I was born in 1952, so I was their target audience. I got a 25¢/week allowance. But soft drinks were 10¢/bottle, and candy bars and gum packs were 5¢. A kid today would need $5/week. Gasoline was approx. 29¢/gallon. Hard to believe now that such a world existed!
@@SteveCarras Yea and we complained about a slice cheese for a cheese burger was 5 cent more. I had some board games and an Electric Football game. (imagine that today, no carbon foot print).
About the same time those $7-25 toys were being sold, I asked my mom when we could get a new house. She said maybe when Dad got a raise to $10k a year. In retrospect, it seems like a better world back when toys like that sold for a few dollars. But don't forget that most of that crap was crap that broke in 2 weeks and a $25 toy cost the average Joe nearly a full day's pay.
I was a kid of the 60's and the one toy I never see mentioned was Creepy-Crawlers. My buddy's and I spent endless hours creating all sorts of creatures.
I loved creepy crawlers. I still remember every detail of that toy, the goop of unknown chemistry, the heating unit you could melt lead in... Bugs, trolls, and that smell..... Sadly today, like most of these toys, it would be banned by the safety Nazis.
At one time I had almost the entire set. They had a plane even. Carried the doll. That little white car was incredibly fast back then. New batteries. Lol
I remember quite a few of these.The Billy Blastoff I had was the older one that did not walk. Weeks after Christmas or birthdays when the batteries went dead we were told by our parents to save money we didn't have for new ones...we learned to use our imaginations instead. A fun fact about the Bonanza figures: when Pernell Roberts left the series a mustache was added to the Adam Cartwright figure and he became the Villain figure.
the OO7 commercial....that is so epic...I wonder if anyone still has theirs....just curios cause I grew up with toys in the late 70's, and mid 80's....those toys from before the 70's must have been epic!
@@garyowens7454 actually, we grew up with the earliest video games..... when video games came out when I was only 8 or 9, and it was the latest thing, the first video game was Spacewar! it was produced by MIT students in 1962, and was finally released in 1970 to the public. I got to play it in 1979, and boy it was fun.
Love anything Vintage... Notice most of these boy toy commercials in the beginning were planting seeds, grooming them for the Military/Space related Brilliant, Anyhow I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks again for sharing.😀
A lot of our kids are being raised like wimps nowadays,many don't know who or what they are because of some the parents and teachers we have!!! Kids don't know what real toys are, Most toys are nothing but garbage !!! Many children and sorry to say adults either don't know or don't care about what it has taken to keep things in this US the way they have been many people have fallen asleep! Many people have died to keep us free!!! Such a shame
@@jimnunes6286 I have to agree. Back in the 70's we didn't have smartphones attached to our heads 24/7, or in front of our X-Box or Playstation systems. Our parents DIDN'T have to tell us to go outside. We loved it out there. Even in winter. I can remember a massive snowfall, schools closed, YAHOO! LOL! But we would bundle up and off we'd go. Some days it was playing 🏈🏉football🏉🏈, some days we'd use our K-Tel "snow brick maker" and make igloo snow forts! Outside we had a blast! I can remember Mom calling us back inside. Awww Mom, 30 more minutes? PLEEEEASE! We'd love being outside. When we'd finally come inside our clothes would be soaking wet. Our legs and feet a reddish pink color from the cold, but LOL we'd want to go back out! After a cup of Hot Chocolate and a 🥪sandwich!🥪 My point was back then we didn't rely on the internet, or video games, or even 📺television📺, we relied on our imaginations, our creativity, our abilities to take advantage of our surroundings using items that we acquired over the years...all 3 or 4 of them. Those days are such wonderful moments in my life. Life was so much more simple, and extremely safer and less chaotic and insane. Kids could safely walk to school without having to look over our shoulder every couple of minutes. We may not have had all the "technologies" that kids have now, but honestly we really DIDN'T NEED IT. And Christmas time was the most amazing, the most wonderful, and absolutely the most special and perfect time of the year! Getting ahold of the JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and/or the Sears Wish Book was the second most anticipated holiday event other than Christmas itself. Also some of the few times we'd sit glued to the 📺TV!📺 The 🎄Christmas🎄television specials. From Frosty the⛄Snowman☃️, to Rudolph the Red Nose 🦌Reindeer🦌, a Charlie Brown 🎄Christmas🎄, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and a few others. Those were so fun, so special, and they still give me that special feeling when I watch them. I actually bought all of the shows that I mentioned on either 📀DVD📀 or 📀Blu-Ray.📀 Oh also I forgot, any and every Muppets Holiday Specials, The Muppets Family Christmas, or any of the others. Those are by far the most iconic Christmas specials to me. Especially the Muppets Christmas Carol. Epic movie! These are just A FEW absolutely incredible experiences that kids nowadays never have seen or ever will see. Walking into a Toys R Us during Christmas! The anticipation of those catalogs, and Christmas itself! Going to the Mall with Mom and Dad Christmas Shopping. Some of these things you can do now, BUT honestly they aren't even remotely close to those past days of the 70's. Growing up then was, well it was a AWESOME TIME TO BE A KID!! Merry Christmas everybody! Have a Happy New Year as well! God Bless us all, and may our new year be a lot better than the last one!
back in those days ... we were allowed to get skin knees and get bruised .. from our antics ... we learned what we could and couldnt do ... no playing inside all day at a desk ... your playground was outside ... because if you stayed inside you helped Mom do the housework ... above and beyond your daily chores
@@kaboom-zf2blRemember Saturday cartoons? Somehow, Saturday was also vacuum day. The vacuum was loud and made static on the T.V. Right in the middle of Mighty Mouse!
I was crazy for Motorific. I remember some of those commercials, especially that damn jingle, 'Voice control ... Kennedy Airport.' Why is that still stuck in my head? The toys were fun but the boy provided the imagination. Miss those days!
I remember my dad being a huge fan of Roy Rogers and his hidden wrist derringer. He mangled some scrap together and made a similar mechanism that popped out a live firing pistol when flicked, MAN that thing was COOL
I think Bully Mummy (later Lost in Space) at 35:25? Amazing the plethora of cool stuff kids could get, including elaborate play sets - all for under $15!
I had Johnny Lightning too ! Anybody remember Sizzlers ? Charge em up they had a capacitor in em they’d run about 6-8 laps and you had to “gas” em back, too cool. Way more fun than a damn computer, at least to us old kids. 🐾✌️🇺🇸
I am so glad to have the dad i have. Old school soda shops,batman cards, redline hotwheels,aurora model kits,universal monsters,adam west,get smart,dar shadows,outer limits,twilight zone,honey mooners, carol burnette,sgt bilko... i could go on and on. Im 29 years old btw.
26:05 I don't know how safe and solid Blaze really was, but he probably held together better than the wooden rocking horse I had; one of its legs split and just missed slashing my leg. Those plastic ones hanging from springs on a metal stand looked a little tacky, but I'll bet they were safer.
Lot of people saying kid's these day always stick with computer and know nothing else, yeah some of them did. But what happen more often is, with the modern game. We have kids can handle over 10 aircraft on online Air traffic Control, knowing how to cold start a MD-11, Telling the difference between T62 to T55 before engaging, and back up B-double trailer with ease. Kids did get smarter, we just have to know how to encourage them to utilize their knowledge and modern tools.
3:22 Snapping those tracks together could be a pain in the nutz!. I remember getting something similar for Christmas and each time I got to the last piece, all the others fell apart before I could make that final snap. I thew such a tantrum that my mother threatened to take the whole thing away. I think it was the next day before I finally got it together and after that everything worked perfectly.
Has a kid who grew up in the seventies and eighties I can remember quite a few unique toys I still remember fondly of the Evel Knievel playsets the Tonka four by fours Hot Wheels and then the introduction of the remote control NASCAR series cars was pretty fun we had a lot of fun with all those toys back then😅
Actually Tommy, you're interrupting the broadcast of a baseball game lol. I mean cool concept but I wonder how long it took for the FCC to crack down on it
Boys had the best toys back then. Seems all the girls had were Easy Bake Ovens and a doll that Pee'd! Give me a cap gun and a Jimmy Jet anytime! My brother got a chemistry set ifor Christmas 1962, took him only 2 days before he blew a hole in the wall of his bedroom! Those were the days!
Cool concept but I'm sure "I have several thousand hours in my IDEAL FIGHTER JET COCKPIT" won't really fly, no I didn't intend that pun but there it is lol
Does anyone remember Johnny express it was a tethered remote controlled semi tractor-trailer with accessories that went on the trailer . I remember the selling point was that a kid could stand on the trailer. It was that tough. 😮
Pricing I bet It has to be expensive to justify production cost and not often can you offset that through mass scale Plus the gimmicks can't always last forever
i took a card from deck opf card cloths pen put on bycycle spokes instant motorcycle sound then later on super suuager crisp bear cearl had plastoc verson to do same idea thing
Boy did we ever go through a mountain of roll caps back in the 70’s, I loved my Winchester model 94 30-30 cap rifle. Then we discovered a hammer and 2-3 rolls at once, huh ? Can ya speak up ? 😂🐾✌️🇺🇸
When we were kids in the 50's and 60's we all had Western cap guns, play sets, Lionel trains and space toys. We had a great time playing with our friends. The space toys were inspiring and we used our imaginations. We never wanted to get real guns.
I’m 61 and I still have my Matchbox cars, 60’s Japanese robot, Legos, Mattel’s Thingmaker, Matt Mason like in the video and other things. I’d still have my Hotwheels but my ex stole them to sell.
The good ole days when toys were real toys and kids were real kids playing OUTSIDE!!! Instead of being little zombies all up on their phns and computers, parents paying an arm and a leg for games so they can become little zombies!!!
Yea, but were the countless medical bills really worth it? I mean eye injuries Burns Neck injuries Being fed through a tube the rest of your life Neck injuries Yea I'll stick with my gaming and bad vision hahahahaha
@@pvtread5207 I am trying to remember all of my friends that were being fed through a tube. Besides blurred vision, how about sedentary diseases like diabetes and heart disease. I played with guns (usually World War type play) and I have never owned a rea run. I did burn myself really bad, screwing around with a rope I caught on fire (on purpose) and cut my leg open on a homemade wooded playhouse. I wrecked my bike a few times and had scrapes and bruises. You can't live in bubble wrap. Oh, BTW, not a single medical bill from any of my incidents playing. Mom always fixed me up.
I’m 77 and grew up in the 1950s . My favorite toys were scale model trucks by Tonka and Nylint. And toy farm implements by Ertl. Give me a sandbox and I could play there forever. 😊
My father was a career military man so almost all of these toys were too expensive to hope for. I would not have asked either. Not sure why, but I knew not to. However, on my fourth Christmas I woke up to a tricycle with a VROOM motor! Just like one in these ads. Still the most memorable gift I ever got. I was the coolest kid on the block. Everyone else had to put cards in their spokes to make noise but I could just sit there and rev my vroom motor. Soooo cool!
I found an old all metal Marx locomotive in a junk pile at a train store for litterally nothing. Took it home, and it worked near perfectly with little servicing needed! Those things are absolute tanks.
I want a vrroom motor like 5:00 I would have never gotten off my bike. I was a kid in the 90s so I grew up the last era to play outside. I was on my bike all the time anyway. It was a different time. We locked our doors at night, but didn’t have to be home until the street light turned on. I could play at the park without an adult watching. Computers were starting to get really big, but I was still forced to go outside to play. I couldn’t get on the computer until after dinner. Every summer night I’d come home dirty & smelling like bug spray. I grew up right on the Mississippi river & could go swimming as long as I took a friend, wore a life jacket & told an adult where we were. We’d walk up the street about a mile with our inner tubes to get on the river & float home. I lived in a suburb so there were only houses in my neighborhood. I could ride my bike anywhere as long as I didn’t cross the major road. I feel lucky. By the time i had my kids it was illegal for kids to even be outside without a parent watching. The idea of “go outside to play” is long lost. I feel blessed to be born when I was. I didn’t have all the cool toys of the 60s, but I had the awesome stuff from the 90s! Teen age mutant ninja turtles & Harry Potter. Those were the good ol’ days.
@Figi Moheder I grew up in the mid-late 60s, early to mid 70s. I agree with you, but if someone would have introduced me to video games, even the early Intellivision, Nintendo games from the 80s I would likely have spent much less time outside. Our options were very limited with only 3 channels and those were mostly soaps in the afternoon. Unless you played board games outside was more fun.
@Figi Moheder Choice is an awesome thing. Who knows what I would have really done? I loved being outside playing baseball, Basketball & football and tag type games. Hard to blame today's kids without knowing what we older folks would have done given that option. I don't know how old you are and maybe you had access to video games and still chose the outdoors. It also probably a factor if all of the neighborhood kids chose to stay inside also, or if my parents would have not bought you a system and told you not to play it.
Back when kids used their IMAGINATIONS and actually went outside to play. We didn't have smartphones attached to our heads, or our faces glued to a laptop playing World of Warcraft, or any other of those mindless games. Now I love gaming. I've owned everything from an Atari 2600 to a Nintendo NES, all the way to a Playstation & X-Box, BUT as kids we ALWAYS played outside. We used our own devices for fun. We used our IMAGINATIONS! We built forts, played football, baseball, basketball, hit the trails on our bikes, went 🎣fishing🎣, went swimming, or just walked through the woods looking for some adventures.🤔 Back then we loved being outside, even in the winter. I lived in the northern part of the Midwestern US. Where it could hit zero degrees. Negative wind chills, but we still would go out and play. We loved playing football in the snow and cold. I can remember being bummed out because we could go outside, but in Mom's defense it was ☃️🥶☃️🥶COLD🥶🥶🥶🥶, like --5⁰ with a wind chill of --25⁰. But it snowed and we wanted to either go sledding or play football. We also loved to make Igloo forts. We had the Ronco Block maker and it worked! I've seen comments about the "dangers" of those old toys. While some were not exactly safe by nowadays standards, we didn't get hurt. Well those of us smart enough to NOT play with the toy foolishly that is! Again by today's FEARFULLY OBSESSIVELY RIDICULOUS STANDARDS, even a sliver is cause for a recall! Nowadays kids are treated like little porcelain🪆dolls!🪆 But again kids now aren't nearly as tough or as creative as 60's and 70's kids were. Sorry but true.
bruh what are you talking about? I was born 99 and literally spent my childhood outside in colorado going to the creek making up adventures biking around and creating all kinds of shit. I broke my arm twice outside once in the backyard and again at football practice. Not to mention the 3 concussions. I don't know why boomers think the outdoors is some foregien concept/place to anyone born after 1975.
@@TeaRex Relax your crack Foghorn. I was referring to the more recent years. Where kids all have a smartphone attached to their heads. Wow I apologize for insulting your childhood. However I live near a park, with a multitude of open space for baseball, football, or other games. There's even a Disc Golf course there. Yet it sits EMPTY except for ADULTS playing Disc Golf. Where are the kids? Again allow me to apologize. Also Millennium people aren't exactly perfect. Social Media, Social Justice 🤡clowns🤡 have done an excellent job over the last decade. Nobody is perfect and WE ALL make mistakes OR live in different places where things may have also been different.
I think that the people down the road had three girls and they were always telling us boy's that's dum or your gonna get hurt well they had to grow up to be the mom's that ruined childhood for the next generation of kids.
I remember my johnny 7, what a great toy that was. I also remember how great all toys worked on television. And when they came home,,,it was a different story. Lol, great times though.
I'm 22 years old and I love watching vintage commercials. Seeing these toys makes me want to buy one for myself! They look like so much fun to play with hehe
You're not the only one who feels that way. These vintage toys are just so... fascinating to see, and I'm a 20-year-old girl! 😋 No to mention, these toys look SO MUCH better than the toys we have today! 😋😁
this is a bucket list goal. to start a toy collection, from 50’s to current. some toys I wanted out of the classics are stuff like the SSP sets, ricochet racers, rock em sock em robots, among many others.
Omg, the military toys back then were so awesome! Heck, not just the military toys but most of them! 😊❤ Kids running around with tommy guns and snub nose 38s (just wouldn’t see that today) 😂😂 Secret Sam! And that Sonic Blaster! ❤
Ok, those self made cars are very cool! I mean think about it, if we had something like that say in collages You'd have actual professionals who've basically built their own cars or boats for a collage course. Hell the final exam could actually be testing and really building your design
@@shieldsjohnjr I would imagine. I bought a vintage G.I. Joe combat jeep (complete) with the "moto-rev" sound last year and paid close to $300 including shipping. I know they cost about $10 back in the day.
I was born in 1952, so I was their target audience. I got a 25¢/week allowance. But soft drinks were 10¢/bottle, and candy bars and gum packs were 5¢. A kid today would need $5/week. Gasoline was approx. 29¢/gallon. Hard to believe now that such a world existed!
Me,too,1960.
What about the 20 cent hamburgers.
@@TRUTH-4U-NOW Yeah! I remember @! B.1960, target audience as well.
@@SteveCarras Yea and we complained about a slice cheese for a cheese burger was 5 cent more.
I had some board games and an Electric Football game. (imagine that today, no carbon foot print).
About the same time those $7-25 toys were being sold, I asked my mom when we could get a new house. She said maybe when Dad got a raise to $10k a year.
In retrospect, it seems like a better world back when toys like that sold for a few dollars. But don't forget that most of that crap was crap that broke in 2 weeks and a $25 toy cost the average Joe nearly a full day's pay.
I was a kid of the 60's and the one toy I never see mentioned was Creepy-Crawlers. My buddy's and I spent endless hours creating all sorts of creatures.
creepy crawlers were blast,,
yes- the texture of the rubber and could make any color or combo that looked good!
haven’t seen a vacu-form either
Remember the smell when you were pulling them from the mold? Loved it.
I loved creepy crawlers. I still remember every detail of that toy, the goop of unknown chemistry, the heating unit you could melt lead in... Bugs, trolls, and that smell.....
Sadly today, like most of these toys, it would be banned by the safety Nazis.
I had the version that made rubbery monsters you could put on pencils. Anyone remember that?
Major Matt Mason went with me everywhere when I was a kid! ❤
At one time I had almost the entire set. They had a plane even. Carried the doll. That little white car was incredibly fast back then.
New batteries. Lol
All those kids playing with real looking guns and not one school shooting when they grew up.
I remember quite a few of these.The Billy Blastoff I had was the older one that did not walk. Weeks after Christmas or birthdays when the batteries went dead we were told by our parents to save money we didn't have for new ones...we learned to use our imaginations instead. A fun fact about the Bonanza figures: when Pernell Roberts left the series a mustache was added to the Adam Cartwright figure and he became the Villain figure.
A good way to get revenge on Pernell Roberts, who by many accounts was a real pain to work with
the OO7 commercial....that is so epic...I wonder if anyone still has theirs....just curios cause I grew up with toys in the late 70's, and mid 80's....those toys from before the 70's must have been epic!
You have no idea, my friend. I really feel bad for anyone born after 1968 as far as toys go.
@@garyowens7454 actually, we grew up with the earliest video games..... when video games came out when I was only 8 or 9, and it was the latest thing, the first video game was Spacewar! it was produced by MIT students in 1962, and was finally released in 1970 to the public. I got to play it in 1979, and boy it was fun.
kid in sonic blaster commercial is Kurt Russell. that was cool and nifty keen.
😂
Love anything Vintage... Notice most of these boy toy commercials in the beginning were planting seeds, grooming them for the Military/Space related Brilliant, Anyhow I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks again for sharing.😀
A lot of our kids are being raised like wimps nowadays,many don't know who or what they are because of some the parents and teachers we have!!! Kids don't know what real toys are,
Most toys are nothing but garbage !!! Many children and sorry to say adults either don't know or don't care about what it has taken to keep things in this US the way they have been
many people have fallen asleep! Many people have died to keep us free!!! Such a shame
@@jimnunes6286 I have to agree. Back in the 70's we didn't have smartphones attached to our heads 24/7, or in front of our X-Box or Playstation systems. Our parents DIDN'T have to tell us to go outside. We loved it out there. Even in winter. I can remember a massive snowfall, schools closed, YAHOO! LOL! But we would bundle up and off we'd go. Some days it was playing 🏈🏉football🏉🏈, some days we'd use our K-Tel "snow brick maker" and make igloo snow forts! Outside we had a blast! I can remember Mom calling us back inside. Awww Mom, 30 more minutes? PLEEEEASE! We'd love being outside. When we'd finally come inside our clothes would be soaking wet. Our legs and feet a reddish pink color from the cold, but LOL we'd want to go back out! After a cup of Hot Chocolate and a 🥪sandwich!🥪 My point was back then we didn't rely on the internet, or video games, or even 📺television📺, we relied on our imaginations, our creativity, our abilities to take advantage of our surroundings using items that we acquired over the years...all 3 or 4 of them. Those days are such wonderful moments in my life. Life was so much more simple, and extremely safer and less chaotic and insane. Kids could safely walk to school without having to look over our shoulder every couple of minutes. We may not have had all the "technologies" that kids have now, but honestly we really DIDN'T NEED IT. And Christmas time was the most amazing, the most wonderful, and absolutely the most special and perfect time of the year! Getting ahold of the JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and/or the Sears Wish Book was the second most anticipated holiday event other than Christmas itself. Also some of the few times we'd sit glued to the 📺TV!📺 The 🎄Christmas🎄television specials. From Frosty the⛄Snowman☃️, to Rudolph the Red Nose 🦌Reindeer🦌, a Charlie Brown 🎄Christmas🎄, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and a few others. Those were so fun, so special, and they still give me that special feeling when I watch them. I actually bought all of the shows that I mentioned on either 📀DVD📀 or 📀Blu-Ray.📀 Oh also I forgot, any and every Muppets Holiday Specials, The Muppets Family Christmas, or any of the others. Those are by far the most iconic Christmas specials to me. Especially the Muppets Christmas Carol. Epic movie! These are just A FEW absolutely incredible experiences that kids nowadays never have seen or ever will see. Walking into a Toys R Us during Christmas! The anticipation of those catalogs, and Christmas itself! Going to the Mall with Mom and Dad Christmas Shopping. Some of these things you can do now, BUT honestly they aren't even remotely close to those past days of the 70's. Growing up then was, well it was a AWESOME TIME TO BE A KID!! Merry Christmas everybody! Have a Happy New Year as well! God Bless us all, and may our new year be a lot better than the last one!
@@jimnunes6286I saw a toy featuring a man in with face wraps and a drone at dollar general
back in those days ... we were allowed to get skin knees and get bruised .. from our antics ... we learned what we could and couldnt do ... no playing inside all day at a desk ... your playground was outside ... because if you stayed inside you helped Mom do the housework ... above and beyond your daily chores
@@kaboom-zf2blRemember Saturday cartoons? Somehow, Saturday was also vacuum day. The vacuum was loud and made static on the T.V. Right in the middle of Mighty Mouse!
I was crazy for Motorific. I remember some of those commercials, especially that damn jingle, 'Voice control ... Kennedy Airport.' Why is that still stuck in my head? The toys were fun but the boy provided the imagination. Miss those days!
I loved how Ideal used their "Mister Machine" as their mascot for some of their commercials.
Yup, these were actual toys kids played with!
"take that you lousy commy"
I remember my dad being a huge fan of Roy Rogers and his hidden wrist derringer. He mangled some scrap together and made a similar mechanism that popped out a live firing pistol when flicked, MAN that thing was COOL
We didn't have cell phones..and we couldn't wait to get outside
I had Johnny Seven, Major Matt Mason and a few of the other toys, we had so much fun back in the 50's and 60's.
Did colonel Custer come with detachable scalp hahahahaha
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Kids in 2021 could not figure any of these toys out.
Let alone play with them for even 5 minutes!
Some kids couldn’t figure out how to pour water out of a glass if the instructions were on the bottom.
I think Bully Mummy (later Lost in Space) at 35:25? Amazing the plethora of cool stuff kids could get, including elaborate play sets - all for under $15!
I actually remember some of these commercials. Not that I entertained the notion that my family could afford to buy any of these.
Not even a cap gun?
Dude! That 007 set basically is the early kgb and CIA lol
Well that was Fun. I remember most of the toys, had a couple of them back in the day. Thanks ✌🏻
Thanks for watching
So timmy what kinda toys did you play with as a kid
"Gee golly *I HAD A MOCK NUCLEAR LAUNCH CENTER"*
YUP
Actually, I would have loved that as a kid, and I am pretty confident I would not have grown up to be a mad scientist wanting to blow up the world.
😂
Im, 65 and I played with many of these
I had Johnny Lightning too ! Anybody remember Sizzlers ? Charge em up they had a capacitor in em they’d run about 6-8 laps and you had to “gas” em back, too cool. Way more fun than a damn computer, at least to us old kids. 🐾✌️🇺🇸
Loved them I had a fat track with mine!!!😊😊
Mattels Thompson machine gun and the browning rifle were my favorites. Great for playing Combat!
I am so glad to have the dad i have. Old school soda shops,batman cards, redline hotwheels,aurora model kits,universal monsters,adam west,get smart,dar shadows,outer limits,twilight zone,honey mooners, carol burnette,sgt bilko... i could go on and on. Im 29 years old btw.
Wow I had that ride on train!!! One of my favorite toys!!!! Christmas of 1969 I believe …. Thank you
26:05 I don't know how safe and solid Blaze really was, but he probably held together better than the wooden rocking horse I had; one of its legs split and just missed slashing my leg. Those plastic ones hanging from springs on a metal stand looked a little tacky, but I'll bet they were safer.
Lot of people saying kid's these day always stick with computer and know nothing else, yeah some of them did.
But what happen more often is, with the modern game. We have kids can handle over 10 aircraft on online Air traffic Control, knowing how to cold start a MD-11, Telling the difference between T62 to T55 before engaging, and back up B-double trailer with ease.
Kids did get smarter, we just have to know how to encourage them to utilize their knowledge and modern tools.
3:22 Snapping those tracks together could be a pain in the nutz!. I remember getting something similar for Christmas and each time I got to the last piece, all the others fell apart before I could make that final snap. I thew such a tantrum that my mother threatened to take the whole thing away. I think it was the next day before I finally got it together and after that everything worked perfectly.
Secret Sam was a mid 60s birthday present. I remember Creepy Crawlers, Hot Wheels, and Zeroids
Has a kid who grew up in the seventies and eighties I can remember quite a few unique toys I still remember fondly of the Evel Knievel playsets the Tonka four by fours Hot Wheels and then the introduction of the remote control NASCAR series cars was pretty fun we had a lot of fun with all those toys back then😅
The voices for the other toy commercials are:Claude Kirchner and Jackson Beck.
I remember a friend wanted a Rudy the robot when we were in school, I always wondered did he get it.
Actually Tommy, you're interrupting the broadcast of a baseball game lol. I mean cool concept but I wonder how long it took for the FCC to crack down on it
😂😂😂
Hm... next time I ever hear someone say that video games make kids violent, Ill tell em to go watch some toy commercials from the 50s.
Faust yeah we didn't have as much politically correct bullshit back then either!!!!.
@@mikeweizer3149 Whatever that means. They also still had segregation.
@@ErikWolowitzyou’ll notice all the kids in the ads are white.
Johnny's Toy Maker sounds extremely safe lmao
We had better toys, I'm 55 and want all of them again. Lol!
I saw Billy Mumy and Kurt Russell.
Any more actors I missed(Roy Rogers doesn't count.He introduced himself)?
"Ground Control Clears United 117"
only if they would have known that *117* would become a world famous thing today!
That Johnny 7 toy probably resulted in a lot of belts and switches being used by Mom to tan some hides.
Switches ? Did you have a Grandma or Mom from the south ?
Boy I sure remember those ! They left a good impression, if you know what I mean .
@@RWildekrav66And they'd tell you Go cut me a switch!
I inherited a jonny 7 from my big bro ,by the time i got it ,it was a jonny 5
I had one of the radios We hooked it up in the garage I hooked it up on the frame to the water heater It worked great
Boys had the best toys back then. Seems all the girls had were Easy Bake Ovens and a doll that Pee'd! Give me a cap gun and a Jimmy Jet anytime! My brother got a chemistry set ifor Christmas 1962, took him only 2 days before he blew a hole in the wall of his bedroom! Those were the days!
Best of times to be a kid there were love, decency and family.
Had the Secret Sam and the Johnny Seven OMA. Also the Bazooka, Civil War cannon, Robot Commando, and Tiger Tank.
Cool concept but I'm sure
"I have several thousand hours in my IDEAL FIGHTER JET COCKPIT"
won't really fly, no I didn't intend that pun but there it is lol
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This was great
I had a Secret Sam ....miss Those days....
Now that may just work for the airforce if they ask if you have piloting experience
They were def preparing these young boys for war, almost every other toy was about war or guns.
@36:52 is that a young KURT RUSSEL? And the kid with the water shooting gun looks like Bill Mumy from Lost In Space.
i wish i lived in the 1950s they had the ball pit on a bombers
51:25
Now there are real robots !😮
Does anyone remember Johnny express it was a tethered remote controlled semi tractor-trailer with accessories that went on the trailer . I remember the selling point was that a kid could stand on the trailer. It was that tough. 😮
Had a secret sam it worked great days
Wow Kurt Russel as a kid in that Sonic Blaster commercial.
I've really got to fix my time machine and go grab a couple o those neato racetrack toys. So I'm 53, big deal. I'll arm wrestle any of ya.✌️😁✌️
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The greatest toy store for me was Radio Shack of the past.
Only 11+. Or, Just 12.95........
Back in the day, that much would feed a family of 4, for awhile!
Amen and Praise The Lord!
Billy Mumy from Lost in Space and Babylon 5.
Secret Sam would have been fun.
Why don’t they sell stuff like this anymore
Feminist influence
Or they are unsafe ("You might put an eye out.")
Pricing I bet
It has to be expensive to justify production cost and not often can you offset that through mass scale
Plus the gimmicks can't always last forever
As for toy guns
Yeah cops tend to shoot people carrying them regardless if it's real or not
It’s probably not electronic enough.
The bonanza toy they forgot Adam.
Just...don't put your hands near the spinning props
Any battery operated truck or car soon became a push truck when the batteries ran out back then.
2:18 This looks sick, nowadays we have nerf guns that are eh.
you've got give nerf credit though...their clear guns are pretty cool, I've got a few
I am not giving my kids or wife a toy called Ding a Ling.
Not even King ding-a-ling???
yeah, they should've advertised it with condoms. LMFAO
They couldn’t sell one nowadays, unless it was a gay one ! 😂
anyone else have flintstones building boulders
Secret Sams Blackmailing Kit
Today's Karens heads would explode with these commercials and toys.
Oh, the poor fat kid who had to play the bad guy in the Secret Sam commercial!
And eatin' the Macaroni in the Army gear commercial!
Kurt Russell 37:15 ?
i took a card from deck opf card cloths pen put on bycycle spokes instant motorcycle sound then later on super suuager crisp bear cearl had plastoc verson to do same idea thing
A balloon sounded more realistic in my opinion.
I’m 69, my younger Brother and all his friends did that with cards too ! It was the big thing in the good ole’ days !! 😊
There's Billy Mummy and Kurt Russell
The toys were half the fun, your imagination had to bring you the rest of the way.
We still used our imaginations back then even with these fun toys! Gosh, this brings back a lot of memories!
I used to chase a tire with a stick down the backlane. Now that was fun!
I wish I had these toys but most were not sold in Canada. If they still made these toys I buy them for my kids and grand kids
WOW !! "Secret Sam" was my favorite toy when I was 6 or 7 years old and this commercial brought back a very special childhood memory! 😉
How was the camera?
Boy did we ever go through a mountain of roll caps back in the 70’s, I loved my Winchester model 94 30-30 cap rifle. Then we discovered a hammer and 2-3 rolls at once, huh ? Can ya speak up ? 😂🐾✌️🇺🇸
When we were kids in the 50's and 60's we all had Western cap guns, play sets, Lionel trains and space toys. We had a great time playing with our friends. The space toys were inspiring and we used our imaginations. We never wanted to get real guns.
They were pretty real back then =)
I looked forward to shooting real guns when I was old enough! In fact, I was already shooting a .22 rifle with my father.
I’m 61 and I still have my Matchbox cars, 60’s Japanese robot, Legos, Mattel’s Thingmaker, Matt Mason like in the video and other things. I’d still have my Hotwheels but my ex stole them to sell.
Precious little boy. 👦 Days of innocence lost forever.
And nary a confused young boy about his gender…
@@nigel900Ginger, Mary Anne, Jeanie...
The good ole days when toys were real toys and kids were real kids playing OUTSIDE!!! Instead of being little zombies all up on their phns and computers, parents paying an arm and a leg for games so they can become little zombies!!!
Yea, but were the countless medical bills really worth it?
I mean eye injuries
Burns
Neck injuries
Being fed through a tube the rest of your life
Neck injuries
Yea I'll stick with my gaming and bad vision hahahahaha
... so you don't like zombies, then ...
Yes but look what games they are playing with guns!
@@pvtread5207 life is full of risks. No risk, no reward.
@@pvtread5207 I am trying to remember all of my friends that were being fed through a tube. Besides blurred vision, how about sedentary diseases like diabetes and heart disease. I played with guns (usually World War type play) and I have never owned a rea run. I did burn myself really bad, screwing around with a rope I caught on fire (on purpose) and cut my leg open on a homemade wooded playhouse. I wrecked my bike a few times and had scrapes and bruises. You can't live in bubble wrap. Oh, BTW, not a single medical bill from any of my incidents playing. Mom always fixed me up.
I’m 77 and grew up in the 1950s . My favorite toys were scale model trucks by Tonka and Nylint. And toy farm implements by Ertl. Give me a sandbox and I could play there forever. 😊
My father was a career military man so almost all of these toys were too expensive to hope for. I would not have asked either. Not sure why, but I knew not to. However, on my fourth Christmas I woke up to a tricycle with a VROOM motor! Just like one in these ads. Still the most memorable gift I ever got. I was the coolest kid on the block. Everyone else had to put cards in their spokes to make noise but I could just sit there and rev my vroom motor. Soooo cool!
I found an old all metal Marx locomotive in a junk pile at a train store for litterally nothing. Took it home, and it worked near perfectly with little servicing needed! Those things are absolute tanks.
Love all these as a kid of 1960s
We know what they were preparing that Era of kids for😂
I want a vrroom motor like 5:00 I would have never gotten off my bike. I was a kid in the 90s so I grew up the last era to play outside. I was on my bike all the time anyway. It was a different time.
We locked our doors at night, but didn’t have to be home until the street light turned on. I could play at the park without an adult watching. Computers were starting to get really big, but I was still forced to go outside to play. I couldn’t get on the computer until after dinner.
Every summer night I’d come home dirty & smelling like bug spray. I grew up right on the Mississippi river & could go swimming as long as I took a friend, wore a life jacket & told an adult where we were. We’d walk up the street about a mile with our inner tubes to get on the river & float home.
I lived in a suburb so there were only houses in my neighborhood. I could ride my bike anywhere as long as I didn’t cross the major road.
I feel lucky. By the time i had my kids it was illegal for kids to even be outside without a parent watching. The idea of “go outside to play” is long lost. I feel blessed to be born when I was. I didn’t have all the cool toys of the 60s, but I had the awesome stuff from the 90s! Teen age mutant ninja turtles & Harry Potter. Those were the good ol’ days.
@Figi Moheder I grew up in the mid-late 60s, early to mid 70s. I agree with you, but if someone would have introduced me to video games, even the early Intellivision, Nintendo games from the 80s I would likely have spent much less time outside. Our options were very limited with only 3 channels and those were mostly soaps in the afternoon. Unless you played board games outside was more fun.
@Figi Moheder Choice is an awesome thing. Who knows what I would have really done? I loved being outside playing baseball, Basketball & football and tag type games. Hard to blame today's kids without knowing what we older folks would have done given that option. I don't know how old you are and maybe you had access to video games and still chose the outdoors. It also probably a factor if all of the neighborhood kids chose to stay inside also, or if my parents would have not bought you a system and told you not to play it.
Back when kids used their IMAGINATIONS and actually went outside to play. We didn't have smartphones attached to our heads, or our faces glued to a laptop playing World of Warcraft, or any other of those mindless games. Now I love gaming. I've owned everything from an Atari 2600 to a Nintendo NES, all the way to a Playstation & X-Box, BUT as kids we ALWAYS played outside. We used our own devices for fun. We used our IMAGINATIONS! We built forts, played football, baseball, basketball, hit the trails on our bikes, went 🎣fishing🎣, went swimming, or just walked through the woods looking for some adventures.🤔 Back then we loved being outside, even in the winter. I lived in the northern part of the Midwestern US. Where it could hit zero degrees. Negative wind chills, but we still would go out and play. We loved playing football in the snow and cold. I can remember being bummed out because we could go outside, but in Mom's defense it was ☃️🥶☃️🥶COLD🥶🥶🥶🥶, like --5⁰ with a wind chill of --25⁰. But it snowed and we wanted to either go sledding or play football. We also loved to make Igloo forts. We had the Ronco Block maker and it worked! I've seen comments about the "dangers" of those old toys. While some were not exactly safe by nowadays standards, we didn't get hurt. Well those of us smart enough to NOT play with the toy foolishly that is! Again by today's FEARFULLY OBSESSIVELY RIDICULOUS STANDARDS, even a sliver is cause for a recall! Nowadays kids are treated like little porcelain🪆dolls!🪆 But again kids now aren't nearly as tough or as creative as 60's and 70's kids were. Sorry but true.
bruh what are you talking about? I was born 99 and literally spent my childhood outside in colorado going to the creek making up adventures biking around and creating all kinds of shit. I broke my arm twice outside once in the backyard and again at football practice. Not to mention the 3 concussions. I don't know why boomers think the outdoors is some foregien concept/place to anyone born after 1975.
@@TeaRex Relax your crack Foghorn. I was referring to the more recent years. Where kids all have a smartphone attached to their heads. Wow I apologize for insulting your childhood. However I live near a park, with a multitude of open space for baseball, football, or other games. There's even a Disc Golf course there. Yet it sits EMPTY except for ADULTS playing Disc Golf. Where are the kids? Again allow me to apologize. Also Millennium people aren't exactly perfect. Social Media, Social Justice 🤡clowns🤡 have done an excellent job over the last decade. Nobody is perfect and WE ALL make mistakes OR live in different places where things may have also been different.
I think that the people down the road had three girls and they were always telling us boy's that's dum or your gonna get hurt well they had to grow up to be the mom's that ruined childhood for the next generation of kids.
Keep ranting, grandpa. No one cares.
@@TeaRexHe needs therapy.
I remember my johnny 7, what a great toy that was. I also remember how great all toys worked on television. And when they came home,,,it was a different story. Lol, great times though.
I remember the commercial for the johnny 7 but never knew any kid who had one.
i have a feeling that rifle grenade went like 3 feet
@@johjoh978incredibly about 20 feet, but the pistol was a joke. Lol.👉
I'm 22 years old and I love watching vintage commercials. Seeing these toys makes me want to buy one for myself! They look like so much fun to play with hehe
You're not the only one who feels that way. These vintage toys are just so... fascinating to see, and I'm a 20-year-old girl! 😋
No to mention, these toys look SO MUCH better than the toys we have today! 😋😁
@@SonicGamerGirl2006 honestly, they were as fun to play with as the commercials implied.
I almost wish we could still get this stuff. I would totally buy my nephew that fighter jet set up.
They looked like fun AND they were !
this is a bucket list goal. to start a toy collection, from 50’s to current. some toys I wanted out of the classics are stuff like the SSP sets, ricochet racers, rock em sock em robots, among many others.
Omg, the military toys back then were so awesome!
Heck, not just the military toys but most of them! 😊❤
Kids running around with tommy guns and snub nose 38s (just wouldn’t see that today) 😂😂
Secret Sam! And that Sonic Blaster! ❤
Yea, I had a M14 rifle that fire plastic bullets out of the casing.
Yeah it’s really sad as a kid back in the 70s we had some really cool toys. Nowadays they just produce crap and garbage.
Ok this is going to amaze some of you old timers
MY MOM WAS ACTUALLY ROY RODGERS VISITING NURSE!
I wonder howmany of those helmets split like an egg
This announcer really loves the word dingaling
My Dingaling by Chuck Berry?
Ok, those self made cars are very cool!
I mean think about it, if we had something like that say in collages
You'd have actual professionals who've basically built their own cars or boats for a collage course. Hell the final exam could actually be testing and really building your design
OMG..I had one of these Johnny 7 gun...it was cool as hell....love to see these commercials....it takes me back to happier times in the 50s and 60s
LOL at the M16 toy from Marx. Good ole days.
Yeah, the cops were really impressed that the M16 and rifle sounded so real. Can you imagine today?
I've got a boxed Whirllybird with all of the Troops and Tank.
.....paid a little more than $9.98.
@@shieldsjohnjr I would imagine. I bought a vintage G.I. Joe combat jeep (complete) with the "moto-rev" sound last year and paid close to $300 including shipping. I know they cost about $10 back in the day.