Yes, I'm asking for help finding a toy. Its driving me nuts lately.
As a kid, I had a Fisher Price airplane. It was blue over white. It was a twin engined prop plane. It looked an awful lot like a Cessna 310.
Behind the cockpit, there was a a black lever that would raise and lower the landing gear. Underneath the fuselage, there was a pistol grip, that when you squeezed it the props spun. This is a toy from around 1979-84 as best I can remember.
E-bay and Google are no help.
Thank you. Just...thank you. 
Less than 30 mins for the correct response. Good ol GRM
Luke
SuperDork
1/13/12 1:46 a.m.
Werd. I read Appleseed's post and thought "hah, goodluck with that one!"
And then there it is
.
I think, collectively, the GRM forum as a whole knows EVERYTHING.
Luke wrote:
Werd. I read Appleseed's post and thought "hah, goodluck with that one!"
And then there it is
.
It's happened before:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/help-me-find-a-toy-from-my-youth/16447/page1/
bluej
Dork
1/13/12 7:54 a.m.
whenever there's a toy thread like this, I always hope it's about this:

Wow, I had that very contraption. Thanks for the unexpected memory!
When I was a kid, SSPs were my favorite. Last week I bought my three year old a mini SSP, new in the box, from eBay for $14. They're still fun.

And.....I just bought another one....
I forgot about SSP's. I was a bit old for them when they came out and was a bit perturbed that they weren't available when I was a little kid. 
I liked the derby car version of SSP. Complete with parts flying off when they hit things.

Do ya'll remember Crack-Ups?
http://youtu.be/tMEMPErsYbA
mndsm
SuperDork
1/13/12 9:55 a.m.
Conquest351 wrote:
Do ya'll remember Crack-Ups?
http://youtu.be/tMEMPErsYbA
I had a whole MESS of those as a kid. LOVED them. Played so hard with em after a while they just stayed crashed.
Duke
SuperDork
1/13/12 11:04 a.m.
HappyJack wrote:
I liked the derby car version of SSP. Complete with parts flying off when they hit things.
Yeah, I had that set, and a few other SSPs.
Conquest351 wrote:
Do ya'll remember Crack-Ups?
http://youtu.be/tMEMPErsYbA
I had a van that would flip over, I wonder if that was part of that line.
I think you guys helped me find an old Tonka truck I had as a kid too. Had to get it for my son(Jeep honcho race truck). He loves it too.
Jetfire was one of my absolute favorites growing up:

I was also crazy about the GI Joe Skystriker F-14:

Grtechguy wrote:
It's happened before:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/help-me-find-a-toy-from-my-youth/16447/page1/
I was the guy that answered that. I was hoping the toy-karma would come back around. It did.
Unfortunately, the Canadian in Wally's link wants something like $40 to ship. I'll keep hunting. though.
bluej
Dork
1/13/12 11:53 a.m.
thanks, Scott, you just made me kill my lunch finding this: 


and judging by the website i shamelessly hotlinked these from, he might already be a member here: http://gremlindog.com/tag/rolling-thunder/
there were many a battle between my GI Joe collection and the Dino-Riders:

Thanks guys, now I'm going to waste my lunch hour on the Micro Machines Museum. 
http://www.m2museum.com/
mndsm
SuperDork
1/13/12 12:25 p.m.
I had a bunch of MASK and that GI Joe Plane. Loved it all. I need to find me a new Voltron too.
mndsm
SuperDork
1/13/12 12:26 p.m.
Appleseed wrote:
Grtechguy wrote:
It's happened before:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/help-me-find-a-toy-from-my-youth/16447/page1/
I was the guy that answered that. I was hoping the toy-karma would come back around. It did.
Unfortunately, the Canadian in Wally's link wants something like $40 to ship. I'll keep hunting. though.
You WERE the guy that found that for me. And I am forever grateful. Now to buy one for the mini-me....