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My Fantom Collection
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Post# 43641   6/12/2008 at 20:25 (5,768 days old) by oldappliancenut ()        

Heres most of my fantoms and the Kenmore version plus some on the way yet LOL....

Post# 43642 , Reply# 1   6/12/2008 at 20:26 (5,768 days old) by oldappliancenut ()        
pic2

pic2 :)

Post# 43643 , Reply# 2   6/12/2008 at 20:45 (5,768 days old) by williamr1248 (USA)        
My Fantom collection

I love your Fantom Canister. The only Fantom I have in my collection is the Thunder. They were very popular around my area for several years. How do you like the canister? Our local stores only carried the uprights or I would have bought one!What created your interest in the Fantoms?

Post# 43648 , Reply# 3   6/12/2008 at 20:58 (5,768 days old) by oldappliancenut ()        
Lets see

Well I alwayz wanted the capture cleaner but I do not have looking to buy one is someone is willing to part with it.....My mom had one and I loved it...Now I have it lol...my moms is the one with the xtra grey hose on it...I buy them left and right....

Post# 43649 , Reply# 4   6/12/2008 at 21:23 (5,768 days old) by kirbyboy1 ()        

I lvoe your fantom collection. I noticed you have a fish tank. I have 2. I also talke care of the ones at our near by nursing home. 55 gallons.

Post# 43650 , Reply# 5   6/12/2008 at 21:28 (5,768 days old) by oldappliancenut ()        
fishTanks

The one in the picture is saltwater there are 4 in the house altogether

Post# 43652 , Reply# 6   6/12/2008 at 21:38 (5,768 days old) by kirbyboy1 ()        

Thats really cool. I wish I had that many. where do u get your fish. I got to elmers aquarium

Post# 43654 , Reply# 7   6/12/2008 at 22:00 (5,768 days old) by oldappliancenut ()        
?

I go all over petsmart has nice saltwater fish

Post# 43667 , Reply# 8   6/13/2008 at 06:37 (5,768 days old) by hoover_elite_20 ()        
Fantom Lightning

My grandmother USED to have one...

Post# 43669 , Reply# 9   6/13/2008 at 07:10 (5,768 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)        

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What do you think of the cannister? It looks very similiar to the shape of the Dyson. The Fantom came out years earlier though did it not?

Gary


Post# 43680 , Reply# 10   6/13/2008 at 09:53 (5,767 days old) by riccarlover ()        
OMG

I LOVE THE LIGHTNING!!!!!!
I had a special edition Fury that I sold because it wasn't what I wanted in a vacuum(then came the Kirby-long story). My baby-sitter when I was younger, had a Lightning and I believe she paid around $320 for it. Let me tell you, I would beg her to use it because I LOVED IT. I'm not a canister person but let me tell you, I loved the Lightning! Nice collection!
Clayton


Post# 43681 , Reply# 11   6/13/2008 at 09:59 (5,767 days old) by oldappliancenut ()        
Lightning

I have 3 of the lightnings and I have the fantom/euro pro fantom thunderbolt good vacs

Post# 43704 , Reply# 12   6/13/2008 at 18:19 (5,767 days old) by dirtdevil1495 ()        
I miss my Thunder!!!!!!

I miss my fantom thunder so badly it was one of the coolest vacuums ever. until...

Post# 43708 , Reply# 13   6/13/2008 at 18:30 (5,767 days old) by mihi ()        

very nice collection of Phantoms. I always wanted one of them. Might have to pick one up someday. Weren't they the first, or one of the first, vacuums without a bag?

Anyway, nice collection you have there.


Post# 43709 , Reply# 14   6/13/2008 at 18:30 (5,767 days old) by mihi ()        

Whoops, I mean Fantom. (one to many beers tonite)

Post# 43712 , Reply# 15   6/13/2008 at 18:45 (5,767 days old) by hoover_elite_20 ()        
Gary,

Dyson did evolve from Fantoms.

Post# 43721 , Reply# 16   6/13/2008 at 19:38 (5,767 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)        

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I think thw Amway might have been one of or the very first to star the bag less fad. James Dyson had a HUGE part of the design of the Amway back in the eighties. Fantom came a little later I believe.

Very nice collection Brian! After you get my Kenmore/ lightning you have to post a picture of it.


Phillip


Post# 43722 , Reply# 17   6/13/2008 at 20:06 (5,767 days old) by oldappliancenut ()        
I'm awaiting

I'm anxious for it to come lol

Post# 43784 , Reply# 18   6/14/2008 at 19:31 (5,766 days old) by vacuumfreeeke ()        
great fantoms

I loved the Fantoms when they came out.... I was a teenager I convinced my grandmother to get a Fury, my English teacher got a Thunder, my Sunday school teacher got a Thunder, my aunt/next door neighbor got a Cyclone XT and I found out that my math teacher had a Lightening. I've always loved the way the Lightnings looked.

I remember walking into Sears and seeing the Kenmore version of the Thunder. I got so upset that Sears was "copying" Fantom. I told the sales associate that theey ould get sued for copying Fantom (then got a job in that store doing the same job 3 years later)! I went home and called Fantom and told them Kenmore had copied them. I didn't know Sears contracted manufacturers to make machines for them... I'm sure everyone thought I was silly!


Post# 43802 , Reply# 19   6/15/2008 at 00:55 (5,766 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)        

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I alway thought that the Kenmore was made first.

Post# 43821 , Reply# 20   6/15/2008 at 11:40 (5,765 days old) by hoover_elite_20 ()        
Sears copying

I don't think Sears, Kenmore, or Craftsman make anything of their own. When I go to Sears I can pretty much name that everything in the tools, vacuums, or yard equipment section has been copied from a diferent brand, relabeled, and set at a higher price.

Post# 43854 , Reply# 21   6/15/2008 at 20:02 (5,765 days old) by electroluxxxx (……)        

same here too panasonic makes kenmore and craftsman i do not know


Post# 427959 , Reply# 22   7/1/2020 at 10:37 (1,366 days old) by disferding (Charleston)        
Fantom Lightning

I need a Fantom Lightning Power-Head. Can you help me?


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