Today We're babysitting all day at Moonbase Junior's house. Baby's asleep and baby's Dad has come home ill and is currently in Bed.
I'm on missus Moonbase's notepad which I'm not used to.
I've been thinking about cap guns and where I got caps as a kid. I think you could get them allover the place. I seem to recall them in the local newsagents. Rolls of them. Is that your experience readers?
We also had Sekidans in the house in the Sixties. These Japanese pistols fired small peas of compressed powder - no idea what - which came in small boxes I think. No idea where we got extra ammo from. Maybe just toy shops?
Do kids still need ammo or has the whole toy gun thing finished?
I used to buy caps in newsagents' shops and Woolworth's when I was a kid. Bought some a few years ago for my then new James Bond cap guns (tied in with Pierce Brosnan), but guns in general seem to be frowned upon these days unless they're futuristic-looking water pistols.
ReplyDeleteof course, Woolies Kid! I forgot about them. We also had Zodiac toys in Preston. Did you have them? Going outside with a toy gun is certainly potentially a lethal exercise these days. I imagine its discouraged the world over. Toys guns look too much like the real thing and in today's febrile atmosphere its a huge risk.
DeleteI don't remember having any specific Zodiac toys as a kid, or even if I was aware of the name, but I've now got a few Zodiac versions of Tommy Gunn, as well as the original Pedigree version.
DeleteI don't remember having any specific Zodiac toys as a kid, or even if I was aware of the name, but I've now got a few Zodiac versions of Tommy Gunn, as well as the original Pedigree version.
DeleteI adored Tommy Gunn Kid. Yep, he was from Zodiac in Preston too. What a great action figure doll range that was. Has it ever been rereleased like Accy Man?
DeleteControl pads give kids the popular first person shoot-'em-up point of view on the console. But Nerf guns also seem very popular with kids and adults that the moment. Perhaps the foam based ammo of Nerf guns has replaced caps. Perhaps Nerf guns provide the modern arsenal for imaginative play with toy guns, Woodsy :)
ReplyDeleteI think youre right. Nerf is probably collecatable now and the originals must be vintage Tone.
DeleteI used to buy my roles of paper caps from a local newsagent - if you were particularly flushed with pocket money that week you could afford a tube full , otherwise he was perfectly happy to break open a tube and sell you individual rolls. The yellow/red plastic caps tended to be from toy shops in town but for logistical reasons (lol) I preferred to stick to the paper variety *see entry concerning my beloved SLR ! *
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I'm being thick Fenton. Which is your SLR entry?
Deletecaps on a green paper strip,in a little round card box! or on a tightly wound roll taken from a wholesale tube. I always got mine from a newsagent, loved the smell of cordite after firing! Then in the late seventies, I got a heavy die cast police revolver that took red plastic rings of white caps, like a flower shape with the chemicals in one of 12 little cups. I tbink these are still available now. Matt Mason toys used caps extensively, I think Mattel advocated the use of Greenie Stick-Em caps which were individual circular paper disks with adhesive backing
ReplyDeleteI loved the smell of cordite after firing! is that a film reference Bill?
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