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From: markp@tekmdp.UUCP (Mark Paulin)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Fireball XL-5
Message-ID: <2138@tekmdp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 13:18:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 16 13:18:06 1983
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When the long-forgotten memories of Fireball XL-5 were dragged to the surface
last week by mention of the show here, they brought with them a memory of a toy
I had as a kid -- it was called the SSP (or somesuch) "Sonic Blaster".  This
thing looked like a black plastic bazooka tube about 3 inches across with a red
handle to be used to pump it up with air.  It would fire a ball of air about 15
feet -- the ad showed the device being pumped up in a smoke-filled room and
then discharged in clean air, and you could *see* the ball of smoke come
shooting out of the thing.  I just wondered if anyone else remembered this
weapon...

Or does anyone else remember "Six Finger" (Six Finger, man alive -- How did I
ever get along with five?), a plastic finger which could conceal myriad gizmos
(each sold separately) like a little dart, or a flashlight, or...?


I was a kid once...

Mark Paulin
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