I remember wanting these when I was a kid but seeing them now, I'm glad I never did. If I had scraped the money together and then received THAT, I would have been incredibly disappointed.
I was one of the kids who did order them and yes, I WAS disappointed! $1.75 for a kid back in 1980 was a lot of money unlike today. I remember being so excited when I got them in the mail only to see they were cheap inferior crap. 😳😒
When I was kid I used to stare at that advert wishing I could order it. I live in Australia so that was not possible back then. It’s amazing to actually see what you got all these years later.
Yes, when I was a kid I wanted this toy so bad. I saved my nickels and dimes for the toy, and price of a money order. And I got this tiny box they called a Foot Locker and these fragile tiny green flat toy soldiers. I was so disappointed. I remember swearing. Decades later my son's got us a game Axis and Allies and the ships and planes were similar.
My friend ordered this when we were living in Japan back in the 60s, and he was disappointed when it arrived. The soldiers and the vehicles were flat, except for the planes, which were tiny. It proved the old saying "You get what you pay for."
Been there, done that. My brother ordered the " lifelike frankensteins monster figure, over 7 feet tall, with glow in the dark eyes" from a comic book...and got a sheet of vinyl with a picture printed on it. I ordered an army of soldiers, with ships and planes and tanks...and got flat, hard plastic in about three different scales, that looked like game pieces for Risk. Don't even start me on sea monkeys....lol. Life lessons.
Still have my Revolutionary War set. I couldn't believe how small the box was when it arrived in the mail. I did have fun with them so I guess I got my money's worth. Problem was, if one guy got shot he'd knock over a bunch more.
I totally remember day-dreaming about ordering this set, somehow I was informed that they were not the typical 1:32-ish size army men. I think the neighborhood kid who was an authority on all things army-men told us that these were microscopic-small (of course he didn't really know anything). It's very impressive that you still have them!
I grew up in the '80s reading my parents' comic books from when they were kids. I saw this ad hundreds of times. I always thought the toys would be the typical plastic army men, but this is significantly different. Thanks for the video!
Never bought these, but stared for hours at the image. I did however buy the revolutionary war set and it was not flats but 1:72 scale the art work for that was also amazing add.
I wanted this set so badly before my friend bought it back in the late 70's. I could not imagine being excited about this set upon seeing it. These are cake decorations. We all laughed about it and I never saw it again.
I always wanted that set after seeing that ad so many times never got it back then. But about 2yrs ago I bought some old model kits at a garage sale and in one of the boxes was this cardboard box that looked like a foot locker. Inside was the complete set of figures. Now I gotta find an old comic ad to display this hot rod of a gimmick haha
I had that as a kid. Also had the American revolutionary war and the tank trap play sets. I mowed grass for money and couldn't wait for the mail. Sgt. Rock comic books
I used to buy Horror Comics as a kid and loved these Ads of Knights, GI Combat, Rev War.....wished i had the money to buy one. Nice to see what i could have recd. Great video!
Almost 50 years later you revealed one of my childhoods biggest mysteries!! We were poor so this was something i always wanted along with the revolutionary set they offered.Thank you for letting me know what i went through life not knowing
I bought these when I was a Kid in the 70's they didn't last me very long they broke really easy, when I received them in the mail my brother Laughed when he saw them. A year later I bought the Revolutionary Soldiers those were better built they're small but they weren't Flat like these, I still have those Revolutionary Soldiers in their Original Box.
That was one of the nicer illustrations (that Rev. War battle scene) ! Another non-game set , that WERE Flats (but a softer , more detailed , not-as-flat , flats) were the Roman Soldiers. Had catapults to shoot little balls at the guys , which were blue and yellow colored for two armies . Had some chariots . That was a cool set and had maybe the best of all the illustrations.... a giant Roman battle scene . Who could resist ? " Mom , can I send for this ? It's only $1.75 ....... pleeeeaaassse !" Lol
I bought two of this type of comic book army sets in the 70's; one was 'Task Force', and the other was a ship game 'Fighting Ships'. Task Force had a paper base for the pieces and Fighting Ships had a sort of thin plastic mat that was supposed to be the ocean. Needless to say, they were both quite disappointing. Also bought a pair of binoculars that ended up being plastic and really didn't magnify anything much. They were a bit of a disappointment too, but I did put them to good use playing 'army' with my brothers and friends; staying out on Friday and Saturday nights until it was dark!
I was so disappointed when I got mine in the 70s. It was flat 2d, small and a teeny cardboard box. I thought it'd be like the regular army men. Which is what they were hoping you'd think.
I remember thinking about ordering that army set when I was a kid. Looking at it now. I'm sure glad I didn't order that crap. I would have been so disappointed.
Holy shit. I remember this as a kid. The longest time I wanted to pull the trigger and place an order. I thought you get 120 full size plastic military figures. Man what a deal. To my horror when it arrived I was so disappointed so pissed off.
I remember receiving this box and I hid my disappoint from my grandmother who ordered it for me. I hated that they were thin almost 2 dimensional. I got a Roman soldier set that was the same. However the Civil War and revolution Era troops were much better.
Yes i do and i picked up a second one with a better box but the plastic color was different so it didn’t match troops that mine came with. Fascinating little gimmick. It fooled many of us into losing our innocence i think.
Yeah … like a lot of the comment posters on here … I stared and stared at all those cool ads that showed incredible battle scenes …. A $1.75 was a lot of money for a kid in the 70’s …. I was probably about 12 when I got these … I remember thinking “There must be some mistake ? This couldn’t possibly be what I ordered?” !!! I was so disappointed and pissed off !! Like most 12 year old kids … you gloss over the dimensions of the so called “Foot Locker” they came in (another lie !! Yeah “foot locker”!! O.k.”!! Pricks !!!!) … I should have ordered the darn “squirrel monkey”. At least (as I’m told anyway-look it up !!) you actually got a real live squirrel monkey !! …. Even after getting “bent over” by these fleece artist … I still took the bait on some of those other war game ads … I think I had “Task Force” …. Which was also a disappointment… but at least it was an actual game you could play with your friends … paper map with water and islands on it .. with tiny tiny playing pieces …. It was fun once you got over the initial shock of what came in the box !!!
I unfortunately fell for this is in early 1970s and was so confused and disappointed when the little box arrived in the mail with a bunch of those hard crappy plastic 2D figures. The picture in the comic books was so amazing my 9 year old brain was expecting this giant Marx like set to arrive, should’ve read the fine print !!
Would have loved to get the revolution set in the UK in the late 60s but finding out a few years ago would have been disappointed but loved the illustrations in the comics,somehow got a roman chariot from somewhere.
I remember these. I also remember being disappointed and feeling ripped off by these pieces of junk! I think it was around the fall of 1980 when I ordered these because by Independence Day 1981 I remember strapping firecrackers to them and blowing them to bits. That’s about all they were good for.
I remember mowing yards to earn that 1.75 just to order this couldn't wait. It took so long to arrive by mail I had forgotten that I had ordered them. I was do disappointed in the flat 2D soldiers I still played with them and am sure they lay somewhere in our backyard...
Same here I totally forgot about it and when it appeared the box was so small and when I opened it I was aghast at the hard plastic detail less flats. I was terribly disappointed.
Wow. I have recently gotten back into reading comic books and saw this ad in "World's Finest" #232 and wanted to see if anyone posted a video of them. What a rip off! The poor kids that sent in their $1.25 😢
Does COD mean cash on delivery? I have been collecting since I was at least 13. I also play the 3DO games army men. I collect flags, currencies and retro games too! This looks really cool.
As a kid I used to lust after these - I collected Airfix and longed for all the vehicles and planes. I got to play with a set and was very disappointed at the flat poorly made figures ….😵💫😵🤪
I was one of those kids back in the day that wanted this but never ordered it. I wanted to believe that this included a military style trunk full of green army men, jeeps, tanks, and whatever like I use to get at the 5 & Dime. BTW - I loved my green army toys a lot. However, while never ordering the toys, I later felt like I may have dodged a bullet; that my instinct not to buy it was right, and it seems so. While I am not at all opposed to the color or plastic, or to the shape of the planes. I am, however, surprised to see how thin the profile is for the soldiers, ships, tanks, etc.; not at all what I'd expect to see. But the worst part; a blatant lie and misrepresentation (False Advertising) that I see is the absent military locker box to hold the toys. Even if it were a thin-walled green plastic box, that would have been fine. But to only see a white cardboard box at the container; not at all acceptable. As I see it today, I can see some value in the set; mostly out of curious nostalgia but nothing more. It is definitely a fine collectable today, but for a young kid back in the 70's, it no doubt would have been a huge disappointment had I bought it and not got at least the military locker box.
@@DiceBaseballDigest Thank you for sharing this video of the toys. I can't help but think of all the comic books I had back in the 70's that I ruined by marking in then; circling all the toys I wanted to buy but never did. This was definitely one of them. 🥰👍
I remember being terribly disappointed by these especially because I had been collecting Airfix HO scaled soldiers. But they are VASTLY better than what I see in the toy aisles these days! I remember that they were nice and rather detailed castings while modern toy soldiers are way more expensive and look horrible (really bad molds with way too much flash).
My Aurora Godzilla first one to glow in the dark of course was not based on 1950 butt 1960 King Kong versus Godzilla Aurora tried but Godzilla was not done right but as a kid I didn't care
I got 3-D sets from the cominc books in the early 70;s and never knew these 2D existed. I bought 5-6 of these sets and all were awesome 3D plastic pieces We put actually money and mailed it in =)
I remember wanting these when I was a kid but seeing them now, I'm glad I never did. If I had scraped the money together and then received THAT, I would have been incredibly disappointed.
I was one of the kids who did order them and yes, I WAS disappointed! $1.75 for a kid back in 1980 was a lot of money unlike today. I remember being so excited when I got them in the mail only to see they were cheap inferior crap. 😳😒
When I was kid I used to stare at that advert wishing I could order it. I live in Australia so that was not possible back then. It’s amazing to actually see what you got all these years later.
You missed little. It was an inferior product.
Exactly the same as that but in the Uk, always wondered what the sea monkeys were in the same comics
Be glad you didn’t order it! I did, and they were cheap, two dimensional, thin plastic. In other words, it was a total rip off! 👎👎😒
Yes, when I was a kid I wanted this toy so bad. I saved my nickels and dimes for the toy, and price of a money order. And I got this tiny box they called a Foot Locker and these fragile tiny green flat toy soldiers. I was so disappointed. I remember swearing. Decades later my son's got us a game Axis and Allies and the ships and planes were similar.
@@stefalexander7643aqua insects with little magnifying glasses on the side of the bowl.
My friend ordered this when we were living in Japan back in the 60s, and he was disappointed when it arrived. The soldiers and the vehicles were flat, except for the planes, which were tiny. It proved the old saying "You get what you pay for."
yes we were. It was bait and switch
Been there, done that. My brother ordered the " lifelike frankensteins monster figure, over 7 feet tall, with glow in the dark eyes" from a comic book...and got a sheet of vinyl with a picture printed on it. I ordered an army of soldiers, with ships and planes and tanks...and got flat, hard plastic in about three different scales, that looked like game pieces for Risk. Don't even start me on sea monkeys....lol. Life lessons.
Still have my Revolutionary War set. I couldn't believe how small the box was when it arrived in the mail. I did have fun with them so I guess I got my money's worth. Problem was, if one guy got shot he'd knock over a bunch more.
very cool Do a video
I totally remember day-dreaming about ordering this set, somehow I was informed that they were not the typical 1:32-ish size army men. I think the neighborhood kid who was an authority on all things army-men told us that these were microscopic-small (of course he didn't really know anything). It's very impressive that you still have them!
We all did and then poof! The dream was over. lol.
We had one of those "authority" kids in my hood as well. Actually, the adult version was around as well.
I grew up in the '80s reading my parents' comic books from when they were kids. I saw this ad hundreds of times. I always thought the toys would be the typical plastic army men, but this is significantly different. Thanks for the video!
I got the civil war set thru the mail🇨🇦loved the blue and grey and sparked my love of history.Still wear kepis today!
Never bought these, but stared for hours at the image. I did however buy the revolutionary war set and it was not flats but 1:72 scale the art work for that was also amazing add.
Would love to see those
The Revolutionary War soldiers of the same period were full 1/72 scale
I had one I had this when I was a kid they were awesome
Hahahahaha.
I wanted this set so badly before my friend bought it back in the late 70's. I could not imagine being excited about this set upon seeing it. These are cake decorations. We all laughed about it and I never saw it again.
That’s right., cake decorations.
I always wanted that set after seeing that ad so many times never got it back then. But about 2yrs ago I bought some old model kits at a garage sale and in one of the boxes was this cardboard box that looked like a foot locker. Inside was the complete set of figures. Now I gotta find an old comic ad to display this hot rod of a gimmick haha
had them, ha. learned my lesson!
I have the Rev War set. Found it on eBay.
I always wanted to get the Comic book Submarine!
I had that as a kid. Also had the American revolutionary war and the tank trap play sets. I mowed grass for money and couldn't wait for the mail. Sgt. Rock comic books
@@marcrussette3467 great nostalgia.
Adjusted for inflation....about $15 today.
I used to buy Horror Comics as a kid and loved these Ads of Knights, GI Combat, Rev War.....wished i had the money to buy one.
Nice to see what i could have recd. Great video!
@@billybrad204 loved the horror stuff. So exciting.
I am still waiting for my box to get to me😂 from1970.
Almost 50 years later you revealed one of my childhoods biggest mysteries!! We were poor so this was something i always wanted along with the revolutionary set they offered.Thank you for letting me know what i went through life not knowing
I bought these when I was a Kid in the 70's they didn't last me very long they broke really easy, when I received them in the mail my brother Laughed when he saw them. A year later I bought the Revolutionary Soldiers those were better built they're small but they weren't Flat like these, I still have those Revolutionary Soldiers in their Original Box.
They were cake toppers.
That was one of the nicer illustrations (that Rev. War battle scene) ! Another non-game set , that WERE Flats (but a softer , more detailed , not-as-flat , flats) were the Roman Soldiers.
Had catapults to shoot little balls at the guys , which were blue and yellow colored for two armies . Had some chariots . That was a cool set and had maybe the best of all the illustrations.... a giant Roman battle scene . Who could resist ? " Mom , can I send for this ? It's only $1.75 ....... pleeeeaaassse !" Lol
I bought two of this type of comic book army sets in the 70's; one was 'Task Force', and the other was a ship game 'Fighting Ships'. Task Force had a paper base for the pieces and Fighting Ships had a sort of thin plastic mat that was supposed to be the ocean. Needless to say, they were both quite disappointing. Also bought a pair of binoculars that ended up being plastic and really didn't magnify anything much. They were a bit of a disappointment too, but I did put them to good use playing 'army' with my brothers and friends; staying out on Friday and Saturday nights until it was dark!
I was so disappointed when I got mine in the 70s. It was flat 2d, small and a teeny cardboard box. I thought it'd be like the regular army men. Which is what they were hoping you'd think.
You and me both.
I remember thinking about ordering that army set when I was a kid. Looking at it now. I'm sure glad I didn't order that crap. I would have been so disappointed.
Holy shit. I remember this as a kid. The longest time I wanted to pull the trigger and place an order. I thought you get 120 full size plastic military figures. Man what a deal. To my horror when it arrived I was so disappointed so pissed off.
Yes, sir. it represented a loss or innocence. It was a scam. Probably the first we were a victim of in our life.
There were more scams to come in later life.
You can't beat that price!
Ive always wondered what this was, back in the day.
I remember scraping together all my change to order this. Good times
I had this and loved it - had a dick neighbor steal the ships from it
Thank you for doing this review!!! YES!!! The comic picture!!
I remember receiving this box and I hid my disappoint from my grandmother who ordered it for me. I hated that they were thin almost 2 dimensional. I got a Roman soldier set that was the same. However the Civil War and revolution Era troops were much better.
They were a huge disappointment for many of us. Yep to ink I got mine in 1976/77
The revolution war set
Was alot better
I got mine in the late 60's
Had them
For a very long time
Cool you still have some pieces. Always what they looked like.
Yes i do and i picked up a second one with a better box but the plastic color was different so it didn’t match troops that mine came with. Fascinating little gimmick. It fooled many of us into losing our innocence i think.
Yeah I bought it it was cool too a point as a kid you will accept anything there's nothing like flat soldiers
I got one of these when i was a kid, was disappointed they were all flat
We were all shaken and suffer from PTSD because of it. They were flatter than pancakes.
Yeah … like a lot of the comment posters on here … I stared and stared at all those cool ads that showed incredible battle scenes …. A $1.75 was a lot of money for a kid in the 70’s …. I was probably about 12 when I got these … I remember thinking “There must be some mistake ? This couldn’t possibly be what I ordered?” !!! I was so disappointed and pissed off !! Like most 12 year old kids … you gloss over the dimensions of the so called “Foot Locker” they came in (another lie !! Yeah “foot locker”!! O.k.”!! Pricks !!!!) … I should have ordered the darn “squirrel monkey”. At least (as I’m told anyway-look it up !!) you actually got a real live squirrel monkey !! …. Even after getting “bent over” by these fleece artist … I still took the bait on some of those other war game ads … I think I had “Task Force” …. Which was also a disappointment… but at least it was an actual game you could play with your friends … paper map with water and islands on it .. with tiny tiny playing pieces …. It was fun once you got over the initial shock of what came in the box !!!
Lesson learned I guess.
Very much so. Traumatic in some ways cause we realized for the first time that things were not as we imagined them. A good lesson for life.
I unfortunately fell for this is in early 1970s and was so confused and disappointed when the little box arrived in the mail with a bunch of those hard crappy plastic 2D figures. The picture in the comic books was so amazing my 9 year old brain was expecting this giant Marx like set to arrive, should’ve read the fine print !!
Interesting playset, though question that springs to mind is how does one make up opposing factions with these when all the same color?
Spray paint
50's and also in the 60's they were in comic books also
Nice!
I remember that.Had the exact same thing
50 years ago.
Time flies.
Some had exploding tanks with little red cap put in them.
Would have loved to get the revolution set in the UK in the late 60s but finding out a few years ago would have been disappointed but loved the illustrations in the comics,somehow got a roman chariot from somewhere.
@@johnclarke25 Yes the illustrations were amazing for sure.
I remember these. I also remember being disappointed and feeling ripped off by these pieces of junk! I think it was around the fall of 1980 when I ordered these because by Independence Day 1981 I remember strapping firecrackers to them and blowing them to bits. That’s about all they were good for.
The consensus is that we were all disappointed.
@@DiceBaseballDigest Like my dad used to say “be it pain, money, or misery experience will cost you” and it was a lesson learned for me!
I had the Revolutionary war set
In blue and red
Guess which was which
Any way
I got mine in the late 60's
Had them for years
I remember mowing yards to earn that 1.75 just to order this couldn't wait. It took so long to arrive by mail I had forgotten that I had ordered them. I was do disappointed in the flat 2D soldiers I still played with them and am sure they lay somewhere in our backyard...
Same here I totally forgot about it and when it appeared the box was so small and when I opened it I was aghast at the hard plastic detail less flats. I was terribly disappointed.
As a kid I always thought these ads were a scam i guess I was right this would have been very disappointing
You were right.
Wow. I have recently gotten back into reading comic books and saw this ad in "World's Finest" #232 and wanted to see if anyone posted a video of them. What a rip off! The poor kids that sent in their $1.25 😢
I had 2 sets. They were like upright coins; they snapped easily. It wasn't 3D.
Yes. Not sturdy.
Does COD mean cash on delivery? I have been collecting since I was at least 13. I also play the 3DO games army men. I collect flags, currencies and retro games too! This looks really cool.
I have two sets in case you want to make me an offer for one.
As a kid I used to lust after these - I collected Airfix and longed for all the vehicles and planes. I got to play with a set and was very disappointed at the flat poorly made figures ….😵💫😵🤪
You and me both.
Super saber a saber
Yea. I remember this. I sent my dollar in and never got anything.🤬🤬
Grrrr. Maddening.
I orded this set and was disappointed but the army men but the planes were pretty cool if I recall because at least they looked like military planes.
Yep. Deceptive.
I was one of those kids back in the day that wanted this but never ordered it. I wanted to believe that this included a military style trunk full of green army men, jeeps, tanks, and whatever like I use to get at the 5 & Dime. BTW - I loved my green army toys a lot. However, while never ordering the toys, I later felt like I may have dodged a bullet; that my instinct not to buy it was right, and it seems so. While I am not at all opposed to the color or plastic, or to the shape of the planes. I am, however, surprised to see how thin the profile is for the soldiers, ships, tanks, etc.; not at all what I'd expect to see. But the worst part; a blatant lie and misrepresentation (False Advertising) that I see is the absent military locker box to hold the toys. Even if it were a thin-walled green plastic box, that would have been fine. But to only see a white cardboard box at the container; not at all acceptable. As I see it today, I can see some value in the set; mostly out of curious nostalgia but nothing more. It is definitely a fine collectable today, but for a young kid back in the 70's, it no doubt would have been a huge disappointment had I bought it and not got at least the military locker box.
I hear you. I remember receiving and I forgot I had ordered it.
@@DiceBaseballDigest Thank you for sharing this video of the toys. I can't help but think of all the comic books I had back in the 70's that I ruined by marking in then; circling all the toys I wanted to buy but never did. This was definitely one of them. 🥰👍
I remember being terribly disappointed by these especially because I had been collecting Airfix HO scaled soldiers. But they are VASTLY better than what I see in the toy aisles these days! I remember that they were nice and rather detailed castings while modern toy soldiers are way more expensive and look horrible (really bad molds with way too much flash).
@@rcgunner7086 The art has almost died. There are companies that use old Marx templates and produce high quality green army men
My Aurora Godzilla first one to glow in the dark of course was not based on 1950 butt 1960 King Kong versus Godzilla Aurora tried but Godzilla was not done right but as a kid I didn't care
I actually saved my change to order these. I was around 7. What a rip off! Almost as bad as Sea Monkeys! Important life lessons at an early age.
Hahahahahahahahaaha
I got 3-D sets from the cominc books in the early 70;s and never knew these 2D existed. I bought 5-6 of these sets and all were awesome 3D plastic pieces
We put actually money and mailed it in =)
Wow! Interesting. They fooled us in the late 70s.
Perhaps the Helen of Toy sets from the comics? I have read somewhere that they were higher quality but never had one myself.
Not worth it.
A total rip off
Cake toppers.