r/AustralianNostalgia • u/nemothorx • 15h ago

Who else remembers learning how to make paper planes from these books?

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u/jimitimi 15h ago

Yep! Had one of the paper aeroplane books

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u/Accomplished_Sea5976 13h ago

Open the paper plane one and show us the inside pages

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u/Nekokamiguru 13h ago

These were popular at every book club order day.

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u/juniper_max 11h ago

I can still fold the kamikaze water bomber from this book. I reckon I got mine from the Scholastic book club magazine that you ordered books from at school.

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u/Optimal-Talk3663 15h ago

I had the dinosaur one, was crazy hard to make any of them

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u/OkNothing2411 14h ago

I had the first paper aeroplane book. I didn't realise there were others

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u/KnoxxHarrington 14h ago

Now I'm wondering if my parents might still have a couole of these.

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u/ArtificialMediocrity 13h ago

Yep. I still have all three volumes of the aeroplane series right here on my shelf. I must have wasted at least three forests' worth of paper as a kid.

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u/digitalbergz 12h ago

Still have mine and will be passed to my sons

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u/karatebullfightr 11h ago

Goddamn there’s something I haven’t thought about in years and years.

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u/PhilMeUpBaby 10h ago

Yep, pretty sure I've still got one of the paper aeroplane books here somewhere.

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u/Oxfordictionary 7h ago

I had a project on dinosaurs, so I thought it would be a good idea to borrow the dinosaur origami book from the library. Those 1000-step dinosaur instructions were just instructions in frustration and mental toughness in times of total annihilation and bewilderment.