Who remembers building muscle car model kits and blowing them up with firecrackers , pellet rifles, wood-burning kits, chemistry sets with real chemicals , "The Wedge" bicycle, lawn darts ..mini bikes, riding in the back of Dad's pick-up ...and we did it without a safety net.
+Mud Sh-sh-shark How did we ever survive, eh? Also the old "Be home at dark!" when we left the house at 8am and we were 8. We had the run of the world back then and a damn good respect for authority.
Mud Sh-sh-shark wow! Yes I remember all of that and so much more! My folks had no problem getting me and my brother out of the house. She had lots of trouble getting us back in before dark tho!!
I loved my mini bike, a little turquoise Hornet, she was - think I was in the 2nd grade when I got her. My girlfriends & I rode that thing til we were too big for it to pull both of us up the hill, then one of us would get off, meet the other at the top, get back on, & away we'd go! No helmets, either. As a matter of fact, the only time I ever downed it was due to wearing Carol's brother's, w/a yellow plastic face-guard she, behind me, kept flipping up & down while I was trying to steer. Got distracted & hit a little piece of gravel, which tipped us over, & she ran home crying cuz she'd tore a run in her pantyhose she'd been wearing under her shorts (LoL). I still have a divot out of my left shin where I needed a butterfly stitch I never got, yet another childhood battle-scar souvenir to add to my very unladylike collection.
@Lillymay Parker Well Miss, I guess it all depends on which decade you were a kid. I remember in the 70's, my folks telling me how much better the 50's were.
Stay Alive was a strategy game now made by Hasbro. Super Elastic Bubble Plastic was from Wham-O, but was banned due to the toxic chemicals in the compound. Master Mind was a skill based game, now made by Pressman.
Stay Alive: I thought it was "Sole Survivor" because that was in the catchphrase. "I'm the sole survivor!" But the game actually was Stay Alive. I think we had it. With 4 brothers, we had most of these toys eventually.
I had Tip-It. My brother & our friends loved it. I think it was a great game for teaching hand-eye coordination and careful movement. The last disk or two took real skill and patience to remove.
That Spirograph was one of the coolest things ever made. My sister and I each got one for Christmas in '77. And Operation...that was a blast. Anyone out there remember Superlastic Bubble Plastic?
Yeah - Superelastic Bubble Plastic! That stuff just had to be toxic, what an odor! Cool swirly colors, tho. Remember the crinkly popping sound it made after they'd deflate & u'd squish 'em between yr fingers & roll 'em into little balls strewn all over yr floor?
Notice how most games were family oriented.. don't see that anymore..I'm 60 now and the memories these commercials bring back put a tear in my eyes.Times have gone to hell.
+James Russler Sr So True. Back in the 60s and 70s games were for families. Then in the 80s and 90s, game makers ignored families and centered on those 70s kids growing up and wanting to play with their adult friends (Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary etc). In the 00s game makers knew they were losing to video games so they tried making board games based on video games (Warhammer) and popular characters just to attract customers. Finally in the 10s, game makers just said "Screw this" and everyone went into the app making business so all of the kids can just play by themselves online or their tablets/phones (Minecraft, Candy Crush) and not be reminded that they spend every second weekend at Dad's house. Pretty soon we'll just have Virtual Reality and I bet one one of those VR experiences will feature a virtual family sitting around a table playing "Trouble". Ah...full circle!
3D printing is upon us, and it's only going to get bigger. VR will be augmented with reality, people might just want reality more than VR. Interesting times.
I do that too have tears in my eyes when i watc the 70's toys n games and the tv shows like The Brady Bunchthose memories we all have in our minds are sentimental
Who remembers playing with a vial of mercury, I used to let a drop hit the floor and watch it explode in millions of little balls and then chase those down and collect them in a rag. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with me?.....😂
I had that and was bored with it , Until I got the military one and made 100s of oil drums, sand bags and other gear for my Marx army men. They deteriorated with age
@@harrybriscoe7948 I still remember that I liked making creeple people and my brother would always have a fit because I used so much goop making them. That was back when you would set the plates down in the oven. The light bulb ones came later.... good times
@@markymark903 I had the one with the stove and no insulation on the spring handle. That came later . One thing of it was the olive drab was hard t come by and usually used the black goop. One mold you can make an army man . Which I did not do often . Was a waste of goop then you can get a bag of army men for under $1.00 The mold for the soldier was 2 piece mold
+ALLNEWSUX You got that right. But you know what, 20-30 years from today people who are kids now will be saying the same exact thing: "Man, remember those 2000s commercials, shows, and games--they were so much better than today's!"
The Clackers got outlawed by the "safety Nazis" along with Lawn Darts, in the late '70's. The Clackers would, on occasion, shatter, surprise, surprise. And the Lawn Darts...well what goes up, can kill you....or so they claimed. I'm surprised BB Guns didn't get the axe, but I'm sure the safety Nazis tried their best :P I really miss all the different Plastigoop molds we used have, soldiers, super heroes, bugs, skeletons, I think we had about 20 molds, and some were 2-parts to make a whole figure, front & back. We even had a plastic injection molding machine for cowboys and indians. We had wood-burning irons, and chemistry sets, electronic sets to build radios, electric cars and trains you had to build, you name it! Most of us had actual trade skills before we even got to High-School! The fun toys were apparently too dangerous for the safety Nazis, so they had to be put down. At 13 I had overhauled a minibike motor, and was working on my parents' cars. Now kids only have one skill, punching "smart-phone" buttons with 2 thumbs, no wonder they all do drugs, they're brain dead by age 14!
I went thru several sets of glass Klik-Klaks (sp?) Clic-Clacs? - as a kid. Eventually, they'd get cracks in 'em & lil' grains & slivers, sometimes entire chunks, would fly off. I remember hearing some kids got hurt when that happened & the glass went into their eyes, guess I was lucky, no toy's worth getting an eye put out, but the later plastic ones were lame, just the same.
Totally agree!! Video games have their appeal, but our toys were so much better. My cousins and I spent hours shooting cans (and yes, bottles) with BB guns and we never managed to do any damage to each other. Creepy Crawlers, Fun Flowers and so much more...we would sell or trade the finished products as well as show off scorched fingers from touching the molds too soon. Ha, I have a bookcase that still has Plastigoop stains! So glad to be a 60's kid; these videos bring it all back and that is priceless.
Toys with some element of danger taught valuable lessons earlier in life, and built confidence as you learned to respect the inherent danger, but still enjoy the freedom and responsibility of both. By comparison to my grandparents, one of whom was born in the 19th Century, we still led fairly sheltered lives, but odds still favored those of us who used our brains occasionally, lol!
"...and with refills you can make Buggs Bunny or Bozo the clown!" I must have heard that commercial a thousand times. The theme song is glued to the back of my mind.
My forearms started to hurt when I saw the Clacker Balls! Lots of toys on here I forgot about. I warped my Lite-Brite using a too strong wattage bulb, lol!
That's cos everyone nowadays wants to either play video games or have there nose stuck to there computer morning noon & night. One more reason there's an obesity problem in this country. Kids are getting lazy anymore. Sad but true.
Great memories. What is sad that many of these toys were American made. Now, a large number of popular toys are foreign made, taking away some good paying U.S. jobs in the process.
You are definitely right about that! Not only that, almost everything we buy has something made in China or something like that and is made so cheep that it breaks in a year.
And they're made so cheaply. I've been trying to buy my granddaughter some of the old games and they are so poorly made that they don't even play well. Don't Spill The Beans used to have actual beans in it. Now they are light plastic pieces that are flat and almost look like tiny potato chips. You can fill up the pot without it even flipping.
In Canada ,Those commercials was mostly played several weeks before the Christmas holiday and they use to bring so much joy. I use to played with at 75% of those wonderful toys. Some much great memories and wonderful Christmas spirit when I was young.
My son actually has one (gifted to him by my bro) and your memory serves you correct. You could DIE touching that implement of torture when it's plugged in. I remember phoning around as a kid looking for "Plastigoop" and no one ever knew what I was talking about.
I remember all these. There are many many more. Many of these go back long before the 70's. It's cool to read the comments and read how people remember creepy crawlers, easy bake ovens, cooties, spirographs, and the OH so violent and damaging to children - the ever famous, Rock'em Sock'em Robots. You-know it's funny, I always wanted that toy, I never got it. I did get a ton of G.I. Joe's though.
Anyone remember a toy called "fidget". It was a disk filled with an oil that was all different colors, you pushed on it with your finger to make different patterns. It was so cool.
I had the SSP Smash em up Derby, when I was kid. Our house had a very long stairway. I sent one of those cars out of my room over the stairwell just as my dad was walking by and it crash tested right into the side of his head. Needless to say it went back into the box and put away for awhile....
I do remember those. I didn't have Incredible Edibles...I wonder how edible they'd be by today's standards? Mind you, Pizza Pops are still available...
I was born in 1969, so I remember many of these tv commercials growing up as a kid in the 1970s. Smash up derby set, frankenberry and count chocula cereals, lite brite, tracer racers, etc. Damn, but I wanted some of those toys. My family was dirt poor and we couldnt afford store bought toys, advertised on tv or not. I did have a toy collection, but it pretty much consisted of mis-matched odds and ends, bits and pieces, that were handed down to me by friends or found in the streets somewhere. Toy commercials, like those (and being a long time watcher of tv, I saw thousands of them), served only to torture me.
I was born in 69 too and we had salvation army toys,not too bad but now I have too much sh*t,it's nice stuff but it's in my way and makes for too much cleaning...go figure!
Holy Dogsh*t-- I actually had that Bing Bang Bong game (got it as an Easter gift one year). God almighty that thing was an exercise in frustration, trying to get those damn ball bearings to go where you wanted. It led to numerous outbursts, fits, and fights with siblings. I swear that damn toy shaved years off my youth!
My older sister had all these toys. I was so envious. The best day ever was when she gave me her old Simon. But I wasn't allowed to have Creepy Crawlers, which had been discontinued when I was old enough to play, :(
'Rock Em Sock Em Robots', what a mofo seriously had-to-have game. It simply rocked. 'Battling Tops' was a stroke of genius in its day and I still have my original game from 1968. The K-Tel 'Superstar' game would still have traction in the 21st century for the fans of K-Tel records. I had an SSP Racer although I could never get it to do what it did in the TV commercial. Spirograph was God. I remember when Lite-Brite came out, it was magical...never had one. The game 'Rebound' was serious shiznitz when you played with your cousins during the Christmas break.
Man these commercials bring back so many memoires when I was a kid! I was born in 61 so I remember The Trouble commercial, SSP racers, Battling Tops etc, I had the original Hot Wheel cars when they first came out too -- I wish I would have kept them they are probably in some land fill now LOL.
WOW! Thank you for this video! We had all of these! My mom still has all of our old over-played games & toys stored! My favorites were Chinese checkers, Husker Du (Spelling?), connect four & yahtzee
@@tulliebelle Ohhh, a friend in first grade had the Bambi set. It was so fun. I wanted Colorforms, but I never got any, which is odd. I had other good toys, though.
J Bar Thanks J Bar! I honestly just wanted commercials that reached into the deep recesses of my past. I’m tickled that so many of you share the same memories of these toys and commercials.
This is such a kick-ass compilation, Moxxi! I especially like how you added great quality picures of each toy after its commercial. Looking forward to watching any others you've created.
@@kenworthNH I remember the computer they said they were going to market . There stock went up around 1,000% in a week all the Board members got rich. And the computer was a flop
i seen 'em all, played with most of these at other family's houses. the ssp cars were my favorite. I had the derby set. finding all of the pieces after they crashed was often tough.. but sometimes a drag. if a key in front of the wasn't depressed, only a wheel or trunk lid would come off. there was two or three evil knievel sets that operated on the same principle. a central gyroscope flywheel. these were heavy toys with a lot of momentum, moderately destructive. the ones with all kinds of adornments on 'em, soon were without! they moved rapidly, even on carpeted floors, and hurt quite a little bit when they struck you in the foot or ankle. forget the marks they would deposit on furnishings!
Oh I remember them. I sucked at Operation and I got an EBO once, after I finished the cakes that came with it, we were going to go buy some refills, and they were almost as the entire oven set and even as a child, I told my granddaddy not to bother , it was too expensive LOL
janice lyons I had both of them. I remember the Easy Bake Oven in the late 1960s was kind of a light turquoise color-nothing like they look like now. I used to end up eating most of the cake mix before I baked it!
Gnip Gnop was great. You just sat there wildly slapping the pedals for however long. Years later, in the 90s, a coworker of mine mentioned how he wish he still had his Gnip Gnop as it would be a useful game for adults to work out their aggressions.
I've been to the future. Now I'm back to report that in the future, humans are in the ring with robots controlling the mechanical hand levers. It's not pretty. Especially when a human's block gets knocked off.
These commercials were brilliant because most of these toys and games would keep the average kid entertained for about ten minutes before it got put away never to see daylight again. But the commercials made them seem like so much fun that every kid just had to have them.
popvinnik We had a Spirogragh. We used it to death. Friends of ours had the Operation game. We played it a lot - until the electric connection didn't work anymore.
Spirograph was cool, but never did master the more complex designs the ads displayed. To make some of them, if memory serves, u needed to purchase extra parts or the deluxe edition, which I did not have - always made me feel like I'd been gypped.
Toys from the 70's ruled! I had that Spirograph set, the Cooties, Operation, Lite Brite and that Trouble board game. Bug Out and Bing Bang Boing I never heard of before, but if I had a BBB set as a kid, I would've had a blast with that. My parents probably would've been pissed after stepping on those metal ball bearings all the time!
+6672rock I had Bing Bang Boing as a kid and it was fun, but it was honestly kinda short lived. I really wanted Lite Brite and did get it one year but then realized it took a lot of planning and patience, which are two things I never received for my birthdays or Christmas. Maybe this year!!
I loved Cootie when I was little (& Mr. Potato Head). Played Trouble long after I was no longer small. Always wanted a Lite-Brite, but never got one. My friend Carol had one I'd play w/at her house. Once the pattern sheets wore out u had to buy replacements, unless u were willing to get creative & make yr own designs.
I ran Before/After School programs in the nineties.....used to go to swap meets and garage sales and bought many of those games.....(Battling Tops, KerPlunk, ReBound)...gotta say those kids absolutely LOVED those old games....it was especially cool when their parents would join them...brought back good old memories...some things are just so timeless.
Hey Will. I used to be the director of a before/after school program for about 10 years up until 2009. And yes, my kids loved classic games. I found a new version of Battling tops at K-Mart, they used it til it broke. They loved Perfection, Blip, Kerplunk, Shoot The Moon, Mastermind, Trouble and others. They loved my classic action figures and View Masters, too. People think kids today. won't like anything non "hi-tech", but the truth is, most of them love it.
Anybody remember "The Green Ghost" game? I never had it as a kid, however about 15 years ago I bought it online on Marx Toys website where they use to sell vintage re-produced toys from the 60's and 70's. Great game. I use to play it with my daughter, we both enjoyed it.
@@michaelpohas2608 They tell you to put it under a light to basically "charge" the glowing element but after a few minutes your in the dark, but its a temporary thrill.
I want those days back.
Just hold on to the memories. It's all any of us can do.
many of us do
@James Spingola vote blue
@James Spingola You've been doing too much Pufnstuf if you think votes can bring back the 70's.
Agree!
Great touch of adding photos of the game after each commercial.
+ramairluvr Thanks! I thought it would be a bonus to see the toys as we remember them. Glad you liked it - thanks for taking a moment to comment!
Who remembers building muscle car model kits and blowing them up with firecrackers , pellet rifles, wood-burning kits, chemistry sets with real chemicals , "The Wedge" bicycle, lawn darts ..mini bikes, riding in the back of Dad's pick-up ...and we did it without a safety net.
+Mud Sh-sh-shark How did we ever survive, eh? Also the old "Be home at dark!" when we left the house at 8am and we were 8. We had the run of the world back then and a damn good respect for authority.
hell yeah i remember all that. loved my chemistry set and many burns from the woodburner.and still alive
Mud Sh-sh-shark wow! Yes I remember all of that and so much more! My folks had no problem getting me and my brother out of the house. She had lots of trouble getting us back in before dark tho!!
I loved my mini bike, a little turquoise Hornet, she was - think I was in the 2nd grade when I got her. My girlfriends & I rode that thing til we were too big for it to pull both of us up the hill, then one of us would get off, meet the other at the top, get back on, & away we'd go! No helmets, either. As a matter of fact, the only time I ever downed it was due to wearing Carol's brother's, w/a yellow plastic face-guard she, behind me, kept flipping up & down while I was trying to steer. Got distracted & hit a little piece of gravel, which tipped us over, & she ran home crying cuz she'd tore a run in her pantyhose she'd been wearing under her shorts (LoL). I still have a divot out of my left shin where I needed a butterfly stitch I never got, yet another childhood battle-scar souvenir to add to my very unladylike collection.
Mud Sh-sh-shark jumping friend built sketchy ramps and racking yourself LOL
2:22 I won a spelling contest in third grade, in 1970, and my prize was Battling Tops! What memories!
We had the best toys and games in the 60’s and 70’s!!!!!!
As a Genz kid I can confirm this. I’m jealous of these toys.
Glad I grew up in the 70s. We had the greatest toys
The 70's was the best time to be a kid. I MISS those days.
Jay Stein yes 164 kid here but 1974 was the best times to grow up a
we played OUTSIDE back then & were so tired when we went in the house....unlike todays crap
And now we have toys like buttheads: "their heads are butts"
@Lillymay Parker
Well Miss, I guess it all depends on which decade you were a kid. I remember in the 70's, my folks telling me how much better the 50's were.
We played a lot of board games back in the day. Monopoly, Risk, Life, etc.
i had smash up derby and barn stormers and steve austin' but the jingle to smadh ip hill billy😜😛
I had Monopoly and Life.😃
My brothers had the electric football game. We would laugh our butts off every time the players spun around in circles.
We got that one for Xmas 1970 I believe. Total waste of money as it was never played with outside of Christmas day
Or you can turn up the power and watch them jump around
And it took forever to set up and run one play complete junk!!
Does anyone remember a game called Stay Alive? Or how about super elastic bubble plastic? Master Mind game or water rockets? Those were the days.
Stay Alive was a strategy game now made by Hasbro.
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic was from Wham-O, but was banned due to the toxic chemicals in the compound.
Master Mind was a skill based game, now made by Pressman.
AFTERBURNER I loved Master Mind!! We used to play games all day. I miss the 70s
Stay Alive: I thought it was "Sole Survivor" because that was in the catchphrase. "I'm the sole survivor!" But the game actually was Stay Alive. I think we had it. With 4 brothers, we had most of these toys eventually.
what happened to ants in the pants, tip it and also don;t spill the beans LOL thanks for the reminder
Yes! & Pie-Face, Hi-Ho, Cheerio! & later, Don't Wake Daddy.
Both Ants In The Pants & Don't Spill The Beans are still available & now made by Hasbro.
Had them as a kid good old day wish I could go back better day not like to day kids where kids .
I had Ants in the Pants.😃
I had Tip-It. My brother & our friends loved it. I think it was a great game for teaching hand-eye coordination and careful movement. The last disk or two took real skill and patience to remove.
That Spirograph was one of the coolest things ever made. My sister and I each got one for Christmas in '77. And Operation...that was a blast. Anyone out there remember Superlastic Bubble Plastic?
Northboy70 yes that plastic stuff was very cool smell tho
Yeah - Superelastic Bubble Plastic! That stuff just had to be toxic, what an odor! Cool swirly colors, tho. Remember the crinkly popping sound it made after they'd deflate & u'd squish 'em between yr fingers & roll 'em into little balls strewn all over yr floor?
yep!
Yes Christmas time was great
i loved spirographs. we had them in the 1st grade in '83.
For those who never noticed.. Gnip Gnop was just Ping Pong spelled backwards.
my user name™ U are right!
my user name™ No, never noticed that. My sisters and I had that game; not sure what became of it.
I wonder if there’s any truth about ping-pong being named after GNIPGNOP After it came out and if one is related to the other
There was also a toy robot called TOBOR. They even mentioned it was ROBOT spelled backwards on the commercial.
Vague recollection of having played this as a kid. Not sure if we owned it or a friend had but we had no idea how to play.
The Easy bake oven - when flirting with fire was safe!
Rachel Manor it was a light bulb
I still have mine and it still works!
Creepy Crawlers. Now that was dangerous, but it taught all about avoiding hot surfaces along with fire safety.
@@rayh592Stop, Drop and Roll!!!!
So were chemistry sets
To this day, my brother and I say "buttah-fingahs".
LOL!
I loved the sound of the head popping up on the rock em sock em robots!!!
That was something I wanted for Christmas, but didn't get.
I am a Gen Z but I think since I saw the commercial I like rock em sock em robots
ker-plunk, and ice breaker too-YUP!!
I had Lite Brite too.I got it for XMAS 1974.
I just loved the ad jingle. Sounded so light, pretty and happy. Better days.
Me too!
I spent hours playing with Lite Brite.
Me, too.😃
Remember all this stuff, at one time I owned most of the stuff on here
Notice how most games were family oriented.. don't see that anymore..I'm 60 now and the memories these commercials bring back put a tear in my eyes.Times have gone to hell.
+James Russler Sr So True. Back in the 60s and 70s games were for families. Then in the 80s and 90s, game makers ignored families and centered on those 70s kids growing up and wanting to play with their adult friends (Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary etc). In the 00s game makers knew they were losing to video games so they tried making board games based on video games (Warhammer) and popular characters just to attract customers. Finally in the 10s, game makers just said "Screw this" and everyone went into the app making business so all of the kids can just play by themselves online or their tablets/phones (Minecraft, Candy Crush) and not be reminded that they spend every second weekend at Dad's house. Pretty soon we'll just have Virtual Reality and I bet one one of those VR experiences will feature a virtual family sitting around a table playing "Trouble". Ah...full circle!
3D printing is upon us, and it's only going to get bigger. VR will be augmented with reality, people might just want reality more than VR. Interesting times.
I do that too have tears in my eyes when i watc the 70's toys n games and the tv shows like The Brady Bunchthose memories we all have in our minds are sentimental
James Russler Sr, I agree, where has time gone? Brings back so many memories
Amen
I loved boo berry cereal
See? We had the GOOD TOYS when we were kids. lol
Who remembers playing with a vial of mercury, I used to let a drop hit the floor and watch it explode in millions of little balls and then chase those down and collect them in a rag.
Maybe that’s what’s wrong with me?.....😂
Does anybody remember the Creepy Crawlers 'Thing maker' set ?
I had that and was bored with it , Until I got the military one and made 100s of oil drums, sand bags and other gear for my Marx army men. They deteriorated with age
@@harrybriscoe7948 I still remember that I liked making creeple people and my brother would always have a fit because I used so much goop making them. That was back when you would set the plates down in the oven. The light bulb ones came later.... good times
@@markymark903 I had the one with the stove and no insulation on the spring handle. That came later . One thing of it was the olive drab was hard t come by and usually used the black goop. One mold you can make an army man . Which I did not do often . Was a waste of goop then you can get a bag of army men for under $1.00 The mold for the soldier was 2 piece mold
Commercials from the 60s and 70s are more entertaining than entire TV shows from the 2000s...
Stfu with that thoses times are over just live im todat
phynixxx3 Learn how to spell before you try to talk shit.
phynixxx3 Bwahahaha! You're a grade A moron but thanks for the laugh....
+phynixxx3 dumb ass!!!
+ALLNEWSUX You got that right. But you know what, 20-30 years from today people who are kids now will be saying the same exact thing: "Man, remember those 2000s commercials, shows, and games--they were so much better than today's!"
Smash up Derby comes with everything you see rite'chea. LOL
Had most of those games as a kid. _Rock-em Soc-em_ was one of our favorites.
The Clackers got outlawed by the "safety Nazis" along with Lawn Darts, in the late '70's. The Clackers would, on occasion, shatter, surprise, surprise. And the Lawn Darts...well what goes up, can kill you....or so they claimed. I'm surprised BB Guns didn't get the axe, but I'm sure the safety Nazis tried their best :P I really miss all the different Plastigoop molds we used have, soldiers, super heroes, bugs, skeletons, I think we had about 20 molds, and some were 2-parts to make a whole figure, front & back. We even had a plastic injection molding machine for cowboys and indians. We had wood-burning irons, and chemistry sets, electronic sets to build radios, electric cars and trains you had to build, you name it! Most of us had actual trade skills before we even got to High-School! The fun toys were apparently too dangerous for the safety Nazis, so they had to be put down. At 13 I had overhauled a minibike motor, and was working on my parents' cars. Now kids only have one skill, punching "smart-phone" buttons with 2 thumbs, no wonder they all do drugs, they're brain dead by age 14!
I went thru several sets of glass Klik-Klaks (sp?) Clic-Clacs? - as a kid. Eventually, they'd get cracks in 'em & lil' grains & slivers, sometimes entire chunks, would fly off. I remember hearing some kids got hurt when that happened & the glass went into their eyes, guess I was lucky, no toy's worth getting an eye put out, but the later plastic ones were lame, just the same.
Totally agree!! Video games have their appeal, but our toys were so much better. My cousins and I spent hours shooting cans (and yes, bottles) with BB guns and we never managed to do any damage to each other. Creepy Crawlers, Fun Flowers and so much more...we would sell or trade the finished products as well as show off scorched fingers from touching the molds too soon. Ha, I have a bookcase that still has Plastigoop stains!
So glad to be a 60's kid; these videos bring it all back and that is priceless.
Thx for the Fun Flower reminder - every rubber Creepy should have one to Crawl about upon!
Toys with some element of danger taught valuable lessons earlier in life, and built confidence as you learned to respect the inherent danger, but still enjoy the freedom and responsibility of both. By comparison to my grandparents, one of whom was born in the 19th Century, we still led fairly sheltered lives, but odds still favored those of us who used our brains occasionally, lol!
Ahhh....Smash-Up Derby. I loved toys that encouraged you to break them.
Who remembers mouse trap! 😁
Roll the dice, move your mice..
So many pieces to lose...
Yup! Ant Twister?
@@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc uncle would always bring out naked twister
Yes i remember mouse trap
"...and with refills you can make Buggs Bunny or Bozo the clown!" I must have heard that commercial a thousand times. The theme song is glued to the back of my mind.
I absolutely HAVE to get the Smash Up Derby SSP set again, HAVE TO!!
I LOVED that as a kid - I actually had it and it sounds like you did too. Good times, eh?
I had it too as a youngster in the early 70's.
My forearms started to hurt when I saw the Clacker Balls! Lots of toys on here I forgot about. I warped my Lite-Brite using a too strong wattage bulb, lol!
Clackers were banned . They some times shattered From what I remember
After seeing this, now I realize that Hey, I'm old. lol
its a shame they don't make things like this these days.
DJArcaTek why?
Juonsteel456
Step on a Trouble board or a Battling Top in the dark and you will know... :D
XD
That's cos everyone nowadays wants to either play video games or have there nose stuck to there computer morning noon & night. One more reason there's an obesity problem in this country. Kids are getting lazy anymore. Sad but true.
DJArcaTek This coming from a guy who looks like Sideshow Bob lol
Nostalgia is a drug..and I'm hooked on it!
Rock'em sock'em robots were the bomb.! They are so simple but we used to play with them often.
"Don't touch the sides!!" I recited that commercial word for word and haven't seen it since I was like 7!
Endorsed by Dr Greg House.
I love all those old toys, had most of them as a kid but out of all of them, Rock'em sock'em robots was definitely my favorite!
i love the Simpson's episode where Homer kept hitting himself in the face with rock em sock em robots
+Dallas Ponder Ha, me too!
Great memories. What is sad that many of these toys were American made. Now, a large number of popular toys are foreign made, taking away some good paying U.S. jobs in the process.
You are definitely right about that! Not only that, almost everything we buy has something made in China or something like that and is made so cheep that it breaks in a year.
And they're made so cheaply. I've been trying to buy my granddaughter some of the old games and they are so poorly made that they don't even play well. Don't Spill The Beans used to have actual beans in it. Now they are light plastic pieces that are flat and almost look like tiny potato chips. You can fill up the pot without it even flipping.
I hope u youngins watch these videos. U need 2 know how different the world was then. Good history.
And good fun! Anyone remember Enoch’s lunar lander?
I'm 14 and all of these toys look cool. I wish they still made stuff like this. But I'm not complaining that we have iPads and iPods to play with now
Battling Tops>now that was one of the best toys/games that I remember playing as a kid!
One of the few times dad played with us kids . He wasn't much fun
In Canada ,Those commercials was mostly played several weeks before the Christmas holiday and they use to bring so much joy. I use to played with at 75% of those wonderful toys. Some much great memories and wonderful Christmas spirit when I was young.
Wasn't Christmas magical as a kid? Those were the days, eh? Thanks for watching and taking a moment to comment!
They brought a LOT of child frenzy in December too, if I remember correctly.🤔 ✝🇨🇦❤
Yes they would get us amped up. A few weeks before Christmas and also the sears wish book. Cheers
I had Creedy Crawlers! That (lead?) plate would get hot as hell.
My son actually has one (gifted to him by my bro) and your memory serves you correct. You could DIE touching that implement of torture when it's plugged in. I remember phoning around as a kid looking for "Plastigoop" and no one ever knew what I was talking about.
63gstone I had it too! Remember that smell it would put off, similar to burnt plastic
Yes! It said, "non-toxic," but I'm not so sure. Def a smell one can't soon forget.
63gstone I think you mean "Creepy Crawlers" not Creedy
My brother had goop and the plates and made me a Santa and reindeer with pipe cleaners and some odd creature molds
I remember all these. There are many many more.
Many of these go back long before the 70's.
It's cool to read the comments and
read how people remember creepy crawlers, easy bake ovens, cooties, spirographs, and the OH so violent and damaging to children -
the ever famous, Rock'em Sock'em Robots. You-know it's funny, I always wanted that toy,
I never got it.
I did get a ton of G.I. Joe's though.
Anyone remember a toy called "fidget". It was a disk filled with an oil that was all different colors, you pushed on it with your finger to make different patterns. It was so cool.
mistyhead1 omg who knew 3 yrs later everyone would go crazy over these fidget spinners 😂
It was fun
I had the SSP Smash em up Derby, when I was kid. Our house had a very long stairway. I sent one of those cars out of my room over the stairwell just as my dad was walking by and it crash tested right into the side of his head. Needless to say it went back into the box and put away for awhile....
Oops. LOL!
Hahahaha too funny. God only knows what my dad would've done. My brother and I had the VW bug and the truck set.
I used to enjoy making Creepy Crawlers - and then later, Incredible Edibles.
Remember the old Revel Movie Monster model kits?? Wow...
I do remember those. I didn't have Incredible Edibles...I wonder how edible they'd be by today's standards? Mind you, Pizza Pops are still available...
We'll never know since a hotplate (the thing-maker) wouldn't be allowed today's mollycoddled kids, lol.
Some of the flavors were awesome. My fave was tuttifrutti, but also had blueberry (i think) and root beer, haha :)
LAWL "The game is fun for dad and Mother and Sis can Trouble Her mean-old brother!" lawl, I love it!
I liked those. I wanted the glow in the dark models. I pine for the 70's.
I had some of these toys as a kid, others were owned by friends, and some I just remember from seeing the ads!
Kids now a days would swallow the small pieces.
kick ass Moxxi.....exactly like I remember...thank you
I was born in 1969, so I remember many of these tv commercials growing up as a kid in the 1970s. Smash up derby set, frankenberry and count chocula cereals, lite brite, tracer racers, etc.
Damn, but I wanted some of those toys. My family was dirt poor and we couldnt afford store bought toys, advertised on tv or not.
I did have a toy collection, but it pretty much consisted of mis-matched odds and ends, bits and pieces, that were handed down to me by friends or found in the streets somewhere. Toy commercials, like those (and being a long time watcher of tv, I saw thousands of them), served only to torture me.
I was born in 69 too and we had salvation army toys,not too bad but now I have too much sh*t,it's nice stuff but it's in my way and makes for too much cleaning...go figure!
Smash Up Derby was fun. So was Atari.
Im sorry buddy, wud've sent u one if I cud. Me, I didnt have a mom.
Evel Knevil Stunt Cycle, greatest toy ever....in 1978
The ony thing that took more of a beating than my Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle was Evel Knievel himself...
Holy Dogsh*t-- I actually had that Bing Bang Bong game (got it as an Easter gift one year). God almighty that thing was an exercise in frustration, trying to get those damn ball bearings to go where you wanted. It led to numerous outbursts, fits, and fights with siblings. I swear that damn toy shaved years off my youth!
Haahaa... I feel you
For the length of the video I felt deprived . Thanks for setting me straight. (I never had it)( or actually knew about it)
I will trade my smartphone to get the 70s and 80s back
They forgot Stretch Armstrong! Not to mention Pulsar. And the Steve Austin action doll.
Does anyone remember Steve Austin came with a car engine to lift!?
My older sister had all these toys. I was so envious. The best day ever was when she gave me her old Simon. But I wasn't allowed to have Creepy Crawlers, which had been discontinued when I was old enough to play, :(
Incredible Edibles
Wow, a different time and place. Unbelievable.
Seems like a different world now, doesnt it . . . a better one.
No Evel Knievel Toy Commercial! Say it aint so! =-)
I mean it did say rare so its could be believed
Hey, at least we got Action Man....
I loved my evil Knievel motorcycle
Smash up derby was one of my favorite toys!
Me too!
How little it took to entertain us.
How fortunate we were!
SSP Racers were GREAT!
Electric football was our video games haha!
That's funny... I still play with Cootie @3:17 😎
'Rock Em Sock Em Robots', what a mofo seriously had-to-have game. It simply rocked. 'Battling Tops' was a stroke of genius in its day and I still have my original game from 1968. The K-Tel 'Superstar' game would still have traction in the 21st century for the fans of K-Tel records. I had an SSP Racer although I could never get it to do what it did in the TV commercial. Spirograph was God. I remember when Lite-Brite came out, it was magical...never had one. The game 'Rebound' was serious shiznitz when you played with your cousins during the Christmas break.
Man these commercials bring back so many memoires when I was a kid! I was born in 61 so I remember The Trouble commercial, SSP racers, Battling Tops etc, I had the original Hot Wheel cars when they first came out too -- I wish I would have kept them they are probably in some land fill now LOL.
MMMMMMM! I can smell the goop cookin' right now!
...and I had so many of these toys, too! Cootie! Ah, takes me right back! Good times.
WOW! Thank you for this video! We had all of these! My mom still has all of our old over-played games & toys stored! My favorites were Chinese checkers, Husker Du (Spelling?), connect four & yahtzee
did you happen to keep any old hockey cards???? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
It's Hūsker Dū. Norwegian for "Do You Remember?" 🇳🇴
Love this stuff, remember this like it was yesterday. Good Times.
How about Colorforms!!
YES, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! THEY SMELLED KINDA FUNNY. I CAN STILL SMELL THEM NOW. TY.
Yes! I had a Bambi set and loved it !
@@tulliebelle Ohhh, a friend in first grade had the Bambi set. It was so fun. I wanted Colorforms, but I never got any, which is odd. I had other good toys, though.
Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots take skill, they say. HA! I remember just smashing the buttons as hard and as fast as I could... :)
Me too! I can still remember the sound of their heads going up. Thanks for commenting Cyndy!
ONE OF THE BEST collections of 1970s toy ads on the Internet. Trust me on this.
J Bar Thanks J Bar! I honestly just wanted commercials that reached into the deep recesses of my past. I’m tickled that so many of you share the same memories of these toys and commercials.
I had many of these toys growing up, it really brought back wonderful memories of Christmas’ mornings past.
This is such a kick-ass compilation, Moxxi! I especially like how you added great quality picures of each toy after its commercial. Looking forward to watching any others you've created.
Just some guy working for YT,---collecting data.
@@EarthSurferUSA Who me? I’m collecting data for YT?
Thanks Berlin! Hope you’re still around 9 years later!
i still have that exact smash up derby set in mint condition
Lucky Bastard.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's and it's amazing how these simply toys kept kids entertained for hours
Rock 'em sock 'em was called Raving Bonkers in The UK, loved it back in 73/4
Kenner, Mattel, Ronco, Marx, Gilbert, Milton Bradley, Ideal all meant hours of fun.
Transagram and Hasbro also specialized companies like Structo and Matchbox, To many to list
Coleco always had really great "sounding" ideas, but the games often didn't work like you pictured
@@kenworthNH I remember the computer they said they were going to market . There stock went up around 1,000% in a week all the Board members got rich. And the computer was a flop
There is not contest: "Bing, Bang, Boing" is the greatest children's game known to man.
i seen 'em all, played with most of these at other family's houses. the ssp cars were my favorite. I had the derby set. finding all of the pieces after they crashed was often tough.. but sometimes a drag. if a key in front of the wasn't depressed, only a wheel or trunk lid would come off. there was two or three evil knievel sets that operated on the same principle. a central gyroscope flywheel. these were heavy toys with a lot of momentum, moderately destructive. the ones with all kinds of adornments on 'em, soon were without! they moved rapidly, even on carpeted floors, and hurt quite a little bit when they struck you in the foot or ankle. forget the marks they would deposit on furnishings!
Finally, witch doctor heads for all occasions.
What kind of kid found that entertaining? 🤢
aahhh light brite my favorite. the memories. nice to go back . thanks for posting
No cell phones and kids just playing. Glad I'm 55 and lived through 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2022 lot of changes in my lifetime
Anyone remember the operation game, and easy bake oven? I loved mine...
Oh I remember them. I sucked at Operation and I got an EBO once, after I finished the cakes that came with it, we were going to go buy some refills, and they were almost as the entire oven set and even as a child, I told my granddaddy not to bother , it was too expensive LOL
True............
Yup. They are still being sold today...
That's nice to know............
janice lyons I had both of them. I remember the Easy Bake Oven in the late 1960s was kind of a light turquoise color-nothing like they look like now. I used to end up eating most of the cake mix before I baked it!
Gnip Gnop was great. You just sat there wildly slapping the pedals for however long. Years later, in the 90s, a coworker of mine mentioned how he wish he still had his Gnip Gnop as it would be a useful game for adults to work out their aggressions.
I've been to the future. Now I'm back to report that in the future, humans are in the ring with robots controlling the mechanical hand levers. It's not pretty. Especially when a human's block gets knocked off.
+Mark Keith Haha! I have a feeling that's the plot of the new Terminator movie....
Dunno, Sport! Too many human dumbheads anyway, if their blocks were knocked off, they’d float away coz there’s nothing inside....
Toss Across? Perfection?
Drive Ya Nuts? Etch-A-Sketch?
Ahhhhhhh very nice, " Memories"... gotta love 'em!!!!!!
These commercials were brilliant because most of these toys and games would keep the average kid entertained for about ten minutes before it got put away never to see daylight again. But the commercials made them seem like so much fun that every kid just had to have them.
popvinnik We had a Spirogragh. We used it to death. Friends of ours had the Operation game. We played it a lot - until the electric connection didn't work anymore.
I played with Spirograph and the gnip/gnop when I was a kid!
Mary Sue Burnett Can you please explain why the goal of Gnip Gnop? I don't get it.
You get all the balls onto your opponent's side.
Mary Sue Burnett Oh ok. Thanks
Spirograph was cool, but never did master the more complex designs the ads displayed. To make some of them, if memory serves, u needed to purchase extra parts or the deluxe edition, which I did not have - always made me feel like I'd been gypped.
Me too! Use to sit in the dark & make the KISS logo! LOL
Oh wow! These are some of the best TV commercials of the 70’s. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for watching and I'm really happy you liked them!
SSP RACERS ARE SO COOL 0O0
I loved the SSP racers when I was a kid!!
I was born in 1991 but I feel good when I watch these vintage commercials. I think I may be an old soul.
Toys from the 70's ruled! I had that Spirograph set, the Cooties, Operation, Lite Brite and that Trouble board game. Bug Out and Bing Bang Boing I never heard of before, but if I had a BBB set as a kid, I would've had a blast with that. My parents probably would've been pissed after stepping on those metal ball bearings all the time!
+6672rock I had Bing Bang Boing as a kid and it was fun, but it was honestly kinda short lived. I really wanted Lite Brite and did get it one year but then realized it took a lot of planning and patience, which are two things I never received for my birthdays or Christmas. Maybe this year!!
I loved Cootie when I was little (& Mr. Potato Head). Played Trouble long after I was no longer small. Always wanted a Lite-Brite, but never got one. My friend Carol had one I'd play w/at her house. Once the pattern sheets wore out u had to buy replacements, unless u were willing to get creative & make yr own designs.
I was a tickle bee man myself.
I still play trouble in my house. That black cover one is the one we had when I was a child in the 70's. They were the best for me.
My friend had Bing-Bang-Bong and it took a lot of effort to set it up, but if you got it to work it was pretty amazing.
Bing-Bang-Boing acts very much like a toy/novelty you can find at Grand Illusions: The Atomic Trampoline
The trick is to do the bong first then you bing and bang.
I ran Before/After School programs in the nineties.....used to go to swap meets and garage sales and bought many of those games.....(Battling Tops, KerPlunk, ReBound)...gotta say those kids absolutely LOVED those old games....it was especially cool when their parents would join them...brought back good old memories...some things are just so timeless.
Hey Will. I used to be the director of a before/after school program for about 10 years up until 2009. And yes, my kids loved classic games. I found a new version of Battling tops at K-Mart, they used it til it broke. They loved Perfection, Blip, Kerplunk, Shoot The Moon, Mastermind, Trouble and others. They loved my classic action figures and View Masters, too. People think kids today. won't like anything non "hi-tech", but the truth is, most of them love it.
Anybody remember "The Green Ghost" game? I never had it as a kid, however about 15 years ago I bought it online on Marx Toys website where they use to sell vintage re-produced toys from the 60's and 70's. Great game. I use to play it with my daughter, we both enjoyed it.
I had that game when I was a kid! The plastic playing board glowed in the dark!
@@michaelpohas2608 They tell you to put it under a light to basically "charge" the glowing element but after a few minutes your in the dark, but its a temporary thrill.
OMG! This make me feel really old!