One other good thing about Xmas is the cracker - pulling the cracker over dinner and smelling the whiff of cordite from the snap inside always takes me back to my childhood and having the little plastic rockets and bombs to throw about loaded with paper caps to make a fine bang! Guest blogger Hugh has sent along some rare examples of such fab toys and takes up the story here:
"bomb1 - A selection of cap-firing bombs, most given away at kids parties. The large yellow one is the Triang Railways Bomb-carrier load and does not fire. Bottom right are various bits which may or may not be parts of cap-bombs?
bomb2 - On the right is the Uniplast moon rocket we've looked at already this month, while to the left a slight (and very un-PC) variation; pull the plunger, push hard and take your sisters eye out with the war-head! (Good to see Ed Valigurskys Nova Rocket art being put to use here on the Cohete Lunar card! Wotan)
bomb3 - A selection of metal cap-firers, the one on the left is contemporary, the top row are from left to right; Dinky Stuka bomb, Unknown hammer or anvil for a cap firer and the Britains Howitzer shell. Below them a selection of the commoner designs of my childhood, the ?SUPERB is missing it's fins and the head to the left currently has no body!
bomb4 - Variations on a theme, left we see a PC 'cap-bomb' it sticks to your eye-ball rather than penetrating! On the right is a rocket I'd like to identify further, the cap mechanisem is in the blue base cap, so the detonation seems to have ocured on launch rather than landing...What did the launcher look like? Who made it?
What a great collection! I so remember firing off cap rockets on the pavements near our family home! A lost art! That Pop Gun rocket (picture 2) reminds me of one pictured on my own Pop Rockets, which features an image of Sword Probe Force 2.
ReplyDeleteHere's the link to other pop rockets on the blog.
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