[Skoob]

Any of you remember a single-wheeled racing toy from the 1970s that looked like a shiny dart, about 10"L x 3"W, with short rocket fins on either side of the tapered nose, and two larger fins with cross struts at the rear? Mine was red. You would take a thin plastic cord with teeth along one side, thread it through a hole alongside the wheel of the toy so it aligned with a matching gear built into the side of the wheel, and when you wrench the ripcord back out the way you inserted it, the wheel spun like crazy so you could set the thing down and watch it go zooming away from you for a surprisingly long distance. I haven't thought of that in 40 years. Can't remember what it was called, but it was lots of fun on a smooth surface.

Edit: Found it: Kenner SSP Racer (Mine was the "Laker Special." I suppose they were banned because some stupid kid put his finger in the gear.)

And Go Balls. I think that was their name. They were a clear plastic ball-shaped spring-loaded substitute for a yo-yo that would wind itself up, for kids who couldn't figure out how to operate a yo-yo.

Edit: Yo Balls. (Banned because some stupid kids wrapped the elastic strings around their necks.)

I also had a green plastic rocket that you filled with water and then manually pumped to build up pressure. Launched, it would shoot at least 40-50 feet in the air. Then real chemical rocketry. (I suppose that's probably banned now too.)

Remember Lawn Darts?! Ye gods, imagine the uproar if you pulled out a set of those nowadays. And I used to have guns: Han Solo's battery-operated blaster, a knock-off called the Sonic Fazer, a fairly realistic-looking set of die-cast cowboy cap-guns and holster, a crank-action pop gun, and eventually a Daisy BB gun.

I also had the original Millennium Falcon with battery-operated "sound effect." Spent a lot of hours playing with Star Wars action figures inside that.

I'm sure I'm not the only person here who rode a few hundred miles in a Big Wheel.

Good times.