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Originally Posted by Gunther_Fan
Right. The ones we sell to "questionable" countries are made out of paper mache. I have it on good authority.
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I knew it!
When I was a kid, I lusted after a couple of ads in the backs of my comic books. There was the "real, working submarine" (similar ad below) and there was the battle tank that really fired artillery. In my day, they were both priced in the $20 range and so were far beyond my means, but I envisioned them as being actual, working submarines and tanks and I wanted them desperately. I actually assumed that I would be able to use the submarine underwater, which probably wouldn't have been a good idea since I suspect that was nothing but a cardboard box.
Those ads were very misleading to a typical six year-old.
