I was at a “vintage fireworks swap meet” this fall and someone was selling vintage, unopened cap guns. I had to get one. My kids asked “dad, what are those”
Like, there’s a small hole in the butt end of the sword that he cut bigger with scissors. Then put a broomstick up through the sword “blade” to make it stiff.
Yes, the side split from swinging into things, so I inserted a long wooden rod and taped it up.
When my son got a Thor's Hammer, the handle broke off, and I was able to use the same repair method (~40 years later).
Real swordsman with an engineer for a grandpa checking in… he drilled a hole in the pommel and put in a 1/2” dowel the taped the hole.
Grandpa was a real one.
I am laughing so hard! Thank you for posting this. I even rember the sadness felt when the plastic sheath got caught in some roughhousing & ripping off the belt.
Sounds kind of like a helicopter of you swing it fast enough.
Can also leave a mean welt behind in the event you d truly pissed off the person holding it.
I had this one and absolutely felt like the Highlander
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Core memory unlocked. Thank you! I usually found sticks in the woods shaped like swords or guns, but when the showies were in town, these bad boys were always on sale
I have a scar behind my left eyebrow where one of these that has split in half sliced me open. Then the next year walking to school I slipped on ice and hit my head and split it all open again.
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Still have it! Its beat up and taped from my kid abusing it. the end piece is missing, that would have held the battery that allowed the emblem to light up.
I remember I had one that was more of a dagger size and I guess I didn’t hurt my little sister or younger cousins too bad so my parents bought be a larger one later lol
These were awesome because the sheath always became a sword as well. We used to beat the shit out of each other so hard with these they would always get folded, and that little white crease would appear, and you knew they would never be the same structural integrity once it was there.
I punched some hole in the bottom of the scabbard and ran an old dress-shoe string from the top belt loop to the bottom holes and wore it on my back like Conan.
I used to switch the hilts out so they were silver on gold or vice versa. Those things never lasted more than a month or so, but they were cheap enough for my mom to buy 2 or 3 at a time.
I had this exact one and a black one just like it. Both came with a helmet, cuirass, and shield. The cuirasses and shields had a dragon the same color as the scabbard.
It was a different style, but I totally forgot I'd owned one until I was 20-something. My parents were full-time RVing across the country and I'd taken over the mortgage payments and lived in my childhood home for awhile, and during a storm a big limb tore off one of the pine trees and I found the sword while cleaning it up. My son was delighted and that became his vorpal sword. (He was a fan of the Jabberwocky.)
Yep, I had this exact one. I grew up in Canberra, Australia so I assume it came out of the same mould in China and was then distributed to every boy in the western world.
Who bought theirs out of a shopping cart being pushed around a parade along with those snaps that you throw at the ground and characters made out of beach ball material on the end of a wooden dowel.
I did, but much more important (to me) was the he-man and skeletor swords I had. My uncle got them for me for my birthday and I have never forgotten sword-fighting with him in our backyard when he'd come over.
Or, this robot that I, and most other 80’s kids had:
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Same! My friends and I got the wooden shields and swords from Ren Faire and used to beat the shit out of each other. Especially on Hobbit Day. We were 13-year-old girls and this was how we spent our time (when we weren’t drinking jolt cola or debating the hotness of Val Kilmer in “Willow” vs Val Kilmer in “The Doors”).
When I was 15 in 1999, somehow my friends and I acquired a keg, skipped school for half a week, fished and ate fish, and slept in a 10-man tent in the woods off our housing addition. We even used a weed eater at the campsite. (actually, I lost my V card there too, but diff story). And we were so close to home that anytime we "needed" anything, it was a short distance away. About 5-15 students, all skipping school for those few days that fall.
Right next to a pond, also, so we fished a lot, we stole a paddleboat, put the keg on the back of it, and smoked weed all day, every day. But one day, we found the best sword-like sticks we could find. and spent an hour of 5 on 5 beating the fuck out of each other...
At 41, this is one of my favorite childhood memories. Nostalgia!
I remember I lived in Arizona at the time and we had a lot of retirees at the time. During the summer me and a friend had a fake plastic butchers knife and a chefs knife (left over from Halloween costumes 8 months before) and we playing yelling/ chasing our other friend through the desert behind some old guys house and he came out screaming at us . 🤣 I think he thought he was witnessing some children of the corn or lord of the flies type shit. We explained they were plastic he didn’t care, scolded us and told us to get home and not run behind his house anymore. 😂
I have vivid memories of sword fighting with this exact toy. Of course, my older brother used the sword, and I had to use the sheath to fight back lol.
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I got this one in 1978. It glowed in the dark.
I was a "Ninja sword" enjoyer myself
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Oh dear. I do. We used to play She-Ra and used them separately so we both had a sword. We used to stick them in these metal things on the floor to “charge them up” me being the uber genius I was at the time figured if I let it “charge” longer I could fight with it longer…. I ended up slapping hot plastic across my besties younger brothers arm. I got my ass whooped proper and learned I was never allowed to touch base board heaters again. I will never forget that toy.
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These were the best! The Chrome. The Knuckle Guard. That Ruby in the Pommel. The clean straight blade with the ball. Thing snapped the second you tried to use it.
My son has this sword. He's 35 now and we have an attic full of his old toys. He's an only child and was spoiled more by my brothers and sister than my wife and I. I still have his Terminator gun. It had a spinning barrel that looks like a Gatling gun. He really has some cool stuff up there. Any time I tell him I'm going to put his stuff on Ebay he's like Nope, that's his stuff.
I got to play a mouse in the Nutcracker in 3rd grade. We each got one of these as a prop and it was pretty much the pinnacle of my existence up to that point.
I have a friend who was big into ballet with his mother and sister. His mom was Mother Ginger. When he was young, he was a rat soldier, and when he got older he was the Rat King, and finally, the Nutcracker himself. He too, had this exact same sword when he was your age as a rat soldier. I'd almost be curious as to how many of those plastic swords have been made in the last forty some years, haha
I had that one!! 😃 wow I even have a pic of it when I got it in Universal Studios at the Conan the Barbarian show! That brought it all back thanks for sharing! 🤓
I felled many a ninja with this thing. None could stand before the mighty strength of Sir sharpshooter188. I guarded the kingdom with a sense of duty and had the attention of the princess. To be wed one day. Until I decided others needed my protection and I wandered off into the sunset.
Wow! The ancient neuron pathway that just got reactivated in my brain looking at that image 😆. I was obsessed with He-Man too so I used to go around pretending I was Teela.
Yes! When I was ~5y.o. my friend & I had them. A neighbor lady at a playground took them away because she thought we’d hit her toddler with them. We hadn’t - kid fell off the slide & started crying. We stood there looking around for someone because her mom wasn’t nearby & wasn’t paying attention. Eventually her mom ran over and of course it was our fault & not her shit parenting. Got em back later and learned the lesson that adults don’t believe kids anyway even if you’re telling the truth.
Bought more in 5th grade to use for a Shakespeare play. We reinforced them with dowel rods and choreographed some sweet fight scenes to make up for the fact that 5th graders trying to perform Shakespeare are awful at it.
My older brother got the sword and I got the scabbard, so I filled the scabbard with pennys and then got in big trouble not realizing how much damage that would do after giving him a couple huge welts. He still deserved it
And the cap and the chest plate. But my cap has lost the visor so I wore it backwards, the curved neckguard section of the helmet looked like the brim of a hat.
Almost as long as I’ve had a car, I’ve kept one of these in the trunk (4 cars deep now). You know: spare tire, windshield wiper fluid, ice scraper, plastic sword… the essentials
Immediate memory seeing this. I was out in the backyard & swung this at my little brother with the scabbard on. Scabbard shot off at like 45 mph and sailed right through the living room window.
The old man was furious.
I was lucky enough to have a pre-nerf one. Hard plastic, including the scabbard, suitable for slashing straight through dragon scale, tall weeds and and neighborhood kids alike.
Mine was all silver but had the gold cross guard. I think I still might have that in the attic at my parents house. I remember always having it but don't remember how I got it.
Praised possession, for sure. Certain eerily sharp parts of the soft plastic bond brought for dreams of a true sharp sword, one that I could conquer all
Had that exact one and it got take away because I flung the case at my little brother and hit him in the eye( total accident d could never have done it again) when i was showing him my sweet sword skills...I also took off what ever that thing is called above the handle and flung it like a ninja star
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