Thursday, August 03, 2006

What is your favorite toy?

I used to have this toy when I was about 8 years old. It was called a Phantom-440 (or something like that). Basically it was a flying saucer that had a fan on its underside. You would charge it up, and then let it go and it would hover about 3 millimeters off the ground and 'float' around.

I have been looking for one everywhere and I keep coming up with nothing. Was that toy just a dream??

(From Consumating)
Posted by at 8/03/2006 04:00:00 PM

5 comments:

  1. Whirlie-Bird.

    A helicopter, tethered on a wire, that spun 360 degrees around a base.

    It ised actual air current to go forward, back, up, down... but it was tethered. It had a hook to pick stuiff up, etc.

    cool
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  2. No - VERTIE-bird:
    http://www.nostalgia.condoris.net/vertibird.htm
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  3. Oh man, I remember that thing. I always wished it would break free from its tether.

    I used to have one that sat on a based and you pulled a string and it would launch it into the sky. As a kid, I thought it went at least a mile up, but in reality, it probably only went 50 feet or so.
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  4. i want to buy a whirlie bird
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  5. Hmmm ... when you are asking this question of people who can already read (especially those of the female gender), you might get a naughty response!

    But, just to prove that I do not think like that ;) I really loved my boglin! I wish I could find one just like him ...
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