I remember taking my crackups to show and tell in first grade. I was nervous to talk in front of the class and cried a bit. But I loved those crackups.
Wow! I had COMPLETELY FORGOT about the 1 little car that would get "damaged " every time I launched into other cars, toys, or simply, the wall! Thank you RetroBlasting for bringing those wonderful memories from whence they were hidden. ... but with those fond memories came the memory of being spanked for chipping the paint & making tiny holes in the wall. Still, good times!
I think they somewhat revived this line in the late 90s too, I remember owning something similar where you could "crash" the cars and they would split down the middle to reveal molded damage.
Wow... I guess my brain had just blocked out Crack Ups. I watched this and it was like part of my childhood was revealed to me! Thanks for the nostalgia and the slight want to go and spend money acquiring some of these...
I got given two of these as a kid growing up in Oman, a front end and a rear end, with plastic bonnet and hood not metal, to hold back the rotating metal "crashed" panels. I was so excited to get them as the latest addition to my huge toy car collection that I took them into school with me to show them to my friends. Unfortunately a boy stole them off me. I was obviously upset and told the teacher. She told me off for lying "because those are boys toys and you're a girl, obviously they belong to him." I was understandably distraught. Fortunately when my parents came to pick me up from school they managed to get them back for me and must have given the teacher an earful as well. They indulged my love of toy cars (which grew into a lifelong love of real ones) and never tried to persist in forcing me to play with baby dolls which I hated.
Another great vid guys! I at 5:10 in the video I had a "oh damn! I used to have that" moment. I used to have that red Pontiac firebird. I remember getting it a McDonals Happy Meal though....
There is a TH-cam channel called Spector Creative and the guy used to work for Mattel on MOTU Classics and Mattel DC stuff and he says that the Battle Armor gimmick came from these cars.
I definitely remember having the red funny car and the white rocket car in my collection. When I saw them, it instantly took me back. Great job as always RB!
My first hot wheels car was a 84 pontiac firebyrd i was born in 1985. I got it when i was 6 years old matell hot wheels great video i still collect hot wheels ❤❤❤❤❤❤
another great video. While I didn't have these toys, my younger brother did, and I hadn't thought of them in years! I remember that while he was into those, I was into the Smash Up Derby cars that flew apart when they were crashed into each other. LOL
I still find that 1977 Smokey & the Bandit Special Trans-Am to this day it has made it through countless moves & storage spaces and considering it's age and just plain old being rough on my Hot Wheels as a kid it's still in pretty good condition. Oh yeah I even found that @ one time I had 3 of 'em each in different states of wear & tear! Anyway just wanted to chime in on this. As i got excited when you showed off your Old Hot Wheels that had survived your childhood! Stay safe guys!
Cool t-shirt Michael, better than any Battlefront! :-) Didn't have any Crack-ups but my diecast cars were the cornerstone of my toys. Endlessly copying A-Team, Dukes, Knight Rider etc I had umpteen police cars and trucks and one of my favourite things was re recreating the end of Smokey And The Bandit 2!
I had that blue pick up with the motorcycles in the bed the trans am, the funny car with the fire bird on the hood and that green 280zx. Awesome video Michael. i loved the crack ups i had the red sports car looking one. keep up the good work
So cool that you have a so well preserved Service Center; the only Hot Wheels playset I ever owned ( I also owned 2 track sets but not sure if those count as playsets also ).
Thank you so much for this video you have given me the satisfaction of finally knowing I'm not crazy and I did actually have toy cars that could do crash damage. The thing is I like almost every little boy had alot of toy cars but where I grew up in the UK we only really had matchbox or at a push majorette but I always remembered having a yellow car with red flames that you could crash and the door would flip. I just assumed it was an oddball nothing Chinese thing that was somehow amazingly good to play with but now thanks to your video I know exactly what it was and I'm buying one from eBay. Sorry for the long message but I do really appreciate finally knowing what one of my favourite childhood toys was. Retroblasting is never a disappointment. Once again thank you.
Crack ups! I'd forgotten about those! IIRC, pretty much all the damage my hot wheels got were worn paint and broken wheels all from being stored in a cardboard box for years. Good times.
Haaaaa !!! I was always wondering why one of my old car had a spin feature at her back, one being damage. But the mechanism was broken, it was always on broken face. This is why ! Thanks RB !!
I actually had one of these, but since I was born in 1987 it had long been worn to the point that it would alway stay in the "cracked" form, but I actually just thought that made it really cool.
I had the black one with the flames down the side...That crashed in the front..I loved that toy.. I remember pretending it was the Back to the future delorean cause that's the only car I had that came close to the DeLorean look..or at least I though it was as a child..
Sto n go! We would combine the service center, and city sto n go's with the modular city pieces. I think we often forget the other non action figure toys of the 70's and 80's. HotWheels were king in our house. Nylint and Tonka trucks were a close second.
My older brother had crack ups play set. I remember the garage fix ups where hard to fix the cars. On a side note we have all the hot wheels cars that where seen in this video.
I have never heard of these amazing toys, probably because they were hard to find in Asia. (Matchbox was huge here and I collected the Road Blasters line instead) I'm impressed that the spring mechanisms on those tiny parts still work very well after all these years!
Oh I used to LOVE those as a kid - I had a few of those 'crack up cars' - I used to be one of 'those kids' that enjoyed the crap out of slamming his toy cars into walls and dropping them out of windows and down stairs - these were fun because they actually showed real damage
I remember them as a kid. Too bad they were pretty expensive back then and my parents didn't have the money to buy me all the cars I would like. So I took a hammer and delicately smashed a few toy cars I already owned like they would be crashed in real life. You couldn't "reset" them but I didn't mind. My parents didn't see it the same way thou. Fortunately my mom managed to stop me in time before i demolished my complete collection of cars :D and nowadays I am buying those toy cars from various sellers so I can replace my damaged collection for my kid. Fortunate for me they cost a fraction of what they used to be back in the days :D
If i remember correctly with them and the He-man toys the mechanism that flipped them would wear out and it would default to the damaged side because it was slightly more weight. It really got to the point where it couldnt hold itself properly
Great video! I was never really into hot wheels that much, but I had one of these cars. You guys make a subject I'm not too excited about interesting to watch anyways. By the way, that kid in the commercial with the blue cap kind of looks like the kid from Poltergeist.
i remember those the ones i had as a kid the locking method always broke after a few weeks now what was really fun was the cars that had opening doors and hoods an had rubber wheels and could lock an unlock the doors with a key
Sorry. Some of the more hardcore retro toy collectors are kind of short on sense of humor. I'm not a collector myself. Seeing these toys brings back memories of better times for me.
always awesome to see a retroblasting vid! ahhh...the 80s, when your toys where designed to be destroyed and your anti drug ads could scare the apply juice piss outta you.
I've already found 4 of the crackups with the side door damage. Two of the plane baby blue, one taxi and a red one it's fire chief! All at a thrift store 😂😎.
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I had these, and they were among my favorite toys, which is what brought me here almost 40 years later. Thank you for the great video.
I remember taking my crackups to show and tell in first grade. I was nervous to talk in front of the class and cried a bit. But I loved those crackups.
32 + years later and my mom is still finding hotwheels and matchbox cars in the yard...
Must feel like Easter everytime she finds one.
Must feel like Easter everytime she finds one.
this is cooler than most toys I've seen resently xD
No kidding, right?
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Wow! I had COMPLETELY FORGOT about the 1 little car that would get "damaged " every time I launched into other cars, toys, or simply, the wall! Thank you RetroBlasting for bringing those wonderful memories from whence they were hidden. ... but with those fond memories came the memory of being spanked for chipping the paint & making tiny holes in the wall. Still, good times!
Just went through my old childhood Hot Wheels cars and found four of these Crack-Ups...💯✔
I think they somewhat revived this line in the late 90s too, I remember owning something similar where you could "crash" the cars and they would split down the middle to reveal molded damage.
Looking for those now. I remember having one of these.
@@TokyoChopSquad yeah one of the sets I had came with a spring loaded pile of tires that snapped out plastic fire when you crashed your cars into it
LOL! I was thinking of the Crash Test Dummies the whole time. XD
OMG that kid in the beginning. “THERE’S LOTSA WAYS TO CRACK UP YOUR CRACK-UPS!”
Hands down these were my favorite toy cars as a kid, I just recently found 2 loose in the wild and was really happy to add them to my toy collection.
Wow... I guess my brain had just blocked out Crack Ups. I watched this and it was like part of my childhood was revealed to me! Thanks for the nostalgia and the slight want to go and spend money acquiring some of these...
+Alexander Nielsen glad we were able to provide that nostalgia kick!
Same here. I completely forgot about Crack-Ups and this video brought me back to the past. I'm pretty sure I or a friend must have had one of these.
I had a few of these as a kid. If Mattel ever brought the line back, I'd totally buy a few for the sake of the memories of my old ones.
I really wanted Mattel to release Knight Rider and A-team crack up cars but they never did
Thinking about it knight Rider wouldn't dent unless against juggernaut (or that acid pit)
If anything these could be seen as discouraging kids from crashing a real car.
"See that damage? Would you want to be in there when that happened?"
I got given two of these as a kid growing up in Oman, a front end and a rear end, with plastic bonnet and hood not metal, to hold back the rotating metal "crashed" panels. I was so excited to get them as the latest addition to my huge toy car collection that I took them into school with me to show them to my friends. Unfortunately a boy stole them off me. I was obviously upset and told the teacher. She told me off for lying "because those are boys toys and you're a girl, obviously they belong to him."
I was understandably distraught. Fortunately when my parents came to pick me up from school they managed to get them back for me and must have given the teacher an earful as well. They indulged my love of toy cars (which grew into a lifelong love of real ones) and never tried to persist in forcing me to play with baby dolls which I hated.
We're glad to hear this ended well! Thanks for watching!
this video made me dig out my old hot wheels & crack ups , oh the memories
Wow, and I thought I knew everything about hot wheels!
I've never heard of these. It's FANTASTIC!
GREAT REVIEW!
Great video. I was reminiscing and found myself here. Hot wheels need to bring back these cars.
I have to say, that shirt is awesome, Michael. Good stuff.
CHiPs was the absolute best show as a child to watch! Police cars with “boxed” lights, BOXED LIGHTS!
Another great vid guys! I at 5:10 in the video I had a "oh damn! I used to have that" moment. I used to have that red Pontiac firebird. I remember getting it a McDonals Happy Meal though....
There is a TH-cam channel called Spector Creative and the guy used to work for Mattel on MOTU Classics and Mattel DC stuff and he says that the Battle Armor gimmick came from these cars.
Wow. I forgot about these. I had quite a bit of these as a kid. Great episode! Woke up some memories in me. Thanks!
+zevadprime you're welcome!
I definitely remember having the red funny car and the white rocket car in my collection. When I saw them, it instantly took me back. Great job as always RB!
My first hot wheels car was a 84 pontiac firebyrd i was born in 1985. I got it when i was 6 years old matell hot wheels great video i still collect hot wheels ❤❤❤❤❤❤
another great video. While I didn't have these toys, my younger brother did, and I hadn't thought of them in years!
I remember that while he was into those, I was into the Smash Up Derby cars that flew apart when they were crashed into each other. LOL
I have been collecting Hot Wheels since the early 80’s.
This was a treat to watch. Great episode
I had a couple of these. Quite nice little toys. Pretty durable. The police cruiser is still in my old folks attic.
I still find that 1977 Smokey & the Bandit Special Trans-Am to this day it has made it through countless moves & storage spaces and considering it's age and just plain old being rough on my Hot Wheels as a kid it's still in pretty good condition. Oh yeah I even found that @ one time I had 3 of 'em each in different states of wear & tear! Anyway just wanted to chime in on this. As i got excited when you showed off your Old Hot Wheels that had survived your childhood! Stay safe guys!
Oh god the stow and go set! I loved that thing as a kid. Best hotwheels playset ever IMO.
Cool t-shirt Michael, better than any Battlefront! :-)
Didn't have any Crack-ups but my diecast cars were the cornerstone of my toys. Endlessly copying A-Team, Dukes, Knight Rider etc I had umpteen police cars and trucks and one of my favourite things was re recreating the end of Smokey And The Bandit 2!
Great to see you back from the holidays!
+Carusofilms great to be back!
I had that blue pick up with the motorcycles in the bed the trans am, the funny car with the fire bird on the hood and that green 280zx. Awesome video Michael. i loved the crack ups i had the red sports car looking one. keep up the good work
Can't wait for more diecast reviews.
+G.I. JOE FAN 2001 well we just did the Star Wars Micro Collection too. :)
I meant reviews on Hot Wheels and Matchbox.
I never knew these existed, they look nice man
So cool that you have a so well preserved Service Center; the only Hot Wheels playset I ever owned ( I also owned 2 track sets but not sure if those count as playsets also ).
Thank you so much for this video you have given me the satisfaction of finally knowing I'm not crazy and I did actually have toy cars that could do crash damage. The thing is I like almost every little boy had alot of toy cars but where I grew up in the UK we only really had matchbox or at a push majorette but I always remembered having a yellow car with red flames that you could crash and the door would flip. I just assumed it was an oddball nothing Chinese thing that was somehow amazingly good to play with but now thanks to your video I know exactly what it was and I'm buying one from eBay. Sorry for the long message but I do really appreciate finally knowing what one of my favourite childhood toys was. Retroblasting is never a disappointment. Once again thank you.
+MrGeo176 You're welcome!
I remember these. Happy days!
Crack ups! I'd forgotten about those! IIRC, pretty much all the damage my hot wheels got were worn paint and broken wheels all from being stored in a cardboard box for years. Good times.
I think that you guys should make a video about fisher price’s adventure people line. Seriously that line was massive!
That was adorable. I used to have the Smokey and the Bandit race set, good times.
I have the same battle armour Skeletor, and while i knew nothing about He-Man until discovering these videos, i thought he was awesome!
Haaaaa !!! I was always wondering why one of my old car had a spin feature at her back, one being damage. But the mechanism was broken, it was always on broken face. This is why ! Thanks RB !!
Yeah there's worse things you could do than run a toy car into a wall. Now you can watch Breaking Bad and chew on blue meth candy! Mmmmmmm blue candy!
HAHAHA
Or snack on Tide pods.
Great video guys! Love me some Hot Wheels. I collect the vintage Color Racers Line myself.😁👍
Bill
oh man this one spoke to me. great vid. ide love to see some crash test dummy reviews. I had all those toys when I was a kid
Abe Vigoda says, "Put on your goddamn seatbelt!"
And then he "died" for the 20th time.
Good to see you're ok. and I remember the blue truck with the yellow bikes. I held one like it before.
I had so much fun with these way back then. Good times. :)
a lot of cars on my block have transforning body damage, though none of the drivers ever change it back to normal it seems
Underrated comment! Lol.
Nice Review . Thanks
I actually had one of these, but since I was born in 1987 it had long been worn to the point that it would alway stay in the "cracked" form, but I actually just thought that made it really cool.
I had the black one with the flames down the side...That crashed in the front..I loved that toy.. I remember pretending it was the Back to the future delorean cause that's the only car I had that came close to the DeLorean look..or at least I though it was as a child..
Super videos crack ups cool😊
I had a few of these along with one of the playsets, they were fun to ram into things.
Interesting very enjoyable Michael. :)
+Ron Kelley thanks, Ron!
Sto n go! We would combine the service center, and city sto n go's with the modular city pieces.
I think we often forget the other non action figure toys of the 70's and 80's.
HotWheels were king in our house. Nylint and Tonka trucks were a close second.
I loved these! They need to come back!
Great episode!
THANKS!
To you both, brought me some good memories.
I still have a few crack-ups from childhood, loved those!! I need to go dig them out now. great video as usual!!
plz sell them
to me plz
I had the yellow one. Good times. Over here the big toy car maker was Matchbox.
My older brother had crack ups play set. I remember the garage fix ups where hard to fix the cars. On a side note we have all the hot wheels cars that where seen in this video.
Great video as always, i forgot about these.
I wish I still had my Hot Wheels. LOVED the crack ups too.
I love the crack-ups so much that I got one in mint condition in one of my display cases... and yes I hate Crash Test Dummies too!
Oh my gosh that is so freaking cooool!
I had the police car crack up as a teen never had the playsets. I did have the playset with the hill & stuff.
great video. I loved these things.
Nothing tops the car chase in "Mitchell"
lol crash test dummies! I had friends that had those, love the old school Star Wars Arcade shirt! :)
Thanks man! Love it myself!
I have never heard of these amazing toys, probably because they were hard to find in Asia. (Matchbox was huge here and I collected the Road Blasters line instead) I'm impressed that the spring mechanisms on those tiny parts still work very well after all these years!
Wow! I remember having the yellow and the police crack up cars
Oh I used to LOVE those as a kid - I had a few of those 'crack up cars' - I used to be one of 'those kids' that enjoyed the crap out of slamming his toy cars into walls and dropping them out of windows and down stairs - these were fun because they actually showed real damage
More Hot Wheels coverage please!
omg I love crack ups I have the play set and the cars thank you retro blasting 😁😀
I have that red 80s body monte carlo right now, crack up!! The grill flips n hood pops open
Great review as always!!
Crack ups were awesome. I still have two of mine.
You did forget to mention the TV show “CHiPs,” the king of TV car wrecks.
these were awesome cars. Bullet was great.
Good video Mike, never head of these before look fun.
ah your never to old to play with Hot Wheels or Matchbox..
4:34 Hey look A S30Z (Datsun 240Z,260z,280z) Yay!
I remember them as a kid. Too bad they were pretty expensive back then and my parents didn't have the money to buy me all the cars I would like. So I took a hammer and delicately smashed a few toy cars I already owned like they would be crashed in real life. You couldn't "reset" them but I didn't mind. My parents didn't see it the same way thou. Fortunately my mom managed to stop me in time before i demolished my complete collection of cars :D and nowadays I am buying those toy cars from various sellers so I can replace my damaged collection for my kid. Fortunate for me they cost a fraction of what they used to be back in the days :D
These look really interesting! My family has had a number of toy cars over the years, but I've never come across any like this.
Oh my god that Atari starwars shirt!
;)
If i remember correctly with them and the He-man toys the mechanism that flipped them would wear out and it would default to the damaged side because it was slightly more weight. It really got to the point where it couldnt hold itself properly
Great video! I was never really into hot wheels that much, but I had one of these cars. You guys make a subject I'm not too excited about interesting to watch anyways. By the way, that kid in the commercial with the blue cap kind of looks like the kid from Poltergeist.
yeah im a youtuber that does reviews on hot wheels and i forgot about that playset thanks for the reminder
I never had crackups as a kid but i would have loved them as i had car races and crashes
As Marky Mark's #1 hit once said "Drug free, so put the crack up!"
i remember those the ones i had as a kid the locking method always broke after a few weeks now what was really fun was the cars that had opening doors and hoods an had rubber wheels and could lock an unlock the doors with a key
Also I used the police car Crack Up on a few stop motion film tests. I also did some 80's "Evil Kitt" stop motions in 2015
Even Snake Plissken (5:37) got in on the auto safety thing!
Did Evel Knievel ever do one of those PSA's? I know he was all about motorcycle helmet laws.
That shirt is sweet!
LOL. You need to review the Crash Dummies toy line or restore some broken Crash Dummies toys.
those figures where stupid , the pieces where easy to lose lol
I know. I grew up in the 1980s. My comment was supposed to be a joke.
i know your joking, they should do a crash dummies episode, agreeing
Sorry. Some of the more hardcore retro toy collectors are kind of short on sense of humor. I'm not a collector myself. Seeing these toys brings back memories of better times for me.
DestructZero hope the review
Never seen the playsets - very cool.
always awesome to see a retroblasting vid! ahhh...the 80s, when your toys where designed to be destroyed and your anti drug ads could scare the apply juice piss outta you.
thank heavens your back! we always recreated Chips motorcycle chases on our bmxs. talking of which when r going to finish yours? :)
I've already found 4 of the crackups with the side door damage. Two of the plane baby blue, one taxi and a red one it's fire chief! All at a thrift store 😂😎.