved it a hell of a lot and I still have it to this day.

I used to play with Space Lego when i was a kid and also got an X Wing and a Tie Fighter for Christmas back in 1978. I still have them too.

So spaceship stuff was all around me and it was a natural progression all throughout my life. From dumping quarters into the original Asteroids stand up console at the arcade to Wing Commander, Elite and a D&D Style game called Star Fleet Battles.

I also have one of these. It's called a FlapJack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPD193nH0Ks Still have it to this day and it still works.

** Miko Sunji:  "There is no better way to find out if you can swim, than swimming for your life."**

Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2013-05-03 13:01:25 UTC
Go outside and show your kids that there is a life without you staring at a screen at every possible opportunity.

TunDraGon is recruiting! "Also, your boobs [:o] "   CCP Eterne, 2012 "When in doubt...make a diȼk joke." Robin Williams - RIP

Tuttomenui II
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-05-03 13:05:40 UTC
When I was 6 I got this spaceship for Christmas. And it opened up kind of like that millennium falcon toy storage but it was not a storage type ship it unfolded to become a base. It had this foam ball that would hover over the a port that blew air. The blower failed and when my mom took it back the guy at the store gave her money back and told her they would just be told to toss it int he garbage and told her to take it back home, so I got to keep it. It was a pretty cool toy. Had little men that were 1/2" tall and there was a reddish see through tube elevator thing on it to. That was 24 years ago.
Vincent Gaines
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-05-03 13:09:42 UTC
I had construx as a kid where you could build almost anything.

On a side note, Battle Beasts made a perfect fit in Construx seats/cockpits.

Not a diplo. 

The above post was edited for spelling.

Corey Fumimasa
CFM Salvage
#8 - 2013-05-03 13:11:02 UTC
Eugene Kerner wrote:
Go outside and show your kids that there is a life without you staring at a screen at every possible opportunity.

We have a play date latter today and will go for a walk and swing on the swings in a while.

You are on my block list and have been for a long time because you are a troll and kind of a nasty poster Eugene. I was just curious how you would respond to this post.

I am no longer curious.
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#9 - 2013-05-03 13:13:38 UTC
Replace Toy Company with CCP, and toy with EVE/Dust, and you have all of us in a few years...

...

dark heartt
#10 - 2013-05-03 13:14:57 UTC
Shouldn't this be in Out of Pod?
Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#11 - 2013-05-03 13:24:53 UTC
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
I got a neat space ship looking toy for Christmas. It was made of this awesome soft, ivory coloured palstic; a ship of sorts, with 3 or 5 crew members. It could be taken apart and made into 5 individual ships, the "wings" of which were like pistols that shot out darts with big rubber bumpers on them.

Apparently the rubber bumpers often broke off and the plastic shaft became a sharp missile propelled by a powerful spring. The toy was recalled, and one day my mom packed it up and we went to the store to return it. I got to pick out any other toy that I wanted! I got 2! They were Buck Rogers space ships each with a guy.

They were made of cheap, hollow sounding plastic. And a bit to large for a little kid to play with. The figures fell apart soon after as they were pretty cheap. Nothing like the guys on the ship that was returned.

I always missed that ship. And I still wonder what happened to the company that made it. It was a well made toy that had a flaw which could have been easily fixed. Instead the toy was destroyed and I imagine the company that made it along with it.

This was 35 years ago or so. Did you ever have such a toy? Or a great childhood disappointment that is perhaps the reason for you playing Eve?


Corey recalls the rage of this memory, everytime he logs on. Burning with the fury of exactly 5 3/8th Class O stars, he makes a beast out of himself, as the client program loads. A beast that hungers for killmails. He presses the undock button... and all is lost.

That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...

    [#savethelance]
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#12 - 2013-05-03 13:25:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenn aSide
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
I got a neat space ship looking toy for Christmas. It was made of this awesome soft, ivory coloured palstic; a ship of sorts, with 3 or 5 crew members. It could be taken apart and made into 5 individual ships, the "wings" of which were like pistols that shot out darts with big rubber bumpers on them.

Apparently the rubber bumpers often broke off and the plastic shaft became a sharp missile propelled by a powerful spring. The toy was recalled, and one day my mom packed it up and we went to the store to return it. I got to pick out any other toy that I wanted! I got 2! They were Buck Rogers space ships each with a guy.

They were made of cheap, hollow sounding plastic. And a bit to large for a little kid to play with. The figures fell apart soon after as they were pretty cheap. Nothing like the guys on the ship that was returned.

I always missed that ship. And I still wonder what happened to the company that made it. It was a well made toy that had a flaw which could have been easily fixed. Instead the toy was destroyed and I imagine the company that made it along with it.

This was 35 years ago or so. Did you ever have such a toy? Or a great childhood disappointment that is perhaps the reason for you playing Eve?


Not the reason I play EVE. But I remember getting this toy , loving it and losing it on a trip and was never ever able to find anything like it ever......Until I made enough isk to buy my 1st machariel lol.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iZPpsC5rjbs/TZzOCIFFXqI/AAAAAAAABiw/yVbYjytTDvI/s1600/01%2BBuck%2BRogers%2BStarfighter%2BCorgi%2BSpaceship%2B4.jpg

(The one I had was on the left)

Edit, by the way this is a great site for us old folks to relive the glory days lol: http://www.toysyouhad.com/
Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#13 - 2013-05-03 13:31:51 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
I got a neat space ship looking toy for Christmas. It was made of this awesome soft, ivory coloured palstic; a ship of sorts, with 3 or 5 crew members. It could be taken apart and made into 5 individual ships, the "wings" of which were like pistols that shot out darts with big rubber bumpers on them.

Apparently the rubber bumpers often broke off and the plastic shaft became a sharp missile propelled by a powerful spring. The toy was recalled, and one day my mom packed it up and we went to the store to return it. I got to pick out any other toy that I wanted! I got 2! They were Buck Rogers space ships each with a guy.

They were made of cheap, hollow sounding plastic. And a bit to large for a little kid to play with. The figures fell apart soon after as they were pretty cheap. Nothing like the guys on the ship that was returned.

I always missed that ship. And I still wonder what happened to the company that made it. It was a well made toy that had a flaw which could have been easily fixed. Instead the toy was destroyed and I imagine the company that made it along with it.

This was 35 years ago or so. Did you ever have such a toy? Or a great childhood disappointment that is perhaps the reason for you playing Eve?


Not the reason I play EVE. But I remember getting this toy , loving it and losing it on a trip and was never ever able to find anything like it ever......Until I made enough isk to buy my 1st machariel lol.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iZPpsC5rjbs/TZzOCIFFXqI/AAAAAAAABiw/yVbYjytTDvI/s1600/01%2BBuck%2BRogers%2BStarfighter%2BCorgi%2BSpaceship%2B4.jpg

(The one I had was on the left)

Edit, by the way this is a great site for us old folks to relive the glory days lol: http://www.toysyouhad.com/



It looks like a damn Curse....

That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...

    [#savethelance]
Pepper Solette
Doomheim
#14 - 2013-05-03 13:33:03 UTC
That one on the left-front is exactly the one i have.

Nice find.

NFI what they would be worth today.

** Miko Sunji:  "There is no better way to find out if you can swim, than swimming for your life."**

mr ed thehouseofed
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2013-05-03 13:39:28 UTC
early 70's ,i had cast toys . i had a set of spaceships and tanks from the tv show UFO . ahh good times Big smileBig smile

http://ufo.sfdaydreams.com/toys/peufo.htm

i want a eve pinball machine...  confirming  CCP Cognac is best cognac

Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#16 - 2013-05-03 13:41:26 UTC
Posting in a stealth Bring back WiS development thread.

There was once a company that made something with an easily fixable flaw, and they stopped making it.

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf

Cecil Montague
PCG Enterprises
#17 - 2013-05-03 13:41:36 UTC
I once had a set of Star Trek ships that I loved. But there was one problem, the Galaxy class was way too small. That ship was supposed to be huge! I shrugged it off and played with my Constitution class and Bird of Prey instead.

Then I found Eve and got my first Rokh... and the old disappointment returned Cry

"There is no such thing as an effective segment of Totality" - Bruce Lee: The only man with a Chuck Norris killmail.

Corey Fumimasa
CFM Salvage
#18 - 2013-05-03 13:47:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Corey Fumimasa
Pepper Solette wrote:
That one on the left-front is exactly the one i have.

Nice find.

NFI what they would be worth today.


Some of those old toys are wicked expensive. I have a lego set with a few missing pieces, "The Forest Hideaway" or something. I looked into replacing the set and complete in box is now 600$.

This was one of the small sets form that line, maybe 20 - 40 dollars at release.
Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#19 - 2013-05-03 13:47:45 UTC
mr ed thehouseofed wrote:
early 70's ,i had cast toys . i had a set of spaceships and tanks from the tv show UFO . ahh good times Big smileBig smile

http://ufo.sfdaydreams.com/toys/peufo.htm


My brother and I had untold amounts of lego sets. We used to build huge fleets of spaceships that would fight epic battles in a distant solar system (which was actually the floor of our basement).
There was one that was twice the size of all the others... the mighty dreadnought USS Nevada, as we called it. No Russian ship could withstand the force of its all-powerful Wave Motion Cannon (thanks to Starblazers for the awesome name).
In fact, for my brother's sake, I still played these spaceship battles with him, even when I was in high school. Girls who wanted to date me would just have to deal with the fact that it was what I did on Saturdays (pausing only to watch The Tick), before anything else.


Little did I know that I would still be playing with spaceships, fighting Russians, and explaining to my girlfriends why it's so interesting to me, well into my 30's...

That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...

    [#savethelance]
LHA Tarawa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2013-05-03 13:48:10 UTC
Seems I'm close to the same age.


Sounds like the micronauts battle cruiser

http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?6,190093

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