I was one of the lucky ones, born in the 70's - grew up in the 80's. There was nothing better than Saturday morning cartoons, 80's toys, playing outside with friends. I would go back in a heart beat and leave this hi-tech, fast paced world behind.
Born in '73. I find it incredibly sad that I found more entertainment in these eleven minutes and 34 seconds of commercials than hours of anything I have watched on tv recently. #Longlivethe80's
Saturday as a kid in 80s wake up watch Saturday morning shows while eating cereal then go outside riding bikes around all day and hanging out with friends
After breakfast and cartoons, we would grab our bikes and head for sawgrass park. We would play in the woods, unsupervised, for hours. Then we all knew when it was time to go home for lunch. Bologna, cheese, and mayo sammiches with some potato chips on the side. Better days.....way better days.
I dedicate this comment to my beautiful Mom..... at times we didn't always see eye to eye.... but as a single parent back in these times you did your best and worked so hard.... words can't describe how much I thank you and love you. ❤ you eternally..... God bless.
im 49 too. we did our preteens in the 70's and our teens in the 80's. we literally won the "decade lottery" and spent our best years in the best times. nobody else except us knows how awesome life was to grow up like that. the people that TRULY missed out are people who aren't us ha ha! getting older is awesome because they all depend on us to relate how awesome life actually is! not a day goes by that im not appreciative of the awesomeness of all of that! but i do know what you mean.
Mixed feelings about watching these things. They are fun and bring back great memories from a great time. But they also bring with it a bit of sadness and melancholy as well. Oh how I wish I could go back...
Man, i am so grateful that i was born in 1973...! So i could witness all the great stuff of the 80`s as a kid and teenager. Star Wars, He-Man, VHS, it was all really great...! Even the Commercials!!! Thank you, life...!!!
You are lucky that you grew up in an era that kicked off one of the largest franchises of all time, Star Wars. If you were alive during this time I envy and also think you are so cool to be able to play with one of a kind original toys like the jabba set.
Jenny N me too. I miss my childhood. Remember Children's Palace store? Or Chuckie Cheese when it was awesome. The big cheese you could climb through, animated singing characters. The 80's was magical. That bonkers candy was awesome. At the Ohio State fair they had a Bonkers funhouse. When you got to the end, they gave a handful of bonkers candy out. Lol! Gosh kids don't know what they are missing today. Our childhood was fun, safer, and every neighbor were friends. Even summer night tag and catching fireflies was memories you cherish.
Best days of my life, born in 75' He-man, G.I. Joe's, and Transformers were my favorite, glued to watching my episodes with my collection for hours everyday, and remember Saturday morning cartoons😀😁and my WWF wrestlers also with my ring lol.
Same here. My big thing was Star Wars at 1st, but like with all kids we quickly moved on to the next big thing which was Transformers.... but I also had all these Star Wars & GI Joe playsets. So I combined them all: Terrordrome= Autobot HQ. Snake Mountain= Decepticon HQ. Millenium Falcon= Autobot transport. Imperial shuttle= decepticon transport. My folks made me a table in the basement I used for all my "battles". As I got to 10 or 11, they all migrated to my bedroom but the table in the other room was still used as "another planet". There was always a continuity to my storylines, and in my 20's I started writing stories based on that continuity.
When I was in 2nd grade, we were allowed to bring our favorite Christmas present from that year to class for show and tell. Mine was the Return Of The Jedi Jabba's Palace playset. This was a wonderful compilation of commercials. Some of my all time favorite toys represented here.
Miss those days. The cool thing now is being a dad and giving all my toys to my kids. My daughter has all my Star Wars stuff and Godzilla on display in her room, my middle son has all my GI Joe and some transformers, and the youngest has all my Legos and the rest of the transformers.
Being born in the late 70s and growing up in the 80s was pretty damn awesome. I heard the 70s were pretty nice too. You never see kids outside today doing anything. We lived outside and came home and dark.
Born just after JFK was buried here, (1963), and we were told by our parents, "Just be home before the street lights come on.". We met our friends on bicycles, and many of them are real friends to this day.
Ahhh yes...remember when you would choose your cereal based on which one had the coolest toy inside!!! And then get home and immediately dig down to the bottom of the box to get that toy!
Cris C - Some cereals used to have some pretty cool toys back then- the only thing that sucked was growing up with 4 more brothers and fighting over the damn thing!!😂
I wasn’t born until ‘88, but I want to go back too! While my parents were fortunate to be young adults during the 80s, it really seemed like the best time to be a kid.
I wish that we could turn back the clock & the calendar too the 1980,s where all of these t.v. commercials & shows were still on the air !!! 😢😭😭😭 Man the memories are haunting us !!!
Wow. The Cocoa Pebbles flying disk! I remember shoving my arm down many boxes of cereal to get the toy at the bottom. The fun we could have with a crappy piece of plastic was amazing. :)
Oh man, 80's cereal was the best! I remember every week my mom went grocery shopping, my brother and I would literally spend the entire time in the cereal aisle picking out which cereal we wanted. We each got our own box (thank god) and would always base it on what came in the box, lol. My favorites were C3PO's, Count Chocula/Boo Berries, and for the short amount of time it was out-- Nintendo cereal. With the 2 separate bags, one of Super Mario Bros and one of Zelda. There was nothing like 80's cereal!
dont forget the nerds cereal where if you saved up the proofs of purchased they would mail you a cereal bowl where you put cereal in 1 side and milk in the other and you lift up the divider and it all goes together. Ahh those where the days.
So many memories come flooding back watching these. Oh the 80's (sigh) crazy ads like these, pestering the parents to buy them these toys. Remember Saturday morning cartoons, outside fun with friends, kids interacting with their parents, the next door neighbours actually talked, lol. If only kids today experienced it, instead of sitting in their rooms with headphones on playing stupid war games, weirded out games ect. Sorry for going on here. So the 80's, if only things hadn't of changed. Thanks for the reminders! :)
Gawd, a different and wonderful innocent time. I was 13 and had my action figures in front of me while watching these very shows..thanks for posting..I miss this era.
Ah yes, 83 was quite a year. Great year for Jedi, GI Joe and Masters of the Universe. Who would of known that just one year later Transformers would take over.
Being a child of the late '90s/early 2000s (and Irish), I find it fascinating and weird to see what kids in America were growing up with in terms of TV and ads in the '80s. Really give you an idea of where the '80s nostalgia boom came from.
Thanks for taking the time to put these together. I like how you include the show "bumpers". It's a nice nostalgic transition in and out of the commercials :)
0:38 Imagine being the poor guy who had to throw the glider like 200 times while the entire film crew stands ready, waiting for you to finally nail a good throw with the glider doing a smooth spin.
Wow...what a trip this was. Many of these commercials sounded familiar to me, some I had completely forgotten. I used to love Pink Lemonade-flavored Bubble Yum lol
Omg we should push for this... i just saw a new channel called Comet that's all Outer Space movies, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits etc. So why not an all 80's channel, cartoons from 6am till 9...TGIF , Double Dare, Mr Wizard, A team, Fraggle Rock, Gummy Bears, Rescue Rangers, Thundercats, GI-Joe, Transformers, Muppet Babies, Reading Rainbow... (i know there's a thousand more...) it could literally run for years and years without one rerun and cost the station very little..
Thank you for these commercials. I missed them in my childhood because I lived in Germany from 1983 to 1988. It's great to hear Cassey Kassem's voice again.
I'm the kid in the he-man commercial...suffice to say I had a bad hair day that day...I remember my mom telling the director that she could get it right, but there was no time....we filmed for about three hours and got a shit type sandwich and apple juice...I asked if I could keep the figure, and was told NO..lol.....it was soooooooo long ago
It's always cool to hear from the people who were in the commercials that I post here. The reason they wouldn't let you keep the action figure is probably because it was a sample prototype. Most of the figures in commercials back then were hand painted and designed to look better on camera and in close-ups than the ones you'd get in the store.
@@80sCommercialVault as a funny follow up, after I was done shooting, my mom told me she would take me to j.c. penny's and get me one,,,and like a big baby, I go..no!! I don't want one..lol. also , in case anyone cares,,,I did two more commercials and a couple of catalog ads, and my career was over,,just didn't have that special something I guess
buttgoo magoo that is so freakin cool! Thanks for the inside scoop on doin toy commercials in the 80s. I would’ve loved to have been in an 80s toy commercial, but then again, I would’ve reacted the same way you did. Forget this crummy sandwich, I’ll take a few action figures pleeeease!
@2:48 nah those kids aren't too old for a big wheel... By today's standards they are. Kids today stop playing at age 6 and immediately become pre-teens at 7 years old. On their cell phones and on social media all day...
I don't know, it all seems like a bunch of crap. And I was a kid back then. Well, actually, I was in high school in the 80s. The kids' crap I saw on TV was in the 1970s.
Wow! I felt like I was a little kid again, watching Saturday Morning cartoons. Commercials were better in the 80s. Everything was better in the 80's lol
I am LOVING that goofy little girl who claps with excitement over the Play Doh 'Fun Flyer.' Please...no one let her have actual Play Doh. She might not be able to handle it!!! Lol
Fun to see all those again! C3PO’s are my all time favorite cereal. I wish I could still eat them. The 80s for me were all about Star Wars, Transformers & Nintendo. I still have my Rubik’s Cube from Christmas 82 brand new never used it.
It's a poorly worded, sensationalist promo. The episode involves Dana Plato's character wanting the school Letterman club to admit girls, which Willis is opposed to. So he enters the school beauty pageant to prove his point. There's not even a prom in the episode.
The 80's was great. Listening to thriller on repeat, playing with those toys, snorting mountains of blow, and yelling at my kids to get a job if they want a their own skeletor. Oh, where does the time go?
I loved 80s toy commercials! The narration, the editing, the acting, the hair & clothes. And they all end with, "Each sold separately," which made the whole array of available accessories "sold separately" all the more tantalizing to me. Which was the whole point, I suppose. Lol
I especially remember the Hershey's chocolate milk commercial. I would've been 11 years old when these commercials aired. Later that same year, the Transformers toys, cartoon and comic book would debut. It sure was an awesome time to be a kid!
I remember buying the gi joe glider and let me tell ya it did not fly or glide at all !! Pretty much like throwing a rock nothing like the commercial flying like that 😂😂
I used to watch the Droids/Ewok hour, but that was like mid-80s I'm sure on ABC (wasn't it?). I didn't care much for the Droids portion and would watch the Ewok portion.
Mr. T...used to love that cartoon. The Ewok commercial was cool too. Don't recall those at all. I'm sure if I would've known of them, I would've asked "Santa" for one. lol One to Grow On! OMG, I so remember that! I remembered the animation and how it'd be a different celebrity every time! I love these nostalgia trips. I said it once, I'll say it again. I'm glad I was born in 1981.
Wow. I miss my 80s childhood. Though toys are a lot more articulated today, techno toys are more advanced, and the likeness to action figure counterparts are much more detailed, I gotta say that I STILL find the 80s toys much better and the way they advertised was much better too. They knew how to appeal to us. Additionally, u saw many of these adds during Saturday morning cartoon blocks that lasted till noon and we all anticipated Saturday mornings with cool toons and several bowls of our favorite sugary goodness. MAN!!! Those were the days. Now what do kids have to look forward to? Text messages and over protected parents making a generation of wussies? Ugh
That sounded like an 80's movie! Perfect revenge. Still, even though it sounds great, I think I would rather have my kid not fight at all. We're too filled with bias and anger to act like vigilantes. I still can't breathe through one nostril from fighting as a teen- and looking back, it seems like I was 'right.' The culture is different now, and even though it seems soft, it's probably for the best: I think a kid can be taught to deal with most hard problems without having to fight. Self reliance is about more than just being tough. Still, some people really do have it coming; locker-slammers do deserve a good beatdown. And yeah, toys were better then. They still used PVC instead of all hard, cheap plastic. Now it's the picture on the box that they are selling to kids, and not the awesome toy.
I'm not sure if I agree with you or not. I mean, on one hand, self-reliance is central to my life. And I definitely didn't get it easy as a kid, either. By age 10, my summers were spent on the job carrying 2x4s. So I count myself as a reasonably capable problem-solver who is also self-sufficient. But I payed an uncomfortable price to become that way, and since the tragic human end is far more likely to come at us slowly* instead of rapidly, I'm not sure that any type of mental preparation will help us, and in the meantime, such cultural changes would also come with the extra baggage of paranoia and conspiratorial thinking, which we see so often correlated with the 'prepper' mindset. *As to your read of history and its tendency towards rapid calamity, I will admit that- from a certain perspective. The Spanish flu comes to mind. Yet, even in that case, the stage was first set by overcrowding, poor hygiene, ignorance, et cetera. Most "sudden" catastrophes will seem long in the making with enough of an in-depth, post-hoc analysis of the surrounding events. Things lead up to things. All of the human tragedies we have faced thus far have been overcome. They all have that in common, so I'm not sure that we _can_ generalize yet about genuine existential threats. But forget all that: I'm drifting off topic and forgetting the point. My point is simply this: you and I are having this civil, hypothetical discussion via electronic device- which means that we have already become far too out of touch to be prepared for any actual disaster. Maybe a person _can't_ be prepared ever, and training oneself to be 'tough' is a waste of time? When we are forced to, we rise to difficult occasions. I think the most useful tools to have when that time comes would look more like 1) problem-solving ability 2) adaptability, and 3) mental stability. More than just general 'toughness,' at least. Still, you are right: coddling _does_ strangle the development of confidence. It's admittedly a *tough* problem!
the smell of play doh still brings back memories. still smells the same....was great to make stuff... throw at your wall to see if it stuck. . dam the 80's..... my generation ROCKED
I was one of the lucky ones, born in the 70's - grew up in the 80's. There was nothing better than Saturday morning cartoons, 80's toys, playing outside with friends. I would go back in a heart beat and leave this hi-tech, fast paced world behind.
Amen to that.
Same here!
I'm now 45 and I grew up in this era..jeez i miss it so much.
Me too
Rob S same wow !44 now what happened almost magical
Born in '73.
I find it incredibly sad that I found more entertainment in these eleven minutes and 34 seconds of commercials than hours of anything I have watched on tv recently.
#Longlivethe80's
I miss getting prizes out the cereal's boxes in the 80s
I miss that also i swear im 40 plus & that still one of my great memories getting the prize Saturday morning no school! 😂😂😂
Yeah when the prizes were actually worth it!
Saturday as a kid in 80s wake up watch Saturday morning shows while eating cereal then go outside riding bikes around all day and hanging out with friends
After breakfast and cartoons, we would grab our bikes and head for sawgrass park. We would play in the woods, unsupervised, for hours. Then we all knew when it was time to go home for lunch. Bologna, cheese, and mayo sammiches with some potato chips on the side. Better days.....way better days.
Don’t forget to do your chores first, before you ride your bikes.
@@velveetaslingshot Yeah, it was at the point where your stomach was telling you, hey, feed me! lol
I dedicate this comment to my beautiful Mom..... at times we didn't always see eye to eye.... but as a single parent back in these times you did your best and worked so hard.... words can't describe how much I thank you and love you. ❤ you eternally..... God bless.
9INER EMPIRE weird. Go see a therapist
I never thought I'd be using the internet to watch old TV commercials but I'm loving this! I miss those days
The 80's was the golden era to be a kid. Toys, cartoons, and the birth of video games... all were at their prime.
35 years ago. Where the hell did the time go 😔
The 80's was a good time for children I really miss the 80's too bad for children today.
Kids back then would eat today's children for breakfast
I remember all of those commercials. What a time to be a kid, and we'll never experience it again.
I’ve been watching 70’s and 80’s commercials from my childhood for like 7 years now and I’m 49 years old,wish I could go back 🤓
Turning 50 this year myself, and these bring back so many great memories.
im 49 too. we did our preteens in the 70's and our teens in the 80's. we literally won the "decade lottery" and spent our best years in the best times. nobody else except us knows how awesome life was to grow up like that. the people that TRULY missed out are people who aren't us ha ha! getting older is awesome because they all depend on us to relate how awesome life actually is! not a day goes by that im not appreciative of the awesomeness of all of that! but i do know what you mean.
I came here from the 1984 animated 7up commercial (Bette Davis eyes). I have no words for how I felt upon hearing that ad again after so many years. 😌
This was a magical era to be a kid. I'm glad I experienced it. ☺
Yes it sure was! Perfect time be kid!😊
Mixed feelings about watching these things. They are fun and bring back great memories from a great time. But they also bring with it a bit of sadness and melancholy as well. Oh how I wish I could go back...
Yep pretty sad to look how the world is today compared to how great it was back then.
the 80's were the best. I am glad that I grew up in the 80's. The cereal was great, the toys were great. Thanks for the great memories.
Sorry for those who didn't grow up in this era. I know everyone says it but we had the coolest childhood.
Man, i am so grateful that i was born in 1973...! So i could witness all the great stuff of the 80`s as a kid and teenager. Star Wars, He-Man, VHS, it was all really great...! Even the Commercials!!! Thank you, life...!!!
You are lucky that you grew up in an era that kicked off one of the largest franchises of all time, Star Wars. If you were alive during this time I envy and also think you are so cool to be able to play with one of a kind original toys like the jabba set.
Thor Boysen Me too!
I'm not ashamed to admit I'm wiping away tears as I watch this.
Jenny N me too. I miss my childhood. Remember Children's Palace store? Or Chuckie Cheese when it was awesome. The big cheese you could climb through, animated singing characters. The 80's was magical. That bonkers candy was awesome. At the Ohio State fair they had a Bonkers funhouse. When you got to the end, they gave a handful of bonkers candy out. Lol! Gosh kids don't know what they are missing today. Our childhood was fun, safer, and every neighbor were friends. Even summer night tag and catching fireflies was memories you cherish.
THE SINGLE GREATEST INSTALLMENT OF THIS SERIES EVER!!!
I miss the 80s!! This looks like Saturday to me!
Yup definitely is a Saturday cartoon. Brings back alot of memories.👍
Best days of my life, born in 75' He-man, G.I. Joe's, and Transformers were my favorite, glued to watching my episodes with my collection for hours everyday, and remember Saturday morning cartoons😀😁and my WWF wrestlers also with my ring lol.
Same here. My big thing was Star Wars at 1st, but like with all kids we quickly moved on to the next big thing which was Transformers.... but I also had all these Star Wars & GI Joe playsets. So I combined them all: Terrordrome= Autobot HQ. Snake Mountain= Decepticon HQ. Millenium Falcon= Autobot transport. Imperial shuttle= decepticon transport. My folks made me a table in the basement I used for all my "battles". As I got to 10 or 11, they all migrated to my bedroom but the table in the other room was still used as "another planet". There was always a continuity to my storylines, and in my 20's I started writing stories based on that continuity.
When I was in 2nd grade, we were allowed to bring our favorite Christmas present from that year to class for show and tell. Mine was the Return Of The Jedi Jabba's Palace playset. This was a wonderful compilation of commercials. Some of my all time favorite toys represented here.
I was 5 or 6 i remember bringing my x wing fighter to school my bestie would do battles in the sandbox on the playground he was han solo lol
CMB76 ...star wars toys as a kid got everyones attention!
I was 10 in 1984. Maybe a little too old but would secretly watch the hulk and spiderman. Such an innocent time compared to how f'd up it is now.
so true dont get me started really no real cartoons for kids anymore
Miss those days. The cool thing now is being a dad and giving all my toys to my kids. My daughter has all my Star Wars stuff and Godzilla on display in her room, my middle son has all my GI Joe and some transformers, and the youngest has all my Legos and the rest of the transformers.
Being born in the late 70s and growing up in the 80s was pretty damn awesome. I heard the 70s were pretty nice too. You never see kids outside today doing anything. We lived outside and came home and dark.
Born just after JFK was buried here, (1963), and we were told by our parents, "Just be home before the street lights come on.".
We met our friends on bicycles, and many of them are real friends to this day.
I was born in 77 and I'm thankful I grew up in the 80s and 90s.
Born 78 😆 yup grew up with this.
Ahhh yes...remember when you would choose your cereal based on which one had the coolest toy inside!!! And then get home and immediately dig down to the bottom of the box to get that toy!
Chris C lmao yup
Or flip the inner bag over and the toy is on top.
Cris C - Some cereals used to have some pretty cool toys back then- the only thing that sucked was growing up with 4 more brothers and fighting over the damn thing!!😂
Yep
I want to go back in time to the 80s, back to being a kid with no sorrows and dream about having all these toys!
I want to go back :(
I'm 15 about to be 16 and I wanna go back too! 😭
I wasn’t born until ‘88, but I want to go back too! While my parents were fortunate to be young adults during the 80s, it really seemed like the best time to be a kid.
Man when life was simple and fun everyday especially saturday morning.😢😢😢😢
I wish that we could turn back the clock & the calendar too the 1980,s where all of these t.v. commercials & shows were still on the air !!! 😢😭😭😭 Man the memories are haunting us !!!
I died laughing at "One To Grow On". That kids face broke me, lol!
So, thanks to this commercial we now know where Keenan Thompson from SNL got his start
Gary Miller
Not sure if you're joking, but that's not him. He was only five when these aired.
I was joking....I know on All That, but it sure did look like him!!! I love all your videos, by the way!!!
I remember seeing that one when I was a kid!
Wow. The Cocoa Pebbles flying disk! I remember shoving my arm down many boxes of cereal to get the toy at the bottom. The fun we could have with a crappy piece of plastic was amazing. :)
Me too! and the cereal boxes would be left fat and misshapen because of it. LOL!
Oh man, 80's cereal was the best!
I remember every week my mom went grocery shopping, my brother and I would literally spend the entire time in the cereal aisle picking out which cereal we wanted. We each got our own box (thank god) and would always base it on what came in the box, lol.
My favorites were C3PO's, Count Chocula/Boo Berries, and for the short amount of time it was out-- Nintendo cereal. With the 2 separate bags, one of Super Mario Bros and one of Zelda.
There was nothing like 80's cereal!
dont forget the nerds cereal where if you saved up the proofs of purchased they would mail you a cereal bowl where you put cereal in 1 side and milk in the other and you lift up the divider and it all goes together. Ahh those where the days.
I usually stayed away from mail ins. I was more of the instant gratification type of kid. I needed my toy surprise in the box!! 😂
I loved my cookie crisp cop truck toy.
Aaron Asher Loved E.T. cereal, Ate enough to get the mail in for the Michael Jackson casette tape and read along book. Wish I still had that!
Fuck yeah
So many memories come flooding back watching these. Oh the 80's (sigh) crazy ads like these, pestering the parents to buy them these toys. Remember Saturday morning cartoons, outside fun with friends, kids interacting with their parents, the next door neighbours actually talked, lol. If only kids today experienced it, instead of sitting in their rooms with headphones on playing stupid war games, weirded out games ect. Sorry for going on here. So the 80's, if only things hadn't of changed. Thanks for the reminders! :)
Gawd, a different and wonderful innocent time. I was 13 and had my action figures in front of me while watching these very shows..thanks for posting..I miss this era.
OMG I'm gonna cry. I need a Time Machine!
Ikr, these times making us go back to this. 80's was a good! Never appreciate it till now🤗
Who watched their Sat morning cartoons on a big console TV in the living room?? 😏
I love watching this, its like my own personal time machine. Being a kid in the 80s was awesome!!!!
Yep, born in 74 so I was at the perfect age to enjoy Saturday morning cartoons through most of the 80's.
agree, definitely would enjoy going back for Saturday mornings!
Man you never lied about that. The best time to be a kid. It's a shame these kids of today would never now what really being a kid is.
I was there glued to the set for most of these.
Yeah I remember every single one of these commercials. Nostalgia. Fond memories love being an 80s kid miss those days
The skeletor kids face. Im literally dying right now 😂🤣🤣
That was the best time of my life. Thank u 4bring back the good
Ah yes, 83 was quite a year. Great year for Jedi, GI Joe and Masters of the Universe. Who would of known that just one year later Transformers would take over.
74 ... FOUR ... LIFE !!! 80'S Toys , Cartoons & Music was so much better , Best times ever 🤗😁👍
Hardcore since ‘74.
Back when kids could be kids
The Lord should have kept us in the 1980s: we were happy then.
⛪️
Being a child of the late '90s/early 2000s (and Irish), I find it fascinating and weird to see what kids in America were growing up with in terms of TV and ads in the '80s. Really give you an idea of where the '80s nostalgia boom came from.
The 80's were the best days of my life
I born in the 70s and loved the 80s music movies great times
Thanks for taking the time to put these together. I like how you include the show "bumpers". It's a nice nostalgic transition in and out of the commercials :)
0:38
Imagine being the poor guy who had to throw the glider like 200 times while the entire film crew stands ready, waiting for you to finally nail a good throw with the glider doing a smooth spin.
Memories man! Loved the 80s
I’d like it if commercials were still like this
I was 12 at the time and remember every last one of these - great memories - good positive kid-friendly TV and commercials
Wow...what a trip this was. Many of these commercials sounded familiar to me, some I had completely forgotten. I used to love Pink Lemonade-flavored Bubble Yum lol
The Aleman ...if you look close that was Bull from night court on the beach in the bubblegum commercial
They need to bring Bonkers back. It can be done.
I heard a couple of years ago that they were coming back but haven't seen or heard anything since :(
There should be a 80s tv channel with all the old commercials and movies and TV shows that way I can have my Friday TGIF shows back lol
William Reese Yes!!!!! Friday nights were the best. The Incredible Hulk, The Dukes of Hazard!!!!
Omg we should push for this... i just saw a new channel called Comet that's all Outer Space movies, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits etc. So why not an all 80's channel, cartoons from 6am till 9...TGIF , Double Dare, Mr Wizard, A team, Fraggle Rock, Gummy Bears, Rescue Rangers, Thundercats, GI-Joe, Transformers, Muppet Babies, Reading Rainbow... (i know there's a thousand more...) it could literally run for years and years without one rerun and cost the station very little..
William Reese that would be sooo cool. I would definitely watch faithfully
This volume and the previous one are some of the best you've posted! There's just something about commercials pre-1985. Nice video quality too.
Thank you for these commercials. I missed them in my childhood because I lived in Germany from 1983 to 1988. It's great to hear Cassey Kassem's voice again.
I'm the kid in the he-man commercial...suffice to say I had a bad hair day that day...I remember my mom telling the director that she could get it right, but there was no time....we filmed for about three hours and got a shit type sandwich and apple juice...I asked if I could keep the figure, and was told NO..lol.....it was soooooooo long ago
It's always cool to hear from the people who were in the commercials that I post here.
The reason they wouldn't let you keep the action figure is probably because it was a sample prototype. Most of the figures in commercials back then were hand painted and designed to look better on camera and in close-ups than the ones you'd get in the store.
@@80sCommercialVault as a funny follow up, after I was done shooting, my mom told me she would take me to j.c. penny's and get me one,,,and like a big baby, I go..no!! I don't want one..lol. also , in case anyone cares,,,I did two more commercials and a couple of catalog ads, and my career was over,,just didn't have that special something I guess
Wow. You answered a thirty year old question I had. The answer is sad.
buttgoo magoo that is so freakin cool! Thanks for the inside scoop on doin toy commercials in the 80s. I would’ve loved to have been in an 80s toy commercial, but then again, I would’ve reacted the same way you did. Forget this crummy sandwich, I’ll take a few action figures pleeeease!
I remember being disappointed the first time I tried bonkers candy because giant fruit didn't fall on me.
ClumzorZ ...i forgot Bonkers existed lol
@2:48 nah those kids aren't too old for a big wheel... By today's standards they are. Kids today stop playing at age 6 and immediately become pre-teens at 7 years old. On their cell phones and on social media all day...
I'm 37, 6'6 tall, and I still want a sidewinder right now.
2:56 Well it does come with the stunt shifter!
@Mico Berta Its on. Time to check out Amazon.com
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together, very rad to have videos from childhood!
Born in '72..... I really miss the early 80's. 💪💪💪💪
Mr.G born in 77 and also miss thr 80s! It went downhill in the 90s with toys
Back when cereal, toys, and cartoons were simple but amazing.
and still owned by individual companies
I don't know, it all seems like a bunch of crap. And I was a kid back then. Well, actually, I was in high school in the 80s. The kids' crap I saw on TV was in the 1970s.
Thanks for the blast from the past.
Bonkers candy commercial still funny
Wow! I felt like I was a little kid again, watching Saturday Morning cartoons. Commercials were better in the 80s. Everything was better in the 80's lol
Kids of today are like wtf??? You mean y’all had to use your own imagination....and play.........OUTSIDE!?!?
Truth.
take a moment to appreciate the irony of you posting this on a video about television commercials
I love watching old commercials even though I wasn't alive for them that makes them cool seriously they give me a warm cozy feeling inside
Those were the great times of great Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercials back in the eighties.
I am LOVING that goofy little girl who claps with excitement over the Play Doh 'Fun Flyer.' Please...no one let her have actual Play Doh. She might not be able to handle it!!! Lol
These were great, they gave me great nostalgia. Growing up in the 80's was a great time to be a kid. Thank you for sharing these!
My youth ..wow this brings back memories . I miss the 80s 😎
Fun to see all those again! C3PO’s are my all time favorite cereal. I wish I could still eat them. The 80s for me were all about Star Wars, Transformers & Nintendo. I still have my Rubik’s Cube from Christmas 82 brand new never used it.
"Tonight on Diff'rent Strokes, will Willis be voted prom queen?" LOL WTF
It's a poorly worded, sensationalist promo. The episode involves Dana Plato's character wanting the school Letterman club to admit girls, which Willis is opposed to. So he enters the school beauty pageant to prove his point. There's not even a prom in the episode.
I wanna see Spider-man and Hulk now. So fun watching commercials!!
When life was simple....
The 80's was great. Listening to thriller on repeat, playing with those toys, snorting mountains of blow, and yelling at my kids to get a job if they want a their own skeletor. Oh, where does the time go?
Two hu ..savage!! Lol
I do miss the 70s and 80s! Had a great time! Playing out side with my friends!
Terry Durham the best and most exciting era of toys! I still have several of my original Star Wars toys and a couple of GI Joe figures
I loved 80s toy commercials! The narration, the editing, the acting, the hair & clothes. And they all end with, "Each sold separately," which made the whole array of available accessories "sold separately" all the more tantalizing to me. Which was the whole point, I suppose. Lol
I especially remember the Hershey's chocolate milk commercial. I would've been 11 years old when these commercials aired. Later that same year, the Transformers toys, cartoon and comic book would debut. It sure was an awesome time to be a kid!
Somewhere... In my parent's attic.... Is the Star Wars band
I instantly got a lump in my throat watching this....
I was born 1996, but can we all just take a few moments in memory of when commercials were entertaining?
I recall the gi joe gliders never flew like they did in the commercial!! More like falling with style!
Thank you for sharing this....
I remember buying the gi joe glider and let me tell ya it did not fly or glide at all !! Pretty much like throwing a rock nothing like the commercial flying like that 😂😂
Of course these things very rarely (if ever) live up to the commercial :-(
I don't care what people say, I liked the Ewoks.
Also, this is probably one of the best volumes yet. Star Wars, G.I. Joe, He-Man, and even Mr T...
I used to watch the Droids/Ewok hour, but that was like mid-80s I'm sure on ABC (wasn't it?). I didn't care much for the Droids portion and would watch the Ewok portion.
ssjup81 I think the entire series is on UA-cam, having watched it now it was a pretty good show for the time.
I terribly miss orange flavored Fruit Roll-ups and grape flavored Bonkers. Loved them!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow that sidewinder cycle looks awesome...I just had a normal big wheel haha
A kid on my street had one. The stunt shifter broke after like a week lol
I had the CHIPS themed big wheel. Probably rode it a 1000 miles on car port
C3P0's cereal tasted like sweet cardboard.
80's..the GOAT decade simple and true..
Mr. T...used to love that cartoon. The Ewok commercial was cool too. Don't recall those at all. I'm sure if I would've known of them, I would've asked "Santa" for one. lol
One to Grow On! OMG, I so remember that! I remembered the animation and how it'd be a different celebrity every time! I love these nostalgia trips. I said it once, I'll say it again. I'm glad I was born in 1981.
Wow. I miss my 80s childhood. Though toys are a lot more articulated today, techno toys are more advanced, and the likeness to action figure counterparts are much more detailed, I gotta say that I STILL find the 80s toys much better and the way they advertised was much better too. They knew how to appeal to us. Additionally, u saw many of these adds during Saturday morning cartoon blocks that lasted till noon and we all anticipated Saturday mornings with cool toons and several bowls of our favorite sugary goodness. MAN!!! Those were the days. Now what do kids have to look forward to? Text messages and over protected parents making a generation of wussies? Ugh
That sounded like an 80's movie! Perfect revenge. Still, even though it sounds great, I think I would rather have my kid not fight at all. We're too filled with bias and anger to act like vigilantes. I still can't breathe through one nostril from fighting as a teen- and looking back, it seems like I was 'right.'
The culture is different now, and even though it seems soft, it's probably for the best: I think a kid can be taught to deal with most hard problems without having to fight. Self reliance is about more than just being tough. Still, some people really do have it coming; locker-slammers do deserve a good beatdown.
And yeah, toys were better then. They still used PVC instead of all hard, cheap plastic. Now it's the picture on the box that they are selling to kids, and not the awesome toy.
I'm not sure if I agree with you or not. I mean, on one hand, self-reliance is central to my life. And I definitely didn't get it easy as a kid, either. By age 10, my summers were spent on the job carrying 2x4s. So I count myself as a reasonably capable problem-solver who is also self-sufficient. But I payed an uncomfortable price to become that way, and since the tragic human end is far more likely to come at us slowly* instead of rapidly, I'm not sure that any type of mental preparation will help us, and in the meantime, such cultural changes would also come with the extra baggage of paranoia and conspiratorial thinking, which we see so often correlated with the 'prepper' mindset.
*As to your read of history and its tendency towards rapid calamity, I will admit that- from a certain perspective. The Spanish flu comes to mind. Yet, even in that case, the stage was first set by overcrowding, poor hygiene, ignorance, et cetera. Most "sudden" catastrophes will seem long in the making with enough of an in-depth, post-hoc analysis of the surrounding events. Things lead up to things.
All of the human tragedies we have faced thus far have been overcome. They all have that in common, so I'm not sure that we _can_ generalize yet about genuine existential threats. But forget all that: I'm drifting off topic and forgetting the point. My point is simply this: you and I are having this civil, hypothetical discussion via electronic device- which means that we have already become far too out of touch to be prepared for any actual disaster. Maybe a person _can't_ be prepared ever, and training oneself to be 'tough' is a waste of time?
When we are forced to, we rise to difficult occasions. I think the most useful tools to have when that time comes would look more like 1) problem-solving ability 2) adaptability, and 3) mental stability. More than just general 'toughness,' at least.
Still, you are right: coddling _does_ strangle the development of confidence. It's admittedly a *tough* problem!
Un-broken and victorious Totally agreed!
One to grow on..back when tv cared abt people...sad
Aww, Bonkers...that was my candy of choice as a kid🥰
Back when Saturday morning cartoons were.... GOOD!
Anarchist86ed Yes there is, but apparently the one everybody is raving over is My Little Pony.
Jigglysaint
And by "everyone" you mean men who were children when these commercials aired on television.
I don't know about good, but definitely "fun", imo, although, granted, I was a bit young in '83.
This may be my fave volume yet. Thanks for all the bumpers. I turned 9 in this year.
the smell of play doh still brings back memories. still smells the same....was great to make stuff... throw at your wall to see if it stuck. .
dam the 80's..... my generation ROCKED
Holy crap I had one of those Fruity Pebbles Flying Discs!
So I.