Comments on: Parachuting Belushis?

By: Black max

Black max — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 06:52:11 +0000

I have the cap bomb in packaging,any idea what it's worth?

By: Black max

Black max — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 06:51:08 +0000

I have the 1941 cap bomber in origanal packaging,any idea what it's worth?

By: rob!

rob! — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:54:02 +0000

Forgive my language, but HOLY SHIT THERE WERE 1941 TOYS?!?

By: Chris Jepsen

Chris Jepsen — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:57:36 +0000

I have a very vague memory of seeing "1941" toys at Lucky's grocery store in Huntington Beach when I was young. I think I remember it because A) Military stuff appealed to me, and B) It was clearly a movie tie-in for a film that was unknown to me — thus engaging my curiousity. (I don't think many young children were taken to Belushi movies.)

By: plasticfetish

plasticfetish — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:28:36 +0000

Wow. Rack toys from the movie "1941"… now that's something new to me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:04:39 +0000

When I was young my friendsand I bought those gliders in bulk when they appeared at a local Pic-n-save. Had many air battles with them. Player 1 tossed his glider, player 2 threw his in an attempt to knock the other guys plane out of the sky. Those little planes could take a lot of damage. Loved them.

By: Lady Jaye

Lady Jaye — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:32:45 +0000

Oh yeah, the cap bomb also was still around in the late 80s. Mine was red. You'd lift the tip and insert a single firecracker at the end (they were sold in paper rolls). Guess that Imperial simply continued selling those toys for a few years as standard rack toys.

By: Lady Jaye

Lady Jaye — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:29:54 +0000

I had many of these gliders as a kid (late 80s), albeit not as a tie-in to anything (probably the same maker though, as I did have that green US plane). These were WWII fighters from both Allies and Axis. Some of them made better loops than other models (the Japanese Zero was a good one). They were made out of styrofoam, except for the propeller, which was in plastic (red in my days, not clear or white).

The packaging I knew was yellow and smaller, about the width of the body of the plane.

By: Meatball

Meatball — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:50:32 +0000

Aww MAN!! How am I supposed to compete with this kind of toy weirdness? This kind of discovery makes the Evil Meatball want to just retire! 🙂

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:12:57 +0000

I had the bombs and gliders, pretty much staples of the rack toy world. Although I preferred the hand grenade style of cap bomb, oddly one that didn't see a release for this line.

The movie was on cable pretty steady when I was a kid, so I saw it often. I was dumbfounded when many years later I discovered it was considered one of Spielberg's worst. The idea of a comedic film about America a few weeks after Pearl Harbor was considered bad taste.