I work in a McDonald’s, the happy meal toys now are awful. When I was a child, they were so good. The mp3 players slapped. Now they’re just paper /shitty plushies
The toys these days are Awful....Working at McDonalds for 10 Years and watching the toys become less of a toy hurt, Take me back to the Speakers in 2006!
They got it out at my school one time in 97 and a kid fell off and got a compound fracture, about a month later they had stripped it all out of the hall. 😭
I absolutely loved the apparatus! They always had the thinnest safety mats on earth and everyone would fight over who got to help put them out 😂 Those PE lessons were always goated
Knowing George was as into Doctor Who during that era as a lot of us were, to the extent of loving the Toys R Us display AND getting a load of Battles in Time cards (I still have that exact same folder, tho nowhere near as many cards shamefully) has made my year
But did you (or anyone else) have the plastic Tardis they sold in multiple parts that was a card holder? Cause I managed to get one as a kid and it made my childhood xD
George, I'm actually a really big Gogo's Crazy Bones collector. One of the biggest in the world actually. I have over 6300 of them from all around the world, including some that are super rare and even a 1 of a kind prototype. There are actually quite a few hundred dedicated collectors within the Gogo's Crazy Bones community.
What I miss about the argos catalogue is the weight of the pages when you were flipping through sections, and then circling the thing you were going to put on your Santa list so you could show your mum
hex bugs were a solid b. you'd take them out, let them trundle around for a bit bumping into things, realize they don't work on most surfaces and can't go far, then put them away. their saving grace is they do look insanely cool
I'm in my 40s. Shag bands were worn at school. they were "breakable" wrist bands in that you could pop them off, join them together etc... We used them as their namesake. If a person was wearing one, the rule was if you managed to break it off, you got a shag.
14:38 For my family it was because all our CDs were illegally downloaded for us by our neighbour, so we didn't have any cases to put on the shelves lmao. He burnt CDs for the whole estate and did it for like a fiver if you got three at a time.
For me Elefun is a "Only saw the ads, never actually played with one" thing. The CD/DVD wallets were because we used to have portable discplayers and instead of ludding all of these actual cases around with us, we just moved the discs into that wallet (and then lost the cases)
i'm not even that old but next to one of my secondary schools was a little tesco and i used to be able to get a packet of chocolate digestives (about 40p) a 2 litre lemonade (17p) and a bag of midget gems (about 30p) all under a quid
Techdecks we're great. Me and my mates in different classes would organise to pretend to need the toilet and gather in the loos to use the sinks as skate ramps.
Omg I remember getting the Argos catalogue at Christmas time and sitting for hours at the kitchen table circling all the toys I liked then going back, cutting out my favourites and sticking them on scrap paper to make my Christmas list. I almost never got anything on it but I had the best time making it 😂 Also Elefun and kurplunk were my absolute favourite games as a kid
The music players from McDonald’s where you put the cartridge in will forever be the most goated toy, it literally played one song but it was so good, I remember the spice girls and the black eyed peas ones 🤣
I guess it's cos as we're aging, the percentage difference between us gets smaller. Back when we were watching him in 2017, he was comparatively quite a lot older than us.
We call it lead because, originally, pencils were actually made out of lead. But the term was already a thing so pencil lead never changed even after the switch to graphite. 😊
I don’t know why but ‘as a Scottish’ cracked me up but yeah I’m Scottish too and I’m the same love watching nostalgia videos like this from other people from the uk
You have all those Doctor Who cards too!!!!!! Damn I remember a few years ago I asked for more for Christmas and I have extra cards. But that Doctor who era especially the toys was amazing!
Saw a whole bunch of those old McDonald's coke glasses in a charity shop, bought all of them. Can confirm. coke would make bank if they sold them. I am proof
0:09 No pencils use lead anymore, they instead use graphite or charcoal. Before moving on from lead, a lot of artists used to die from too much exposure to lead, which was also used in paint. Coloured pencils are usually wax based
anyone remember how the blue pen in primary schools smelt like vinger and there were never working red pens , also are people nostalgic for that TV stand? I still got it
4:26 I remember those wristsbands being very popular at my secondary school in the early 2000s, they came in loads of different colours and if I remember correctly they were called "peace bands" and the idea was if you wore one you were protesting against Blair's warmongering in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That Battles in Time binder is the ABSOLUTE best thing ever. I remember getting the TARDIS card holder in the magazines. Lost my original one but grabbed a couple off eBay.
The apparatus is so real though. I think we used it once in through the entirety of primary school. Never saw it again, looked almost identical to the one in the video. Moving onto Sixth Form now, completely forgot they existed.
Catalog books in general were something else, especially the Sears Christmas Catalog books, where you could browse all the coolest toys, and accidentally see the gun's section on occasion.
Clarks worker here, the toys no longer exist. I assume it’s because of either covid or because maybe they were a choking hazard. Instead of that, most of our kids’ school shoes are linked to one of four characters in some Roblox game that Clarks made. There’s a T-Rex, a fairy, a unicorn and a leopard and all the school shoes are based around those
Beyblades were all the rage when I was at school in the early 00's. Lethal weapons, modifiable to inflict more damage, tradable and affordable. The chads would throw down the arena in the playground and battle would be vicious.
I work at Clark’s… two years ago the toys were mini torches but last year they stopped doing toy shoes for safety reasons- was secretly happy because my mum never let me get them
3:02 The Astrosaurs books were amazing omfg childhood 😂 ong the nostalgia hits different!! Still got a couple of em on my shelf somewhere. I may be born in 2008 but the nostalgia still hits for a majority 🙏
Great memories of these items, I actually had the umbro bag for few years. School books in the bottom with pens etc in the side, loads of space for my trainers to walk to school and back.
12:06 So, while not Egyptology, I had a similar book but about pirates. And it was legit the greatest thing ever. Puzzles, little interactable. Like I'd imagine it'd be like 100 bucks to make these days but god it made you feel RICH owning one.
Scoobies used to be made by hand and I was that good I could do it without looking. If someone wanted one, they'd come to me and give a quid and it'd be done in minutes
I remember i asked someone working at Argos before and they told me reason they got rid of the catalogue is because its because eco friendly and that was a while ago. I also had the alien egg. Hex bugs were cool at the time they would vibrate and move around if I remember correctly. And yh those papermate pens were awful never ever worked you would have to change pens five times before you got one that actually worked or scribble on paper for 5 minutes till it works😂 Also i remember for a period that you would get books in McDonald's happy meals ruined my lunch honestly.
I work in a McDonald’s, the happy meal toys now are awful. When I was a child, they were so good. The mp3 players slapped. Now they’re just paper /shitty plushies
Went into work today and some kid was upset they got the animal cards, didn’t know what to tell him 😂
I wasnt around then but yea they are pretty appaling now
The toys these days are Awful....Working at McDonalds for 10 Years and watching the toys become less of a toy hurt, Take me back to the Speakers in 2006!
good to know they’re the same shitty ones in europe because they’re like that in australia
As someone with a very young sister who still has happy meals, can confirm
I'm only 19, but happy to be nostalgic for a solid 75% of these. You know I've still got my gogo's crazy bones collection somewhere
Sameee I younger than that and I felt nostalgic for 75% aswelll😂😂
same, Im 18 and not even british
Me sitting here nostalgic as fuck at 33 years old 😂
@@Montana-h5y same, 33 too
Tbf you don’t need to be that old really, I’m 16 and can relate to almost all of this from growing up in the early 2010s
the apparatus at primary school was the fucking best thing ever, you know it was gonna be a banging PE lesson when they got that shit out
they never got ours out once 😋
They got it out at my school one time in 97 and a kid fell off and got a compound fracture, about a month later they had stripped it all out of the hall. 😭
@@minmo2288what a selfish kid , he should’ve just not gotten a compound fracture
I absolutely loved the apparatus! They always had the thinnest safety mats on earth and everyone would fight over who got to help put them out 😂 Those PE lessons were always goated
@@rinnniiiii I loved putting the mats out! It was annoying and difficult to do but I felt so cool doing it
Knowing George was as into Doctor Who during that era as a lot of us were, to the extent of loving the Toys R Us display AND getting a load of Battles in Time cards (I still have that exact same folder, tho nowhere near as many cards shamefully) has made my year
But did you (or anyone else) have the plastic Tardis they sold in multiple parts that was a card holder? Cause I managed to get one as a kid and it made my childhood xD
@@mrchrischamp1 OMG I still have that, and the countless money box Tardises as well aha
George, I'm actually a really big Gogo's Crazy Bones collector. One of the biggest in the world actually. I have over 6300 of them from all around the world, including some that are super rare and even a 1 of a kind prototype.
There are actually quite a few hundred dedicated collectors within the Gogo's Crazy Bones community.
this is amazing. I love collectors, wow.
That is so cool
geek
I've got some potentially rare ones for sale if you're interested?
That's so sad😢
What I miss about the argos catalogue is the weight of the pages when you were flipping through sections, and then circling the thing you were going to put on your Santa list so you could show your mum
YES YES I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID THAT
Crazy how we all have the same lives
the weight of that thing came in handy, threw many a yellow pages/argos catalogue at the siblings over the years :D
YES😂❤
Thank you George, I'd completely forgotten the Astrosaurs books, I'm now being overwhelmed with memories
Me too! The joy I felt when he said them. Oh my god.
I loved them so much!
Same tooo I loved them
Hexbugs in anything lower than A is fucking criminal
I love you
hex bugs were a solid b. you'd take them out, let them trundle around for a bit bumping into things, realize they don't work on most surfaces and can't go far, then put them away. their saving grace is they do look insanely cool
@@giddycadet You don't use them on 'most surfaces' you use them on those hex bug tracks and build your own world or race track. It was class.
@@beans3117
When he showed the hex bugs something in me activated and I started belting WHAT'S THAT COMING OVER THE HILL IS IT A HEXBUG? IT'S A HEXBUG
Astrosaurs absolutely SLAPPED - I work in a library now and it's a travesty that I haven't seen any on the shelves
When you got a fuzzy GoGo Crazy Bones was peak dopamine
golden gogos elite
man i used to run to the shop and spend my pocket money on gogos, i had a whole shoebox full of them 😭
I used to get them from a corner shop nearby my childhood home, my god do I get a rush of nostalgia whenever I see them
I'm a grown-ass man and I still have dozens of them and plan on completing my collection. Love them so much
So true
13:46 I’m an absolute die hard fan of Gogos and still collect them today! Absolute bangers fr
I'm in my 40s. Shag bands were worn at school. they were "breakable" wrist bands in that you could pop them off, join them together etc... We used them as their namesake. If a person was wearing one, the rule was if you managed to break it off, you got a shag.
Fellow old fk here. I remember shagbands. No mention of pogs, beano, gameboys, pokemon cards, tazos, football stickers etc.
I don’t think I ever used that PE apparatus wall thing in primary school
PLEASE my school ditched theirs... i mean, we didnt use them anyways
it just teased us for 4 years straight lol
@@quandaledingleskibidi I remember using ours only once.
On a similar note, how about that rainbow parachute every school had for some reason?
I did once.. but that is now just a long gone fuzzy memory
@@ShogunTurnip vaguely in like reception or nursery
You know George is a real one when he mentions Astrosaurs
I loved the pencil cases back in the day
Love that George just had the dr who card card collection on hand
The Astrosaus books gave me a genuine shock of nostalgia when you mentioned them
14:38
For my family it was because all our CDs were illegally downloaded for us by our neighbour, so we didn't have any cases to put on the shelves lmao. He burnt CDs for the whole estate and did it for like a fiver if you got three at a time.
Who remembers those McDonald's Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Sonic and Sega LCD games?
YES oh my god i had like three each of the Crash and Spyro ones, i was obsessed
Oh my god yes !!
Astrosaurs was brilliant
I love being old enough to actually get nostalgic now
I hate it
For me Elefun is a "Only saw the ads, never actually played with one" thing.
The CD/DVD wallets were because we used to have portable discplayers and instead of ludding all of these actual cases around with us, we just moved the discs into that wallet (and then lost the cases)
I bought my daughter elefun in a charity shop for 2.50 many years ago, it was used about 2.50's worth at best. You didn't miss much
Did you have the diskplayers that you could strap to the headrests of the car seats for long journeys?
Loving the nostalgia. I adored crazy bones 😂
Also, I used to nick the dolls out of the Clark’s shoes when I was younger & enjoyed doing it 😂
Back then I used to buy cheap Cola 2L for like 18p from Tesco
Who else remembers when a school classroom had either a tub or box of K'nex and/or Bionicle toys? The latter items were mint.
its surprising how similar British nostalgia is to dutch nostalgia
I had the astrosaurs books as well, holy shit that's nostalgic
Bro get the super rose
You did scoobies by hand. It's basically just a 4 way braid, but starting a chain off was pretty fiddly XD
i'm not even that old but next to one of my secondary schools was a little tesco and i used to be able to get a packet of chocolate digestives (about 40p) a 2 litre lemonade (17p) and a bag of midget gems (about 30p) all under a quid
GoGos and TechDeck were peak childhood
Techdecks we're great. Me and my mates in different classes would organise to pretend to need the toilet and gather in the loos to use the sinks as skate ramps.
Omg I remember getting the Argos catalogue at Christmas time and sitting for hours at the kitchen table circling all the toys I liked then going back, cutting out my favourites and sticking them on scrap paper to make my Christmas list. I almost never got anything on it but I had the best time making it 😂 Also Elefun and kurplunk were my absolute favourite games as a kid
astrosaurs was goated
The music players from McDonald’s where you put the cartridge in will forever be the most goated toy, it literally played one song but it was so good, I remember the spice girls and the black eyed peas ones 🤣
as a 21 year old i’ve always felt that george is like Wayyyyy older than me, it is very funny feeling nostalgic for all of the same things he is
I guess it's cos as we're aging, the percentage difference between us gets smaller. Back when we were watching him in 2017, he was comparatively quite a lot older than us.
Nah fake can/pringles pencil cases were 🔥
And why did they always have that incredible smell
I'm actually so sad that i lost my year 5 sour cream pringles can :(
No pencils are made out of lead. Lead is just the name we give to the graphite core which is just solid carbon.
We call it lead because, originally, pencils were actually made out of lead. But the term was already a thing so pencil lead never changed even after the switch to graphite. 😊
i was an astrosaurs enjoyer as a child
Astrosaurs was elite
I used to LOVE the Astrosaurs books when I was a kid. I'd always come home after school, sit with my dad and read them to him for my reading homework.
George confirming his autism at 11:15
And 15:38
10:20 “Circle what you want for Christmas”
brainlicker in e is crazy thats an s tier
Oh my God the Astrosaurs!!! That has truly unlocked a memory, elite series
I’m 23 and I used to get 17p Coke bottles from Tescos when I had sleepovers with my friend so you’re not alone in that memory lol
Astrosaurs blimey George thats an almighty throwback!
As a Scottish I love watching other youtubers from the uk
I don’t know why but ‘as a Scottish’ cracked me up but yeah I’m Scottish too and I’m the same love watching nostalgia videos like this from other people from the uk
YHHHH UP THE SCOTS
You have all those Doctor Who cards too!!!!!! Damn I remember a few years ago I asked for more for Christmas and I have extra cards. But that Doctor who era especially the toys was amazing!
Saw a whole bunch of those old McDonald's coke glasses in a charity shop, bought all of them. Can confirm. coke would make bank if they sold them. I am proof
This nostalgia is bringing back so many memories
the disk wallets in my house were purely for pirated movies lmao, back when you had to burn them onto a disk so you could watch them on the dvd player
3:01 YES. FINALLY I HEAR SOMEONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT THOSE. ASTROSAURS CARRIED MY EARLY CHILDHOOD.
Mentioning astrosaurs just unlocked a memory I forgot I had
0:09 No pencils use lead anymore, they instead use graphite or charcoal. Before moving on from lead, a lot of artists used to die from too much exposure to lead, which was also used in paint. Coloured pencils are usually wax based
anyone remember how the blue pen in primary schools smelt like vinger and there were never working red pens , also are people nostalgic for that TV stand? I still got it
ISTG RED PENS WERE SACRED
4:26 I remember those wristsbands being very popular at my secondary school in the early 2000s, they came in loads of different colours and if I remember correctly they were called "peace bands" and the idea was if you wore one you were protesting against Blair's warmongering in Iraq and Afghanistan.
i still use my mcdonald’s coke bottles to this day
Didnt realise that TV stand was nostalgic. I still have it! It's literally right in front of me rn and still in use!
My cat was obsessed with hex bugs, when the battery ran out, just the click of the on button was enough to wake her up and start losing her mind
That Battles in Time binder is the ABSOLUTE best thing ever. I remember getting the TARDIS card holder in the magazines. Lost my original one but grabbed a couple off eBay.
The people who chose fudge or bacon streaks as their nostalgic item had no childhood fr 😂
Also I was a scoobie expert ngl, before your time it seems George, deserves higher then D 😂 they're actually extremely simple once u know how
They might be under the age of 10 if they chose a FUDGE
The apparatus is so real though. I think we used it once in through the entirety of primary school. Never saw it again, looked almost identical to the one in the video. Moving onto Sixth Form now, completely forgot they existed.
I STILL HAVE THE CAN PENCIL CASES
fuck, those Clarks with the toys were so sick. i never had one but my mate did. serious bit of kit
7:30 I literally have this tv stand down in my living room 😭😭
ME TOO😭
ITS IN MY DINING ROOM (shit name we dont even eat there)
I had one
Catalog books in general were something else, especially the Sears Christmas Catalog books, where you could browse all the coolest toys, and accidentally see the gun's section on occasion.
Clarks worker here, the toys no longer exist. I assume it’s because of either covid or because maybe they were a choking hazard.
Instead of that, most of our kids’ school shoes are linked to one of four characters in some Roblox game that Clarks made.
There’s a T-Rex, a fairy, a unicorn and a leopard and all the school shoes are based around those
I had all the Astrosaurs books. Saying that, I could no tell you anything to do with what they were about.
1:00 the euroshopper chocolate bars are 85p now, prettysad ngl
milk chocolate hazelnut one is banging tho
@@Loukas.ArsenalCCi need that
Beyblades were all the rage when I was at school in the early 00's. Lethal weapons, modifiable to inflict more damage, tradable and affordable. The chads would throw down the arena in the playground and battle would be vicious.
Anyone else remember Donutters? I never had it, but I always remembered the ad with the catchphrase "It's elephantastic!"
I work at Clark’s… two years ago the toys were mini torches but last year they stopped doing toy shoes for safety reasons- was secretly happy because my mum never let me get them
15:03 you mean S tier right? RIGHT!?
Those little Pringle-shaped Pringle holders for school lunchboxes come to mind, pure nostalgia
give me backshots please George
me next! ooh boy!
yo wtf
I never thought I'd see anyone reference Astrosaurs! I have the whole series on my shelf still. Absolutely class
3:02 The Astrosaurs books were amazing omfg childhood 😂 ong the nostalgia hits different!! Still got a couple of em on my shelf somewhere. I may be born in 2008 but the nostalgia still hits for a majority 🙏
Seeing those gogos crazy bones made me scream I had literally hundreds of them 💀
Argos was so good circling what you wanted for Christmas 😂
7:37... the worst thing is I've just moved house and I still have this tv stand in my bedroom 😂 ... maybe time for a new one lol
"ah mate, you fucking stink if you had these" looooooooooooool
Kids today will never know the feeling of destroying your thumbs pressing the little yellow dot on a battery to see how fully charged it is
3:22 astrosaus ,beast quest and diary of a wimpy kid made my childhood
I feel pretty attacked that I still have my TV and PS4 on that black glass table.
11:11 just had the most vivid flashback to year 1
Anyone else remember that rug that had roads on so you could drive your Hotwheels or Matchbox on? Those were the days
Great memories of these items, I actually had the umbro bag for few years. School books in the bottom with pens etc in the side, loads of space for my trainers to walk to school and back.
8:53 pound coins were swapped in 2017, 7 years ago…
I was so cool when I pulled up to Primary School with my Golden Series Crazy Bones from Toys R Us
I lived for hex bugs. Opened up so many memories
i remember the theme tune which used to play along side the add
This video was just pure nostalgia
george you don’t realise how hard my jaw just dropped over the mention of astrosaurs. my world has been rocked
12:06 So, while not Egyptology, I had a similar book but about pirates. And it was legit the greatest thing ever. Puzzles, little interactable. Like I'd imagine it'd be like 100 bucks to make these days but god it made you feel RICH owning one.
Scoobies used to be made by hand and I was that good I could do it without looking. If someone wanted one, they'd come to me and give a quid and it'd be done in minutes
9:58 wow loved this
Im so glad that im not the only one who remembers the astrasoars😂
I still have one of the books that i nicked from school in year five
love a good trip down childhood memory lane when life was simpler and so much less depressing :’)
I remember i asked someone working at Argos before and they told me reason they got rid of the catalogue is because its because eco friendly and that was a while ago. I also had the alien egg.
Hex bugs were cool at the time they would vibrate and move around if I remember correctly.
And yh those papermate pens were awful never ever worked you would have to change pens five times before you got one that actually worked or scribble on paper for 5 minutes till it works😂
Also i remember for a period that you would get books in McDonald's happy meals ruined my lunch honestly.
biggest flex is having a super rose
The coolest gogo was the Sackboy looking guy (Angru for the cultured amongst us)