Some more toy guns from the pages of TV Century 21.
A nice arsenal of Lone Star guns including the Midge, which appeared quite recently on eBay complete with holster.
A couple of guns that had first appeared as Dan Dare merchandise in the fifties was this Stingray cap gun,
and this Fireball XL5 suction cup gun. I did have this as a youngster. Although it's quite obviously a Dan Dare cast off ( The handle has the lettering Inter-Planet Space Fleet) the XL5 box artwork by Eric Eden is excellent.
We grew up with toy guns in the Sixties didn't we. I loved them and it didn't do me any harm. But now I'm in my Fifties I can see how it might seem odd to a modern generation. Still, kids these days play computer games which are far more violent than anything that was available to us. I loved toy guns back then. I had a lugar too and a snub-nose Scoop. My brothers had Sekidens which shot small pellets. One of my favourites was a 007 die-cast cap pistol, which came in a box on its own.
ReplyDeleteYes , it's funny that toy guns are a no- no for the PC brigade yet they don't seem to talk about shoot -em - up video games.
ReplyDeleteI loved Sekiden guns when I was a nipper. We used Diana peas instead of the proper Sekiden pellets as the hard peas were cheaper. The only problem was if one of the peas was too big the gun jammed - ah, happy days!
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