[cheebacheeba]

Any word on that remote control ball?
I'd really love to find one, but my searches aren't getting too many results.
All I remember is that it was red, had a hard plastic exterior, and was about 25% smaller than the average basketball.

I'd also love to find the RC rolling robot that I can talk through, but I'd probably be able to find an equivalent if not the original?

One thing I used to do, almost like a toy in itself, was something I learned from another kid.
He used to cut up pieces of metal coathanger, about an inch long, then make a sticky-tape "tube" around one end of it, with just enough distance past the metal to hold a singular ring-cap piece in place. We'd go around throwing them in front of people. Bit of a modification of what used to be referred to as a "throw-down", just a bit more stable.
I changed it, kind of...or took the idea a bit further. Probably due to my love of the other toy, the army guy one where you throw up a soldier and he parachutes? I liked things that fell I guess.
So I started making large cardboard planes, and sticking 3-4 nails on the front of 'em each with the stickytape configuration with ring caps on the end - so you'd throw this big plane up, the nails would weigh it down and ensure the "explosion" when the plane took a nosedive.
I called them "crash planes". One of my teachers pointed out that it was a little morbid, but yknow, back in the day if capguns were allowed there, I wasn't gonna be told not to make crash planes.

While on the caps thing, one time in early highschool, I tried to empty out about 200 of 'em into a folded piece of paper to ignite at a later time, I'd got to around 50-60, and my teacher came over to me to ask what I was doing, I closed the paper over and that was all it took it seemed for them all to ignite. Nobody was hurt but it was a bit unexpected.

Shortly after that, I moved on to making things that went bang? I don't want to say explosives but I guess they might fall into a similar category?
Those soda bulb/whipped cream bulbs, anyone ever throw one into a fire? have it go off?
Most of the time though they'd just spring a leak, but if you put a fuse (usually 2-3 sparklers) against 'em, wrapped tightly in one layer of foil, one layer of electrical tape, one more layer of foil and clear-tape the whole thing, it would almost always ensure the thing blew up. I saw these things take out letterboxes from brick, pop car tyres, break glass, and sometimes fly so damn far up in the air they'd be in the air for about 20 seconds. That said, I wouldn't want to be hit by one...so yeah **don't try this at home** and all.