Tuesday, 9 November 2010

TOYBOX TREASURES Of The PAST - COMET HYDRO PLANE...

One of the "must-have" toys of the '60s

Surely there can't have been a kid in the '60s who didn't have one of this fantastic battery-operated HYDRO PLANE speedboat?  As well as playing with it in ponds, baths and sinks, it also came in useful as a handy fan on hot summer days at the seaside.  They just don't seem to make toys like this anymore.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous7 July 2013 at 17:29

    Kid, there seemed to be a lot of these type of toys, usually Japanese, knocking around in the 60s. For me having no local baoating pond/lake always forced a dangerous launch at the seaside. How many imaginery crew members were lost in the cruel seas at Britain's seaside resorts during the 1960s?

    Ken.

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  2. Kid7 July 2013 at 17:37

    More than we could guess, I'm sure. And how many parents nearly drowned trying to retrieve them from the waves?

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