Shootin Shell Fanner 50 Guns Mattel Toys 1958

[@c.jacobellis3289]

My childhood was awesome. That's when America was truly free and great.

[@scottybell7661]

I’m now 74 years old and of all my memories of childhood Christmas gifts my fanner 50 is the one I remember the best

[@petersilecchio4417]

You’re one of the lucky ones. I still have my Dick Tracy Pistol.

[@Biendotado]

If a kid played with one now, 50 women with cell phones would call the SWAT team

[@bensears7499]

This is what made boys men. We have to take the dolls out of their hands.

[@KevinSchwinkendorf]

Yeah, especially since the gun doesn't have one of those stupid orange tipped muzzles!!

[@MikeTMike]

They wouldn't do anything. Kid's white.😂

[@tomyunker3368]

And their parents would be arrested also

[@HungryHaitianDelicatessen]

All the really cool old school toys could put your eye out.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

Is anyone else impressed by these kids and their spinning skills?

[@ronman1896]

Any straight shootin" gunslinger from back in the past could all handle their guns.

[@LangstonDev]

That kid has really impressive twirling skills!

[@mikesuch9021]

Trained by Thel Reed. My kid is almost as good as Jerry Lewis do you think I'm joking look it up

[@seeharvester]

@@mikesuch9021 Jerry Lewis? Hard to believe! Here I come google.

[@karguy1720]

The loading and twirling scenes show adult hands.

[@iplaymytele]

I am 70 years old..... And one of my very favorite things to watch on KZbin are they old commercials, ❤️👍of the great old toys we used to have....👍👍❤️ my parents were not very rich my dad was a fireman and I Have two sisters.. at Christmas when we get one toy...! And that was fine with me it gave you a whole year to figure out what wonderful toy you would want for Christmas....❤️ At Christmas this year at my house I looked around the room everybody in the room, but me and my 21 year old grandson was sitting around the front room and they were all staring at their telephones what a sad time we live in.....😢

[@jackmorin3362]

When I was growing up, in a better America, I had thesr wonderful toys. I wish America could be this great again.

[@seeharvester]

Me too, Unfortunately, there's no going back. I'm afraid America is in it's golden years.

[@mikepellegatti9717]

Am 74 now and had a single Fanner 50 plus a rolling block rifle that used the "shooting Shell ammo". Great time to be a kid!!!

[@TUCOtheratt]

This looks like the coolest toy gun ever. Can't believe that kids skill twirling. 😃

[@karguy1720]

The loading and twirling scenes show adult hands

[@kevinsteinmiller8115]

When westerns were king

[@edzatool]

I had this same outfit when I was about 6-7 years old... Hadn't thought of it in over 50 + years. Thank you for the memory

[@mikesuch9021]

I had one too in 1967. And practicing ever since. Switch to real guns in 81 when I turn 21. Once a week

[@GatesCompton-c4d]

I’m 73 and my Granny bought me all the pistols and rifles set back in the day. There was never a dull moment on the ranch with my horse and guns, plus my Gene Autrey guitar. 🇺🇸🤠 Sure bring back some memories.

[@boatersteve]

I received this gift set for Christmas when I was 8 years old. Greatest gift ever. And no I did not put anyone’s eye out, and no I did not turn out a serial killer as happens today from the violence on video games.

[@PeteHob]

I had been looking for a reference to this toy gun! I remember it well and fondly. So realistic at the time. I knew the one I had actually “ fired” plastic rounds and I remembered the Fanner 50; but didn’t realize they were the same. If anything typifies the saying “ they don’t make em like that anymore,” it is toys like these. Cheers all. Thanks for the memories

[@superblackhawk.44]

Nice Gun-Play！😊

[@jackrosendale8367]

Two things they forgot to mention: (1) You and your friends would most likely be shooting each other at point blank range; (2) Once fired, your shells could take hours/days to retrieve. Many thanks for some great memories!!

[@BRLaue]

Usually retrieved when Mom emptied the vacuum bag.

[@KevinSchwinkendorf]

@@jackrosendale8367 I had the Shootin' Shell patterned after the Winchester M73, and I remember well shooting it in my parent's living room (with a gray pile carpet) and spending 90% of my time looking for those little gray plastic bullets!! Even at 5 years old I dared not shooting it outside because I knew I could never find them again!!

[@WalterDWormack214]

This morning, I just finished watching the Warner Bros. TV Western, "Colt .45"! Watching this Mattel Toys commercial for the Shootin' shell Fanner 50 two gun rig, really hit several childhood spots! Thanks for the great bit of childhood nostalgia! Hope to see a lot more of these commercial gems!

[@dennisshumake143]

What a great time.

[@terryweatherford5070]

I’m 71 now, I had pistol, derringer belt buckle, and the rifle. Just push your belly out and the derringer with flip out and fire. Great toys and great memories.

[@doggovision8765]

Feels like I'm watching cartoons on a Saturday morning in the 60's.

[@schallrd1]

Mattel made great toys. It is shame they don't make toys of this quality today. The cap guns were wonderful for young boys to play for hours. They also had the shooting shell Winchester and snob nose 38 detective gun.

[@williamsoto32326]

The new generation is to soft for these toys and cops are to trigger happy for these toys as well

[@BRLaue]

Had’em all.

[@michaelgreen1098]

Man I miss the days of my youth.

[@mancationadventuresusaedit3203]

I got one for a Christmas present from my Aunt and Uncle. It was one of my favorite toys of all time.

[@timothym.johnson3485]

I had the Lone Ranger two holster rig cap guns. I was totally cool when I wore them.

[@DuaelFuel]

ME TOO !

[@mikesacco4889]

Had one when u was a kid...Greatest toy ever🎉

[@TheHypnotstCollector]

I have a photo of me and my two brothers, Christmas 1957, All with double Fanner 50's. I'm 7, they 6, 5. I have blue jeans with holes in the knees, some fancy new cowboy gloves with frills on the cuffs.... The Fanner 50's were The Trail Boss.

[@nusratjamia7953]

Enjoy your videos very much ❤ 😊

[@nusratjamia7953]

You are welcome 😊.... 😊

[@Lucastoyguns]

Que pena que a mattel não faz mais esses brinquedos, tempos dourados gloriosamente da América 👏🏻👑

[@millplans]

I had one. The gun and the holster. It was the greatest toy gun ever. I played with that for years. The cylinder turned with each hammer cock and it fired the little plastic bullets just like it shows on the video. Great fun. I wish I had one now for my grand son.

[@marstondavis]

When I was a kid the Fanner 50 was all the rage. One time we were playing basketball, and some kid took off his belt buckle Derringer and put it down so he could play, too. The game broke up and he went home. He left that belt buckle behind. I took it and was going to give it to him at school next Monday. That Sunday, I wore it to church. Halfway through services I just had to try it out. The little gun had a cap in it and BANG! So loud and a lot of smoke. My mom was not pleased. I didn't know it was 'loaded'. Long story-short, he got the belt buckle back on Monday and I had trouble sitting down for a week or so.

[@jimgracey3822]

😂😂😂 Sounds like my mom too!

[@laynecox3992]

They also put out the Winchester rifle

[@Anthony-yq7hk]

BEST cap pistol I’ve ever seen. I’d like one now!

[@mikeashely8198]

I had a fanner 50 was a kid I really liked it

[@rizzlerazzleuno4733]

Those were the days my friend, we thought they would never end.................I still have my Hopalong Cassidy holster and Nichols cap gun. Thanks for the videos.

[@lowellwhite1603]

I had one of those revolvers with the shootin shells and a derringer too. Great fun. I was about ten or 11 in the early 1960’s. The gray plastic shells were easy to lose and replacements were hard to find and replace with my meager allowance. A couple years later they sold something called a Skitkin (spelling may be off). It looked like a modern pistol and, spring operated, fired a silver painted cork ball as fast as you could pull the trigger.

[@wildchild4163]

Time for a shot out. I was ready 😊

[@markstergios9851]

that was the ultimate toy when I was a kid. about $25 (a real pile!)

[@chaswilburiv917]

My older brother and I both had these. I had the two gun set, he had the one gun. We would hide behind the couch and when Mom walked in with the vacuum cleaner, we'd ambush her! I wish I still had mine.

[@geraldgrieve4106]

I had the Shotin Shell rifle.

[@JimDarr-hx8ld]

What fond memories. I grew up.playing with toy guns. A whole generation of us did n didn't make us mass murders.

[@everready19373]

Two or three generations didn't turn into psychopaths. I'm 62. I blame a lot of the craziness today on processed foods and prescription drugs.

[@cliffowens3629]

I had this. Lost nearly all of my childhood toys when my parents had to be put in a nursing facility and the house sold, including what I had there.

[@20alphabet]

Back when America was great, and toys weren't regulated by the government.

[@mohammedcohen]

...my brothers and I had some of the best toy guns of that golden age of toy guns...dad loved westerns and was prolly reliving his youth in our toys...thanx, dad - I miss you.

[@RenayeBrown-yy1ck]

Ahhh…the hazy gaze of nostalgia.

[@christianlibrul]

And children had freedumb to choke on small pieces of toys.

[@JJBblitzball]

​@@christianlibrulI WANT FREEDOM TO CHOKE

[@damonking76]

​@@christianlibrulNOW ADULTS HAVE FREEDUMB TO LET THE "GUVMUNT" POI$ON THEM FOR BIG P[HARM]YUH

[@markmajeski4219]

Oh man, I had a Fanner 50 when I was a kid…crazy nostalgia time!!!

[@mohammedcohen]

....this was one of my last toy guns ans a young boy...at that time I was outgrowing them (actually by the mores of the day I had long outgrown them)...I just refused to grow up...

[@JohnSmith-rn5tb]

I had the Mattel twin- pistol cap guns,dual gunbelt as well- 1960/ 61 during the Western craze!

[@melbourne-heat.69-71]

I remember having the two handguns and the holster when I was still in diapers..In the 50's my parents would take 8 mm movies of me..Ya good times..

[@alabamabandofbrotherscampb8777]

Had one and enjoyed it too!

[@fromthesidelines]

An earlier version of the first commercial used real gunfire sounds- and Mattel was called out on doing that. This one sounded more like real cap pistols.

[@cadio]

I saw this at the antiques shop today, saving up money to get it!

[@stevenveltrie1868]

Loved playing with mine !!!

[@MiJaHa]

I had 2 of these things with greenie stick 'em caps & shootin' shells. Oh, for the good ol' days.

[@ACURAOCULTA]

Very nice

[@xray86delta]

I had a "Shootin' Shell" rifle in the late '60's, a scaled down Winchester. Great for shooting plastic soldiers!😉

[@mikehiers3332]

That kid whirling those twin 6 guns has practiced a bit and this was before computer animation.

[@mikesuch9021]

Been practicing since 1967. Yes I still practice. Pop cans at 25 ft or no problem.

[@mercoid]

I was at a large flea market back in 1973. I was a kid, but there were two slightly younger kids running around in cowboy hats and toy cowboy guns. They met up with each other right by me and spoke for a moment. Then one of them said he was going to check the other side of the flea market. As he started running, the other kid said, “Don’t forget to shoot someone in the next aisle!”

[@user-RLTW]

I remember getting one of these on my 11th birthday. We were at Knott's Berry Farm. I shot a few rds in the cow crap and got in trouble. Boy being a kid in trouble can't be anywhere near as fun today.

[@NOC1TIME]

We had some pretty cool stuff.

[@twostep1953]

I had the Winchester and the pistol, but I REALLY wanted what I called the "Two-gun Pete" set.

[@Rob-n6k]

I had a fanner 50

[@Finnador]

That '50's kid that mastered the art of gun twirling was cooler than Elvis and James Dean.

[@williamsoto32326]

Dang yall had these as toys back then ? And no school shooters either ? Dang thats crazy. As a kid i would of jumped into the free candy van just to have one of these hahahah😅😅

[@dshope007]

my dad always talks about his Fanner 50!!!

[@ericeasterday5849]

Imagine if they made toy guns like these nowadays!! 😳

[@TheRetirednavy92]

Wish I had mine again and my snub-nosed.

[@SgtRock57]

I was more military inclined, so the Johnny Eagle Lieutenant set was my go to toy gun👍🏾🇺🇸

[@redtra236]

Its also a military handgun though

[@larrygrant-hy8sk]

I found a pair of these in an antique store in Greenway, ws. 550.00dollars was the asking price. They were very clean, probably never fired.

[@larrygrant-hy8sk]

Greenbay.

[@shadown5757]

Back in the day when toys screamed quality 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Legendsneverdie877]

Those were the days when fellas like the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry ruled the silver screen. When men were men, and women were women, and folks were glad of it! 🤠

[@keezytv0200]

Found one in my woods

[@rebelbatdave5993]

AMEN!

[@kurtisdruschel4935]

I had one of them, me and my brother.

[@michaelwright-tu6qb]

Good grief. I had one of those as a kid

[@RaFGavin陳子柆]

1:22 that kid with the guns is showing off

[@jefftate01]

I had one of these myself.

[@andylee7953]

Cap guns like that should be in movies!

[@Crustymarine]

Such a different time1950s and 60s. Most kid's fathers were WWII and Korean War veterans. The toy market was awash with cowboy & war toys for boys. I remember the Fanner 50 well.

[@jugglesdimensions8632]

And we're hardly any 8lacks!

[@izziewolf2834]

The background is the set to Lawman!

[@henerygreen578]

who else stuck those caps on any and everything then wack em with a hammer??????

[@bobball3719]

Or the whole roll with one single blow

[@dougtinsley1320]

I did

[@redtra236]

@@bobball3719 thats for when you wanted a toy stick of dynamite lol

[@johnskylez]

I want one today.

[@thetroof5525]

Funny how the cat offended him but the injun got shot for it.

[@will27ns]

2:10 ... don't try this at home, kids.

[@thomaslucas6079]

Before they had panty waste toys.

[@christianlibrul]

They, who, ant tifas?

[@MayumiTakezoC-chan9377]

my father-in-law had one as a kid

[@beeandceeworld6042]

I wish they made stuff like that today😢 our toys today suck

[@xarv368]

Can someone explain to me how the gun fired the projectile?

[@christianlibrul]

I can explain how to spell Google.

[@larryisabell1127]

The plastic bullets were clipped into a spring loaded cartridge. The hammer hitting the base of the cartridge was enough to dislodge the bullet.

[@HootOwl513]

@@larryisabell1127 The [Shootin' Shell] Projectile had two long stems that compressed a strong spring inside the Brass Casing. There were two locking lugs at the base of the Projectile that locked into a rim on the inside of the cartridge. The locking lugs, 180* apart, were slightly ramped on the sides. When the hammer struck the end of the casing, the forward motion was enough to depress the lug sides of the projectile in a tapered chamber, and released the spring's kinetic energy -- propelling the Projectile out the barrel. Maximum effective range was about 4 meters.

[@chrisbrady-t1u]

Kids in the 'hood had it better.They got to play with real guns

[@mikelgeren149]

I gave my nephew a H and R 22 revolver that was wore out , out of time cylinder. Brazed the barrel and each chamber of the cylinder so it was impossible to load and fire . The turd took it to school and when the teacher saw it she pissed on herself . This would have been around 1980 in Alabama . 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓

[@trackerwyo2640]

You know i had one when i was a kid . Im 63 now and have had gun all my life and ahve never robed a bank or killed aneyone

[@chrisbrady-t1u]

Dura Hyde holster made of genuine top grain plastic

[@xr6lad]

Geez. This is hilarious. A child walking round with that today would get himself serious injured.

[@LegitMan335]

What’s the hottest new toy this holiday season?! Mattel Shoot N Shell guns ! With Greenie stick em caps

[@DanielLogan-s9n]

I don't remember who made them but there was a variety by the name of Johnny Eagle. The head 3 different versions of rifle pistol combination sets that you could buy. One under the name I believe of shafari, With a scoped bolt action rifle And I believe it's scoped automatic pistol. The second was a set of Western, With a lever action rifle and A standard sex shooter. And the third shit and in my opinion the best Titled the lieutenant. This one came with an M14 rifle And a 1911 GI pistol. All of these were fully functional rifles and pistols and came with snap together bullets. We love those things. Just too bad kids can't be kids anymore.

[@doggovision8765]

Topper Toys. They were cool!

[@Mitch2294]

Beats the plastic garbage I played with in the 90’s. Back when matel was no longer swell.

[@walterwoods4935]

I want one

[@bigrhinonagy9808]

I got one with a double holster I'm missing a pistol

[@mikesuch9021]

Did you see that kid twirl those six guns man he's almost as good as Jerry Lewis. You think I'm joking look it up

[@bensears7499]

I used to practice with a browning model 92 lever action. It was pretty cool.

[@NIGHTFLIGHTVIDEO]

The commercial said it cost $8. $87 in 2025 money. That's an expensive toy

[@CHANSTONE-st3vb]

我 8 歲時買個一枝！😂

[@rburrows7786]

When we raised boys to become men

[@sweetah1763]

Why do I like rowahnses?