Hell Yes!! Toys and life back then was so awesome! Simple and fun. As a kid all we did was go to school, do our homework, do our chores and then play. On weekends we got up early and watched Saturday Morning cartoons, then went outside to play and toys and playgrounds were so much fun. It was fun being a kid back then. No iPhones, social media or internet.
hektorlinko boy did you ever sum I️t up perfectly!! My Sons are almost grown and only did that kind of stuff when they were real little...No one could’ve predicted what tech would do to a Childhood...even being an Electrical Engr I️t wasn’t clear to see that would happen...Now you feel sad that they didn’t get what we took for granted. Simple fun. Smash Up Derby Cars, Cox gas powered cars and riding BMX bikes in the canyon by the house (now filled with endless houses). We all want to go back to our childhood and experience that simple life again and play with Star Wars and Kenner Smash Up Derby Cars!!! The best part of the 70s!!! Here’s to all of us 50 something’s !!! Best to you.
I was a kid during the 70s. I remember everyone wore stripes, dots, paisley. It was bizarre. As for the toys--I had all of the ones featured here. The SSPs were cool. So were the Evil Knievel dolls. You made Evil Knievel jump over stuff and watched him crash. The toys are so different now. Video games have replaced the hands-on stuff.
I'm 53, and this did bring back some memories. I was 9 in '72, which is about the time these ads aired. For some reason, I don't remember "Bing Bang Boing", "Water Wiggle", or "Screech", but I'd forgotten about the whiz that the T-stick on SSP Racers made until now. Hadn't thought about that for decades, but now remember it like yesterday. I had a toy called "Wacky Wheel" (I no longer have it) that I got, I would say, in late '72 or early '73.
Crash up Derby. Awesome toys. My oldest brother got them for Christmas, and I couldn't stop playing them. One of the most fun toys ever. I miss those days.
Every once in a while over that "Smash, bang, crack 'em up! Put 'em back again!" would flicker into my head for a brief instant and I couldn't remember what it was from. Now I know! My brothers and I had a few of those when we were wee lads. Good memories.
I remember Smash Up Derby. I was about 5 when I got it for my birthday and my dad put it together. Then he made one of the cars ram the wall and fall apart and I thought he broke it so I started crying lol. It was a lot of fun once I figured it out myself but the cars actually did get broken after a few days and couldn't be put back together again. Plus I lost some of the parts lol.
The striking difference that I see between the ads from the 70's and our current ads today is that where previously ads usually featured close-up shots of happy children's faces, whereas now the children featured seem to be conveying a holier-than-thou attitude and seen from afar. This appears to reflect how children in our society are maturing much more quickly than they used to, shedding the happiness of childhood to act suave and superior.
@Bolt70 TYVM for sharing these family friendly commercials, and trips down memory lane with us all Rube Goldberg's Mouse Trap opened up wild new avenues for family fun games. I cannot count the hours spent with Mom, Dad, and my brother playing it, and other family oriented games. 💯👍🏼👏🏼 We used to love the Demolition Derby's held locally at the dirt track. Man the smash bang was something to see, and taught us what Not to do when driving. 👍🏼😲😯 Water Wiggle gave me a couple black eyes, before I learned why the company was called Whamo 🤣🤣🤣
My family and I still play Masterpiece at Christmas time when we're all together. Same old faded 70's box and still have all the paintings and white clips for it too. Kind of funny that we're still playing it once a year 30+ years later...
Board games have made a huge comeback since your post here over ten years ago. And I am glad. Christmas time board games go into the wee hours of the morning with my now adult children. We have a great time!
You should see my face right now seeing these!! To think since that time, someone even did a real-life flying head-on car wreck, 1980's sometime I think!! I HAD THAT SSP Smash-Up StationWagon!!!!
I can still remember the dream (nightmare) I had on Christmas eve in 1972 about the Smash-Up Derby cars. I dreamed that when I opened the box and played with them, they were just the SSP type and not the Smash-Up type. The doors wouldn't pop off in my dream. I think I woke up crying. Amazing that dream has stayed with me all these years. You had to watch your fingers with these cars or they would get pinched with the little gears that the plastic pull rod went through. Ouch!
The biggest problem with bing bang bong is that I was kid then, played with the SSP racers and the slip n slide and even smash up derby , but never heard of bing bang bong until I watched this; never saw a commercial, didn't know anyone who had this, never saw it in a store. I don't many of those sold because I don't think many people knew it even existed.
I had "Screech". I don't think I ever knew the name of that game until now but I remembered it and had been looking for it on the internet. I found it! I had an SSP dragster and my brother had the Smash- up Derby set. I had a dragters that had a crank up thing like the Evel Knievel motorcycle which also had a light censor. When the car broke the flashlight beam it would register its speed on the light censor box across from the flashlight. It also had a parachute that would deploy.
As a child of the 60's many of the toys encouraged you to use your imagination. You can still find some of the "retro" toys but you have to look for them.
“Hey, kids, would you like to see screen candy win you points?” “Sounds kinda boring!” “Well, what about ball bearings bouncing on rubber?” “Now you’re talking!”
I remember these commercials and actually had the smash up derby game, big fun for a 7 yr old in 72. It always seemed the kids in these commercials had the biggest kitchen floors ever. the cars just go and go and go...
I had the crash up derby cars!! Yaay our generation! Even the lousy games were good because we soon got bored with 'em; and hustled outside to create our own fun.
I had those SSP smash up derby cars. I had the Evel Knievel SSP bike too. I wonder what they would be worth today? Probably not much unless they were in their original packaging, which doesn't make much sense, because what kid in the 70s would've kept his toys in the original box? Toys were made to be abused by kids. We used to "tough-test" all our toys down the steep hill from one kid's backyard into the woods. Tonka trucks, GI Joe jeeps, Big Jim camper, all that went for a run. All the green army men that got set on fire to hear the "Vvvvt, vvvt, vvvt.." sound, and they had some detail, they could've been painted and glued to a diorama... Oh well.
+CrazyBear65 The fact that almost no one kept the toys in the box and played rough with them is why in the box like new is worth so much, it is just rare
Smash up Derby was my favorite toy until Star Wars came out---loved sending them into the floor board molding to see the parts fly. I still have one of the cars but no t stick. Boy that sound!!!! Zzzzzrrrrrrzrzzzrrrrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzzz
JB beatle We lived in a three story townhouse,and the stair well had a long hardwood floor hallway at the top. I used to send my smash up derby cars flying off the stairwell. One day it came flying down and plunked my dad in the head. Side impact test was a success. Lol
I actually have the SSP Star Wars Dodge van set. The only automotive related Star Wars toy available in 1977. Still in the box,in near mint condition. They ran awesome on our hardwood floor.
SSP's were great, almost indestructible too. Simple and fun, just don't try to stop one bearfoot! The Evil Kenivel playset was great too! There aren't hardly even slot car sets around anymore..
You can still find slot cars I had 1.32 Eldons I bed 200 feet of track toys were so much better back then Still have a lot of my motorrific cars trucks and track !
The "laker-specal" was like the "ram-jet" without the JET, THEY were the BEST-BALANCED & FASTEST-SSP'S they could break about 28 M.P.H. ACTUAL down a slight -grade!!!!!!!!!!!
packardexelence I had the RamJet. Only it was metallic gold. And it was fast. So fast, and it had "wings" on the sides. I thought it could fly. So my young ignorant ass launched it off the outside stairway. It flew and then dropped on a flat cement paver. It broke in half and the wheel jitterbugged into the bushes and I never found it. That was 1974 and I am sure the wheel is still there. Still sad after all these years.
Darth Frodo--NEVER was a truer statent--"Youth is WASTED on the young!" I forget what happened to my AMT model of the Astro-I Chevrolet experimental car, BUT I would have to spend $200.00 if I want one TODAY!!!!!!!!
Everybody had an SSP racer (or Evil Knievel bike version) back then. But I don't remember the Bing Bang Boing thing-a-bobs. I guess it was lawsuit city after taking out a few eyes with those bouncing BBs...ahhh those were the days when kids skinning knees was a temporary interruption in play and not a 911 call.
MAN!! My big brother and I loved "Masterpiece Game". I had almost forgotten about it. It was really cool. He was starting college and I was in 5th grade? Not sure. But we liked the whole thing.
Yes, and no one had to worry about being alarmed by a pretend bug in a cage or the elitism of buying masterpieces for multi-millions. And people were not afraid to point out the race of people who commit violent crime because it would be mean to call them out on it. Yes, we could behave in a more normal way, and kids could be kids.
I had a Bing Bang Boing set I got second-hand when I was a kid. Some of its parts were broken, though, and I had the darnedest time trying to figure out what I could do with it. I remember kind of figuring out what each piece did, but not how to connect them together. I was thrilled to see it in action in this video, though, after all these years!
The sizzlers! My friend had those. They had the little hole in the side where the little spinning shaft from the "charger" would go and wind up the little coil inside. Those were so cool!
Imagine finding MINT condition of everything shown! I remember playing Boggle and Life... most board games are 'bored' to today's kids.. Heck, my Grandparents had the 'original' German version of the "Sorry" game.. You had four marbles, Red, white, yellow, black, green or blue, roll the dice and go around till u made it to 'home' but you run the risk of being bumped back to start! each took turns rolling the dice.
I had the Tyco Command Control, which was Tyco's version of TCR. Track had to be kept immaculately clean or the cars couldn't get traction, but the biggest problem was that you couldn't fly off the track if you overdid it. Just tape the trigger down, and they might as well have been Hot Wheels Sizzlers. Got into AFX & Tyco slot cars later ( you actually have to DRIVE them into corners), and these days I'm into 1:32 slot cars and model trains of 5 different scales.
I remember disabling that annoying sound the SSP racers made, who's brilliant idea was that? I thought, at the time, the added friction from the little piece of semi-stiff plastic rubbing against the teeth of the gear you pulled the T-Strip on was causing shorter distances, and lower top speeds. Also that sound sucked big time. I remember using these as floor missiles in the house form front room out to kitchen chair legs. Good Times.... (Ô¿Ô)
nice to know you young folks appreciate our old 70's toys -- they really were a lot of fun, and the best thing was there were no "rules" like in computer games -- you could make it all up yourself. on the other hand, i remember when my neighbors got Pong in the mid 70's and we all went crazy -- imagine if somebody would have dropped an xbox on us in 1975... i don't think we would have played with our bugout games that much any more.
The stupid kid across the street from me had the SSP car with the one wheel. He would rev it and then stick it in me and my sister's hair to get it tangled up and it really hurt!
Jarts were fun, but poorly designed. They remade them with blunt arrows in the late 1980's and early 1990's. We had a set of the original, but my parents forbade us from ever playing with them. They also did the same with GI Joe sets, because they didn't want us to think "war was fun" - because war isn't fun. It's brutal, as I learned from my great uncle, who was in the Pacific theater.
I had the Smash*Up Derby. One day, in the family room they crashed together and one of the wheels disappeared. We never found it again. It has bothered me for 30+ years that it vanished. I'll bet my mom swept it up and threw it in the garbage.
Black Buick , she gave it away because females , even if they are moms can t stand to see a male , even if it's their on son , have any enjoyment , it's something deep in their subconscious nature , they don't even realize they're doing it .
From this I can conclude that over the years the quality and innovation in the toy industry has gone down while in the advertising industry it's gone up.
+EastTexassurvival Yeah, but after you lost all the parts you could still douse the car in Ronson lighter fuel and launch it one last time in a blaze of glory. ...Not that I ever did that... Well, yeah, actually I did.
samidella idella - At my house it was Lego blocks, because I put the steel ball bearings in a slingshot, they were long gone. But those Lego blocks, forget just one of them, just one, and somehow my dad's foot would find it. 😭😭😭
But that's another thing that makes Moms all over great eh? I was born in '75 so am an 80's kids, and as such as I was obsessed with MOTU. So much that I used to have my Spidor toy walk up on Mom's bed whilst she was alseep! And then when M.A.S.K. came along, my friends and I used to use my Grandmother's head as a landing platform for Switchblade and Thunderhawk, whilst all she was doing was trying to read her book in the sun on the front porch. I'm grateful for those I had in my life as a kid!
The consistent strategy used in the advertisements is the thematic background music and the cheerful atmosphere when the kids are playing with the promoted products. First, the music is lighthearted and it’s easy-singing. It creates the melodic memory in the audiences’ (children’s) mind. Kids might even sing along, and this helps deepen the positive image of the toy in their mind.
Dsdcain Seriously? An ‘engineering major’? It was a toy, you played with it. I don’t believe you’re old enough to have ever played with one and you’re just trolling. Of course, back then, smart kids had imagination and intrigue. They figured stuff out. Now unless the rules are really simple, kids don’t want to know.
we actually had a game called "CASCADE" (matchbox made it) It had much smaller balls and it had a elevating device that the balls went into and a scoring plank/reenter canals!! SST whatta blast from the past!! we had 'em !! My cartoon film strip projection gadget was different but i loved it, and had no screen, U used the wall for projection!(born 1966, brother 1964)!! What about GREEN GHOST??!!!
My older brother LOVED the SSPs!! He played w/them in the house quite a bit though! He had the demolition derby cars too & Rock-Em Sock-Em Robots! Memories!!!
Holy cow... I'm old enough that I THINK I remember all these toys and commercials (commercials used to run for a while, didn't they?), but young enough that none of this stuff has crossed my mind in a LONG time... thanks, Bolt, I'm in a pastime paradise...
You can tell that the 70's was the era of board games. High production quality (keep in mind that the quality we see here is not what kids saw on TV). Bing Bang Boing, Smash Up Derby, great toys. Bing Bang seems especially creative, a sort of commercial take on a Rube Goldberg contraption. Kids today have no patience for anything that requires skills and creativity to set up. I grew up mostly in the '80s but I do remember that things seemed just a bit cooler then.
Kenner's SSP Smash Up Derby set, do you remember these? Just like I will not ever forget about GIjOE, I remember all this game and toys stuff in this 1970's toy commercial, IDEALS Mouse Trap game, Wham O Slip N Slide the whole lot.
We loved our SSP Racers, I remember I had the Siamese Slingshot and a funky little one,not on these commercials, rocking toys. Slip and Slide, coolest toy, never long enough! lol These commercials are great!
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Hell Yes!! Toys and life back then was so awesome! Simple and fun. As a kid all we did was go to school, do our homework, do our chores and then play. On weekends we got up early and watched Saturday Morning cartoons, then went outside to play and toys and playgrounds were so much fun. It was fun being a kid back then. No iPhones, social media or internet.
hektorlinko boy did you ever sum I️t up perfectly!! My Sons are almost grown and only did that kind of stuff when they were real little...No one could’ve predicted what tech would do to a Childhood...even being an Electrical Engr I️t wasn’t clear to see that would happen...Now you feel sad that they didn’t get what we took for granted. Simple fun. Smash Up Derby Cars, Cox gas powered cars and riding BMX bikes in the canyon by the house (now filled with endless houses). We all want to go back to our childhood and experience that simple life again and play with Star Wars and Kenner Smash Up Derby Cars!!! The best part of the 70s!!! Here’s to all of us 50 something’s !!! Best to you.
AMEN 70s kid me 2
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Yet here we are today as old farts playing on our technology and leaving comments.😁😜 And I did have an SST 😀
@@kg6qzx I remember the 70s, but I'm not 50 something, but younger.
I haven't thought about "Smash-Up Derby" in over 40 years, yet I found myself singing the theme song word-for-word. Weird and amazing!
Jhensy2012 ....they play Smash up Derby everyday here in Florida!
My brother had that.
@@donaldculp3759 Lol!
My bedroom door was at the end of our hallway. Many dents from me sending my smash up derby cars into it.
Smash derby is fun
Yep forty years for me too and comes back without even watching it. Now where did I put my damn glasses ??
40 years later and those toys still look cool!
I was a kid during the 70s. I remember everyone wore stripes, dots, paisley. It was bizarre.
As for the toys--I had all of the ones featured here. The SSPs were cool. So were the Evil Knievel dolls. You made Evil Knievel jump over stuff and watched him crash. The toys are so different now. Video games have replaced the hands-on stuff.
Uncoordinated clothes. Weird shoes and gym boots.
bingbangboing was the koolest
I'm guilty of wearing the stripes and poka dots! We had so much fun!
Im in highschool now and you people had your childhood in the good days! This video is freaken epic! :D
I'm 53, and this did bring back some memories. I was 9 in '72, which is about the time these ads aired. For some reason, I don't remember "Bing Bang Boing", "Water Wiggle", or "Screech", but I'd forgotten about the whiz that the T-stick on SSP Racers made until now. Hadn't thought about that for decades, but now remember it like yesterday. I had a toy called "Wacky Wheel" (I no longer have it) that I got, I would say, in late '72 or early '73.
Crash up Derby. Awesome toys. My oldest brother got them for Christmas, and I couldn't stop playing them. One of the most fun toys ever. I miss those days.
Right now you're old.
Soon enough, you and I will be elderly.
Funny how you can't see it coming when it's obviously inevitable.
Looks like it was fun wish I had it
Every once in a while over that "Smash, bang, crack 'em up! Put 'em back again!" would flicker into my head for a brief instant and I couldn't remember what it was from. Now I know! My brothers and I had a few of those when we were wee lads. Good memories.
"Kenner SSP Smaysh-up derby play set comes with Ever-thin yew see raht-chyer!" LOL I LOVE IT!
Hi I am a 2020 kid and I just wanted to say that toys back then are waaay cooler than they are now.
I want the Bing Bang Boing music as my ringtone.
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That toy is popular but old
I remember Smash Up Derby. I was about 5 when I got it for my birthday and my dad put it together. Then he made one of the cars ram the wall and fall apart and I thought he broke it so I started crying lol. It was a lot of fun once I figured it out myself but the cars actually did get broken after a few days and couldn't be put back together again. Plus I lost some of the parts lol.
That water wiggle cost a relative of mine a tooth back in the day
The striking difference that I see between the ads from the 70's and our current ads today is that where previously ads usually featured close-up shots of happy children's faces, whereas now the children featured seem to be conveying a holier-than-thou attitude and seen from afar. This appears to reflect how children in our society are maturing much more quickly than they used to, shedding the happiness of childhood to act suave and superior.
I don’t think they even have toy commercials now.
The BING BANG BOING thing looks fun :)
I had it....It didn't work most of the time.
I had it too. I'd get one of the steel balls, place it on the drum, reach my fingers in, pull back and launch it at my brother. Good times.
Looked like a hassle of trial and error
@Bolt70 TYVM for sharing these family friendly commercials, and trips down memory lane with us all
Rube Goldberg's Mouse Trap opened up wild new avenues for family fun games. I cannot count the hours spent with Mom, Dad, and my brother playing it, and other family oriented games. 💯👍🏼👏🏼
We used to love the Demolition Derby's held locally at the dirt track. Man the smash bang was something to see, and taught us what Not to do when driving. 👍🏼😲😯
Water Wiggle gave me a couple black eyes, before I learned why the company was called Whamo 🤣🤣🤣
My family and I still play Masterpiece at Christmas time when we're all together. Same old faded 70's box and still have all the paintings and white clips for it too. Kind of funny that we're still playing it once a year 30+ years later...
Board games have made a huge comeback since your post here over ten years ago.
And I am glad.
Christmas time board games go into the wee hours of the morning with my now adult children.
We have a great time!
I LOVE those toys of my youth. Saturday morning commercials were super!
I remember putting firecrackers and liter fluid on those derby cars. That and burning model kits were a great way to pass the time. ahahahah
Sicko!!
You should see my face right now seeing these!! To think since that time, someone even did a real-life flying head-on car wreck, 1980's sometime I think!! I HAD THAT SSP Smash-Up StationWagon!!!!
I can still remember the dream (nightmare) I had on Christmas eve in 1972 about the Smash-Up Derby cars. I dreamed that when I opened the box and played with them, they were just the SSP type and not the Smash-Up type. The doors wouldn't pop off in my dream. I think I woke up crying. Amazing that dream has stayed with me all these years.
You had to watch your fingers with these cars or they would get pinched with the little gears that the plastic pull rod went through. Ouch!
Wow, now that you said that, I remember that pinch!
The biggest problem with bing bang bong is that I was kid then, played with the SSP racers and the slip n slide and even smash up derby , but never heard of bing bang bong until I watched this; never saw a commercial, didn't know anyone who had this, never saw it in a store. I don't many of those sold because I don't think many people knew it even existed.
Can't get enough of the 70's kid stuff!
I had "Screech". I don't think I ever knew the name of that game until now but I remembered it and had been looking for it on the internet. I found it! I had an SSP dragster and my brother had the Smash- up Derby set. I had a dragters that had a crank up thing like the Evel Knievel motorcycle which also had a light censor. When the car broke the flashlight beam it would register its speed on the light censor box across from the flashlight. It also had a parachute that would deploy.
I'm sure that most of you are in your twenties at the very most.... I'm in my forties and this is when we used to play (gasp) outside!
Liked the bing bang bong! Looked really cool. Heck I'm 24 and I'd still play with that. It's cool!
I had some SSPs when I was a kid and they were great, but, sadly, I don't remember the PeeWees. They look really cool and fun.😊
i would love America in 60 and 70 in those days toy designer are really creative and simple names
As a child of the 60's many of the toys encouraged you to use your imagination. You can still find some of the "retro" toys but you have to look for them.
Try minecraft... modern game that encourages imagination...
who needed $300 video games?-this stuff entertained us for hours,and parents didn't go broke!
Nice. I remember the Smash Up Derby commercial like it was yesterday!
The 70s what a Time to grow up no social media no Internet no iPhones just communication with human beings
Bring back Masterpiece!
I wonder how many steel balls young ones swallowed?
My siblings and I had the Water Wiggle. When you turned the water on full force, the dang thing would whip around and beat the living heck outta you.
“Hey, kids, would you like to see screen candy win you points?”
“Sounds kinda boring!”
“Well, what about ball bearings bouncing on rubber?”
“Now you’re talking!”
I remember these commercials and actually had the smash up derby game, big fun for a 7 yr old in 72. It always seemed the kids in these commercials had the biggest kitchen floors ever. the cars just go and go and go...
damn the 70's weregreat
Hell, me and my idiot friends used to throw REAL darts at each other, not to mention rocks, dirt clods, etc. Good ol' 70s. I really miss them.
Unlike the toys for children today...these toys involve human interaction
+Edward Bliss These kids nowadays don't even have a clue. Nothing is how it used to be.
@Miss Anthropy drugs are not forced on you, that is your choice
Glad I grew up in the 70s. You couldn't have these toys today!
I flippin loved my slip n slide!
Until I scrapped my chest on a rock in my backyard. XD
I had the crash up derby cars!! Yaay our generation!
Even the lousy games were good because we soon got bored with 'em; and hustled outside to create our own fun.
I had those SSP smash up derby cars. I had the Evel Knievel SSP bike too. I wonder what they would be worth today? Probably not much unless they were in their original packaging, which doesn't make much sense, because what kid in the 70s would've kept his toys in the original box? Toys were made to be abused by kids. We used to "tough-test" all our toys down the steep hill from one kid's backyard into the woods. Tonka trucks, GI Joe jeeps, Big Jim camper, all that went for a run. All the green army men that got set on fire to hear the "Vvvvt, vvvt, vvvt.." sound, and they had some detail, they could've been painted and glued to a diorama... Oh well.
+CrazyBear65 The fact that almost no one kept the toys in the box and played rough with them is why in the box like new is worth so much, it is just rare
Had the SSP cars and the smash up derby ones as a young'in....
Smash up Derby was my favorite toy until Star Wars came out---loved sending them into the floor board molding to see the parts fly. I still have one of the cars but no t stick. Boy that sound!!!! Zzzzzrrrrrrzrzzzrrrrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzzz
JB beatle We lived in a three story townhouse,and the stair well had a long hardwood floor hallway at the top. I used to send my smash up derby cars flying off the stairwell. One day it came flying down and plunked my dad in the head. Side impact test was a success. Lol
I actually have the SSP Star Wars Dodge van set. The only automotive related Star Wars toy available in 1977. Still in the box,in near mint condition. They ran awesome on our hardwood floor.
no joke some of this stuff looked more fun then the crap i grew up with in the early 90s...
SSP's were great, almost indestructible too. Simple and fun, just don't try to stop one bearfoot! The Evil Kenivel playset was great too!
There aren't hardly even slot car sets around anymore..
You can still find slot cars I had 1.32 Eldons I bed 200 feet of track toys were so much better back then Still have a lot of my motorrific cars trucks and track !
The "laker-specal" was like the "ram-jet" without the JET, THEY were the BEST-BALANCED & FASTEST-SSP'S
they could break about 28 M.P.H. ACTUAL down a slight -grade!!!!!!!!!!!
packardexelence I had the RamJet. Only it was metallic gold. And it was fast. So fast, and it had "wings" on the sides. I thought it could fly. So my young ignorant ass launched it off the outside stairway. It flew and then dropped on a flat cement paver. It broke in half and the wheel jitterbugged into the bushes and I never found it. That was 1974 and I am sure the wheel is still there.
Still sad after all these years.
Darth Frodo--NEVER was a truer statent--"Youth is WASTED on the young!" I forget what happened
to my AMT model of the Astro-I Chevrolet experimental car, BUT I would have to spend $200.00 if
I want one TODAY!!!!!!!!
Everybody had an SSP racer (or Evil Knievel bike version) back then. But I don't remember the Bing Bang Boing thing-a-bobs. I guess it was lawsuit city after taking out a few eyes with those bouncing BBs...ahhh those were the days when kids skinning knees was a temporary interruption in play and not a 911 call.
I had a smash up derby set. these videos sure bring back memories!
+steve051971able Same here! It was fun growing up then. Kids have their kids stuck in computer games now.
I play pc games and still play with toys like hotwheels tracks is that weird?
MAN!! My big brother and I loved "Masterpiece Game". I had almost forgotten about it. It was really cool. He was starting college and I was in 5th grade? Not sure. But we liked the whole thing.
SSP's were cool as hell.just the sound brings back memories.especially smash up derby.but don't get the wheel caught in your hair(girls)
That “Bing Bang Boing” game looks so fun!! I wish they still made that thing.
..back when life was normal
or did we just think it was normal bc we were too young to know any better?
lol, ya mean a time back when you could get away with murder...
Grim Reaper well if you murdered someone it was 5 years
+Marty McFly you have to be on drugs to think "bing bang boing" was normal. Actually, most people were on drugs back then.
Yes, and no one had to worry about being alarmed by a pretend bug in a cage or the elitism of buying masterpieces for multi-millions. And people were not afraid to point out the race of people who commit violent crime because it would be mean to call them out on it. Yes, we could behave in a more normal way, and kids could be kids.
I had the Superbird and the dragster. The Superbird had a rubber nose on it.
Damn, I'd give anything too go back!!!
+1986SSMONTECARLO same here
Yeah....we didn't know how cool the 70's were until they were long gone.
I had a Bing Bang Boing set I got second-hand when I was a kid. Some of its parts were broken, though, and I had the darnedest time trying to figure out what I could do with it. I remember kind of figuring out what each piece did, but not how to connect them together. I was thrilled to see it in action in this video, though, after all these years!
Nobody I mean nobody brought up the classic
Rock em sock em robots
Toss across
Sizzlers cars - they were rechargeable
The sizzlers! My friend had those. They had the little hole in the side where the little spinning shaft from the "charger" would go and wind up the little coil inside. Those were so cool!
Man, the SSP cars are awesome. That was my favorite thing to play with back in the early 70's. I still like looking at them up on Ebay these days.
Boardgames. Keeps family bonding together. Rather families of today who are addicted to game apps.
Imagine finding MINT condition of everything shown! I remember playing Boggle and Life... most board games are 'bored' to today's kids.. Heck, my Grandparents had the 'original' German version of the "Sorry" game.. You had four marbles, Red, white, yellow, black, green or blue, roll the dice and go around till u made it to 'home' but you run the risk of being bumped back to start! each took turns rolling the dice.
I had the Tyco Command Control, which was Tyco's version of TCR. Track had to be kept immaculately clean or the cars couldn't get traction, but the biggest problem was that you couldn't fly off the track if you overdid it. Just tape the trigger down, and they might as well have been Hot Wheels Sizzlers. Got into AFX & Tyco slot cars later ( you actually have to DRIVE them into corners), and these days I'm into 1:32 slot cars and model trains of 5 different scales.
Classic Toys are BADASS :)
Holy sh*t, I remember all these fabulous toys. I even had many of them. I'll bet some of them can be had on ebay today...for a price! lol
I remember disabling that annoying sound the SSP racers made, who's brilliant idea was that? I thought, at the time, the added friction from the little piece of semi-stiff plastic rubbing against the teeth of the gear you pulled the T-Strip on was causing shorter distances, and lower top speeds. Also that sound sucked big time. I remember using these as floor missiles in the house form front room out to kitchen chair legs. Good Times.... (Ô¿Ô)
nice to know you young folks appreciate our old 70's toys -- they really were a lot of fun, and the best thing was there were no "rules" like in computer games -- you could make it all up yourself. on the other hand, i remember when my neighbors got Pong in the mid 70's and we all went crazy -- imagine if somebody would have dropped an xbox on us in 1975... i don't think we would have played with our bugout games that much any more.
The stupid kid across the street from me had the SSP car with the one wheel. He would rev it and then stick it in me and my sister's hair to get it tangled up and it really hurt!
It was fun for him and that's all that counts
That sounds like something I did back then. Did you live in Minneapolis in the 70s?
The new water wiggle what a crazy way to have fun and lose an eye
Yea, Water Wiggle wrapped around me;sprayed in the face, oh boy :/ ?!
A childhood memory; water wiggle went around my neck like an anaconda and was freakin' chocking me. Then there's my jarts experience.
fern Haloo chocking eh ? That sounds weird. *Choking
Jarts were fun, but poorly designed. They remade them with blunt arrows in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
We had a set of the original, but my parents forbade us from ever playing with them. They also did the same with GI Joe sets, because they didn't want us to think "war was fun" - because war isn't fun. It's brutal, as I learned from my great uncle, who was in the Pacific theater.
fuzzywzhe wow gi joe was pretend and fun
I TOK LIKE THIS TOO NO MATTER WHAT TIME OF YEAR IT IS!!!
I had the Smash*Up Derby. One day, in the family room they crashed together and one of the wheels disappeared. We never found it again. It has bothered me for 30+ years that it vanished. I'll bet my mom swept it up and threw it in the garbage.
Black Buick , she gave it away because females , even if they are moms can t stand to see a male , even if it's their on son , have any enjoyment , it's something deep in their subconscious nature , they don't even realize they're doing it .
From this I can conclude that over the years the quality and innovation in the toy industry has gone down while in the advertising industry it's gone up.
Smashup derby set looks like it would be fun
+EastTexassurvival Yeah, but after you lost all the parts you could still douse the car in Ronson lighter fuel and launch it one last time in a blaze of glory. ...Not that I ever did that... Well, yeah, actually I did.
I wanted when I was a kid was a Zap/Zap Race Track. I ask Santa to give me one and when Christmas came that joker didn't deliver.
Bing Bang Boing, that was a poor idea giving kids steel ball bearings to play with, especially after my dad stepped on one and whipped our asses.
That's your own fault, not the toy's. Lego bricks hurt way more anyway!
LOL Bing Bang Boing was the leading cause of red asses in our house also in the mid 70s
TheChuck624 - 😂😂😂 Yeah, same story with Lego blocks.
samidella idella - At my house it was Lego blocks, because I put the steel ball bearings in a slingshot, they were long gone. But those Lego blocks, forget just one of them, just one, and somehow my dad's foot would find it. 😭😭😭
But that's another thing that makes Moms all over great eh? I was born in '75 so am an 80's kids, and as such as I was obsessed with MOTU. So much that I used to have my Spidor toy walk up on Mom's bed whilst she was alseep!
And then when M.A.S.K. came along, my friends and I used to use my Grandmother's head as a landing platform for Switchblade and Thunderhawk, whilst all she was doing was trying to read her book in the sun on the front porch.
I'm grateful for those I had in my life as a kid!
Bing Bang Boing? I don't remember that one.
Neither do I, but I remember when South Park used that song.
Guess I missed that episode...
Heh, heh, heh!!
3:40 hey have that when i little kid
Thanks for posting these! My older brothers had that Bing, Bang, Boing game. Marbles all over the place! Slip & Slides Rock!
The SSP cars were some of the best torture tools for a girls hair
I also had a nice one, until my sister and her friends got a hold of it and got it stuck in her hair. I have to admit, I laughed my ass off.........
Boy’s hair too! Lol
The consistent strategy used in the advertisements is the thematic background music and the cheerful atmosphere when the kids are playing with the promoted products. First, the music is lighthearted and it’s easy-singing. It creates the melodic memory in the audiences’ (children’s) mind. Kids might even sing along, and this helps deepen the positive image of the toy in their mind.
Sure, Bing Bang Boing was cool, too bad you had to be an engineering major to have the most fun with it.
You know, they did say in the commercial "How far you'll go with it is up to you!" ;)
Dsdcain Seriously? An ‘engineering major’? It was a toy, you played with it. I don’t believe you’re old enough to have ever played with one and you’re just trolling.
Of course, back then, smart kids had imagination and intrigue. They figured stuff out. Now unless the rules are really simple, kids don’t want to know.
I love this set. I have these on a cassette tape.
i like ssp racers
we actually had a game called "CASCADE" (matchbox made it) It had much smaller balls and it had a elevating device that the balls went into and a scoring plank/reenter canals!!
SST whatta blast from the past!! we had 'em !! My cartoon film strip projection gadget was different but i loved it, and had no screen, U used the wall for projection!(born 1966, brother 1964)!! What about GREEN GHOST??!!!
water wiggle looks dangerous as fuck
Yep, I got the shit beat out of me a few times by those things.
Kevin McNutt it's fun to play in the dark
Not only that but it looks like it's TRYING to fuck.
It actually was dangerous. They pulled it off the market after numerous injury lawsuits.
Checkm8king2
You can do the same thing by jamming a flexible plastic hose into the end of a garden hose.. I did it as a kid and had a blast!!!
The idea of a board game based on an art auction seems unbelievable to me now! Yet, here was a game that actually taught you something about art.
My older brother LOVED the SSPs!! He played w/them in the house quite a bit though! He had the demolition derby cars too & Rock-Em Sock-Em Robots! Memories!!!
Water Wiggle was really painful...
But slip and Slide still amuses kids to this day.
"masterpiece" looks like a fun way of getting better acquainted with classic paintings
Holy cow... I'm old enough that I THINK I remember all these toys and commercials (commercials used to run for a while, didn't they?), but young enough that none of this stuff has crossed my mind in a LONG time... thanks, Bolt, I'm in a pastime paradise...
I had the ssp crash derby,a lot of fun.
Used to love them smash up derby cars...
Growing up in the 60s, I loved Mouse Trap, Operation, Masterpiece, Clue, to name a few. Of course, Barbie Dolls too!
I loved SSTs. I had the demolition derby set and a couple of the drag cars. I'd launch the drag cars off the ramps. Good times, I'll never forget.
You can tell that the 70's was the era of board games. High production quality (keep in mind that the quality we see here is not what kids saw on TV). Bing Bang Boing, Smash Up Derby, great toys. Bing Bang seems especially creative, a sort of commercial take on a Rube Goldberg contraption. Kids today have no patience for anything that requires skills and creativity to set up. I grew up mostly in the '80s but I do remember that things seemed just a bit cooler then.
Kenner's SSP Smash Up Derby set, do you remember these? Just like I will not ever forget about GIjOE, I remember all this game and toys stuff in this 1970's toy commercial, IDEALS Mouse Trap game, Wham O Slip N Slide the whole lot.
I had a Bing Bang Boing! Loved that toy... best Christmas present ever.
SSP, Smash up Derby and the Evel Kneivel motorcycle, and WhirlyBird were my favorites.
I actually saw Evil jump ten cars in 1972!
BING, BANG BOING! FRIGGIN' FANTASTIC! I KILL TO GET ONE OF THESE! And the Perry and Kingsely theme just adds to the experience. Brilliant!
I remember having a Bing Bang Boing, I would put one of the balls on top, pinch the ball from the bottom, pull back and FIRE!
I loved my Crash Up Derby Set! Opened on Christmas morning!
I wish I still had mine. Not just for nostalgia, but if I could sell it, it would probably pay for my mortgage!
We loved our SSP Racers, I remember I had the Siamese Slingshot and a funky little one,not on these commercials, rocking toys. Slip and Slide, coolest toy, never long enough! lol These commercials are great!