I borrowed this from the library so many times as a kid. Kids ads then and now are so insidious in their methods to audiences that generally don't have the mental capacity yet to resist marketing.
The Fox Kids club sent you a magazine (4 a year) and a birthday card in the season of your birthday. Didn't cost anything, the only ads are stuff you would expect. It had games, stuff about new and returning cartoon shows, and even some educational stuff. I liked being in that kids club.
@@LadyBern The "age out" age was actually 16, if I recall correctly. I remember many teens writing in after the magazine came out for some time asking about that.
Years later, Jim made a rather infamous guest appearance in the Smart Guy episode "Strangers On the Net"...makes the part here where he talks about starting a "Jim Fyfe Club" for kids rather creepy in hindsight!
IIRC, Hasbro got into trouble from the FTC and had to pay a civil penalty for the GI Joe Battle Copters not flying as high as they did in the commercial.
As a kid...I knew what commercials were there for. To sell me something. Naturally! =D That's kind of their purpose, isn't it? Thankfully I limited my range of what I wanted my folks to get me after seeing a commercial for it, and I didn't always have to have every figure in a set or collection, just the main ones I really liked. Feel bad for the parents of kids who =did= want =every= figure in a set...."COLLECT THEM ALL!"
These kids are pretty smart for their age, nowadays most are spoiled, pampered and on iphone games and stuff they can barely make an sentence let alone have a conversation about stuff like show here.
I watched this video a long time ago. The "What is a #1 fan" bit inspired me to play the Hi-5 theme (Hi-5 is an Australian preschool to early primaty school aimed program) at the base of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge on Christmas Eve 2020. Hi-5's #1 fan was a girl called Darcey Freeman back in 2008 and I used this video to prove you can like Hi-5 without spending lots and lots of your own money (Actually her father Arthur paid for all of the merchandise). All I spent was a $2.19 AUD iTunes download of the song.
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"That's why they have receipts!"
Aww, this guy's got some sensibility.
ive been looking for this doc for SO long because I watched it when I was younger, so glad I found it this makes me so happy
Cut to 2010's (maybe 2020's) when people join those geek clubs to get a box full of trash in their homes
I borrowed this from the library so many times as a kid. Kids ads then and now are so insidious in their methods to audiences that generally don't have the mental capacity yet to resist marketing.
Adults easily fall for this too. Social media proved that.
I watched this when I was little and till this day I thought It was a dream.
If anybody's got zillions consumer reports for kids magazines please scan them for us I beg you!!! They will be lost forever if nobody does it
This type of content should be produced en masse today, lest our children also become the hollow generation that has bought them into this world.
I remember watching this Tape in grade 2
These old commercials were so good though
The Fox Kids club sent you a magazine (4 a year) and a birthday card in the season of your birthday. Didn't cost anything, the only ads are stuff you would expect. It had games, stuff about new and returning cartoon shows, and even some educational stuff. I liked being in that kids club.
I only got 2 magazines before they stopped I don't think that I had aged out of it, I was a bit disappointed at that because I did like them.
@@LadyBern Either you did age out, or they were ending their kids programming in favor of the Fox Box, and their magazine went at the same time
@@jdb2002 now I have to try and cross reference things I recall advertised in the magazine and the year to see which case it might be.
After a bit of checking I suppose see I did age out. I can't remember the limit but I think I was 10 or 11 when I last got a Totally kids magazine.
@@LadyBern The "age out" age was actually 16, if I recall correctly. I remember many teens writing in after the magazine came out for some time asking about that.
I still remember all the words to the song in the Socker-Boppers commercials.
I hate corporations and how they search for new ways to seek profit.
Anyone else find it weird how these kids seem a lot smarter and more articulate than kids of today?
I was alive then and people were in general smarter.
Maybe because you live in a hole and don't know anything about the world around you.
Tom simple answer, they were not. If anything kids today should be smarter, because of a wider and more open understanding of the world.
No
You mean those kids should've taught their future kids better?
Ok I was a kid when this came out and I never believed the commercials and knew they embellished shit.
I remember this, I would have been ten when this aired. Healthy for everyone to understand how they try to manipulate children.
0:19 is from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VHS tapes that were offered at Burger King 31 years ago.
Years later, Jim made a rather infamous guest appearance in the Smart Guy episode "Strangers On the Net"...makes the part here where he talks about starting a "Jim Fyfe Club" for kids rather creepy in hindsight!
That's where I recognized him from
Warning, toys do not walk and talk. Hahaha, I never forgot this lil gem of a program from my youth.
I had to watch a video like this in school.
EDIT: It was this video!
Typhoon 2 is $260 bucks in todays dollars. No wonder my parents laughed when I asked for it.
IIRC, Hasbro got into trouble from the FTC and had to pay a civil penalty for the GI Joe Battle Copters not flying as high as they did in the commercial.
Great video!
As a kid...I knew what commercials were there for. To sell me something. Naturally! =D That's kind of their purpose, isn't it? Thankfully I limited my range of what I wanted my folks to get me after seeing a commercial for it, and I didn't always have to have every figure in a set or collection, just the main ones I really liked. Feel bad for the parents of kids who =did= want =every= figure in a set...."COLLECT THEM ALL!"
I just saw Todd Howard as a kid
Need some running speed off the ramp...
$341.84 to be a No.1 fan of New Kids On The Block
and £469.78 to be the number one fan of S Club 7 if that happened in the UK
Adrian Reavill That’s in the 90s you have to remember inflation so would be a lot more now
Big is an awesome movie.
These kids are pretty smart for their age, nowadays most are spoiled, pampered and on iphone games and stuff they can barely make an sentence let alone have a conversation about stuff like show here.
I remember watching this in second grade. I was curious how much those toys (NKOTB) would be today. In 2022, it would be $747.21….wow
I never cared about products in movies, I was too busy watching the movie
People like you are the ones who get scammed the worst
I watched this video a long time ago. The "What is a #1 fan" bit inspired me to play the Hi-5 theme (Hi-5 is an Australian preschool to early primaty school aimed program) at the base of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge on Christmas Eve 2020. Hi-5's #1 fan was a girl called Darcey Freeman back in 2008 and I used this video to prove you can like Hi-5 without spending lots and lots of your own money (Actually her father Arthur paid for all of the merchandise). All I spent was a $2.19 AUD iTunes download of the song.
the fuck? Darcy was a little girl who was thrown from the bridge by her father Arthur.
I guess my parents raised me differently, I wasn’t fooled by commercials
That's what the people most affected by advertisements say
Your parents were in on it mate
Is that guy the one who always plays an idiot or a creepy guy? The "host".
Yes, he used to be an actor. So he has played those roles. But I have met him in real life, and he is a wonderful man.