I always wanted to get one of these when I was a kid.
I always wanted to get one of these when I was a kid.
;-)
Me too. But exactly what is it? Cardboard? Paper? Plastic?
You put it together and it was a cardboard box with printing on the outside to vaguely suggest it was a submarine.
The “rockets” were little plastic Mercury-type capsules about 3 inches in diameter, and you “launched” them by putting them on the end of a plastic tube that had a bulb on the other end that you would compress by hitting it with your hand - the air pressure would make them pop off. The launch tube stuck out through the cardboard.
The “torpedoes” were little 6” plastic things you shot through a cardboard tube with a rubber band.
Kind of disappointing, but I played with it for weeks.
Wow. Lots of memories...I wanted that baby, too.
Yeah, we'd take it down to the lake, and cruise around underwater looking at all the skinny-dippers through the periscope. And I remember the time we did a torpedo run on the Lady of the Lake....
Ah, those were the days.
nice!
“I always wanted to get one of these when I was a kid.”
Man! Where did you dig that up? I remember those and there was a tank that somebody sold to. Ah, the good old days.
I always wanted to get one of these when I was a kid.
When I was young, I wanted one too - had dreams of cruising around the pond/lake nearby. For years, I used to think the below was one. I couldn't understand why there were no diving planes, rudders, propellers, periscopes, or even entry hatches! I also couldn't understand why so many people had them in their back yards, when there was no body of water nearby!
