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     Buellkowski |
Holiday stocking stuffer idea!  As a kid in the '70s I played with a similar "linear belt drive" Evel Knievel moto-toy. Wasn't the technology called "SST"? | ||
| Tramp |
man, I LOVED the SSTs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I remember that a cereal manuafacturer put mini-SSTs in boxes, too. SSTs were banned in our elementary school within about a month. Gimma an SST, an action Jackson and an Evel Knievel action figure, the GI Joe Adventure team helicopter, and a couple tree sets of gnip-gnops and a duncan butterfly, and I'm good to go. ummm....in the picture on the left-top corner of the container....is that someone's derriere that the pull strap is coming out of? ...cause I'm ascaired.... | ||
| Midknyte |
it's a bent finger. but it's still scary. | ||
| Sleez |
gnip-gnop....WOW!!! the best!!! don't forget Rockem-Sockem Robots!! http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/item/productID/5763/?source=gaw04&kw=gnip+gnop http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/item/productid/6091/ (Message edited by sleez on December 13, 2005) | ||
| Oldog |
looks like the crazy frog rides again ..... | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Why frogs though? | ||
| Zimzamzoom |
As I recall, the SST's had a "rip cord" that you fed through the flywheel mechanism and then pulled, much like how these frogs appear to operate. (Or was it "SSP"? The supersonic jets are SST: Supersonic Transport. SSP=Supersonic Power?) The Evel Kneivel toy ... I remember that one, too. Did it have kind of a "launch pad" thing though -- where you put little Evel in place, then turned a crank, and when you stopped he would take off? I saw an ad on TV the other day (I think it was on TV) for a toy that looks like an SST/P, but it's just a wheel, no body. they show it jumping over cars and stuff. Looks fun! | ||
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| Glitch |
I have one of those! |
