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Now YOU can give the nuclear go code....

Oh, Fester must have been fooling with that thing. This always happens when he does it…

Didn’t the Minuteman carry nukes?

It`s all done with mirrors

Great video. Like me !

The good old days.

WITCHCRAFT!

Why don’t you open the tunnel for awhile?

What’s the trick

Back when the World was normal and young boys grew up to become men. Not like the WOKE freak show that is rammed downed our throats today! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the video have not seen a Lionel commercial since I was a kid

Love these commercials. Although I don’t remember them. When did they come out

Nice

Is that a young Paul Sorvino in the thumbnail?

how much did the train set cost the general stuff it came with..?

I remember the rocket train commercials!

I still have one of those "Enemy Ammunition Cars" (0:38) in HO scale. A mousetrap like set up. The roof and both sides scatter apart. Molded in red plastic. Detail is not very good, but it's a fun piece. Polystyrene may be getting brittle 60 years on. Explode at your own risk Never had the missle launchers.

I love the Lionel engineering sets. I had the weather station, plastics and electronics sets as a kid. I went into electronics engineering. I built some fixtures through the years out of Delrin plastic that I had learned about in the early 60s from the Lionel plastics engineering set.

I've never owned any model trains, and never knew about all those special cars that Lionel put out. I also never knew about the science sets. How cool!

Remember BOY, you're the boss.......until you get married. So enjoy your freedom while you can.

This speaks more to me than most modern toys.

Now days it’s a video game that teaches you how to kill mythical creatures or blow people’s heads off…… boy we have really progressed

I bet all the kids who had the science sets were very gainfully employed. Need to talk to Neil Young about bringing this division back.

I had no idea some of the crap that Lionel came out with besides the stuff I knew they came out with geez no wonder they went out of business.

This was the time. That Lionel trains came out with the Scout line of complete garbage. Incompatible couplers no details locomotives that were unserviceable and unreliable he wanted to compete with marks at the lower end of trains and he should have left that end of the market to him. Another instance of where he misspent company finances. People who say O gauge trains take up too much space have a humongous ho layout that is bigger than the O gauge layout would have been.

Ho gauge trains like the double O that Lionel made before the war we're a failure sales wise Lionel should have just kept to what it knew best and not try to dabble into things it did not. Poor quality imported trains did not help their reputation any.

Lionel wasted so much money on gimmicks like the helicopter car and the satellite car and the launching car and exploding box car. They should have done better by not deleting details so they can fit a cheaper box. It's a shame that Lionel did not let his son take over the company. If a Model Railroader ran Lionel trains they would not have been any cheapening of quality and they would have expanded the line better. And they wasted so much money buying the science set company and the record company and the fishing rod company what stupid business decision they were. Sank the company what a shame.

Thanks for the memories.

My Dad bought me a spring loaded rocket launcher Lionel Train when he retired from Army in1961. Not enough track, he said, and he went out and bought a LOT more track. 35 years of Army and war, time for trains, golf, and fun!

Well,being in food marketing I think where Lionel took the wrong track was not recognizing that O gauge and even O27,while OK for going around a Christmas tree were still too large for people wanting to run trains all year as a hobby. Their marketing error was not realizing people in NYC,Philadelphia,Boston,Balt/Wash were moving out of apartments and buying their first homes. No room for high priced O gauge Lionel trains and still no room for a layout all year long. Lionel should have taken the HO track. Affordable with less space requirements.

Thanks, for the vintage candy store commericals.

I remember this when i was a kid

So kool very nice 🚂😎👍👍👍👍👍

Pretty cool assorted action cars..

Love this little effect- nice set

The quality of Lionel's trains may have overall dropped in the '60s, but they certainly didn't loose their penchant for coming up with clever ways to create entertaining mechanical movement. I'm not the hugest fan of the military themed trains, but I don't fault Lionel for making them- if trains on their own weren't selling as well, they needed a gimmick. And space and the cold war were on everyone's minds then, so it makes sense Lionel would cash in on that to avoid losing more of the toy market. It's hard to say just when Lionel lost its quality, but certainly the '60s were when it started to go off the cliff- more and more plastic, less metal. Less robust construction. Cost cutting corners all over the place. They did what they had to to stay in business I'm sure. It's still a little sad. At least they tried their best, even if it couldn't hold off the inevitable demise of the Lionel Corporation.

And at first I thought it was going to be a boring oval and tunnel like the displays in my little town 50 years ago. Thanks so much!

Its Its funny how the say ask your dad for..... But now its 2021 and i usually ask my mom Boy times has changed

always loved the guys that have magnetic traction and then clean their track with steel wool....think about it

Nuke um boys!

SOMEONE IS GOING TO LOSE AN EYE !! said every mom.

Lionel trains is all that I thought about as a boy in the 1950s and 1960s. One teacher told my Mom that she should take those trains away from me. Almost 70 years old and I am still enjoying them.

History model trains Bering back mermmys

Assume

That was historically

That was so cool

"Boy", isn't that racist? LOL

it's high noon ....and there ain't no gold in ft knox.......jesuits took it long time ago..........go look if you don't believe me.....

where can I get one

I'm not so sure these style commercials would work in post 2000's America... "Remember boy, you can bomb the middle east, with Lionel trains..."