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Time Bomb
by Milton Bradley
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This memory was added on: May 14,2007
One of my favorite games, played it all the time. I found one on E-bay and bought it but it was a red one, not the black one which I had. Still cool, my kids find it amazing when I tell them about how to play it.
Mike
1956
hammy829@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: November 6,2006
Anyone know where I can get one?? This toy has been duct tapped together from such repeated use. All the grandkids have played with it and it's now on to the geat grandkids!
D LaGrow
1951
ddlagrow@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: November 1,2006
I remember playing with my cousins time bomb game christmas day. my cousin threw it and it went through my hands hitting me in the mouth and breaking one of my front teeth in half. My aunt called a dentist who lived nearby and he left his family and took me on the back of his Harley to his office to put a tempory cap on the tooth. The motorcycle ride made quite an impression on me.
John
1959
poulsen@charter.net
This memory was added on: September 29,2006
How was this played?
Stephanie
1979
stephforlife@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: May 28,2006
Where can I buy one! I had one when I was just a kid, but the candle burned out long ago, and the time bomb never did.
I want one. It brings back memories of being hit in the face, and getting chipped teeth.
John
1663
john.kruger@insightbb.com
This memory was added on: May 26,2006
This cracks me up after so many years to hear about this game. The only thing it did to me or my wife was make fat lips or break braces. I believe they took it off the market after so mamy law suits!
This memory was added on: April 30,2006
I remember begging my dad to play Time Bomb with me one day. He said he was tired but I bugged him until he did. We were playing and he threw it a little high and it hit my mouth. It shattered my front tooth and he felt so bad. He got the worst of it when my mom come home and saw what he had done. I don't remember playing to much after that.
Debi C
1957
cattley@earthlink.net
This memory was added on: April 14,2006
I recently ran across an old family movie with me unwrapping my TIME BOMB and then playing with my dad. You can tell I was afraid, I was waving my hands, I let the bomb drop and then covered my ears before I retrieved it off the ground, I frantically threw it back to my dad --panic written all over my face! I was also wearing a granny gown night gown and curlers in my hair! (I must have been 8)
My 9 year old twin boys thought the movie was hilarious and were are now searching far and wide to buy our own time bomb!
Life was good!
Cynthia (1960)
This memory was added on: March 6,2006
Time Bomb holds a place of infamy in my childhood memories. I was tossing the Time Bomb with my dad. The bomb slipped through my hands and flew straight into my teeth. It shattered my tooth into little bits. It was painful at the time...but a great story to tell my kids today.
Stan
1957
This memory was added on: December 27,2005
I have one that is new and never been out of it's box. Anyone interested in buying it? Kim selner_km@co.brown.wi.us
Kim
1958
selner_km@co.brown.wi.us
This memory was added on: December 5,2005
OMG!!!! I HAD REALLY FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THIS GREAT GAME!!!! MY 3 SISTERS AND I WOULD PLAY THIS GAME ALL THE TIME...BUT MY 2 YOUNGER SISTERS WOULD TRY TO 'CHEAT' BY NOT CATCHING THE BOMB WHEN IT WAS PASSED TO THEM...OR IF THEY DID ACTUALLY CATCH IT...THEY WOULD PASS IT OFF SO FAST TO THE NEXT ONE, THAT SHE ALMOST DROPPED IT ANYWAY!!!! SUCH WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF THESE GREAT, GREAT TOYS AND GAMES!!!
GALE
1959
GASIA1997@CS.COM
This memory was added on: November 29,2005
Yep...still have it...and still love it! The fuse is boken off and I had to "goop" the big crack in the side of it...but it still works great! Never got bored of it...always kept you on the edge. Great party toy... and best of all "No Batteries Required" Imagine a toy like that being advertised on TV today? WOW! Toys are not bad...people are!
Brian
1965
This memory was added on: September 15,2005
What a great toy!! We had so much fun with this thing. I remember my dad coming into my room late into th eevening when they were entertaining friends. They would all put down thier drinks and have a blast tossing this thing around the living room! As much fun as us kids!
Bob
1962
rabramson@pjax.com
This memory was added on: September 11,2005
I remember this toy... never owned one myself, but didn't they show some old home movies of Ann and Nancy Wilson playing with one of these as children on HEART: BEHIND THE MUSIC on VH-1?
Ray
1964
okcray@aol.com
This memory was added on: April 2,2005
My "time bomb" recollection is not so "wonderful" I recall I was in 3rd grade (8 or 9 years old) and I was playing with my older sister. So scared that it might go off, she shoved it into my mouth, severly chipping my front tooth. I had to have an emergency root canal and the tooth capped (didn't look very good back in those days). I still "dog" her about that incident. But I'm trying to find the game for a gag gift for her, so far no luck on ebay or anywhere else.
Mark
1959
diverdoc59@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: March 7,2005
This is so funny just a few days ago I found a picture of me unrapping my time bomb, I loved that game we had so many hours of fun all the kids on the street would gather together at my house and we would play, oh memorys love them, I dont think kids today will ever have the memorys like we of the 50s,60s,&70s have, its a shame.
Beverly
1960
bevice2002@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: November 18,2004
I had a time bomb as a kid. we also used it not only as a throwing game but it counted down Hide & Seek and bathroom breaks in the middle of other board games (if you're not back when it goes off, you lose your turn) too!. How about "hot potato", had it too.... little less heavy & didn't hurt as bad if you mis-judged the handoff.
T
61
carvert@iowatelecom.net
This memory was added on: November 5,2004
This memory was added on: October 14,2004
I remember Time Bomb right around 1969-70. In fact I remember us playing with it around the tree on Christmas Morning. Recently, I went over and helped clean out my Mom's attic.... and there it was after not being touched for nearly thirty years! What happened? I was sitting on the attic floor (now in my early 40s) winding it up over and over like a big kid and making it go off. To the person above who wrote about the "politically correct" garbage of today - I agree 100%!! Time Bomb was COOL!
Joe
1960
joe_kucharik@hilton.com
This memory was added on: October 4,2004
it is good
intezar
1980
intezar_lovers2005@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: September 28,2004
Another great Milton Bradley toy! The Time Bomb brings back many good memories. Many times, we sat on the floor and rolled it to each other.
I also had the Johnny Seven and the Secret Sam arsenel. It was a much more innocent time, and there wasn't near the sort of violence going on in the world back then!
Andy H
1959
This memory was added on: August 11,2004
Heare is a toy that I had as a child. We just called it the bomb. I used to sit on our couch and wind it up and just listen to it go. Yes, I played with a bomb, but you don't see me wanting to blow up the world. What gives?
Larry G
1971
shadyarcady@aol.com
This memory was added on: July 2,2004
I was so little when we went over to someones house who had this toy. We all decided to hide as quickly as possible before the bomb went off. Reading the other memories tells me what this toy was really about...finally after all of these years! We still had a blast anxiously waiting...
Janie
1964
This memory was added on: June 30,2004
I really have a memory of this game. We were playing with kids in the neighborhood, all sitting in a circle. You know how you started to feel when you thought it was going to explode--well it came to me, I threw it at the boy across from me, and wham--right in his mouth. Knocked out his 2 top front teeth!! He already had his permanent teeth--we were probably 8 or 9 years old. I still think about him today with crowns on his teeth due to the incident. Wonder what ever happended to him??
June
1958
This memory was added on: January 2,2004
Yep, I had it but I hated it! I was always afraid it'd "go off" when I had it in my hands, and it would make me SO nervous! "Operation" used to freak me out too. I bet my 6 year old son would love this ... and I think maybe I could handle it now, also. Maybe.
MK
1961
marshallsmama2002@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: November 28,2003
My friend Ellen got hit in the mouth just as the wick snapped and it broke off her front tooth. Her mom was mad as hell and wrote to milton bradley about it and they paid to have her tooth fixed!
Wendy
1956
This memory was added on: September 3,2003
Santa gave me one for Chirstmas one year. Yes people did get hit accross the head with them. You had to turn your face away just before you caught it. The surface was very slippery. You got blown-up one way or the other.
Mike Robres
1959
This memory was added on: August 21,2003
i distinctly recall my older cousins tossing it to me AND convincing me that it COULD BLOW-UP AT ANYTIME!!! i would burst into to tears, terrified; and could usually be counted on to wet myself as a consequence! (age 4, maybe)... all of which was GREAT FUN for them! anyway, i learned to enjoy the thing in later years, in spite of it all. wish i still had it!!!! yep.....
carrie-ann
1961
ca_mohr@msn.com
This memory was added on: July 20,2003
Yeah, and the funny thing was.....there was no high school shootings and buldings being flown into back then either! Imagine that?? Our generation certainly turned out fairly decent, I think. Anyway....I had this Time Bomb toy for Christmas of 1969, and I remember chewing the red plastic fuse off of it after a few months. Why, I don't know......I was probably bored. Still, a fun game for five and six year olds back then, though.
HeyJoe
1964
This memory was added on: June 13,2003
I love to look at this stuf and compare it to the "political correctness" of today. Can you imagine a game shaped like a terrorist's bomb being allowed in these post-9/11 days!?
I used to have a "Secret Sam" set which was basically an assassin's rifle, complete with briefcase and bullets. I also had the "Johnny Seven" which was a huge assualt rifle with grenades and an extra mini-gun hidden in the grip. They were more innocent times!
BJF
1959
blair@tsp1.com
This memory was added on: June 6,2003
omggg...what an exciting toy! The whole family played it..I still have it,except the winder is broken : ( man how I loved the excitement!
Cathy
1956
pack56@webtv.net
This memory was added on: May 23,2003
Yeah, seems like the only memory I have of Time Bomb is getting a nasty head wound with memory loss, but weeeeeeeeeee liked it.
Stephen
1957
stephen.blackford@mail.atu.edu
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