Wow, now this takes me back. These were my absolute, absolute favorite toys ever back in the day. Very strange there was a toyline based on CGI PSAs that reminded kids to buckle their seatbelts, but whatever, the toyline was a lot of fun. Even though all the dummies did something different when the button(s) were pressed, I always felt it was too bad the junkbots didn't do _anything_.
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My parents thought these were a waste of money, so I made vehicles out of loosely fitted together Lego and smashed those into walls instead. Lots of satisfying flying debris!
Hah, I've only wanted to see a review since Ashens reminded me they were a thing like a couple weeks ago in one of his videos. I've been waiting way less longer, bwahahahaah
I loved these as a kid. I had the plane which was awesome. I also had a VHS of some sort of mini-movie involving all the characters. 'He's a torso, only more so!'.
There was a cartoon in the 90s that explained why there were evil crash dummies. Something about an experimental body that went nuts. Anyway the show never went passed the pilot, but the toys were already made.
Yeah I was going to mention that it was cg animated and didn't look great, and how it was probably really difficult to do a cg show in the 90s, but then ReBoot managed to pull it off so I dropped the thought from my comment.
DarkPhoenix222 Vince and Larry, the original dummies from the PSAs the toyline was based on, had this feature. After the toyline was released, some TV stations started refusing to show the PSAs since they were now tied to a toyline, and the Vince and Larry toys were replaced by Slick and Spin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Crash_Dummies#Generation_1:_Vince_.26_Larry_.28Early_1991.29
Jeff Jacobson I had Spin, Chip and Dent and they all did the same action with blowing apart. Daryl would have his head pop up and spin around. Junk Man didn't really do anything with the body, he had a gun though. Dent was extra short and Chip was taller than the rest. There was a list of others but they were never available where I lived. Same with Planeteer Toys. Always bugged me as a kid I could never have a good collection because the stores around me were such crap.
Wow, I remember my friends and I liking these things. Heck, I had a video cassette of a Crash Dummies movie(?). It was basic kid's fair, but I remember loving the heck out of that tape. I'm sure my mother was quite happy when she could throw it out.
My brothers and I had tons of these back in the day- even the BP exclusive ones... We'd crash them into each other in contests to see who broke apart the most (or least), and make up games with them. They were a lot of fun when I was young and had an imagination and shit. -Good memories.
I can tell with absolute certainty that if I'd had these toys as a kid, two thirds of the pieces would be missing within a week or two. I had an extremely messy room in a very messy home and when I moved out and emptied my childhood bedroom I found items I'd given up hope of ever finding again.
I used to build elaborate courses for them out of K'Nex and Lego. For those wondering, K'Nex was basically a hipster Lego-Meccano hybrid of shaped plastic things. I used to make caltrops out of them and hide them by my dad's bed if he'd pissed me off, which he did a lot. Now I've graduated to less cruel things, like waterboarding the man. =]
I think I ultimately got my hands on some of these as a kid but it was well after the excitement I felt first seeing the TV ads. I cannot remember wanting a toy more as a kid, for some reason.
There should be a rule in infomercials that you always have to advertise the longest thing about the product. For example, this would be the amazing assembly toy.
Mike! I can answer your question about why Junkman became evil. He was a prototype dummy designed to be "uncrashable", but when his head was attached to his body, he went crazy. Typical Frankenstein's monster story. So, his head was kept separate from a body until a poor-sighted janitor placed it on a super-torso (the Torso 9000), and he used scrap metal to replace his missing limbs. This, Junkman was born. He also builds his own robot army, one of which is in his sidecar here... All this was explored in the cartoon that came with the original toys... Oh, gawd, why do I remember this crap...
I had a few as a kid, including some of the junk men. I also remember there was a CGI animated cartoon show, only saw one episode so I'm not sure how long it lasted. I recall the late great Lorenzo Music of Garfield and Real Ghostbusters fame voicing one of the original live action dummies. ^_^
I had one of the cars as a kid, it's still around somewhere. I think I got bored of putting it back together very quickly. Good to see the Tyco name though, their toys were always great.
I had one of these as a kid My parents glued it together because they 'didn't want me to lose the pieces' It eventually ended up outside where it got rotavated in the garden. Whelp so much for losing the pieces, I lost the whole damn toy.
i had one of these. The car came complete with an airbag. I thought it was the greatest toy ever as a kid. My parents swiftly confiscated it when the glosswork took an absolute pounding. Any chance of you getting hold of a load of 90's battery hand held games mike. I remember the angling games, wheel of fortune, lights out, barcode battler amongst other tetris clones.
You're old Mike... you forgot the excitement of a child. Especially when you were battling against other kids on who will have a better crash. When I was a kid, these were the best toys ever. And after a while you had them assembled in 5 seconds. You'd learn what part fits where and how.
man i had shitloads of these when i was a kid i hope they arent worth too much cus im pretty sure i had every figure, i think i still have a vhs with the cartoon series on somewhere.
Joe Marranca 4 days later I woke up in the hospital, half a car up one nostril, a dummy up the other, and the rest of the car impaled in my chest. Never had a wilder night since.
I was wondering if you had these in the UK because Stuart Ashens brought them up in a video and didn't seem to know what they were. They were based on a series of popular PSAs that aired in the US. I used to have a ton of these, plus the half-hour TV special which I watched over and over again (There wasn't a series, just a special). I looked it up on youtube and the animation's actually not bad, for the time. I feel like it's a bit nicer than Beast Wars, anyway.
I had this amazing you when I was little and it was a lot like this. It was a remote control car that would crash up when you hit things. It also had a button to reset it. I'd love to see if anybody knows what I'm talking about
Here's the philosophical question for the villain. Since kid toy villains are basically the opposite of whatever the heroes are trying to accomplish, does that mean the villain is building safer cars, etc, in order to keep the crash test dummies from doing that goddamned MMM song?
I had the bad guys they were kinda cool but one got broke :(. They are sentient! Have you not seen toy story?! they wait for you to sleep or go out then...do...stuff.
launch them from the top of the stares and let it hit the ground below that's what i used to do with hot wheels. then again im not sure it you have stares
A little annoying you have to reset them, he says. That's information you probably would have had before making the decision to purchase. *INVALID CRITICISM* nah kid you're alright have fun bb ilu
What can an "evil" dummy do to the other ones that makes their "life" miserable? I mean... do the evil one try to kill them? Like anything else in the world? I mean it's what they meant to do, right? To die... So how exactly can one of them "evil"? Philosoraptor.jpeg
I just saw a informercial for water balloons called ballon bonanza. Basically its filling up multiple water balloons and says no tying required. Here is the as seen on tv site: www.asseenontv.com/balloon-bonanza/detail.php?p=832231
I love these toys! Stop cryin about being forced to reset them :P God, you'd think you were American. XD heh, now I kinda want to see you play the Mousetrap game! XD
I seriously don't understand the hate Mike gets, he does things for comedic effect but these comments always seem to take it weirdly serious and personal.
In Mother Russia, toy is used by small child as training to assemble more toy. Is good for Communist Government, is good for communist people. All hail the Motherland.
This is a great series of toys, but I suppose your parents did have a point about crashing them into the furniture. I really expected a picture of your wife to show up after you said that nobody can stop you now though. I had a bunch of these, and the "evil" ones always felt a bit tacked on, which I'm almost certain that they were. They arrived much later in the life of the toy series (perhaps when they ran out of ideas), they're not crash dummies, but built from old car parts, and the figures themselves don't have any action features. They're also made of rubber instead of hard plastic, which makes them seem even more out of place. My favourite thing in this range remains the baby in the trolley though. Somehow I don't think we'd see an exploding crash test baby in today's politically correct market.
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You crashed them wrong!!
Ganesha He should have put his willy in it. LOL.
Ganesha It probably would've worked better if he crashed them into some cheese.
Wow, now this takes me back. These were my absolute, absolute favorite toys ever back in the day. Very strange there was a toyline based on CGI PSAs that reminded kids to buckle their seatbelts, but whatever, the toyline was a lot of fun.
Even though all the dummies did something different when the button(s) were pressed, I always felt it was too bad the junkbots didn't do _anything_.
You're not crashing them with the correct pushing motion, you're supposed to use your elbow more.
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I'm suing.
NormanMatchem wow so edgy
Octahedron I don't think that word means what you think it means...
NormanMatchem i dont think you know internet culture
My parents thought these were a waste of money, so I made vehicles out of loosely fitted together Lego and smashed those into walls instead. Lots of satisfying flying debris!
Oh nice
After nostalgia critic showed this commercial, I have been wanting to see a toy review of it XD
***** Ha me to!
Hah, I've only wanted to see a review since Ashens reminded me they were a thing like a couple weeks ago in one of his videos. I've been waiting way less longer, bwahahahaah
I loved these as a kid. I had the plane which was awesome. I also had a VHS of some sort of mini-movie involving all the characters. 'He's a torso, only more so!'.
There was a cartoon in the 90s that explained why there were evil crash dummies. Something about an experimental body that went nuts. Anyway the show never went passed the pilot, but the toys were already made.
MrRobot1984 And it was animated in CG that was as primitive as what is shown in the commercial. Also, the cat was evil in the show for some reason.
Yeah I was going to mention that it was cg animated and didn't look great, and how it was probably really difficult to do a cg show in the 90s, but then ReBoot managed to pull it off so I dropped the thought from my comment.
Hmm, strange, i remember other ones that when you press the button in their chest shoot their limbs in all directions.
DarkPhoenix222 Vince and Larry, the original dummies from the PSAs the toyline was based on, had this feature. After the toyline was released, some TV stations started refusing to show the PSAs since they were now tied to a toyline, and the Vince and Larry toys were replaced by Slick and Spin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Crash_Dummies#Generation_1:_Vince_.26_Larry_.28Early_1991.29
Jeff Jacobson I had Spin, Chip and Dent and they all did the same action with blowing apart. Daryl would have his head pop up and spin around. Junk Man didn't really do anything with the body, he had a gun though. Dent was extra short and Chip was taller than the rest. There was a list of others but they were never available where I lived. Same with Planeteer Toys. Always bugged me as a kid I could never have a good collection because the stores around me were such crap.
DarkPhoenix222 I had a T-1000 action figure that kind of did that when you pressed a button on his tail bone.
Wow, I remember my friends and I liking these things. Heck, I had a video cassette of a Crash Dummies movie(?). It was basic kid's fair, but I remember loving the heck out of that tape. I'm sure my mother was quite happy when she could throw it out.
My brothers and I had tons of these back in the day- even the BP exclusive ones... We'd crash them into each other in contests to see who broke apart the most (or least), and make up games with them. They were a lot of fun when I was young and had an imagination and shit. -Good memories.
loved crash dummies as a kid, really need to get some again
apply a little childish imagination to it and it makes a great toy for children.
***** Holy crap! THE GRASS MASK :dddd
"If they were real, they'd be dead."
Dangit, Mike! If they were real they wouldn't be *alive!*
I can tell with absolute certainty that if I'd had these toys as a kid, two thirds of the pieces would be missing within a week or two. I had an extremely messy room in a very messy home and when I moved out and emptied my childhood bedroom I found items I'd given up hope of ever finding again.
Oh my god, I remember these!!
I fucking loved these toys. I had a lot of them. even the test center.
I used to build elaborate courses for them out of K'Nex and Lego. For those wondering, K'Nex was basically a hipster Lego-Meccano hybrid of shaped plastic things. I used to make caltrops out of them and hide them by my dad's bed if he'd pissed me off, which he did a lot. Now I've graduated to less cruel things, like waterboarding the man. =]
I loved these! The blue sports car was my favourite ... can't find it online at all now.
3 minutes of crashing with mike = best vid ever
Putting them back together was part of the fun
The evil crash dummy... :D Greetings from Denmark! I watche Spamelot in theater while in London.
I think I ultimately got my hands on some of these as a kid but it was well after the excitement I felt first seeing the TV ads. I cannot remember wanting a toy more as a kid, for some reason.
As a kid I had the later 2000's set of these and I thought they spectacular
There should be a rule in infomercials that you always have to advertise the longest thing about the product. For example, this would be the amazing assembly toy.
And dump cake week would be make your own fucking cake.
loved these things when i was a kid
Your comedic timing is spot on
Mike! I can answer your question about why Junkman became evil. He was a prototype dummy designed to be "uncrashable", but when his head was attached to his body, he went crazy. Typical Frankenstein's monster story. So, his head was kept separate from a body until a poor-sighted janitor placed it on a super-torso (the Torso 9000), and he used scrap metal to replace his missing limbs. This, Junkman was born. He also builds his own robot army, one of which is in his sidecar here...
All this was explored in the cartoon that came with the original toys... Oh, gawd, why do I remember this crap...
I had a few as a kid, including some of the junk men. I also remember there was a CGI animated cartoon show, only saw one episode so I'm not sure how long it lasted. I recall the late great Lorenzo Music of Garfield and Real Ghostbusters fame voicing one of the original live action dummies. ^_^
does are the toys I loved the most when I was a kid I don't even know why I just loved them with all my childish heart
I loved these toys as a kid
Seeing Ashens jr. having fun with toys gives me a semi lob-on.
I had one of the cars as a kid, it's still around somewhere. I think I got bored of putting it back together very quickly. Good to see the Tyco name though, their toys were always great.
"Can't wait to have fun again" *struggles to reassemble toy for 30 seconds... lol
Missed this type of infomercialisim
I had one of these as a kid
My parents glued it together because they 'didn't want me to lose the pieces'
It eventually ended up outside where it got rotavated in the garden. Whelp so much for losing the pieces, I lost the whole damn toy.
They remade these for a short time around 2005. They were pretty fun.
I had these as a kind. Mine all stopped going back together after about a month of play.
I remember seeing these as a kid. :D
Legend has it Mike is still setting up and crashing that bike to this day.
There was a cartoon based around these.
Magmaster13 And a couple of videogames.
Dreadjaws and a porn mag
I has a video on VHS of a crash dummies cartoon when I was a kid
i had one of these. The car came complete with an airbag. I thought it was the greatest toy ever as a kid. My parents swiftly confiscated it when the glosswork took an absolute pounding. Any chance of you getting hold of a load of 90's battery hand held games mike. I remember the angling games, wheel of fortune, lights out, barcode battler amongst other tetris clones.
I remember having one of those action figures. I think they were pretty fun, but if you lost a piece it sucked
you should review the crash dummies game for the super nintendo.
they made a new set in the 2000s that had sound effects and stuff, i had some of them and they were alright
eddy friday didn't at least one of the toys had it where the dummy's head and limbs came off?
yeah they had a little bloke where his limbs came off
You're old Mike... you forgot the excitement of a child. Especially when you were battling against other kids on who will have a better crash. When I was a kid, these were the best toys ever. And after a while you had them assembled in 5 seconds. You'd learn what part fits where and how.
Even as a kid I saw the commercial and thought "that looks fun fo all of 5 minutes".
Glad I spent my pocket money of pokemon cards instead.
Wee! :D
It's a lot easier and more fun with Spinmaster's R/C Regenerator, which can fix itself at the push of a button.
they were awesome!!!! i had the lawnmower.....a buddy of me had the car
Well, the toys work, that's for sure.
I have the junkyard playset, the torture chair, the taxi and motorcycle. I stupidly colored on some of them :(
It actually is kinda sad how the same toys and things we had as kids aren't as fun now. I mean, adults kinda lose the ability to play.
man i had shitloads of these when i was a kid i hope they arent worth too much cus im pretty sure i had every figure, i think i still have a vhs with the cartoon series on somewhere.
I had these, got them for Kindergarden graduation.
Joe Marranca How the hell do you graduate from kindergarden? Do you have to make a macaroni picture of have to stay another year?
Idk it was they just handed us certificate at a an assembly. Then I got Crash Dummies. Don't remember much after that.
Joe Marranca 4 days later I woke up in the hospital, half a car up one nostril, a dummy up the other, and the rest of the car impaled in my chest. Never had a wilder night since.
I CANT STOP LAUGHING
The problem with those toys is that you would always loose pieces.
Ah the 90's when we'd make toys and cartoon shows out of anything.
- Didn't they make a film of this & get JG Ballard to write it?
I was wondering if you had these in the UK because Stuart Ashens brought them up in a video and didn't seem to know what they were. They were based on a series of popular PSAs that aired in the US.
I used to have a ton of these, plus the half-hour TV special which I watched over and over again (There wasn't a series, just a special). I looked it up on youtube and the animation's actually not bad, for the time. I feel like it's a bit nicer than Beast Wars, anyway.
took longer to put it back together then it took to roll it into the baseboard lol
I had this amazing you when I was little and it was a lot like this. It was a remote control car that would crash up when you hit things. It also had a button to reset it. I'd love to see if anybody knows what I'm talking about
Here's the philosophical question for the villain. Since kid toy villains are basically the opposite of whatever the heroes are trying to accomplish, does that mean the villain is building safer cars, etc, in order to keep the crash test dummies from doing that goddamned MMM song?
please make longer videos!
Put them in a dump cake. With some marshmallows.
no die mother ..... and driving them down the stairs? It is so funny to hear a grown man say Whee!
this seems fun :P
I only like the videos that have your sister in. She's nice.
***** She's his wife
Emmay, incest is best.
Opps.
His wife is his sister lol
Emmay864 Well, he is British, so no surprises there.
Don't forget the CGI Cartoon!
I had the bad guys they were kinda cool but one got broke :(. They are sentient! Have you not seen toy story?! they wait for you to sleep or go out then...do...stuff.
Plot twist: "Crash Dummies" doesn't actually refer to the toys. It refers to the children playing with and spending money on them.
Spins karate kick gimmick is for kicking junkbots.
its a toy that you break great idea
launch them from the top of the stares and let it hit the ground below that's what i used to do with hot wheels. then again im not sure it you have stares
Crash dummies... Yeah
This is SAW, right?
None of them are even dump cakes.
A little annoying you have to reset them, he says.
That's information you probably would have had before making the decision to purchase. *INVALID CRITICISM*
nah kid you're alright have fun bb ilu
What can an "evil" dummy do to the other ones that makes their "life" miserable? I mean... do the evil one try to kill them? Like anything else in the world? I mean it's what they meant to do, right? To die... So how exactly can one of them "evil"?
Philosoraptor.jpeg
I just saw a informercial for water balloons called ballon bonanza. Basically its filling up multiple water balloons and says no tying required. Here is the as seen on tv site: www.asseenontv.com/balloon-bonanza/detail.php?p=832231
I love these toys! Stop cryin about being forced to reset them :P God, you'd think you were American. XD
heh, now I kinda want to see you play the Mousetrap game! XD
Where did you get it
I seriously don't understand the hate Mike gets, he does things for comedic effect but these comments always seem to take it weirdly serious and personal.
i have a toy like that!!!!
Can you crash cheese in it?
Try it with cheese
So sad. I didn't realize you were so deprived as a child.
Poof, your childhood dream 's ruined.
Makes me sad.
:(
;)
Isn't it more fun to drive around with them and then eventually crash them? Not crushing them all the time?
I thought he was going to show it a 3rd time. How disappointing
You did it wrong. XD
In Mother Russia, toy is used by small child as training to assemble more toy. Is good for Communist Government, is good for communist people. All hail the Motherland.
This is a great series of toys, but I suppose your parents did have a point about crashing them into the furniture. I really expected a picture of your wife to show up after you said that nobody can stop you now though.
I had a bunch of these, and the "evil" ones always felt a bit tacked on, which I'm almost certain that they were. They arrived much later in the life of the toy series (perhaps when they ran out of ideas), they're not crash dummies, but built from old car parts, and the figures themselves don't have any action features. They're also made of rubber instead of hard plastic, which makes them seem even more out of place.
My favourite thing in this range remains the baby in the trolley though. Somehow I don't think we'd see an exploding crash test baby in today's politically correct market.
the ad wasn't an infomercial, it was a commercial.
stop misleading the viewers.
Stop moaning (even if you are joking ) the video was funny
No no no, you're doing it wrong Mike. You've aged completely wrong, you should have aged to the age of a minor.
You're getting old, Mike.
The things you loved as a child are all slowly losing their charm.
Hi, I'm gay.