Yes omg me too. We had the last bit of real freedom. I feel bad for the youth of today. They dont really LIVE. We were poor, but we had freedom & so much fun. :)
OMG my little sister had a Shrunken Apple Head maker toy.....she almost burned the house down when she decided to use golden delicious and make one WHILE SHE WAS SLEEPING! Well, the dripping juice from the apple as it 'dried' dripped on the OVER wattage sized light bulb she was using.....and it caught fire when the bulb exploded!! I STILL laugh about that!
The laughing doll would drive me up the wall in a very short time lol. I remember quite a few of these. Kids had so much fun on the inchworm. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Yes, i remember wanting the inchworm but i was a bit too old for it. So I tried getting my mom to buy it for my little sister. But my sister had her own ideas. I still perk up whenever i see it. I loved the commercial jingle and still know it by heart.
@@michelleb7399 I think you should put it on this years Xmas list. Truth be told, I would love another Chrissy doll from the 70's. Her hair actually grew when you pressed the button on her stomach!! I wish I still had mine. 😊I'm pretty sure your much younger than I am but isn't it funny how we love holding onto our childhood? Thanks for sharing your secret.
Comedian Dennis Leary did a video comedy routine where he mentioned a talking Darth Vader in their home. If you ever see the video NO CURE FOR CANCER, you'll see what I mean. I had cramps laughing at that.
@@unicornmadness6286 I had to google that because I wasn’t aware of them but looks like by the time they came out I was in my late teens! Would have loved them if I was younger.
@@unicornmadness6286 OH yeah. As The Sunshine Family was the granola family of the 70s, the Heart Family was the yuppie family for the 80s. And I was in high school too by the time they were out. 🙂
Hearing you; looking back now, I horrified myself with those faces I made for him. Even though the glue was totally useless and impractical. Of all my childhood toys that "vanished" mysteriously, this one I miss the least. Kenner would go onto better things a few years later it seems...
I had the snoopy sno cone maker. It was awesome! My sister, my friends, and I used it a lot. A friend had that Skipper doll. She does bring it up every once in a while as quite an odd toy purchase her parents made.
Snoopy Snocone was the epitiome of my nightmares. My little sister got one from Santa and my mom would force me to sit there and crank that damned thing to make my sister a Snocone. I remember crying while i cranked that thing. Itd take a solid hour to make enough shaved ice to make a snow cone. Burn in hell Snoopy Snowcone Machine.
What about colorforms, slinkys, footsies, silly putty, play dough sets, viewmasters, click clacks, rollerskates with keys, ball & jacks, kaleidoscopes, ker-plunk. What a wonderful, wholesome channel you have, thank you for the fond memories!
Those were all popular toys. This was about strange toys. I loved Colorforms. We could entertain ourselves with such simple things back then. I’m sure a modern day kid would find that very boring lol. Oh, and don’t forget paper dolls!
I had the original Skipper too-I was a brunette, so my folks gifted me with the brunette version. She had cute outfits and a pet poodle and a cardboard “dream bedroom” that was really neat. She remained flat and eternally pre-adolescent, which was the whole idea-she was supposed to be Barbie’s Little Sister! No wonder the growing version failed.
Oh my gosh!! I remember that milking cow! I haven't thought about it in nearly 45 years!! Thanks for reminding me!! Also, the Stretch Armstrong series was certainly unique...and weird.
I was born in 1972 and this brought back many happy memories of my Jimmy JJ Walker doll that had a pull-string activated "Dyno-mite!" Or almost shooting my own eyes out with my giant Shogun Warrior figures.
I remember LOTS of these toys. We made our Christmas lists from the Sears catalogs. The inchworm was popular, Skipper, creepy baby laugh a lot ...scary. I never owned any of them, but I do remember them :D
I had the Ice Bird! It did NOT work! As hard as I scraped it, nothing happened. both of my parents even tried. All because they didn't want to buy me the more expensive Snoopy machine. So instead, they wasted money on something that didn't work.
I remember shaving my knuckles RAW trying to get that stupid thing to work....the Snoopy one was fun though. My nephew used to then 'sell his snow cones' on the corner for a nickel. Richard
Baby Joey was a doll modeled after the son of Mike and Gloria Stivic from All in the Family. It was marketed (briefly) as the world's first anatomically correct male doll.
You think it sounds creepy now try making it laugh when the batteries are weak. It is slowed down and sounds demonic. My little sister had one and this happened to her she came running and screaming from her room and never touched it again.
Does anyone remember the Straw That Broke The Camel's Back game? It had a plastic camel that was hinged in the middle and had little saddlebags that you put sticks into. Whoever added a stick that "broke" the camel's back lost. If i remember correctly, you either spun a dial or drew a card that told how many sticks you had to add.
That "Great Moves" commercial starred three well known 70's TV actors: Roz Kelly (Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days), Fred Berry (Rerun from What's Happening) and Peter Isaacson (from CPO Sharkey).
We had the Jaws game when I was a child and it absolutely terrified me. My parents had to hide it in another room. They hid it in the bathroom and I refused to go in there until it was gone. Eventually I got over my fear of the silly plastic shark, though, and I wish I had it right now! We had a cymbal monkey that terrified me too, but I think that terrified everyone.
I had that cymbal monkey as a baby! I was terrified of it too! I also had a talking Bozo the Clown doll. I tossed it because clowns scared me! Should of kept THAT!
The Mattel figures (Pulsar, etc) are very similar to the Max Steel line they released in the 2000s. I would not be surprised if they bring the concept back again in another 5-10 years.
Hey! Wasn't that Rerun from What's Happenin'? with the whiteboard? I had an Inchworm ride-on when I was little. The plastic outer shell eventually broke away but the metal interior/support and wheels were still going strong. We played on that until we couldn't fit on it. Good times!
I discovered this channel today and can’t stop watching. Born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s these videos are making me long for those day (and toys😉) so badly. Thanks for filling up my day with such great memories
I had the Inchworm & Snoopy Snow Cone Machine. Good time👍😄😎 Got another one 2 yrs ago (I'm 48) for my Birthday 🎉 Made me 😭 Had such fun memories making snow cones for all my friends in the heat of summer 🥵 Those laughing dolls freaked me out though😵💫👎💀
I remember some of these toys but some of the others, not so much. Unfortunately I was to old for most of them. That laughing doll was crazy. Sure was the model for Chucky!!
I just realized that my sisters and I were pretty spoiled seeing that we had almost every toy you showed! Thank you for the wonderful walk down memory lane! 2 of the 3 sisters have passed but I know they would have loved to see these toys again!!!
I had a Tiffany Taylor doll. Her scalp rotated so you could change her hair color from blonde to brown. Also Stretch Octopus. They had a blue and pink one. No one remembers them. And in one of the doll clips you showed Mrs. Beasley. I wanted her so much and never got her. She was from the show Family Affair. Buffy's doll.
Lol..great video ❤️👍🏻I was born in 71 and remember a few of these esp the Jaws game ,it's one of my fav movies too , and the Snoopy Snow cone.That laughing doll would def be chucked in the trash real quick ..I'm sure she did inspire Chucky 😂🤭
I was raised in a small northern town in British Columbia,Canada in the late 60s and 1970s.l have never seen any of the toys presented in this video,so interesting and oddy peculiar.Thank you Rhetty!😁
Having it with syrups really is the best way to go. We didn't have that but we did substitute kool-aid on them. Of course we also made Kool-Aid popsicles as well. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories my friend!
I had the Snoopy snowcone machine too and I never could get it to work right. I would struggle to grind down one ice cube for awhile and then just lose interest. 🤣
Remember the Flying Turtle? It was a triangle shape close to the ground with wheels and handlebars that moved side to side to get it going fast. I rode that thing everywhere. I also thought you might have Stretch Armstrong in this compilation.
I loved that inch worm ride toy that you showed at the beginning. My brother and I used the heck out of that Snoopy snow cone maker. Those were the best. I remember riding around on that thing nonstop. I’d forgotten about the Jaws toy, lol. That laughing doll was flipping ferrying. 😂
Born in '64, remember pretty much all of these, my younger brother ('73) had the Inchworm from the very beginning of the vid. Nice job, thanks for the memories!!
I had a baby alive in the early 70s and u could feed it and give it a bottle and it would go potty lol I ran outta the food so shoved real food in her mouth and ruined it lol I dont remember most of the toys on here except for the Jaws game...great video Rhet!
That was a great look back! I remember most of the toys. You are right, some of them were creepy but what really stood out to me was how they reek of programming. I love your sense of humor!
Good Morning Rhett.🙋🏽 Some of those things I never heard of. But I HAD some of them. Thank you for sharing this with me. Have a awesome day ‼️😃👍🏽 I never realized just how creepy a lot of them were.
I was born in 79 😊 one of my favorite babies had a string in its back and when you pulled it she clapped, she also had a drop seat and when you gave her water she peed!! I played with that doll til one of her arms literally fell off!! Lol the 70's and 80's were the best!! Then came the 90's with the big hair bands and their monster ballads!! Oh how I miss the good Ole days!! Kids these days just don't know what they're missing!! But then kids aren't really kids anymore either 😥😥
Hi Rhetty. was just little in the 70's being born in 71. I remember that the older Boys would like to put together model kits..A line that seemed quite popular was Hollywood Monsters ie: Wolfman, Frankenstein and the Count plus others. Any thoughts on the popularity of all of the sudden?
Yeah the Hollywood monster model kits exploded into christmas one of those years. I don't remember exactly when it was, but every kid had them up on the shelf in their room.
The monster kits were mostly from a company called Aurora, and originally came out in 1960's. They were re-issued around 1974. Mainly movie, and TV models, a few originals in there like 'grave robber's reward'(you can probably guess). Some company did kits/dioramas of giant preying mantis, and giant spiders, etc., attacking towns - the towns would be, I think, like printed scenes on cardboard. Am sure there were more around 1974/1976 period.
There were many different dolls in the 70s with special features or abilities. These dolls were named Baby (and then whatever feature that made them special.) I had Baby This 'n That and Baby Come Back. Because I had older brothers, who were not gentle with my toys, neither doll's special features survived for long.
Thanks for bringing back some good memories. Back in the 1970's I had that Hugo doll and it creeped me out with its blank stare. My favorites were Hot Wheels cars and the orange track.
Wow ❤️ I had all these toys and I loved milky the cow, it was so awesome how you would get little white tablets to put in the water for milky to drink and then when you squeezed milky's utters milk would come out, how awesome cool and realistic ❤️💜💙💛💚 thank you for these videos I was born in 1972 what a time to be alive 😘
I always love your uploads. I never thought I’d be old enough to say, this takes me back to childhood. It was a different time and I miss it so much. Look forward to the next one. ♥️
I was born in 78 so some of these toys I don't remember except the cabbage patch kids and the snoopy ice cone maker ,but I also miss those times wish we could go back .
Wow, you always come up with the best things in your vintage videos. I don't remember many of these things, my first child was born in 1974 and then the next year we moved to Germany for three years so I was not in the loop for most of these toys. I remember a few but I don't remember buying any of them. Love seeing these videos!
I had the Jaws game, Milky the Marvelous, and my sister had Gobbles the Goat. I also had Ice Bird and the Snoopy Snow Cone makers. Both were a lot of work for not a lot of payoff. I also had the Snoopy plush toy. They sold various outfits for Snoopy. One of my favorite toys was 2XL, the talking trivia robot.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's and I always LOVE to see what you are going to put next in your Retro Vids!.....Love ya Rhetty! I was so surprised that you did not have Clickety Clackers in this one.....I cannot tell you how many bruises a kid got from those damn things! But I had them in every color..... Richard
I was finishing up high school in the early 70s and am pretty much unfamiliar with most of these other than the Cabbage Patch dolls, a few of which my sister had. Mom asked me if I wanted one, since even grown women were collecting them, but I said no thanks. Lol. I'd imagine quite a few of these items (if in pristine condition) could make a collector some money (?) I was never much into dolls (other than Chatty Cathy and Barbie for awhile,) but of the ones you showed, the Baby Beans dolls would be ideal for little girls (makes me think of the old homemade type dolls).
I remember Cabbage Patch dolls from the 80s, which is when my 2 daughters would have been old enough for them. As it was, we couldn't afford to buy them, so I found a pattern for soft-sculptured dolls in JoAnn's and made a couple of them. You could even individualize the facial features (my older daughter said she wanted an Asian doll) by adjusting the threads. My friend told me that some of the other kids' mothers refused to believe that I had sewn them. Too bad.
@@miriambucholtz9315 My mom and all my aunts made us kids the homemade Cabbage Patch dolls! I never met anyone else who had one of these, but me and all my cousins had them. And they did the hair and eye color to order for each of us. I don't remember being offered any other unique features like the shape of the eyes or skin tone, but I still loved my doll. I was older and got a large sized doll and my little sister got a smaller size doll, like the ones in the store.
You know... if anyone knew of him before Sanford and Sons, the very idea of Redd Foxx getting a prime time TV show was weird enough. The weirdness was compounded by the idea of a talking doll made for kids of him...
I had the Sunshine Family and they were fun. What was so cool about them is they came with directions on how to make items using what would be generally junk. For example I remember you could make a seat using lids of cans, a couch using a milk carton and a playpen using a strawberry container. The bean babies look familiar to me as well but not sure if I had them. I didn't have it, but one year for someone's birthday me and a friend combined money to buy the Jaws game. I remember playing it (maybe with the person I bought it for) and it scared me because it had a loud noise. I haven't gone to a kids birthday in years but I wonder if kids even get toys from their friends at these parties anymore. It was a big deal getting toys I never would have gotten otherwise.
Oh my goodness, until you mentioned the Sunshine Family crafts, I had forgotten all about that part. Suddenly remembered making the baby playpen from a strawberry container! Thanks for that memory. : )
My friend had the doll set that was last in the string. The cash register was cool, and we'd merge them with my Barbies! She also had one based on a turn of the century parlor/young girl. The pieces were amazing and I loved playing with it. :) (Then again, she also had Cher and her outfits. Cher was too big to play with Barbie well, but we tried!)
THe parlor one was called Jody. There were different settings you could get that had her. I had the country kitchen one. They were Extremly detailed on the accessories . Everything was very interactive. ..containers opened, boxes of food opened, parts of the furniture and appliances moved (with help)
I had Lazy Dazy. Her bottom was weighted so that her upper body would flop over and she would "fall asleep." I also had the Inchworm. Loved that thing.
Yea many of these, I had totally forgotten about. I also remember silly putty, Spirograph and slinky being really big during this era Loved the trip down memory lane. Thank you
I absolutely love that I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Such a magical time.
Yes omg me too. We had the last bit of real freedom. I feel bad for the youth of today. They dont really LIVE. We were poor, but we had freedom & so much fun. :)
The best years of my life..70s n80s
@moonlitlove
Don't overthink. You'll have more friends.
@MOONLIGHT LOVE 🌙💓 missing fabulous popy toys
Born in 71..agree 100%
I was born in 1969. I will always consider myself a 70’s kid. It was a great decade to be a kid. Love these videos.
#facts
Me. 1967 born
80s was better
Born in 1968. I do remember some of these toys but only had the Jaws game.
68 here. I feel the same.
I had a shrunken head kit when I was young! It was awesome.
I really loved my Jaws shark game and my Six Million Dollar Man doll with the bionic eye.
That shrunken head kit sounds familiar. Looked it up! Omg! Vincent Price using an apple to make the shrunken head 1975 MB
@@samanthab1923it figures Vincent Price was behind it. His movies in the 60's scared me, especially House on Haunted Hill😊
OMG my little sister had a Shrunken Apple Head maker toy.....she almost burned the house down when she decided to use golden delicious and make one WHILE SHE WAS SLEEPING! Well, the dripping juice from the apple as it 'dried' dripped on the OVER wattage sized light bulb she was using.....and it caught fire when the bulb exploded!! I STILL laugh about that!
My grandmother got me the Growing Up Skipper for Christmas. I still have her! I also had the Jaws game, it was a lot of fun! Thanks for the memories!
The laughing doll would drive me up the wall in a very short time lol. I remember quite a few of these. Kids had so much fun on the inchworm. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
I agree about that laughing doll. Whoever thought of it most likely couldnt have had kids 🙄
Yes, i remember wanting the inchworm but i was a bit too old for it. So I tried getting my mom to buy it for my little sister. But my sister had her own ideas. I still perk up whenever i see it. I loved the commercial jingle and still know it by heart.
The commercial looks like a horror movie 😂😂😂
@@michelleb7399 I think you should put it on this years Xmas list. Truth be told, I would love another Chrissy doll from the 70's. Her hair actually grew when you pressed the button on her stomach!! I wish I still had mine. 😊I'm pretty sure your much younger than I am but isn't it funny how we love holding onto our childhood? Thanks for sharing your secret.
Comedian Dennis Leary did a video comedy routine where he mentioned a talking Darth Vader in their home. If you ever see the video NO CURE FOR CANCER, you'll see what I mean. I had cramps laughing at that.
Omg the sunshine family!! I remember liking them because they had babies. It was novel to see a whole doll family.
what about the Hart doll family?
@@unicornmadness6286 I had to google that because I wasn’t aware of them but looks like by the time they came out I was in my late teens! Would have loved them if I was younger.
I had the Sunshine Family & a Volkswagen van
@@unicornmadness6286 OH yeah. As The Sunshine Family was the granola family of the 70s, the Heart Family was the yuppie family for the 80s. And I was in high school too by the time they were out. 🙂
I loved them too! I got the whole family for Christmas one year but misplaced mom and dad. I still have the little baby though.😊
Hugo was pure Nightmare fuel ! Gave mine away , was afraid from day one it would kill me in my sleep. Good times!
My Hugo was love incarnate. Sucks that yours was set to evil mode.😃😃
Hearing you; looking back now, I horrified myself with those faces I made for him. Even though the glue was totally useless and impractical.
Of all my childhood toys that "vanished" mysteriously, this one I miss the least. Kenner would go onto better things a few years later it seems...
At 1:14 Hugo looks like Dr. Evil. I wonder if Mike Myers had one.
Haha, I had a shrunken head kit! It was awesome!
I don’t remember it, but it looks pretty creepy. I can understand how it would give you nightmares.
I had the snoopy sno cone maker. It was awesome! My sister, my friends, and I used it a lot. A friend had that Skipper doll. She does bring it up every once in a while as quite an odd toy purchase her parents made.
I had that Snoopy snow cone machine too.
I had one too, and loved it
I wanted one of those so bad 😂
Snoopy Snocone was the epitiome of my nightmares. My little sister got one from Santa and my mom would force me to sit there and crank that damned thing to make my sister a Snocone. I remember crying while i cranked that thing. Itd take a solid hour to make enough shaved ice to make a snow cone.
Burn in hell Snoopy Snowcone Machine.
I still have my snoopy and raggedy ann stuff! Such awesome times
I loved paper dolls. Remember those?
Yes and I think there was a magazine called Mac Calls that had them in it. My grandma would save it for me
My Older Sister had all KINDS of those !
I loved my paper dolls! ❤
What about colorforms, slinkys, footsies, silly putty, play dough sets, viewmasters, click clacks, rollerskates with keys, ball & jacks, kaleidoscopes, ker-plunk. What a wonderful, wholesome channel you have, thank you for the fond memories!
I loved colorforms!!
I love klick klacks
It said strange toys from the 70s. The ones you've listed were normal back then.
"strangest" toys of the 70's.
Those were all popular toys. This was about strange toys. I loved Colorforms. We could entertain ourselves with such simple things back then. I’m sure a modern day kid would find that very boring lol. Oh, and don’t forget paper dolls!
I had the Jaws game as a kid and loved it!
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
Yes same here I got it for Christmas one year and everyone in the family ended up playing it.
I loved my Jaws game. I wish I still had it.
It reminds me of OPERATION game
Same here...I forgot all about it until this video.
The jaws game was so much fun! We were always playing it.
As for Barbie knock-offs, anyone remember Dusty?
I had Dusty and her horse Nugget. I had thar Growing Up Skipper doll too.
Remember Dawn? Or Tiffany Taylor?
I had Barbie, but also Dawn, the Sunshine family and a Cindy doll. Actually, I still have all of them, carefully packed away.
Skipper was introduced in the mid 60’s. I had one. The one that would grow was an updated model.
Me too, she had long reddish hair with bangs. Don’t know this one but I was a teen by then.
Put a flash light under that laughing dolls chin and turn off the room light.
That doll is terrifying.
I had the original Skipper too-I was a brunette, so my folks gifted me with the brunette version. She had cute outfits and a pet poodle and a cardboard “dream bedroom” that was really neat. She remained flat and eternally pre-adolescent, which was the whole idea-she was supposed to be Barbie’s Little Sister! No wonder the growing version failed.
Seems like Mattel couldn't really settle on a Skipper type. There were so many different looks and sizes over the years.
I was born in 1966. My whole childhood was the 70s. I had a lot of those toys! Thanks for the fun video!
Oh my gosh!! I remember that milking cow! I haven't thought about it in nearly 45 years!! Thanks for reminding me!! Also, the Stretch Armstrong series was certainly unique...and weird.
We had the Milking Cow. I had completely forgotten about it.
Its so gross
the toxic milk had PCBs
I begged my Aunt for that cow, for whatever reason I can't remember. Great to know someone remembers good old Milky.
My folks got me the lesser known version: Billy The Milking Bull 😄🤣😄🤣
I was born in 1972 and this brought back many happy memories of my Jimmy JJ Walker doll that had a pull-string activated "Dyno-mite!" Or almost shooting my own eyes out with my giant Shogun Warrior figures.
I absolutely loved my Mrs. Beasley talking doll!
My brothers had pet rocks, both are gone now.
Sorry for ur loss, Lynn. Thank God we have good memories. I'd forgotten Mrs Beasley w the glasses, YES!! :)
@@lilyd1010 Thanks..
My sister had a Buffy dress
Mrs. Beasley Doll was a 60's toy, my sister had one.
My older sister STILL has Mrs. Beasley! Remember Anissa Jones who played 'Buffy' on Family Affair? I remember when she committed suicide. Sad.
Richard
Loved the Sunshine Family. It was fun doing the crafts that came in a little booklet with each playset.
I loved my Sunshine Family dolls! I still have the baby in my keepsakes. ❤️
i wish i saved mine i had the whole family even the pets
I wish I still had mine. I played with mine to complete oblivion.
I'm so glad you said that I thought that I'd imagined them. Lol my best friend had them. 😁
I still have my sunshine family dolls, house, and nursery
@@ShelbyAsInCar1969 what did the house and nursery look like I imagine a homemade construction maybe some two by fours and plywood
Great video.
My favorite 70s toys were the micronauts, the shogun warriors, six million dollar man, stretch Armstrong and Atari
I remember LOTS of these toys. We made our Christmas lists from the Sears catalogs. The inchworm was popular, Skipper, creepy baby laugh a lot ...scary. I never owned any of them, but I do remember them :D
I was born in 1969 too, and I had The Sunshine Family dolls and their little treehouse. They truly were the 70's.
I had the Ice Bird! It did NOT work! As hard as I scraped it, nothing happened. both of my parents even tried. All because they didn't want to buy me the more expensive Snoopy machine. So instead, they wasted money on something that didn't work.
I remember shaving my knuckles RAW trying to get that stupid thing to work....the Snoopy one was fun though. My nephew used to then 'sell his snow cones' on the corner for a nickel.
Richard
The Ball Buster is hilarious! Luv the way the lady winks, at the end!!
I had the sunshine family !! I thought it was so much fun !! 🌞
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
I still have mine! They “live” in the dollhouse my Grampa made from scratch for me in 1976.
I loved mine ♥
Baby Joey was a doll modeled after the son of Mike and Gloria Stivic from All in the Family. It was marketed (briefly) as the world's first anatomically correct male doll.
That Baby Laughs a lot is very creepy Thanks for the great video Rhetty
I would not want that psychotic doll in my house.
You think it sounds creepy now try making it laugh when the batteries are weak. It is slowed down and sounds demonic. My little sister had one and this happened to her she came running and screaming from her room and never touched it again.
She always reminds me of Laughing Sal, which was the SCARIEST of Summer Boardwalk memories of Santa Cruz.
Does anyone remember the Straw That Broke The Camel's Back game? It had a plastic camel that was hinged in the middle and had little saddlebags that you put sticks into. Whoever added a stick that "broke" the camel's back lost. If i remember correctly, you either spun a dial or drew a card that told how many sticks you had to add.
Love this video! I had the skipper doll and the Jaws game. I have a picture of me and my dad on the floor playing the game. Good memories.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of what you had with your Dad!
I think my older brother had the Jaws game, I remember playing it! :) Cool to see!
My Jaws would "eat" my Kenner Star Wars figures.
Thank you Rhett.
@@countofdownable that's so funny. Love it.
That "Great Moves" commercial starred three well known 70's TV actors: Roz Kelly (Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days), Fred Berry (Rerun from What's Happening) and Peter Isaacson (from CPO Sharkey).
We had the Jaws game when I was a child and it absolutely terrified me. My parents had to hide it in another room. They hid it in the bathroom and I refused to go in there until it was gone. Eventually I got over my fear of the silly plastic shark, though, and I wish I had it right now! We had a cymbal monkey that terrified me too, but I think that terrified everyone.
I had that cymbal monkey as a baby! I was terrified of it too! I also had a talking Bozo the Clown doll. I tossed it because clowns scared me! Should of kept THAT!
I was terrified of my sister's life sized Raggedy Ann😲😉
LOL i loved the jaws game.
I hated that cymbal monkey! 🤣
I had a my buddy doll in the 80s and my little brother was terrified of it after seeing childs play.
Some of these toys would still be popular today, I think! It's always fun to see toys from years before. Some of them were really good for their time.
The Mattel figures (Pulsar, etc) are very similar to the Max Steel line they released in the 2000s. I would not be surprised if they bring the concept back again in another 5-10 years.
Oh, yeah. I can see that creepy Baby Laugh-A-Lot making a comeback. 😱
Hey! Wasn't that Rerun from What's Happenin'? with the whiteboard? I had an Inchworm ride-on when I was little. The plastic outer shell eventually broke away but the metal interior/support and wheels were still going strong. We played on that until we couldn't fit on it. Good times!
That was him, all right.
I concur it's him.
I spotted him right off to! Lol!
Definitely was Rerun
Somebody now needs to do a story on, Who was Rerun? He was loved and he sure isn't forgotten. ☺
I discovered this channel today and can’t stop watching. Born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s these videos are making me long for those day (and toys😉) so badly.
Thanks for filling up my day with such great memories
I had the Inchworm & Snoopy Snow Cone Machine. Good time👍😄😎 Got another one 2 yrs ago (I'm 48) for my Birthday 🎉 Made me 😭 Had such fun memories making snow cones for all my friends in the heat of summer 🥵 Those laughing dolls freaked me out though😵💫👎💀
I was born in 1973. I had some of this stuff. Lol. Man, those days were great.
Me too!
I remember some of these toys but some of the others, not so much. Unfortunately I was to old for most of them. That laughing doll was crazy. Sure was the model for Chucky!!
I had just about all these. Brings back so many memories. Hands down my favorites were the snoopy snow cone maker and the Sunshine Family❤❤❤
I owned the Jaws game. It was actually a lot of fun to play.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of Jaws!
I just realized that my sisters and I were pretty spoiled seeing that we had almost every toy you showed! Thank you for the wonderful walk down memory lane! 2 of the 3 sisters have passed but I know they would have loved to see these toys again!!!
You forgot the Shrunken Head Apple Scupture kit and Gre-Gory the Bat. Stretch Armstrong was also pretty weird.
I had outgrown toys by the mid 70's and was into my blacklight, posters, and collecting 45's and LP's! LOL :)
I had a Tiffany Taylor doll. Her scalp rotated so you could change her hair color from blonde to brown. Also Stretch Octopus. They had a blue and pink one. No one remembers them. And in one of the doll clips you showed Mrs. Beasley. I wanted her so much and never got her. She was from the show Family Affair. Buffy's doll.
Loved Tiffany Taylor. I think the names were Ollie and Olivia Octopus.
Lol..great video ❤️👍🏻I was born in 71 and remember a few of these esp the Jaws game ,it's one of my fav movies too , and the Snoopy Snow cone.That laughing doll would def be chucked in the trash real quick ..I'm sure she did inspire Chucky 😂🤭
I was raised in a small northern town in British Columbia,Canada in the late 60s and 1970s.l have never seen any of the toys presented in this video,so interesting and oddy peculiar.Thank you Rhetty!😁
I am in Canada also, Ontario… The only one I remember is the snoopy snowcone maker but never heard of any of the other ones either🤍🦋
OMG! I had both the Hugo doll with the glue-on facial features AND the Jaws game! Amazing that they are remembered!
I had the Snoopy sno-cone maker and the Jaws game.
I never had the snoopy snow cone maker but I knew people who did. It was really a good one. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.
A very well done presentation. You have a natural manner and talent. Thanks for making me smile!
I love your videos!! I was born in 1957 and remember so much of what you post❤️❤️. I love the good old days❤️❤️
That baby laugh a lot commercial was terrifying, not gonna lie. If you don’t have a fear of dolls, you do now.😂😅
I bought in the 70s or early 80s the snoopy snowcone machine.There was a store near where I lived that sold syrups
Having it with syrups really is the best way to go. We didn't have that but we did substitute kool-aid on them. Of course we also made Kool-Aid popsicles as well. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories my friend!
@@RhettyforHistory We did the Kool-aid Popsicles in the 50s and 60s. They were a great part of several generations of kids.
I had the Snoopy snowcone machine too and I never could get it to work right. I would struggle to grind down one ice cube for awhile and then just lose interest. 🤣
@@BangBang-hk4rg I like snow cones and had it in my 20s, it needed a better crank for sure
You can still buy it. My son (born in 89) also had one when he was in elementary school.
Remember the Flying Turtle? It was a triangle shape close to the ground with wheels and handlebars that moved side to side to get it going fast. I rode that thing everywhere. I also thought you might have Stretch Armstrong in this compilation.
Great memories! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻
You're welcome and thank you for watching!
I loved that inch worm ride toy that you showed at the beginning. My brother and I used the heck out of that Snoopy snow cone maker. Those were the best. I remember riding around on that thing nonstop. I’d forgotten about the Jaws toy, lol. That laughing doll was flipping ferrying. 😂
The only toy I had from the United States was a barbie. I was 11 then. Thanks Rhett for sharing 💐
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Recognized a lot of toys that actually survived into the early-mid 80’s, many of these are downright terrifying. 😱
You literally said toxic milk caplets without missing a beat ! Lol
Born in '64, remember pretty much all of these, my younger brother ('73) had the Inchworm from the very beginning of the vid. Nice job, thanks for the memories!!
I had a baby alive in the early 70s and u could feed it and give it a bottle and it would go potty lol
I ran outta the food so shoved real food in her mouth and ruined it lol I dont remember
most of the toys on here except for the Jaws game...great video Rhet!
I had a Baby Alive, too!
Haahas shoved real food.i used to give dolls haircuts.lol
Great memories! Thanks! I had Hugo, Pulsar, and the Jaws game.
Hey Rhetty just enjoying Sunday n a Rhetty vid drops ..Perfect
Happy Sunday and thank you for watching!
That was a great look back! I remember most of the toys. You are right, some of them were creepy but what really stood out to me was how they reek of programming. I love your sense of humor!
Good Morning Rhett.🙋🏽 Some of those things I never heard of. But I HAD some of them. Thank you for sharing this with me. Have a awesome day ‼️😃👍🏽 I never realized just how creepy a lot of them were.
I was born in 79 😊 one of my favorite babies had a string in its back and when you pulled it she clapped, she also had a drop seat and when you gave her water she peed!! I played with that doll til one of her arms literally fell off!! Lol the 70's and 80's were the best!! Then came the 90's with the big hair bands and their monster ballads!! Oh how I miss the good Ole days!! Kids these days just don't know what they're missing!! But then kids aren't really kids anymore either 😥😥
Hi Rhetty. was just little in the 70's being born in 71. I remember that the older Boys would like to put together model kits..A line that seemed quite popular was Hollywood Monsters ie: Wolfman, Frankenstein and the Count plus others. Any thoughts on the popularity of all of the sudden?
Yeah the Hollywood monster model kits exploded into christmas one of those years. I don't remember exactly when it was, but every kid had them up on the shelf in their room.
My brothers did model cars a lot and the green army men battle fields.
The monster kits were mostly from a company called Aurora, and originally came out in 1960's. They were re-issued around 1974. Mainly movie, and TV models, a few originals in there like 'grave robber's reward'(you can probably guess). Some company did kits/dioramas of giant preying mantis, and giant spiders, etc., attacking towns - the towns would be, I think, like printed scenes on cardboard. Am sure there were more around 1974/1976 period.
Oh wow …I remember those…had the Frankenstein I believe …from what I remember the base was a grave or tombstone or something..
@@stevesutherland6232 Yes, he's walking in a graveyard for the base.
*Aww, loved my inchworm! Mom and Dad got it for me for Christmas when I was age 4, what a happy time!* 🐛🐛🐛🐛
There were many different dolls in the 70s with special features or abilities. These dolls were named Baby (and then whatever feature that made them special.) I had Baby This 'n That and Baby Come Back. Because I had older brothers, who were not gentle with my toys, neither doll's special features survived for long.
I still have Milky the cow, but that woman turning and winking after busting her mans balls is just hillarious.
I remember my sister had a 'Baby that away'.
I’ve never heard of a few of these like the ‘Ball Buster’ game, some others sure brought back some memories, pretty fun to look back at this stuff 👍
Born in '65, remember all of these, owned a few🤪Thanks for stirring up my old brain cells 😁
Thanks for bringing back some good memories. Back in the 1970's I had that Hugo doll and it creeped me out with its blank stare. My favorites were Hot Wheels cars and the orange track.
......AND getting whipped with it from our Dad! lol. Child abuse now....lol.
Wow ❤️ I had all these toys and I loved milky the cow, it was so awesome how you would get little white tablets to put in the water for milky to drink and then when you squeezed milky's utters milk would come out, how awesome cool and realistic ❤️💜💙💛💚 thank you for these videos I was born in 1972 what a time to be alive 😘
Thqt was pretty creative with the tablets and I bet we never see anything like that again. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
I LOVED the Sunshine Family.
And, we can’t forget about The Honey Hill Bunch…and, their treehouse!
I always love your uploads. I never thought I’d be old enough to say, this takes me back to childhood. It was a different time and I miss it so much. Look forward to the next one. ♥️
I was born in 78 so some of these toys I don't remember except the cabbage patch kids and the snoopy ice cone maker ,but I also miss those times wish we could go back .
Wow, you always come up with the best things in your vintage videos. I don't remember many of these things, my first child was born in 1974 and then the next year we moved to
Germany for three years so I was not in the loop for most of these toys. I remember a few but I don't remember buying any of them. Love seeing these videos!
I had the Jaws game, Milky the Marvelous, and my sister had Gobbles the Goat. I also had Ice Bird and the Snoopy Snow Cone makers. Both were a lot of work for not a lot of payoff. I also had the Snoopy plush toy. They sold various outfits for Snoopy. One of my favorite toys was 2XL, the talking trivia robot.
Loved 2XL with the 8 track tapes! I saved my allowance for it.
This was great, and you covered some that don't usually make these lists! Milky, however, should ALWAYS make these lists!
I remember Milky. My sister and I both have one but then again we did grow up on a dairy farm so we loved milky
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
We had something similar in the UK, but I'm sure it had another name.
@@RhettyforHistory 🙂
I'm glad to hear someone enjoyed this toy.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's and I always LOVE to see what you are going to put next in your Retro Vids!.....Love ya Rhetty! I was so surprised that you did not have Clickety Clackers in this one.....I cannot tell you how many bruises a kid got from those damn things! But I had them in every color.....
Richard
I was finishing up high school in the early 70s and am pretty much unfamiliar with most of these other than the Cabbage Patch dolls, a few of which my sister had. Mom asked me if I wanted one, since even grown women were collecting them, but I said no thanks. Lol. I'd imagine quite a few of these items (if in pristine condition) could make a collector some money (?) I was never much into dolls (other than Chatty Cathy and Barbie for awhile,) but of the ones you showed, the Baby Beans dolls would be ideal for little girls (makes me think of the old homemade type dolls).
I remember Cabbage Patch dolls from the 80s, which is when my 2 daughters would have been old enough for them. As it was, we couldn't afford to buy them, so I found a pattern for soft-sculptured dolls in JoAnn's and made a couple of them. You could even individualize the facial features (my older daughter said she wanted an Asian doll) by adjusting the threads. My friend told me that some of the other kids' mothers refused to believe that I had sewn them. Too bad.
@@miriambucholtz9315 My mom and all my aunts made us kids the homemade Cabbage Patch dolls! I never met anyone else who had one of these, but me and all my cousins had them. And they did the hair and eye color to order for each of us. I don't remember being offered any other unique features like the shape of the eyes or skin tone, but I still loved my doll. I was older and got a large sized doll and my little sister got a smaller size doll, like the ones in the store.
You know... if anyone knew of him before Sanford and Sons, the very idea of Redd Foxx getting a prime time TV show was weird enough. The weirdness was compounded by the idea of a talking doll made for kids of him...
I had the sunshine family. I loved it
Thank you for watching Sandra!
I had 4 of those things growing up. Fun trip down memory lane!
I had the Sunshine Family and they were fun. What was so cool about them is they came with directions on how to make items using what would be generally junk. For example I remember you could make a seat using lids of cans, a couch using a milk carton and a playpen using a strawberry container. The bean babies look familiar to me as well but not sure if I had them. I didn't have it, but one year for someone's birthday me and a friend combined money to buy the Jaws game. I remember playing it (maybe with the person I bought it for) and it scared me because it had a loud noise. I haven't gone to a kids birthday in years but I wonder if kids even get toys from their friends at these parties anymore. It was a big deal getting toys I never would have gotten otherwise.
Oh my goodness, until you mentioned the Sunshine Family crafts, I had forgotten all about that part. Suddenly remembered making the baby playpen from a strawberry container! Thanks for that memory. : )
The Jaws game was fun.
Thank You the 70's had a lot of strange things going on 🌹
i had a Jaws game...
i remember it being loads of fun!
I remember the inchworm ride on and the Sunshine Family ♥️ Two of my favorites!
I had the Jaws game & loved it!! 😊
I use to love playing with some of these toys.
Thank you for watching!
I still have a Hugo toy and a Pulsar action figure from my childhood. Great memories! Thanks for this one!
Both my wife and I had a Jaws game . I loved it
That Jaws "Buckaroo" brings back memories.
Hugo looks exactly like Dr Evil
He can almost look like anyone! Thank you for watching!
That is what Mike Meyers modeled him after.....funny, huh? Yes was SO creepy! And that Serial Killer comment made me die laughing.
Rcihard
My mom had that Jaws game and I wish we still had it because that was a lot of fun.
Great vid Rett!
Those certainly were some bizarre toys back then. 😁
Tom Baker!
My friend had the doll set that was last in the string. The cash register was cool, and we'd merge them with my Barbies! She also had one based on a turn of the century parlor/young girl. The pieces were amazing and I loved playing with it. :) (Then again, she also had Cher and her outfits. Cher was too big to play with Barbie well, but we tried!)
THe parlor one was called Jody. There were different settings you could get that had her. I had the country kitchen one. They were Extremly detailed on the accessories . Everything was very interactive. ..containers opened, boxes of food opened, parts of the furniture and appliances moved (with help)
I had Lazy Dazy. Her bottom was weighted so that her upper body would flop over and she would "fall asleep." I also had the Inchworm. Loved that thing.
The inchworm was really cool
Me too was born in 73 the only toys I had and the knock off barbie
I remember all of these And more! The inchwom made me think of the Green Machine and Big Wheel! That laughing doll is possessed... Chucky indeed.
I use to have some of these.
Yea many of these, I had totally forgotten about. I also remember silly putty, Spirograph and slinky being really big during this era Loved the trip down memory lane. Thank you