Toy rockets that exploded caps?

vektarman

Anyone remember those plastic rockets that exploded (for want of a better word) caps for toy guns, you placed a piece of cap between the plunger and a metal plate of the rocket, tossed the rocket in the air and the cap exploded with an almighty bang (slight exaggeration), they seemed very popular back in the day.

WindSock

Yes, I remember them. They tasted nice

bullets

Cap Bombs!!
http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/CapBombs.html

Yep, they came in Plastic and metal with the plastic
colours being red and yellow (never saw any other colours in Ireland)
They were called Cap Bombs!

The Metal ones I saw recently still on sale
at my local centra.


The rockets themselves came with
an area where you could
place a paper cap! between two plates of metal for a rather undramatic snap effect when the cap was set off, and also they had a nub to mount a plastic cup type cap (like seen on revolver cap guns) for a louder bang. (you could even get round paper caps for them rather than taking a square from a roll of caps)

While every kid wanted the Metal Rocket more so than
the Plastic version, it turned out that after lobbing the metal version onto your tarmac the rocket quickly broke
or snapped on impact due to the el-cheapo pot metal, and
the lighter plastic types lasted way longer, although the plastic version tended to be prone
to having the nose cone/neck area get very wobbly.

As a child in the early 80's I remember buying these ones:
http://www.esnarf.com/4417bk.htm

~B

IvyTheTerrible

We had homemade cap bombs - you take a roll of caps, roll it round a two p piece, wrap with sellotape and then throw it hard on the ground, class!

vektarman

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

We had homemade cap bombs - you take a roll of caps, roll it round a two p piece, wrap with sellotape and then throw it hard on the ground, class!

We did something similar Ivy, we wrapped a few caps around a bolt then tightened them on with a nut and threw it on the ground, I'm sure my Dad was scratching his head for years wondering where his nuts and bolts were gone

Jip

vektarman wrote: »

We did something similar Ivy, we wrapped a few caps around a bolt then tightened them on with a nut and threw it on the ground, I'm sure my Dad was scratching his head for years wondering where his nuts and bolts were gone

Was just about to post that ! Yeah, the home made ones with the bolts were much more effective due to their weight, while the plastic ones looked better fairly often you'd have detonation failures whereas with the bolts you could stuff them with caps for big bangs !

WindSock

bullets wrote: »

Cap Bombs!!
http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/CapBombs.html

That's them. Nyom :pac:

Mmmm. Blast from the past!

Magnum

bullets wrote: »

Cap Bombs!!
http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/CapBombs.html

Yep, they came in Plastic and metal with the plastic
colours being red and yellow (never saw any other colours in Ireland)
They were called Cap Bombs!

The Metal ones I saw recently still on sale
at my local centra.


The rockets themselves came with
an area where you could
place a paper cap! between two plates of metal for a rather undramatic snap effect when the cap was set off, and also they had a nub to mount a plastic cup type cap (like seen on revolver cap guns) for a louder bang. (you could even get round paper caps for them rather than taking a square from a roll of caps)

While every kid wanted the Metal Rocket more so than
the Plastic version, it turned out that after lobbing the metal version onto your tarmac the rocket quickly broke
or snapped on impact due to the el-cheapo pot metal, and
the lighter plastic types lasted way longer, although the plastic version tended to be prone
to having the nose cone/neck area get very wobbly.

As a child in the early 80's I remember buying these ones:
http://www.esnarf.com/4417bk.htm

~B

Ah the memories......................

bullets

As kids we got papercaps and threaded the centers through a needle wrapped in selotape with toilet paper for a fuse, pulled the needle out, lit and they made an almighty bang.

Used to love buying swan vesta (spelling?) NON safety matches too. You could strike
them off walls, or rub some striker on leather soled shoes and light them from that.


As Kids my father used weedkiller suger and bi-cycle tubing :eek:

Oh by the way passing by my Local centra today look what
I picked up. (Price says it was 3 Euro but the feckers charged me a fiver)

~B

vektarman

Great buy Bullets! Is that metal? It one looks waaay better than the cheapy looking plastic ones that I remember..

bullets

Yep tis a metal one.

There was some nice cardboard flat packed card art tanks and planes too. I'm such a child when it comes to seeing
retro style stuff.

~B

Run_to_da_hills

Mehans in Ennis had a few of these in his shop window up until quite recently. Not sure if they were a prop or were for sale, they were there a good while and looked faded.

ixoy

One of my earliest childhood memories is using one of these on a stone driveway on the Isle of Man.

stone roses

yes i remember these, some crack just lobbing them in the air!!
simple days ah to be a snapper again!! :-)

Thomas828

I wasn't as creative as some of you. I used to get a roll of paper caps and strike each one with a hammer. My Granny made me do that on the footpath behind her house.

vektarman

Thomas828 wrote: »

I wasn't as creative as some of you. I used to get a roll of paper caps and strike each one with a hammer. My Granny made me do that on the footpath behind her house.

We did something similar Thomas, except we couldn't afford a hammer, we used a stone..