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Title: name this toy
Post by: missioncontrol on September 02, 2005, 07:12:25 pm: There used to be this hot selling toy.

you tossed it around kind of like a frisbee except it was a bright orange ring I think it had a black strip on it.

any body know what I'm talking about???
Title: Re: name this toy
Post by: Clonedsheep on September 02, 2005, 07:18:59 pm: Was it a beamO ?
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Post by: GameOver on September 02, 2005, 07:20:58 pm: Skyro?
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Post by: Clonedsheep on September 02, 2005, 07:22:10 pm: or this? http://www.discfly.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=absprint
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Post by: billf on September 02, 2005, 07:32:01 pm: Sounds to me like you're describing an Aerobie.
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Post by: JoyMonkey on September 02, 2005, 07:35:03 pm: Yeah, sounds like an Aerobie alright. I had an Aerobie boomerang; that thing flew for miles (it seemed) and then came back and smacked you in the face!
Title: Re: name this toy
Post by: billf on September 02, 2005, 07:41:45 pm: Quote from: JoyMonkey on September 02, 2005, 07:35:03 pm
Yeah, sounds like an Aerobie alright. I had an Aerobie boomerang; that thing flew for miles (it seemed) and then came back and smacked you in the face!

We have the boomrang (called the Orbiter), but have yet to use it.
Title: Re: name this toy
Post by: missioncontrol on September 02, 2005, 07:42:51 pm: I was thinking it was something boomerang or boomering

but,
I think it was the Aerobie.......

I told the guys at work if anybody would remember it would be the people here........

thanks guys......

man that was an awesome toy. I may have to order one for the kids ;)
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Post by: billf on September 02, 2005, 07:45:47 pm: They are awesome. Simple, but cool. Just make sure you have lots of room to throw it and are ready to run!!
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Post by: Stingray on September 06, 2005, 10:01:59 am: It sounds like an x-box, or maybe a trampoline. Could be a pair of water skis or possibly a Barbie Dream House.

Easy Bake Oven?

-S
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Post by: billf on September 06, 2005, 10:07:55 am: Would be interesting to see you "toss around" the trampoline like a frisbee. ;D
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Post by: ChadTower on September 06, 2005, 10:22:40 am: Lite Brite, with the Scooby papers.
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Post by: Jabba on September 06, 2005, 12:18:27 pm: Wasn't it a Rockem Sockem Robots?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005BY8V/103-8370550-6579828

Or perhaps it was it a Krazy Kar? (man I loved this thing as a kid)

http://www.onestepahead.com/product/45179/1253/118.html
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Post by: Stingray on September 06, 2005, 12:19:42 pm: Hungry, hungry hippos.

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Post by: ChadTower on September 06, 2005, 12:43:14 pm: Lazer Tag.

Gotcha guns.
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Post by: Stingray on September 06, 2005, 12:53:07 pm: Stretch Armstrong... Battleship... Cabbage Patch doll... Slip N' Slide...

-S
Title: Re: name this toy
Post by: missioncontrol on September 06, 2005, 12:56:34 pm: you and all your fancy toys.....

when I was a kid I had a rock and a stick and a broken shoelace
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Post by: ChadTower on September 06, 2005, 12:57:30 pm: I had a jack with half of it missing and a warped ball

I had a ja and a ba.
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Post by: Jabba on September 06, 2005, 01:38:04 pm: Quote from: ChadTower on September 06, 2005, 12:57:30 pm

I had a jack with half of it missing and a warped ball

I had a ja and a ba.

Let me get this straight...You had a Jabba?
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Post by: DYNAGOD on September 06, 2005, 02:44:35 pm: yea, those frisbee things had a metal ring in them, dangerous as hell.
right up there with lawn jarts
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Post by: PetitMorte on September 06, 2005, 02:47:23 pm: You had a ja-ba? Luxury!

When I was growing up, we played with only a couple of rocks, and we used to bang our fingers in between them.

And we liked it that way!
Title: Re: name this toy
Post by: ChadTower on September 06, 2005, 02:49:34 pm: We weren't allowed to play with the rocks. They were too fancy and newfangled.
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Post by: Stingray on September 06, 2005, 02:52:05 pm: We used to dreaaaaaam about playing with rocks!

(http://ayup.co.uk/avina/twoyork.jpg)

But you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.

-S
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Post by: AmericanDemon on September 06, 2005, 05:06:13 pm: Quote from: DYNAGOD on September 06, 2005, 02:44:35 pm
yea, those frisbee things had a metal ring in them, dangerous as hell.
right up there with lawn jarts

In college we would use those Aerobies and play a really stupid game of chicken. We would stand at the end of the hallway and allow people to throw them at our heads. Yeah well..... the vegetation was very smokie and we just played. ;)
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Post by: M3talhead on September 07, 2005, 09:59:40 am: Quote from: PetitMorte on September 06, 2005, 02:47:23 pm
You had a ja-ba? Luxury!

When I was growing up, we played with only a couple of rocks, and we used to bang our fingers in between them.

And we liked it that way!

What's a t-o-y?? ???
Title: Re: name this toy
Post by: Stingray on September 07, 2005, 10:03:47 am: Quote from: M3talhead on September 07, 2005, 09:59:40 am
Quote from: PetitMorte on September 06, 2005, 02:47:23 pm
You had a ja-ba? Luxury!

When I was growing up, we played with only a couple of rocks, and we used to bang our fingers in between them.

And we liked it that way!

What's a t-o-y?? ???

Bones will be along to post a picture for you soon. I'm only taking a quick chance to say I told you so. ;)

-S