Does anyone remember...

Gerard · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:03

Years ago being able to go into shops and buy a little foam plane that came in an envelope like package? There was usually a big box with loads of them in it, spitfires hurricanes etc and imo the best of the lot the piper tri pacer.

Used to come with a plastic nose attachement and a blue plastic propellor, anyone know if tis still possible to buy these or just something that died off?

Edit: just found a pic so people know what im on about

http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/COLLECTOR12/MVC-393F_001.JPG

Bennie-Mac · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:04

You should be able to buy them in model shops still

tisonlyme · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:04

Wow, me and my bro always bought these when we were on holiday in Dorset as kids! Good times indeed!

JaffaJedi · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:04

You still get them

My wife has bought some for the kids recently. Dont know if its the same make but they are very similar

Noel Gallagher · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:04

I remember these.
Good times.

[DOD]Asprilla · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:05

I used to get them all the time. You still can.

LOAM · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:05

yes, why ? are you going to tell us they were toxic and we are all going to die if we had one

Glaucus · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:06

They were awesome. probably still get them in model shops.

-BA- · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:07

Woah. Just looked at that pic and I was 8 yrs old again buying the Spitfire and a quarter of Pear Drops in my local shop. Jeez life was so much simpler back then

Ben M · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:08

you still get them.

Mat · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:08

Yes, I used to buy these all the time... I even had a Lancaster bomber version with four engines on the wings! They also did a set of flying insects which were a similar shape but had a small noise maker, which made a buzzing noise when you threw the toy, that attached under the 'nose' instead of the propeller.

Greebo · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:09

Used to love them too. Forgot all about them till you started this thread. Thanks

RIZZEE · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:10

yeah i remember them, had loads

good old days

Sheff · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:10

I remember buying them and then using two plastic parts to attach on either wing... it never flew as well strangely enough.

Does anyone remember the small planes that attached to clear plastic rings you put on your fingers so you could have dogfights with your friends?

Edit: Google has them down as Ring Raiders.

Gerard · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:11

Ive not seen them anywhere i years. I remember buying them it was pot luck as to how they flew, some of them were terrible and others flew amazingly well, the piper plane was the master of looping around. Im guessing just about everyone used to stick another 2 props onto the wings of their plane to see what difference it made to it.

Mat · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:12

http://www.amazon.co.uk/PMS-Gliders...sr_1_34?ie=UTF8&s=kids&qid=1234455176&sr=1-34

Cosimo · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:13

They are still on sale. Google is your friend.

-BA- · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:14

Anyone else remember making rubber band guns in woodwork at school? If we weren't planing down wood into swords to batter each other with, we were hammer two bits of wood together at right angles to each other, gluing on the spring loaded tent pegs and firing off rubber bands everywhere.

Now they just use knives..................

A.N.Other · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:15

You can still find them in random shops, but they're not as common as they were. Children nowadays obviously don't think they're good enough

Helium_Junkie · 12 Feb 2009 at 16:15

theres one down the back of my telly

And another wedged between ornaments on a shelf.
Love these things, have played with em as a boy and recently