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The Little Things
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 3 ธ.ค. 2011
The stories and histories of all of your childhood memories brought together in one nostalgia filled place. Here it is important to remember the little things.
Godzilla Toys of the 1970s and 1980s
While there are may that believe that the late 1970s and early 1980s were a dead spot in terms of interest for classic Kaiju films, Toho’s most famous monster, Godzilla and other Giant Monster or Kaiju films were still a common sight on local television stations, both late at night and on lazy Saturday afternoons. During this time, Godzilla and his monster kin were finding their way into popular media of all sorts. Godzilla himself briefly joined the Marvel comics universe and became the star of a Hanna Barbera cartoon that was popular on Saturday mornings. Being a kid at this time, it felt like interest in Godzilla was gaining momentum, not faltering, and this led to some of the best and most interesting Godzilla toys ever made. Toys such as Shogun Warriors Godzilla, HG Toys Godzilla vs. the Tricephalon, GLJ's Bendy Godzilla, and Mattel's Godzilla's Gang. With new Kaiju films recently hitting the screen regularly both here and in Japan, I can’t help but think back about a time when Godzilla was really being introduced to kids in the United States and the products were plentiful.
Special Thanks to Plaid Stallions and The Sphinx
Also Malidicus on Flickr (providing several images)
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Special Thanks to Plaid Stallions and The Sphinx
Also Malidicus on Flickr (providing several images)
Music: Battlefield by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | creatorchords.com
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Puts on video “Oh man, can’t wait to see Tiamat. … any minute now … must be waiting for a big finale … uh…
I remember a cartoon called Thundar the barbarian it was a cool show!
51 now, still have the sea shark set complete but without the box, bought by my mother when I was a kid ❤
You lefto ut Captain Zargon and Space Ranger for Palitoys Action Man. And toys based on tv series Terrahawks which had their own Zeroid characters
I was reminded of Buck Rogers starfighter when i first watched Rogue One in 2016 and saw Andors U-wing
I could have sworn that Target did a Universal Monsters thing one Halloween
Trex terx
Interesting, but terrible figures
The Kenner Y-Wing photo is from Transformerland, but they're not in the image credits! Transformerland is cool with image use if they're credited.
You helped me jog alot of great forgotten memories with these videos. Thank you id love to see more like this. Subbed !
I still have the octopus! My parents bought the octopus and a lobster and whale for me out of a box during a visit to Cape Cod. I had no idea this playlet existed! Great review.
Great video!
So in the late 70’s I came across a toy display with my grandparents in the local Woolco. They told me I could get shogun Godzilla or great mazinga. It was n o contest! I still own Godzilla to this day. The kraken was advertised in a store called consumers distributing but was never in stock. I still have my Perseus and Thallo from the line! Fantastic review!
What a fantastic review. Thanks for this! I too had a great time with these sets as a kid. My fisher price castle was assaulted many times by the forces of evil! Not sure why I remember those times so incredibly well but misplace my phone regularly!
Does anyone know the name of the space ship in the intro pic with 3 on it. Astronaut sits in it middle rotates
These toys were before my time but damn, I would've loved having these as a kid!
It was one of the best times to be a kid. I absolutely loved my red and black demons.
the Sea Explorer may have been my first "big" set - the Search Team, i'm pretty sure, was my last my little sister had the scuba diver raft these toys were awesome
Ok now that's a incredible documentary about this toys
i would suggest you stop eating glass before doing the voiceovers. that shit makes people want to end their lives
I LOVE this video so much! Rewatching with nostalgic tears in my eyes. 🥲 Your presentation is perfect. Such awesomely researched details. Sea Wees are my most favourite childhood toy (MLP’s sea ponies being a close second). I long for a reissue of Sea Wees with even more accessories and variations. Alas it is unlikely to happen… Sunny was my favourite but her gold paint oxidised to a green color.😢 Thank you for an emotional trip down memory lane. 💗🧜🏻♀️🧜🏼♀️🧜🏿♀️💗
I had three sets and lived them. My son now plays with them.
I missed out on this. He-Man came out when I was in 5th grade, and I had stopped playing with action figures. I still watched the cartoon, but I was all about sports and video games. I didn't go back to action figures until I was in my 20's. 😂 (and it's mainly been with Spider-Man figures).
I just found a good handful of the bad guys today at a flea market $1 each and a broken footed bronze dragon, absolutely amazing toys.
Excellent video! Took me way back with some very happy memories 😊
Im glad that the satanic panic is over. Even if i wasnt in that timeline, which i wasn't. That moral panic was absolute garbage! 🗑️
Wow, this is blast from the past! I actually still have the Glacier Bay CD from page 28, that I bought back in the day in either Charlotte, NC, or Atlanta, GA.
my dad bought me this jaws chem toy its the other version he bought it online
Rubber sharks and Jiggler skeletons a staple New Jersey boardwalk souvenir
I’ve still got hundreds of them old AAA, Imperial, Do Mei, Impro, Tetleys, Marx, M.K. and cereal Box Dinos in the Attic and a handful of those Invicta’s from the Museum all collected back in the 80’s and 90’s
I can almost still smell the rubber from the Diener erasers.
Does anyone remember the Major Matt Mason toy line from the late 60s early 70s?! They were awesome!!
My sons had bags of those space laser team figures, they hurt big time when you stepped on them in the middle of the night!!
You’ll be happy to know that formo toys is reviving the Galaxy Warriors and the first two Baltard and Magnon are going up for preorder on June 10th 😎
Awesome topic
BIG TRAK was probably THE first coding toy on the market.
thank you so much for this series
I always love videos about this interesting line, and this was no exception. It even had plenty of info I was unaware of(I never knew anything about that awesome supplemental line).
1991 Strawberry Shortcake was so cute. I miss that smell I can almost smell them through the phone 😢
So awesome watching this! I’m glad I own this piece of art by you! …and that Bob Ross clip, “Beat the devil outta it!” 😂😂😂
I question the fact that the line was not successful, it was. Not as, say MOTU or Star Wars, but it was, say, Thudercats level, let us say a cut above the Blackstar line. Most kids had at least a couple of those. Plus some of the rubber ones.
In times to come, warriors will speak of the magnificence of this video. Thank you. Loved seeing the ARCO playsets!
...but that is another story. Thanks for watching!
Lovely documentary, enjoyed watching this. Did you use some sort of effect on your voiceover to make it sound like you're recording it via a phone call? Just a note, you said "based off", where I think you meant to say "based on". Thank you for making this.
It took me months and thousands of dollars to set up a complicated system of cups connected by strings to create the audio magic that is represented in these high budget video docu-dramas. No expense was spared. All part of the magic. But that is why I get paid the big bucks. Anyway, the term "Based Off" is Moche Peruvian phrase that designates when an old Science Fiction Toy is given particular weight or meaning in a specific cultural context, such as You Tube videos or High Palatial Sun Ceremonies. I wanted some gravitas, y'all. So just hit the "like" button already! This is my retirement plan. You get what you pay for.
I had this toy!!! Sooooooo fun!!!!!! I lost the yellow action figures in my yard one year. So sad.
Noooooooooooo! Well, the set could be played with so many other toy lines, so I am sure it recovered. It really was a great set. But his loss will be felt for the rest of our days. Only time and the mower can find him now. Thanks for watching!
Could you please tell me what the toys were that you showed on screen at 3:28. I had that little dome toped robot on the right and I would love to find it again, but I just couldn't tell what the names of the toys were. THANK YOU!
I think you were looking at Zeroid from Ideal's Star Team Toyline. They were earlier Star Wars knock-offs that were pretty popular since they beat the Star Wars toys to market. I cover them in Part 3 of this series, so check it out if you get the time. Thanks for watching, and I hope this answers your question.
@@thelittlethings3309 YES! Thanks for the info, now I know what I need to look for, THANKS!
What - no Scarab?!? 🤣
Oh man, I forgot all about those Space Raiders erasers! I had several of those.
Oh one more comment as TH-cam decides to feed this to me again. The weird thing about Star Wars is it didn't just come out of nowhere. It hit into a market that was already buzzing for something just like it. The pump had already been primed. In the mid to late 70's the routine "Action Figures" of the day like Big Jim, Action Jackson and the somewhat defanged "Action Team" version of GI Joe weren't cutting it.We had been fed for years on Planet of the Apes and Star Trek reruns and Mego's wonderful toys. The week day after school movies tended to run a lot of old 50's US SciFi and newer Japanese SciFi and Kaiju. There was a momentum building. A Craving. Look at the first US wave of Micronauts. 1976! Look in the Catalog and notice how much that first wave seemed to be pulling from those same design concepts we see in Star Wars and the later toys. Wee see those white plastic wedge shaped spaceships. The robots. The armored bad guy. (No Baron Karza was not a Darth Vader rip off. He was Kotetsu Jeeg with a bootleg Mazinger Z head sculpt that somebody cut the crown off and reversed it).
I think you plays way too much emphasis on Star Wars influence on everything. There is no doubt the role that Star Wars had to play and enabling all of this to happen and the direct inspiration in many cases, however there was already a trend happening something that you acknowledge yourself. There was already live action science fiction on Saturday mornings as well as many of inspired cartoons on Saturday mornings. This whole Trend was a process not a product. The stage was already set. I think it is fair to say that the widespread distribution of Star Trek in television syndication warmed up the audience for the arrival of Star Wars and the subsequent tsunami of Science Fiction media and product tie-ins. It's highly possible that Lucas was aware of this science fiction toy trend already happening and it's probably one of the reasons why he set up the deal for percentage of product tie in sales.
I totally agree with you. I really do think that there was a lot of momentum building up to the Sci Fi craze. I think that the release of Star Wars was a big turning point for the overall look and feel, the general aesthetic, for Sci Fi from that point forward, but especially during this time period. Things like Micronauts helped build the momentum and was extremely important, but the "McQuarrie" look really took off afterward. But I think you hit the nail on the head and Sci Fi was already on the minds of the public and Star Wars was a spark to the gunpowder. I really want to find time to talk about Sci Fi toys in the years before Star Wars, because I think it is really interesting to folks that are into "Sci Fi history." Good point and thanks for the comment.
I had a Big Trak, which I think was difficult for my parents (I mean Santa Claus) to afford... I was delighted, for about 45 minutes, before figuring out how limited it was, and it was loud enough that my folks didn't want it near them at all. Other than chasing my cat, (who just ran down the stairs) it was a great toy that I never warmed up to...