Please, send help... My middle-aged brother still thinks of himself as *James Bond,* no matter how many times I've pointed out that he is not only a fictional character, but also a terrible human being and definitely not a role model that should be followed. Thanks.
the motion sensor was lowkey fire when we were kids i’d put these things everywhere so whenever we would have a nerf war i’d know exactly were everybody was
I loved "spy gear" so much that I became a literal intelligence officer when I grew up....only to learn that there are no gadgets and just a bunch of power point.
This particular video reminded me of Spy Academy; a reality-game show that would make up some ridiculous totally-not-staged super villain plan and get six agents who totally went to the titular spy academy and are definitely not game show contestants to foil the plan with totally-not-product-placement niche toy gadgets. The show and it’s station YTV even staged a 4kids style “false station shutdown threat”. I wonder if anyone remembers that show.
@@pumpkinnecromancer2490Whenever someone says “totally-not”, that’s an instant sign that person is lying and it definitely is what he or she is saying.
7:38 "This is not meant for an adult". I can confidently tell you it was not made for kids either, my big brother had it, he was 12 and I was 9, and whoever wore it had to take it off due to it horribly pressing our temples, it felt like the glasses were trying to crush your head
So fun story about Spy Gear. Back in the early 2000s my friends and I were hard into the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. Spy Gear had a metal detector. And back then all the good YGO cards were foil. We would raid Targets, Toys R Us, and buy booster boxes and use the device to pull all the foils. For the booster boxes, we would get all the foils and sell the other packs. Good times.
Lots of neckbeards at my old locals would take literal drug scales inside to weigh the packs, to see which had foils. The owners of the shop let them, too, since it made no difference to them.
@@bane2988 I remember that was a huge problem with Pokémon Cards too, people would weigh them with kitchen scales and take all the heavier packs. But a couple years ago they took the card with the code for the online game that they include with every pack, and made them two different weights so that all the packs now weigh the same. Pretty ingenious solution.
True story: I once owned the spy gear night vision goggles like in the video, then in 2003, when I wanted to dress as a Jawa, my dad hacksawed off a pair of orange medicine bottles and stuck them over the goggles' lights. It was awesome. He even threw in a prop ion gun made of cans and duct tape.
I can't put into words just how influential the early 2000's "spy" obsession was for my childhood and the person I was. I had my bedroom alarmed and booby trapped. My friends and I would meet up in hideouts and discuss things we found, or ideas we had about the neighborhood. When we couldn't afford or weren't allowed the fancy toys, we made our own. High tech digital communicators and ID badges made from cardboard (none of us had any cellphones at all). Secret weapons made of planks of wood and industrial scrap.
I remember having one of the spygears. Having the “Satellite Listener” And as a kid, I was shocked whenever I heard a radio signal and just heard music. It was even worse when it literally picked up someones phone connection.
Back when wireless home phones where first coming out (I.e Phones that lets you talk over the landline wireless with a base station... you probably knew that lol) but in the beginning the home phones transmission was unencrypted. If you knew the frequency they transmitted on. You could tune in and listen to the conversation. Both ways. later on they started to encrypt the phones. But. This also worked on drive way fast food speakers. Being able to speak in a drive through speaker caused much fun. Wikipedia has a lot on this in a article. It’s pretty neat.
Story time: I was the spy-kid generation. We had team-VS-team matches with friends, but often we'd just spy on our family. We were using a periscope and listening device to try and see what out parents were up to... In their bedroom... At night... My dad kindly asked us not to spy on "mommy and daddy when they were alone". I asked why, and he told answered "Well... what if we're wrapping birthday presents?". I didn't know how close I was to spying something that could only be erased with years of therapy.
Well that's a story. Being an only child living in the middle of nowhere my excitement was sping on the telephone company when they came out to do work.
I had the spy goggles as a kid and I remember waiting till it was dark and laying on the grass and turning them on and realizing they didn’t work as advertised I got up and walked to my apartment and being like “man now I look stupid”
after that movie came out i had a kid in one of my classes that would constantly say it without provocation and laugh as if it was the funniest thing in the world. no one else ever laughed, and he got really pissy when anyone ever told him to stop it.
I'm still surprised the line "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created" is from a Spy Kids movie. It sounds like something from a movie that the Oscar award committee wouldn't be too chicken to acknowledge.
I remember I got it as a kid as well. Lost everything but the goggles, which would lie at the bottom of my toy chest at the side of my bed. I'd bust it out every now and again as a prop for imaginary night missions.
I remember that. I collected all the things you needed and sent it in. And then it didn't arrive. So my mom wrote them a letter like "what the shit guys?" And when it finally arrived and I lost my mind. Good times
I had all of this shit. I'd literally wait for the book fair at my school just to get more spy gear. I never used any of it or even tried to use it but the idea alone of me having some kind of power that my friends didn't got me instant street cred.
I remember spy gear. The snitch in my elementary school used the toys to his fullest extent to the point where he had dirt on everyone. Wonder how he’s doing nowadays.
The motion sensor may seem useless now that we're older, but as a kid it was the most amazing and useful device for catching Santa when he came to give presents XD
Good god, I thought I was the only person who remembered those books. Does anyone remember what was in them? Because all I remember was the narrative tone being borderline surreal. Like, there was one incredibly long tangent by the narrator about camera perspective and its relation to literature, and it may have involved man-eating octopi. I'm telling you, there was something deeply weird about how those novels were written but I can't find any sources about it to confirm this.
PSYCH TASTY I remember a bit because I picked one up at a local public library when I was a kid and started to skim through it when I grew disgusted with its lackluster writing and horrific narrative structure (or lack thereof). Their long irrelevant tangents, an illogical spy organization that employed children and adults, and the antagonist was really forgettable. The characters were all flat and the twists were blunt and shit. At one point, one of the teens/young adults the kids are working with just turns to one of the kids just as they are starting their mission and say “By the way, turns out we’re cousins” and the kid goes “Cool” before they fist bump and continue on with the mission without any explanation or pondering the event. Seriously, the books sucked and felt like they were written by an unpaid freshman high school intern who’d never passed a single literature class and the company executives forced them to do the job or they’d go back to cleaning up the bathrooms on Chili Dog Fridays. Now I have to live every day remembering that shitty scene and fist bump. Ugh...
@@chris210racer Yeah I think I only remembered the irrelevant tangents and nothing else. Some reviews of the books I found make it sound less weird and more mediocre. Also fun fact, the author of the book series is Rick Barba, who is primarily known for making strategy guides for video games. That may explain a little of the quality.
Man that was the best. We used to play hide and seek and give each other hints through pictochat and since I was the dumb kid I'd have my volume on full
Pictochat!! Also, Billiam should go over the ds game "Ping Pals" which was an utterly useless chat game that just was not even better than the built in pictochat. I got a copy of Ping Pals for 5 bucks from blockbuster when I was a kid, and it was fun enough for an afternoon. You could customize your avatar and write secret words (things like baklava and emu and weird stuff) for more coins. I didn't have any friends that had the game though. I still have it, if Billiam wants it!
Remember when you were a kid and staying up to see nick at night and adult swim were forbidden pleasures 😂 I remember so many girls gone wild commercials on tv back then
When I was a kid, Spy Gear was a HUGE thing for me and my brother; We were both convinced that we’d one day grow up to be real secret agents. The sets I had were the Starter Kit, the Night Goggles, the Briefcase, and the Night Scope.
I was a kid in the ‘80s and although the brand Spy Gear didn’t exist, we did have spy kits like this. My favorite thing, which wasn’t necessarily a “spy accessory”, was this alarm that had a loop and you would hang it from a doorknob. Then it had a dead man’s switch attached you would slide between the door and the jamb...so if anyone opened the door, it would let out this ungodly noise. My parents loved it.
I loved the motion sensor toy. I set them up in the hallway leading up to my room at night so that I could know when my parents were coming to check and see if I was asleep yet.
The 90s and early 2,000’s has to be the best Era for kids toys. Technology was just coming into its own so that was exciting but not at all like today so you still had to use your imagination which made everything that much more interesting.
I was so obsessed with Spy Gear as a kid! I had the Mini Spy Kit and the Eye Link Communicator as a kid! As well as a few other minor ones but I don't quite remember the others. I would daydream of owning a Video ATV 360, the little remote control tank with a camera that you could see the POV of through a headset. This video was a wonderful trip down memory lane.
I remember winning that exact 'night vision goggles' item off of Radio Disney when I was in middle school. I thought it was really cool then finally realized it was just flashlights. I also had this girly spy gear. It had a compact-like item for a mirror and notes, lipstick as a recording device, mascara that was a pen, some other stuff I cant remember. Was really cool to play around with. :)
7:58 Reminds me of the time I googled "Desert Eagle Handgun" and got no results, but the moment I added "for research purposes" I got the info I was looking for
Spy gear upped their ante in later years. When I was a kid I got spy gear night vision goggles one Christmas and it had a real deal infrared camera that I remember actually working pretty well. I always thought that was impressive for a kid's toy
@@deannacorff3246 these kids find an abandoned warehouse in the woods full of spy gear, then fight off government forces, weird monsters, and stuff. It's kinda vague since its been 10+ years, but they were a fun read, and I might go back to re-read the ones I have.
I was looking for this comment! I remember loving the books more than any toys I ever had. I never knew how big a brand this was or that the books were related to any toys. This was a good nostalgia trip.
I know this is an older video but my childhood best friend had the voice recorder you bashed on, he ended up giving it to me as a gift and I loved it. One day I was at my Nan's place while homesick and she let me play the N64 so I recorded a couple of Ocarina of Time songs (Sun Song, Song of Storms) in an attempt that playing them outside would have an affect. Thank you for letting me relive a fond moment of childhood joy.
Dude this is like walking down memory lane. As a child I loved spy gear. As for the idea to do a video on Firefly phones, please do because I had one of those as well and I was 7 yo when i got the firefly, it saved my life when i had an asthma attack after a crash on my bike. Me and my friends had some jumps made for our bmx bikes and i took a sewer pipe to the gut. I thought it was lame until that happened. Very interesting how you had to program phone numbers. You can only do a select few too. Please do a video on the Firefly as i was too young to fully understand what i was dealing with and i'd like to learn more.
Scooby Snax i had one as well. It was great until I couldn’t make any calls while at a festival and was allowed to roam alone since I had a phone (that didn’t work)
We used to play bomb squad with the motion detector spy gear. It was like hide and seek where one person set up all the “bombs” in hidden areas likely to cause them to be activated and the other person would enter the room and try to “diffuse” them by turning them off without setting off the alarm. It was probably one of if not the most inventive and fun game of my childhood and young teen years as the older we got, the more intricate the game became. Especially when we would turn off all the lights in a room and have to use flashlights.
I remember my brother begging my parents to buy these for him back in the day. He got the spy mic for Christmas. Used it once or twice, then it sat in the toy box forever. Meanwhile I'm having fun playing Pokemon Crystal and trying to assemble a turbo megazord.
Always Had Some Sort Of Power Ranger Toy.Morpher,Megazord,Figures,Everything I Was Born In 2006 But Grew Up On The 2 90s Movies And The Disney Seasons.Alwayd Wanted The Turbo Megazord And Turbo Or Zeo Morpher.Still A Dream To Owm The Original Morpher
Gave me PDST. That was the last sound I heard before out basement-box fort got stormed by Timmy and his team. He broke through the walls and we all got blasted by Nerf guns... They took everything from our safe and threw it in the nearby lake... Maybe I shouldn't have made the safe out of cardboard...
My brother and I loved all this spy stuff, we used the motion sensors, the lasers, and a few of the other things, he still has his spy themed battleship set (it might be actual Spy Gear, I can’t remember) and he had laser tag guns that were so much fun. He later got air-soft guns that we would have “battles” with too. My sister usually just watched because she was scared of the air-soft 😂
I was super into the spy scene when I was a kid in the early 2000's and looking back it feels kind of creepy. I created my own agency with my friends and we plotted assassinations and spied on our sisters. It was dark and someone should've stopped us lol
THE RECORDER WAS THE BEST ONE >:0 It was the only hand held thing available to us kids that was both affordable self recording, without being tied to a stuffed animal, but also let you pitch shift! Which to a young sound clown enthusiast, was everything I needed
I think I've read instances of this, or it could just be kid marketing that's still in my brain. either way celebrities and athletes were definitely used as spies in other countries a lot. And adults seem to forget that kids can't comprehend or know anything about the adult world. Either way there was at least one movie if I could ever find the name of it where a group of kids sold a toy model plans for a us submarine ( think some sort of country like Russia possibly with a different name to protect the innocent ) to raise money as well as putting a concert on for their sick teacher. I would love to re-watch as an adult because it made my parents cringe and squeamish during the teen love scenes ... in the bathtub..... Kissy Kissy talk about relationships just so we're clear.
I used to buy those kits all the time and would tell my teachers I wanted to be in the CIA... I also wanted to be a fashion designer, astrologist, palentologist, etc as well though lmao.
6:44 You mouthed the words to your own recording AND laughed at your own joke before you were finished telling it and shit like this is why I respect you as an artist
My brother had most of these as a kid. Brought back some good memories of sneaking around the living room. I also remember this weird edible paper so you could write notes and get rid of the evidence.
SPY GEAR WAS THE _BEST._ I had a lot of these when I was a kid, and I _swear,_ I wore my Spy Night Patrol/Listener headset like it was a king’s crown- I also had the Spy Night Scope binoculars with the little pop-up flashlight, and this cyborg laser hand thing that you’d think could melt metal with how much we hyped it up.
I went through a phase where I was super into spy gear. I had some camera glasses, the motion sensor, these little speakers that made a bunch of noise for "distraction," a door alarm that would go off if you didn't insert a key card into it, and a "360 camera" that was more like a glorified fisheye. I remember that there was some sort of software that you could get for the cameras that allowed you to do some light editing.
I remember my spy phase. Recently a local museum had a spy exhibit with silly little games that demonstrate probably-outdated-by-now spy tech and codes and ciphers. I had an absolute blast going through it with my mom. And the best part was, since it was during the pandemic, nobody else was in the museum so we didn't have to compete with screaming kids (it was a private family party which was the only thing they were allowed to do at the time). A lot of the activities in that exhibit were very similar to these toys. Also, anyone else remember those little square staple-bound books with different codes and ciphers and stuff with the goofy little cartoon spy? I can't for the life of me remember the title or the publisher or anything but I had the complete set and read them obsessively.
Imagine: You are a secret agent. You must sneak into an evil scientist's lab to steal blueprints. You manage to sneak in and find a place to hide, but then a guard passes you and your watch starts blaring. Talk about terrible timing!
I remember specifically, AFTER convincing myself I'd be the best spy ever, wanting the one where the light can be seen with the spray. Keep in mind, I had just scene agent Cody banks and thought being a spy, along with being the ultimate skater(thanks Tony Hawk pro skater) would be the next best thing. Nostalgia trips this video has taken me on.....
@@0me3s nope, they swiveled in a way that gave you an almost unlimited choice of the angle you wanted, but that was part of the problem because they had to line up EXACTLY
I still have a huge box of this shit in my basement. I also bought all of the books. I think my favorite part of the book series was how in the last book the writers just gave up and turned the main characters into chickens at the end.
Finally kids can become real spies using their goverment issued spy-gear to denounce non-conformist acts among their freinds and neighbours to thinkpol.
Wicked Erebus the only other time I heard of something like that was the Rugrats Wild Thornberrys movie. That’s really weird that I don’t remember it. I’m sure it was awful
Dude,as a Kid I Was Addicted to Spies,PIs,&,1920s Gangsters,I Collected Stuff Dedicated to All of That,I Even Went to The Spy Museum in Washington DC When me,&,my Mom Went,it Was Beyond Awesome,I Still Love Good Movies,TV Shows,&,Books About That Stuff,The Cool Thing About That is That at The Time a Bunch of Kids I Went to School With Who Were The Same Age as me Were Actually Obsessed With Those Too,so my Autistic Kid Self Was Very Happy to Finally Have People With 3 Shared Interests as me
Lol I had the spy goggles but never thought of that I'd hold a key chain flashlight that you had to hold the button down on to work between my teeth and point it at the screen lol I was that desperate for more Pokemon time
@@tootsownhorn5874 it did work hanging on door handles, but was super sensitive. When our house shifted in the winter it would go off randomly. The safe had enough space to fit a few Nick-Nacks & a small note taking book.
Great video! I used to love my spy gear as a kid! I had a whole breifcase of spy accessorys that i took into school foy toyday and that was the coolest i felt in school lmao
The only thing i remember from spy gear were the “nightvision goggles” that were just green tinted sunglasses with some og LEDs in there. And the RC car with the camera in it that only went like 20 feet
Is there any chance of a Digital Pets volume 2, with like more 00s toys like Pixel Chix and those cubes? More 00s toy/culture vids are always the best!
I'm 23 right now, Spy Gear toys were some of my favorite toys and I actually had that first set that you showed as well as some others. Never cared about some other character, my brothers and I made our own characters. My personal favorite was actually the motion sensor, to 8ish year old me that was the best
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Thank you to Lexi, Chase, and Nikko for helping with this video!!!!
Hey bro only a few mins in but i wanted to ask, do you remember shaman king? I'd love to see a video about it. Keep up the great work fam c:
Please, send help... My middle-aged brother still thinks of himself as *James Bond,* no matter how many times I've pointed out that he is not only a fictional character, but also a terrible human being and definitely not a role model that should be followed.
Thanks.
@@salexume9622 I was thinking the same! Shaman king was awesome
If only i could sub twice
You should do a review of TI-84 Calculator games
the motion sensor was lowkey fire when we were kids i’d put these things everywhere so whenever we would have a nerf war i’d know exactly were everybody was
Sweat
@@ispankedyourwaifu9705 sweat
Sweat
He's to dangerous to be left alive.
Same
I loved "spy gear" so much that I became a literal intelligence officer when I grew up....only to learn that there are no gadgets and just a bunch of power point.
You should wear the spy gear watch to work every day
Yes wear it everyday please.
Every singular day
gunraptor just wear the spy gear to sleep, be the soy you dreamt of being, don’t let other people’s judgments cloud your dreams!
gunraptor :(
I remember constantly thinking: “Oh my god! How is such high technology being sold in Walmart?! This is like beyond military grade, what??”.
Yeah, I thought that too lol
“Beyond military grade” lmfaooo u were a gullible kid huh
Leo Velli
I’m not gullible. I simply lied to myself.
@@MerkhVision "gullible" bro what kids know about military
Military grade would, in actuality, be in one of two categories:
Mass produced and reliable
Or
Mass produced, shitty, unreliable, and janky.
I just realized this series is “the toys that made us” of the niche toys we grew up with in the 2000s
This particular video reminded me of Spy Academy; a reality-game show that would make up some ridiculous totally-not-staged super villain plan and get six agents who totally went to the titular spy academy and are definitely not game show contestants to foil the plan with totally-not-product-placement niche toy gadgets.
The show and it’s station YTV even staged a 4kids style “false station shutdown threat”.
I wonder if anyone remembers that show.
The toys that made us but not cringe
The toys that made us is actually pretty good imo
@@lucasahumada6913I agree. I really like it.
@@pumpkinnecromancer2490Whenever someone says “totally-not”, that’s an instant sign that person is lying and it definitely is what he or she is saying.
"breaking into NASA with only SPY GEARS toys | CHALLENGE"
Raid NASA, they can’t send any of us to the moon.
@@DarthSylar12 auschwitz on the moon
[Gone Wrong] [Gone Sexual]
Even better area 51
Matt Bowen how the hell does go sexual
7:38 "This is not meant for an adult". I can confidently tell you it was not made for kids either, my big brother had it, he was 12 and I was 9, and whoever wore it had to take it off due to it horribly pressing our temples, it felt like the glasses were trying to crush your head
Ouch
Can confirm they were painful
I had them as a kid too, and I can confirm they are secretly hydraulic presses
Yeah they weren’t fantastic
God damn y'all must have some big ass heads all jokes aside that must feel bad
So fun story about Spy Gear.
Back in the early 2000s my friends and I were hard into the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. Spy Gear had a metal detector. And back then all the good YGO cards were foil. We would raid Targets, Toys R Us, and buy booster boxes and use the device to pull all the foils. For the booster boxes, we would get all the foils and sell the other packs.
Good times.
I have to admit, that was a good idea.
I had the metal detector...
I loved Yu-Gi-Oh...
...I missed out on a great opportunity 😭
Lots of neckbeards at my old locals would take literal drug scales inside to weigh the packs, to see which had foils. The owners of the shop let them, too, since it made no difference to them.
Oh my god this is such a big brain idea
@@bane2988 I remember that was a huge problem with Pokémon Cards too, people would weigh them with kitchen scales and take all the heavier packs. But a couple years ago they took the card with the code for the online game that they include with every pack, and made them two different weights so that all the packs now weigh the same. Pretty ingenious solution.
True story: I once owned the spy gear night vision goggles like in the video, then in 2003, when I wanted to dress as a Jawa, my dad hacksawed off a pair of orange medicine bottles and stuck them over the goggles' lights. It was awesome. He even threw in a prop ion gun made of cans and duct tape.
Machiner6 Cool dad
Based.
@@maggotsitnspin on what
Now that, is the best dad ever. I have a similar (not spy gear related however) story where my uncle made me a C-3PO out of cardboard and tape.
@@spotifier3277 on a Jawa
I can't put into words just how influential the early 2000's "spy" obsession was for my childhood and the person I was. I had my bedroom alarmed and booby trapped. My friends and I would meet up in hideouts and discuss things we found, or ideas we had about the neighborhood. When we couldn't afford or weren't allowed the fancy toys, we made our own. High tech digital communicators and ID badges made from cardboard (none of us had any cellphones at all). Secret weapons made of planks of wood and industrial scrap.
were you a knd member?
I remember having one of the spygears.
Having the “Satellite Listener”
And as a kid, I was shocked whenever I heard a radio signal and just heard music.
It was even worse when it literally picked up someones phone connection.
Lol
tfw spygear toy wiretapped someone
Back when wireless home phones where first coming out (I.e Phones that lets you talk over the landline wireless with a base station... you probably knew that lol) but in the beginning the home phones transmission was unencrypted. If you knew the frequency they transmitted on. You could tune in and listen to the conversation. Both ways. later on they started to encrypt the phones. But. This also worked on drive way fast food speakers. Being able to speak in a drive through speaker caused much fun. Wikipedia has a lot on this in a article. It’s pretty neat.
I got this one too
It’s funny to me that it’s a toy made for kids to pretend to be spies, and you could legitimately spy on folks with it.
Story time:
I was the spy-kid generation.
We had team-VS-team matches with friends, but often we'd just spy on our family.
We were using a periscope and listening device to try and see what out parents were up to... In their bedroom... At night...
My dad kindly asked us not to spy on "mommy and daddy when they were alone".
I asked why, and he told answered "Well... what if we're wrapping birthday presents?".
I didn't know how close I was to spying something that could only be erased with years of therapy.
Well that's a story. Being an only child living in the middle of nowhere my excitement was sping on the telephone company when they came out to do work.
Sounds like my friend. His parents called it "discussing Christmas"
Why would listen to your parents having sex require years of therapy?
@@adumaxster01 Why wouldn't hearing your parents have sex when you're a child not cause the need for therapy...
Adumaxster
Because to a kid it’s extremely fucked
This channel covers all the things from my childhood that I thought I was alone in experiencing. It's crazy.
Thank you for making all this.
I remember I heard my neighbors having sex with spy gear.
@Jordan Joestar I was like 7 and was wondering why are they stirring macaroni and cheese?
Jordan Joestar omg
Lies your were listening to your parents 🤔🤣
I tried to have sex with Spy Gear too, but it hurt my penis. 🤣
Yeah that spy gear when I was a kid was called "glass on wall"
I had the spy goggles as a kid and I remember waiting till it was dark and laying on the grass and turning them on and realizing they didn’t work as advertised I got up and walked to my apartment and being like “man now I look stupid”
Same
Yeah.
Your vision wasn't very augmented
What a shame.
Yeah
"Without the threat of inciting diplomatic chaos"
No, the chaos is exactly why I wanted to be a spy.
That makes you the 1st honest spy ever.
As a kid, no one could convince me that Carmen from Spy Kids' "Oh, shi...take mushrooms" wasn't the best line in cinema.
after that movie came out i had a kid in one of my classes that would constantly say it without provocation and laugh as if it was the funniest thing in the world. no one else ever laughed, and he got really pissy when anyone ever told him to stop it.
Best bit of cringe, you are correct sir.
"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?"
I'm still surprised the line "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created" is from a Spy Kids movie. It sounds like something from a movie that the Oscar award committee wouldn't be too chicken to acknowledge.
@@otakuribo Obama
OMG, I had these as a kid and loved them so much. Nobody ever talks about these your are a true hero
I remember I got it as a kid as well. Lost everything but the goggles, which would lie at the bottom of my toy chest at the side of my bed. I'd bust it out every now and again as a prop for imaginary night missions.
Its you're*
Luis Gonzalez stop being a grammer police and fuck off
Part is...like, I forgot they were an actual brand.
@@atomic-art then use words properly.
Omg i remember kid cuisines had a thing where you could get spy gear when you collect enough cardboard things on the back of the box
I remember that. I collected all the things you needed and sent it in. And then it didn't arrive. So my mom wrote them a letter like "what the shit guys?" And when it finally arrived and I lost my mind. Good times
I had all of this shit. I'd literally wait for the book fair at my school just to get more spy gear.
I never used any of it or even tried to use it but the idea alone of me having some kind of power that my friends didn't got me instant street cred.
Spy University
I remember spy gear. The snitch in my elementary school used the toys to his fullest extent to the point where he had dirt on everyone. Wonder how he’s doing nowadays.
Fiercetooth probably dead, if he continued being a snitch
Rolled on the cartel. Now deceased.
probably a NSA Agent with dirt on 300 Million Americans
He actually commented a little further up!
Probably a CIA agent now
The audio listening device was for listening through walls, not listening to things far away
I was gonna say this! You’re supposed to place it against the wall, that’s why it has that cone-like shape to it
Imagine some guy living in a shady ghetto neighborhood and actually using these as security equipment.
I used it to guard my bike from being stolen .
Well it's more secure than the IoT systems we've got now.
LOL
Dude I'm setting on my lunch break in my car and this one comment made me laugh like a maniac
if that was a TV show id watch it
The motion sensor may seem useless now that we're older, but as a kid it was the most amazing and useful device for catching Santa when he came to give presents XD
WTF that just unlocked the memory of me using my motion sensor for that
I love the fact that most of these toys shown here can be replaced by a phone
Spy Gear actually had a collection of kids novels that gave a story to everything
Good god, I thought I was the only person who remembered those books. Does anyone remember what was in them? Because all I remember was the narrative tone being borderline surreal. Like, there was one incredibly long tangent by the narrator about camera perspective and its relation to literature, and it may have involved man-eating octopi. I'm telling you, there was something deeply weird about how those novels were written but I can't find any sources about it to confirm this.
PSYCH TASTY I remember a bit because I picked one up at a local public library when I was a kid and started to skim through it when I grew disgusted with its lackluster writing and horrific narrative structure (or lack thereof). Their long irrelevant tangents, an illogical spy organization that employed children and adults, and the antagonist was really forgettable. The characters were all flat and the twists were blunt and shit. At one point, one of the teens/young adults the kids are working with just turns to one of the kids just as they are starting their mission and say “By the way, turns out we’re cousins” and the kid goes “Cool” before they fist bump and continue on with the mission without any explanation or pondering the event. Seriously, the books sucked and felt like they were written by an unpaid freshman high school intern who’d never passed a single literature class and the company executives forced them to do the job or they’d go back to cleaning up the bathrooms on Chili Dog Fridays.
Now I have to live every day remembering that shitty scene and fist bump. Ugh...
@@chris210racer Yeah I think I only remembered the irrelevant tangents and nothing else. Some reviews of the books I found make it sound less weird and more mediocre.
Also fun fact, the author of the book series is Rick Barba, who is primarily known for making strategy guides for video games. That may explain a little of the quality.
For the “texting for kids” video, don’t forget to mention the Nintendo DS chat!
Man that was the best. We used to play hide and seek and give each other hints through pictochat and since I was the dumb kid I'd have my volume on full
When I had one I always wished I'd had a friend to text with :(
Pictochat!! Also, Billiam should go over the ds game "Ping Pals" which was an utterly useless chat game that just was not even better than the built in pictochat. I got a copy of Ping Pals for 5 bucks from blockbuster when I was a kid, and it was fun enough for an afternoon. You could customize your avatar and write secret words (things like baklava and emu and weird stuff) for more coins. I didn't have any friends that had the game though.
I still have it, if Billiam wants it!
Pictochat
pictochaaaat
Remember when you were a kid and staying up to see nick at night and adult swim were forbidden pleasures 😂 I remember so many girls gone wild commercials on tv back then
Those damn steele drums still haunt me to this day
Motion detector was good for rubbing one out in a busy household......
...I feel like we lived different lives, I like yours.
Derek Etnyre damn man great idea, the innovation in you! Lol
back in your early 30s
Man was ahead of his time
Yeah all the kids with half a brain used it for that. Or when i was making trebuchets and crossbows in the backyard.
When I was a kid, Spy Gear was a HUGE thing for me and my brother; We were both convinced that we’d one day grow up to be real secret agents.
The sets I had were the Starter Kit, the Night Goggles, the Briefcase, and the Night Scope.
I was a kid in the ‘80s and although the brand Spy Gear didn’t exist, we did have spy kits like this. My favorite thing, which wasn’t necessarily a “spy accessory”, was this alarm that had a loop and you would hang it from a doorknob. Then it had a dead man’s switch attached you would slide between the door and the jamb...so if anyone opened the door, it would let out this ungodly noise. My parents loved it.
"Thumbs don't exist"
Looks at thumbs while they have an existencencial crisis
I loved the motion sensor toy. I set them up in the hallway leading up to my room at night so that I could know when my parents were coming to check and see if I was asleep yet.
The 90s and early 2,000’s has to be the best Era for kids toys. Technology was just coming into its own so that was exciting but not at all like today so you still had to use your imagination which made everything that much more interesting.
The thumbnail alone came up and slapped me in the face with nostalgia.
Who else here got the McDonald's Spy gear tie in toys they had back then ?
I had the wrist thing that would pop up and be a sort of magnifying glass
Yes.
IF YOU HAD THEM ALL IT TURNED INTO THE BUG
Right Here.
I had a Cody Banks (2?) super PG spy pocket knife McDonald’s toy :)
It had like a screwdriver or a ruler or something haha.
I was so obsessed with Spy Gear as a kid! I had the Mini Spy Kit and the Eye Link Communicator as a kid! As well as a few other minor ones but I don't quite remember the others. I would daydream of owning a Video ATV 360, the little remote control tank with a camera that you could see the POV of through a headset. This video was a wonderful trip down memory lane.
I used my spy gear to “catch Santa” that’s how I found out Santa was made up
T Thung yeah my motion detector went off so I ran to the living room and saw my mom in her undies putting presents under the tree
Worked too well dude
pons cholangiogram same lol I was not only 5 min ago telling my girl that same story. Lol
L
What do you mean Santa’s not real....
“There ain’t no thumbs in real life” is right up there with “cats don’t have mouths”
I remember winning that exact 'night vision goggles' item off of Radio Disney when I was in middle school. I thought it was really cool then finally realized it was just flashlights. I also had this girly spy gear. It had a compact-like item for a mirror and notes, lipstick as a recording device, mascara that was a pen, some other stuff I cant remember. Was really cool to play around with. :)
I had so much of this state of the art military grade equipment when I was a kid....
sooo the motion alarm one is how i found out santa claus was just my parents....
kamenkewl wow
Same
kamenkewl man, I wish. I found out Santa wasn’t real the day my great grandma died. I cried about Santa. I still get bugged for that
dill422 what
I still have that one, I lost the rest of them though.
7:58 Reminds me of the time I googled "Desert Eagle Handgun" and got no results, but the moment I added "for research purposes" I got the info I was looking for
Funny joke, but if you Google it you can find plenty of online stores. It isn't illegal.
@@robertmartin8907 depends on country.
? You mean while at school or something? Is google censored in your country?
11:08
*0W0*
Notices your a spy,
Then captures you.
*Rawr XD*
Stop it
Nero: umu.
I had that "spy ear" toy that let you hear from "very far away." I used to squeeze it because I swore it helped me hear farther.
It didn't last long.
"Hi, I'm Obama. I'm a dog-"
My favourite quote from this video.
This guys personality is very 2019 youtube safe.
Here in 2020 he is too dangerous to live.
I wish he'd stop censoring his swearing.
Wicked Erebus he censors swearing to not get demonized
That’s right! I am dangerous
@@vicviper2005 “Demonized”
Spy gear upped their ante in later years. When I was a kid I got spy gear night vision goggles one Christmas and it had a real deal infrared camera that I remember actually working pretty well. I always thought that was impressive for a kid's toy
I had the binoculars, the “night vision” goggles, and I think I had some kind of Spy pen.
ninjaboy56 was it a voice recorder pen? If so I had that
Yo those night vision goggles worked really well!
The pen thst wrote in white ink and the light was a black light so you could write hidden messages.
Cake creep I believe it was the one that wrote in invisible ink.
Those night vision goggles were very easy to accidentally blind people with, if we’re thinking of the same ones.
Forget the toys
Look at the books
The Spy Gear books were _wild_
Describe
@@deannacorff3246 these kids find an abandoned warehouse in the woods full of spy gear, then fight off government forces, weird monsters, and stuff.
It's kinda vague since its been 10+ years, but they were a fun read, and I might go back to re-read the ones I have.
I was looking for this comment! I remember loving the books more than any toys I ever had.
I never knew how big a brand this was or that the books were related to any toys.
This was a good nostalgia trip.
I have the first 2 on my shelf and holy shit those books were wild, someone totally should cover them.
JDawgManiac that sounds like spy kids one
I know this is an older video but my childhood best friend had the voice recorder you bashed on, he ended up giving it to me as a gift and I loved it. One day I was at my Nan's place while homesick and she let me play the N64 so I recorded a couple of Ocarina of Time songs (Sun Song, Song of Storms) in an attempt that playing them outside would have an affect. Thank you for letting me relive a fond moment of childhood joy.
For the "kids' cell phone" idea, there was the ChatNow from Tiger Electronics as spin-off from the VideoNow line.
Cnote0717 YES I had one of these. It worked pretty well too, I was able to use it to talk to a friend who lived a couple blocks away.
@@fc7777fc That thing supposedly had a 2-mile radius! Pretty decent for a walkie-talkie toy.
Don't forget that girl tech one that could open remote control garage doors.
Dude this is like walking down memory lane. As a child I loved spy gear. As for the idea to do a video on Firefly phones, please do because I had one of those as well and I was 7 yo when i got the firefly, it saved my life when i had an asthma attack after a crash on my bike. Me and my friends had some jumps made for our bmx bikes and i took a sewer pipe to the gut. I thought it was lame until that happened. Very interesting how you had to program phone numbers. You can only do a select few too. Please do a video on the Firefly as i was too young to fully understand what i was dealing with and i'd like to learn more.
Scooby Snax i had one as well. It was great until I couldn’t make any calls while at a festival and was allowed to roam alone since I had a phone (that didn’t work)
We used to play bomb squad with the motion detector spy gear. It was like hide and seek where one person set up all the “bombs” in hidden areas likely to cause them to be activated and the other person would enter the room and try to “diffuse” them by turning them off without setting off the alarm. It was probably one of if not the most inventive and fun game of my childhood and young teen years as the older we got, the more intricate the game became. Especially when we would turn off all the lights in a room and have to use flashlights.
Be better if your parents gave you real explosives and weapons.
I remember my brother begging my parents to buy these for him back in the day.
He got the spy mic for Christmas. Used it once or twice, then it sat in the toy box forever.
Meanwhile I'm having fun playing Pokemon Crystal and trying to assemble a turbo megazord.
I wish I had all my zords still. I miss those things!
Trying? So you failed? My heart goes out to you.
@@Gloomdrake I was a reckless and rebelious kid, I didn't follow the instruction manual.
Deoxy360 Livin’ the dream
Always Had Some Sort Of Power Ranger Toy.Morpher,Megazord,Figures,Everything
I Was Born In 2006 But Grew Up On The 2 90s Movies And The Disney Seasons.Alwayd Wanted The Turbo Megazord And Turbo Or Zeo Morpher.Still A Dream To Owm The Original Morpher
The motion sensor noise gave me memories I didn't realize I had
Same!
Gave me PDST. That was the last sound I heard before out basement-box fort got stormed by Timmy and his team. He broke through the walls and we all got blasted by Nerf guns... They took everything from our safe and threw it in the nearby lake...
Maybe I shouldn't have made the safe out of cardboard...
PDST?
ah yes the post distress syndrome trauma
I have the motion sensor
My brother and I loved all this spy stuff, we used the motion sensors, the lasers, and a few of the other things, he still has his spy themed battleship set (it might be actual Spy Gear, I can’t remember) and he had laser tag guns that were so much fun. He later got air-soft guns that we would have “battles” with too. My sister usually just watched because she was scared of the air-soft 😂
"There are no thumbs in real life."
*Thumbs start to fade away*
No! What have you done?
Every time i come to this channel, i remember a peice of my childhood i forgot about
I was super into the spy scene when I was a kid in the early 2000's and looking back it feels kind of creepy. I created my own agency with my friends and we plotted assassinations and spied on our sisters. It was dark and someone should've stopped us lol
No. You did good. I had my group, the Spy Detectives. Nothing happened around us though.
Loser; there's nothing wrong or "creepy" about the spy scene.
I remember there being a ton of “spy watches” that would all do pretty much the same thing, those were pretty fun
All of the voices through the recorder sound like Christopher Walken.
Iss krisstopha wakken
Pipe down, I'm. Walken here
Yoo, there's someone coming, better stop doing what you're doing or you'll get in trouble
THE RECORDER WAS THE BEST ONE >:0
It was the only hand held thing available to us kids that was both affordable self recording, without being tied to a stuffed animal, but also let you pitch shift! Which to a young sound clown enthusiast, was everything I needed
Dude I didn’t realize I was a threat to the Russian government as a kid
fugitive cowgirl oh no wonder a guy in a coat speaking foreign langauge was stalking me for a while.
@@chad6846
Sorry, my mistake. meant to follow someone else.
I think I've read instances of this, or it could just be kid marketing that's still in my brain. either way celebrities and athletes were definitely used as spies in other countries a lot. And adults seem to forget that kids can't comprehend or know anything about the adult world.
Either way there was at least one movie if I could ever find the name of it where a group of kids sold a toy model plans for a us submarine ( think some sort of country like Russia possibly with a different name to protect the innocent ) to raise money as well as putting a concert on for their sick teacher. I would love to re-watch as an adult because it made my parents cringe and squeamish during the teen love scenes ... in the bathtub..... Kissy Kissy talk about relationships just so we're clear.
I used to buy those kits all the time and would tell my teachers I wanted to be in the CIA... I also wanted to be a fashion designer, astrologist, palentologist, etc as well though lmao.
6:44 You mouthed the words to your own recording AND laughed at your own joke before you were finished telling it and shit like this is why I respect you as an artist
My brother had most of these as a kid. Brought back some good memories of sneaking around the living room. I also remember this weird edible paper so you could write notes and get rid of the evidence.
Claire T I remember eating all the edible paper since it tasted so good
Or as they were known back in my playground days, "stalker's arsenal"
SPY GEAR WAS THE _BEST._ I had a lot of these when I was a kid, and I _swear,_ I wore my Spy Night Patrol/Listener headset like it was a king’s crown- I also had the Spy Night Scope binoculars with the little pop-up flashlight, and this cyborg laser hand thing that you’d think could melt metal with how much we hyped it up.
I went through a phase where I was super into spy gear. I had some camera glasses, the motion sensor, these little speakers that made a bunch of noise for "distraction," a door alarm that would go off if you didn't insert a key card into it, and a "360 camera" that was more like a glorified fisheye. I remember that there was some sort of software that you could get for the cameras that allowed you to do some light editing.
You forgot about the Disney channel original movie “get a clue”
Casey Lambert
Only good for the Prozzak song. :c
Literally looked threw the comments for this comment right here lol
I... actually remember that..
And Harriet the spy
I remember my spy phase. Recently a local museum had a spy exhibit with silly little games that demonstrate probably-outdated-by-now spy tech and codes and ciphers. I had an absolute blast going through it with my mom. And the best part was, since it was during the pandemic, nobody else was in the museum so we didn't have to compete with screaming kids (it was a private family party which was the only thing they were allowed to do at the time).
A lot of the activities in that exhibit were very similar to these toys.
Also, anyone else remember those little square staple-bound books with different codes and ciphers and stuff with the goofy little cartoon spy? I can't for the life of me remember the title or the publisher or anything but I had the complete set and read them obsessively.
Imagine: You are a secret agent. You must sneak into an evil scientist's lab to steal blueprints. You manage to sneak in and find a place to hide, but then a guard passes you and your watch starts blaring.
Talk about terrible timing!
i used to army crawl around my house in the middle of the night with a few of these
I still do that but now it's after smoking a J😂
@@puffpuffpass3214 bless your heart
@@puffpuffpass3214 Hey, you ever play Nightcrawlers?
@@lordmegatron4789 why burn sage when you can burn a joint?
@@qook1543 nope what is it?
Spy Kids 2 is the greatest cinematic achievement of all time, change my mind.
Shrek
I remember specifically, AFTER convincing myself I'd be the best spy ever, wanting the one where the light can be seen with the spray. Keep in mind, I had just scene agent Cody banks and thought being a spy, along with being the ultimate skater(thanks Tony Hawk pro skater) would be the next best thing. Nostalgia trips this video has taken me on.....
0me3s I had that one and it was the BIGGEST pain to set up since each laser had to be PERFECTLY aligned with another one.
@@fc7777fc Where able to use like mirrors to bounce off of to extend the range?
@@0me3s nope, they swiveled in a way that gave you an almost unlimited choice of the angle you wanted, but that was part of the problem because they had to line up EXACTLY
"Hi, welcome to my channel! I dredge up you deep childhood memories and confirm that no, you didn't imagine that that was a thing!"
Ok dredge is a word also your*
Love the review. My parents always said we were too poor to afford that stuff. Also Love the Digimon stuff on the shelf!!
Early 2000s kids lived these, I had the motion detector and these distraction balls that rolled and made sounds, absolutely incredible
I still have a huge box of this shit in my basement. I also bought all of the books. I think my favorite part of the book series was how in the last book the writers just gave up and turned the main characters into chickens at the end.
Chickens at the end? Now thats a plot twist.
I only remember that there were aliens at so e point.
you could be totally bullshitting and nobody would know
@@TheCocoYouKnow that is a good point
Glad to know I'm not making that part of my childhood up.
I collected these as a kid. I was super into them. I had so many. 😂 They were honestly truly so fun, so thank you for making this video.
Then : throwback to the 60s with cool vibes
Now : throwback to the 80s with colour and style
Soon : throwback to the 20s AND THE RISE OF FASCISM
I cried a little
Don't get my hopes up like that.
Finally kids can become real spies using their goverment issued spy-gear to denounce non-conformist acts among their freinds and neighbours to thinkpol.
Akira Kurusu How about National Socialism?
@@kold8462 are you disabled
Didn’t mention spy kids 3, I respect that
Or 4.
I didn’t even get an email
Wicked Erebus dear god there was a 4?
@@jacobleukus6930 yes.
In theaters, iirc, it had a scent packet you scratched to smell in time with scents in the movie.
Wicked Erebus the only other time I heard of something like that was the Rugrats Wild Thornberrys movie. That’s really weird that I don’t remember it. I’m sure it was awful
Dude,as a Kid I Was Addicted to Spies,PIs,&,1920s Gangsters,I Collected Stuff Dedicated to All of That,I Even Went to The Spy Museum in Washington DC When me,&,my Mom Went,it Was Beyond Awesome,I Still Love Good Movies,TV Shows,&,Books About That Stuff,The Cool Thing About That is That at The Time a Bunch of Kids I Went to School With Who Were The Same Age as me Were Actually Obsessed With Those Too,so my Autistic Kid Self Was Very Happy to Finally Have People With 3 Shared Interests as me
I remember using the goggles to play gamboy at night when I was supposed to be asleep.
big brain
Wish I thought of that, lol. I always just held a dim flashlight in the bend of my neck and roughly pointed it at the gameboy screen.
Lol I had the spy goggles but never thought of that I'd hold a key chain flashlight that you had to hold the button down on to work between my teeth and point it at the screen lol I was that desperate for more Pokemon time
I remember getting a safe with removable door hanger that would go off if the door was opened. I think I got it in one of those book order forms.
From the scholastic order days at school?
@@tootsownhorn5874 Yes! Thank You! My memory from my elementary school days is horrible. It was a safe with a 0-9 button & I think it had # & *.
@@jackmyowl damn i wanted that one... was it as cool as I remember?
@@tootsownhorn5874 it did work hanging on door handles, but was super sensitive. When our house shifted in the winter it would go off randomly. The safe had enough space to fit a few Nick-Nacks & a small note taking book.
@@jackmyowl nice! Well it was nice chatting about nostalgia. Have a good one.
Great video! I used to love my spy gear as a kid! I had a whole breifcase of spy accessorys that i took into school foy toyday and that was the coolest i felt in school lmao
Every impression on that recorder sounds like Christopher Walken.
oh man did this send me back to my childhood my whole family got this shit for christmas and my siblings and all the cousins played with them together
The only thing i remember from spy gear were the “nightvision goggles” that were just green tinted sunglasses with some og LEDs in there. And the RC car with the camera in it that only went like 20 feet
I literally owned all of these as a kid! Pretty sure I still have a couple knocking around.
Is there any chance of a Digital Pets volume 2, with like more 00s toys like Pixel Chix and those cubes?
More 00s toy/culture vids are always the best!
I'm 23 right now, Spy Gear toys were some of my favorite toys and I actually had that first set that you showed as well as some others. Never cared about some other character, my brothers and I made our own characters. My personal favorite was actually the motion sensor, to 8ish year old me that was the best
There was actually a set of infrared night vision goggles
The spy gear video car was one of my favorite toys ever
"Cool. We got sOMething out- WE GOT SOMETHING OUT HERE."
Friend into Billy's ear: *You're good looking*
Billy into his own ear: *thank u*
"there ain't no THUMBS in real life!"
shortest hand appendage confirmed finger
I have a horrendous memory and repressed most of my childhood so watchinf videos like this brings back all my good memories
Wow that’s crazy I had the listening device😂 I loved this cheap stuff as a kid but the commercials used to hype it up wayyy too much.