Traditional Knives and Toys

5K Qs said:
Todd bigfish64 bigfish64 and his family visited Michigan recently, and Todd carried a Vic Classic SD with a picture of a lighthouse on it because Michigan has many lighthouses. That reminded me that my family has a jigsaw puzzle of The Lighthouses of the Great Lakes. Here's a photo of the box cover showing what the finished puzzle should look like, along with a closer shot to show what some of the lighthouse sketches look like on the puzzle.
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- GT
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Wasn’t even aware of this thread, thanks for the mention Gary. That puzzle looks like it would be a lot of fun!😎👍
 
bigfish64 said:
Wasn’t even aware of this thread, thanks for the mention Gary. That puzzle looks like it would be a lot of fun!😎👍
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Todd, this thread (which is just under 2 years old) is one of my favorites! :thumbsup::cool:🤓
If you can make time for it, I think it's well worth reading from start to finish. I just re-read the first 8 pages and had a stupid grin on my face the whole time. And there's some St. Louis Cardinal baseball info around post 110, I think. Speaking of baseball, here's one of my favorite jigsaw puzzles with lots of baseball memorabilia pictured:
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- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Todd, this thread (which is just under 2 years old) is one of my favorites! :thumbsup::cool:🤓
If you can make time for it, I think it's well worth reading from start to finish. I just re-read the first 8 pages and had a stupid grin on my face the whole time. And there's some St. Louis Cardinal baseball info around post 110, I think. Speaking of baseball, here's one of my favorite jigsaw puzzles with lots of baseball memorabilia pictured:
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I’ll will surely make time Gary, this looks like a lot of fun!😎👍
 
bigfish64 said:
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Yeah! I love Spiderman! 🤠 :thumbsup:
 
bigfish64 said:
Went through the entire thread last night and really enjoyed it. Grabbed this guy for my first post in this thread! 😊View attachment 1609936
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Very belated comment on your first toy-containing post in this thread, Todd: that's a winner! :thumbsup: :cool:🤓:thumbsup:
You never have to worry about losing a knife when you've got Spiderman on your payroll!

Here's another handheld electronic game that I've had for decades, and still play with regularly, although the contacts below many of the buttons are not very reliable any more.
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- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Very belated comment on your first toy-containing post in this thread, Todd: that's a winner! :thumbsup: :cool:🤓:thumbsup:
You never have to worry about losing a knife when you've got Spiderman on your payroll!

Here's another handheld electronic game that I've had for decades, and still play with regularly, although the contacts below many of the buttons are not very reliable any more.
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Very true Gary! My son and I spent many hours playing with his action figures, and he really liked Spiderman (and many others I’ll have to drag out).
I didn’t know they had an electronic Yahtzee game. I remember playing Yahtzee with my grandma, the kind with the actual dice. She wouldn’t have known what to do with an electronic version! 😄
 
bigfish64 said:
Very true Gary! My son and I spent many hours playing with his action figures, and he really liked Spiderman (and many others I’ll have to drag out).
I didn’t know they had an electronic Yahtzee game. I remember playing Yahtzee with my grandma, the kind with the actual dice. She wouldn’t have known what to do with an electronic version! 😄
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I've had some incredible scores over the years on that Yahtzee game (since I played literally thousands of games). But I had to change the batteries once, and lost my high score, so I forgot what it was. I know when I had my legendary game, I called my brother-in-law to see what their high score was, because they had an identical game, but his score was STILL higher than mine. But I don't remember either. I had 4 or 5 Yahtzees in my big game!

I spent a lot of Sunday afternoons playing with Barbies with our daughter; I even had my very own Ken. Are they "action figures"? Sometimes Ken would fall down, hit his head, and suddenly start acting like Capt. Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. That would soon frustrate my daughter, and we'd move on to coloring adjacent pages in one of her coloring books. That was my preferred activity of those two Sunday afternoon traditions. Here are some of the crayons we used over the years; not sure where the almost MIB Crayola 64 came from!
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- GT
 
Legos and especially Star Wars Legos is another thing my son and I spent many hours doing together. He and I would build it the way it was supposed to be built and then he would begin modifying. I never minded it because he was using his imagination and I loved that. This is the most complete one I could find amongst the huge box of pieces and parts. It’s not the Millennium Falcon of course, but I chose a Solo for the photo. 😉C598349A-F97F-4DB2-92D2-6D4AEDC4E2E4.jpeg
 
JohnDF said:
Only if he came with his own weapons or super powers. ;)

That happened to Patrick Stewart quite often. 🤣
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😁 🤓:thumbsup:

bigfish64 said:
Legos and especially Star Wars Legos is another thing my son and I spent many hours doing together. He and I would build it the way it was supposed to be built and then he would begin modifying. I never minded it because he was using his imagination and I loved that. This is the most complete one I could find amongst the huge box of pieces and parts. It’s not the Millennium Falcon of course, but I chose a Solo for the photo. 😉View attachment 1621833
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Great knife choice for that Lego creation! 🤓:cool::thumbsup:

- GT
 
JohnDF said:
Great picture, Todd... Well done!
Lego Star Wars were big with my kids too.
They are in their 20s now, but they still get Legos from Santa every year... I hope they never outgrow them.
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That’s a great tradition John, I might have to…I mean…Santa might have to try that this year at our house. 😉👍
mbkr said:
A survivor from my childhood. This guy is 50+ years old.
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He's not as fierce as he looks. He's a sweetheart 😊
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That’s fantastic Mike! He looks great for his age. 😄👍
 
bigfish64 bigfish64 my hands and fingers hurt just thinking about assembling (and disassembling) all those Lego pieces my grandson had. I guess he's moved on to other things for now.
 
bigfish64 said:
Legos and especially Star Wars Legos is another thing my son and I spent many hours doing together. He and I would build it the way it was supposed to be built and then he would begin modifying. I never minded it because he was using his imagination and I loved that. This is the most complete one I could find amongst the huge box of pieces and parts. It’s not the Millennium Falcon of course, but I chose a Solo for the photo. 😉View attachment 1621833
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That's very cool! I remember when Legos were just blocks, and it was all about using your imagination. Nowadays, they seem more like models, with directions for assembly.
mbkr said:
A survivor from my childhood. This guy is 50+ years old.
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He's not as fierce as he looks. He's a sweetheart 😊
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That's great! I've seen many a 50 year old in worse shape.
JB in SC said:
bigfish64 bigfish64 my hands and fingers hurt just thinking about assembling (and disassembling) all those Lego pieces my grandson had. I guess he's moved on to other things for now.
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You need one of these:
 
r8shell said:
I remember when Legos were just blocks, and it was all about using your imagination.
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I have a story about old-school Legos and imagination to relate. It might be a little long, but amusing enough I think, if you will bear with me.

Back when I was in high school and dinosaurs roamed the earth (1982), a friend of mine discovered that the school library had an 8mm film movie camera which they could loan out for projects. We decided to use it to make a stop-action animation film of the Three Little Pigs, and narrate it in French for French class. We used homemade clay pigs and props and followed the classic fairy tale plot closely until the end [here comes the Legos part].

For the brick house we made a huge castle out of all our combined Legos. The wolf, instead of being frustrated by his inability to destroy the castle with purely pneumatic means, decided to construct a Trojan Pig (which we made out of popsicle sticks). After we finished filming the scene where the Trojan Pig rolls across the drawbridge and into the castle, we set the camera up behind a sheet of plexiglass across the creek and at a safe distance from the Lego castle, and blew the castle to smithereens using a bomb we had made out of crushed model rocket engines. We ignited it remotely using a battery pack we had made and connected to the igniter with his father’s electric lawnmower cord.

When we got the film developed we were delighted to see that the explosion was beautiful on film - a flash of light followed by a cloud of smoke and Legos flying in all directions.

We showed the film in class and I think we got a B or B-minus because we spelled some French words wrong in the title cards. Nowadays they would have called the FBI and the ATF…
 
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