0:49 can we just appreciate the quality of the adverts that when in the Lone Ranger ad the toy fell out of the canoe and into the water they left it in the final edit, clearly saying, “F it, that’ll do” Also, Aurora AFX was awesome! I still have the two cars somewhere
Everything was expensive back then. If you use the Bank of England historic inflation calculator, that Tomytronic 3D game equates to £85 today. There’s old Argos catalogues you can read online from the 70’s and the prices are mind blowing.
I became chums with Richard whom lived at the expensive end of our village - my eyes were opened to a new world of electronic games plus a real high-wire from one tree to another & his mum baked her own bread !
That's Richard Briers doing the 'Baby Alive', 'Merry-Go Zoo' & 'Strawberry Shortcake' ads. Patrick Allen voicing the Action Man one from 1974. Arthur Mullard in the Skirrid ad - that's a good one. Sounds like it might be Kenny Everett on the 'Makin' faces' commercial. I'm afraid I didn't have any of these games / toys - a bit too late for me.
I was never allowed to watch Saturday morning TV and was always shooed out of the house to go play with my friends. Years later I discovered that with dad working shifts, Saturday mornings were the only time my parents could enjoy ‘private time’!
@@AtheistOrphan lol, my parents was probably doing that too. I was always sent to my grandparents on a Friday until Sunday evening, so I was able to watch Saturday morning kids tv until it finished at about 12:30. Then I had half an hour to get to football practice. 😂
@@RetroSteveUK I don't even know what's in it's place these day's, but whatever it is it won't anything half as good, lol. ITV and the BBC should do reruns of those shows on a Saturday morning. I'd tune in for that. They must still have them in the archives. I wonder if they allow people access to that kinda stuff.🤔
@@TheRetroManRandySavage We see clips used on documentary shows so they must be getting them from somewhere. I suspect some of those old live shows probably haven't aged well.
I got a massive black eye from Swingball. I was so upset my Dad took it away! By the way I do think 70s clothes and style are so cool. Always have done. When I was a teenager late 80s/early 90s I used to wear my mother's, and even my father's (maroon leather flares) clothes. I thought I was the business, probably looked very silly!
Some great old adverts there. I had aurora and Scalextric I much preferred Aurora, they were a betted size and stayed on the track better. Had plenty of Star Wars figures and other bits, toys were quite expensive then compared to today.
Quite honestly, I would rather watch that brilliantly conceived Scalextric advert - generating such excitement from a toy- than all the tedious CGI films peddled today.
Still got a fair bit of my Star Wars stuff, including the Falcon, Snowspeeder, X-Wing and the original white Tie Fighter. They were great toys. I was also a big fan of the Mattel Battlestar Galactic stuff. Not easy to come by now, so I'm glad I've still got that too. Anyone remember the Entex handheld Space Invaders game? Got one of those for Christmas in 1980. Certainly got through some batteries with that! Re: the Cyborgs vs Androids. Was that a precursor of the Micronauts range as they look very similar?
Knock Your Block Off was a great game and the must have board game of 1986 for more than most after being on TX on Saturday Mornings. And the girl in the ad was none other than Kellie Bright.
Yeah, she was recognisable straight away! I have this memory of the game; I remember wondering why the TV show wasn't mentioned in the game's advertising. I think the two might have been unrelated - like there might have been no licensing deal. I haven't been able to uncover any info on that yet.
The girl in the ad for Knock Your Block Off - 13:06 - now plays Linda Carter on Eastenders, (Kellie Bright). No idea how I recognized her other than that I was watching this right after watching Eastenders but I Googled it and sure enough it's her.
@@davidjones6470 lol .. Years of collecting. You'd be surprised how affordable some of those old toys are. I got an old LCD game recently, was expecting it to be £100+ but found a listing on eBay for £30.
We all new some 1 who was lucky enough to have all the Star Wars toys. Usually parents split up. As kids never saw the connection. We were all round his house wanting to play with them.
Back when is kids had imaginations. I had a few of these toys. Tomy 3D the red one. Millennium Falcon, Starbird. But don’t put the wet the bed doll in your sisters bed. You have to sleep in it 😂
@RetroSteveUK .. Could I suggest you show the year of the advert/toy in the blank part of the TV panel top right? I remember most of these first time around, BUT .. your video compilations are a history-lesson for younger folk !!
I intended to include the years of broadcast originally, but the research was taking way too long (time I just don't have to spare), so I decided to go with presenting them as-is. The year was going to go on the TV LED display, where it currently says "88mph" (which is a time travel reference).
Does anyone know why, when they show the prices of toys in these advertisements that they say "about" or "around" a certain price? I've also never seen an ad say "or less" after the price of something. The Barbie ad is interesting. The US version of these ads would say "Hey there, Barbie girl", closer to the Georgie Girl song. I love seeing a Toys R Us commercial. I never got to go to one of their stores before they went out of business in most places, other than Canada.
Are those Palitoy Star Wars figures from the original movie? They'd be worth a bit now (although a lot more if still boxed, which means they'd never been played with, which is sad)
"My Dog Has Fleas" looks pretty good and I have no recollection of it from my late 80s childhood of reading the Argos and Index catalogue toy sections inside-out. Did anyone here have it?
Some I capture from VHS when I can get hold of tapes, but most of them are already out there on the internet. I use those, but fix up the sound and picture quality as much as possible before presenting them in these themed collections.
@@AtheistOrphan - Yeah, I remember my sister collecting them. She had a load of them lined up above the door frame in our shared bedroom when I was very young.
Insurance adverts have been going in the 'Banks & Finance' folder. There's one compilation on the channel already .. It's about five or six videos down the list on my channel's video tab currently.
I’ve never played Swingball but can anyone who has, if you’re both ‘righties’ isn’t one of you always on the backhand? From my childhood in the 60’s I think I remember there was a pop-up device to indicate the winner? I thought it unfair that one player was at a disadvantage having to play backhand all the time. Mind you - this Is the same kid who thought Morticia Addams was hot!
I've come across this problem with Swingball. We solved it by swapping directions each round. You're right about the pop-up indicator. Older sets used to have that.
@@RetroSteveUK Ahh! Rounds! I thought you just played till you dropped, (or until that bloody thing popped up!). P.S. I mentioned your onscreen surround looked like the 25” DeccaColour set I desired. Works out as 37” on my 55” Hisense - Bonus!!
Omg just had an awful flashback...my brother lost his action man in summer of 81..my mam went nuts at him...but It was me ...I sold it for 60p to a boy at school, bought myself loads of sweets on the way home and ate them in the park. Sorry Colin.
Sweet memories of all those lovely toys that nobody could afford
0:49 can we just appreciate the quality of the adverts that when in the Lone Ranger ad the toy fell out of the canoe and into the water they left it in the final edit, clearly saying, “F it, that’ll do”
Also, Aurora AFX was awesome! I still have the two cars somewhere
The ending is hilarious. Just a dead body washedup on the river bank with an eagle circling overhead about to eat the corpse lol
What shocks me is just how expensive toys in the UK were back then. 😳
Everything was expensive back then. If you use the Bank of England historic inflation calculator, that Tomytronic 3D game equates to £85 today. There’s old Argos catalogues you can read online from the 70’s and the prices are mind blowing.
I became chums with Richard whom lived at the expensive end of our village - my eyes were opened to a new world of electronic games plus a real high-wire from one tree to another & his mum baked her own bread !
Yet they were still made in China!
All the toys I wanted but couldn’t afford!
I remember half of these growing up in the 80’s around about Christmas time such memories.
christmas was awesome when we were kids
Couldn't agree more
I missed this set first time around. Wonderful memories! That Palitoy must have been making a killing!
Great seeing a Mainline Railways advert. I didn't know there was one.
Wow I remember Simon from MB electronics I had one myself as a child
Thank you the only adverts worth watching
Like a Therapy session fantastic take me back. Toys & memories I had forgot. Thks Steve
My pleasure. 😎👍
That's Richard Briers doing the 'Baby Alive', 'Merry-Go Zoo' & 'Strawberry Shortcake' ads.
Patrick Allen voicing the Action Man one from 1974.
Arthur Mullard in the Skirrid ad - that's a good one.
Sounds like it might be Kenny Everett on the 'Makin' faces' commercial.
I'm afraid I didn't have any of these games / toys - a bit too late for me.
I always chose the blind spot behind some lorries as the best place to play Swingball.
Fabulous memories
I knew all the words to the Toys R Us ad, the ad of my childhood
Same here. They played it SO much on TV back then.
Omg, brings back memories, my cousin had the action man scorpion tank and I was so jealous.
I still have my galaxy invader 1000 and Grandstand invader from space. great memories watching this and your other ones.
Yeah, I love the old Galaxy Invader machine. It's on display in my studio room. I pick it up fairly regularly for a little blast.
LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME HA LUV IT
Remember most of them, it's weird though that it was decades ago yet when you see it, it's like it was yesterday.
I know, right? It's fascinating how something you haven't thought about for all that time was lodged there in your brain without you even knowing.
Happy days! Lol.
I always looked forward to the adverts on a Saturday morning as a kid. Just about Every single advert was for a new toy.
I was never allowed to watch Saturday morning TV and was always shooed out of the house to go play with my friends.
Years later I discovered that with dad working shifts, Saturday mornings were the only time my parents could enjoy ‘private time’!
@@AtheistOrphan lol, my parents was probably doing that too. I was always sent to my grandparents on a Friday until Sunday evening, so I was able to watch Saturday morning kids tv until it finished at about 12:30. Then I had half an hour to get to football practice. 😂
I've always really missed that 2-3 hour Saturday morning TV slot.
@@RetroSteveUK I don't even know what's in it's place these day's, but whatever it is it won't anything half as good, lol.
ITV and the BBC should do reruns of those shows on a Saturday morning. I'd tune in for that. They must still have them in the archives. I wonder if they allow people access to that kinda stuff.🤔
@@TheRetroManRandySavage We see clips used on documentary shows so they must be getting them from somewhere. I suspect some of those old live shows probably haven't aged well.
I got a massive black eye from Swingball. I was so upset my Dad took it away! By the way I do think 70s clothes and style are so cool. Always have done. When I was a teenager late 80s/early 90s I used to wear my mother's, and even my father's (maroon leather flares) clothes. I thought I was the business, probably looked very silly!
Did you know that Swingball was based on the medieval mace. They decided to remove the spikes and not make it out of metal for copyright reasons.
Some great old adverts there.
I had aurora and Scalextric I much preferred Aurora, they were a betted size and stayed on the track better. Had plenty of Star Wars figures and other bits, toys were quite expensive then compared to today.
£30.00 was some money back in the day.
Ar good old swing ball watching my younger uncles playing this psst as a newt.took me right back cheers steve😂😂😂
Good memories! 😆
Lone Ranger: “You’ll have somebody’s eye out with that!”
The good old days of putting your batteries near the fire,to try and squeeze one more game out of your CGL space invaders game.
Looked like Ricky Schroeder (The Champ) in that Fighter Pilot advert. He also did Star Wars figure adverts.
i had Starbird and scalextric, and a couple of starwars toys the troop carrier and some storm troopers, but non of the big ships or walkers!
Quite honestly, I would rather watch that brilliantly conceived Scalextric advert - generating such excitement from a toy- than all the tedious CGI films peddled today.
We still have a Swingball that we bring out in the summer. It gets quite vicious when I play against my husband!
Yeah, we have one too. Not a vintage one; bought it a few years ago from Tesco. They're pretty timeless.
Tomytronic games were the nuts.
You might like this, then.
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I don’t remember all of them but things were so cheap back them, I wish they were now
Still got a fair bit of my Star Wars stuff, including the Falcon, Snowspeeder, X-Wing and the original white Tie Fighter. They were great toys. I was also a big fan of the Mattel Battlestar Galactic stuff. Not easy to come by now, so I'm glad I've still got that too. Anyone remember the Entex handheld Space Invaders game? Got one of those for Christmas in 1980. Certainly got through some batteries with that! Re: the Cyborgs vs Androids. Was that a precursor of the Micronauts range as they look very similar?
Not sure about the Micronauts thing. I do remember the Entex Space Invader, but I've never owned one.
Knock Your Block Off was a great game and the must have board game of 1986 for more than most after being on TX on Saturday Mornings. And the girl in the ad was none other than Kellie Bright.
Yeah, she was recognisable straight away! I have this memory of the game; I remember wondering why the TV show wasn't mentioned in the game's advertising. I think the two might have been unrelated - like there might have been no licensing deal. I haven't been able to uncover any info on that yet.
I do remember having the Tomtronic games. I had the red and blue ones. But don't recall the Stereophonic versions though!
The stereo sound, combined with the 3D effect, really did give them a good sense of immersion.
I wish i had my star wars toy's they be worth a fortune now the good old days
The girl in the ad for Knock Your Block Off - 13:06 - now plays Linda Carter on Eastenders, (Kellie Bright). No idea how I recognized her other than that I was watching this right after watching Eastenders but I Googled it and sure enough it's her.
Awesome upload as always young man 🤘
Nice one Steve
imagine having some of them Now!!!
Worth a Mint in good condition!!!
I still have a few myself!
@@RetroSteveUK Steve Mr 💰💰💰!!!
@@davidjones6470 lol .. Years of collecting. You'd be surprised how affordable some of those old toys are. I got an old LCD game recently, was expecting it to be £100+ but found a listing on eBay for £30.
@@RetroSteveUK mad in it!!!😊
We all new some 1 who was lucky enough to have all the Star Wars toys. Usually parents split up. As kids never saw the connection. We were all round his house wanting to play with them.
When my parents spilt up all my dad left us with was debt. Still, I get to buy all those things on eBay now as an adult! 🤣
I had a Pocket Simon!!!
Back when is kids had imaginations. I had a few of these toys. Tomy 3D the red one. Millennium Falcon, Starbird. But don’t put the wet the bed doll in your sisters bed. You have to sleep in it 😂
Plus the Optimus prime.
@RetroSteveUK .. Could I suggest you show the year of the advert/toy in the blank part of the TV panel top right? I remember most of these first time around, BUT .. your video compilations are a history-lesson for younger folk !!
I intended to include the years of broadcast originally, but the research was taking way too long (time I just don't have to spare), so I decided to go with presenting them as-is. The year was going to go on the TV LED display, where it currently says "88mph" (which is a time travel reference).
"....and Lizard!" haha!
Does anyone know why, when they show the prices of toys in these advertisements that they say "about" or "around" a certain price? I've also never seen an ad say "or less" after the price of something. The Barbie ad is interesting. The US version of these ads would say "Hey there, Barbie girl", closer to the Georgie Girl song. I love seeing a Toys R Us commercial. I never got to go to one of their stores before they went out of business in most places, other than Canada.
I'm guessing they all had the same RRP but the price would differ a little store to store. Well, if I had to guess.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage Yes, that would probably be correct.
Are those Palitoy Star Wars figures from the original movie? They'd be worth a bit now (although a lot more if still boxed, which means they'd never been played with, which is sad)
Yeah, I think those are the original toys, looking at the age of the advert.
Those Star Wars toys looked rather large! I guess for kids who lived in mansions!
That's Color Television when I was kid it's Black and White
"My Dog Has Fleas" looks pretty good and I have no recollection of it from my late 80s childhood of reading the Argos and Index catalogue toy sections inside-out. Did anyone here have it?
Never had it, but I do have a fleeting recollection of its existence from back then. It reminds me a little of Pop-Up Pirate.
Toys always looked so good in the adverts,But sometimes when you bye one or get one as a present ,they can turn out quite disappointing.
"My friends all smell like their names too".
''Introducing new Turdy Buthole".
🤣🤣🤣
I Had my dog has flees, were do you get these adverts really enjoy all your videos
Some I capture from VHS when I can get hold of tapes, but most of them are already out there on the internet. I use those, but fix up the sound and picture quality as much as possible before presenting them in these themed collections.
Nice one Steve,another great selection mate
Better times
Some of these are now remade,but the quality is poor.
😆
Apparently the rumour when I was a kid was that Sharon's brother was having 100 Star Wars stormtroopers for Xmas , I think it was a lie now .
Is that Pierce Brosnan in the starbird advert?
It could be. I'm not sure how old he would have been at that point, but it definitely looks like him.
Scalextrix £107.99 is equivalent to…………£405 today?!?! 😮😮😮😮
Is that Kellie Bright on 13:11?
On the Knock Your Block Off advert .. yeah that's definitely her.
Some toys were very disappointing, like the big box I got containing just a battery! On the box it said:
Toy Not Included!
Ugh, Scalextric jingle...stuck...in...my head...nowwww
Imagine how I felt when I was editing the bloody thing! 🤣
@@RetroSteveUK But you can't beaaaatttttttt....Scalextric !!
That advert is a banger
I note they don’t tell you the cost of the complete Wade village set! Bet it was expensive.
Didn't Wade make animal figurine Whimseys?
@@RetroSteveUK - They did indeed Steve. There was a brief collecting craze for them amongst girls in the 70’s.
@@AtheistOrphan - Yeah, I remember my sister collecting them. She had a load of them lined up above the door frame in our shared bedroom when I was very young.
Hi Steve, can you please do vintage insurance Uk adverts.
Insurance adverts have been going in the 'Banks & Finance' folder. There's one compilation on the channel already .. It's about five or six videos down the list on my channel's video tab currently.
I have the pocket Simon. Well, it won't fit in your pocket. I have the tomy 3d sky attack and Transformers Grimlock.
Always wanted a simon, but mum got maniac because it was cheaper, it was actually the better game.
I've not even heard of that one. My step-daughter had a Bop-It in the 90s. That worked on a similar principle.
@@RetroSteveUK Yeah, maniac game by ideal, ads on youtube
7:17 who the hell doesn't notice a burglar a few feet away from them ????
Yeah. Suspension of disbelief for the sake of comedy I guess.
I’ve never played Swingball but can anyone who has, if you’re both ‘righties’ isn’t one of you always on the backhand? From my childhood in the 60’s I think I remember there was a pop-up device to indicate the winner? I thought it unfair that one player was at a disadvantage having to play backhand all the time. Mind you - this Is the same kid who thought Morticia Addams was hot!
I've come across this problem with Swingball. We solved it by swapping directions each round. You're right about the pop-up indicator. Older sets used to have that.
@@RetroSteveUK Ahh! Rounds! I thought you just played till you dropped, (or until that bloody thing popped up!). P.S. I mentioned your onscreen surround looked like the 25” DeccaColour set I desired. Works out as 37” on my 55” Hisense - Bonus!!
Omg just had an awful flashback...my brother lost his action man in summer of 81..my mam went nuts at him...but It was me ...I sold it for 60p to a boy at school, bought myself loads of sweets on the way home and ate them in the park. Sorry Colin.
Worth it?
Does anyone remember Astro Wars?
Yeah, I've been meaning to pick one of those up on eBay & do a RetroSpective video on it. They're starting to get more expensive now.
Barbie £2.05 how they work that random price out I wonder.!!
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Ffs what aload of crap toys were back then
We loved 'em though.
@@RetroSteveUK looking how simple and boring they are yes that's all we had back then