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In light of my most recent and impulsive Epay purchase, just wanted to see what kind of dumb stuff you all have bought... Come on, we all have that "why the hell did I buy this?" item in our shops. Here's mine:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270171779801&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=017

Did you try to resolve the issue with the seller on that?

I bought some old Stompers a few years back. As if I don't have enough crap floating around the house.

Anybody want to buy some Stompers

Stompers, holly cow I had a bunch of those when I was a kid. I musta had like 30!!! Those things were cool, they had lights, you could change bodies and even the rubber tires to foam ones.. WOW that brought back some good memories

I guiess my newest WTF buy was a Kyosho sand skipper



It was just too cool and vintage to pass up

RC Chick wrote:Stompers, holly cow I had a bunch of those when I was a kid. I musta had like 30!!! Those things were cool, they had lights, you could change bodies and even the rubber tires to foam ones.. WOW that brought back some good memories

My favorite was a blue toyota with a winch in the front and a camper shell in back. My second was a kenworth. I won all the push pull contests at school with that one. I probably had 15 at one time plus a few.........donor cars

Those were the days.

Tadracket wrote:

My favorite was a blue toyota with a winch in the front and a camper shell in back.

I got that one and it has a trailer that pulls a Honda oddesey. I also have the toyota with the winch and shell pulling a motorcycle. I am a sucker for them also.

Tadracket wrote: I probably had 15 at one time plus a few.........donor cars

Now all you have are donor cars ...

every once in awhile i'll browse the stompers and rough riders, havent bought any yet. those were THE thing back in the day...



i have bought many things off ebay that i regret, dont need, or didnt really think through all the way...

i payed 80 for an rpm shock tower... i think it was 80, mighta been 60.

i have a bunch of those stompers up at my parents house, along with all the other toys from my younger years.

did anyone else have the stompers figure 8 track?

the stomper pulling sled was cool. wasnt there an 18wheeler stomper made?

i had an animal, with the claws in the wheels. lol. that thing coulda actually hurt a kid, claw a darn eyeball out or something.

Where stompers the little 1-AA powered trucks that had foam tires and they came with like a track with little logs and stuff...I had those joints! I TOTALLY forgot about them! HAHA.

Oh ya, another impulse was when I fell and hit my head and decided I wanted to restore a Royal Ripper! LOL. I actually really like that car but OH MAN the money I've spent on NIB parts for that fragile ass thing! LOL.

Erich Reichert wrote:....a Royal Ripper!.....

Never seen one of them.

badhoopty wrote:the stomper pulling sled was cool. wasnt there an 18wheeler stomper made?

i had an animal, with the claws in the wheels. lol. that thing coulda actually hurt a kid, claw a darn eyeball out or something.

I hacked my sled up and turned it into a pull trailor for my RC boat. And I had a Kenworth tractor but no trailer. I am sure they made them.

Mu cousin had the car with the claws. Didn't they like retract till the lost traction or something then came out to dig in? The was a long time ago.

Royal Ripper was bascially a Hotshot knock off (some people call it the Royal Ripoff) made by a company here in the states, they had that and a truck version called the Crusher... they were better known for their motorcycles.