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Foam Aeroplanes/Gliders

Mister Fister · 2008-03-27 10:51:48

Does anyone remember those foam planes that came in a flat rectangular packet that you had to slot together yourself (in 2 minutes). Then you had to slide on a plastic propeller that acted as a weight at the front (as well as a propeller) before you launched it? they came in models such as spitfires and B52's etc. Does…

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Mister Fister

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Does anyone remember those foam planes that came in a flat rectangular packet that you had to slot together yourself (in 2 minutes). Then you had to slide on a plastic propeller that acted as a weight at the front (as well as a propeller) before you launched it? they came in models such as spitfires and B52's etc. Does anyone know if you can still buy them or something similar? and where i could get some?

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#2 27-03-2008 12:00pm

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at hobbyplace.com

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#3 27-03-2008 12:24pm

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flanum wrote: »

at hobbyplace.com

Not the same as the ones i was looking for but thanks a bunch, ill go and purchase some now cheers...

But if anyone else remembers the type im rattling on about please let me know, we used to buy them in the newsagents but i haven't been able to find them anywhere

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#4 27-03-2008 4:21pm

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I made a thread about these last year

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055147238

I never did check the shop mentioned though.

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#5 27-03-2008 4:24pm

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Don't know if they sell them anymore, they came in packets like below. Saw a few on eBay.

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#6 27-03-2008 4:26pm

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I got some as a christmas present!

Check the likes of Euro2 on Thomas Street.

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#7 28-03-2008 9:18am

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Excellent, thanks for the replies guys

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#8 28-03-2008 1:22pm

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I think I saw these in a kids toy shop just off the Westbury (Westbury mall?) in Dublin.
Also in the arts & hobby shop in Dundrum Town Centre... (I think!).

Loved them as a kid. So much use from them! Would sellotape them if they broke and looked after them really well.

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#9 28-03-2008 2:22pm

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I remember the balsa wood ones from yeas before. Came with a red propeller and set
of wheels. It had an elastic band motor which you wound up via the propeller.
Stuck it on the footpath and it would take off itself and fly!!

I remember as a I kid while winding the propeller letting it slip and getting a nasty
wallop ans the blades spun round under elastic power and whacking my fingers.

~B

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#10 28-03-2008 3:13pm

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Anybody remember "Thunder Shot"?It was a plastic spaceship projected from a long tube and landed with a parachute.They looked great in the ads..a spaceship fired hundreds of feet into the air and the parachute cracking open and sailing to earth.My mate got one,load of crap..the "launch tube" was a length of cardboard that barely shot the thing a couple of feet up.Of course the parachute wouldnt open either,i LOL'd when i saw him and a dog in a tug of war with the cardboard tube,which eventually unravelled like a toilet roll!

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#11 31-03-2008 7:13am

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Poundshop/euro stores down the road from me still has the foam aeroplanes!
Saw them yesterday.

~B

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#12 31-03-2008 9:22pm

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They remind me of 1986. The year of the world cup, daddy long legs (good summer), and those planes.

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#13 05-04-2008 7:51pm

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I saw them for sale the other day from a stand in the Douglas shopping centre in Cork. 70 cent!

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