I remember getting the Tyco Super Duper Double Looper for a🎄Christmas 🎄 present back in the later half of the 70's. Ah memories. What was so amazing was you could start out with say just a Figure-8 set. With two cars. Then add maybe an oval, or a larger set? Then maybe another? And another......etc. I did that, or I begged my Parents to buy them for me. Since Mego Superheroes action figures, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Tyco were my favorite toys they were somewhat cool with it. Plus I'd spent hours designing tracks, racing, etc. THAT'S the biggest difference between kids now and kids then. IMAGINATION!! A kid now has thousands and thousands of video games, apps, movies, all at the tip of their fingers. On the bus, at home, in school, anywhere. Back in the 70's, you had Pong, then later the Atari 2600, you had board games(NOT BORING, board games, lol), toys like the previously mentioned Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, Mego's Action Figures, and Tudor's Electronic Football. Now almost all of them needed your imagination to make them more exciting and more real. We'd build Hot Wheels tracks outside, sometimes making snow hills and racing trucks 🏁🚚🛻🏁. We'd also build forts, create snow forts with our RONCO Snow Block maker. Back then we could have fun with just about anything, but Tyco/AFX racing🏁🏎 really upped the game as far as racing went. But then Sizzlers racing, TCR or Total Control Racing 🏁 came along. I never got one of them. Maybe I was getting older? But honestly there was so much imagination that helped us create so many different things, places, ideas, and adventures. The 70's were truly a special time. I'm not at all bashing anyone's thoughts or feelings about their time. Like my feelings about the 70's, I know everyone is protective and really love their era, or when they grew up. That is the same for everybody. For me though the 70's were very special. Not to say that is was always happy-time. In 4th and 5th grade I experienced bullying, in 5th grade a kid set a ✂️scissors✂️ on my chair as I sat down and I needed stitches for the gash it made. I got through it however. Ironically using.....wait for it, my imagination. Life is, as it is will be for upcoming children and their children a lot more fun as a child. At the time kids don't think so, but it is. Enjoy life and be caring of everyone.
Wow, this takes me back to the '70's, AFX was my favorite slot track, TYCO Curve huggers were great too!!! I just purchased Autoworld's Petty VS Isaac racetrack, feels damn good to relive my childhood again!!! Happy Motoring!!! Mopar or no car
Glad you enjoyed... I was and still am an AFX fan.... Still have my Track and cars from the 70s and just recently set it up on a board in my basement.... Good times...
I had an AFX slot car set with the speakers in the grandstands. It was around 1974 I think. I also found Tyco cars worked on the AFX track so I had about 8 cars. Spent a lot of hours playing with these slot cars,
Yeh but mentally we are still 20-25 right ? I still play with dirt bikes, I’ll never stop till I can’t move anymore, I hurt like hell but you can’t stop
It was the best... You had to use your imagination and engineer cool track setups and had to learn how to fix and maintain the cars... Now a days kids just hit the reset button ....We had the coolest of toys growing up....
@@VETTE-wj8qqYou are so right. As a kid my toys were limited to Mego Superheroes action figures when I was 6-10. Then of course Hot Wheels and Matchbox, but then AFX/TYCO slot car racing! I can remember begging for so many sets. My Dad and Mom were like you have one of the biggest sets? Why more? Then I began to show them. I built a massive track. Loops, high banked curves, and multiple levels. It filled my Dad's front office. It was amazing, except for one factor I didn't take into effect. I made it so big that if and WHEN you crashed, and you always did crash at some point, there was little room to even get to the crash site. I also leaned never let your dog into a room like that. Ugh! All jokes aside, the cars were amazing, the sets were Phenomenal! One set was a 🚧construction🚧 type set. Trucks and other necessities were in it. I can't remember the exact specifics or name of it. But the cars like the Smokey and the Bandit Trans-Am, the Dukes of Hazzard Charger, and other great products from both Tyco and AFX. It was a great time to be a kid!
I just picked up an afx aurora challenger raceway complete set with the magna sonic cars from an antique store. The buildings, manual, and even warranty slips were still in it untouched. Amazing
Memories of racing on Christmas Day w my Uncle who was 18 or 19 at the time....after getting an AFX set under the tree that morning....43 years ago. I miss him (he passed away years ago) he wasn’t too old to play with my new gifts and had as much fun as I did. Still love 1:24,1:32 and HO slot cars and racing. Cox has dune buggy and an AFX set both on the same Christmas. A kids heaven at the time. I will never forget those days.
Can't remember the last time I saw a commercial on TV for slot car sets. Heck, I can't even remember the last time I saw a set for sale in any store, unless you count vintage sets from a mom-and-pop collectibles store. Newer sets just don't seem to exist I guess. Lord, how I miss the old days when stuff like this was commonplace.
Hello David here As a fan of slot cars for over fifty years I thought I would let you know that you can buy new slot car sets on EBAY and Amazon a bit pricey but are fun!😂
Wow, my mom and I were just talking about Big Chuck and Little John last night then I found this video...what a coincidence!! And I'm still loving slot cars
Yes sir... Got to have Big Chuck and little John in there for us growing up with them on Friday nights... Justs adds to these timeless commercials I thought...
I miss Hoolihan and Big Chuck and Ghoulardi, telling my age now, Lol. I also miss that wonderful Barberton chicken!!! Love this video and I still play with slot cars in my 60's.
People keep saying electric cars will never work , cause the batteries or the charging stations and what not , but y’all already know , how electric self driving cars are going to work .
@@deborahchesser7375 WOW... I remember Gold Circle.... I was mostly into the AFX sets but had alot of Tyco cars which I still have some and use today on my old AFX track along with some of my AFX cars....
@@VETTE-wj8qqWho can forget about getting the JC Penny's Christmas Catalog 🎄 and the Sears Wish Book? Oh those days were so incredibly fun. Getting one of them or if you were extremely lucky you'd get BOTH! Pages and pages and pages and pages of toys, games, and SLOT CAR SETS! 🚗 I'd stay awake ⏰ under my blanket with a 🔦flashlight🔦 scanning every page! These memories as another commenter said are flooding back!
man i love this retro stuff. im 42 so this is before my time but ive had the 80's early 90's tyco tracks, trains and rc cars. still have a few tyco cars
There were so many iconic toys back then. We didn't know how great we had it back then. Nothing was "connected" or "controlled" by your 📱phone📱, or was so technologically superior that it was smarter than most people. Yet our "primitive".....lol toys were so much fun! Hours and hours of fun. Our imagination is what made all of it so special and fun. I really miss those days.
You know what s missing? Eldon's Wide World of Racing. The ads were done by the announcers and in the style of ABC's Wide World of Sports. That's when you knew the adults were paying attention!
OK, I need you experts out there to settle a debate between me and the wife. I told her I had a Tyco track in the 80's as a kid, and she said Hot Wheels tracks were better. She's 15 years old than me so maybe we're a different time, but I say Tyco was the Cadillac of slot cars. But I googled it and it seems that Tyco owned Hot Wheels at some point, so can someone clear this up for me? Thanks in advance! LOL
Mattel Hot Wheels came first in 1968 with its introduction of the Sweet 16 Hot wheels Red Line cars...The first line of Hot Wheels Cars, known as The Original Sweet 16 was manufactured in 1968. These were the first of the Red Line Series, named for the tires which had a red pin stripe on their sides..... However The slot car rage started in 1963. By the 1970s, TYCO shifted sales and marketing to a consumer-oriented, mass marketing focus. They were both alot of fun ... one being mostly gravity powered and the other non stop electrically powered.... We always played with both even including the Mattel Sizzlers cars....
THANK YOU! I was trying to remember the name of that set. I remember my Parents getting me that for a 🎁🎁present🎁🎁 and I loved it! 🛣🛣US 1🛣🛣 what a track set-up!
Yes I'm from the Cleveland area so I thought of putting a little added local memories into it just enhance to the Era of us local slot car kids growing up in the Cleveland area.They were the greatest of times. Thanks for enjoying.... 👍
nice to see this old comercials we have never seen in East Germany. But we also had a slot car system. That started in 1969, had no commercials on TV and ended with "The Fall of The Wall". Hope to see some new fans from here on my channel watching and commenting my videos. I just started with some videos. You can get a fan on facebook: facebook.com/prefoRACING
I was disappointed there were no Eldon or Cox commercials. I had extensive Eldon/Cox set up in the early 60's. 1/32 and 1/24 scales were far better than HO for slot cars, even in the 60's and 70's. Most of the slot cars systems seen in this video were not very good. I'm not sure what the winter drive news cast had to do with Vintage Slot Car TV commercials though.....edit son, edit.
Wow, this is a great video. There were quite a few ads for Toys that I never saw or had. The⚡⚡Johnny⚡Lightning⚡⚡sets were incredible. The 1970 $5,000,000.⁰⁰ advertising campaign I never saw since I was born in 1967, so my commercial knowledge and experience didn't start for a few years later. I still love Die-Cast cars to this day. 55 years "young"(I wish!) and I still love the⚡⚡Johnny⚡Lightning⚡⚡ collection. Except scalper seem to clear the shelves before anyone can get there. That issue aside, the 70's was THE era for toy race cars. Again this was an absolutely awesome video, and you definitely earned a subscriber here. Thank you for sharing these commercial snippets with us. They brought back some special memories.
I remember getting the Tyco Super Duper Double Looper for a🎄Christmas 🎄 present back in the later half of the 70's. Ah memories. What was so amazing was you could start out with say just a Figure-8 set. With two cars. Then add maybe an oval, or a larger set? Then maybe another? And another......etc. I did that, or I begged my Parents to buy them for me. Since Mego Superheroes action figures, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Tyco were my favorite toys they were somewhat cool with it. Plus I'd spent hours designing tracks, racing, etc. THAT'S the biggest difference between kids now and kids then. IMAGINATION!! A kid now has thousands and thousands of video games, apps, movies, all at the tip of their fingers. On the bus, at home, in school, anywhere. Back in the 70's, you had Pong, then later the Atari 2600, you had board games(NOT BORING, board games, lol), toys like the previously mentioned Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, Mego's Action Figures, and Tudor's Electronic Football. Now almost all of them needed your imagination to make them more exciting and more real. We'd build Hot Wheels tracks outside, sometimes making snow hills and racing trucks 🏁🚚🛻🏁. We'd also build forts, create snow forts with our RONCO Snow Block maker. Back then we could have fun with just about anything, but Tyco/AFX racing🏁🏎 really upped the game as far as racing went. But then Sizzlers racing, TCR or Total Control Racing 🏁 came along. I never got one of them. Maybe I was getting older? But honestly there was so much imagination that helped us create so many different things, places, ideas, and adventures. The 70's were truly a special time. I'm not at all bashing anyone's thoughts or feelings about their time. Like my feelings about the 70's, I know everyone is protective and really love their era, or when they grew up. That is the same for everybody. For me though the 70's were very special. Not to say that is was always happy-time. In 4th and 5th grade I experienced bullying, in 5th grade a kid set a ✂️scissors✂️ on my chair as I sat down and I needed stitches for the gash it made. I got through it however. Ironically using.....wait for it, my imagination. Life is, as it is will be for upcoming children and their children a lot more fun as a child. At the time kids don't think so, but it is. Enjoy life and be caring of everyone.
Wow, this takes me back to the '70's, AFX was my favorite slot track, TYCO Curve huggers were great too!!! I just purchased Autoworld's Petty VS Isaac racetrack, feels damn good to relive my childhood again!!! Happy Motoring!!! Mopar or no car
Glad you enjoyed... I was and still am an AFX fan.... Still have my Track and cars from the 70s and just recently set it up on a board in my basement.... Good times...
You should check out the slot car groups on Facebook...
Thank you for the info, and Happy Holidays to you and yours🎄🎁👍😎
I had an AFX slot car set with the speakers in the grandstands. It was around 1974 I think. I also found Tyco cars worked on the AFX track so I had about 8 cars. Spent a lot of hours playing with these slot cars,
Did we know that the over the top acting and voice narration was over the top at the time? It’s funny in retrospect...
Those were fun days. :)
I don’t know that others felt that way about the over dramatic narration lol
I still race slot cars in my 60'S
I know.... Its still alot of fun and brings back those great childhood memories...
Yeh but mentally we are still 20-25 right ? I still play with dirt bikes, I’ll never stop till I can’t move anymore, I hurt like hell but you can’t stop
Same here!
same :)
Me too
It’s a shame, I had most of the sets they showed here, TCR, Johnny Lightning and all. Worth $ now too, damn. Heck G-Pluses were$20 each, in 78’ !
If only we still had those days agIn. They have robbed these childrens childhood these days.
I agree 100 percent ...
You are aware that these commercials were for selected markets. Slot car racing is still going on today. Get yourself a Carrera GO!! set and have fun
Today's generation of kids just can't understand why this kind of racing was so cool back in the day!
It was the best... You had to use your imagination and engineer cool track setups and had to learn how to fix and maintain the cars... Now a days kids just hit the reset button ....We had the coolest of toys growing up....
I just got a set for my 12th bday
You are 100% right on...
@@VETTE-wj8qqYou are so right. As a kid my toys were limited to Mego Superheroes action figures when I was 6-10. Then of course Hot Wheels and Matchbox, but then AFX/TYCO slot car racing! I can remember begging for so many sets. My Dad and Mom were like you have one of the biggest sets? Why more? Then I began to show them. I built a massive track. Loops, high banked curves, and multiple levels. It filled my Dad's front office. It was amazing, except for one factor I didn't take into effect. I made it so big that if and WHEN you crashed, and you always did crash at some point, there was little room to even get to the crash site. I also leaned never let your dog into a room like that. Ugh! All jokes aside, the cars were amazing, the sets were Phenomenal! One set was a 🚧construction🚧 type set. Trucks and other necessities were in it. I can't remember the exact specifics or name of it. But the cars like the Smokey and the Bandit Trans-Am, the Dukes of Hazzard Charger, and other great products from both Tyco and AFX. It was a great time to be a kid!
Johnny Lightning 500 was my favorite toy and AFX by Aurora that was my favorite toy to bring me back a lot of memories when I was a kid
I just picked up an afx aurora challenger raceway complete set with the magna sonic cars from an antique store. The buildings, manual, and even warranty slips were still in it untouched. Amazing
Good Lord Johnnie Lightning commercial was long LOL!
Wow, aren't we so lucky in the twenty first century.
Pay twice as much to get half as much
Memories of racing on Christmas Day w my Uncle who was 18 or 19 at the time....after getting an AFX set under the tree that morning....43 years ago. I miss him (he passed away years ago) he wasn’t too old to play with my new gifts and had as much fun as I did. Still love 1:24,1:32 and HO slot cars and racing. Cox has dune buggy and an AFX set both on the same Christmas. A kids heaven at the time. I will never forget those days.
I raced with my uncles on a set with Aurora vibrator cars in 1962.
I’m so with you guys, lost a lot of uncles since then. They loved playing with our toys too that’s what made em cool
We(my brother) and I had Sizzlers too. Johnny Lightning’s, damn if we could have kept all that stuff.
I love hearing these kind of comments and hearing old memories from others.... Makes it all worth it.....
@@VETTE-wj8qq we thank you for sharing these rare slices of time, if only we knew how fleeting they were.
And the Jazz music in the background was baddass!
Can't remember the last time I saw a commercial on TV for slot car sets. Heck, I can't even remember the last time I saw a set for sale in any store, unless you count vintage sets from a mom-and-pop collectibles store. Newer sets just don't seem to exist I guess. Lord, how I miss the old days when stuff like this was commonplace.
Hello David here As a fan of slot cars for over fifty years I thought I would let you know that you can buy new slot car sets on EBAY and Amazon a bit pricey but are fun!😂
As a very reputable slot car collector, I hate watching these vintage cars fly all over the track
Wow, my mom and I were just talking about Big Chuck and Little John last night then I found this video...what a coincidence!! And I'm still loving slot cars
Yes sir... Got to have Big Chuck and little John in there for us growing up with them on Friday nights... Justs adds to these timeless commercials I thought...
I miss Hoolihan and Big Chuck and Ghoulardi, telling my age now, Lol. I also miss that wonderful Barberton chicken!!! Love this video and I still play with slot cars in my 60's.
Belgrades , whitehouse , village inn. Thats real chicken !!!
@@jeffreyyeater1780 YES SIR!!!
Right on...@@scottt3100
Use2 get a track every year 4xmas n early2 mid 80s wud like 2 gt bk n it
People keep saying electric cars will never work , cause the batteries or the charging stations and what not , but y’all already know , how electric self driving cars are going to work .
Brings back some memories.
Boy does it ever....
@@VETTE-wj8qq you guys remember the Tyco set with the 4 spd controllers ? Tyco Pro I think it was, got that set from Gold Circle LMAO oh the memories
@@VETTE-wj8qq had a Big Trak too sorry, it just all comes flooding back
@@deborahchesser7375 WOW... I remember Gold Circle.... I was mostly into the AFX sets but had alot of Tyco cars which I still have some and use today on my old AFX track along with some of my AFX cars....
@@VETTE-wj8qqWho can forget about getting the JC Penny's Christmas Catalog 🎄 and the Sears Wish Book? Oh those days were so incredibly fun. Getting one of them or if you were extremely lucky you'd get BOTH! Pages and pages and pages and pages of toys, games, and SLOT CAR SETS! 🚗 I'd stay awake ⏰ under my blanket with a 🔦flashlight🔦 scanning every page! These memories as another commenter said are flooding back!
man i love this retro stuff. im 42 so this is before my time but ive had the 80's early 90's tyco tracks, trains and rc cars. still have a few tyco cars
Your not alone.... Its alot of fun looking back and how much fun we had...
There were so many iconic toys back then. We didn't know how great we had it back then. Nothing was "connected" or "controlled" by your 📱phone📱, or was so technologically superior that it was smarter than most people. Yet our "primitive".....lol toys were so much fun! Hours and hours of fun. Our imagination is what made all of it so special and fun. I really miss those days.
All hired actors from NYC lol
You know what s missing? Eldon's Wide World of Racing. The ads were done by the announcers and in the style of ABC's Wide World of Sports. That's when you knew the adults were paying attention!
Awesome hoolihan and big chuck stuff !!! Live in n.e. ohio. Grew up with them and slot cars .
Thank you
Your welcome...Comments like yours makes it well worth it......
OK, I need you experts out there to settle a debate between me and the wife. I told her I had a Tyco track in the 80's as a kid, and she said Hot Wheels tracks were better. She's 15 years old than me so maybe we're a different time, but I say Tyco was the Cadillac of slot cars. But I googled it and it seems that Tyco owned Hot Wheels at some point, so can someone clear this up for me? Thanks in advance! LOL
Mattel Hot Wheels came first in 1968 with its introduction of the Sweet 16 Hot wheels Red Line cars...The first line of Hot Wheels Cars, known as The Original Sweet 16 was manufactured in 1968. These were the first of the Red Line Series, named for the tires which had a red pin stripe on their sides..... However The slot car rage started in 1963. By the 1970s, TYCO shifted sales and marketing to a consumer-oriented, mass marketing focus. They were both alot of fun ... one being mostly gravity powered and the other non stop electrically powered.... We always played with both even including the Mattel Sizzlers cars....
50 years old and I still have a US 1 trucking set
THANK YOU! I was trying to remember the name of that set. I remember my Parents getting me that for a 🎁🎁present🎁🎁 and I loved it! 🛣🛣US 1🛣🛣 what a track set-up!
Big chuck & lil John, man that brought back memories, u guys must be from Cleveland
Yes I'm from the Cleveland area so I thought of putting a little added local memories into it just enhance to the Era of us local slot car kids growing up in the Cleveland area.They were the greatest of times. Thanks for enjoying.... 👍
nice to see this old comercials we have never seen in East Germany. But we also had a slot car system. That started in 1969, had no commercials on TV and ended with "The Fall of The Wall". Hope to see some new fans from here on my channel watching and commenting my videos. I just started with some videos. You can get a fan on facebook: facebook.com/prefoRACING
I HAVE A FULL SET OF THE STEERING ULTRA 5 WITH EVERYTHING BUT CARS
you can buy some new old stock or used on ebay to make the set work and complete again !!
"Mom!!! Dad!!! It's on... the commercial is on!!!! Hurry up before it goes off... thats what I want for my birthday!!!"
Very nice. Thanks for the video.
Mr. Kellys carwash looks like it would be fun for all of about 5 seconds........
Cool racing car toy set compilation! Though, what's with the 7 minutes of Cleveland weather reporting, around 19 minutes in? 🙃
where's the Revell and Monogram sets?
I had and remember as a boy in the 1960’s
Big chuck and slot cars A+
And the award for the most annoying intro goes to...
Oh shit these commercials broken all the rules and boy was it wonderful being a boy in the 70s!!!
We had the best and coolest toys growing up in the 70s
"hot wheels" are not slot cars
I was disappointed there were no Eldon or Cox commercials. I had extensive Eldon/Cox set up in the early 60's. 1/32 and 1/24 scales were far better than HO for slot cars, even in the 60's and 70's. Most of the slot cars systems seen in this video were not very good. I'm not sure what the winter drive news cast had to do with Vintage Slot Car TV commercials though.....edit son, edit.
Wow, this is a great video. There were quite a few ads for Toys that I never saw or had. The⚡⚡Johnny⚡Lightning⚡⚡sets were incredible. The 1970 $5,000,000.⁰⁰ advertising campaign I never saw since I was born in 1967, so my commercial knowledge and experience didn't start for a few years later. I still love Die-Cast cars to this day. 55 years "young"(I wish!) and I still love the⚡⚡Johnny⚡Lightning⚡⚡ collection. Except scalper seem to clear the shelves before anyone can get there. That issue aside, the 70's was THE era for toy race cars. Again this was an absolutely awesome video, and you definitely earned a subscriber here. Thank you for sharing these commercial snippets with us. They brought back some special memories.
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I had a pair of those loops!