That Ghost Gun on the thumbnail is an EPIC memory for my brother and me. We're 54 and 55 now and still talk about that toy. We used to share a big bed when we were real young and that toy kept us excited for hours as we aimed it at our ceiling and blasted ghosts. AAA memories on that one! Thanks for posting!!!
I didn't wait until dark and played in the closet. I needed to take down most of the clothes that were hung up and of course, they were left on the floor until Mom yelled at me. Since there was no ventilation, I came out really sweaty after an hour.
Toys in the 70's were great, but nothing was more fun than a refridgerator box and a hill. The greatest thing about being a kid back then was we didn't have much, so we improvised and utilized our imagination.
we went off a cliff in the refrigerator box we had it painted as a shuttlcraft with all the controls....my buddy broke his collarbone and that ended that
I got one for Christmas when it came out in 72, I think it was. Was ten years old. After playing with for a couple months it got boring. So, my friend and I attached a firecracker to it, lit it on fire, flew full speed, smoking, then, it blew up. Fun memories. We were hiding behind cardboard. No injuries. Dad just shook his head... He had strong neck muscles...
@@jamesp13152 Placing firecrackers on toys were a rite of passage back then. My GI Joes all received Purple Hearts for their bravery to due their injuries. Unfortunately, the one with an M80 attached received his posthumously :0
My son was a child of the 70's and 80's. I think this is the first time that you have made a video in his time period that he did not have any of the toys. I think I had already figured out that a lot of them were not safe. Thanks, Rhett, I enjoyed the video very much.
You're welcome Leslie and thank you for watching. A lot of these were early to mid 70s so that might be a little of the reason why he might not have had them.
There really were a lot of fun games to play. We used to have a game night with other neighbors and friends. I sure miss those. I haven't seen anything like that in years. Thank you for watching!
I remember commercials for some of these toys , I was a " Tonka " and " Hot Wheels " kid !! Back in the 70s " Santa" wasn't the only one with a list !! Some of the toys back then were pretty cool !! 👍👍
I'm 59 and I remember seeing all of these toy commercials but I only had just a few of them i had the Evel Knievel and Six Million Dollar Man action figures but not any of the others but I remember them all thanks for the memories.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
No Six Million Dollar Man here but I had the GI Joe knockoff Adventure Mike. Way cool transparent limbs and you could move his hands to "fly" a little included helicopter blade.
I played with my light bright under the family room table for hours and skip it was my favorite toy outside with my bike. I am 54 so yes a true 70s kid!! Oh, for the good old days!
A lot of memories here growing up. I had the VertiBird, Lemon Twist, Pong, and a Wood Burning Kit. Of the other toys you showed, I also had Evil Kneviel, Lite Brite, Jarts, and Legos.
My brother had a wood burning set, and he also had this thing called The Thingmaker. The Thingmaker was just a miniature hot plate that came with a bunch of plastic cubes that looked a little bit like Starburst candy. When you put the little cubes onto the hot plate, they would grow into miniature dinosaurs and monsters that you could then play with like action figures.
Reminds me of Incredible Edibles (a phrase which has taken on new meaning in the modern era). It was a toy where you squeezed candy flavored goop out of a tube into metal molds and cooked them into gummies.
Those thingmakers were fun and they definitely had a distinctive smell when you melted everything. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Tim!
If it’s the toy I’m thinking of, it wasn’t a Thing-maker. It was called “The Strange Change Time Machine”. I remember it because I HAD one of them. The Thing Maker had molds that you would heat up and then pour liquid plastic into it. The Strange Change had plastic square “wafers” that when heated, would form into dinosaurs. BUT, then, you could put them back in the machine, heat them up, then SMASH them in a press back into the “wafer” form. Pretty cool !
Got ours down in the basement, actually. Blows my mind that my sister and I used to play with these all the time. We were somewhere around 10-12 years old at the time. Both of us survived, weirdly enough. When we threw the huge metal tipped darts, it never occurred to us to be anywhere around where they were going to land. Ever. Mostly because, and hang with me here.... we figured it would probably be a bad idea to try to catch one. At 12. Now we have adults who can't do the math on stuff like this and it pains me greatly.
@@AsmodeusMictian My yard is too small so I could never use them even if I still had them. And if I brought them to a park to use, I’d probably be arrested😂
@@RedCornSyrup I've been tempted but haven't taken them to a park or anything. Mostly because I legit don't trust *other* people to be smart enough to not have their head glued to a phone and walk right in between where I was and where I was throwing to. I feel so old, not because I'm all that old....but because all the sh!t my dad used to say about my generation? Yeeeeah....I feel like I'm channeling him at this point :D Cheers, and stay safe out there!!
Those old metal ones were awesome to have. I had a lot of fun with a dump truck, farm truck with trailer and a jeep. Thank you for watching and sharing what you enjoyed!
I love how these videos always seem to jog some long-lost memory for me. I had completely forgotten that as a kid I had owned a Quiz Whiz. Keep up the good work!
My Mom was selling my Big Wheel in a yard sale, but I wanted to ride it one more time, cause I loved it, she said I was too big for it, I didn't care and figured she was wrong. I went down the sidewalk, turned around, started off, and the handle broke off the wheel, so I shed a tear, Mom said "told you so, and now instead of being sold it goes in the trash!"😢
Poor Farrah, she died in the morning on the same day as Michael Jackson, her death was quickly overshadowed later in the day when his death was announced.
Farrah passed from rectal cancer. I've been lucky enough to be in full remission from stage 3 rectal for 4 years now, thanks to massive radiation & chemo.
Thank you for watching Monika! I think that is awesome that you still have your Barbie. Were there any toys there that were popular and were not here in the U.S.
Man!, I SO wanted a “Merlin”! I remember all of my friends (well, so I thought, anyway) playing with theirs whenever we had “indoor” recess on rainy (or snowy) days. Do they even HAVE recess nowadays? And that wood burning thing was a tremendously dangerous thing. Even back when, I was scared to use it. 😐 Another fun post, folks. Thanks! 👍
Remember the toy car makers that melted wax and poured it into a mold with some wheels to make a little hot wheels car? I think me and every one of my friends got scaled by that think and my sister got it from the Easy Bake Oven. It culled the week from our numbers.
I had a Merlin and loved it. I mastered all 6 games. The last one, Mindbender (I think) was like Mastermind. I remember that thing took like 6 AA batteries so I would have to beg mom to spend money on more whenever it ran out.
I remember getting a set for Christmas 1972. My eldest brother, home from his second (and last) tour of Vietnam, decided to show me how to make a chemical; I'm not sure what it was, but the smell drove us out of the house for a few minutes while it cleared out :) Such good memories. Some of the older chem sets (prior to 1960, by Gilbert) actually had Uranium for experiments...good, clean, WHOLESOME fun :)
Previous decade, however... I had a woodburner set in the '60's. Not once did I think of using it on anything but wood strips. After all, my dolls did need fancy details on their bedframes or whatever. I also learned to solder as a child. Not a toy, but it needed to be used to connect model train wires at times. My Dad taught me and I took it from there. 😊 In the '70's, I was more into swimming laps and staying in the backyard for hours, just so I didn't have to be in the house. The age where parents were nothing but a hassle and I wanted nothing to do with what they thought I should be doing. 😂 I had a step-mom , due to a tragedy in '71. Although she was a teacher and you'd think she'd know better, toys were basically not a thing and at 14 (1974) she thought I still wanted Barbies. Can you feel the major eye roll? I still chuckle and shake my head.
Jaysus!, cut it down. You could say in 1 or 2 sentences what it takes you more than a paragraph. Such rambling easily negates your point due to readers straying. People get bored & just give up. I do appreciate your memories, it’s just tiring to follow you. Jus’ sayin’. 😐
Betty I don't think you were rambling. I enjoy reading about others experiences & I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm impressed you learned how to solder so young! Have a good day! 😃
I used to really enjoy soldering different things as a kid. Thank you for watching and sharing some of the things you loved to do as well as what you had Betty!
Yes! The wires inside would always break after a while and the white paint would start peeling off, so we all finished the peel and had an un posable Matt in a black space suit. I see them listed on eBay and sellers always note the wires inside are intact, so you can pose the figure.
Oh yeah! I had some ! I loved the space helmets with the yellow visor! I have mint Matt Mason coloring book . I believe they only made them for a few years.
I had the VeriBird but it was attached to a styrofoam boat/ship😃I miss growing up in the 1970's😫Things were a lot better back then😁Great video👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
I remember all of those. 🤣 One torture device toy was Clackers. It might have came out late 60’s but was still around in the 70’s. Two hard plastic golf ball sized balls connected to a 12 inch string. The idea was to grab the center of the string and then try to make an and down movement. The two plastic balls hit each other on the upswing and the downswing. Usually you would hear clack clack and then an ouch as it hit you in the wrist, everybody in my family had black and blue wrists from those plastic clackers. Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺
Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸 My friends and I loved playing with them at school. Ours were made out of a different material though. We had big old ones that were like marbles, so I’m guessing that’s like a glass material. Oh yeah they hurt my friends a lot but I was to good at it. 😂😁
I still have my old clackers! I have had to replace the string a lot but those old acrylic balls are still going. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Paul!
My uncle had an Intellivision from Mattel. It was a video game console that debuted in ‘79. It was sort of a rival to Atari’s 2600. He cleaned it up as best as he could and passed it on to me in ‘82 on my fifth birthday. He was a poor college student but he wanted me to have a gift besides clothes that day, which is what my parents usually gave me.
I never had the intellivision but I did have a friend that had it. We had a lot of fun on that game system. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us stanford!
The lemon twist made an effective flail. My earliest recollections are being wrapped in a blanket then my older brother and his friends whipping me mercilessly with lemon twists. Happy childhood memories.
My older brothers had the Jarts, Big Jim dolls, and the Wood Burning kit. I had the Light Brite and the Star Wars board game. But, I have the remake of the Star Wars board game with Grand Moff Tarkin figure.
Melody Mike just slammed with with long forgotten memories and nostalgia. I serious haven't thought on those in 40 years but my cousins had one. I remember my aunt never wanted us to play with it and, as an adult, I now understand why. My dad had a Merlin and I used to play with it all the time.
We had Ker-Bangers...when we were kids the suburban moms all had a Farrah Fawcett hairstyle and wore Jordache designer jeans and drove Mercury Cougars.
Oh WOW! I totally forgot about dip a flower. I had hours of creative fun and made as many bouquets as possible. Yes, the chemical smell was strong, so my mom made me create in the garage with the door open for excellent ventilation.😊
I still remember Sears's Wish Book catalog in the 70s, which had most of the latest toys. Kids would circle the ones they wanted for Christmas. Those were good times to be a kid.
My favourite toy in the 70’s was my Bozo the clown 🤡 doll, when you pulled the ripcord in his back he said different things. It was probably invented before then but I received it in the 70’s. My first pair of skates in 73 were a metal plate with Velcro straps on top, boy was I the ants pants when I moved on up to my Hang Ten roller skates. 😁 Thank you Rhett.❤Jodie 🇦🇺. Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸
@@paulstan9828 I miss it so much that I tried to purchase the rare one from over there. I did managed to find a few and was willing to pay the high price but unfortunately the shipping price was crazy. Making it far to expensive. 😢
You're welcome and thank you for watching Jodie. Sounds like you had some great items. Those skates were somewhat dangerous and as I look back on the ones I had I can't believe I didn't break an ankle. It seemed like I was always slipping out of them or rolling an ankle. Somehow I bounced back up and had nothing at all hurt.
We had none of these but my older brother had a Mego Superman & a little figurine of Fat Albert that he now keeps on his dresser. I had Jacks & dolls. 😁
Large-sized G I Joes, the ones that were about a foot tall and had clothing and accessories. Basically dolls for boys, but we thought they were the coolest thing ever. My kids loved the smaller versions in the 90's, but I still think the big ones were best.
So nice to se the Ghost Gun in the thumbnail - every once in a I still find a strip with the punches in them down in the basement. Still have a lemon, and the fillm strips to the Fisher Price TV, and the vertabird and rhe air tube planes.
I'm late watching, but just got back from a battle reenactment and encampment set up at one of the castles (Jacobite vs Red Coats) You would have loved it!!!!! 💙🏴
"Just be quiet in your room while daddy smokes his cigarettes."😆😅😂🤣 That's 100% accurate back then even in the 80's. Excellent Content as always! Thank You!👍🏻🇺🇲
That's right. We did. We young dudes' rite of passage was progressing from B-B gun to .22 rifle. Now such a thing would be as horrifying to our delicatized young ones of present. But, at least they're learning of the gay disciplines and not having to hide it, and so are less inclined to warfaring and more toward loving, and that can't be all bad. Maybe we're evolving toward ZARDOZ world?
0:08 I had that Evel Knievel wind up stunt cycle. I got it for Christmas in 1976 as well as the Six Million Dollar Man Steve Austin action figure, which I got the following year.
I have/had several of these. I got the Merlin for Christmas 1978. I'd never had an electronic game prior to that and had lots of fun with it. I picked up another some years back at a local thrift and yep, still works. Pretty sure I had the Pisher-Price music box back in the late 1960s, or at least something similar. I have the Coleco quiz device that I found at the thrift store but it needs work. I have several Pong clones, three of which work (the two Coleco Telstar games and the Radio Shack Electronic TV Scoreboard); another, the Sears Tele-Games Super Pong needs work, as well as another. The first Atari home Pong came out in 1975, based on their arcade Pong, based on the Magnavox Odyssey game Tennis, in 1972. Atari's home Pong began literally dozens of Pong clones over the next two years.
“If you missed, it was a lot like Kathy Bates was your #1 fan.” 🍋🪨💥😵 You’re a riot, Rhett! 😂 Appreciate the good humor and trip down memory lane. Had a bunch of this stuff when I was a kid, and you showed a few things I’d never heard of. Quick list rundown: Lite Brite, Evel Knievel, water ring toss (✊❗️), lots and lots and lots of Legos, wood burning kit, Merlin, Star Wars Play Doh set (came with a little X-Wing that was _perfect_ for Jawas), among many, many others. Look forward to sharing more nostalgia with you in the future. Thank you!
@@GailKarp-d5p exactly. The narrator said the parents didn’t care. Not true - they cared - they just knew their kids were tough enough to handle those toys! You had to be a tough kid to survive the 70’s.
Thanks for sharing Rhetty. I used to play with the wood burning kit, chemistry kit that contained mercury etc. that probably wasn't safe. Secret Sam kit.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you used to play with. I remember being in school and the teachers giving us mercury to play with on our desks just to keep us busy.
I had the Ghost Gun when I was a child and it was awesome except for the fact that you couldn't get the replacement ghost films so once you used up whatever came with it , it was done . The grip was on a swivel that moved independently from the front part of the GG and basically you'd move it around until you could see the puncturing pin on the ghost , that was your sight dot , then you had to try to hit the trigger without flinching too much . I spent a few years trying to make my own ghost film with scotch tape and a fine pen , but it never worked .
I bought the reproduction of the "Escape From The Death Star" game a couple of years back. It is a retro style exact copy of the original game that Kenner made in 1978 and it's still fun to play
I can't believe they mentioned the VertiBird! I had one. I also had the Escape from the Death Star game. We got a lot of use out that game. I also had a game called "Tank Battle" as well as one called "The Bermuda Triangle". When I was really young, I had a game called "Ant in the Pants" game.
@@RhettyforHistoryblue. Some of them had a red ball on them! I remember this commercial back then about Wham-O toys that had this one man show where he was performing three of their toys at the same time! A Hula Hoop, whatever they called the Footsie and this spinning plate thing above his head at the same time!
I remember we got a JC Penney knockoff pong console around the same time my friend down the street got the Atari 2600 system (1977). We didn’t upgrade to that until 1981.
Air Jammer, Cox planes, Meccano, Smash Up Derby, Prop Shots. The "Tin Casting Set" where you'd mould and paint your own tin soldiers (probably about 1/35 scale Napoleonic wars etc).
I never had any of those, I did have the Jaws Shark, but the one I remember most was a 1970, Ford dump truck, with a working dump bed, and a silo that could be filled with sand and funneled into the truck. All metal except the silo.
That Ghost Gun on the thumbnail is an EPIC memory for my brother and me. We're 54 and 55 now and still talk about that toy. We used to share a big bed when we were real young and that toy kept us excited for hours as we aimed it at our ceiling and blasted ghosts. AAA memories on that one! Thanks for posting!!!
I didn't wait until dark and played in the closet. I needed to take down most of the clothes that were hung up and of course, they were left on the floor until Mom yelled at me. Since there was no ventilation, I came out really sweaty after an hour.
Had a ghost gun . Killed many ghosts . Good times .
You're welcome Scott. Thank you for watching and sharing some of the memories that you and your brother made.
I loved my ghost gun,best Christmas gift ever!
I had the GHOST GUN....
also had a GREEN MACHINE
Toys in the 70's were great, but nothing was more fun than a refridgerator box and a hill. The greatest thing about being a kid back then was we didn't have much, so we improvised and utilized our imagination.
we went off a cliff in the refrigerator box we had it painted as a shuttlcraft with all the controls....my buddy broke his collarbone and that ended that
I found a rusty 55 gallon drum and put it at the top of a hill with me in it.
Violent, terrifyung, sickening fun.
Modern day kids wouldn't be able to figure out how a toy of the 70s worked.
Christmas 1971 I got " Rockem Sockem Robots ". I still have them.
VertiBird, I loved that toy! We used to fly it into our faces. The memories of the 70s!
Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories TM_Stone!
I got one for Christmas when it came out in 72, I think it was. Was ten years old. After playing with for a couple months it got boring. So, my friend and I attached a firecracker to it, lit it on fire, flew full speed, smoking, then, it blew up. Fun memories. We were hiding behind cardboard. No injuries. Dad just shook his head... He had strong neck muscles...
@@jamesp13152 Placing firecrackers on toys were a rite of passage back then. My GI Joes all received Purple Hearts for their bravery to due their injuries. Unfortunately, the one with an M80 attached received his posthumously :0
Oh, definitely...I got that for Christmas one year...I believe my elder brothers spent the next couple hours playing with it :)
I had a star trek verti bird.
I loved the rock em sock em robots, I still have and play with em today
Epic toy
Those are definitely a lot of fun! Thank you for watching Bill!
Me and my brother throw down every Thanksgiving
These toys were mostly before my time, but I'm still a huge toy fan at 47! Thanks, Rhetty! 😊
You're welcome and thank you for watching Ninjaclan!
I'm 47, Canadian, and I remember most of these.
Thanks again for the great old memories. I forgot about Melody Mike. @@RhettyforHistory
I had Atari and I also had a lite bright toy as well I really miss toys of the 1970,s If only I could go back to the 1970,s.
I completely understand James! Thank you for watching!
Atari cartridges cost $20-$30 back then. Crazy.
My son was a child of the 70's and 80's. I think this is the first time that you have made a video in his time period that he did not have any of the toys. I think I had already figured out that a lot of them were not safe. Thanks, Rhett, I enjoyed the video very much.
You're welcome Leslie and thank you for watching. A lot of these were early to mid 70s so that might be a little of the reason why he might not have had them.
VertiBird! Thanks for this memory. There was also a Star Trek Enterprise type of game like this.
There really were a lot of fun games to play. We used to have a game night with other neighbors and friends. I sure miss those. I haven't seen anything like that in years. Thank you for watching!
I remember commercials for some of these toys , I was a " Tonka " and " Hot Wheels " kid !! Back in the 70s " Santa" wasn't the only one with a list !! Some of the toys back then were pretty cool !! 👍👍
Tonka and Hot Wheels were always a hit with me. I had a lot of fun with those. Thank you for watching Awaywrdson!
I was looking for Weebles in this video! Weebles wobble but they don't fall down!
Between my sister and I, we had virtually all of these toys at one time or another. Lots of good memories here. Thanks Rhetty
You're welcome and thank you for watching Brian! Sounds like you and your sister had a pretty good childhood!
@@RhettyforHistory we did. Mom took care of us. Miss you Mom!
I'm 59 and I remember seeing all of these toy commercials
but I only had just a few of them i had the Evel Knievel and
Six Million Dollar Man action figures but not any of the others
but I remember them all thanks for the memories.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
No Six Million Dollar Man here but I had the GI Joe knockoff Adventure Mike. Way cool transparent limbs and you could move his hands to "fly" a little included helicopter blade.
@@alphawoolf5981atomic Mike, I had him too. He was legit though he was made by the same company as GI Joe. Damn to go back
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had rogertemple7193!
I played with my light bright under the family room table for hours and skip it was my favorite toy outside with my bike. I am 54 so yes a true 70s kid!! Oh, for the good old days!
Thank you for watching and sharing what you enjoyed playing with tharvy40!
A lot of memories here growing up. I had the VertiBird, Lemon Twist, Pong, and a Wood Burning Kit. Of the other toys you showed, I also had Evil Kneviel, Lite Brite, Jarts, and Legos.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had. You had some cool items!
My brother had a wood burning set, and he also had this thing called The Thingmaker. The Thingmaker was just a miniature hot plate that came with a bunch of plastic cubes that looked a little bit like Starburst candy. When you put the little cubes onto the hot plate, they would grow into miniature dinosaurs and monsters that you could then play with like action figures.
my friends would melt lead fishing weights and pour that into those molds. lol
Reminds me of Incredible Edibles (a phrase which has taken on new meaning in the modern era). It was a toy where you squeezed candy flavored goop out of a tube into metal molds and cooked them into gummies.
Those thingmakers were fun and they definitely had a distinctive smell when you melted everything. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Tim!
If it’s the toy I’m thinking of, it wasn’t a Thing-maker. It was called “The Strange Change Time Machine”. I remember it because I HAD one of them. The Thing Maker had molds that you would heat up and then pour liquid plastic into it.
The Strange Change had plastic square “wafers” that when heated, would form into dinosaurs.
BUT, then, you could put them back in the machine, heat them up, then SMASH them in a press back into the “wafer” form.
Pretty cool !
Wish I still had my family’s Jarts from my childhood…not to play with, but to show my kids.
I wish we had kept ours as well. They really were fun! Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistoryI never played Jarts, but did the next best thing by ordering a T-shirt with the logo on it! Haha!
Got ours down in the basement, actually. Blows my mind that my sister and I used to play with these all the time. We were somewhere around 10-12 years old at the time.
Both of us survived, weirdly enough. When we threw the huge metal tipped darts, it never occurred to us to be anywhere around where they were going to land. Ever. Mostly because, and hang with me here....
we figured it would probably be a bad idea to try to catch one. At 12. Now we have adults who can't do the math on stuff like this and it pains me greatly.
@@AsmodeusMictian My yard is too small so I could never use them even if I still had them. And if I brought them to a park to use, I’d probably be arrested😂
@@RedCornSyrup I've been tempted but haven't taken them to a park or anything. Mostly because I legit don't trust *other* people to be smart enough to not have their head glued to a phone and walk right in between where I was and where I was throwing to.
I feel so old, not because I'm all that old....but because all the sh!t my dad used to say about my generation? Yeeeeah....I feel like I'm channeling him at this point :D
Cheers, and stay safe out there!!
So much fun to be reminded of some of the toys I used to play with in the 70's, but had forgotten.
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Thank you for watching lindyc.2552!
Lawn darts was my favorite. We knew better than to be near when they were tossed.
They have to account these days for lawsuit-happy idiots.
Those were a lot of fun! Thank you for watching Jd-zk8zl!
Wasted a bunch of money on Pong at the Pizza parlor. And spent a lot of time burning wood. Another fun post Rhetty , have a great day.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us David. Both of those were a lot of fun back then!
@@RhettyforHistory I always try and catch your videos my friend. 🇺🇲🗽
@@RhettyforHistory Indeed they were 😎
Oh my. So many missing.
Lite Brite, Spira Graph, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Operation, Ka Nockers, Air Blaster......
I do have those in other videos. Thank you for watching eezyclsmooth9035!
Growing on a farm it was Tonka construction equipment and tractors and implements.
Those old metal ones were awesome to have. I had a lot of fun with a dump truck, farm truck with trailer and a jeep. Thank you for watching and sharing what you enjoyed!
On my front porch I have shelves of this stuff , some since they were new , you didn't pinch your fingers too many times when you learned not to.
@Ticky66MN I have some mini tonka's in the box and the Tonka vw! I loved those.
I love how these videos always seem to jog some long-lost memory for me. I had completely forgotten that as a kid I had owned a Quiz Whiz. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for watching and sharing that you had the Quiz Whiz SpencerDidWhat!
I had Merlin and the Music Box. Great memories!
Thank you for watching and sharing what you have James!
This was my era, and i do miss it. Great content and presentation. 🇦🇺 😊
70’s Nostalgia Vibe
Thank you for watching wrestlingwithjay3770!
Great one, I rememer having most of those... back when toys were interesting Currently 46.
Thank you for watching brokens1097!
I know safety was last back then, but we’re still alive and had a better childhood than any future generation will have.
My Big Wheel and Magic Treehouse!❤❤❤ I still have both!
Oh wow! That's awesome that you still have both of them aariley2! Thank you for watching!
I never part with great things!
My Mom was selling my Big Wheel in a yard sale, but I wanted to ride it one more time, cause I loved it, she said I was too big for it, I didn't care and figured she was wrong.
I went down the sidewalk, turned around, started off, and the handle broke off the wheel, so I shed a tear, Mom said "told you so, and now instead of being sold it goes in the trash!"😢
Simon was a great memory game. There was a similar game that came out in the 90's called 'Bop It'.
Simon has surprisingly hung around in the market. I had a lot of fun with that one. Thank you for watching!
I still remember the ads for Simon. They seemed so cool. I was very bad at it, but I was also very young.
We still have my brother's Fisher Price music box pocket radio! It played Yankee Doodle, and IT STILL WORKS!!!!!!
Oh that's awesome you still have it and it works! Thank you for watching ThornMage!
Poor Farrah, she died in the morning on the same day as Michael Jackson, her death was quickly overshadowed later in the day when his death was announced.
Farrah passed from rectal cancer. I've been lucky enough to be in full remission from stage 3 rectal for 4 years now, thanks to massive radiation & chemo.
You're right about that. She would have been big news if it wasn't for that. Thank you for watching lohphat
That's great news Jason!
Really enjoyed this one, so many memories. The USA had way more toy options then us kids in Germany. I still have my Barbie ❤😊
Thank you for watching Monika! I think that is awesome that you still have your Barbie. Were there any toys there that were popular and were not here in the U.S.
@@RhettyforHistory no I guess everything was made in the US, may be Lego and Märklin trainsets were made in Germany.
I loved my Lemon Twist! Wish I still had it!
Thank you for watching and sharing what you loved kskollections2142!
Thanks for the video from Australia 🇦🇺😊
You're welcome and thank you for watching from Australia!
Man, I had like HALF of these growing up. Thanks for the nice memories.
I enjoy your commentary. I’m 65 and survived all the dangerous toys I had. 😊
Thank you for watching krescentiaarnold5693 and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the commentary!
Man!, I SO wanted a “Merlin”!
I remember all of my friends (well, so I thought, anyway) playing with theirs whenever we had “indoor” recess on rainy (or snowy) days.
Do they even HAVE recess nowadays?
And that wood burning thing was a tremendously dangerous thing. Even back when, I was scared to use it. 😐
Another fun post, folks. Thanks! 👍
Remember the toy car makers that melted wax and poured it into a mold with some wheels to make a little hot wheels car? I think me and every one of my friends got scaled by that think and my sister got it from the Easy Bake Oven. It culled the week from our numbers.
You're welcome and thank you for watching Joseph. They still have recess but snow days are probably spent online at home. They are where I am anyways.
I had a Merlin and loved it. I mastered all 6 games. The last one, Mindbender (I think) was like Mastermind. I remember that thing took like 6 AA batteries so I would have to beg mom to spend money on more whenever it ran out.
The chemicals in Dip-A-Flower were nothing. Remember the chemistry sets? You could make gunpowder with that.
We made a pipe boom with it when we were teens! We were really wild.
I remember getting a set for Christmas 1972. My eldest brother, home from his second (and last) tour of Vietnam, decided to show me how to make a chemical; I'm not sure what it was, but the smell drove us out of the house for a few minutes while it cleared out :) Such good memories. Some of the older chem sets (prior to 1960, by Gilbert) actually had Uranium for experiments...good, clean, WHOLESOME fun :)
@@awwrelic I'm probably wrong about the chemical, but my first guess is either napalm, or Agent Orange.
@@BennyLlama39 Yeah, pretty sure with one we'd have no house left and the other we'd all be dead of cancer by now :)
@@awwrelic Yeah. My sets had that from '56 -- pitchblende (uraninite). It was good that it was not Plutonium. 🤨
really liked my verti bird bought one off ebay a couple months ago -now my grand kids like it
Oh wow! How great is that and it works too! Thank you for watching and sharing what you have.
I still have my Ker-Bangers. My nieces & nephew can't figure out how they work. I told them there's a button on the handle you need to hold down. LOL!
Previous decade, however... I had a woodburner set in the '60's. Not once did I think of using it on anything but wood strips. After all, my dolls did need fancy details on their bedframes or whatever. I also learned to solder as a child. Not a toy, but it needed to be used to connect model train wires at times. My Dad taught me and I took it from there. 😊 In the '70's, I was more into swimming laps and staying in the backyard for hours, just so I didn't have to be in the house. The age where parents were nothing but a hassle and I wanted nothing to do with what they thought I should be doing. 😂 I had a step-mom , due to a tragedy in '71. Although she was a teacher and you'd think she'd know better, toys were basically not a thing and at 14 (1974) she thought I still wanted Barbies. Can you feel the major eye roll? I still chuckle and shake my head.
Jaysus!, cut it down. You could say in 1 or 2 sentences what it takes you more than a paragraph.
Such rambling easily negates your point due to readers straying. People get bored & just give up.
I do appreciate your memories, it’s just tiring to follow you.
Jus’ sayin’. 😐
Betty I don't think you were rambling. I enjoy reading about others experiences & I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm impressed you learned how to solder so young! Have a good day! 😃
@@JosephMartin-sj3kz you did as much rambling about her rambling as she did the only difference was she wasn't being a asshole.
I used to really enjoy soldering different things as a kid. Thank you for watching and sharing some of the things you loved to do as well as what you had Betty!
Does anyone remember Major Matt Mason?? Always one of my favorites.
Thank you for watching and sharing another toy for us to remember Randy!
Yes I loved those. Rare to find nowadays.
@@randywaller7685 I had his alien buddy Calisto and the space cannon.
Yes! The wires inside would always break after a while and the white paint would start peeling off, so we all finished the peel and had an un posable Matt in a black space suit. I see them listed on eBay and sellers always note the wires inside are intact, so you can pose the figure.
Oh yeah! I had some ! I loved the space helmets with the yellow visor! I have mint Matt Mason coloring book . I believe they only made them for a few years.
Thanks for another awesome video Rhett! I loved the 70s version of Creepy Crawlers. Was fun, had fumes and burn hazard haha
You're welcome Joe and thank you for watching! Creepy Crawlers definitely had a distinctive smell!
@@RhettyforHistory yes it did!
I had the VeriBird but it was attached to a styrofoam boat/ship😃I miss growing up in the 1970's😫Things were a lot better back then😁Great video👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had MrMegaFredZeppelin!
I remember all of those. 🤣 One torture device toy was Clackers. It might have came out late 60’s but was still around in the 70’s. Two hard plastic golf ball sized balls connected to a 12 inch string. The idea was to grab the center of the string and then try to make an and down movement. The two plastic balls hit each other on the upswing and the downswing. Usually you would hear clack clack and then an ouch as it hit you in the wrist, everybody in my family had black and blue wrists from those plastic clackers.
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My friends and I loved playing with them at school. Ours were made out of a different material though. We had big old ones that were like marbles, so I’m guessing that’s like a glass material. Oh yeah they hurt my friends a lot but I was to good at it. 😂😁
I still have my old clackers! I have had to replace the string a lot but those old acrylic balls are still going. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Paul!
Thanks for the memories! 😊 I almost forgot about the Waterfuls toy. I used to love playing with mine.
I enjoyed them too Melisa. Thank you for watching!
It's always a good day whenever Rhetty For History uploads
Thank you for always watching and commenting my friend!
Agreed!
Always makes my day, as well.
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@@NASCARFAN93100 "Helios 21-Giant Spacecraft of the 21st Century". BEST toy ever!
My uncle had an Intellivision from Mattel. It was a video game console that debuted in ‘79. It was sort of a rival to Atari’s 2600. He cleaned it up as best as he could and passed it on to me in ‘82 on my fifth birthday. He was a poor college student but he wanted me to have a gift besides clothes that day, which is what my parents usually gave me.
I never had the intellivision but I did have a friend that had it. We had a lot of fun on that game system. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us stanford!
The lemon twist made an effective flail. My earliest recollections are being wrapped in a blanket then my older brother and his friends whipping me mercilessly with lemon twists. Happy childhood memories.
Ouch! That sounds pretty cruel. Thank you for watching Jim!
My older brothers had the Jarts, Big Jim dolls, and the Wood Burning kit. I had the Light Brite and the Star Wars board game. But, I have the remake of the Star Wars board game with Grand Moff Tarkin figure.
Very cool, remember several of these
Thank you for watching topofthepalm!
I LOVED,LOVED, LOVED my Lite-Brite!
They were hours upon hours of fun! I loved mine as well. Thank you for watching trgwv8120!
Melody Mike just slammed with with long forgotten memories and nostalgia. I serious haven't thought on those in 40 years but my cousins had one. I remember my aunt never wanted us to play with it and, as an adult, I now understand why. My dad had a Merlin and I used to play with it all the time.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories murrayskekelberg9754!
We had Ker-Bangers...when we were kids the suburban moms all had a Farrah Fawcett hairstyle and wore Jordache designer jeans and drove Mercury Cougars.
Never knew of "Ker-Bangers". We had essentially the identical thing called "Clackers".
You definitely nailed what a lot of those moms had and looked like. Thank you for watching Engineersoldiers_Spiritof76_21!
I had the Clackers too Jason but there were several brands that made those.
Oh WOW! I totally forgot about dip a flower. I had hours of creative fun and made as many bouquets as possible. Yes, the chemical smell was strong, so my mom made me create in the garage with the door open for excellent ventilation.😊
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with dip a flower Sandee!
@@RhettyforHistory My Pleasure! Thank you for the wonderful channel of memories.🙂
I pull my 1976 model toy out and play with it often. The wife even plays with it sometimes. Lots of fun!
Thank you for watching Jon!
I love these old toys! Great video!
Thanks for watching Scooby
I still remember Sears's Wish Book catalog in the 70s, which had most of the latest toys. Kids would circle the ones they wanted for Christmas. Those were good times to be a kid.
Along with the Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog.
Going thru those old catalogs and dreaming of having all those items was so much fun! Thank you for watching DRaymore44!
My favourite toy in the 70’s was my Bozo the clown 🤡 doll, when you pulled the ripcord in his back he said different things. It was probably invented before then but I received it in the 70’s. My first pair of skates in 73 were a metal plate with Velcro straps on top, boy was I the ants pants when I moved on up to my Hang Ten roller skates. 😁
Thank you Rhett.❤Jodie 🇦🇺. Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸
Hi Jodie! I remember The Bozo Doll! 👍🤣🇦🇺
@@paulstan9828 I miss it so much that I tried to purchase the rare one from over there.
I did managed to find a few and was willing to pay the high price but unfortunately the shipping price was crazy. Making it far to expensive. 😢
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You're welcome and thank you for watching Jodie. Sounds like you had some great items. Those skates were somewhat dangerous and as I look back on the ones I had I can't believe I didn't break an ankle. It seemed like I was always slipping out of them or rolling an ankle. Somehow I bounced back up and had nothing at all hurt.
We had none of these but my older brother had a Mego Superman & a little figurine of Fat Albert that he now keeps on his dresser. I had Jacks & dolls. 😁
Thank you for watching and sharing what you and your brother had LaManteca76!
I had many of these when I was a child!! If I still had them and in perfect working condition, original box and all, I would be a very rich man 😢😢
Thank you for watching Robert!
Large-sized G I Joes, the ones that were about a foot tall and had clothing and accessories. Basically dolls for boys, but we thought they were the coolest thing ever. My kids loved the smaller versions in the 90's, but I still think the big ones were best.
They were action figures! Unless you had an older cousin or brother who called them dolls. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
So nice to se the Ghost Gun in the thumbnail - every once in a I still find a strip with the punches in them down in the basement. Still have a lemon, and the fillm strips to the Fisher Price TV, and the vertabird and rhe air tube planes.
I'm late watching, but just got back from a battle reenactment and encampment set up at one of the castles (Jacobite vs Red Coats) You would have loved it!!!!! 💙🏴
Oh wow! Very nice Tammie! That sounds like a lot of fun to me! Thank you for watching!
"Just be quiet in your room while daddy smokes his cigarettes."😆😅😂🤣 That's 100% accurate back then even in the 80's. Excellent Content as always! Thank You!👍🏻🇺🇲
You're welcome ZMAN_420 and thank you for watching!
I had a lot of these when I was a kid. We had common sense back then.
Thank you for watching Robert!
That's right. We did.
We young dudes' rite of passage was progressing from B-B gun to .22 rifle.
Now such a thing would be as horrifying to our delicatized young ones of present.
But, at least they're learning of the gay disciplines and not having to hide it, and so are less inclined to warfaring and more toward loving, and that can't be all bad. Maybe we're evolving toward ZARDOZ world?
Same. Born in 69 and had most of them but had forgotten about many!
@@robertshawiv1513 RIP to the kids a generation before that died locked inside abandoned refrigerators and suffocated from plastic bags
0:08 I had that Evel Knievel wind up stunt cycle. I got it for Christmas in 1976 as well as the Six Million Dollar Man Steve Austin action figure, which I got the following year.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had sjdrifter72!
Hello Kitty turns 50 this November!!!! 😻🥰❤
She's been popular for quite some time now. Thank you for watching!
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I have/had several of these. I got the Merlin for Christmas 1978. I'd never had an electronic game prior to that and had lots of fun with it. I picked up another some years back at a local thrift and yep, still works. Pretty sure I had the Pisher-Price music box back in the late 1960s, or at least something similar. I have the Coleco quiz device that I found at the thrift store but it needs work. I have several Pong clones, three of which work (the two Coleco Telstar games and the Radio Shack Electronic TV Scoreboard); another, the Sears Tele-Games Super Pong needs work, as well as another. The first Atari home Pong came out in 1975, based on their arcade Pong, based on the Magnavox Odyssey game Tennis, in 1972. Atari's home Pong began literally dozens of Pong clones over the next two years.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories with some items you had. Sounds like you had some great things.
Evel Knievel's back... I have a new one in my garage right now
Thank you for watching and sharing what you have lynch6642!
Loved Merlin. It was kind of a memory game using beeps. Wish I had one now. Also had the skip-it, a good way to break your ankle.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had Jane!
I recall having a few toys by IDEAL. The infamous "Battling Tops" and "Buckaroo", good times 😊
That company really had some great toys. Thank you for watching Rob!
“If you missed, it was a lot like Kathy Bates was your #1 fan.” 🍋🪨💥😵
You’re a riot, Rhett! 😂 Appreciate the good humor and trip down memory lane. Had a bunch of this stuff when I was a kid, and you showed a few things I’d never heard of. Quick list rundown: Lite Brite, Evel Knievel, water ring toss (✊❗️), lots and lots and lots of Legos, wood burning kit, Merlin, Star Wars Play Doh set (came with a little X-Wing that was _perfect_ for Jawas), among many, many others. Look forward to sharing more nostalgia with you in the future. Thank you!
You're welcome and thank you for watching XMattingly! I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the humor in the videos!
There are a lot of great toys from the 1970's. But Pong stands out for me. Cool video. ^_^
I had the Ghost Gun, Vertibird, and Merlin. Think we've still got the Merlin in a box somewhere. Good times!
Oh wow! How cool is that? I would love to have a Ghost Gun! Thank you for watching Stephen!
I have always loved the SSP toys
Thank you for watching and sharing one you loved Kevin!
We weren't put in a bubble. We had a blast. And we're still alive 🤯 go figure
@@GailKarp-d5p exactly. The narrator said the parents didn’t care. Not true - they cared - they just knew their kids were tough enough to handle those toys! You had to be a tough kid to survive the 70’s.
Thank you for watching user-ob4xb1zu7v!
Thanks for sharing Rhetty. I used to play with the wood burning kit, chemistry kit that contained mercury etc. that probably wasn't safe. Secret Sam kit.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you used to play with. I remember being in school and the teachers giving us mercury to play with on our desks just to keep us busy.
@@RhettyforHistory Yes, we did that too. Lol. 😊😊
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Rhett, this was awesome !! You made me chuckle 😅 what memories 👍❣️
Thank you for watching Lisa and I'm happy to hear you got a laugh out of this one!
I had the Ghost Gun when I was a child and it was awesome except for the fact that you couldn't get the replacement ghost films so once you used up whatever came with it , it was done . The grip was on a swivel that moved independently from the front part of the GG and basically you'd move it around until you could see the puncturing pin on the ghost , that was your sight dot , then you had to try to hit the trigger without flinching too much . I spent a few years trying to make my own ghost film with scotch tape and a fine pen , but it never worked .
It really was a cool concept. It's too bad that they didn't keep making the film strips and the toy guns. Thank you for watching Bryan!
I got Merlin for Christmas, and I hated it. Now I wish I had it.😂
And 2 of my favorites were Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap.😊
Oh I forgot about Mouse Trap! Thank you for watching and sharing what you had Shannon!
I bought the reproduction of the "Escape From The Death Star" game a couple of years back.
It is a retro style exact copy of the original game that Kenner made in 1978 and it's still fun to play
I did not realize they came out with a reproduction one. Thank you for watching and telling us about it.
I can't believe they mentioned the VertiBird! I had one. I also had the Escape from the Death Star game. We got a lot of use out that game. I also had a game called "Tank Battle" as well as one called "The Bermuda Triangle". When I was really young, I had a game called "Ant in the Pants" game.
Thank you for watching Greg. I appreciate you sharing what you had and some of your memories!
I had Escape From Death Star, but I totally forgot about it until I saw this video.😃
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had drusmith3480!
Definitely had the wood burning set. Chemistry sets were also interesting. We mainly had board games.
They have definitely changed the Chemistry sets over the years. Thank you for watching and sharing what you had!
different and fun. todays kids are expendable
Thank you for watching zillsburyy1!
I had a few of these toys. The 70s were great.
When I was a kid my sister had the version of Lemon Twist called "Footsie"! It had a plastic bell shape on the end of the spinner.
Was that a brown bell? I almost seem to remember that. I might have have seen one. Thank you for watching and letting us know about it.
@@RhettyforHistoryblue. Some of them had a red ball on them! I remember this commercial back then about Wham-O toys that had this one man show where he was performing three of their toys at the same time! A Hula Hoop, whatever they called the Footsie and this spinning plate thing above his head at the same time!
I got a Vertabird for Christmas the year it came out and, yes, it got broken within a few months.
Was it the little hinge area where the rod attaches to the helicopter? That seemed to be the common area where it broke. Thank you for watching!
I remember we got a JC Penney knockoff pong console around the same time my friend down the street got the Atari 2600 system (1977). We didn’t upgrade to that until 1981.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had mcorleonep!
Yes we had some dangerous stuff, to play with from Lawn darts to chemistry sets, but we had a good time.
Absolutely! Thank you for watching comesee3!
I remember seeing all these toys and other things advertised. I bought a few for my little sister 18 years younger than me
Thank you for watching my friend! That was nice of you to get her some of these.
@@RhettyforHistory We all wanted to make her happy. She was a really fun little sister
The Ghost Gun and the Evil Knievel Motorcycle were my two favorite toys growing up. Fun memories!
Love your commentary.
Thank you for watching and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the commentary!
I loved my Mego figures as well as fisher price adventure people. I was born in 75 so basically all I ever wanted were lego and Star wars toys
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had Cyril29a!
Air Jammer, Cox planes, Meccano, Smash Up Derby, Prop Shots.
The "Tin Casting Set" where you'd mould and paint your own tin soldiers (probably about 1/35 scale Napoleonic wars etc).
I never had any of those, I did have the Jaws Shark, but the one I remember most was a 1970, Ford dump truck, with a working dump bed, and a silo that could be filled with sand and funneled into the truck. All metal except the silo.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had George!
I sure remember a lot of these! Thank you for the video!
As a collector of older electronics and games I still have multiple versions of pong.
I have the Super Pong from Sears that was pictured in the video but that is the only one I have. Thank you for watching Sho81!