10 Iconic Toys from the 1960s That Shaped Childhood
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Take a nostalgic journey with us as we explore 10 Iconic Toys from the 1960s That Shaped Childhood. From the adventurous GI Joe and the creative Easy Bake Oven to the artistic Etch A Sketch and the timeless Barbie, discover the vintage toys that defined 1960s childhood. Don't miss classics like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy, Spirograph, Lite Brite, and Creepy Crawlers in our look back at these beloved 1960s toys!
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What other old toys do you remember? 🤔
Slot cars. HO scale cars came later, but Aurora A/FX suddenly dominated.
There were tracks in some big hobby stores, and even just tracks and race stuff!
My sisters had cardboard kitchen refrigerator and oven/stove that included plastic food and miniature food containers. I still remember the plastic fried egg. I also remember my father saying it was a bear to assemble everything.
Monkey Division Military Guns and equipment. King Zor: the fighting dinosaur. Mine never worked right though.
Action Figure NASA Astronaut Major Matt Mason, Polo Bikes, & More See 1960s Sears Christmas Catalogs.
JIMMY JET!
1960s 3 - 12 yrs old. When Christmas was Christmas. It's was Like Waking Up in Heaven. I Miss Those Times. (smile)
I'm the same age as you and wholeheartedly agree.
@@jimroscovius Touche' (smile)
I had most of these toys when I was a kid. No video games, no cell phones. It was a wonderful time to be a kid. I had a tiger tank, what a awesome toy.
I also had the Tiger Joe tank. Had a lot of fun with that
@primocorona4331 Yes, and I used to all my little green army men all over the top of my tank.
Taking a moment to remember all my GI Joes that are still MIA . Most are suspected to be dead and buried in my old homes back yard. I salute my fallen men.
Salute! My old GI Joes are long gone too. I know that we all thank them for their service. RIP.
Same. All my GI Joes are long gone. Rest in Peace buddies. 👍💪👊
Mine were stored in an old steamer trunk in my parents garage. Unfortunately, a flood drowned them all. My brother and I had 7 or 8 action figures, the Mercury space capsule, the Jeep with firing howitzer and spotlight trailer, the motorcycle & sidecar, and at least 2 of the footlockers. We were military brats, so playing with GI Joe came naturally.
@@kevinbergeman4069 That breaks my heart, and I’m not kidding. I had the entire Justice League of America comic collection from 1963 up to 1985 in my parent’s attic. About 1993 or so my mom called me to inform me that her house burned down and took all those comics with it. She was in tears when she told me, so I told her that her health was more important than a bunch of comic books, but inside I was like “NOOO! Not my comics!!!” 🤣🤣🤣
@@kevinbergeman4069 Burial at sea.
Always looked forward to the Sears Christmas catalog for the toys.
I had or played with some of these toys. There is one well known brand of toy that should be mentioned here. Tonka toys. They were quite popular during the 1960s. They were made mostly from steel and they lasted a long time. Many examples survive to this day.
The GI Joe was about the size of a Barbie. My dad didn't want to get me one because he didn't want me to "play with dolls."
Christmas of 1968 I got one and the space capsule. Great Christmas.
Major Matt Mason!!! He had a lot of cool accessories. Space exploration was new and it was so fun to pretend to be an astronaut.
Yes ! I was just about to bring up Matt Mason ! I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned here. I had a LOT of the Matt Mason toys but still never was able to get all of them. I was able to keep my favorite, the huge space station, until my 30s ! I finally ended up selling it to a collector back in the 90s. Those were my favorite toys of my pre teen years !
Creepy Crawlers and Hot Wheels were my thing. I'm 63 now and have many fond memories of Goop and the smell of baking plastic.
We played with hot plates... and we survived!
The Best Toys were made in the 1960’s. And I was there to play with them all. Christmas was the Best.
There was also "incredible edibles" like creepy crawlers to made bugs but you could eat them.
I remember that one, I got bummed when the various colored squeeze bottles of candy goop ran out….
I remember that . I wanted one . Toys and Food ? Sign me up
I loved those little green army men, plastic dinosaurs, and slot cars.
As do I. And the Aurora Plastic monster model kits. Still have them along with all my Marx dinosaurs. And I'm 68.
My mom dug up plastic soldiers in her flower garden for a decade after I left home😉
@@raulduke6105 excellent!!!
Slot cars! I forgot about those. My brother and I got a set for Christmas one year and that was our Saturday-morning ritual - slot car races.
I'm 65 yrs old. We barely got by a family of 7 my Father made very little money. I grew up longing for an Easy Bake Oven and a real Barbie Doll. I hope I can acquire them before I pass 😊
I had the GI Joe Jeep and pull behind howitzer I loved that you certainly have brought back many fond memories I do remember all of the toy in the video it was a great time to be a kid wouldn't trade it for ANY generation all mine makes me wish I was 10 again
The GI Joes of the 60s where about 12 inches tall. And had a ton of accessories. They also had beards, like mine today, LOL.
WE HAD EVERY ONE OF THOSE AS KIDS. WE LOVED THEM.
Major Matt Mason!!
Major Matt Mason should have been at the top of the list. Fun!.
My favorite toy. The wires broke too easy though.
Loved it! I never had the big "Space Station," but had the "Space Crawler" and "Captain Lazer." Great toys in 1968.
Thank you Sears Christmas catalogs & payment plans....
Thank you mom for spending the $20-$30 each year for awesome toys that had no tv show or movie tie-ins (except the Star Trek bridge) & that i still wish i had these 60+ years later....
Back in those magical days when a single modest paycheck could afford a house in a safe neighborhood, a big farmily, and well fed kids who played outside with their friends. We were so incredibly lucky.
Loved my Spirograph!! I spent hours with it and found a new work board and typing paper to keep using it. Got the expansion pack with new designs and board. When “Super Spirograph” came out, I won in a competition at a local department store!
My favorite toy was the smash up derby cars. Also battling tops.
I remember most of these toys. I loved GI-Joe, Secret Sam. Thanks for sharing.
The late '60s GI Joe, the Etch-a-Sketch, the Mouse Trap game, regular Matchbox cars, Tonka toys, all good. Also, Japanese space tin toys.
June Foray was THE voice actor of the 60s. I had no idea she was the voice of Chatty Cathy. She was my first doll!
Rocket J. Squirrel
I had a Spirograph set that I used a lot. I like creating pictures with it.
Major Matt Mason, the coolest space toys ever! Look 'em up, they were fantastic!
My computer in 1968 was a Etch-a-sketch. Hours of fun on a rainy day or just being lazy. Great time period.
My mother got me G.I. Joe's for Christmas & his equipment with vehicles.
No one has mentioned the Vac-U-Form. I had one of those - pretty cool. Nothing like that would ever be marketed for children these days!
Had most of these- still have my G.I. Joes and my kids Etch-a Sketch.
Can't believe how old the Litebrite is - I got one in the late 80s.
During the first "Toy Story" movie, the movie's villain is shown blowing up a "Combat Carl" action figure, presumably because Hasbro wouldn't let the producers use a "G.I. Joe"; I wonder if Hasbro hasn't regretted that decision.
I was part of the space age and my favorite toy was Major Matt Mason and his crew. I had the whole set, including the space station and aliens.
Creepy Crawler maker, that best toy ever! lol.
I had that
@@juliemcarthur3004 Yup! And the Vacu-form and the Incredible edibles that tasted horrible.
My mom gave away all my GI Joes from the 60’s, but I bought a bunch of them in the 90’s and 2000’s when they were re-released as well as a ton of similar action figures from the same time period. I have over 1500 of them from different makers still today, as well as HO trains, slot cars, plastic model kits, plastic toy soldiers and I don’t know what else. My toys make me happy! What else can I say?
I was a seventies kid . I loved action figures like Megos , GI Joe , Big Jim and The Wolf Pack and The Micronauts and Shogun Warriors and Stretch Armstrong !!
Joe and Micronauts were the best!!!
G.I.Joe was the coolest. I still have a bunch of them but can't find a collector to sell them to.
My absolute favorite were slot cars! My brother and I actually built our own and went to our neighborhood track/hobby shop.
I didn't have Creepy Crawlers, but I had a Time Machine that opened up square capsules into creatures. Then you could smash them back into capsules.
I had most of these. Thanks for waking up the memories!
I'm 71. In the '60s all my friends and me played with Marx toy soldier playsets and then slot cars.
Me too! And all the guns we could find, Mattel Cap Guns, Johnny Seven, Monkey Division etc. Good times!!!!!!
You nailed this one. I and my sister between us we had all of these. Ah those were the good old days.
I remember the 12 inch GI Joes omg loved that toy!
I had Creepy Crawlers that heated to 9,000 degrees. I forgot about them .LOL. My favorite was Major Matt Mason battery powered space toys and action figures.
Lite Bright was one of my favorite toys, right after my record player. I bought that newer version of Creepy Crawlers for my son and the outer plastic melted!! That thing could have burned the house down!
Great video, we had every one of those toys back in the day, and then in 1987 I started collecting once again lol, starting with Ho trains, Hotwheels, action figures and much more, I have curtailed my collecting since '87 and just enjoy and display what I have ;-)
Girder and panels building sets and erector sets were my love. After the army , went to college and got into engineering! Duh
Loved my Matchbox cars that actually came in little matchboxes.
what i liked was the sence of discovery. like with the creepy crawler set. that melted plastic would stick to youre fingers. and the smell of burning skin. but you couldnt tell anyone. cause --then youre folks would take it away. kids were tough in those days.
Hot Wheels!
We had most of these. Brings back memories
Well I turned 11 in the middle of 1960 so these toys were for younger kids; I do remember playing 60's games, both indoor and outdoor. On hot summer days we would play Life, Password, Concentration, Stratego, and the old standbys Clue, Mister Re, and Monopoly on our screened in patio. Outdoor games and toys were Slip and Slide, Lawn Darts, Frisbees, and Wiffle Ball. Of course everyone had a bike and some had (temporery ownership ) pellet and BB guns ( Until the first kid or the first window was hit ).
Every Christmas we got an Etch-a-Sketch,a Slinky,and a four pack of Play Doh with 4 different colors. The Slinky was usually twisted and ruined by Christmas night.
I still have my GI JOE I got for my 6th birthday in 1964.
Oh I loved my Gi Joes. I had a German and a Japanese GI joe.
Great. I now have the Light-brite song stuck in my head. I think we broke Rockem Sockem on Christmas day. I also had Lincoln logs, Kerplunk, Skittles, Hotwheels, erector set & a cool little microscope with specimen slides. I had the G.I. Joe Command vehicle.
Always wanted a GI Joe , with 6 brothers. Opt out for the little green army guys . We had hundreds of them , we'd set some epic battles with them .
Lie Detector was another great toy/game in the 60's... So many great ones.
My favorite toys were a space series called Major Matt Mason.
CreepyCrawlers, Fright Factory & Fun Flower, Spirograph, Etch A Sketch wear my favorites!
Major Matt Mason, Seaview submarine toy, and Marx plastic army men were my favorites
I remember the game Fascination where you maneuver a steel ball through a maze to see who’s the first to light up the tower.
June Foray, besides being the voice of Chatty Cathy, was also the voice of MANY cartoon characters, including Rocky, the Flying Squirrel
Corgi toys as well as Dinky toys sparked my imagination
As a 70 yr. old.. I have to point out; you missed 'STAY LOX' & Lincoln Logs. Fun fun fun!
My favorite was the James Bond 007 Attaché Case .
And the Army play sets that had tanks , airplanes , pill boxes , and either German or Japanese soldiers .
Awesome video!! Had or played with most of these toys when growing up during 1960s-1970s. G.I. Joe was the best. HotWheels, could never get those cars to do the loops in the tracks. Etch-a-Sketch I could never draw anything good but was fun. Barbie was G.I. Joe's girl NOT Ken's!! Brightt Light was fun. Creepy Crawlers was the best - so what if you burned your fingers, you learned a valuable life lessen. Oh, the toys of by-gone era's!!
THE toy to own ( and I still have mine) was Ideal's Robot Commando!
Remember Beautiful Chrissy,the doll who's hair you could make longer? We called her Beautiful Crusty.
Loved my huge GI Joe collection. However! I think I favored the entire Johnny West 12" collection a little more - cowboys and indians. Being a student of WW1 many years ago I bought a WW1 doughboy GI Joe and also purchased several original Johnny West figures. Still have them in a box somewhere. Those were awesome days...
Remco's working Bulldog Tank and big Bazooka with its blue shells!
I loved Matchbox and Hotwheels about the same, but what I didn't like was how easily the latter's wire axels could get bent too easily! My older siblings had Spirograph and had worn out the pens long before I came along. Plus they wouldn't let me use it! So one Christmas my mom got me the newer "Spirotot" and made it off limits to the others! Haha!
Maybe not exactly a toy, but the introduction of the Buzz bike was huge in the 60s. Banana seat and high handle bars, plus a five speed stick shift on the cross bar, the Schwinn Buzz bike was a kid's absolute dream.
I remember having a rocket ship that you attached to a pump and pumped water into it until it took off.
Wish I still had one there worth alot to collectors.
TinkerToys set. And although I'm 71 now, I still play with the Yo-Yo. Other than that, it was mostly comic books such as the Elongated Man.
I never had a G.I. Joe, but I had a Captain Action action figure with Batman and Superman costumes and accessories. I also had an Etch-A-Sketch and a Spirograph. They don't make them anything like they used to.
My favorite was the yellow tonka truck with a lowboy trailer pulling a bulldozer. I bet I put in a 10 miles in my yard. And yes I did grow up to be a truck driver.
Talkie Tina a doll featured on Twilight Zone that started to threaten the little girls dad.
Telly wanted no part of her.
For me it was HO scale train layouts with Matchbox cars and trucks. Dinky and Corgi models, AMT 3 in 1 car kits, Scalextric race cars. WW2 model planes and horror model kits. No wonder my parents went broke 😅
We had Spirograph, Etch-a-Sketch. I remember the TV commercials for many of these. My Mom obm had a thing about not buying stuff advertised on TV because they were more expensive (and we'd play with them for a week or 2 and lose interest, or they'd break).
"Green Ghost: The Game That Glows In The Dark". "The Slinky". "Clackers". "The Gun That Shoots Around The Corner".
We had a Green Ghost game,and I recently saw one at an antique holiday show.
I loved my battery operated Space beetle space buggy and my Chloroform Outer spacemen bendable figures.
After the Hot Wheels cartoon came out for Saturday mornings, my dad bought me one of the limited edition Jack Rabbit Specials from the show. I wish I still had that car. I hear that it is worth a lot of cash ($400 for one in good original shape). But a then seven year old thinks about playing, not collecting.
I'm always going to ❤ Barbie 😊
Being an expert on vintage toys i was surprised that i had never heard of any of these toys.
how old are you? because these were real popular toys back in the 60s
i still have my lionel trains, 1966 rock'em sock'em robots and 1965 super ball, and combat tv series board game.
Of course had my YO YOs,my favorite was the butterfly YOYO.
I didn't have any of these....was lucky to have a few second hand matchbox cars...better than nothing.
I had both Creepy Crawlers and Creeple People.
Not sure about Rockem Sockem Robots, but between my friends and I we had all the others.
Btw, in the early '70s my younger sister liked Barbies. She & my brother would stage elaborate executions which resulted in Barbie decapitation.
Don't forget Lionel Electric Trains
I was single digits in the sixties and I agree with the comments here!
The Wham-O air gun
ICONIC 1960'S TOYS :
@0:25 : G.I. JOE ACTION FIGURE
@1:17 : EASY BAKE OVEN
@2:08 : ETCH A SKETCH
@3:00 : BARBIE DOLLS
@3:55 : ROCK 'EM SOCK 'EM ROBOTS
@4:45 : HOT WHEELS MINIATURE CARS
@5:45 : CHATTY CATHY DOLL
@6:30 : SPIROGRAPH
@7:25 : LITE - BRITE
@8:20 : CREEPY CRAWLERS
HONORABLE MENTION :
GILBERT ERECTOR SET
LINCOLN LOGS
TINKER TOYS
Please don't forget the Robot Commando. It threw balls from its arms, shot a missile from its head and had scary rotating googly eyes. My little sister never lets me forget how I tormented her with that thing (sorry sis).
Yes indeed. I had one of those. Got it for Christmas and took pics of it with my Brownie Starmite camera. lol.
I grew up in the 1960s. I remember wanting a G.I. Joe about 2 years after it came out. I got it, I Hated it! He had weird hard plastic hands and couldn't hold his weapons or any of his gear! And poor kids like me could only have 1. He was also a giant and didn't mesh with my Army Men. I mostly remember Army Men and Matchbox cars. Hot Wheels didn't come out until 1967 and I only got toys for another year as I turned 10. There were no Super Heroes back then, so if you wanted to play Super Heroes you had to sacrifice some of your soldiers or Cowboys, cut off their guns and make up your own characters. From Indians you got your 'Archer', 'Atomic Axe', and one had a Shield.
June Foray. The female Mel Blanc 👍
I still have my red head GI- JOE Bro 👍
That's the one I had too. I have red hair, it made sense. I had mine in the early 70s & you'd pull his dogtag & he would say something. I suspect my brother has all that stuff or it ended up going to Goodwill.