Most Groovy & FAR OUT Vintage 1970s Toy Playsets | Oft Forgotten Action Figures & Doll Playsets
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2023
- Often Forgotten Toy Playsets of the 1970s. See the most Groovy, Far Out, and some Obscure Vintage Action Figures and Doll Playsets of the 1970s. Vintage Toy Playsets that you may not remember or have forgotten from the 1970s. Bionic Woman, 6 Million Dollar Man, Charlie's Angels, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, McDonaldland, and MORE of the Most Far Out Vintage 1970s Toy Playsets.
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Holy crap I've still got that McDonald's play set! Seriously, somebody bring these toys back!!
LOVE IT. And it would be nice to have such creative and engaging toys like that again.
No way!!! That’s awesome!! That was my favorite! Too bad my Mom threw it away because I disobeyed. 😢
Fisher Price Little People Castle from the 70's was my favorite playset.
Funny thing was when my son always gravitated to it over all the other playsets he had, nothing beats a true classic
It is a classic. YOu don't even need to really do any updates, PERFECT the way it was.
Yes! My little people castle was my favorite, even after I stopped playing with I kept holding onto it. Wish I still had it.
I agree, Fisher Price Little People were the gate way ton figures action.
Yes yes! Did you have the dragon and put all your little people in the dungeon until it stuck?
@@user-bn7bk5mw4s it was actually my big sisters, I remember the dog mostly lol
I got alot of other figures stuck in there though
My first playset was the Fisher Price 930 Garage! Man, I loved that thing. Especially the elevator that dings when it reaches the top, and releases a little car down the slide. I think my fave was the Kenner Dagobah playset, Yodas house! Because it was just plain weird, lol.
That DING was so satisfying. Yeah, when it came to the 1980s, Star Wars Kenner playsets were so much world building fun. The snakes molded in to that playset specifically set it apart.
I did have a service station, but mine was metal and from the '60s. It had a ramp, parking garage, and gas pump. It was sized for Matchbox cars that actually came in matchboxes, not blister packs.
Have a lot of FP Little People stuff. Two different houses. Garage, Airport, Barn & Silo, School House & Castle ❤
My mom was a kid in the 70s. She let me play with her Holiday Inn and her Kenner Family Tree house all the time when I was a kid. They were so fun!
She's a good mom. Probably kept them in great shape, too. I love that you about the Holiday Inn playset.
@@GENXPERIENCE She absolutely kept them in great shape! It was so fun for us to see a piece of her childhood.
I swear I had the treehouse set for the Weeble Wobbles... I had the Death Star playset and it is still at my mom's house. (For now- I need to get that thing back from over there.) I spent a ton of time playing with that thing! I also have/ had the Forbidden Zone Trap playset but never had the figures for it. It ended up being used for my little GI Joes.
I did not ever see it repurposed that way, but who knows...the treehouse was recycled plenty. That Death Star was INCREDIBLE. I still love Planet of the Apes today, and some of those toys were just awesome. Thanks for sharing your memories.
Yes! I also had the Weeble’s treehouse. It was a little different than the ‘family tree house’ featured in this vid, but it definitely existed. Loved that toy 😊
This must be a Mandela effect thing because for years and years I thought also that treehouse was for Weebles. Only within maybe the past ten years did I see photos and realize it was Fisher Price with different figures. Weebles did make a treehouse but it looked totally different. I guess I just used my Weebles in the treehouse maybe?
I really think they they had similar enough features that we just mix them up in our memories. @@grannyweatherwax8005
The tree house was my jam...I use to take it with over to joy's house when her mom watched us. Loved this video!❤❤❤
Seriously thought the Treehouse was the sh**. It got so much play.
I almost teared up from nostalgia seeing the tree house in the thumbnail!
This video is a treat, thanks!
I had the Tree House I really liked it alot I also had Light Brite too!!!!!!!!😍😍
My fav was the Navarone playset ! I had it set up on a ping pong table with a Lionel train set , fake grass mats and rock piles. Fun for hours back in the mid 70's !
that mountain was like a blank canvas, am I right? It could be part of, and was, many different toy adventures.
Wow, I couldn’t help but smile watching this - I can’t tell you how many hours I played with that McDonald’s playset. I thought I was the only one who remembered the ringing cash register. Trips to Mickey D’s were special back then, guess these playsets were an extension of that joy. Thanks for making this vid!
You hit it on the head. Trips to McDonalds were special back then. Not every day, not every week, and the employees were so nice. What a treat, and that made that playset...with the little bell in the yellow register ring for all the fun in our childhood. Thank you so much for view nd comment.
Great memories. We still have many of these sets, including the treehouse, sesame street, and McDonalds little playset. A lot of fisher price toys like a castle, a house, and carousel also. The great grandchildren play with them now.
I am so glad they are still around for the younger generations. They were quality fun and built a lot of imagination. Thanks for the comment.
Great collection of memories! I remember having Oscar Goldman's office, the Bionic Woman's carriage house and sports car. The Star Trek Bridge was also one of mine, and hours of play with my little sister and her A frame Barbie Dream House.
YOur collection was diverse, I love that. Yeah, having siblings and their toys along with yours of various playsets always made for hours more fun.
Loved Sesame St in the 70s loved the big bird and his nest 😉
I remember the nest, too! The playset was adorable.
Oh man, my daughter and nephews all still play with my McDonalds playset at my parents house and my mom used to let me play with her Bedrock set when I was a lil kid.
So many memories.
Wow. It is incredible that they are still around and in playable condition. I love that. Still fun after all these years.
I loved my cher doll with all the cool outfits and my donnie and marie dolls. Not shown here but fond memories along with some of these great toys back then.
I had a lot of fun with the Big Jim Sky Commander playset. Also of note was the Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Transport and Repair Station. That toy was pretty ingenious!
I will admit that repair station was just such a cool accessory playset/playpack thing, I would have needed them all, lol.
Fisher Price had many more traditional playsets, Airport, School, Barn and RV just to name a few. All of the characters and accessories were repainted for several different sets.
I had some listed in my original edit...and good ones (the castle, of course), but they had so many...like TOO MANY, they would have their own show one day. However, there Houseboat Playset was so cool to me. Like a yacht. Thanks for writing.
I had the treehouse, too! I had totally forgotten about it until just now.
It was apparently popular. And still around. Thanks for the view and comment
We had an actual treehouse, it was fun!
My “Navarone” play set was named after an actual battle - “Iwo Jima” but it was basically the exact same mountain.
🎉 that was a great set...sells for a LOT of money now. I never had one but my first cousin did and we played with it all the time. I had that metal Knights case.....man we spent hours and hours.
I honestly would like to have them both now. We didn't purposely abuse them with hammers and gasoline...but we sure played with them in the dirt
And a friend of mine growing up had the same set but named "Eagle Mountain"
We had the Iwo Jima one. Played with it ALL the time!
The Iwo Jima set,it was shocking.
The figures were so realistically gruesome,there was a guy in agony with his leg amputated at the knee,a guy depicted right at the moment of being shot,with his helmet flying off,it was just connected by a tiny piece of plastic!
There were more,but those 2 in particular I remember.
The Japanese soldiers were equally horrifying in their realism.
My friend had a mucch lesser quality one,with more generic armymen.
I, too, had the Iwo Jima mountain playset. And I remember the figures of the wounded and dying soldiers. I knew about the fight for the island as a 12-year old, but it wasn’t until I was an adult, and was able to appreciate the true horror that the Pacific theater was, that I started thinking about how questionable that playset might have been. 😅
Loving the UFO fheme and seeing my photo of Jaime, Steve and Oscar at the top of the video! Infamy!
That theme is a go to for me. Isn't that pic awesome? Thank you for the view and comment
This is the best thing I ever saw.
Wow...I hope all my future videos get this same reaction. Thank you
Thank you for bringing back so many great childhood toy memories!! 💜💯
I hope you enjoyed. That is my goal.
Love it! I still have a lot of Bionic Man and Woman stuff in storage!
I hope it has survived alright, that would be fun to take out and display.
@@GENXPERIENCESome did some not so much... I also have the Jamie Summer's desk. The cardboard classroom was ruined in a flood. The rest was very well played with. I will try to get out of storage one day and send you pictures!
OMG, my childhood flashing before my eyes! That plastic mountain army base provided so much entertainment for me. 😢
Me too. Thanks for sharing, that is what this is all about.
Charlie's Angels dolls and the Hideaway house were a Santa gift for my sisters and me. Good times!
Lucky! That is one heck of great doll playset. Such a mid century bungalow I would want. Thanks for the comment.
Thank you for bringing back some great memories.
Simple goal of the channel. Talk about things I loved and remember fondly and hopefully help others recall, reminisce, and relive.
Had the Navarone mountain set as a hand me down... it was my GI Joe's home-base
Nice...the playset that keeps playing, and playing, and playing! thanks for the comment.
The Buck Rogers flight deck playset by mego was a personal fave of mine finding it onn Clearance at JC Penny for $3.50 it became a rebel fortress for my star wars figures
At first I thought it was one of those Cancelled pieces, but I had seen it...RARELY. You used it well, as it a perfect spot for most any action figure. Thanks for the comment.
The suitcase that came with the Oscar Goldman figure was awesome. The self-destruct feature never got old.
I've heard about it, but didn't know. I need to see it.
LOL I love that you showed Vulcan pins being reset when talking about the Brunswick playset. I learned some of the Vulcan's history because a lot of family worked there. In the 1990s, the Vulcan family ran into financial hardship and were forced to sell out their bowling pin factory to Brunswick. Brunswick promised the employees that they would keep the factory open but one day, the employees showed up to work but the doors were locked. Brunswick had shut down the Vulcan with No notice! I had a Lindsay (from Sears) but was too young to understand the difference. My Great Grandma bought her for me. Her head lasted longer than her body did. She was transplanted onto a few supermarket knock offs before mom got tired of her head rolling around in our doll clothes. I had the Family Treehouse and the matching Tree Lighthouse! Mom got the Treehouse through a General Mills cereal promotion. Mom was great at sending in UPCs, labels and stuff to get free stuff for us! My Great Grandfather would set up the furniture in the house, lighthouse and Mom's tin house from her childhood (she also had the lesser known tin barn but we were not allowed to play with the barn) for me at one end of the table, then he and Mom did the Treasury work for his local township on the other end. He correctly calculated faster than Mom could enter it into her calculator. He'd stop and rearrange my furniture if I said, "Ok, Grandpa all done. You're turn." My friend who lived through the block from me had inherited his brother's Star Wars playsets. There was the swamp, the Starfighter, the Ewok Village and where Solo gets encased in a black chunk (sorry, I never read the books or watched the movies). Mike and I played for many hours on their front porch with his Star Wars, Matchbox and Hot Wheels. Thanks for sparking the memories!
Well, I couldn't find a Brunswick one, but LOVE the history lesson. Pretty cool...and sad, too, lol. Your Lindsey story is great, too. That is what I love about comments. Thanks for sharing so much.
I thought while watching that I missed out, I don;t know any of this until the tree house...I had this! I would have never rememebered it without this video. The door and the closing top were what I remembered most. So cool, thanks for this vid.
I think that one just does something to all of us. So many people remember it. it was wonderful,. and I loved having it.
Had the Holiday Inn playset. Loved it. The Death Star was the best Star Wars playset. My friend had the Navarone. Spent hours playing with that one.
The Matchbox action figure toy line I loved was Mobile Action Command. I had both the Rescue Center and Commando Challenge. Both were such great toys.
Nice video!
Thank you. Great comment. I totally agree with Death Star...that kept me engaged for hours. I have a holiday inn right now, but going to sell it. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for the great memories it’s good to see these toys again
Thank you for watching. That is simply my aim, to relive some good times that are not common anymore. Thanks for the comment, too.
I got the Holly Hobbie playhouse set for Christmas in the 70's.
She was a 1970s star, for sure! My sister had a rocking chair and ragdoll of her for sure. I remember her as a staple of the time. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I had the playskool McDonald’s and it was my favorite toy ever along with the weeble tree house and my brothers millennium falcon…I miss those toys
That is a great array of selections. Sounds like my house, as I loved all of those things. We had the best toys!
Actually, THIS was the one that popped up on my feed. I am glad I took the time to watch. It's really great information and fun to see the toys before my time.
Well, that is cool too, AND a very popular one. I hope FEMBOTS will get some traction. Thanks again for the support.
Oh my goodness! My brothers owned the so many Star Wars toys and one still have the GI Joe with the fuzzy beard and mustache! :) I loved the 1970 little people so much I bought the house I had with all the furniture on Ebay. I had forgotten that I owned that tree house you mentioned. I remember playing with these toys for hours while watching Scooby Doo. :)
Loved the little people, had so many of their sets and figures. Thanks for watching.
When you’re a kid and you saw those commercials for the playsets with the kids playing out scenes from the movie, they made it look so easy. My experience was I got it out and looked at it, tried to construct an epic battle, quickly realized I couldnt pull it off, and put it away forever
Ah, that's terrible, but I can kind of understand. I really played with my Death Star over and over. I also kept everything intact so I didn't have to put together again, lol. Of course I had no room in my room.
Does anybody else remember playing with the Jenny Jones and baby Jon playset? I used to love that thing! Both Jenny and Jon had extra clothes, and the little cardboard set and plastic furnishings were adorable...
I must admit I have never head of them. Even looked them up. Thanks for introducing me to even MORE toys.
I had the tree house, greyskull and the original millennium falcon with the arm brace.
I loved our toys. There was a kid down the street that had all the bionic man stuff.
His arm ended up getting nasty, and that rubber eventually crusted off.
But? I remember he did well with my sister's Barbie dolls.
All great stuff that anyone would have loved to have. Yeah, that arm material on Steve Austin could get nasty! I imagine there were some good times between Joe and Babs.
My daughter adored the tree house! One of the most played-with toys she had.
Me too. Could play for hours.
Holy sh*t, that is an excellent question that I never even thought about till you said it. Why the hell was there never a Scooby Doo play set!!!!!! Omg, the possibilities back then for just the characters themselves would have made a killing!
There have been I think 2 modern little playsets (in the 2000s), BUT WHY not a Scooby Haunted House back then? I guess Merchandising just wasn't so big for cartoons. Thanks for commenting.
I had the Green Giant Farm and Factory. I played with it every day! My parents have a picture of me playing with it. My sister had the Bionic Women doll. My next door neighbor friend had the Family Tree House. Her and I would play for hours with it. Such good times! Just subscribed to your channel. I'm loving the memories!
Thank you so much. That's the idea for the channel. Recall, Reminisce, and Relive. Awesome that all these were part of your growing up, especially the Green Giant, lol
@@GENXPERIENCE you're welcome. Time to check out all your videos!
@@GENXPERIENCEI had almost totally forgotten about the Green Giant toy but when I saw the little finger puppet figurines everything kept flooding back into my memory! ☺
Great vid! The coolest I had was unfortunately cardboard, though laminated with heavy plastic. It was the Batcave for the 1966 series, which was on tv daily in the 70s for kids to enjoy. I got that, Batman, Robin, the Joker, the Batmobile, and the Bat helicopter for Christmas one year. The toys were so popular that Batman was sold out and Santa mysteriously had to drop him off a few days after Christmas, which made that Christmas all the more magical. Batcave came with a working Bat Signal as well, and the cave entrance opened up for the Batmobile. The copter had nets and a winch, and I still recall playing with the winch to rescue Robin from Joker. Later on my younger siblings had Castle Grayskull and a bunch of Masters of the Universe figures.
I almost included the Batcave, and yes, LOTS of cardboard. I had read how flimsy and difficult it was to stay together. That 60s show was in constant reruns growing up, wasn't it.
The Fighting Furies playsets are some of the most difficult toys to find. Either Ship wasn't sold in large numbers so complete sets are very rare indeed. Never even saw the Raft or Longboat for sale anywhere. As far as the Ships go, I have one of each, but neither are complete. Good luck finding those missing parts!!!!
I remember having one of the boats, i think only the bridge one. That is too bad, but they probably did not produce enough. Thanks for the comment.
I had the McDonalds play-set. It was one of my favorite. And it was durable! Even my son, in the mid aughts, loved playing with it along with the Rocky Rolly School Bus.
Very durable. Those things are still around, with the register chime, even.
1978 my little brother Tim got the Sesame Street playset for Christmas that year.
I still can remember that morning, it was our Grandparents and uncles that came over...
I received the Incredible Hulk, StarWars broad game , and Farm playset..
They're all gone now,, and I miss them...
I've Iiked the video 💙👍💯
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Thank you for sharing and for your story. I enjoy when viewers offer there memories. Thanks again and come back soon.
@@GENXPERIENCE your welcome, and I will.
Thanks for your response, I've subscribed 👍💯👍
The Navarone Mountain was one of my favorite Christmas gifts. I also had the Playskool McDonalds, the Family Treehouse and, of course, the Death Star. Not to mention a bunch of the Fisher Price sets like the castle, the airport and the garage, as well as the Weebles Ranch House.
I feel like we all had so many FP figures and playsets. It was everywhere.
True coolness and nostalgia 😊!!! ❤
That is my goal. Thanks for the comment.
After years of begging, i finally got the Guns of Navarrone playset, best present ever!
That is awesome. I love that you remember begging for it. I think mine was my brothers, but I played with it more, lol. THanks for watching.
I recall being very fond of the Gilligan's Island "floating" playset I received on my 5th birthday.
Love that someone brought it up. I had to look it up and then SUDDENLY vaguely remembered. I know that I would love it today, lol. Seemed cool. Thanks for watching and the comment.
Just found your channel, love it. ❤
NOw this is a great comment, and I love it. Thank you for the kind words and I hope you continue to watch.
Absolutely will. @@GENXPERIENCE 😀
the enterprise bridge was my favorite! also, Girder & Panel
Ahhh. I think an entire construction type toy show sounds like an idea.
Gone are the days of my youth. The 70s and 80s where classic, saturday morning cartoons and all the toys that it sold.
Those were my days. Youth of the 70s and 80s. Perfect Storm. I miss them all and a little melancholy there is like NOTHING left. Just my memories. I hope I keep my mind.
The Fisher Price Castle and Seasamee Street sets were favorites as well as the other tree house, the Weebles tree house! The original egg shaped ones that are probably illegal now.
THey would try to eat them, lol. Loved my Castle so much. A friend had Sesame Street, and although I didn't watch it much, I loved OSCAR's trash can. Thanks for watching.
OMG!! The McDonald’s play set!! lol Eternia ahh these are so good!!
One of the best, right?
I remember my Navarone mountain playset and my fisher-price garage and diving boat playsets; ahh, good times!😊
Very Good Times.
I know I had a McDonald's restaurant playset in the mid-70's not sure it was the one shown, tho. I had no idea there were so many 6 Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman playsets! Fun video!
Thanks, I love that you watched...and learned that Bionics were big business, lol. My McDonald's playset was the bomb, and brings back some cool memories. Comb back soon.
I do remember those fisher price and Playschool toys. But being the youngest in the family, by the time I got to play with them, there were a few pieces that were missing in each set. 😢
That totally makes sense. I am the youngest as well, with many hand me downs, and they looked similar, lol.
Marx tin dollhouse and the tonka winnebago. Those 2 were my fave growing up! Oh and kiddles dolls along with matchbox cars.
The Fort Apache set was awesome. My brother and I played with it a lot!! We also had Major Matt Mason and Captain Action toys.
I had the mountain, but I do not believe my brothers or I had Matt Mason...but I know who he was.
@@GENXPERIENCE Captain Action was awesome. He was a 12" figure, and had his own uniform and accessories. He also had Batman, Aquaman, and Superman outfits and masks, all with accessories. Technically not a playset though 🙂
I love my Bedrock City MARX play set so much, I've made dozens of other pieces to go with it. Including extra cars, houses, and character figures.
You are incredible for adding to it, and for keeping it so long. Sounds like in great shape. Nice job and thanks for sharing.
I had the tree, I loved it, had a lot of fun with it. My daughter played with it and my first grandchild. It was made very well. I had it since the 70s.
They did make stuff to last, right. That treehouse is loved by millions.
I had the Planet of the Apes treehouse and figures, as well as the Star Trek Enterprise Bridge set, along with figures. I remember the utility belts with places for the communicator and phaser (both cast in blue plastic, as I recall.)
Nice memory, and thank you for sharing, that ST Playset was the bomb to me and those figures looked great. Thanks for watching.
My Mom kept my family tree house and many other playsets for my kids when they visited. Probably still around somewhere. 😊
I bet. Those things are durable...and very practical to hand me down through the ages. Thanks for the view and comment.
Even tho they werent particularly for action figures, I LOVED the HOT WHEELS™ City Playsets! I had two of them. So much fun zipping the cars up and down the ramps and I believe one had a car wash you could put water in, and another one was a "working garage".
I got to do a show strictly about cars and their tracks. They were so much fun.
Between myself, my sister, and my neighbor we had 6 of those. I was SOOOO hoping the Navarone mountain playset would be there! And I had the Star Trek bridge with "transporter"
Born in '74, I honestly don't even remember a lot of these. I was sitting here trying to remember if I REALLY had the McDonalds, or if I was having a false memory...then you mentioned the STILTS. That's what made me remember that I did have it. I actually only clicked on the vid because I think my first "playset" was the Weeble Wobble treehouse, and I wanted to see if it was here. Also, I thought it was funny that I didn't remember the Family Tree House, but when you showed it, I immediately thought, "Wait, I could swear there was an Ewok playset that looked JUST like that!"
It all comes back to you. I only a smidge older, but lucky to have brothers right above me so I had many and many toys and playsets from various years besides my own time. Yeah, weebles had a great haunted house too, but this family treehouse has some mileage. Thanks for the comment.
@@GENXPERIENCE Heck, man, thanks for the reply lol 👍
Navarone!!! I had a hand me down one from my uncle then got a new one for christmas one year. The next year the boys across the street got one, and an Iwo Jima complete with Japanese soldiers! We had massive three way battles all day, or until our thumbs got too sore from shooting rubber bands.
I had the Death Star play set as well but Navarone got many, many years of use - with SW figures too.
You played like we were intended. Sounds ds awesome, even when SW moved in. Great memories, thanks for watching and commenting.
Almost forgot about the Playskool McDonalds, Texaco, Holiday Inn, and the 6 million dollar man play sets. Had all of those in the late 70s. I remember the commercials showing the Star Trek transporter operating, but didn’t have one and never even knew about the Motion Picture play set, even though I saw the movie in the theater and had the happy meal. 😉
What a time to be a kid.
The BEST time, right? it is funny how I will see something and say, "I think I had that...I did, I did have that." Lol. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@GENXPERIENCE
Thank you for the great video and trip down memory lane. 😉
I was a Star Wars kid. I didn't appreciate Star Trek until I hit my late teens and early 20's with Next Gen. But for some reason, I kept getting Star Trek toys like that bridge playset. No idea why, I guess family just knew I liked sci-fi and made assumptions. I still had fun playing with them because they'd fit my MEGO Marvel figures or my Star Wars figures or even G.I. Joe's just fine. I think my aunt liked to shop at garage sales and gave us all used toys for holiday gifts, which was no bad thing. I loved all that stuff and it helped me build a very active imagination that I still enjoy even in middle age.
Cheers, good video.
You and I have that in common then. It was the Wrath of Khan that made me stand up and take notice and then learn and watch more of the original. Although with a big family like mine, someone had that bridge playset, and I was just an enamored with it even not having much understanding. Thanks for watching and the comment.
I remember most of these, but I had one that you didn't mention, the Sunshine Family Farm set .
Wow very cool video sure brings a lot of my childhood memories I didn’t had any of those playsets except some figures like the 6 million dollar man or Mcdonald’s figures that I still have but I remember the Sears christmas catalogs filled with the toys you showed in the video.
Thanks for sharing I just subscribed to your chanel
Hello from Canada
All our memories and favorites are valid...as long as they bring us back and make us smile. Thanks for the subscribe.
Very true I collect toys and they are my happy place they remind me of good old times.
Ask and you shall receive lol.. Thanks man 70s toys don't get enough love
I saw the need, and filled it, lol. I also have a Christmas in the 1970s Show coming up. Enjoy.
That Fisher Price treehouse was one of my absolute favorites, along with the Weebles haunted house. From time to time I consider rebuying them, but I'm not sure it's worth the cost of getting complete, good condition ones to just have them sit on a shelf. I also had that Sesame Street playset you showed briefly but it wasn't as memorable. Edited to add: I now want to rewatch the Charlie's Angels movie because I think the house Sam Rockwell's character lived in was a little similar to the playset you showed. That would be a cool Easter egg if true.
OMG, if he lives in something like the Angels Treehouse thing, that would be the best Easter Egg, lol. I cut the Weebles Haunted House out of the show for time, but I love any Haunted House playset.
Playskool's gilligans island playset from 1977 was a fave of mine. Favorite of all time though was the Fisher Price Little people castle and the weeble haunted house.
That castle was the bomb, and it always sparked my imagination. It took a viewer to remind me I had the little Gilligan's Island set and boy that was cute! Thanks for watching and the comment.
If they brought back toys like this I'd buy them for myself and I'm 46 yrs old! 😊
eBay probably has some. The Odd Ogg I got when I was four (I'm 65 now) sells for $300-$500 on eBay. My mom probably paid $3.99 for it. No, I don't have it any more.
Thanks for the video and the assistance in tracking down the name for the treehouse playset as we had the import version and it was not tan enough for Ewoks but cool nevertheless!
Interesting, and I am glad my show could help, even a littler. Yeah, I had to do a little research to get its names...couldn't believe it is still around today. Thanks for watching.
I had the popular 1970s Matchbox garage. A huge step up from the Fisher Price Garage. My classmate Norman was actually in the TV commercial. I still remember the jingle "Today we may be showmen, tomorrow we'll be playing in our Garaaaaaaage" And I remember begging my hippyish parents for the McDonalds resteraunt playset, which they bought me even though I knew they Ere NOT happy about me" playing with a commercial"
There is so much to unpack in your awesome comment. First, I totally can see that "playing with a commercial" thing, lol. Lucky for me, my parents were capitalists till the end! That is awesome about your friend in the commercial. We all saw that millions of times, so we saw your friend....we are all connected, lol. Yeah, Matchbox was definitely a step above the FP Garage.
All these look great and I had 2 sesame street houses I still have one I kept it because it reminds me of childhood home.
I bet it does. You had TWO, wow. You could make a bigger neighborhood street. Thanks for commenting.
One my favorite 70's toy was the Matchbox Mobile Action Comand play set (MAC). Small action figures with there Comand center inside a mountain and all the vehicles and gear. So much fun.
I had to remind myself, but when I saw it, I totally remember how awesome that playset was. You didn't always need action figures, Matchbox and HOt Wheels had their own brand of fun. Thanks for sharing.
I remember seeing the kenner tree house on an episode of are you being served? The one where they switch jobs with the toy department. Great show.
Really? NOw that makes it even more incredible. That show was hysterical, and it makes me happy that the little treehouse was on it. Thanks for sharing.
A lot of the neighborhood kids I grew up with had the Guns of Navarone playset. In the early 70s, I had a Playskool firehouse playset; I think it was called the Rescue Center. I also had the Matchbox "Battle Zone" playset. I may still have it. My neighbor had an interesting Revolutionary War playset that he got for Christmas. It had plastic soldiers that you could take apart. I can't remember the name though.
Funny, I thought I was the only one who had that mountain playset. Turns out to be A LOT.
Oh... the days spent going through phone book size toy catalogues around Christmas
The apes tree house was the bomb. Best xmas ever. The star trek was widely coveted, but the coolest was big jim sky command, a fold out plane. It was copied for a barbie playset. Good times and good memories, thanks for that
Glad you enjoyed. I loved all things APES, and my brothers had the ST Bridge. AWESOME. Thanks for the view and comment.
I had most of those usually I bought them at a yard sale second hand because they were so expensive but the one you left out that I really loved I had the space 1999 play set which was awesome and I had two of the shuttles .
I had the Eagle from 1999, too. I had thought about it, but perhaps because I wanted to save it. 1999 has a special place in my heart.
What a blast from the past. I had the McDonald's and tree house playsets. Both were gifts from my uncle for Christmas. Have you ever mentioned Colorforms? The vinyl sticker set you could reuse to make scenes? I had about twenty sets.
I LOVED colorforms. I believe that would be such a great little mini documentary. Thanks
Colorforms were awesome. I'd love to see a mini-doc on those. I had the Castle Dracula Funhouse and literally wore it out to the point the pieces wouldn't adhere to the backdrop. Alas, it went into the garbage. THAT was a sad day!
My all time favorite was by the same company that did the Guns of Navarone "Dragon Rider of the Styx", but I also remember the gigantic M.A.S.H. 4077 Playset.
I love the MASH set. TBH, I know I am getting vintage MASH figures this Christmas. Thanks for the comment
I had the Planet of the Apes Treehouse but only for a short while, because I think a friend's little brother broke it. Later I had The Death Star, exactly as pictured here. That was awesome. I had the Landspeeder too.
The trash compactor on the Death Star was my favourite feature, and I recall it being filled with little foam cubes, which quickly got scattered and lost. Eventually I just threw anything that could fit into the trash compactor.
Around this time I saved up proof-of-purchase seals from the action figure packages, sent away (or my mom did), and after a harrowing wait, and stalking the mailman, the new Boba Fett action figure arrived!
The Empire Strikes Back had not been released yet, so this was special! Boba had only been seen in the animated segment of the Holiday Special at that point.
Man, thanks for sharing this, it is AWESOME. I love the Death Star, and like you that trash compactor was BOSS. You were lucky to get that mail away for sure. What a time, what memories.
Navarone Playset is My Toy Goat. Such a Great Toy
Oooooo, I love that. From the comments, there were many different versions/names and most people played with it the same...like me, too. Used it for anything and everything. It was perfect playset for any line. Thanks for watching.
4:16 I had the McDonald's play set :) I got it for Christmas. I played it with it for years and I had the McDonald's train play set. My stepdad bought me all the dolls for it for Christmas
YOu and me both. Had both the McDonaldland Playset with that train, and I also loved ringing stuff up on the restaurant register. THank you for sharing.
I remember most of these. I remember a castle that had a trap door on a turret that drops them to a prison by the moat. I know it is more recent, but I enjoyed the Star Com space base that used the magnetic feet to move the figure and open and shut the doors. I miss playsets.
I totally miss playsets. They are just the full circle part of a toyline. YOU NEED them.
I had the "Family Treehouse" and it was awesome!
Seems like that was a popular one, and I certainly loved mine. Thanks for watching AND commenting.
I remember the tree house play set when I was little. My second older sister got it for Christmas.
That treehouse got some play and was very popular. I am amazed how many people still remember it well. Thanks for watching.
Yeah, I grew up in the 70s, and I don't remember any of these. And while I didn't have any playsets of my own, I did play with other kids who had some. One kid had some Fisher Price Little People and cars and a house of some kind to put them in. Another kid had Hot Wheels cars and track, and a Hot Wheels service station to drive the cars into for repair. And I may have seen the occasional dollhouse, but didn't play with it myself.
Instead, I had Lincoln Logs, and a pitifully small collection of Legos, to make my own "playsets". And Tinker toys, which was a weird set of wooden wheels and rods you used to build these strangely abstract things. There was another toy construction set that my dad got me, too, but it was used and missing most of its parts. I can't remember what it was called, but it had metal parts you put together.
[edit] Found it. It was an old Gilbert Erector set with most of its parts missing.
I did really have fun with my Lincoln Logs. I didn't mind Legos, but having a big family I did have hand me down playsets. My friends on the block had a ton of them too. We were a big family so I got to play with them by default. THank you for sharing. YOU sounded like you were talking erector set. Those were wonderful toys for the imagination.
I had a cool set called the Live in Train. It came with a family, an engin,a central car that was the house andcthe caboose that held the car. Each figure had magnetic hands ,and so did the train cars. They hooked together by magnets. I later used it with my STAR WARS figures.
This is vaguely familiar too! Wow. Now I am looking it up. Thanks
Had that treehouse. I always remembered it with Weebles but you’re right…it was Little People. Even better was the Happy Houseboat (with its own lifeboat), bc I could bring it in the tub with me!
I think a lot of people thought Weebles. I do love the Weebles Haunted House though. I too thought the houseboat was ingenious, and fancy. Thanks for sharing.
Have a Bionic Christmas, bro!
You know it. Right back at ya.
The pop up tree house was my everything. My all time favourite toy. Yes barbie came in second!!!
I agree, the Pop Up Playhouse felt like clout.
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If the Fighting Furies waited another decade, they could have had their own cartoon. That would have been awasome!
I would have liked to have seen that, too.
wow. I had that pop up tree house, the star trek dolls and enterprise bridge, all the planet of the apes dolls and a couple play sets, and the kenner death star. I completely forgot about that Navarrone army mountain play set. I had that also. Some other toys I remember was Big Jim's airplane. gi joes with the beards. earthquake tower, and I had a huge aircraft carrier toy. i guess I was pretty spoiled. didnt even realize it.
Ha, maybe you were...as long as you didn't act it, lol. You were very fortunate as those are all greats. I had brothers right above me so we had a lot of them too, based on each of us getting our own. So they accumulated. Thanks for sharing.