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Hot Birds
by Mattel
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This memory was added on: June 5,2007
hey guys i had all of the ones they put out ..when i was a kid i miss them when we moved they got lost...and i said to my mom they are gone..she said you missed place them...no one took them....so now iam on the hunt...for them.. so allen carter...if you would like to sell any let me know.....thanks..
anthony muro aka batcuffs.....
anthony muro
jan 13..1961
batmany2k_1999@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: September 6,2006
I still have my Hot Birds On Target Set in the original box. The only part that is broken is the plastic bumber at the end of the line. I flew my birds down the stairs, which apparently resulted in too much speed. The plastic bumper broke when the plane impacted it. Great toys. I also have my original red line Hot Wheels in the wheel carrying case, metal car tokens, track and Super Charger.
Chgristopher
1961
cjs@wje.com
This memory was added on: July 29,2006
I dont remember the name of this hotbird but it had one big gull or dimond shape wing with 2 uprights my best friend and i found out if you drop it in a pool its hard to beet how it flys anyone have one for sale?
Dave
12 . 8 . 63
mad_snooker@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: July 27,2006
I loved these... they were like airplane versions of futuristic concept cars. I still have 2 left in very played-with condition but they were definitely solid. The landing gear usually went first and the little hook that attached in the top for the string immediately lost, but other details such as airbrakes and flaps seemed to hold up and still function 30+ years later.
Darren
This memory was added on: June 15,2006
I had one of these - I believe I had the same model that's pictured on the site. The thing I liked best was when you sent it into "flight", it make a cool - well cool at the time - sound that echoed through the contoller. The controller had a handle and a crank to wind up the line. Anyway, the sound was generated by the vibration of the plane's guide hooks rubbing against the cord as it went along - pretty much a string and tin can concept....but it worked! and I agree with the others who've mentioned the weight....Those suckers were solid!
Stan Tak
1964
This memory was added on: January 2,2006
In 1973 my then best friend and i found out if you let the hotbird that look a bit like a gull wing go at the top of a pool it flys damm good.Try it if you have an old kind of beet up one.I would love to buy one can any one help? Thanks. Dave Pomerleau.
Dave Pomerleau
12 . 8 . 63
mad_snooker@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: January 3,2005
To Alan Carter: Lucky man!! I am serious HotBirds collector and would love to get hold of any/all your HotBirds in Blister paks. If you are interested please let me know at logueydog@ hotmail.com
Have a great day! Chris
Chris
1961
logueydog@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: September 13,2004
I remeber getting a HotBirds set for Christmas one year. I anguish over the thought of how my parents just "gave it away" after I had joined the Air Force. Would love to buy a set from Alan Carter or some other interested party.
George Alan Yarchak
1961
alan@yarchak.com
This memory was added on: July 2,2004
Man, I loved my Hot Birds. My favorite, the "Ski Gull" was my perfect fantasy airplane. After playing with it for years, I kept it on the bookshelf above my bead until I went to college.
And last year my mom pulled it out and asked, "Wasn't this yours?" It was missing the skis (anyone got those?), but it's back on the shelf of my den, right along side my Zeroid robots!
Randy Murray
1960
cptnrandy@gmail.com
This memory was added on: October 17,2003
I remember seeing this ad plastered all over just about every comic book I had and still have fron the 70's
This memory was added on: October 1,2003
I didn't remember having this until I saw them years later in a collecting toys article. My amin memory is that they were HEAVY. If you threw them to simulate flight, you had a good chance of breaking whatever was in the flight path.
Stuart
1962
stuart@codeblue.ws
This memory was added on: July 12,2003
*LOL*! You guys sound like my brother (an avid toy and comic book collector). He has these dreams of walking into some dead old lady's attic, and finding all of her long since grown-up son's toys and they're all still in there, and in mint condition! This toy was pretty cool, I have to agree. I wore the fishing line out from over-use, I think. My friends had these too, and we would go to each others houses and see how much stuff we could bang-up after the parents at the previous house kicked us out. After we used up everyone's house...we moved on to another toy...I think it was the SSP Racers. The dogs weren't too fond of that toy either....getting their paws bashed up by some plastic car barreling across the floor. I particularly liked the scuff marks they left on mom's linoleum floor.
HeyJoe
1964
This memory was added on: June 7,2003
Alan, I wish I had your job! I've always dreamed of walking into an old hardware store and finding old toys just sitting on the shelf. It's been 15 years and I'm still dreaming! Please email me, I've got some unopened items you are looking for and you've got some that I'm looking for.
Larry
1966
playart@ameritech.net
This memory was added on: May 24,2003
Back in the early-1980's, I was helping clean out a large warehouse that my company had purchased. The warehouse had previously been used by a department store during the 1970's and to my great joy we found approximately 100 cases of early-70's Mattel toy sets including Hot Wheels, Sizzlers, Hot Line trains and Hot Birds. Our company president told us to do as we wished with the found items as long as we got them out of the warehouse ASAP, so we obliged by splitting up the bounty between the four of us who were cleaning out the warehouse. I still have 8 Hot Line train sets (6 in unopened boxes), 57 Hot Birds (49 in unopened packs), 48 Sizzlers (25 in unopened packs), 8 Juice Machine rechargers (7 in unopned boxes) for the Sizzlers & HotLine trains, 500+ Hot Wheels cars (350 in unopened packs), 29 Hot Wheels Heavy Weights trucks (18 in unopened packs) and 36 Hotwheels Rumblers motorcycles (24 in unopened packs). I'd be willing to trade some of these for other early-70's toys such as Whizzer spintops and Major Matt Mason astronauts in pristine condition.
Alan Carter
1962
This memory was added on: May 21,2003
I loved these. My brother and I got one each one Christmas, then another one the following year. Outstanding. I still have mine.
Though we never really did the fishing line thing. They were just cool to hold in your hand and making all sorts of Thunderbirds-style whooshing noises.
*** Dave
1960
dave@hill-kleerup.org
This memory was added on: May 15,2003
These were cool because the "flight line" (nothing more than fishing line) would make a whining noise as the jets glided down it. The designs of the various planes were far ahead of their time (remember this was the early 70's) & greatly resemble modern F-16's, F-18's & Russian fighter jets. Along with Tinker Toys, I also credit these toys for my being an aeronautical engineer due to the fact they made me extremely interested in aircraft at a young age.
Ed
1961
This memory was added on: May 9,2003
I dive-bombed the coffee table countless times with one of these babys. They were, as I recall, pretty damn heavy. The trick was tying the "fishing line" they came with tight enough so it wouldn't sag halfway throught your flight. I had the dark purple model. Don't remember the name though....
Joe Wiseman
1965
wolick@hotmail.com
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