When we were young 'uns my older brothers and me had stuff lying all over the house. One of these things, not mine, was a die-cast gold...

  I would have loved this toy at Christmas as a young gunslinger! Mattel's Outdraw the Outlaw! Can you believe its from 1959! This examp...

The Last Starfighter was a classic eighties film about a whiz arcade game player called Alex who goes on to fight aliens in a distant galax...

  This old Spanish catalogue shows an interesting toy pistol top right, Pistol Zumbador. It looks familiar. The red missile says Johnny Seve...

 Some toys are downright dangerous. This late 1940's contraption is just such a one, The Austin Magic Pistol. Its jazz deco looks give i...

Superthunderstingcar! This classic show recently turned up on Moonbase and seeing it again after all these years, I can see how the memory p...

  Now who do you think that boy is meant to be? Ideas on a postcard! Ps. Looking at it again I think they predicted Martin Freeman's Bil...

Hi Woodsy Something else I thought you might be interested in - the Cosmic Water Gun from B&E. Unusual in that it's both a water pis...