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There was no better thing for me to do than my Super Spirograph...hours and hours, many pens, pieces of corrugated cardboard, replacement pins... It was the best. That and my Etch a Sketch.
Indeed. I made another video about dangerous toys I played with. You might enjoy that too if you haven't seen it yet. th-cam.com/video/d07Pvt-uhNQ/w-d-xo.html
We had fire crackers and put ‘lady fingers in cigarettes and gave them to our friends. And we’d take gas from our Dads lawn mowers and pour it across the street light it and ride our bikes through it. We also made tennis call cannons. Old beer cans with the ends out and a tennis ball can taped together end to end with the larger tennis ball can on top. You make a nail hole in the bottom can squirt in a lot of lighter fluid and put a tennis ball in the top and light her up. Shit did that ball fly. Of course you needed a couple of guys dumb enough to hold it while you lit it. We shot one off at recess in grade 5 ,I was 10 and I got a week of detentions lol.
The sound of the SSP cars, oh man. I had several, but I’m remember them being pretty fast. They were fun to just hold and feel the centrifugal force move your hand.
My little brother had the Evil Knievel action figure, Funny Car and Stunt Cycle toys. My older brother and I had the SSP Smash Up Derby cars. Wish we still had those. =)
All these toys dealt with physics and kinetics. This gave children a sense of action/reaction in the real world that the video game generation is noticeably lacking.
....people think the digital age is smart but if you notice these kids are actually lower IQ that play all these video games and can't operate a drill ,a hammer, a skateboard, barely ride a bicycle..... It's sad how technology has actually dumbed-down humans.....look at the word then and than and how it is used now compared to 25-35 years ago it's an 80% idiot ratio now.....
Took me a few days to watch this - but I sure remember all of these. Even at 8 we knew Jarts were dangerous, which added to the thrill of playing with them! And my wife and I both remember Kerplunk.
My cousin told his sister that if she fed her ponytail through the supercharger that it would braid it LOL. Guess what? My aunt didn't sue Mattel! My cousin got is butt kicked and his sister got a haircut to detach the thing from her hair though.
that is funny but the SSP that he had I actually put that in my sister's hair, I got close to her head and it yanked it out of my hand and all the way up to her scalp......had to be cut out
Jarts, wood burning sets, chemistry sets, models that weren't snap together (we had to use model glue), sisters easy bake ovens, survived them all without any injuries or deaths......guess we were just smarter back then.
Wow! Really, a blast from the past. I remember nearly all those toys. Growing up in Chicago in the 50's, 60's and 70's was a great time. Thanks for bringing back the memories when I was a kid.
Aah, the Super Charger! We had two of them. With the banked, hard plastic turns and both Super Chargers, you could set up a pretty big full circuit and have the cars run laps. Of course, some cars didn't feed through the spinning foam wheels so well. The Splittin' Image always misfired! And everybody on the block had tons of the orange track strips and dozens of the purplish connectors. If you dug up the yard of the house I grew up in, I bet you'd find at least a dozen connectors even after nearly five decades.
what about the Hot wheels cars I had them when they first came out my dad liked him too he was an officer in the army and he would bring that stuff home every week different stuff or we had a monster track and all the gadgets....
I was born in the waning days of the Truman administration. Back when I was a kid parents just accepted that some kids would win the Darwin award, and not pass their genes on to diminish the intelligence of the next generation. You're right. If we got hurt playing with a toy, it was considered our own fault for being stupid with it. We quickly learned to be careful.
I agree with ALL of you, doesn't matter that I was born in the 80's. Getting rich from a Kickstarter you made after being dumb enough to wash your hair in Gorilla Glue, plus all the other stupid stuff, is truly leading us to the fate of Babylon
@@lovelessk999 Yes, the flu DOES kill SOME kids, a few, almost always with some underlying condition like a compromised immune system. Yes, that is sad, especially for their parents; but, in the greater scheme of things it prevents their weaker genes from being passed on to weaken the gene pool of the next generation. However, since the invention of aspirin, which has reduced the dangers posed by fever, the VAST MAJORITY of children survive the flu, and thereby obtain immunity against that and similar strains in the future. The knee jerk, bleeding heart reaction to attempt to prevent everybody from even being infected with a disease which is seldom actually fatal is well meaning, but misguided. It is another example of "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
Wow! That brought back some memories. I haven't thought about those SSP cars in probably 40 years but I sure remember them. It seemed like all of my friends had at least one of those in the 70's. Ker Plunk was a lot of fun, too!
Oh I remember all those toys. They were a blast! My brothers has the hot wheels and charger. And once in.a while they even let me play with them. I love the Ker-Plunk game. My Dad got us the darts game but I never thought they were dangerous. Huh! Obviously he did! Wishful thinking I guess. Sorry dad you lost and your kids are now adults now. 😂😂😂
I love toys! I love looking back at toys that were around before I existed! I love your message at the end. I went to a restaurant this week and found thin plastic rings in the entre. The restaurant was shocked and offered me the meal free, explaining the company they ordered the packages from must've let some of the packing fall into some of the food item. I subscribe to the same philosophy you do; If I don't pay attention to what I'm eating, it's ultimately my fault. (I've got 20/20 vision, I've got no excuse.) Once they promised me it would never happen again, I paid for the full meal, which was otherwise terrific. They simply couldn't understand why I paid in this world, and were baffled. They seemed like nice people.
Oh the lawn darts I remember them I had them and although no one got her playing with them I thought it was a great way to keep your friends and family amused at the barbecue and now looking back at it today would be a great way to take care of that pesky Karen neighbor in her backyard I also remember the click clacks little plastic balls that you tried to bounce up and down the sound they made was phenomenal the bruise they left on my arm 35 years ago I can still see great toys great times thanks for the video good memories.
I've had every one of these toys you had in the video. I even had Jarts and never got hurt. Baby boomer kids played outdoors mostly, instead of staying indoors playing video games. None of us had spaghetti arms and prison pallor.
I had everyone of those also, wish I stil had the Hot Wheels super charger, I could get my SSP's to go a full block. Think his don't go far because the rubber wheel had dried and hardened.
@@radicalron65 Ah, didn't realize they tamed them down, glad I was one of the last generations that wasn't protected from itself. No bike helmet, no car seat and parents today would be horrified of what I did with fireworks!
I had every one of those toys. I was privileged. Wish I had kept them and all my other toys. I would still play with them. Peace of mind in this world of mindless distractions! Thanks fore the memories. God Bless, Merry Christmas
Jarts were fantastic. Nothing like a late summer Sunday afternoon, hitting the yard with the fogger to keep the squomitoes and gnats down for about eight minutes and then playing Jarts while grandpa cooked burgers on the grill!!!
We played lawn jarts all the time when we were kids. My little brother went to the ER when he was hit in the forehead with one. It left a deep indentation but he ended up being okay. He still has the scar. I had a HW super charger and I haven't been able to find it. I'm so mad! Lol
@@kenbrown2808 , I missed catching a fast Frisbee once and it smashed me in the nose. Did I run to a lawyer or throw it away because it is too dangerous? No, I got better at catching it.
I had a Duncan top. Clear yellow plastic with a nylon tip. Wind the string up on it with a loop around your finger. Hold it with the tip pointing up, then just gently toss it onto the floor. My Mom was amazed at how I made it look so easy to get it to spin fast. I'm 67 now and I still have it.
I had that same SSP in red. All the kids in the neighborhood had one and we raced them for hours. When you showed the top, I immediately thought of Wizzzers, which were gyroscopic tops sold about the same time as the SSPs and Sizzlers.
Had a lot of fun with those Wizzers in early grade school. I recall some tiny racing decals I put on them. Trying to remember if the decals actually came with the Wizzers or if I got them from something else. I also had a couple SSP cars. Thanks for the memories
Mousetrap, Jarts, Ker-plunk are very familiar. Another _dangerous_ toy of the 70’s were _Clackers_ . I recall they got banned not because of the annoying sound, but that they fractured and caused some serious injuries. Another toy of that era were Wizzers - another top toy.
The Tops I used back in the early 60's didnt look like this top. They were made out of wood, came in different colors and shapes. We would wrap the string around it and snap it! Hours of fun.. The plastic one you have looks like maybe the 70's or 80's? never seen one of those. Loved the "Mouse Trap" game! Love games like this..
I asked for Mouse Trap for Xmas 5 years in a row and never got it. 🙁. Doubt it was because my parents thought it was dangerous. Probably was because for it’s time and the quality, it was expensive. We were not spoiled kids back then, either, and were taught to cope with not always getting what you want and to appreciate having your needs met. I don’t hate my parents and am not permanently emotionally scarred because I didn’t get it.
😳 What the- the SSP car gave me a pang of emotion 😂 and I never even had any. My brother did. Wow. And your Mouse Trap contraptions! Wow, you're like a professional kid, huh? ☺️ Very nice.
Loved these - we had them all. Fond memories of Lincoln Logs and Erector Set as well as many others. Being the 5th of 7 kids, many of these were handed down so I never was left with nothing to do as a kid!
I'm pretty sure that top was part of a set. I remember a 'battling tops' game that included a dished 'arena'. You'd spin those things up and put them in the 'arena', and of course being dished, they'd naturally move toward the center. As you can imagine, various spinning things all being pulled together by gravity made for some spectacular 'battles'. knocking each other about (sometimes out of the arena completely), the 'last one standing' was the winner.
Who remembers Big Loader? Tipper Trucks going on tracks and stopping to empty and fill up with things. Can’t remember what though. Maybe plastic bricks or gravel.
I've been loving this channel! It has a variety of interests that are both entertaining and educational! I am a fan of collectables, building things, and junk pickin'! This channel wraps my hobbies into a little bow 😀
I had Lawn Darts, I had two Hot Wheels Superchargers, I had Ker Plunk, I had a few SSP's, for the top, I had a few Whizzers, I had the Mouse Trap game, we all had cap guns... Holy crap, I had an AWESOME childhood!
I had a set of Jarts when I was a kid and I never once was tempted to throw it near another person. I also wasn't tempted to let someone throw it at me. It's hard to believe, but back in the old days, people were expected to not be incredibly stupid. I guess that isn't true anymore.
The problem wasn't that kids didn't understand they were dangerous. Injuries would occur when someone would launch one over the roof into the backyard where other kids were playing, where, streaking toward terminal velocity, they would occasionally end up embedded in someone's skull. People died from being struck in the head with jarts.
@@LisaCupcake Before the Product Safety Commission in 1970 jarts were banned by the FDA who sited three deaths and numerous injuries directly as a result of the use of jarts. As an elementary school student in New Iberia, LA I distinctly remember other kids being struck by them resulting in deep punctures to arms and legs, as well as seeing dozens of jarts sticking from rooftops all over town. Maybe it was just us, but we were all capable of brutalizing one another and we frequently did.
@@bobbyhulll8737 .... Not sure if he did practice accountability but he should have forced it on the swamp....the last thing that a career politician on either side of the aisle wants is accountability.....
I think another thing that is missing today is parent supervision. I was allowed to have many toys that would be considered dangerous today, but my mom or dad taught or showed me how to use them, and explained that I could hurt myself if I was not careful. Also, that if I broke it, I could not have another one. I paid attention and learned
I remember a spinning top craze, just like the yo-yo craze. Lots of different kinds of tops. But I can't seem to find anything about them, now. Thanks for showing one.
Jarts. Nothing but good memories concerning them. In 1968 while visiting my Aunt in her expansive and lushly green backyard my 2 sisters and I played a great game of Jarts. Now, sadly, my Aunt and one sister are gone but the good memories remain...
I had a humming top when I was a little nipper. It made an extraordinary noise which I found endlessly fascinating until it mysteriously disappeared overnight... Thanks for the stroll down Memory Lane mate.
Born in 61, I just missed the SSP phase in early 70s, but just love these as an adult now! I have a collection of the dragsters, and those chrome colored ones! Wow! Love this and your other toy vids.
Had a Hot Wheels Super Charger and the Super Sonic Power racer. My friends had some of the other games and that was the magic of playing with friends. You shared. I have concerns that basic social concepts like that are not being ingrained early enough in today’s kids.
I remember back in the 60,s the five and dime store use to sell a small hard plastic plane that was propelled by a thin small stick with a rubber band connected to it, you would stretch the rubber band back with the plane and let it go. I crack many windows with that toy.
Sad jarts sad ones hurt, but we did play with them. Blast kerplunk. Simple things were fun back then. The top was fun to see how long you could get it to stay up longest. Mouse trap was great. Hated building back up after few seconds of catching mouse. But loved it.
Played many a game of Jarts, would love to get my hands on a set now. I also had every one of the toys you mentioned here as a kid. Loved my SSPs and had a lot of top battles in my day.
Was given lawn darts on 8 th birthday first time I ever saw a UPS truck in my life. 😊 I loved the game and still play it. Never any damage to life health or property.. and my tonka jeeps and then the finest construction toys made created a fine machine operator out of me now 66 years old. Excavator is my favorite I can stack china with one or take down a hotel building and clean up the mess ….all by myself. ..mom I cleaned the job site up .
Thank you so much dragstrip car was amazing I forgot how much fun we used to have with that and then mousetrap oh my we could play that all day it seem like it was always fun and that dart throwing games I remember that one the one with sticks and marbles was another favorite but couldn't play that around my sister that's probably where they got the word Ginga from for today's game.
I had all that stuff. GI Joes, Tonga Toys, I played outside all.day. Rode my bike around. A different time, a simpler time. I miss those days. Everything just seems so “calculated “ for kids these days.
What about the hard as a rock " SUPER BALL! ", I threw one once and it bounced back at Super sonic speed and hit me in the head ! Darn thing almost knocked me out ! Or, how about the "OPERATION !", mess up and get an electric shock ! Yeah, that's a fun way to spend an afternoon with your friends ! 😹😂🐖💨💨... 🚬👓...
@@DC-vv5ii Yeah D C, one toy that actually did what they said it would. Or how about, " Clackers"? I think that's spelled right. You know the two small plastic ball's on a string cord that bounced up and down and hit together. That made that clacking noise. Those things could break a bone if it hit just right, or, at least leave a nasty bruise. It's a wonder we didn't kill ourselves! 🚬👓...
@@captainjohn7833 Oh hell ya, Clackers. Mine were orange. I probably drove my folks nuts with that noise they made. I was cured of playing with it when one day I decided to go at it double speed. Well, something went awry and one of those heavy balls hit my wrist. Hurt like hell for a few days. Luckily it didn't take my hand off. LOL! I guess I was lucky one didn't break and fly up and take out an eye. I still have my Creepy Crawlers and Mini Dragons Thingmaker I got from Santa in 1968. And yes, I did accidentally touch the element a couple times. It hurt and I learned to be more aware of my surroundings because of it and not turned into a snowflake soy sissy being hauled off to a lawyer. I would always drool over the deluxe chemistry set in the Sears Christmas Catalog back then too, but thank God Santa had enough love in his heart to not bring me one.
I once dropped a superball from the roof of a 6-storey apartment block into the carpark and it made it all the way back up to me. I didn't throw it, I just let it go, and it only lost a few inches on the return trip. Super bouncy!
That "Mouse Trap" comment is humerous. After SEEING it, the reaction was one of IMMEDIATE recognition. After HEARING the comment about the "game" part, the reaction was along the lines of, "Uhhh...Oh yeah...Umm...The game...Hey look! The bathtub!"
We used to throw jarts over the house and try to catch them.... didn’t say we weren’t goofy. Did anyone else used to use hot wheels tracks as swords? We used to play sword fight and end up with welts all over our body. Kids now have no idea.
That's funny. I'm glad I wasn't your neighbor :-) My brother was throwing darts from a dartboard up in the air outside when one landed on the top of my head and stuck. Good old fashioned fun...lol
@@AlleyPicked I didn’t talk about the dart wars my brother and I used to have in the basement. I got a dart stuck in my wrist and my brother got one in his thigh. I think we only played once. It’s hard to believe we both survived and became electrical engineers
Ah, lawn jarts. Okay, I was one of those who did not escape unscathed. Had one of those bad boys in my leg. Still played it after that, just a bit more carefully. 😉 I remember having Ker-Plunk and Mousetrap, and my older brother had the Hot Wheels super charger.
Bought a set of Jarts at an antique store last summer. 2nd time I’ve seen them. A classic. Went out in the yard to play and immediately had all the neighbors over.
I have a Crazy Clock in the box mint. This is a bit like mouse trap but bigger . Also NOS Rockem sockem Robots. Most of the unopened items I have sold but some are still in the inventory, now just my collection. It was fun selling vintage toys and other collectibles.
I loved Mouse Trap! We had Lawn Darts and Horseshoes out at camp. We also had a pretty heavy wooden seated swing. I never got hurt but my brother got hit by all three. He. was OK but needed stitches from horse shoes. The little boy at the other cottage 3 doors down had it in for my brother, lol. He was responsible for all of the accidents, lol.
One of my favorite toys was Skittles. This game was made out of wood with a maze of rooms in which sit a wooden pin. Depending on the location of the room, the points for each pin range from 10 to 50. The point of the game is you wrap your wooden top with string, put it in the gate and pull the string. You get points as the top bounces into the different rooms to knock the pin over. Rooms were large enough for the top to miss the pin. If you get a good grip on your string and pull hard, you can put that top into sonic spin and it basically lasts long enough to knock all the pins down. It also made a hell of a whizzing noise. This is not to be confused with Skittles. The game with 10 pins that you try to knock down by tossing a wooden ball tethered to a wooden pole in the middle (sort of like if bowling met tether ball and became table sized).
Thank you very much🌈never stop playing!! I was born in 1960. Great memories 🙏
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We had Jarts when I was a kid. We played all the time for years and no one got hurt.
you probably can also buy a cup of McDonalds coffee without burning your balls
Same.
@@SRM_NZ How bout' an apple pie to go with that?
@@ADAPTATION7 I remember the original Apple Pie with the super crispy crust....delicious!!
Same here. Sounds like unnecessary hysteria.
Man I'm getting teary-eyed wow 👌 such memories
Natural selection at its finest
Hi, I live in NZ and can still remember my new neighbour from the UK having Mousetrap back in the 60's. Many thanks for the video, take care.
Thanks!
Still have my game of Mouse Trap! Loved it as a kid.
There was no better thing for me to do than my Super Spirograph...hours and hours, many pens, pieces of corrugated cardboard, replacement pins... It was the best. That and my Etch a Sketch.
Oh yea hours on end especially when it was raining out and stood home all day! Great toy!
And Light Bright!
I remember always stripping the pull cords on the SSP's.......One of my favorite toys back in the early 70's.
Hated when that happened.
Or loosing them!🙃
I was racing my SSP in my business parking lot The CARS go like magic still ....Still fast 12 /28 /22
I played with Jarts, Slip n Slide, Clackers, and rode my bike without a helmet. i survived. I turn 60 Thursday.
Indeed. I made another video about dangerous toys I played with. You might enjoy that too if you haven't seen it yet. th-cam.com/video/d07Pvt-uhNQ/w-d-xo.html
Me too and Frieght Factory. I turn 60 in February, can’t believe it still feel young. Lol
We had fire crackers and put ‘lady fingers in cigarettes and gave them to our friends. And we’d take gas from our Dads lawn mowers and pour it across the street light it and ride our bikes through it. We also made tennis call cannons. Old beer cans with the ends out and a tennis ball can taped together end to end with the larger tennis ball can on top. You make a nail hole in the bottom can squirt in a lot of lighter fluid and put a tennis ball in the top and light her up. Shit did that ball fly. Of course you needed a couple of guys dumb enough to hold it while you lit it. We shot one off at recess in grade 5 ,I was 10 and I got a week of detentions lol.
Btw no children were harmed in all of the above.
@@johngore7744 Wouldn't be so funny if someone had been harmed though, would it?
The sound of the SSP cars, oh man. I had several, but I’m remember them being pretty fast. They were fun to just hold and feel the centrifugal force move your hand.
My little brother had the Evil Knievel action figure, Funny Car and Stunt Cycle toys. My older brother and I had the SSP Smash Up Derby cars. Wish we still had those. =)
I remember those smash up cars. Wouldn't the hood and doors fly off or something?
@@JG-fe1gx yep! When the bumpers struck something, they all popped off
Evil Knievel's nephew taught my son in high school a few years back. Now that was a teacher with great stories to tell!
All these toys dealt with physics and kinetics. This gave children a sense of action/reaction in the real world that the video game generation is noticeably lacking.
....people think the digital age is smart but if you notice these kids are actually lower IQ that play all these video games and can't operate a drill ,a hammer, a skateboard, barely ride a bicycle..... It's sad how technology has actually dumbed-down humans.....look at the word then and than and how it is used now compared to 25-35 years ago it's an 80% idiot ratio now.....
@@radicalron65 Exactly my point.
So true. Today's kids think and act like they've discovered the secrets of the universe whenever they win at a video game
Great observation. And so true. I loved growing up in the 1970's.
@I'm Back I was more into Warner Bros and Hanna Barbera...
Took me a few days to watch this - but I sure remember all of these. Even at 8 we knew Jarts were dangerous, which added to the thrill of playing with them! And my wife and I both remember Kerplunk.
My cousin told his sister that if she fed her ponytail through the supercharger that it would braid it LOL. Guess what? My aunt didn't sue Mattel! My cousin got is butt kicked and his sister got a haircut to detach the thing from her hair though.
Haha 🤣🤣🤣 .
that is funny but the SSP that he had I actually put that in my sister's hair, I got close to her head and it yanked it out of my hand and all the way up to her scalp......had to be cut out
That’s generally all there was to it ....
lol. I would have gotten a beating...
WTF would you do that far? Ruined that Super Charger
Jarts, wood burning sets, chemistry sets, models that weren't snap together (we had to use model glue), sisters easy bake ovens, survived them all without any injuries or deaths......guess we were just smarter back then.
I had an Easy-Bake oven (1970s, turquoise, no injuries for me as I was super careful), a woodburning set in 19 75. No problems.
Not too smart after breathing Testors plastic cement all afternoon putting together plastic car kits!
Love the lawn darts. That's how we thinned the herd in the day.
Wow! Really, a blast from the past. I remember nearly all those toys. Growing up in Chicago in the 50's, 60's and 70's was a great time. Thanks for bringing back the memories when I was a kid.
Aah, the Super Charger! We had two of them. With the banked, hard plastic turns and both Super Chargers, you could set up a pretty big full circuit and have the cars run laps. Of course, some cars didn't feed through the spinning foam wheels so well. The Splittin' Image always misfired!
And everybody on the block had tons of the orange track strips and dozens of the purplish connectors. If you dug up the yard of the house I grew up in, I bet you'd find at least a dozen connectors even after nearly five decades.
Yup me too!
Two. 👍
what about the Hot wheels cars I had them when they first came out my dad liked him too he was an officer in the army and he would bring that stuff home every week different stuff or we had a monster track and all the gadgets....
Brings back memories.
Back when life was fun...
The good old days! Where we could play as kids!
Wow the ssp car was one of my first new Christmas gift that sound brought me back to 1971 and I was born in 64 thanks for the gift again !!
Very cool!
Funny how things can trigger a memory, when I hear a old cap gun, I can smell the smoke. Lol
I was born in the waning days of the Truman administration. Back when I was a kid parents just accepted that some kids would win the Darwin award, and not pass their genes on to diminish the intelligence of the next generation. You're right. If we got hurt playing with a toy, it was considered our own fault for being stupid with it. We quickly learned to be careful.
AMEN BROTHER. SAME WITH THE COVID.
@@rickjensen2833 you mean the flu that doesn’t kill kids?
I agree with ALL of you, doesn't matter that I was born in the 80's. Getting rich from a Kickstarter you made after being dumb enough to wash your hair in Gorilla Glue, plus all the other stupid stuff, is truly leading us to the fate of Babylon
My wife says there’s so many stupid people in the world because of bicycle helmets we didn’t get to thin out the stupid ones when they were younger
@@lovelessk999 Yes, the flu DOES kill SOME kids, a few, almost always with some underlying condition like a compromised immune system. Yes, that is sad, especially for their parents; but, in the greater scheme of things it prevents their weaker genes from being passed on to weaken the gene pool of the next generation. However, since the invention of aspirin, which has reduced the dangers posed by fever, the VAST MAJORITY of children survive the flu, and thereby obtain immunity against that and similar strains in the future. The knee jerk, bleeding heart reaction to attempt to prevent everybody from even being infected with a disease which is seldom actually fatal is well meaning, but misguided. It is another example of "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
Rummaging through an old (abandoned) farmyard a couple years ago found a partial set of lawn dart's. You bet they came home 😁
Jarts were great. We were smart enough to stay out of the path of the dart and to not throw them at each other.
Thanks for the memories ❤
SSP cars! Memory lane! Used to race them on the kitchen floor! After watching Luche Libre! and Roller Derby on Saturday of course!
Wow! That brought back some memories. I haven't thought about those SSP cars in probably 40 years but I sure remember them. It seemed like all of my friends had at least one of those in the 70's. Ker Plunk was a lot of fun, too!
Oh I remember all those toys. They were a blast! My brothers has the hot wheels and charger. And once in.a while they even let me play with them. I love the Ker-Plunk game. My Dad got us the darts game but I never thought they were dangerous. Huh! Obviously he did! Wishful thinking I guess. Sorry dad you lost and your kids are now adults now. 😂😂😂
Excellent. I remember "Ker-Plunk". Had my nerves in shreds!!
I think the videomaker has lost quite a few sticks. Maybe he was a bad loser and snapped half of them.
My dad got me two Hot Wheels track sets with two Superchargers for Christmas when I was 6 years old. Best Christmas ever!!!
I got those darts still in the box. Those were the best. Clackers were fun too.
Clackers ...two acrylic balls slamming together in front of your face...good times
I love toys! I love looking back at toys that were around before I existed! I love your message at the end.
I went to a restaurant this week and found thin plastic rings in the entre. The restaurant was shocked and offered me the meal free, explaining the company they ordered the packages from must've let some of the packing fall into some of the food item.
I subscribe to the same philosophy you do; If I don't pay attention to what I'm eating, it's ultimately my fault. (I've got 20/20 vision, I've got no excuse.)
Once they promised me it would never happen again, I paid for the full meal, which was otherwise terrific. They simply couldn't understand why I paid in this world, and were baffled. They seemed like nice people.
Oh the lawn darts I remember them I had them and although no one got her playing with them I thought it was a great way to keep your friends and family amused at the barbecue and now looking back at it today would be a great way to take care of that pesky Karen neighbor in her backyard I also remember the click clacks little plastic balls that you tried to bounce up and down the sound they made was phenomenal the bruise they left on my arm 35 years ago I can still see great toys great times thanks for the video good memories.
I've had every one of these toys you had in the video. I even had Jarts and never got hurt. Baby boomer kids played outdoors mostly, instead of staying indoors playing video games. None of us had spaghetti arms and prison pallor.
I had everyone of those also, wish I stil had the Hot Wheels super charger, I could get my SSP's to go a full block. Think his don't go far because the rubber wheel had dried and hardened.
@@tbury2516 ....his aren't the first generation which had a heavier flywheel and we're actually larger and had a longer t handle to pull
@@radicalron65 Ah, didn't realize they tamed them down, glad I was one of the last generations that wasn't protected from itself. No bike helmet, no car seat and parents today would be horrified of what I did with fireworks!
As a kid I had the ssp demo derby car set, you crashed them into each other n the body panels would fly off. Great fun.
Lawn darts I remember playing🤔💭 thank you Jesus🙏🏻❤️
I had every one of those toys. I was privileged. Wish I had kept them and all my other toys. I would still play with them. Peace of mind in this world of mindless distractions! Thanks fore the memories. God Bless, Merry Christmas
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Jarts were fantastic. Nothing like a late summer Sunday afternoon, hitting the yard with the fogger to keep the squomitoes and gnats down for about eight minutes and then playing Jarts while grandpa cooked burgers on the grill!!!
I had Ker Plunk and Mouse Trap , brings back great memories. We used to have races with those SSP cars on our driveway as well.
We played lawn jarts all the time when we were kids. My little brother went to the ER when he was hit in the forehead with one. It left a deep indentation but he ended up being okay. He still has the scar. I had a HW super charger and I haven't been able to find it. I'm so mad! Lol
I’m kinda spooked out by how many of these I used to have. What I wouldn’t give to still have them. Thanks for they trip down memory lane
Wham-o made the most fun things ever. And all but the frisbee could hurt you ...if you were stupid.
if you couldn't get hurt with a frisbee, you weren't trying.
@@kenbrown2808 lmao. Best comment ever!!! Carry on trooper. Lol
@@kenbrown2808 , I missed catching a fast Frisbee once and it smashed me in the nose. Did I run to a lawyer or throw it away because it is too dangerous? No, I got better at catching it.
I had a Duncan top. Clear yellow plastic with a nylon tip. Wind the string up on it with a loop around your finger. Hold it with the tip pointing up, then just gently toss it onto the floor. My Mom was amazed at how I made it look so easy to get it to spin fast. I'm 67 now and I still have it.
I loved my lawn darts and all my other toys from back then, I had them all, I just wish I hadn't destroyed them all
I had that same SSP in red. All the kids in the neighborhood had one and we raced them for hours. When you showed the top, I immediately thought of Wizzzers, which were gyroscopic tops sold about the same time as the SSPs and Sizzlers.
Had a lot of fun with those Wizzers in early grade school. I recall some tiny racing decals I put on them. Trying to remember if the decals actually came with the Wizzers or if I got them from something else. I also had a couple SSP cars. Thanks for the memories
Wow, takes me back. I got Ker Plunk for Christmas one year, I think we played it twice.
LOVED Jarts and still have my set
Mousetrap, Jarts, Ker-plunk are very familiar. Another _dangerous_ toy of the 70’s were _Clackers_ . I recall they got banned not because of the annoying sound, but that they fractured and caused some serious injuries. Another toy of that era were Wizzers - another top toy.
The Tops I used back in the early 60's didnt look like this top. They were made out of wood, came in different colors and shapes.
We would wrap the string around it and snap it! Hours of fun.. The plastic one you have looks like maybe the 70's or 80's? never seen one of those.
Loved the "Mouse Trap" game! Love games like this..
I asked for Mouse Trap for Xmas 5 years in a row and never got it. 🙁. Doubt it was because my parents thought it was dangerous. Probably was because for it’s time and the quality, it was expensive. We were not spoiled kids back then, either, and were taught to cope with not always getting what you want and to appreciate having your needs met. I don’t hate my parents and am not permanently emotionally scarred because I didn’t get it.
He didn't mention WHIZZERS those were the only tops I could get to work
@@KittyKat8946 If I didn' get the latest new Hot Wheel race set each Christmas ...My parents would end up in a basement tied to the furnace lol
😳 What the- the SSP car gave me a pang of emotion 😂 and I never even had any. My brother did. Wow. And your Mouse Trap contraptions! Wow, you're like a professional kid, huh? ☺️ Very nice.
Great Reviews! I also liked "Crazy Clock" for the same reasons as "Mouse Trap"
Loved these - we had them all. Fond memories of Lincoln Logs and Erector Set as well as many others. Being the 5th of 7 kids, many of these were handed down so I never was left with nothing to do as a kid!
I'm pretty sure that top was part of a set. I remember a 'battling tops' game that included a dished 'arena'. You'd spin those things up and put them in the 'arena', and of course being dished, they'd naturally move toward the center. As you can imagine, various spinning things all being pulled together by gravity made for some spectacular 'battles'. knocking each other about (sometimes out of the arena completely), the 'last one standing' was the winner.
I loved that game as well!
that's a sound I haven't heard in decades, loved those SSP racers...
Who remembers Big Loader? Tipper Trucks going on tracks and stopping to empty and fill up with things. Can’t remember what though. Maybe plastic bricks or gravel.
I've been loving this channel! It has a variety of interests that are both entertaining and educational! I am a fan of collectables, building things, and junk pickin'! This channel wraps my hobbies into a little bow 😀
Thanks! Just doin' what I love :-)
I had Lawn Darts, I had two Hot Wheels Superchargers, I had Ker Plunk, I had a few SSP's, for the top, I had a few Whizzers, I had the Mouse Trap game, we all had cap guns... Holy crap, I had an AWESOME childhood!
Now kids today just have phones :-(
I had a set of Jarts when I was a kid and I never once was tempted to throw it near another person. I also wasn't tempted to let someone throw it at me.
It's hard to believe, but back in the old days, people were expected to not be incredibly stupid. I guess that isn't true anymore.
You weren't tempted to let someone else throw a Jart at you? What does that even mean?
The problem wasn't that kids didn't understand they were dangerous. Injuries would occur when someone would launch one over the roof into the backyard where other kids were playing, where, streaking toward terminal velocity, they would occasionally end up embedded in someone's skull. People died from being struck in the head with jarts.
@@michaeldavidfigures9842 Who was throwing them over rooftops? I never heard of anyone getting hurt from these and half the neighborhood had them.
@@LisaCupcake Before the Product Safety Commission in 1970 jarts were banned by the FDA who sited three deaths and numerous injuries directly as a result of the use of jarts. As an elementary school student in New Iberia, LA I distinctly remember other kids being struck by them resulting in deep punctures to arms and legs, as well as seeing dozens of jarts sticking from rooftops all over town. Maybe it was just us, but we were all capable of brutalizing one another and we frequently did.
Hey somebody! Pass those Tide pods my way!
JARTS was the BEST!!! Loved it.
In the '60s and the 70s people were responsible for their own actions
Like Trump said, accountability, its been out the window for 35 years....
@@radicalron65 not sure accountability is what he practices lol
@@bobbyhulll8737 .... Not sure if he did practice accountability but he should have forced it on the swamp....the last thing that a career politician on either side of the aisle wants is accountability.....
@@radicalron65 can't argue with that , that ain't new
I think another thing that is missing today is parent supervision. I was allowed to have many toys that would be considered dangerous today, but my mom or dad taught or showed me how to use them, and explained that I could hurt myself if I was not careful. Also, that if I broke it, I could not have another one. I paid attention and learned
I remember a spinning top craze, just like the yo-yo craze. Lots of different kinds of tops. But I can't seem to find anything about them, now. Thanks for showing one.
Jarts. Nothing but good memories concerning them. In 1968 while visiting my Aunt in her expansive and lushly green backyard my 2 sisters and I played a great game of Jarts. Now, sadly, my Aunt and one sister are gone but the good memories remain...
A life sized Mousetrap would be the ultimate build.
Now THAT would be cool!
I say make it a feral cat or dog trap, sell them to the wonens humane society when theyre trying to round up a cat colony
I had a humming top when I was a little nipper. It made an extraordinary noise which I found endlessly fascinating until it mysteriously disappeared overnight... Thanks for the stroll down Memory Lane mate.
I had alot of toys that "disappeared" too. Mom hated a mess.
Born in 61, I just missed the SSP phase in early 70s, but just love these as an adult now! I have a collection of the dragsters, and those chrome colored ones! Wow! Love this and your other toy vids.
Thanks for the feedback Jeff. There are more toy vids in the pipeline.
SSP are the best Went on eBay and bought a huge collection of them..
Had a Hot Wheels Super Charger and the Super Sonic Power racer.
My friends had some of the other games and that was the magic of playing with friends. You shared.
I have concerns that basic social concepts like that are not being ingrained early enough in today’s kids.
I remember back in the 60,s the five and dime store use to sell a small hard plastic plane that was propelled by a thin small stick with a rubber band connected to it, you would stretch the rubber band back with the plane and let it go. I crack many windows with that toy.
Sad jarts sad ones hurt, but we did play with them. Blast kerplunk. Simple things were fun back then. The top was fun to see how long you could get it to stay up longest. Mouse trap was great. Hated building back up after few seconds of catching mouse. But loved it.
Wow brings back lots of feel good memories...gr8 video m8
I remember that, I had some hotweels and I played Kere Plunk. Alot of the toys you show I remember, but then again I will be 60 this year.
Played many a game of Jarts, would love to get my hands on a set now. I also had every one of the toys you mentioned here as a kid. Loved my SSPs and had a lot of top battles in my day.
Cool inventions! Excellent job! Reminded me a bit of Ernest- lol! And that's a compliment! Thanks for video!
Was given lawn darts on 8 th birthday first time I ever saw a UPS truck in my life. 😊 I loved the game and still play it. Never any damage to life health or property.. and my tonka jeeps and then the finest construction toys made created a fine machine operator out of me now 66 years old. Excavator is my favorite I can stack china with one or take down a hotel building and clean up the mess ….all by myself. ..mom I cleaned the job site up .
I loved jarts. I am thankful I had a REAL childhood.
My friends and I were crazy for Hot Wheels! Being a kid back then was the best!
If you were a kid and didn't have Hot Wheel race sets Your childhood was ruined
Tougher generations. Today are all snowy with lawyers.
Thank you so much dragstrip car was amazing I forgot how much fun we used to have with that and then mousetrap oh my we could play that all day it seem like it was always fun and that dart throwing games I remember that one the one with sticks and marbles was another favorite but couldn't play that around my sister that's probably where they got the word Ginga from for today's game.
Back when freedom prevailed. Love this stuff.
I had all that stuff. GI Joes, Tonga Toys, I played outside all.day. Rode my bike around. A different time, a simpler time. I miss those days. Everything just seems so “calculated “ for kids these days.
I loved my ssp's, especially smash up derby version. And my cap guns. I never got hurt using them. Guess I was a smart kid.
What about the hard as a rock " SUPER BALL! ", I threw one once and it bounced back at Super sonic speed and hit me in the head ! Darn thing almost knocked me out !
Or, how about the "OPERATION !", mess up and get an electric shock ! Yeah, that's a fun way to spend an afternoon with your friends !
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I had a dark blue Superb all in elementary school. My hell those things could bounce.
@@DC-vv5ii Yeah D C, one toy that actually did what they said it would. Or how about, " Clackers"? I think that's spelled right. You know the two small plastic ball's on a string cord that bounced up and down and hit together. That made that clacking noise. Those things could break a bone if it hit just right, or, at least leave a nasty bruise.
It's a wonder we didn't kill ourselves!
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@@captainjohn7833 Oh hell ya, Clackers. Mine were orange. I probably drove my folks nuts with that noise they made. I was cured of playing with it when one day I decided to go at it double speed. Well, something went awry and one of those heavy balls hit my wrist. Hurt like hell for a few days. Luckily it didn't take my hand off. LOL! I guess I was lucky one didn't break and fly up and take out an eye. I still have my Creepy Crawlers and Mini Dragons Thingmaker I got from Santa in 1968. And yes, I did accidentally touch the element a couple times. It hurt and I learned to be more aware of my surroundings because of it and not turned into a snowflake soy sissy being hauled off to a lawyer. I would always drool over the deluxe chemistry set in the Sears Christmas Catalog back then too, but thank God Santa had enough love in his heart to not bring me one.
@@DC-vv5ii yeah, life was great back then. Just crusin down the sidewalk on your Sting-Ray with the wind blowing in your hair !
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I once dropped a superball from the roof of a 6-storey apartment block into the carpark and it made it all the way back up to me. I didn't throw it, I just let it go, and it only lost a few inches on the return trip. Super bouncy!
the SUPER CHARGER totally forgot about that one..it was awesome
A wood version of Mouse Trap would be cool, I loved that game. Also loved SSP racers, cool
My favorite games were Aggregation , Concentration and Kerplunk , usually I played on the toilet .
It should be Aggravation
That "Mouse Trap" comment is humerous. After SEEING it, the reaction was one of IMMEDIATE recognition. After HEARING the comment about the "game" part, the reaction was along the lines of, "Uhhh...Oh yeah...Umm...The game...Hey look! The bathtub!"
Jarts was a great game!!!!! no one died in my family from playing!!
We used to throw jarts over the house and try to catch them.... didn’t say we weren’t goofy.
Did anyone else used to use hot wheels tracks as swords? We used to play sword fight and end up with welts all over our body. Kids now have no idea.
That's funny. I'm glad I wasn't your neighbor :-) My brother was throwing darts from a dartboard up in the air outside when one landed on the top of my head and stuck. Good old fashioned fun...lol
@@AlleyPicked I didn’t talk about the dart wars my brother and I used to have in the basement. I got a dart stuck in my wrist and my brother got one in his thigh. I think we only played once. It’s hard to believe we both survived and became electrical engineers
@@wmrphotography7349 Now we should have a Nail Gun war fight.
A neighbor kid threw a dart right into the middle my forehead!
😂😂I had all of them!! Two super chargers!
No one got hurt! 😂
Oh how about clackers remember those!!!?
Ouch. 🤔
I likes playing lawn darts when I was kid. And yes, we would occasionally throw them straight up as high as we could.
Great memories! I had the SSP Smash Up Derby set and caused my parents hell haha!
Ah, lawn jarts.
Okay, I was one of those who did not escape unscathed. Had one of those bad boys in my leg. Still played it after that, just a bit more carefully. 😉
I remember having Ker-Plunk and Mousetrap, and my older brother had the Hot Wheels super charger.
Bought a set of Jarts at an antique store last summer. 2nd time I’ve seen them. A classic. Went out in the yard to play and immediately had all the neighbors over.
Nice! I heard that they are illegal to sell in the US. I bought mine at a garage sale.
I have a Crazy Clock in the box mint. This is a bit like mouse trap but bigger . Also NOS Rockem sockem Robots. Most of the unopened items I have sold but some are still in the inventory, now just my collection. It was fun selling vintage toys and other collectibles.
Wow I’m old. I remember all this.
I remember 90% of these toys! Hours of pure pleasure! The safety standards were different then.
I loved Mouse Trap! We had Lawn Darts and Horseshoes out at camp. We also had a pretty heavy wooden seated swing. I never got hurt but my brother got hit by all three. He. was OK but needed stitches from horse shoes. The little boy at the other cottage 3 doors down had it in for my brother, lol. He was responsible for all of the accidents, lol.
Jarts, natural selection hard at work.
One of my favorite toys was Skittles. This game was made out of wood with a maze of rooms in which sit a wooden pin. Depending on the location of the room, the points for each pin range from 10 to 50. The point of the game is you wrap your wooden top with string, put it in the gate and pull the string. You get points as the top bounces into the different rooms to knock the pin over. Rooms were large enough for the top to miss the pin. If you get a good grip on your string and pull hard, you can put that top into sonic spin and it basically lasts long enough to knock all the pins down. It also made a hell of a whizzing noise. This is not to be confused with Skittles. The game with 10 pins that you try to knock down by tossing a wooden ball tethered to a wooden pole in the middle (sort of like if bowling met tether ball and became table sized).
Well done. Lawn darts were a staple at our house. WE SURVIVED......