Model Rockets
 

Anyone into this? I got my 4 year old one for Christmas and he (we) freaking loved it. I hadn't launched one since I was a kid.

nice,

I know its not the same thing but my 3 year old nephew loves this:

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"stomp rocket"

I plan on working him up to some model rockets too, but for now he loves the stomp rockets..

I used to do them all the time when I was younger! I loved them so much. I built one of the kits and made it all "personalized"......one evening, I launched in a "little too late" with an E engine......never found the thing. Kind of want another just thinking about it.

Nice. Man my in laws could not fathom what we were talking about when I said I got him a rocket. They were like a water rocket? I was like no a real one that launches with a black powder engine they though I was ****ing crazy . He loooved it. Dad's get little boys the best gifts because we were one at one time.

Shit man look them up on e-bay. I got the entire launch set and rocket for under 30.00 and the engines were 8 bucks I think.

doing it now

I loved them when I was a kid and my son and I had had so much fun today I was looking at more earlier. It was seriously one of my fondest moments in life. Nothing like passing the torch to your little boy.

A screaming comes across the sky....

We did this with our kids in Scouts. Fun stuff. Somewhere on CP is a MS Paint version of an incident from my youth involving a model rocket engine.

You probly saw it but get your kid "October Sky"

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Heh, LiveSteam bought one of those for my son for Christmas a few years back. I figured the best place to launch it would be at the school playground across the street...bad idea. It landed on the roof of the school the second time we launched it. Never recovered it.

yeah man I love that movie.

You need something like a field. We lost a ton of them as kids. Mostly hung in trees.

I thought you launched & lost it in your grand dads corn filed

LMAO Oh shit, you are right, it got lost in the corn. I forgot all about that.

What the hell am I thinking of then? I distinctly remember one going on to the roof of the school one time.