my dad has the helicopter launching car and the missile launching car. he made a train table when i was a kid and my brother and i would shoot the missiles at each other. ah yes, i can still smell that mechanical alkaline train smell.

Those look very cool.

"This is a tense moment at the launching base, the huge atlas missile with the man-carrying Mercury capsule is prepared for the shot..."

Nothing phalling going on here, sir. nuh-huh.

impressive the balloons floating, I wonder if they really worked or not.

Yeah,I thought they had a string, but they don't do they?

apparently, they are supposed not to have a string, but floating thanks to a "wind turbine"(?).

how can this works with the train in motion is beyond me.

And today, that kit would cost around $5000

Cute?

yeah, the boy and the trains....cute

As long as the train goes slow the balloons should stick to the center of the wind tunnel. Fans at stores used to have beach balls balanced in the airflow to show them working and you could gently toss them in and get them to stick. I never thought of using them as a target. That is brilliant. Upvote for toy projectiles!

The man in the cherry picker seemed to be a little big for the capsule.

i miss my old train set

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