Toy Thompsons

[OCM]

A guy contacted me last week about toy Thompsons in relation to the gangsters. All I knew ( not a toy collector ) was Melvin Purvis had some stuff out and Rick Mattix I believe had a G-Man Thompson toy. I had some old minature Thompsons in my collection and two Japanese Thompsons I bought new in 1969 for 99 each, still have one for car displays.

As a kid my brother & I had a cast iron Thompson that went click, click when you pulled the trigger. It was always around left in a bush or something. The bad guy always got the Thompson in our cops & robbers-

Just in general, anyone into these toy, G-Men type Thompsons ?

I said I'd ask.

 

Thanks, OCM

[emmagee1917]

Closest I come is a Matel M1 syle Thompson that was plastic for the most part and would make a tat-tat sound when the handle was cocked and the trigger pulled . I believe it also took caps , but it was rare we had any ( wonder why ) . It disappeared when I went off to collage as well as the rest of my toy arsonal ( M1 garand , M1 carbine , M1911 ( shot plastic bullets from cases ) , Bazooka , 60MM mortar ( these last two shot blue bombs from an internal cocked spring ) , M1919A4 ( battery powered belt fed with a flaming muzzle , rat-tat sound , and an endless looped belt that fed into it ) , '03 Springfield ( single shot cap gun ) , a few revolvers ( repeating cap guns ) .

By golly , I do recall a '28 style with a permanant drum on it. It made sounds through a speaker in the drum. The drum had slots in it to let the sound out. Don't recall if it took batteries or not , though.

I miss them sometimes , but I have the real thing in these now , and more. Big boys , real toys .

Chris

[ghostsoldier]

I've got an airsoft version of a '21, and I built a couple of wooden ones for my sons, for Halloween a few years ago....I'll post up some pics when I get home.

Rob

Edited August 13, 2012 by ghostsoldier

[OCM]

Cool, thanks you guys. Another guy came up with a Matell thing, like Chris has I think. Makes noise or ??? I'll pass this on .

Interesting.

 

OCM

[rjb1]

Mattel had at least two types of Thompsons made in the fifties. Both were 1928 types (mostly). The most accurate-looking one had a crank on the side that would let you shoot caps very quickly. The caps loaded into the lower part of the twenty-round stick through a small door. That one I think was called the "Thunderburst", and my brother had one of those. It looked VERY much like a military-issue 1928A1.

 

The one that had the retractable "bolt" and made a gun-noise from the drum was the "Thunderburp" (from "burp-gun".). That one was mostly 1928-looking, but did have the bolt handle on the side instead of the top

They also made a grease-gun with the cap-firing mechanism of the Thunderburst Thompson. One probably-intentional bit of reality was that the cap-firing crank was at the proper location of the cocking handle of the real M3. My next door neighbor had one of those.

In the pre-politically-correct days our neighborhood was the Arsenal of Democracy for toy guns.

 

I have always felt that the fifties-era guns and toy soldiers were so accurate because the toy designers and toy makers were likely WWII veterans who knew exactly what those things were supposed to look like. I still have my favorite toy .45 auto from those days and I guarantee that it is so real looking that you could hold up any liquor store in town with that thing.

[emmagee1917]

Yea , mine was a side cocker . It came in a Sgt. Sanders Combat kit with a plastic belt , canteen , carrier , and a couple of pineapple cap grenades . I bought my first Thompson . a WH M1A1 , because of that toy. I thought that was what Sgt. Sander's carried because I remembered the side cocker. Year or two later I added a WH '28 just because. Several years later I bought the "Combat" series , and lo and behold , he's carrying a '28.

Of course , now that I think about it , most of my "real" gunsI have now , I had as toys in my youth. Mid-life crisis ?

Chris

[Mk VII]

In England Airfix did a plastic Tommy, that fired gray polythene bullets

 

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47211/thread/1290029618/Old+Guy+memories+update

 

Careful examination will show that the molding was 'beefed up' somewhat in the magazine well area otherwise it would have been too weak.

[emmagee1917]

I had the Mattel Tommy Burst and the Gung-ho set , so I may be mistaken on where the acc. came from . I also had the Jonny Reb , the Jonny Seven , the Radio Rifle and the Snap-shot as well . I took care of my toys , and had amassed quite a pile . Didn't figure they'd be gone when I returned from college.

Chris

[rjb1]

"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."

 

"Toy soldiers never die, mothers just throw them away."

[Bridgeport28A1]

My dear mother did not throw out my toys. I had another Mattel Tommyburst that had a scope on it. The "demilled" Tommyburst was a retirement gift from a co-worker.

 

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Ross

[OCM]

That's amazing- All these are. Did have a Captain Video space suit with the giant plastic helmet and ray gun. Rather had a toy Thompson thar fired caps, ours was a complete cast one that just clicked.

Interesting stuff.

 

OCM