I was in the Toy business for 25 years. My dad was in the business for more than 50 years. Today, Toys R Us announced their liquidation. Very sad.... Thank for posting your videos. They are awesome!
How I do wish I still had my Lionel trains. They were so cool. My parents made me give them away when I quit playing with them frequently because they 'took up too much room'. Prolly worth a pretty penny today!
I ended up buying a train set from around the year I figured I should have gotten one. That would have been 1968. I made sure it came with the original box and manuals. Yes, it cost me but the set was like brand new. Whomever owned it didn't play with it much as it was in prestine condition. I took it to the local hobby shop and had it checked and cleaned. As I suspected, it was hardly used. Who can put a price on something from your youth that you never got but always dreamed someday you would get one. Well, I did.
Physical games were educational and fun as well as being able to interact with other humans. The machines kids play with today make them hermits and stupid.
Mattel Varoom trucks reminded me of the Varoom sound mount for your bicycle, with the real Varoom sound. I miss the annual Christmas toy catalogs. Spend hours making out your wish list. OMG these toy prices and we were told as kids they were too expensive.
Makes me feel like a kid again. They couldn't sell lawn darts now and days or some of these toys. They wouldn't get them passed the standards tests, lawyers or the "planning board". I like the length of your videos especially the long ones, if I think it's to long I'll just stop it and come back later. 📹📺🎥📼 -Thanks Fred
You have to look hard, back in the 1960's, to find a boys toy that either didn't have wheels or shoot something. Pretty much the same as now, only now they are all video game simulations. The content of what boys do hasn't really changed, just the manner in which they do it.
Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots! Gotta love boxing robots. That and Battle Tops. Me, my sisters, and my cousins loved the fool outta those games. We played them for hours.
Don't I know it! We also had many hours-long epic boxing matches playing with them too. I was instantly reminded of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots when the movie Real Steel came out. Now... to box like THAT, would have been really epic!
I remember rifles my older brothers had. You loaded the rifle with small pieces of wooden doweling painted olive drab.When you fired, they shot out...after about 6 feet,they'd start tumbling end over end & at that point you had no idea where they would go..
My grandma would send away for all sorts of things that cost $1 and a box top. It was always so cool when we'd spend the weekend and on Saturday morning at breakfast she'd give them to US before we'd go watch cartoons. Miss you Grandma! XXXOOO
Another excellent presentation,...thanks so much for the great memories. It is sad though that some commenters feel the need to disparage your work in the comments. They obviously were not children then,....but programmed to fit a certain agenda now. Keep up the good work and thanks again for the memories.
Nice for you to say, stendec 5762. There are those in every crowd who like to criticize. But I get mostly positive comments from viewers such as yourself and that's encouraging.
I was scared to death of "Robot Commando" My cousin got one for Christmas. And it was his favorite toy. When he wanted me to stay out of his room, he'd just put it in the door way. :)
It's funny those toys you remember from your childhood. My dad was big on building stuff so I had Lincoln logs, Legos and that nasty sharp edged tetnus machine.. the metal erector set! :) But I still mostly played with my G.I. Joe's and Hot Wheels...lol
Add Tinkertoy to that list, and you've got mine. Mom hated stepping on Lego pieces in the dark, and was never happy finding rusty nuts and bolts in my pockets or the bottom of the washing machine.
I know right ?! I never new what to build with damn Legos . Maybe a cheesy looking plane, or house . So it was G.I Joe and Hot Wheels all the way for me .
@@DSpeir-pi6tm I used my Legos to build bunkers for my Army Men and garages for my Hot Wheels. Lego was anything you wanted, or needed. People still use them to make jigs for scratch building models or miniatures. One of the best construction toys (or tools) ever invented.
@@billd.iniowa2263 I didn't have the cool Lego set with all the stuff to make things with, so I guess I got discouraged . My friend had 5 sets of deluxe Legos doors, windows, roofing, car wheel . We built a castle with a parking garage and helicopter landing pad out of his .
Sometimes I have the sound off at night, and for fun I turned on the captions. These were the captions for the Slinky ad: Appear without a care and shoot so high in the sky/both up and down just like controls/everyone knows this thing/the best president to give forgets/but talks a little to buy/the hit of the day when you're ready to play/everyone knows this thing is/saying keep it same performance immense bizarre/it's lame keep the same keep the payment of carbon boy/it's a fee is a fee for filing service/at the time it same he sang ski but they vinegar Monroy/everyone wants the plane ski/you want to get a Slinky At least they got the name right at the end.
also love you're effort to bring back these old vids i may date myself but i used to love going to slot car tracks and when i got skyway tuff wheels for my bike for christmas
I was born in 78 but I still miss the good old days when we used our imagination,played outside till the street lights came on, interacted w others in person etc.Todays generation I feel is really missing out in my opinion 😕🥺
Had the Lieutenant set and my mom through it out as me and my brother "didn't need them any more". She through those rifles and comic books out that I told her to keep when I went in the service (Vietnam). Something always told me what to keep and what to get rid of. Some of those comic books were worth around 3000 dollars in the '80s. The rifles were worth around 5000 dollars a few years ago. My parents got rid of around 50,000 dollars of my stuff cause they knew everything.
These are awesome. I actually had some of the newer toys like the Gnip Gnop. Kids actually had common sense back in those days, so toy guns were no big deal. Good luck if anyone tried to make a kid's chemistry set these days even. Wow.
Randall Sage - Which often meant a Department Store like Sears or Woolworth's. Convenience and "Five and Dime" stores, along with Grocery Stores, often sold cheaper, more trinkety toys (some of which could also be great fun, some...not so much) that came in a bag (plastic soldiers or dinosaurs) or in a blister pack (crappy cap guns and caps, magic tricks that didn't work right, throw-away toy dolls or cars, etc.) This was well before Toy World, Kay Bee Toys, and Toys R Us came in the scene, which have themselves been largely booted to the curb by Amazon or other online retailers.
@@StopMoColorado i thought TRU had been around since the late 50's? kay-bee had been around, but not as a retailer until the 70's, i think. i've never heard of toy world, but heard of child world (at one point second only to TRU) who owned my local haunt, children's palace.
Another wonderful video Fred! No doubt I’m very naïve, but could someone please explain to me how this type of video could have so many dislikes voted against it? Is there some sort of hater algorithm that kicks in whenever a channel becomes successful? Anyway thank you for the trip down memory lane. I had many of these toys as a kid.
Probably because of the so-called "war toys" which for some reason included rockets and robots..... mostly idiots who give birth and raise more idiots....
I'm missing the other spy toys I can't remember what they were called, but you had a portable radio that had spring-loaded grip and barrel so that when you pressed a button on the back it became a gun. There were several different everyday items that transformed into spy tools. Decades later, Joel Hodgson did a stand-up routine where he took items you would never think of and they turned into guns, and he would say something like, "By day, an ordinary watermelon, but by night: Agent J"... an homage to those toys.
i lived on a farm when i was a kid my dad would never buy any of these cool toys for us. there was to much stuff we can come up with like building tree forts and stuff
A lot of these I remember, some must have been more regional. The "six finger gun" reminded me of the commercial in the mid-sixties that had a lyric of " six-finger, six-finger man o live, how did I ever get along with five? ". Also I just remembered a belt buckle that had a derringer that would swing into action and point straight ahead if you secretly pressed the button!
Great video as ALWAYS sir! I have some really fond memories of toys dating back to the early 70's. Getting my Mego World's Greatest Superheroes action figures was my favorite moment in time back then! I also had the Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, playsets for both. Oh man it was LEGENDARY! I literally had EVERY Mego Superhero they made. Later on I even got the exclusive Teen Titans figures. Kid Flash, Aqua-Lad, Speedy, and Wonder-Girl. I got them from a place in New York and I was SO STOKED TO FINALLY HAVE A FLASH FIGURE! The 70's were the GOLDEN AGE of Toys for me anyways. I kept my toys focused. I loved Mego Superheroes, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Corgi, etc, & later Tyco and AFX. But then in 1978 EVERYTHING CHANGED! 7" figures made way for the 3.75" figures from that little Space Opera, Star Wars! Oh and I LOVED THOSE TOYS! I used to shovel snow for money. Rake leaves, whatever I could do to make money for Star Wars items. My first two figures were C3-PO and R2-D2. Then a little while later I got Luke Skywalker, Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi, and DARTH VADER! I can also remember one particular figure who was the most elusive little bugger back then. We didn't have scalpers and con-men who ripped people off on eBay back then. Toys were toys. But one figure was never around. The Jawa! That little homely little bug was like Bigfoot. You'd hear about sightings of him, but you yourself NEVER SAW ONE, EVER! Then one evening after dinner, my Mom told my Dad to stop at our local Toy Store. Toy Country USA was it's name. The owner was such an awesome guy! He loved toys like we did! Anyway I walked in thinking there's NO POSSIBILITY I'LL FIND A NEW JAWA FIGURE! The owner looked at me and said, "Hey, check out the display rack I got in. Look at the top rows." "Okay I said." WHAT? WHAT? There sat like ten Jawas. All lined up. But then he went behind the counter and handed me three Jawa figures. He said I checked these out and these were the best looking ones out of them all. He had called my Mom earlier that day, and they set up this little thing for me. THIS is what people/stores/local owner's did back then! Sure it was about profits, BUT it also was about caring and helping kids, fans, and collectors. I had gotten my Death Star playset from his store. My X-Wing Fighter, Tie Fighters, and my Land Speeder, as well as 30 - 50 figures. He was AWESOME to me so I was loyal to him as well! Sadly they closed down right after Empire Strikes Back was released. So my other options were also a ICONIC, AMAZING, AND WICKED way to "SHOP". After 🎃 Halloween 🎃, the anticipation would start. By Thanksgiving it was at a boiling point! The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and the Sears Wish Book were two of the most anticipated Christmas items other than actual 🎁🎁presents!🎁🎁 Plus Sears had some "exclusives" for the Atari 2600, or Tele-Games as they called it. They also had a couple of Star Wars figure playsets too. One had a exclusive Snaggletooth figure. But whatever the reason or item, when you got your Christmas Catalogs! You were in TOY HEAVEN! I remember all of those awesome and great commercials, and especially the 📺TV📺specials! From 🎅🤶Santa🧑🎄🎅Claus🤶🧑🎄is🎅🤶Coming to Town, ☃️⛄Frosty☃️the⛄☃️Snowman⛄☃️, 🔴🦌Rudolph🔴🦌the🦌🦌Red-Nose🦌🦌Reindeer🦌🦌, and A Charlie Brown 🎄Christmas🎄! Whenever I'd hear the CBS Special Music! 🎼🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵 I'd be in front of the 📺TV📺 so fast! So many special and wonderful memories! Christmas Eve, going to Grandma and Grandpa's house! Having those awesome snacks! Ritz Crackers with the Squeeze Cheese. I forget exactly what it was called, but it was soooo good. We'd have summer sausage, celery sticks, 🥕carrot🥕sticks, sweet pickles, baby dills, sliced 🥒Cucumbers🥒, black olives(yes I loved black olives as a kid!), and occasionally even the green olives with the pimentos inside. We'd stay until 10:30-11:00pm. However as I was "occupied" with Mom and Grandma, my Dad and Grandpa would sneak over to our house and set up/stage a really AWESOME SCENARIO! After we ate, and I got to open my Presents from Grandma and Grandpa after 9pm, I'd play for a bit. Usually I'd get tuckered out and I'd doze off. Then my Dad or Grandpa would carry me outside. We lived across the street from them so it was awesome! Anyway they had made Reindeer HOOF PRINTS in the snow! Outside of the house! They'd also have written in that canned snow, SANTA WAS HERE! And inside, the🎄Christmas🎄tree🎄was LOADED with presents! 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁 For a little boy who was between 5 and 8 years old, this was amazingly cool! Christmas was truly a special time for my family! I can't even begin to explain how much I loved it, appreciated it, was so thankful for it, and just how much it truly meant to me! Thank you for sharing these videos with us. I really do appreciate it very much.
the first toy shone..the Ideal Countdown Missile Base... would I sound crazy if I said that in some ways the toys of that time foster more interest in science than the toys of today? are today's toys higher-tech? absolutely. but do they make science and education interesting? the kids know how to navigate online. but do they know how to program? do they know anything besides game software? how are they at mathematics & reading? or do I sound like a killjoy?
wrybreadspread they suck. Hell back then, in the mid 60's I got books and liked it for Christmas! Now the little bastards would, as my mom would say, pitch a fit!
@@jameretief8327 The How And Why Book Of Dinosaurs. It was one of my favorite books of a lifetime. Heaven knows where my copy went. Our knowledge of prehistory has increased exponentially. But I still remember the book fondly.
What about the Mattel Thingmaker that you made Creepy Crawlers with? It had those metal molds you would pour liquid plastic goop into and heat them up on the electric hot plate burner that got as hot as a real kitchen stove burner. You'd cook them until they boiled, pull them off the heat, let them cool, pull the finished product out of the mold and bingo: you had solid rubbery like creepy bugs. Great toy to give to your six year old unsupervised kid. After my dad died my single mom gave me one for Christmas not knowing or really caring about what it was (poor mom was kind of out of it after dad died). I spilled more hot goop onto the shag rug in my bedroom and burned the crap out of myself so many times I lost count. It was a miracle I didn't burn the house down. Those 60's toys were freakin' awesome!
I do remember the Mattel Creepy Crawlers, would have loved to have seen an Easy Bake Oven commercial. I wonder how many caused fires when they were left on all night or had a larger wattage bulb installed than the recommended size?
I guess I was more spoiled than I remembered. Of these, I had the stupid Fang Bang game; the Rock'em Sock'em Robots, which were so cool that they made reproductions of them a couple years ago; the Johnny Eagle Red River .30-.30, which actually shot plastic bullets from spring-loaded cartridges. Somehow I managed not to put my brother's eye out. Also the Secret Sam Sixth Finger gun, which was just weird; the Shrunken Head maker; Frisbees, of course; G.I. Joe with the fuzzy hair, beard, and Kung-Fu grip! My favorites though, were Incredible Edibles which cooked nasty-tasting gummi bugs and snakes, and something I think was called The Time Machine. This took little plastic squares and when you put them in a heating chamber, they would unfold into dinosaurs. Of course, these were both really just hot-plates that unsupervised children could play with on the carpet. I remember getting a few good burns, but hey, that's how we learned, right? At least the house never burned down.
I had a extensive chemistry set in the 70s, The local toy store sold chemicals as well as badass models. I actually bought sulfuric and muriatic acid at the age of 12yrs with my dads note of approval, smokes as well. Good God we used up all the fun!
I still have the Evil Kneivel trail bike stunt cycle with action figure . I also have G.I. Joe with Kung fu action, six million dollar man and Stretch Armstrong in a box in the attic 😀
I still have my Nylint U-Haul Trailer. It is now known as the Frog Trailer, because many many San Diego frogs 45 years or so ago were incarcerated overnight inside it. Now it is only occupied by a little plush frog.
I like the Atomic Cannon toy.It was based on a actual "tactical nuke" that the US Army had (until a treaty in the early 70's I think outlawed the continued development and use of such things by the world's nuclear powers).
The Army abandoned the "atomic cannon" because it was obsolete. Short range ballistic missiles and tactical nuclear weapons delivered by fighters saw to that.
Oh, Johnny Eagle! I had the Army set. I also had the Lone Ranger Dual Fanning Forty Five holster and gun set. Enough to curdle a Karen's blood today. Added in Edit: I had several of these and was a Frisbee fanatic; was actually part of a league even in the Army. But the "too dangerous for today" toys were my favorites. My chemistry set started more than one exoteric fire. And the hot surfaces of my Creepy Crawlers, wood burning kit and Monster Chamber were epic and you did learn safety; a mistake was only made once.
😊 fond memories of playing with my Rockem Sockem Robots and Slinky when I was 4 years old (Turn 53 next month). I too think that missle base is awesome 👍😁🇺🇸.
What our toys taught is: Boys got to do things, make things, discover things, destroy things, protect the world, do the "be all you could be" things. Girls got to play house, take care of babies, cook, bake, sew, have dinner ready at 6:00, and look pretty and perky while dressed in a gingham dress and wearing high heels and a pearl necklace.
That little boy in the Cocoa Marsh commercial was Joey Trent, a child that was one of Patty Duke's managers John and Ethel Ross' children who was practically an orphan. He lived with The Rosses and Patty a lot. He and Patty made commercials together and stayed with them off and on until hecwas a teenager, like Patty, who was really Anna. Ethel wanted to change her name from Anna to Patty after child actress Patty McCormack.
That's the voice of William Conrad in the Mattel "Vrrroom" dump truck ad. And in the Hot Wheels Tune Up Tower ad as well. I live in Providence, Rhode Island, and we actually have a Mr. Kelly's Car Wash. It's located on Charles Street, near the Marriott. (Our Mr. Kelly's wasn't built by Remco, however.)
One thing they had in common, if it needed batteries more often or not the toy was dead or had a corroded battery case. Alkaline batteries were expensive as hell and reserved for photo electronic flash or items that HAD to have a high reliability of powering up. Those carbon batteries, while cheap, would leave you burning through a case in a week for your toys especially ones with motors and light bulbs. Now we have digital rare earth motors and LEDs that achieve more with a fraction of power draw but no market for toys that have those cool missile launch pads and atomic cannons!
So glad I'm not one of those poor workers at the Mattel factory who has to test all those Jack-In-The-Boxes! I'd be so sick if the song "Pop Goes The Weasel" that I'd probably go out and get a huge mallet and smash every one of those Jack-In-The-Boxes to smithereens!
12:27 + Hot wheels...I recognize that announcers voice, It's William Conrad who was the voice of the Lone Ranger for a little while ( not the original ) on the radio. He was better known as Cannon on television the big fat man detective. Very distinctive voice. He did a lot of voice work.
People didn't know back in the '50s that one day Kaiser Aluminum would branch out and get into owning TV stations (like Channel 56 in Boston, once known as WKGB-TV for Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting), and eventually buying into a health insurance company (Kaiser Permanente), and then basically creating the concept of the HMO.
I just can see all of the "Political Correctness " in most of these commercials. I'm glad that I grew up in that time and I can wipe my own ass without anyone telling me how to do it. Thank you.
Three things were a kid's best friend: days off from school, candy-candy- and more candy, - and toys ! My sister's favorites were the Easy Bake Oven and Barbie - galore. Mine were Hot Wheels and GI Joe.
Found a couple mighty casey ride on engines on e-bay and a couple cars but not enough track to do much with and they want alot for them.Just wanted to see if there are still any of these things around.Toys in the 70's were awesome and the 80's still pretty good and then....nope.You don't even see toy commercials anymore.I,m 50 and this millenial electronic society really sucks.I do like my you Tube though.
Chris Knight was practically working by himself to support his family. I don't know what was going on with his father. He played small roles on The Brady Bunch. A camera man in a couple episodes. I read this in an article on here. They were practically starving at one time.
One year I asked for a hot wheels race set. It had a yellow track that snapped together. Made a loop and had a finish line flag at the end. When I misbehaved my mom would whoop my ass with that track. I Never asked for another race track again.
I use to have Rudy the Robot when I was a kid . His eyes light up red and he had lightning on the side of his face and arms . That thing could turn itself on and walk anywhere . It scared the shit out of me . I think it was demon possessed 😕
There was also the Mattel M-16 Marauder. A full scale replica of the real thing. It was said Mattel made the actual stocks for the real weapon soooooo. They had used it as a example of how “such toys invited violence.” That was back in ‘66?
I've seen our neighbor boys and their neighborhood friends playing traditionally outside here in the Summer. Even seen them with Nerf guns; and have to resist the urge to ambush them with our Nerf Vulcan minigun. All around good kids and good family. Got lucky on the neighbor lotto a couple years ago. :)
This really freaks me out. Two favorites missing: The Great Garloo (hand control green monster robot like a Godzilla), Waltzing Matilda (motorized aircraft carrier).
Great fun old stuff, can't decide on a favorite though... 1:23 where, the enemy your robot pal is fighting appears to be the US Military, or 28:09 a doll commercial aimed at girls set to the tune of "Little Brown Jug"? lol
How did those astro guns play those sounds? Was there a little record inside it? I had a ray gun with a buzzer and light bulb that made a weird noise, but living in New Zealand, meant our toys were fairly limited to certain imported lines. Some cool stuff still got imported, though. The "Space age" was a great time to be a kid. 😎
I used to have a Gnip Gnop (or the words Ping Pong backwards! Lol), had hours of fun with it. Also had several Lite Brite sets as well. Beginning at the 25:50 mark, was one that the recent BeyBlade, top style toys and it's battle arena, of the last 15 yrs was based on.
Yeah, I remember most of these toys, when I was about two my Mother gave me a Jack in the Box, when I played it, it popped up and I cried, I did that for 10 minutes until I thought this is fun. I was more careful with my own Children.
I wouldn't want to work in that toy factory--hearing "Pop Goes The Weasel" 8 million times a day would send me to the funny farm.
I was in the Toy business for 25 years. My dad was in the business for more than 50 years. Today, Toys R Us announced their liquidation. Very sad.... Thank for posting your videos. They are awesome!
How I do wish I still had my Lionel trains. They were so cool. My parents made me give them away when I quit playing with them frequently because they 'took up too much room'. Prolly worth a pretty penny today!
I wish I kept my American Flyer train set.
I ended up buying a train set from around the year I figured I should have gotten one. That would have been 1968. I made sure it came with the original box and manuals. Yes, it cost me but the set was like brand new. Whomever owned it didn't play with it much as it was in prestine condition. I took it to the local hobby shop and had it checked and cleaned. As I suspected, it was hardly used. Who can put a price on something from your youth that you never got but always dreamed someday you would get one. Well, I did.
I buy you a set.
That Ideal Missile Base looks bad ass even by todays standards!
eyeh8u1 I disagree, that Atomic Cannon caught my eyes. Now I'm gonna gave to track one down.
I just seen it
Physical games were educational and fun as well as being able to interact with other humans. The machines kids play with today make them hermits and stupid.
No now they play with real guns and kill thier class mates now you have punk ass gang members and junkies
Mattel Varoom trucks reminded me of the Varoom sound mount for your bicycle, with the real Varoom sound. I miss the annual Christmas toy catalogs. Spend hours making out your wish list. OMG these toy prices and we were told as kids they were too expensive.
I know right? $8 for a Lionel train car with rocket launcher. What a joke. I never got a train set until I get my own in 1990.
That's because it was a lot back then the U,S dollar was still worth something
Makes me feel like a kid again.
They couldn't sell lawn darts now and days or some of these toys. They wouldn't get them passed the standards tests, lawyers or the "planning board".
I like the length of your videos especially the long ones, if I think it's to long I'll just stop it and come back later.
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-Thanks Fred
Good approach, David.
When toys were still made here. Days gone by.
John Ritcher Marx mini tools, when it was assumed the boy wasn't gay.
You have to look hard, back in the 1960's, to find a boys toy that either didn't have wheels or shoot something. Pretty much the same as now, only now they are all video game simulations. The content of what boys do hasn't really changed, just the manner in which they do it.
Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots! Gotta love boxing robots. That and Battle Tops. Me, my sisters, and my cousins loved the fool outta those games. We played them for hours.
we're not complicated creatures.
Don't I know it! We also had many hours-long epic boxing matches playing with them too. I was instantly reminded of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots when the movie Real Steel came out. Now... to box like THAT, would have been really epic!
I remember rifles my older brothers had. You loaded the rifle with small pieces of wooden doweling painted olive drab.When you fired, they shot out...after about 6 feet,they'd start tumbling end over end & at that point you had no idea where they would go..
Clay Loomis yeah but we didn't weld our asses to the couch or computer chair. Now it's like every kid is an invalid.
My grandma would send away for all sorts of things that cost $1 and a box top. It was always so cool when we'd spend the weekend and on Saturday morning at breakfast she'd give them to US before we'd go watch cartoons. Miss you Grandma! XXXOOO
The Bon Marche! I miss that store before Macy’s took over.
Another excellent presentation,...thanks so much for the great memories. It is sad though that some commenters feel the need to disparage your work in the comments. They obviously were not children then,....but programmed to fit a certain agenda now. Keep up the good work and thanks again for the memories.
Nice for you to say, stendec 5762. There are those in every crowd who like to criticize. But I get mostly positive comments from viewers such as yourself and that's encouraging.
I was scared to death of "Robot Commando" My cousin got one for Christmas. And it was his favorite toy. When he wanted me to stay out of his room, he'd just put it in the door way. :)
Hmm, I wonder it that would work on my neighbors. I guts ta have me one to find out!
I'm sure your a wonderful girl, how do you get along now?🇺🇸
I would show them my slinky.
It's funny those toys you remember from your childhood. My dad was big on building stuff so I had Lincoln logs, Legos and that nasty sharp edged tetnus machine.. the metal erector set! :) But I still mostly played with my G.I. Joe's and Hot Wheels...lol
Add Tinkertoy to that list, and you've got mine. Mom hated stepping on Lego pieces in the dark, and was never happy finding rusty nuts and bolts in my pockets or the bottom of the washing machine.
I know right ?! I never new what to build with damn Legos . Maybe a cheesy looking plane, or house . So it was G.I Joe and Hot Wheels all the way for me .
@@DSpeir-pi6tm I used my Legos to build bunkers for my Army Men and garages for my Hot Wheels. Lego was anything you wanted, or needed. People still use them to make jigs for scratch building models or miniatures. One of the best construction toys (or tools) ever invented.
@@billd.iniowa2263 I didn't have the cool Lego set with all the stuff to make things with, so I guess I got discouraged . My friend had 5 sets of deluxe Legos doors, windows, roofing, car wheel . We built a castle with a parking garage and helicopter landing pad out of his .
Sometimes I have the sound off at night, and for fun I turned on the captions. These were the captions for the Slinky ad:
Appear without a care and shoot so high in the sky/both up and down just like controls/everyone knows this thing/the best president to give forgets/but talks a little to buy/the hit of the day when you're ready to play/everyone knows this thing is/saying keep it same performance immense bizarre/it's lame keep the same keep the payment of carbon boy/it's a fee is a fee for filing service/at the time it same he sang ski but they vinegar Monroy/everyone wants the plane ski/you want to get a Slinky
At least they got the name right at the end.
If toy commercials were written by Nostradamus.
Wow, your lyrics are so much better than the real ones. I'd buy that product no matter what it was!
MARX toys were awesome! The most over the top toys ever. My brother and I loved the knoble knights
My favorite toys were the ones I never got to have.
also love you're effort to bring back these old vids
i may date myself but i used to love going to slot car tracks
and when i got skyway tuff wheels for my bike for christmas
I used to have a Raggedy Anne Colorforms set. You probably would get complaints on the toy guns and rockets.
I was born in 78 but I still miss the good old days when we used our imagination,played outside till the street lights came on, interacted w others in person etc.Todays generation I feel is really missing out in my opinion 😕🥺
I agree Misty, this generation is missing out👍
Kenny Sherrill SADLY YES.love & Light to ur family and stay safe!
Had the Lieutenant set and my mom through it out as me and my brother "didn't need them any more". She through those rifles and comic books out that I told her to keep when I went in the service (Vietnam). Something always told me what to keep and what to get rid of. Some of those comic books were worth around 3000 dollars in the '80s. The rifles were worth around 5000 dollars a few years ago. My parents got rid of around 50,000 dollars of my stuff cause they knew everything.
These are awesome. I actually had some of the newer toys like the Gnip Gnop. Kids actually had common sense back in those days, so toy guns were no big deal. Good luck if anyone tried to make a kid's chemistry set these days even. Wow.
Some do. They're called meth labs.
I have to chuckle, wherever "good" toys are sold.
Randall Sage - Which often meant a Department Store like Sears or Woolworth's. Convenience and "Five and Dime" stores, along with Grocery Stores, often sold cheaper, more trinkety toys (some of which could also be great fun, some...not so much) that came in a bag (plastic soldiers or dinosaurs) or in a blister pack (crappy cap guns and caps, magic tricks that didn't work right, throw-away toy dolls or cars, etc.) This was well before Toy World, Kay Bee Toys, and Toys R Us came in the scene, which have themselves been largely booted to the curb by Amazon or other online retailers.
@@StopMoColorado i thought TRU had been around since the late 50's? kay-bee had been around, but not as a retailer until the 70's, i think. i've never heard of toy world, but heard of child world (at one point second only to TRU) who owned my local haunt, children's palace.
Oh my! The toys of my youth! Thanks Fred!
Another wonderful video Fred! No doubt I’m very naïve, but could someone please explain to me how this type of video could have so many dislikes voted against it? Is there some sort of hater algorithm that kicks in whenever a channel becomes successful? Anyway thank you for the trip down memory lane. I had many of these toys as a kid.
Probably because of the so-called "war toys" which for some reason included rockets and robots..... mostly idiots who give birth and raise more idiots....
You had me at "atomic cannon." Great collection of toy ads!
I didn't have most of these toys but alot I remember them on TV or in the stores thanks for the upload it's great brings back alot of memories.
I'm missing the other spy toys I can't remember what they were called, but you had a portable radio that had spring-loaded grip and barrel so that when you pressed a button on the back it became a gun. There were several different everyday items that transformed into spy tools. Decades later, Joel Hodgson did a stand-up routine where he took items you would never think of and they turned into guns, and he would say something like, "By day, an ordinary watermelon, but by night: Agent J"... an homage to those toys.
Older cousins and uncles had some of these. They were as awesome as they look.
a lot of these toys are really stupid now but back in the day i would
have died to have any one of them
true but our imagination made up for it
Stupid, true, but they also encouraged a good bit of exercise and time outdoors. Something sadly lacking in today's toys.
I would have loved the "Count Down". KSP of the 60s.
Amen brother
You were really stupid then and now.
i lived on a farm when i was a kid my dad would never buy any of these cool toys for us. there was to much stuff we can come up with like building tree forts and stuff
Did dad ever buy you any Ertl farm toys?
yeap i had some john deere tractors and other farm stuff
A lot of these I remember, some must have been more regional. The "six finger gun" reminded me of the commercial in the mid-sixties that had a lyric of " six-finger, six-finger man o live, how did I ever get along with five? ". Also I just remembered a belt buckle that had a derringer that would swing into action and point straight ahead if you secretly pressed the button!
Great video as ALWAYS sir! I have some really fond memories of toys dating back to the early 70's. Getting my Mego World's Greatest Superheroes action figures was my favorite moment in time back then! I also had the Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, playsets for both. Oh man it was LEGENDARY! I literally had EVERY Mego Superhero they made. Later on I even got the exclusive Teen Titans figures. Kid Flash, Aqua-Lad, Speedy, and Wonder-Girl. I got them from a place in New York and I was SO STOKED TO FINALLY HAVE A FLASH FIGURE! The 70's were the GOLDEN AGE of Toys for me anyways. I kept my toys focused. I loved Mego Superheroes, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Corgi, etc, & later Tyco and AFX. But then in 1978 EVERYTHING CHANGED! 7" figures made way for the 3.75" figures from that little Space Opera, Star Wars! Oh and I LOVED THOSE TOYS! I used to shovel snow for money. Rake leaves, whatever I could do to make money for Star Wars items. My first two figures were C3-PO and R2-D2. Then a little while later I got Luke Skywalker, Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi, and DARTH VADER! I can also remember one particular figure who was the most elusive little bugger back then. We didn't have scalpers and con-men who ripped people off on eBay back then. Toys were toys. But one figure was never around. The Jawa! That little homely little bug was like Bigfoot. You'd hear about sightings of him, but you yourself NEVER SAW ONE, EVER! Then one evening after dinner, my Mom told my Dad to stop at our local Toy Store. Toy Country USA was it's name. The owner was such an awesome guy! He loved toys like we did! Anyway I walked in thinking there's NO POSSIBILITY I'LL FIND A NEW JAWA FIGURE! The owner looked at me and said, "Hey, check out the display rack I got in. Look at the top rows." "Okay I said." WHAT? WHAT? There sat like ten Jawas. All lined up. But then he went behind the counter and handed me three Jawa figures. He said I checked these out and these were the best looking ones out of them all. He had called my Mom earlier that day, and they set up this little thing for me. THIS is what people/stores/local owner's did back then! Sure it was about profits, BUT it also was about caring and helping kids, fans, and collectors. I had gotten my Death Star playset from his store. My X-Wing Fighter, Tie Fighters, and my Land Speeder, as well as 30 - 50 figures. He was AWESOME to me so I was loyal to him as well! Sadly they closed down right after Empire Strikes Back was released. So my other options were also a ICONIC, AMAZING, AND WICKED way to "SHOP". After 🎃 Halloween 🎃, the anticipation would start. By Thanksgiving it was at a boiling point! The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and the Sears Wish Book were two of the most anticipated Christmas items other than actual 🎁🎁presents!🎁🎁 Plus Sears had some "exclusives" for the Atari 2600, or Tele-Games as they called it. They also had a couple of Star Wars figure playsets too. One had a exclusive Snaggletooth figure. But whatever the reason or item, when you got your Christmas Catalogs! You were in TOY HEAVEN! I remember all of those awesome and great commercials, and especially the 📺TV📺specials! From 🎅🤶Santa🧑🎄🎅Claus🤶🧑🎄is🎅🤶Coming to Town, ☃️⛄Frosty☃️the⛄☃️Snowman⛄☃️, 🔴🦌Rudolph🔴🦌the🦌🦌Red-Nose🦌🦌Reindeer🦌🦌, and A Charlie Brown 🎄Christmas🎄! Whenever I'd hear the CBS Special Music! 🎼🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵 I'd be in front of the 📺TV📺 so fast! So many special and wonderful memories! Christmas Eve, going to Grandma and Grandpa's house! Having those awesome snacks! Ritz Crackers with the Squeeze Cheese. I forget exactly what it was called, but it was soooo good. We'd have summer sausage, celery sticks, 🥕carrot🥕sticks, sweet pickles, baby dills, sliced 🥒Cucumbers🥒, black olives(yes I loved black olives as a kid!), and occasionally even the green olives with the pimentos inside. We'd stay until 10:30-11:00pm. However as I was "occupied" with Mom and Grandma, my Dad and Grandpa would sneak over to our house and set up/stage a really AWESOME SCENARIO! After we ate, and I got to open my Presents from Grandma and Grandpa after 9pm, I'd play for a bit. Usually I'd get tuckered out and I'd doze off. Then my Dad or Grandpa would carry me outside. We lived across the street from them so it was awesome! Anyway they had made Reindeer HOOF PRINTS in the snow! Outside of the house! They'd also have written in that canned snow, SANTA WAS HERE! And inside, the🎄Christmas🎄tree🎄was LOADED with presents! 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁 For a little boy who was between 5 and 8 years old, this was amazingly cool! Christmas was truly a special time for my family! I can't even begin to explain how much I loved it, appreciated it, was so thankful for it, and just how much it truly meant to me! Thank you for sharing these videos with us. I really do appreciate it very much.
Absolutely loved colorforms & the thingmaker that made flowers!!!
the first toy shone..the Ideal Countdown Missile Base... would I sound crazy if I said that in some ways the toys of that time foster more interest in science than the toys of today?
are today's toys higher-tech? absolutely. but do they make science and education interesting?
the kids know how to navigate online. but do they know how to program? do they know anything besides game software? how are they at mathematics & reading?
or do I sound like a killjoy?
wrybreadspread they suck. Hell back then, in the mid 60's I got books and liked it for Christmas! Now the little bastards would, as my mom would say, pitch a fit!
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The How And Why Book Of Dinosaurs. It was one of my favorite books of a lifetime. Heaven knows where my copy went. Our knowledge of prehistory has increased exponentially. But I still remember the book fondly.
What about the Mattel Thingmaker that you made Creepy Crawlers with? It had those metal molds you would pour liquid plastic goop into and heat them up on the electric hot plate burner that got as hot as a real kitchen stove burner. You'd cook them until they boiled, pull them off the heat, let them cool, pull the finished product out of the mold and bingo: you had solid rubbery like creepy bugs. Great toy to give to your six year old unsupervised kid. After my dad died my single mom gave me one for Christmas not knowing or really caring about what it was (poor mom was kind of out of it after dad died). I spilled more hot goop onto the shag rug in my bedroom and burned the crap out of myself so many times I lost count. It was a miracle I didn't burn the house down. Those 60's toys were freakin' awesome!
I do remember the Mattel Creepy Crawlers, would have loved to have seen an Easy Bake Oven commercial. I wonder how many caused fires when they were left on all night or had a larger wattage bulb installed than the recommended size?
Yeah and they were edible also.
Fred you are absolutely the best! Keep bringing all these great childhood memories to life. LOVE your posts!
I guess I was more spoiled than I remembered. Of these, I had the stupid Fang Bang game; the Rock'em Sock'em Robots, which were so cool that they made reproductions of them a couple years ago; the Johnny Eagle Red River .30-.30, which actually shot plastic bullets from spring-loaded cartridges. Somehow I managed not to put my brother's eye out. Also the Secret Sam Sixth Finger gun, which was just weird; the Shrunken Head maker; Frisbees, of course; G.I. Joe with the fuzzy hair, beard, and Kung-Fu grip! My favorites though, were Incredible Edibles which cooked nasty-tasting gummi bugs and snakes, and something I think was called The Time Machine. This took little plastic squares and when you put them in a heating chamber, they would unfold into dinosaurs. Of course, these were both really just hot-plates that unsupervised children could play with on the carpet. I remember getting a few good burns, but hey, that's how we learned, right? At least the house never burned down.
Fred...your vid's always brighten my day.....thanks so much for the hard work you put in to bring these to us......(((((())))))'s
I appreciate that, Liz.
'I hated Barbie (or her cheap knockoffs) I just wanted my brother's chemistry set!
I had a extensive chemistry set in the 70s, The local toy store sold chemicals as well as badass models. I actually bought sulfuric and muriatic acid at the age of 12yrs with my dads note of approval, smokes as well. Good God we used up all the fun!
I grew up an hour away from Kenner HQ, but I do not remember the Bubbl-Trumpet or Bubbl-Matic. :?
An advert where a child dreams of killing elephants, you would not see that today and rightly so. These are great. Thanks for sharing this.
You're trying to Gnip him, while he's trying to Gnop you! We had it! I also had the Evel Kneivel stunt cycle!
I still have the Evil Kneivel trail bike stunt cycle with action figure . I also have G.I. Joe with Kung fu action, six million dollar man and Stretch Armstrong in a box in the attic 😀
"By MARX!"
thank you for this video, it brought back memories
Have any commercials for NyLint Toys, Tonka, or Ertl?
Not on me, Glenn. I've never heard of NyLint Toys.
I still have my Nylint U-Haul Trailer. It is now known as the Frog Trailer, because many many San Diego frogs 45 years or so ago were incarcerated overnight inside it.
Now it is only occupied by a little plush frog.
And Corgi toy cars
I LOVED the test pattern at the end. I really did lol! Nice thinking FredFlix. ;-)
Thanks, Bill.
Wishnic now called Trolls.
We always called them trolls. I remember that commercial, but didn't remember that they were called Wishnic.
That slinky toy jingle sure is catchy
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I remember it well
I like the Atomic Cannon toy.It was based on a actual "tactical nuke" that the US Army had (until a treaty in the early 70's I think outlawed the continued development and use of such things by the world's nuclear powers).
The Army abandoned the "atomic cannon" because it was obsolete. Short range ballistic missiles and tactical nuclear weapons delivered by fighters saw to that.
Barbie's Dream house has come a long was. Started as a ranch and by the 80's and 90's had like 20 floors. My sisters loved that thing
That bitch has ''everything''
Wow I used to have that Evil Knevil winder.
That Astro Gun looked huge and awkward. Lol!
It was! We had one. Cool though.
10:12 "a bunch of snakes and a kooky mask! just what more could anyone ask?"
me: um a million dollars would be nice...
A million dollars in nothing these days . Better ask for 10 million
Oh, Johnny Eagle! I had the Army set. I also had the Lone Ranger Dual Fanning Forty Five holster and gun set. Enough to curdle a Karen's blood today.
Added in Edit: I had several of these and was a Frisbee fanatic; was actually part of a league even in the Army. But the "too dangerous for today" toys were my favorites. My chemistry set started more than one exoteric fire. And the hot surfaces of my Creepy Crawlers, wood burning kit and Monster Chamber were epic and you did learn safety; a mistake was only made once.
😊 fond memories of playing with my Rockem Sockem Robots and Slinky when I was 4 years old (Turn 53 next month). I too think that missle base is awesome 👍😁🇺🇸.
Where’s the Ideal mushroom cloud to go with the atomic cannon?!
What our toys taught is:
Boys got to do things, make things, discover things, destroy things, protect the world, do the "be all you could be" things.
Girls got to play house, take care of babies, cook, bake, sew, have dinner ready at 6:00, and look pretty and perky while dressed in a gingham dress and wearing high heels and a pearl necklace.
That little boy in the Cocoa Marsh commercial was Joey Trent, a child that was one of Patty Duke's managers John and Ethel Ross' children who was practically an orphan. He lived with The Rosses and Patty a lot. He and Patty made commercials together and stayed with them off and on until hecwas a teenager, like Patty, who was really Anna. Ethel wanted to change her name from Anna to Patty after child actress Patty McCormack.
That's the voice of William Conrad in the Mattel "Vrrroom" dump truck ad. And in the Hot Wheels Tune Up Tower ad as well. I live in Providence, Rhode Island, and we actually have a Mr. Kelly's Car Wash. It's located on Charles Street, near the Marriott. (Our Mr. Kelly's wasn't built by Remco, however.)
One thing they had in common, if it needed batteries more often or not the toy was dead or had a corroded battery case. Alkaline batteries were expensive as hell and reserved for photo electronic flash or items that HAD to have a high reliability of powering up. Those carbon batteries, while cheap, would leave you burning through a case in a week for your toys especially ones with motors and light bulbs. Now we have digital rare earth motors and LEDs that achieve more with a fraction of power draw but no market for toys that have those cool missile launch pads and atomic cannons!
What do you do for a living? ... I make clown heads for Jack-In-The-Boxes...
So glad I'm not one of those poor workers at the Mattel factory who has to test all those Jack-In-The-Boxes! I'd be so sick if the song "Pop Goes The Weasel" that I'd probably go out and get a huge mallet and smash every one of those Jack-In-The-Boxes to smithereens!
My Slinky never " Walked a stair without a care ".
Those toys bring back wonderful memories. The prices were so low, but seemed like a lot of money back then.
My favorite new channel!
That's great. Thanks, Jeffe.
I appreciate it, James.
12:27 + Hot wheels...I recognize that announcers voice, It's William Conrad who was the voice of the Lone Ranger for a little while ( not the original ) on the radio. He was better known as Cannon on television the big fat man detective. Very distinctive voice. He did a lot of voice work.
And the Hyperfast Rocky and Bullwinkle Announcer
I had the first one....got it for being in a wedding. it was when america was fascinated with apollo.
I wanted "Tracer Racers" so bad when I was a kid but mom & dad said no for reasons I don't remember. Too expensive probably.
People didn't know back in the '50s that one day Kaiser Aluminum would branch out and get into owning TV stations (like Channel 56 in Boston, once known as WKGB-TV for Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting), and eventually buying into a health insurance company (Kaiser Permanente), and then basically creating the concept of the HMO.
I just can see all of the "Political Correctness " in most of these commercials. I'm glad that I grew up in that time and I can wipe my own ass without anyone telling me how to do it. Thank you.
That's outstanding!I don't think this last couple generations coming up can.I have my doubts....
Never again you see Guns in Toy Store not even on Tv...
Man, you've uploaded a ton of great stuff! Thanks for the curating! I especially like the ones like this, where you let entire clips play out.
Thanks!
Three things were a kid's best friend:
days off from school, candy-candy-
and more candy, - and toys !
My sister's favorites were the Easy Bake Oven and Barbie - galore. Mine were Hot Wheels and GI Joe.
Who wants a toy called Cooties.
That first toy is awesome. I want that so bad.
Who else checked Ebay for these toys?
Don't forget to check Etsy as well, since vintage is acceptable over there, which they define as 20 years or older.
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Found a couple mighty casey ride on engines on e-bay and a couple cars but not enough track to do much with and they want alot for them.Just wanted to see if there are still any of these things around.Toys in the 70's were awesome and the 80's still pretty good and then....nope.You don't even see toy commercials anymore.I,m 50 and this millenial electronic society really sucks.I do like my you Tube though.
I ve bought so many 60's -70 s TOYS off eBay ..My home looks like a Toys R- Us store
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Chris Knight was practically working by himself to support his family. I don't know what was going on with his father. He played small roles on The Brady Bunch. A camera man in a couple episodes. I read this in an article on here. They were practically starving at one time.
One year I asked for a hot wheels race set. It had a yellow track that snapped together. Made a loop and had a finish line flag at the end. When I misbehaved my mom would whoop my ass with that track. I Never asked for another race track again.
That happened to many a kid.
" Mom.....have you seen my Giant Atlas Missile? "
I use to have Rudy the Robot when I was a kid . His eyes light up red and he had lightning on the side of his face and arms . That thing could turn itself on and walk anywhere . It scared the shit out of me . I think it was demon possessed 😕
Is it me, or does the guy singing in the Johnny Express commercial sound like Ted Cassidy ("Lurch" from the sitcom version of "The Addams Family")?
There was also the Mattel M-16 Marauder. A full scale replica of the real thing. It was said Mattel made the actual stocks for the real weapon soooooo. They had used it as a example of how “such toys invited violence.” That was back in ‘66?
When toys helped prepare boys and girls to become men and women.
Do kids even play with toys anymore? Maybe simulated on their I-phones.
I've seen our neighbor boys and their neighborhood friends playing traditionally outside here in the Summer. Even seen them with Nerf guns; and have to resist the urge to ambush them with our Nerf Vulcan minigun.
All around good kids and good family. Got lucky on the neighbor lotto a couple years ago. :)
Those VRRROOOM Toy Construction toys wouldn't last very long after a while in a sandbox. Just get some sand in the works and the toys are toast.
My folks always bought Tonka or buddy L for that reason
"His block is knocked off?" I forgot that.
This really freaks me out. Two favorites missing: The Great Garloo (hand control green monster robot like a Godzilla), Waltzing Matilda (motorized aircraft carrier).
So... how does Pannoni make ends meet? I just understand. All of these are built towards making money despite copy. Should we be worried?
Great fun old stuff, can't decide on a favorite though...
1:23 where, the enemy your robot pal is fighting appears to be the US Military, or
28:09 a doll commercial aimed at girls set to the tune of "Little Brown Jug"? lol
Toys were great then and no need for mind numbing electronic devices.
What sort of kid would want a yo-yo in the shape of a golf, bowling or billiard ball?
Thanks for the memories, FredFlix. 🎠
What sort of kid these days would play with a yo yo anyway?
The little girl in the Maverick commercial 8:00 was on the Twilight Zone - she played "Markie" in the episode "Nightmare as a Child."
How did those astro guns play those sounds? Was there a little record inside it? I had a ray gun with a buzzer and light bulb that made a weird noise, but living in New Zealand, meant our toys were fairly limited to certain imported lines. Some cool stuff still got imported, though. The "Space age" was a great time to be a kid. 😎
I used to have a Gnip Gnop (or the words Ping Pong backwards! Lol), had hours of fun with it.
Also had several Lite Brite sets as well.
Beginning at the 25:50 mark, was one that the recent BeyBlade, top style toys and it's battle arena, of the last 15 yrs was based on.
that playtester job right near the end there must have been a nightmare, and in nightmares..
wheres the atomic energy kit with real life radioactive samples? ps awesome show as always!
Yeah, I remember most of these toys, when I was about two my Mother gave me a Jack in the Box, when I played it, it popped up and I cried, I did that for 10 minutes until I thought this is fun. I was more careful with my own Children.
In the Marx Action Play Sets ad, the kid in the orange shirt is Christopher Knight, aka Peter Brady.
I like this video. I can remember the kenic kinok commercial and the Lite Brite commercial.
Missed this one, I only remember a few of those toys. But we never shot our eyes out, or killed anyone with em either.