https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/this-predates-me-mildly-but-darn-it-i/ Reboot Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/this-predates-me-mildly-but-darn-it-i/#comment-11215 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:41:20 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/03/01/this-predates-me-mildly-but-darn-it-i/#comment-11215 I had Billy Blastoff as a kid and it was my favorite toy that Christmas. His backpack carried two batteries that made him walk. When you put him in his vehicles, the batteries powered the vehicles. Really cool toy!

]]> https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/this-predates-me-mildly-but-darn-it-i/#comment-11211 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 03:56:46 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/03/01/this-predates-me-mildly-but-darn-it-i/#comment-11211 This has to be from the early 60s. The toy designs are ridiculously lazy and primitive. No 70s kid would have allowed their Star Wars or Micronaut collections to be sullied by associating with this lot.

]]> https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/this-predates-me-mildly-but-darn-it-i/#comment-11207 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:18:18 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/03/01/this-predates-me-mildly-but-darn-it-i/#comment-11207 Very cool stuff. Those look like something I would have enjoyed in the 1970s. Might have even had a thing or two, though I can't say I remember offhand.

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