Christmas Toys - 1973 | The Archivist Presents | #75
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- Need some inspiration for Christmas presents? Or a walk down memory lane? Here's what all the kids were after in 1973.
Christmas comes around again and for young and old alike, there are joys to be discovered in the Toy Department - this year Movietone visits Selfridges.
GV Selfridges. SV interior Selfridges toy department. SV dolls on wall pan to CU 2 dolls. CU teddy bear. CU lamb, CU dolls on show. SV people walking round toy department. CU mass of toys, cars in boxes. CU model racing cars pan another car. CU headlamp of car pan to number on car No 25. CU driver in car. CU driver behind wheel. CU steering front wheel being put into lock. CU steering wheel. FCU driver's face. TV model racing track cars racing round. CU 2 cars down straight. CU little boy watching. CU cars round track. CU boy playing with model boxing ring with model men battling it out. CU 2 models battling it out. CU boy watching. CU 2 models battling it out. SCU model angled windmill going round. CU little boy playing with magnetic city toy. CU boy's face. CU magnetic city toy being played with. CU boy playing with remote control box. SV ditto with car. SV ditto with box. SV boy & girl watching the 'cascade' toy. SV pan Cascade's toy in operation. SV ball bearing into top. SCU children watching. CU bearings into end holder. SCU little boy looking over glass partition. CU railway & road set in operation. SCU little boy watching. LSV train past barrier & back again. LSV train past toy boxes. SCU 2 chopper motor cycles on table. CU skeleton on back of motor cycle seat. CU pan motor cycle exhaust pipes to engine. CU model of man on motor cycle. 5 CUs front wheel of motor cycle pan totem pole, a mass of mock battle with cowboys & Indians, CU small boy watching, ditto another boy. SV toy department of Selfridges.
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I’m so glad I’m 52 now, my childhood was amazing , I wouldn’t swap with a kid now for all the money in the world!
I’m 53 now my childhood was good but I do not feel glad about my age.
I was ten in 1973 and have lovely memories of being a child. It was a time of innocents, wonder & joy. However, I'm 58 this year, that's not so good!
I'm 63, a groovy sixties kid, and I miss my time back then, It was so much fun, never felt threatened,never felt happier, wouldn't mind popping back to 63, and staying right there, this modern life is far too stressful.
@@topquark6919 snap! But it was a great year I can vouch for that!
I was born in the 1950s and feel the same way. I would not swap my childhood for today! I feel so sorry for todays children.
So glad I was born in 1963. I had such an amazing childhood, I was the baby of 6 children, we had hardly any money but we were loved and very happy. Also very free to be outside playing and roaming around the countryside. So lucky. Waited all year for our special present 🎁. It was brilliant.
Fabulous memories. Kids don't understand the rush of excitement we had at that age. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
I was 7 in 1973, still remember some of them toys, those were the days when you had one special present, nothing too expensive, and where happy with that. Not like today where kids want very expensive technological gifts, ah well, sign of the times i suppose.
Same here 😃
Same here . I too was 7 in 1973, aaahhh, those were the days. Getting a full-sized GI Joe action figure-unlike those small figures that were sold in the 80’s-was all I wanted, and I did get one! I was so happy! It was dressed in an orange scuba gear diving suit with all of the accessories! Came with the suit, a spear gun, a rubber shark, the oxygen tanks, an underwater mini “rover”. Man, I was in heaven.
Raving bonkers at 0 58 and Slades sixth and last No1 fantastic year
@@dermot51 Bash 'n' Bonkers ?
I was 7 years old in 1973 and i agree with you on every point you made, kids today are way too spoiled.
Don't know about the cool toys being available back in 73, But with bands like Slade making the charts regularly. life was great for us teenagers.
@Amy Winehouse It was for me, But I guess all teenagers think their music was the best, But I'm convinced, the early 70's really was a bit special.
I get flashbacks of my childhood and leaves me with a warm glow every time I hear Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody
No it was a horrible ignorant time that's what it was Bod.
@@Neil-Aspinall It is now for me ! Maybe it was for you back then, Good job we don't all like the same things !
Love the contemporary references to strikes and petrol shortages, who else remembers those power cuts?
My wife who was 6 at the start of the seventies tells me she learnt to play the recorder by candle light! Pity her parents!
@Amy Winehouse I used to love power cuts! Must be where my obession with candlesticks and candles come from.
@@rodholroyd1101 I drove my Dad skits, playing the recorder. I remember one day, he got soooo peed off, that he snapped it in two and threw it into the aga. Mum went mental at him as I was crying my eyes out. He was fine though when I took up the guitar in primary school.
I was also 7 years old in 1973. I LOVED Corgi and Matchbox cars. I'm American too. I had the Green Hornet car which had REAL rubber tires. The Matchbox cars were $1 in 1974 which was a lot of money in those days but they were beautiful cars as were the Corgi cars.
I was 7 years old in 1973. I was huge into slot cars back then. I'll be 55 soon and I still love my slot cars.
Toys were made so much better then not like the rubbish today
Love the old '60s Wacka-doo Wacka-doo guitar music! SO GROOVY! lol
I am 52 years old. And I'm glad when I was born ✌😎❤
beats a cell phone to hell!
I was only but months old .... didn't know or had the ability to remember a thing. Pure bliss.
Every day is better than the day before, I am not quite old enough to be a kid in 1973 but wow - those kids had it rough. Compared to today with the internet, consoles, cheap consumer electronics this seems so archaic.
Ahhh, when toys were toys and kids were kids!!
We were so poor then we couldn't afford toys so we used to go down to the butcher's shop window and watch the bacon slicer working.
Ehh , sheer luxury . When i were lad , a day out to to slaughter house and a slice of cheese and a gherkin for Christmas dinner was considered a bit of a treat .
@@samsum3738 Would have been a banquet to us.
@@jwgitface I'm a Yorkshire woman! 😂
@@FiveRiversCity Then you MUST have seen rows of awestruck boys outside butcher's windows watching that slicer. lol
@@jwgitface 😁
My Dad died a few days after Christmas 1973 when I was almost 7.
I awoke Christmas eve about one hour after bedtime and sleepily walked down stairs and saw him charging a big ride on tractor that used a motorbike battery
(no child safety back then)
And a massive wire remote tank.
Sadly by the next Christmas poverty had bit hard so that was the last normal Christmas.
After that my mum called catalogs wish books
I'd love to find the toys online now
Slot cars and trains were my favorite. Mom and Dad gave us a train layout made by Loan Star trains in the 60’s when I was about 8 years old. On a styrofoam platform with houses, cars and a mountain etc. I was so happy I could have cried. My favorite gift of all time. Thanks Mom and Dad!
Kids grow up to quick these days back in the day we dident have much but we was. Happy
Sooo true
Yep, that is too true!
Green parkas , red lining and fur on the collar , every kid had one , waterproof ..not a chance
@Amy Winehouse Blue! never saw one of them must have been a bit posh,we only had market stall greenies😊.
I never had one, we were too poor, I used to see kids with them and Dr Marten boots riding chopper bikes and I I used to dream of owing them.. The irony is that once I got older and could afford those things, they were not available and everything is crap now and I don't want it.. 😂😂😂😂🙌🙌🙋
@@gollycom same here , had the parka but nothing else ,wore it till it fell apart!
I still have them parkas exact ones green blue rabbit fur hood
I still have those early days parkas green lining red rabbit fur trimming around hood poppers closing silver buttons zip
Wow so many memories of the boxers and the western figures
Back in 73 we were so poor Mum would give us shoelaces for Xmas, just in case we got shoes the next year.
But in reality we knew we would never get shoes and it was just Mum trying to give us hope at Xmas
I was 2 in 73, I remember my brother having cascade and being fascinated by it
That was my fave year for Christmas..I was 10 and got Haunted House game..I loved that game so much a friend of mine bought it off ebay again for me a few years ago..and it's as good as I remembered !..l really wouldn't mind being in a Groundhog day of Christmas'73 !!! :D
wow its far better then for the best toys, I loved all retro toys, made me happy and made me forget an evil step mother!
I'm so glad that I was a 1970s kid.
I remember an aluminium red train set. My straw filled toy dogs😍😍😍
Days of Lego and Meccano
Real educational toys ones that actually made you think and were also fun.
From the US, I loved Corgi and Dinky Toys from England.
I remember so many of these.
Man this brings backs some fond memories lol
Rumour has it that young Johnny's dad still hasn't give him a go on that Scalextric.
I was 7 back then so glad I was a child in that era it was glorious long days and endless fun never in always out .feel sorry for the kids now they have missed out on something it's called a childhood.
I was 7 in 1973 too.
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I was 7 years old in 1973. Born on 23rd April, 1966. The toys in the 1970's were so full of creativity. Hands on, and full of wonder. Looking back, i still think that they were great!
66 baby here too,and I had most of those toys.
I was born 4th August 1966 so 7 too back then too
@@ladygaynor16 6 days after me 👍
Ah, happy daze! How many hours I would spend polishing my purple chopper in the early 70s!
Oooh ! Matron !
I was 6 then. Every toy you could get was basically a piece of junk that would be banned today on safety ground and either didn't work from the start or broke very quickly but God we were so happy with it!
When I was about 8 I took apart my nephew's wind up toy car and found it made from a foreign cat food tin
I was 7 and i am now 55 just turned and still love Teddies xxx
Fun to watch, my mum was 2 years in 1973!
1:30 " *But what's a railway without a strike* ? "
Yep...... that's certainly one my childhood memories of the '70's....
you beat me to it what a thing to say Tory shite, a railway without a strike dreadful
Can you imagine the power cuts of the seventies today with all the electronic equipment people so rely on. There would be riots on the streets. Four candles anyone?
1973 was the greatest year for music.
The one with the animals popping out when you press the shapes 😂 I had that!!! 😂
Action man and dinky toys, board games, including escape from Colditz.
Ah yes, Escape from Colditz. Appel (Roll Call) was the starting point of the POW chase with the 'shoot to kill card' being played at some point. Great memories!
I always wanted escape from colditz.
Fantastic game..
Escape from Colditz is still available. I bought a special edition one a few Christmases ago. My older kids, my young son, my wife (no2) and I play this on Christmas night. (Unfortunately that was cancelled last Christmas). This version is well made from quality card and wooden playing pieces just like the original. If you loved playing it then, you’ll love to play it now.
When I was a kid, a friend down the road had it. We went over the road to another friend’s house to play. The owner was the German guards and we were escapees. I hatched an amazing plan to win, bearing in mind I was only 11 or 12. I got my fellow escape officer to move all his men to the Chapel. I did the same.I figured the Germans had the tunnel search card. So when we had most of our men there he played his tunnel search card, thus wasting it in the process. However, my fiendish plan didn’t go to plan. Our friend went off in a massive huff and took his game with him. After that we used to refer to him as “Fritz”.
@@pgVeritas alberto for you ze war was over.. 😉
Great to see matchbox Cascade it was still in production at Rochford Essex to the Mid Eighies
An era of proper toys not the crap they sell these days
Bring on the action men with the eagal eyes
Or even eagle eyes.
It's funny how British toys and American toys were a lot alike but somehow different. It was great being a kid back then.
All I wanted back then was the Escape from Colditz Action Man set.
Oh! Action Man, my favorite toy from my Childhood, remember the cataloge you could get which had every Uniform you could imagine.Treasured my Action Man in his WW2 Tommy uniform. We didnt have much money back then so i never had any of the Vehicles, but when my younger brother started being interested in Action Man and my dad was earning more money they bought him the Chieftan Tank. its was Brill. I seem to remember you could collect Action Man stars that you could redeem for different items.
I want one now 👍
@@gerontius1934able I remember my granny used to knit uniforms for my action man , I was embarrassed for him!
@@andrewjohnston2850 Oh my god! you have brought back a memory ,my Aunty knitted a sweater for mine, a cream coloured one, when he had it on he was about the size of the hulk. ha,ha. bless her she is no longer with us. My brother followed my love of Action Man, my dad being a keen Gardner is still digging up bits of his old action men (maybe a Leg here or a boot there) to this day 35 years on that my Brother used to bury when they fell apart. When he found a boot my dad joked he must of been a Land Mine victim (bit poor taste i know).
@@gerontius1934able if only we knew then to look after these a bit better they go for a fortune on Ebay, knit wear sold separately of course!
@1:30 "What's a railway without a strike?"
So 70's Britain
During the 1970's, I remember being given a Womble one Christmas! Another time I had a pogo stick but couldn't get the hang of it and ended up in the rose bush in our back garden. Slightly more successful was a Space Hopper. Happy days. 😀
I was born in 1973 and a lad at work who was born in 2000 said he would prefer my generation, especially 2020/2021 in Covid Era. I told him we used to play in the park, on dangerous high slides, with no soft mat to fall on and roundabouts that could take your leg off if it got trapped, and toys that were actually good.
Used to save up the tokens you got on an action man box. The more expensive the toy the more the tokens were worth. Got an Alsatian guard dog when I saved enough up.
I got anything and everything I wanted when I was a kid and I was still bored. Sadly I'm an American.
I was only 1 year old by x-mas 1973, so it was mostly teddy bears and Fisher Price toys for me at that time!
Christmas 1973 was my first Christmas. Sounds so dated the way the commentator is speaking like out of one of those WW2 news clips. Makes me feel old. lol
my 1st one too
I was born a few days later. What a time to be alive. Would go back in a heartbeat ❤
@@claire111 definitely agree but imagine no mobile phones or internet!! Yikes. How would we manage now haha
Same here, born in August 1972.
Wish I still had my Cogis and Dinkies. Hours lost in imagination rather than staring at tablet or game system.
Give me the 70s any day , wouldn't want to be a kid today for anything . Downfall of children now is all these phones tablets and anti social gadgets
Chet I was only 4 months old that Christmas of 1973 😳🤔🤠
I wasn't even born till the last day of that year at 6.30pm 😂😂😂😂😂😂😍😍😍
I got sizzlers and a racing track for Xmas in 1973.A cowboy set and a football. Great times.
And what about Airfix Models, always seemed to get one from a relative at Christmas. I know their still around but i remember there was a massive choice in the 70's.
Airfix is still around and doing as well as ever 😊 I’m 52 and loved making them badly in an hour back then - but now I make each of them a little more carefully and over the course of a few days or weeks lol. It’s a wonderful escape from the drudgery of modern life, and with the paints being water based these days, nobody gets inadvertently high 😂
And Tamiya
@@infidelcastro5129 Always used to hang my Planes from my Bedroom ceiling using my mums Cotton thread.
@@stevo728822 Oh! yes, my Brother loved Tamiya.
Revell for me to this day . And Trumpeter . Got me one great 1:48 Heinkel HE 111 and a ME109 1:32 scale model lately , and yes lots if those little pots to paint . Couldn't afford them back in the days when I was a kid , which I have remained, lol
In 1973, my oldest son was 3 yrs old, his younger brother was 7 months. When a little older they had the Rock'em Sock'em Robots and a couple of the other toys. And at the beginning, that facade of the department store with the Santa Claus castle, reminded me of the big department store here in Detroit, Michigan USA. I t was called JL Hudson and it also put a snowy looking castle on their facade to remind people the magic of Christmas was here. Sadly, it is long gone.
I was 10 years old in 73. I loved my toys, still do lol 😂 my favourite was my Power House dump truck by Marx toys. It was magical back then, I definitely wouldn't want to be that age now, scary.
🇬🇧The first time i 've visited LONDON in 1999 and 2000, there were the same red DOUBLE DECKERS BUSES and the same Black taxis. Now, we can see this OLD BUSES in OXFORD STREET ONLY. LONDON is beautiful and very CLEAN CITY. You can wear all your own fashion. People doesn't judge you............
Raving Bonkers, brilliant game.
I loved my etch a sketch and marble rally
As long as I got a model kit
It was a happy Christmas 😀
WONDER LONDON
Tous with no agenda,brilliant .amazing times.
Cowboy and Indian toys had a definite agenda. Propaganda. Ask a Native American...
1973 is a bit early for me, but I do recall going to Hamleys in the late 70's / early 80's - 2:12 the 'dalek' security camera top left of frame :)
The days of Creamola Foam and Toast Toppers.
Loved Creamola Foam I'm sure u can still get toast toppers 😀
@@lindawinchcole9962 Creamola Foam with a different recipe is available, but it doesn't strip the lining off the roof of your mouth like the 'classic' did; Heinz stopped making Toast Toppers a few years ago, but I'm sure a different version will return eventually.
Pity 😐
I used to love playing with “Rock-em Sock-em Robots”.
We grew up poor and just had to punch each other.
I was 5 in December 1973. I only remember a couple of these toys, probably because we had different toys in the US.
Top, que época boa.
I played with that 'Cowboys & Indians' set (6 yrs old in '73) but it wasn't at Christmas. That year I got a plastic car steering wheel with a couple side knobs for 'police siren' and horn. Could pretend to be driving a police or fire truck. Woke up at 4 or 5 a.m. and the siren started wailing. I loved it, not sure my parents did lol.
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Oh I'm subscribed all right😜
Christmas 1977, The Bionic Man Repair Centre! Christmas 1979, The Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks. Growing up sucks.
Had the bionic repair centre, and Maskatron. .. lost him, still no idea what happened.
Joy Divisions at their height
Pawn Stars says Evel Knievel action figure with the wind up power ramp number one toy seller all time that is amazing if it is oh, it's a rather big and fairly expensive toy unit.
Turns out God didn't save the queen she wasn't a human being
@@timothydillow3160 I can't begin to tell you how much I annoyed my parents that Christmas playingthat album. Great memories. PS: Wanted the Evel Knievel with wind up ramp so much, and never got it.
That music lol. But I remember a lot of those toys
I got the boxing robots that year!
My brother had them. I was trying to explain them to my other half where an on target punch would ratchet their necks with a sound. She replied "that sounds really violent" lol
I always wondered how third world countries celebrated Christmas. A lot better than I imagined.
That my 1st Xmas I was only 47 days old
Remember playing with most of those. Scalextric, boxing robots,plus flight deck, rebound etc. Happy days🙂
Got to work with them for a while, logistics. So proud to be dealing with them.
Good days
Just give them an l phone and that will keep them quiet for the next 50 years .
yeah, how fucked is life now.
Until the next I phone comes out!
@@glenlockyer775 True enough . Or keep a pile of brand name stickers and change every 2 years . They will never know .
Sell fridges........ Sell fridges??? What have fridges got to do with kids ??????
We got our first fridge in 1970 when i was almost 7
Confession time...
When I was a kid, I actually thought that Selfridges only sold fridges 😂
And do not forget the 'Merit' Chemistry Set, with its spirit burner, toxic compounds and instructions to make flammable coal-gas. And the 'Mamod' Steam Engine, also with a meth's burner and a boiler producing live steam, too! Oh, and the 'Tri-Ang Metrology Set' with an anemometer that you could build from the kit - you were advised to mount it as high as possible, on a roof for example, to get best reading of wind speed.
I think my folks were making a statement when they bought me these. But I survived, and went into a professional career with technical qualifications.
'Health & Safety' stopped all that. It just seems to be all TV and video games, now.
Je ne regrette rien!
I still have my Mamod Traction Engine complete with Lumber Wagon and the original (polystrene) logs. Used to run it on Methylated Spirit but when that ran out, occasionally I'd nick some of my sister's medical grade Surgical Spirit. Sorry sis!
Copper Sulphate !
The Corgi toys display - had the one on the right the Model A hotrod ;-) Nostalgia ain't what it used to be :-)
I had a Hornby train set when I was a kid - it's an expensive hobby now, I visited the Hornby website and the modern version of the locomotive I had is roughly £200
If only we knew to keep the boxes. Have you seen how much the Batmobile goes for
I had the "Rock'em Sock'em Robots".
Love the Austin Powers music
Fromthe States, but similar racetracks, etc.; I was 4 in '73 so my toys centered around Sesame Street (not sure if it was big in Britain), Playskool rescue center (loved to send guys sliding down the chute), might have gotten my bright red Emergency! fire truck like on show & helmet that year. Yes, I was a very mature 4; Mom was a nurse & her brother just passed medical school so I'd have all kinds of questions & it was a good way to learn about her work and all about hospitals, etc.. I also colored a lot and was reading Peanuts, etc. all the time.
Most of my toys were hand me downs from my elder sisters😂😂😂😂😊🤗
I got a 303 and a Pinocchio marionette from Selfridge's for Christmas.
Legos will be around for the next 100+ years
0:54, raving bonkers, I had that for Christmas in 74, great fun!
Still sell it in US. Call it rock em sock em robots.
You're the only other person I've come across that remembers the Raving Bonkers name!! 👍👍👍
I got Raving Bonkers for Christmas as well in either '73 or '74. I remember me and my Granny playing it and her falling about laughing when the robots' heads sprung up after a direct punch. Great fun..!
I remember way back in the early 80s opening my xmas/birthday presents and of course mostly star wars figures all pristine in there boxes, ripping into them like no tomorrow then straight outside into the dirt then into the bath then into a box then carboot sale...me now in my 40s browsing ebay, damn it, why did i not just unwrap them but not open them and stick away in storage id be bloody rich now!
Getting Kojaks Corgi gold Buick Regal, Tin Can Alley and Kerplunk made my Christmas. Glad I grew up in this era when Matchbox cars were made of solid metal and not the cheap Chinese crap that kids toys are made from today!! Oh the memories!! 🤗
Do what the lovely lady says at the end and subscribe. lol 😂
Those LEGO sets mint in box...
I was 11 then. All I wanted for Christmas was a Chopper...didn’t get get one though!
hope you meant the bike
Raving Robots was the dogs bollocks 👍