I feel incredibly fortunate that I was a kid BEFORE the internet age when ACTUAL toys existed and there were so many to choose from. The best thing was you never knew what you were going to get or how it worked and what it could do until you ACTUALLY received it. You couldn't ruin the gift by looking at reviews on the internet and the commercials were only there to wet your appetite for it.. Genuine awe and joy was on full display at Christmas back then.
I was born in 1967 so I grew up in the 70's. 🎄Christmas🎄in the 70's was so much fun, and a much better time than it is now. The one memory that stands out more than others as far as toys goes, it's two books. The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and the Sears Wish Book! I can't remember exactly when they came out. I think it was the later part of October, and since the Christmas excitement for kids back then, it would usually start right after 🎃👻Halloween👻🎃 ended. Then that stretch until 🦃🦃Thanksgiving🦃🦃. Then December 1st, then December 8th, 15th, and finally the 25th! In between those days the classical Holiday Television shows would come on. That CBS spinning "Special" with the intro 🎶🎵music🎵🎶 would hit and you'd plop down in front of the television. The classic Great🎃Pumpkin🎃 Charlie Brown, ☃️⛄Frosty the☃️Snowman☃️☃️, 🦌Rudolph🦌the🔴Red🔴Nosed🦌🦌Reindeer🦌🦌, 🎅🤶🧑🎄🎅 🎅Santa🎅Claus🤶is Coming to Town🏘🏠🏡🏤🏥, and others. Back to the stores and the toys. Kids in the 70's had a store that seemed to be specially designed for us. Toys R Us! There was another Toy Store called 🎮🕹Kay🔴Bee🎱🪀Toys🧸🧸, but they weren't nearly as good as Toys R Us. We also had K-Mart stores, 🎯🎯Target🎯🎯stores, and we had a locally owned store called 🌎🇺🇲🇺🇸Toy🌎Country🇺🇲USA🇺🇸🌎. Kids had so many incredible stores and so many different toys, games, action figures(Mego's Planet of the Apes, Marvel, & DC), Die-Cast cars like Hot Wheels and Matchbox, then Tyco/AFX slot car racing. The Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle and🚀Rocket🚀, and the SSP's, and you can't forget the Atari 2600! And then of course there were the most popular, the most sought after, and beloved toys of them all. STAR WARS! The 70's was a commercial blitz of toys, games, electric razors, cologne, beer, but each one for the most part told a story. The Budweiser beer commercials had those iconic Clydesdale horses. The Miller commercials were usually hilarious. Everything was well made and created respectfully. I really miss those times, those days, when you'd leave your house and every street, every store, everyone and everything had Christmas spirit. Nowadays people have their faces buried in their 📱🤳smartphones🤳📱or are locked in a game of Fartnight or WOW. It just seems as if the essence of Christmas has disappeared. Those special feelings that I loved and the excitement levels just seem to have completely left. It's sad that kids nowadays don't have a Toys R Us, or the same levels of excitement that Shopping malls had.
"NoWaDays"????? Are you serious??? REally? That is what the kids NOW say because they have no vocab. Oh well, you maybe got it from your kids. I NEVER remember seeing a ToysRUs until the late 80s. Are you sure?? You are not confusing some of those 70s things with the 80s??? In the 70s, I remember the toys VERY WELL. Easy Bake Oven, Baby Alive, Etch a Sketch, Light Bright (my favorite), Silly Puddy, Slinky, the pedal pole you would jump on the foot pedals on a pole on the sidewalk, Operation, Rector Set, Race Track, the Chemistry Set, the Microscope, Organ, and the very best......Merlin!!! You missed out, my friend.
I still have my old Star Wars figures. Somewhere! I was also big into D&D. 1E, of course. There was nothing better than going to the mall with my buddies and getting a module. We'd be up all night playing, way past our "normal" curfew, but our folks knew where we were and what we were doing, so they didn't mind. Everyone seemed to have Shrinky Dinks when we were young kids. Tracing out our own designs was the most fun. Man, you could do about 10 episodes about 70s, and 80s, Christmas fun!
@@bradwood9818, I still have my original D&D box set, circa 1979, but it is really worn out. Also have the original cover Monster Manual, though I don't know which printing. 1E was so much fun. Remember THACO numbers? No annoying bards either. I mean, who do you want to go into combat with, Conan the Barbarian, or William Shakespeare the bard? And a good cleric could turn those pesky undead. The good ol' days...
@@gregwasserman2635 I still have all my books, modules, miniatures (the ones seen in the video) and light blue dice from the original box sets. Yeah, great times...still playing RPGs too. Currently playing Traveller, another 70's game.
Born in 1976 - I remember Hungry Hungry Hippos, Shrinky Dinks and Weebles under the Christmas tree. Star Wars figures were a part of the formula later, probably around 80-81 when Empire was getting going. D&D came much later for me (right around when 2E was being released, a little before actually).
My Weebles treehouse was my very favourite toy (until i got my first record player at 5?)--the accessories for the set were cool, and the print/designs for details like the flooring or wallpaper felt so real and vibrant. I absolutely wanted to live in that tree.
I was a Star Wars nerd in the 70s, so every Christmas I got Star Wars. As a nerd, I also got D&D, but usually I had to purchase those myself since my parents had no idea how to buy that stuff, lol. LOTS of great memories here.
I loved D&D. In the 80s I used to have over 8 books in my collection. Starting with the player's handbook, monster manual, and the dungeon master's guide and a set of purple lavender dice. The most intriguing book was fiend folio which was filled with very strange monsters. I wish I still had my books and dice.
The best present to find was Skittle Bowl! It was like playing tetherball and 10 pins mashed together. And afterward you could use the pins as hand grenades you could launch at your siblings from your blanket fort.
Rebound, Risk, Pay Day, Monopoly, Diplomacy, Kerplunk, Mr. Potato Head, Ants in the Pants, Easy Bake Oven, Barbie, G.I. Joe, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, SSPs and SSP Smash Up Derby, The Bermuda Triangle boardgame, Matchbox cars, Corgi cars, model kits by Revell and other companies, even model train kits, Lego. So many toys and board games back then.
Cool video I remember great christmas time in the 70’s either with fisher price toys earle 74 or six million dollar man in 77 star wars the year after add LEGO sets and I was a happy kid. Those were wonderful years stores and malls were jam packed family visting each other
@lm6092 sorry Im french so I didn’t knew the difference but I was born in 72 and I remember the shopping center with the grocery store and the Kmart and the other little stores around Plus I remember the whole fifth street were there was little stores beside the Woolworth every lamp posts decorated santa walking on the street I believe it was in the middle of the 70’s
Why do you wrongly keep correcting people? Where I grew up all the malls opened in the 70s. Educate yourself because you have been leaving rude comments and you are wrong!
I NEVER heard of ANY of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Geeze, you left so much out. What about Easy-bake-oven, Recter Set, Custard Top, Operation, Slinky, Yellow Dump Truck, Baby Alive, Race Track, Etch a Sketch, Light Bright, Inchworm, Dressy Bessy, Ragetty Ann and Andy, Silly Puddy, and on and on and on!! The 70s
You always had that one hippo with a bad spring in the mouth so the head opened sluggishly. That was the hippo the youngest cousin got forced to play. :)
I had Dukes of Hazzard Shrinky Dinks! Loved my Weeble Wobble submarine, and having my Weeble having to have an emergency ejection on the bottom of the tub, and floating to the surface!🤗 Waiting for mechanical vibrating football, light Brite, Lincoln logs, and mousetrap! (Let's be honest there were so many good toys back then it would be a very long video!!)
In addition to Othello, I also received another cool board game one Christmas in the 1970s --- Shogun! Played with similar rules to chess, this game had a magnetic board and two sets (white and red) of player pieces that were square with a round window showing a number. Inside each piece was a magnetic rotating disc with the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4: the number of spaces your piece can move. The cool part were the discs rotating to a different number with each move to a different square on the board. The objective was to capture your opponent's king (the square piece with the gold crown). It was so unpredictable and fun!
weebles wobble but wont fall down, and i remember all of these and i mat have been born in the late 70s but grew up in the 80s, and when NES came out othello was one of the first games i bought lol
Video games killed the toy industry. Try offering the games that were popular and children loved and ask them if they would prefer them to or trade them for their Nintendo, Playstations and X-boxes and see what happens. Once the technology reached a certain point that was all she wrote. Good video.
I had everything except Othello, and my brothe rhad the Weebles. My favorite was the RC R2-D2, then 30 years later, I got a larger one that was voice activated.
In my home the older siblings started having earnings so if my parents didn't get us something new things were still around! My older brother lived at home forever so he would spend money on Atari cartridges. That's actually the way I played Otello and at least Adventure.
I feel incredibly fortunate that I was a kid BEFORE the internet age when ACTUAL toys existed and there were so many to choose from. The best thing was you never knew what you were going to get or how it worked and what it could do until you ACTUALLY received it. You couldn't ruin the gift by looking at reviews on the internet and the commercials were only there to wet your appetite for it.. Genuine awe and joy was on full display at Christmas back then.
Hear Hear!!!! So true, my friend. Christmas was the most magical time of the year. Oh to go back in time.
@@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bitsto go back for so many reasons
Totally agree. It was great back then.
I was born in 1967 so I grew up in the 70's. 🎄Christmas🎄in the 70's was so much fun, and a much better time than it is now. The one memory that stands out more than others as far as toys goes, it's two books. The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and the Sears Wish Book! I can't remember exactly when they came out. I think it was the later part of October, and since the Christmas excitement for kids back then, it would usually start right after 🎃👻Halloween👻🎃 ended. Then that stretch until 🦃🦃Thanksgiving🦃🦃. Then December 1st, then December 8th, 15th, and finally the 25th! In between those days the classical Holiday Television shows would come on. That CBS spinning "Special" with the intro 🎶🎵music🎵🎶 would hit and you'd plop down in front of the television. The classic Great🎃Pumpkin🎃 Charlie Brown, ☃️⛄Frosty the☃️Snowman☃️☃️, 🦌Rudolph🦌the🔴Red🔴Nosed🦌🦌Reindeer🦌🦌, 🎅🤶🧑🎄🎅 🎅Santa🎅Claus🤶is Coming to Town🏘🏠🏡🏤🏥, and others. Back to the stores and the toys. Kids in the 70's had a store that seemed to be specially designed for us. Toys R Us! There was another Toy Store called 🎮🕹Kay🔴Bee🎱🪀Toys🧸🧸, but they weren't nearly as good as Toys R Us. We also had K-Mart stores, 🎯🎯Target🎯🎯stores, and we had a locally owned store called 🌎🇺🇲🇺🇸Toy🌎Country🇺🇲USA🇺🇸🌎. Kids had so many incredible stores and so many different toys, games, action figures(Mego's Planet of the Apes, Marvel, & DC), Die-Cast cars like Hot Wheels and Matchbox, then Tyco/AFX slot car racing. The Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle and🚀Rocket🚀, and the SSP's, and you can't forget the Atari 2600! And then of course there were the most popular, the most sought after, and beloved toys of them all. STAR WARS! The 70's was a commercial blitz of toys, games, electric razors, cologne, beer, but each one for the most part told a story. The Budweiser beer commercials had those iconic Clydesdale horses. The Miller commercials were usually hilarious. Everything was well made and created respectfully. I really miss those times, those days, when you'd leave your house and every street, every store, everyone and everything had Christmas spirit. Nowadays people have their faces buried in their 📱🤳smartphones🤳📱or are locked in a game of Fartnight or WOW. It just seems as if the essence of Christmas has disappeared. Those special feelings that I loved and the excitement levels just seem to have completely left. It's sad that kids nowadays don't have a Toys R Us, or the same levels of excitement that Shopping malls had.
"NoWaDays"????? Are you serious??? REally? That is what the kids NOW say because they have no vocab. Oh well, you maybe got it from your kids. I NEVER remember seeing a ToysRUs until the late 80s. Are you sure?? You are not confusing some of those 70s things with the 80s??? In the 70s, I remember the toys VERY WELL. Easy Bake Oven, Baby Alive, Etch a Sketch, Light Bright (my favorite), Silly Puddy, Slinky, the pedal pole you would jump on the foot pedals on a pole on the sidewalk, Operation, Rector Set, Race Track, the Chemistry Set, the Microscope, Organ, and the very best......Merlin!!! You missed out, my friend.
Toys R Us became a company in the 50s.
@@justmejenny7986 Bahahahahaa!!!!
I still have my old Star Wars figures. Somewhere! I was also big into D&D. 1E, of course. There was nothing better than going to the mall with my buddies and getting a module. We'd be up all night playing, way past our "normal" curfew, but our folks knew where we were and what we were doing, so they didn't mind. Everyone seemed to have Shrinky Dinks when we were young kids. Tracing out our own designs was the most fun. Man, you could do about 10 episodes about 70s, and 80s, Christmas fun!
Star Wars figures and D&D red box...hell yeah! Still have both!
@@bradwood9818, I still have my original D&D box set, circa 1979, but it is really worn out. Also have the original cover Monster Manual, though I don't know which printing. 1E was so much fun. Remember THACO numbers? No annoying bards either. I mean, who do you want to go into combat with, Conan the Barbarian, or William Shakespeare the bard? And a good cleric could turn those pesky undead. The good ol' days...
@@gregwasserman2635 I still have all my books, modules, miniatures (the ones seen in the video) and light blue dice from the original box sets. Yeah, great times...still playing RPGs too. Currently playing Traveller, another 70's game.
Born in 63,so I do remember this stuff. The D&D stories I could tell...
Born in 1976 - I remember Hungry Hungry Hippos, Shrinky Dinks and Weebles under the Christmas tree. Star Wars figures were a part of the formula later, probably around 80-81 when Empire was getting going.
D&D came much later for me (right around when 2E was being released, a little before actually).
My brother and I got a Coleco Air Hockey table one year for our Christmas. Best gift ever we wore it out. I miss those times in my life.
I still have my D&D Monster Manuals, Players Handbook and DM Guide!
My Weebles treehouse was my very favourite toy (until i got my first record player at 5?)--the accessories for the set were cool, and the print/designs for details like the flooring or wallpaper felt so real and vibrant. I absolutely wanted to live in that tree.
I was a Star Wars nerd in the 70s, so every Christmas I got Star Wars. As a nerd, I also got D&D, but usually I had to purchase those myself since my parents had no idea how to buy that stuff, lol. LOTS of great memories here.
I loved D&D. In the 80s I used to have over 8 books in my collection. Starting with the player's handbook, monster manual, and the dungeon master's guide and a set of purple lavender dice. The most intriguing book was fiend folio which was filled with very strange monsters. I wish I still had my books and dice.
Don't forget Megos. Those were THE action figures of the 70's. Nothing even came close, really.
100% they were a big deal! It’s incredible that Mego is back in business today!
Born in 1963, I absolutely loved Shrinky Dinks!
Can’t forget “Strange Change Machine”! The best! One Christmas my brother got that an I got the Shrinky Dinks! Awesome Christmas 😁
The best present to find was Skittle Bowl! It was like playing tetherball and 10 pins mashed together. And afterward you could use the pins as hand grenades you could launch at your siblings from your blanket fort.
Rebound, Risk, Pay Day, Monopoly, Diplomacy, Kerplunk, Mr. Potato Head, Ants in the Pants, Easy Bake Oven, Barbie, G.I. Joe, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, SSPs and SSP Smash Up Derby, The Bermuda Triangle boardgame, Matchbox cars, Corgi cars, model kits by Revell and other companies, even model train kits, Lego. So many toys and board games back then.
Wow, you hit all the ones I was thinking of. 😊
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down
Cool video I remember great christmas time in the 70’s either with fisher price toys earle 74 or six million dollar man in 77 star wars the year after add LEGO sets and I was a happy kid.
Those were wonderful years stores and malls were jam packed family visting each other
Malls???? That was the 80s dear. In the 70s we had shopping centers and REAL stores.
@lm6092 sorry Im french so I didn’t knew the difference but I was born in 72 and I remember the shopping center with the grocery store and the Kmart and the other little stores around
Plus I remember the whole fifth street were there was little stores beside the Woolworth every lamp posts decorated santa walking on the street I believe it was in the middle of the 70’s
Why do you wrongly keep correcting people? Where I grew up all the malls opened in the 70s. Educate yourself because you have been leaving rude comments and you are wrong!
@@justmejenny7986 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I laughed at you too!
born in 79. LOVED shrinky dinks
You were born WAY too late for the best toys of the early to mid 70s. You missed out big time.
I NEVER heard of ANY of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Geeze, you left so much out. What about Easy-bake-oven, Recter Set, Custard Top, Operation, Slinky, Yellow Dump Truck, Baby Alive, Race Track, Etch a Sketch, Light Bright, Inchworm, Dressy Bessy, Ragetty Ann and Andy, Silly Puddy, and on and on and on!! The 70s
You always had that one hippo with a bad spring in the mouth so the head opened sluggishly. That was the hippo the youngest cousin got forced to play. :)
I had Dukes of Hazzard Shrinky Dinks!
Loved my Weeble Wobble submarine, and having my Weeble having to have an emergency ejection on the bottom of the tub, and floating to the surface!🤗
Waiting for mechanical vibrating football, light Brite, Lincoln logs, and mousetrap!
(Let's be honest there were so many good toys back then it would be a very long video!!)
In addition to Othello, I also received another cool board game one Christmas in the 1970s --- Shogun! Played with similar rules to chess, this game had a magnetic board and two sets (white and red) of player pieces that were square with a round window showing a number. Inside each piece was a magnetic rotating disc with the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4: the number of spaces your piece can move. The cool part were the discs rotating to a different number with each move to a different square on the board. The objective was to capture your opponent's king (the square piece with the gold crown). It was so unpredictable and fun!
One of my friends at that time had Shrinky Dinks. Don't remember much persnal experience of the others...but I sure do remember the commercials!
weebles wobble but wont fall down, and i remember all of these and i mat have been born in the late 70s but grew up in the 80s, and when NES came out othello was one of the first games i bought lol
Video games killed the toy industry. Try offering the games that were popular and children loved and ask them if they would prefer them to or trade them for their Nintendo, Playstations and X-boxes and see what happens. Once the technology reached a certain point that was all she wrote.
Good video.
Not to mention all the porn that CHILDREN are addicted to today!!!
I didn't know the hippos had names
I had everything except Othello, and my brothe rhad the Weebles. My favorite was the RC R2-D2, then 30 years later, I got a larger one that was voice activated.
Girder and Panel building sets were awesome back then
Did I just see a C-3PO wit TWO gold legs?!?!?!😲
Othello - capture the corners to win the game.
D&D is still the similar today. Sure, the rules are a bit differently, however the table filled with soda and snacks, is still a thing.
I remember the race cart set, train sets, and board games but not these
Othello looks similar to Checkers.
You didn't mention Micronauts. Playsets, Interchangeable parts and a comic series for ideas.
Air Trix the best
In my home the older siblings started having earnings so if my parents didn't get us something new things were still around! My older brother lived at home forever so he would spend money on Atari cartridges. That's actually the way I played Otello and at least Adventure.
Atari was the 80s!
Atari came out in 1977.
Fischer price characters have lasted longer than weebels.
I had orthello
rockem sockem robots
A little overdramatic and long for each toy
Take this negative bullshit elsewhere.
These times were way better than any of the things that are out today
You DONT know your 70s!! Most of these were not until 80s.
You are so rude and wrong.
None of them
Way too long on each toy.