1970.
When childhood involved semi-automatic machine guns.
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Way more screwed up simpler times indeed.
(Seriously Mattel. Is it just me or does ‘Marauder’ sounds suspiciously like ‘MURDERER’?)
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Dang, this explains so much about my brothers. I wish we still had this toy. I loved it.
Seriously, can you imagine having that ad run today?! And yes, maurauder DOES sound like murderer!
Ah, for the good ol’ days when a kid could prepare for his future with the proper equipment. No bothersome helmets when he rode his bike…no sissy seatbelts in the car….and sugary soda in the vending machines at school! 1970 Was the BEST!
I can’t stop laughing- How did we survive childhood?
Count me in- Mauraduer sounds just like like murder.
Times sure were different back then. Makes you kinda miss those candy cigarettes. Those good old days.
My brothers would have murdered someone for one of these, or should I say Marauder?
maybe kids are all screwed up today because they’re so friggin’ repressed. Maybe if boys were allowed to be boys and play with the toys they REALLY want to play with, they would just get it out of their system and then get on with life. Every single Little boy I know turns anything and everything into a gun or weapon of some kind. Why? I don’t know. I’m a girl. I just know that something doesn’t sit right with me in the way society represses the true glory of boyhood, and ultimately…manhood!
“The Marauder: harmless plaything or gateway toy to world domination?
On the next Geraldo!”
‘Kay, I dunno how this jumped back a page to post on your previous post, but it did. Sorry.
@Crystal
Kids aren’t all screwwed up now, in fact, they are less so then they’ve ever been. you just hear about it on the news more and are ignorant enough to make such assumptions.
P.S. it is believed that 4X more guys than girls commit suicide because of their repressed emotions. you know, the ones they aren’t supposed to have because of dumbasses like you calling them pussies?
Go read a book, or at least shut the @#$% up.
“When childhood involved semi-automatic machine guns”
The terms “semi-automatic” and “machine gun” are mutually exclusive. A machine gun is a fully automatic weapon. I know this isn’t really relevant but it was bugging me.