25 Most Iconic Toys of the '70s
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Relive the golden era of playtime with '25 Most Iconic Toys of the '70s.' Join us on a fascinating journey as we countdown the top 25 toys that defined an entire decade. From timeless classics to revolutionary inventions, this video showcases the toys that sparked imagination and shaped childhood memories. Prepare to be transported back in time, as we explore the cultural significance and enduring allure of these iconic playthings. Get ready for a wave of nostalgia and a celebration of the toys that made the '70s truly legendary.
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Author: Crystal Coker
Video Editor: Ian Christopher Buyan
Music: Funky Disco - Biz Baz Studio
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I'm dying at Mike imitating the tennis player 😂😂😂😂
I was working Christmas department store retail when Hungry Hungry Hippo came out. You have no idea what a pain in the behind telling parents we were out of the game because it was so dang popular and ran out so fast.
As for Spirograph, I got one for Christmas in 1967 when I was nine. I remember so clearly because I got my tonsils out between Christmas and New Year that year and took it to the hospital with me.
Titly Winks, Don't Break the Ice, the original Yard Darts, Cooties, the original balls on a string ball knockers. These are some of my favorites from the 70's.
If you didn't make your Speak and Spell say a curse word, you were NOT a kid. :)
I didn't even know curse words as a child and definitely would have had my hide tanned if I did and miss used a toy in such a way and would have had my mouth washed out with soap if I spoke them.
We poor folk saved that for our grandpa's calculator 😂😂
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Eff that! I was nearly knocked cold out for using the f word while reading the sex education book my mom gave me permission to have. Speak and spell was child's play in that case.
I was born in the 60's and played with these toys even though some of them continued to be made in the 70's. Games like Etch a sketch, Lincoln logs, tinker toys, My favorite toy (also my Dad's) was this clear plastic rocket that filled with water and when pressurized could go up to 200 feet and fall back to the ground. We LOVED that toy and would play with it for HOURS. When it broke, I was in tears asking for another one. Dad said ok since the toy was cheap. I liked outdoor toys like the Big Wheel and the large hippty hop with the large handle on top. Good memories from those toys. Some of them made you think how to put them together differently. Toys are generation pleasures that bring people together. Thanks.
Just had to let the List 25 team know that I have never watch a single episode without Mike. And I didn't know how much I miss led this channel until he was back and I could listen to him again. Please take good care of this man.
100%, we ❤ Mike!
Ah, my childhood. I was a kid in the 80's,born in 79, but I remember all of these. Their popularity didn't die off easily.
Baby alive and that cabbage patch doll that could "eat" are probably why some people are afraid of dolls.
My favorite toy was...well, my bike. But I loved playing GI Joe with my brother and was dang good at Connect Four. Scrabble was and still is my favorite board game.
The extra arm @13:20 is trippy! 😂 I’m one of your older demographic viewers, born in 1969, so I remember all of these. I think Light Bright was the one I had been most excited to unwrap at Christmas, and I loved my Easy Bake Oven! Thanks for the reminder of some happy memories! Love from Canada 🇨🇦😘🙏🏼 13:20
I was born in 98 and I also had lite brite and an easy bake oven!
@@lisachiappetti6092 Mike....is a baby to me. Born in '64.
@@markfoster1520
I'm a 1962 baby. Even at 60, I'm still just a big kid. 😁
I loved my Light Bright!
My first job was selling toys at Sears in 1976. Stretch Armstrong was THE in-demand gotta have toy. We could not keep ‘em in stock. But the most influential new thing that year was Pong. Shoppers were mesmerized by it. After one volley with the electronic ball, their jaws would drop and they’d whip out the credit card.
I got a green version called the stretch Armstrong monster- does anyone remember that???
PONG!!! At the time there was simply no way to know just how far that journey would be. I have so many games I play on my iPad…
They told us at Sears that in just a couple of years, vastly more elaborate video games would be out that would make the seminal Pong look primitive.
As I recall, all the Stretch Armstrongs we sold were green.
Lawn darts was an all time classic. How none of us were injured or killed is beyond belief....
Back in the 70's, found a Boggle set at a garage sale. Eventually caused my siblings and me to all buy unabridged dictionaries.
I’d forgotten all about Boggle…it was heaps of fun!
I was born in 1974 and we were really poor growing up but i LOVED playing with my friend's Light Bright and Dolly Parton Barbie Doll 😅
I was also born in 74. And Lite-Brite ruled!! LOL
Yeah all of my toys were bought at Goodwill etc or given to us. I had one Barbie and believe me I NEVER gave her a haircut and I always took care of her. I still have 2 small dolls my mom gave me when I was about 8 and I am 55. You took care of the few things you had.
I had raggedy ann desk set. I am so tempted to bring it to the office 😆
As a child of the 70's, I had a lot of these! Lite Brite was probably my favorite toy. Also, l had Nerf balls, Weebles, Slinky, Battleship and Connect 4. Good times. My very favorite toy, not listed here, was LEGOs.
When I was really young (in the early 60s) Timmy Ahern, who lived across the street from my grandmother in Menlo Park (the one in California) had a set of LEGOs, and my brother, sister, and I were absolutely entranced and spent as much time at Timmy’s house as we could. [I’m going to guess that if Timmy Ahern is still around he’s been going by Tim for four or five decades now as my brother Tim has.]
OMG, you just made me relive my childhood. Being a Gen X'er I had most of these toys except for the easy bake, baby alive and the pet rock. I remember asking my mom for a pet rock, (she wasn't falling for that one) she told me to go in the backyard find a brick and have fun, lmao. Hot wheels and Star Wars was my favorite, I had the all 12" figures too. We'd trade the small Star Wars figures in school. I guess GI Joe didn't make the list, in the 70s we had the 12" Gi Joe figures.
My friend had a GI Joe set that was scuba based. Inflatable raft, scuba tanks, spear gun. Man was I jealous. I did have a regular one but it didn't have kungfu grip.
I had a baby alive! Food went in..I don’t remember where the food went after that.
@@Dsdcain
Yeah man I had that one and the one w/ the kung fu grip too. We really had some great toys back in the day. I grew up poor so I didn't get everything I wanted buy the video showed me I had a lot more than I thought I had. I was jealous of my friend James he got the whole Shogun Warriors set for Christmas.
@@DarkbutNotsinister
My cousin had one nobody knows where the food went. Google it maybe someone knows.
Love my GI Joe's I'm a girl so all my aunts and uncles always bought me Barbie Crap and Barbie became the p.o.w. when we were playing with GI Joes
Born in 1970, one of my favorite things to play with was colorforms. Static cling plastic cutouts that you put onto a "scene" which formed the box.
The Evel Knievel with bike! Not sure if I got the spelling right, but it was everywhere! Loved that thing!
As an 82 born board games were good options, a toy train that could trew "smoke" from the chimeney, plushes, Real Ghostbusters toys were my favorites
For us, "Speak And Spell" did not come popular until we went into the army and someone's kid left 1 in the barracks. After that we played it every chance we had
My dollhouse that my Pappy built for me🏠
About 5 minutes before I started watching this, my adult son (apparently in the process of rearranging his room) came to show me his armful of different console games. Then you showed my first "computer game!" I showed it to him - he knew about it of course - but it was really funny and good timing for us.
I didn't have most of those games. Various friends had one or two each (we weren't rich. Dad was a real gadget guy though, hence Pong. We definitely got his money's worth out of it!). I think we had Battleships, an Etch-a-sketch, and a Spirograph. Obviously we had other toys and games! Family board games were very popular with us because both our parents worked, Dad worked shifts at the steelworks, so when they were both home with us, playing together was really precious!
Ya, Battleship (not electric-battleship). We were on the honor system.
After years on Etch-a-Sketch, I finally mastered making a credible daisy. Years!
Stretch Armstrong's enemy was Vac-Man! My brother and I had one. You stick an air compressor thing to the side of his head, pump it, and he became stretchy. Push a button on his helmet thing, and he went back to "relaxed". Really innovative, that one.
I was born in 1966, I sure feel old, and I remember most of those toys. I loved my Etch-a-Sketch! It came with me on many a road trip. Those days are long gone and I have adult children of my own now. Several years ago my husband and I were house hunting. I’ll make this story short, but we fell in love with, and bought, our current home. It wasn’t on our list to look at, but our realtor had to lock it up and we loved it. Custom built in the 1970’s, it still had all the original stuff. Flooring, white, shag carpet, avocado kitchen counters and accessories, everything, even the stove, was/is original. The stove just happens to be the same model used in the old TV show, Bewitched. Yes, it still works very well. Maybe you could do some List 25’s of 1970’s trends…fashion, food, home decor…I’m sure you could come up with some good ones and I’ll sit here in my retro home in AZ and enjoy the trips down memory lane. Of course you could come down here and film them, but my German Shepherd (my service dog), and our three kitties might try to steal your show.
Just wanted to add another iconic toy of the 70s.. Rockem Sockem Robots!
For us, we loved "Speak and spell" and "Boggle" as kids and than as we grew up and joined the army, someone brought theirs to our driver's room and it became an adult hit for over 10 years.
I remember quite a few unmentioned
Dont Break the Ice.
Hi Ho Cherry-O.
Barrel Full of Monkeys
Being a few of my favourite games.
Barrel of Monkeys! I cannot believe I could have gotten so much fun out of that, but I sure did!
@@brianarbenz1329
No kidding. Had a blast with them in ways which didn't involve the official rules. We'd hang them off the chain link fence and toss dirt clods trying to knock them off.
Fun as all get out for bored burb kids. 👍
I was born in the 1970 around Christmas time.
Standing there, talking about toys, but getting older :) I love this intro and this device is a really great recommendation - I have been using it and loving the results. If you ask me, it is worth it
Seeing as how many of these I remember from my childhood, I might actually need a Foreo Bear in my life
I still remember the entire jingle for the game "perfection " so don't worry about remembering the "connect 4" jingle. BTW I'm a early 80's baby and I fondly remember all these toys lol
🎵 Put the pieces into the slot, make the right selection, but be quick you're racing the clock....POP! goes Perfection. 🎶
I had a Sindy Doll which was the English version of Barbie. But my Paddington Bear and my Snoopy Doll were probably my favorite. I also had the original Star Wars action figures. Yes, they gave “rain checks” for the first round of them. Pong was a favorite. I never missed a chance to play with my brothers Matchbox Cars. Of course in the 80’s I had a Cabbage Patch Kid. I still have her in my closet as I type this. I feel super old now, thanks.❤ya Mike!
I went on ebay and bought a cycling Cherie I always loved her. But how my parents survived all my easy bake oven cakes was beyond me
I had several of these toys but also SuperSimon - *eight* colors, not four. Considering I was an only child of a divorced, non-engaging mother, it was freakin' HARD. 🙄
My favorite of all was my Lite Brite. ❤
FYI: Shrinky Dinks have a certain carcinogenic funk post-oven. 😂
It was a table hockey game I got in the 60s, played in the 70s a lot too. It was always Leafs vs Habs, but there were only six teams when I got it. No Lightning yet.
Lite Brite, Spirograph, and Etch A Sketch were popular with me in the 60s too. That's how old I am, no biggie.
Hot Wheels was the most popular with a bunch of us. Joining everyone's tracks from house to house.
Now, Battle Shots is popular at game time. It's Battleship, but drink when you're hit.
I remember and had most of these and currently have many Rubik like puzzles. I also remember a toy called 'Suckerman' which was a rubber creature full of 'suckers' that will cause it to stick to a wall.
I loved playing with dolls and I still like playing with them today, especially Barbie dolls.
Me too!
Me too. I still have 1. And some clothes with a wardrobe box
@@Fiona-68 I have all of the Disney Princess Barbie dolls and I also have the latest castle which serves as their residence. There's also some fairy lights on it to make it pretty. I had originally put them on for Christmas time, but I decided to keep them on year round.
I was born in 1970, and I had most of those toys, plus the big wheel, sit and spin, but my favorite was my Tonka dump truck
And back then, Tonka trucks were made of steel not plastic. Practically indestructible. My favorite was the road grader.
RIP Hutch! I loved Starsky & Hutch, especially Huggy Bear!
My favorite toys were books. Yeah, I know. I'm a nerd. Always have been.
Me too brother and we're better for it too!
Same with me. I avidly collected Matchbox cars, rather that Hot Wheels, which most of the other kids loved. The British-made Matchbox vehicles were strictly authentic real world vehicles, like mail trucks, Greyhound buses, police cars, ice cream trucks, and BP oil exploration vehicle. They promoted wonky understanding of the world’s workings, rather than escapism.
Mine too really. Scrabble was my favorite game though.
@@ladykoiwolfe We loved scrabble!
mike you just litteraly took me down memorie lane ty for that
I had a spirograph when I was a kid, I also always wanted to have the other games that were here in this list but never got to only got to see them in person at daycares.
My whole family (of seven!) were into Hot Wheels-we laid down track that ran through the livingroom, then the slant-ceilinged walk-in closet of my parents, which was under the stairs to the second floor, into my parents’ bedroom, up and over the little stool my younger brothers used when they brushed their teeth, out into the dining room, past the stairs, and then back into the livingroom in a continuous loop.
That's a Flippin impressive track! Right on! ✌️
My favorite was the original pet rock I still own today, however I threw away the box and just kept the rock. It is on my work desk right now.
I remember I played with etch a sketch when I was a kid but I was born 1998 and I remember I enjoy it 😊
In the 70s every one had a pet rock. But most of us made our own 😅😂
In the 80's too. That thing had staying power.
Loved loved Boggle and Connect hungry hungry hippos all of these toys remind me of my childhood 😢 Happy memories
I’ve earned these wrinkles, and while the best year of my life was in 1988 (which also happened to be the year I was at my most beautiful), I feel no need to conceal or hide my age. Just making it into my mid-60s is an accomplishment given that half my life ago I spent two weeks in a locked psychiatric ward. Being young and beautiful is lovely, but getting old ROCKS!
Aggravation and Yatzie were awesome
Lawn Darts!! Back then parents didn't worry about their children playing with dangerous sharp pointy objects you tossed around.
One of my favorite was The Mighty Men & Monster Maker
I can play Simon pretty good for a blind dude. It probably helped sharpen my skills as a dabbler in piano and guitar. I just memorized the tones on that bad boy, but if you please, I can only hold the silly thing a certain way LOL!!
You can still buy a pet Rock complete with carrying case and feeding instructions. It even tells you to let the rock sit around and get used to the environment before you start handling it a lot
'Moichendising' LOL! SPACEBALLS! 🤣🤣🤣
My younger brother had loads of Hot Wheels and loads of track and a loop. We used to play with them together. Happy days. 😀
I had paper dolls....
I still have paper dolls 😊
I have started a collection of vintage paper dolls. I like the ones from the 60s and 70s the best!
I'm so glad Al Boreland has found work after Home Improvement
Lol
I don't think so, tim
Born in 1976 I remember all of them, had most. Crazy 😊
i had a baby alive. i still remember that gross "baby food" it would eat. surprised the rock 'em sock 'em robots didn't make it lol
My Dad worked for Montgomery Ward
I got all the newest toys . I had baby alive , I got her when I was 5 , kept her until I was a teen. She got lost in a move. Bought my daughter one. When she was 5 . She kept hers until she went to college lol.
I just want to also mention that I also had a litebright growing up when I was around 5 to 7 years old. P.s I also briefly remember growing up with a rubix cube as well as an easy bake over despite said easy bake oven being originally made for girls I was a unique little kid who might I add legitimately also had an etech and sketch as well.😅👍🏻🥰 edit 1: one of my old schools actually had the Simon game/toy as well. Second to last edit: omg yes I grew up with connect four and hungry hungry hippos as well.🥰👍🏻☺️😊😇😊☺️ final edit: I also remember growing up with battleship as well.👍🏻🥰
Born 1969. Loved my Baby Alive! I had a few weebles but mostly played with Little People, which for some reason we still called Weebles. Loved Battleship, Connect Four, and Perfection. Wanted a Lite Brite and Speak-n-Spell but never got them. I did play Pong once, only because my brother traded with someone for it, then traded it to someone else before I got to play it again. And I LOVED spirograph and would still play with it today if I had it.
I still have a Weeble Ewok Treehouse. It was a Christmas gift i received in my 20’s
COOL!
Oh my gosh! I had all of those!!
I remembered these toys.
Born in 1965, and I can't believe how many of these I had. No Hot Wheels or Stretch Armstrong (my slightly younger cousin had those, but he DIDN"T have an Easy Bake Oven, so there!). I think my favorite was either Lite Brite or Spirograph.
I was born in 1968 so this is my childhood. I played with all of these. Some I had and some at friends house but this was fun. Baby Alive was creey AF. My friend had one. We never got a pet rock but I did see them The oven was too expensive because you had to buy the mixes seperate and they cost more than an actual cake . They do still have HH Hippos and Connect Four in the stores. Slime and playdoh were kinda cheap fun. I had like 2 weebles. They were sooooo cute and you could get the old little people sets and put the Weebles in those. I was about 5-7. No Star Wars stuff. I barely could afford to go to the movies. Light Brite I got from my grandma amd grandpa from Chrstmas. That was awesome. Of course I played with etch a sketch but never had one. One Barbie a lot of clothes which was weird. Most kids had like 800 Barbies. You forgot Tonka Trucks when they were metal. My neighbor had those and I loved them. I just wanted one so bad that wasn't a "girls" toy. Grrrr. I played with that kid a lot cause we put the Barbie in the trucks. Let a kid play!!!
One of mine is pictured to your left, a Chrissy doll with growing hair! I also loved Barbies, Lite-Brite, Spirograph, Legos, and art supplies. My brothers loved Hot Wheels, Evel Kneivel toys, G.I. Joes, those Nerf balls to play indoor basketball with, Rocket Sockem Robots, and those old metal football games you had to tap with your fingers to get the players to move!
Oh I had such jealously for the Chrissy doll! Oh I wanted her sooo bad.
Well, I graduated from high school in 1971, but we had Spirograph when I was a kid, Etch A Sketch and my sister had an earlier version of the Easy Bake Oven.
I really loved the TMNT toys my brother and i had but we had so many masters of the universe toys we found at yard sales.
Also my little pony and rainbow brite.
i liked the way speak &spell said "Bureau"
i wore out batteries hitting repeat🤣
I think you’re thinking of John McEnroe
Lite Brite ( as spelled on the box) was my favorite - easy
I loved Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.
the Rubik's Cube, the Six Million Dollar Man action figure and Pong (the Atari 2600 video game console). Yes !
Kove how he says goo and played with. Brings back so much stupid memories. Do not forget tape records and best friends
The toys of my childhood and the device of my life 🤗🤗
You've lost weight! Looking good there :)
I had an etch-a-sketch that leaked from the sides. I had a rubiks cube that was hours of fun and weeks of rsi. Nerf balls and the monkees! Yay! I have a spirograph set ub my cupboard . I was given slime as a birthday gift. It dried up and went all crystalline. Ick.
I was a hotwheels kid in the 90s. Had 2 large chests packed to the brim with cars, tracks, and gadgets. I use to try and get my cars to make it from the top of the stairs, out the front door, and all the way dow the sidewalk leading to the road. Never succeeded though thanks to the fact the ornge track flexed easily and the bumps on the stairs would send the cars flying
I never had a Battleship, mine was cardboard shiny boards with chinagraph pencils and moveable ships on plastic film. I now have a really good one on my pad. Still fun. 🚢💥♥️
Interesting video!
The Six Million Dollar Man was my favorite toy in the 70"s it had a bionic eye!!!!!
I was born in 1962 and I had the etch-a-sketch, nite brite, the spirograph, (which I just last week bought a new 'delux' set, and some of that black scratch paper where when you scratch off the black stuff it shows different colors! Im having a BLAST WITH IT@ 60 yrs old 😂😂)and the weebles (that wobble but they dont fall down)! Loved it and those wewe all my faves!!! But you didnt mention "monkeys in a barrell". Crap... I'm drawing a blank on how it was played (crappy old memory 😖😂). But it was really popular & fun in the 70s too. ❤
YOU had a bear untill you where 15? Well, not as bad as being 30 something and still taking a stuff toy with you where ever you go (even in the army)
The light Brite was my favorite toy next to transformers when I was little. God this list is bringing back memories. 12:29
Thanks buddy I now have the TMNT theme song stuck in my head! Heroes in a Half-Shell turtle power
So a couple of those toys I got brand new- but a lot of them I got second hand at another big trend of the 70’s (and still remains a big one): garage sales LOL! So a lot of my toys / sets were missing items! For example: I had a Spirograph but no colored pens or pencils so I got black or blue images LOL! It took imagination to make those hand me downs become entertaining toys and that was half the fun!!!
I went to the first Star Wars on its opening day at San Francisco’s largest cinema-The Coronet!
a farm in texas is hit by an earthquake, all the cows fall over but don't get hurt, the bulls all stay standing, the farmer goes over and asks how they survived, one of them replies, we bulls wobble but we don't fall down
If I remember correctly. Lucas was also responsible for credits after the movie. Before starwars, credits rolled before the movie.
Star Wars toys
I was a fanatic for micronaughts. I was amazed that you missed Space 1999 and the Showgun Warriors.
Still play with my etch a sketch, and I'm a pro at Rubiks cube. Buy the different shapes now. They are making a comeback. Have to actually use your own brain to solve them. Simon is also making a comeback. Good video. Thanks✌️
awesome list!! 😆 My faves that i had were the lite bright, rubik's cube, etch-sketch, boggle, the spirographs, I was born late 80's but played all of what i listed and loved the spirographs the most. 🤭....also.....you're cute. lol. 🙃I haven't found one here yet, have you done a list 25 on most favored candies? ...... ☺
Dare Devil Debbie, Whoopsie, Saucy, baby that a away, rub a dub dolly, sunshine family craft store, plastic balloons, wood building blocks, paper strips that came with plastic scissors that you could lick and stick together, mr mouth, gnip gnop, silly putty, metal dollhouse, Holly Hobbie, Raggedy Ann and Andy, doll buggy, tonka dump trunk, doll crib, little people with cars and furniture, Lincoln logs, brass collectible toys, color forms, chalk board, green ride on horse, tricycle, big wheel. That's my way of telling you that you definitely need a part 2 and probably part 3 too. Seventies toys were awesome!!!
Had most of these growing up. And the ones I didn’t have, the girl two doors down had. Love the shout out for the Six Million Dollar Man and the Starsky & Hutch car. I broke both of them.
I grew up in the country side so my toys where the ones you could play by yourself
I had the electronic Battleship game to avoid liars- but when the batteries started to die, the game would lie to me TOO!
like that! Some pot seller breaks into the show and tries to sell pot to Canadians, than breaks back into the show and than List25 tries to sell us skin care
Grew up in the 70’s. This video is a painful reminder of all the toys I did not have . So hard done by. 😉🤣 While I recognize ALL 25 of these toys sadly I only had “Ants in the pants” . Great game tho ! I also remember “Don’t break the ice” from the same time period.
Does anyone remember Tuba-Ruba? That was one of my favorites
I also loved my Crack Up Derby Cars! You could wreck them and snap them back together!