Anyone else have MfUncle toys?...I had the pistol with silencer and stoc

I had the UNCLE capgun set, that came with the ID badge (still have that, too...has the number "6" on it, I guess they wanted to use a number that was in-between Solo's 2 and Ilya's 11).

I also had both Aurora models of Napoleon and Ilya, a bunch of paperbacks for the show, and this kit of UNCLE toys that had a gun, plastic trenchcoat, and cardboard briefcase.

But my favorite UNCLE toy was the Ilya cigarette case that tripled as a hidden radio...and a gun! It was awesome. I still had that up into my teens...I don't remember now what happened to it; must have broke I guess and I tossed it.

And yeah, I REALLY wanted the THRUSH rifle that had the radar scope on it. I saw it once in a Sears catalog when I was visiting my Aunt, but never saw it for sale at any store's toy department. If it had been more readily available, I think my mom would have gotten it for me for Bday or Christmas.

I had the gun with the detachable stock and barrel extension, a Man from U.N.C.L.E. board game, and a set of bubblegum cards that had different photos on one side, and if you turned them over and put them all together they were a puzzle forming a large photo of Solo, Kuryakin, and Waverly. I also had several U.N.C.L.E. novels, and two soundtrack albums. The best thing of all was an official U.N.C.L.E. ID card given to me my Norman Felton, one of the show's producers. All gone now--I wish I had saved that stuff!

Some of us in the neighborhood had the rifles. This led to an entry on my list of "Times I almost died".

We lived a few miles out from a small town, on a cul de sac at the end of a long residential road. Woods surrounded our house on three sides. Two other kids from up the road and I were playing Man from UNCLE in my front yard, which was basically pine straw from the numerous pine trees in the yard.

I got shot. Before I fell, I sneaked a peak to see if I was about to fall on a pine cone or sharp stick. Nope. Laying right where I was about to fall was a six foot diamondback rattlesnake -- coiled up sleeping. He might have roused if I had fallen on top of him!

I backed off quickly! I called for my grandmother, who was watching us that day. She came out of the house with my grandfather's pistol, ready to kill the snake, but it had already awakened and moved off into the woods, where it disappeared.

It didn't seem like a big deal when I was 9 years old. Remembering it now gives me the shivers. LOL

I remember those toys. They bring back happy memories.