I was born in 1952, so I was their target audience. I got a 25¢/week allowance. But soft drinks were 10¢/bottle, and candy bars and gum packs were 5¢. A kid today would need $5/week. Gasoline was approx. 29¢/gallon. Hard to believe now that such a world existed!
@@SteveCarras Yea and we complained about a slice cheese for a cheese burger was 5 cent more. I had some board games and an Electric Football game. (imagine that today, no carbon foot print).
About the same time those $7-25 toys were being sold, I asked my mom when we could get a new house. She said maybe when Dad got a raise to $10k a year. In retrospect, it seems like a better world back when toys like that sold for a few dollars. But don't forget that most of that crap was crap that broke in 2 weeks and a $25 toy cost the average Joe nearly a full day's pay.
I was a kid of the 60's and the one toy I never see mentioned was Creepy-Crawlers. My buddy's and I spent endless hours creating all sorts of creatures.
I loved creepy crawlers. I still remember every detail of that toy, the goop of unknown chemistry, the heating unit you could melt lead in... Bugs, trolls, and that smell..... Sadly today, like most of these toys, it would be banned by the safety Nazis.
I’m 77 and grew up in the 1950s . My favorite toys were scale model trucks by Tonka and Nylint. And toy farm implements by Ertl. Give me a sandbox and I could play there forever. 😊
At one time I had almost the entire set. They had a plane even. Carried the doll. That little white car was incredibly fast back then. New batteries. Lol
When we were kids in the 50's and 60's we all had Western cap guns, play sets, Lionel trains and space toys. We had a great time playing with our friends. The space toys were inspiring and we used our imaginations. We never wanted to get real guns.
I’m 61 and I still have my Matchbox cars, 60’s Japanese robot, Legos, Mattel’s Thingmaker, Matt Mason like in the video and other things. I’d still have my Hotwheels but my ex stole them to sell.
Boy did we ever go through a mountain of roll caps back in the 70’s, I loved my Winchester model 94 30-30 cap rifle. Then we discovered a hammer and 2-3 rolls at once, huh ? Can ya speak up ? 😂🐾✌️🇺🇸
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WOW !! "Secret Sam" was my favorite toy when I was 6 or 7 years old and this commercial brought back a very special childhood memory! 😉
I remember my johnny 7, what a great toy that was. I also remember how great all toys worked on television. And when they came home,,,it was a different story. Lol, great times though.
My father was a career military man so almost all of these toys were too expensive to hope for. I would not have asked either. Not sure why, but I knew not to. However, on my fourth Christmas I woke up to a tricycle with a VROOM motor! Just like one in these ads. Still the most memorable gift I ever got. I was the coolest kid on the block. Everyone else had to put cards in their spokes to make noise but I could just sit there and rev my vroom motor. Soooo cool!
I remember quite a few of these.The Billy Blastoff I had was the older one that did not walk. Weeks after Christmas or birthdays when the batteries went dead we were told by our parents to save money we didn't have for new ones...we learned to use our imaginations instead. A fun fact about the Bonanza figures: when Pernell Roberts left the series a mustache was added to the Adam Cartwright figure and he became the Villain figure.
I'm 22 years old and I love watching vintage commercials. Seeing these toys makes me want to buy one for myself! They look like so much fun to play with hehe
You're not the only one who feels that way. These vintage toys are just so... fascinating to see, and I'm a 20-year-old girl! 😋 No to mention, these toys look SO MUCH better than the toys we have today! 😋😁
this is a bucket list goal. to start a toy collection, from 50’s to current. some toys I wanted out of the classics are stuff like the SSP sets, ricochet racers, rock em sock em robots, among many others.
I found an old all metal Marx locomotive in a junk pile at a train store for litterally nothing. Took it home, and it worked near perfectly with little servicing needed! Those things are absolute tanks.
the OO7 commercial....that is so epic...I wonder if anyone still has theirs....just curios cause I grew up with toys in the late 70's, and mid 80's....those toys from before the 70's must have been epic!
@@garyowens7454 actually, we grew up with the earliest video games..... when video games came out when I was only 8 or 9, and it was the latest thing, the first video game was Spacewar! it was produced by MIT students in 1962, and was finally released in 1970 to the public. I got to play it in 1979, and boy it was fun.
I was crazy for Motorific. I remember some of those commercials, especially that damn jingle, 'Voice control ... Kennedy Airport.' Why is that still stuck in my head? The toys were fun but the boy provided the imagination. Miss those days!
Omg, the military toys back then were so awesome! Heck, not just the military toys but most of them! 😊❤ Kids running around with tommy guns and snub nose 38s (just wouldn’t see that today) 😂😂 Secret Sam! And that Sonic Blaster! ❤
@@shieldsjohnjr I would imagine. I bought a vintage G.I. Joe combat jeep (complete) with the "moto-rev" sound last year and paid close to $300 including shipping. I know they cost about $10 back in the day.
Love anything Vintage... Notice most of these boy toy commercials in the beginning were planting seeds, grooming them for the Military/Space related Brilliant, Anyhow I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks again for sharing.😀
A lot of our kids are being raised like wimps nowadays,many don't know who or what they are because of some the parents and teachers we have!!! Kids don't know what real toys are, Most toys are nothing but garbage !!! Many children and sorry to say adults either don't know or don't care about what it has taken to keep things in this US the way they have been many people have fallen asleep! Many people have died to keep us free!!! Such a shame
@@jimnunes6286 I have to agree. Back in the 70's we didn't have smartphones attached to our heads 24/7, or in front of our X-Box or Playstation systems. Our parents DIDN'T have to tell us to go outside. We loved it out there. Even in winter. I can remember a massive snowfall, schools closed, YAHOO! LOL! But we would bundle up and off we'd go. Some days it was playing 🏈🏉football🏉🏈, some days we'd use our K-Tel "snow brick maker" and make igloo snow forts! Outside we had a blast! I can remember Mom calling us back inside. Awww Mom, 30 more minutes? PLEEEEASE! We'd love being outside. When we'd finally come inside our clothes would be soaking wet. Our legs and feet a reddish pink color from the cold, but LOL we'd want to go back out! After a cup of Hot Chocolate and a 🥪sandwich!🥪 My point was back then we didn't rely on the internet, or video games, or even 📺television📺, we relied on our imaginations, our creativity, our abilities to take advantage of our surroundings using items that we acquired over the years...all 3 or 4 of them. Those days are such wonderful moments in my life. Life was so much more simple, and extremely safer and less chaotic and insane. Kids could safely walk to school without having to look over our shoulder every couple of minutes. We may not have had all the "technologies" that kids have now, but honestly we really DIDN'T NEED IT. And Christmas time was the most amazing, the most wonderful, and absolutely the most special and perfect time of the year! Getting ahold of the JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and/or the Sears Wish Book was the second most anticipated holiday event other than Christmas itself. Also some of the few times we'd sit glued to the 📺TV!📺 The 🎄Christmas🎄television specials. From Frosty the⛄Snowman☃️, to Rudolph the Red Nose 🦌Reindeer🦌, a Charlie Brown 🎄Christmas🎄, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and a few others. Those were so fun, so special, and they still give me that special feeling when I watch them. I actually bought all of the shows that I mentioned on either 📀DVD📀 or 📀Blu-Ray.📀 Oh also I forgot, any and every Muppets Holiday Specials, The Muppets Family Christmas, or any of the others. Those are by far the most iconic Christmas specials to me. Especially the Muppets Christmas Carol. Epic movie! These are just A FEW absolutely incredible experiences that kids nowadays never have seen or ever will see. Walking into a Toys R Us during Christmas! The anticipation of those catalogs, and Christmas itself! Going to the Mall with Mom and Dad Christmas Shopping. Some of these things you can do now, BUT honestly they aren't even remotely close to those past days of the 70's. Growing up then was, well it was a AWESOME TIME TO BE A KID!! Merry Christmas everybody! Have a Happy New Year as well! God Bless us all, and may our new year be a lot better than the last one!
back in those days ... we were allowed to get skin knees and get bruised .. from our antics ... we learned what we could and couldnt do ... no playing inside all day at a desk ... your playground was outside ... because if you stayed inside you helped Mom do the housework ... above and beyond your daily chores
@@kaboom-zf2blRemember Saturday cartoons? Somehow, Saturday was also vacuum day. The vacuum was loud and made static on the T.V. Right in the middle of Mighty Mouse!
I’d love that Mattel Frontier Set even today. The details were amazingly good for under $6.00 My family was very poor when I was young so there was no hope of ever getting stuff like that. Doesn’t help that I’m an old man now, I still want it. Ha!
I remember my dad being a huge fan of Roy Rogers and his hidden wrist derringer. He mangled some scrap together and made a similar mechanism that popped out a live firing pistol when flicked, MAN that thing was COOL
I want a vrroom motor like 5:00 I would have never gotten off my bike. I was a kid in the 90s so I grew up the last era to play outside. I was on my bike all the time anyway. It was a different time. We locked our doors at night, but didn’t have to be home until the street light turned on. I could play at the park without an adult watching. Computers were starting to get really big, but I was still forced to go outside to play. I couldn’t get on the computer until after dinner. Every summer night I’d come home dirty & smelling like bug spray. I grew up right on the Mississippi river & could go swimming as long as I took a friend, wore a life jacket & told an adult where we were. We’d walk up the street about a mile with our inner tubes to get on the river & float home. I lived in a suburb so there were only houses in my neighborhood. I could ride my bike anywhere as long as I didn’t cross the major road. I feel lucky. By the time i had my kids it was illegal for kids to even be outside without a parent watching. The idea of “go outside to play” is long lost. I feel blessed to be born when I was. I didn’t have all the cool toys of the 60s, but I had the awesome stuff from the 90s! Teen age mutant ninja turtles & Harry Potter. Those were the good ol’ days.
@Figi Moheder I grew up in the mid-late 60s, early to mid 70s. I agree with you, but if someone would have introduced me to video games, even the early Intellivision, Nintendo games from the 80s I would likely have spent much less time outside. Our options were very limited with only 3 channels and those were mostly soaps in the afternoon. Unless you played board games outside was more fun.
@Figi Moheder Choice is an awesome thing. Who knows what I would have really done? I loved being outside playing baseball, Basketball & football and tag type games. Hard to blame today's kids without knowing what we older folks would have done given that option. I don't know how old you are and maybe you had access to video games and still chose the outdoors. It also probably a factor if all of the neighborhood kids chose to stay inside also, or if my parents would have not bought you a system and told you not to play it.
I had Johnny Lightning too ! Anybody remember Sizzlers ? Charge em up they had a capacitor in em they’d run about 6-8 laps and you had to “gas” em back, too cool. Way more fun than a damn computer, at least to us old kids. 🐾✌️🇺🇸
I think Bully Mummy (later Lost in Space) at 35:25? Amazing the plethora of cool stuff kids could get, including elaborate play sets - all for under $15!
He's the right age for these toys. Later on I remember standing in line with him and his girlfriend at the time in Westwood for an hour and a half to see the original "Star Wars" while I was at UCLA. I didn't know who he was. A friend of mine had to tell me. He had been in Disney stuff and a film with Jimmy Stewart but he wasn't well known at all. Seeing and knowing actors in that area was not unusual. My memory is of only small talk and barely conversing.
I had the Mattel fanner fifty along with the Mattel Winchester , great toys . My neighborhood was never safer after I took care of Melvin the Kid and Jesse Jomblowski , a couple of real desperados back in the day !
Great nostalgia im only 22 but love this era have vinyl old toys a movie collection i buy for myself first and re sell occasionally there's a great dvd set that has a bunch of these on it..
I am so glad to have the dad i have. Old school soda shops,batman cards, redline hotwheels,aurora model kits,universal monsters,adam west,get smart,dar shadows,outer limits,twilight zone,honey mooners, carol burnette,sgt bilko... i could go on and on. Im 29 years old btw.
Lot of people saying kid's these day always stick with computer and know nothing else, yeah some of them did. But what happen more often is, with the modern game. We have kids can handle over 10 aircraft on online Air traffic Control, knowing how to cold start a MD-11, Telling the difference between T62 to T55 before engaging, and back up B-double trailer with ease. Kids did get smarter, we just have to know how to encourage them to utilize their knowledge and modern tools.
Back when kids used their IMAGINATIONS and actually went outside to play. We didn't have smartphones attached to our heads, or our faces glued to a laptop playing World of Warcraft, or any other of those mindless games. Now I love gaming. I've owned everything from an Atari 2600 to a Nintendo NES, all the way to a Playstation & X-Box, BUT as kids we ALWAYS played outside. We used our own devices for fun. We used our IMAGINATIONS! We built forts, played football, baseball, basketball, hit the trails on our bikes, went 🎣fishing🎣, went swimming, or just walked through the woods looking for some adventures.🤔 Back then we loved being outside, even in the winter. I lived in the northern part of the Midwestern US. Where it could hit zero degrees. Negative wind chills, but we still would go out and play. We loved playing football in the snow and cold. I can remember being bummed out because we could go outside, but in Mom's defense it was ☃️🥶☃️🥶COLD🥶🥶🥶🥶, like --5⁰ with a wind chill of --25⁰. But it snowed and we wanted to either go sledding or play football. We also loved to make Igloo forts. We had the Ronco Block maker and it worked! I've seen comments about the "dangers" of those old toys. While some were not exactly safe by nowadays standards, we didn't get hurt. Well those of us smart enough to NOT play with the toy foolishly that is! Again by today's FEARFULLY OBSESSIVELY RIDICULOUS STANDARDS, even a sliver is cause for a recall! Nowadays kids are treated like little porcelain🪆dolls!🪆 But again kids now aren't nearly as tough or as creative as 60's and 70's kids were. Sorry but true.
bruh what are you talking about? I was born 99 and literally spent my childhood outside in colorado going to the creek making up adventures biking around and creating all kinds of shit. I broke my arm twice outside once in the backyard and again at football practice. Not to mention the 3 concussions. I don't know why boomers think the outdoors is some foregien concept/place to anyone born after 1975.
@@TeaRex Relax your crack Foghorn. I was referring to the more recent years. Where kids all have a smartphone attached to their heads. Wow I apologize for insulting your childhood. However I live near a park, with a multitude of open space for baseball, football, or other games. There's even a Disc Golf course there. Yet it sits EMPTY except for ADULTS playing Disc Golf. Where are the kids? Again allow me to apologize. Also Millennium people aren't exactly perfect. Social Media, Social Justice 🤡clowns🤡 have done an excellent job over the last decade. Nobody is perfect and WE ALL make mistakes OR live in different places where things may have also been different.
I think that the people down the road had three girls and they were always telling us boy's that's dum or your gonna get hurt well they had to grow up to be the mom's that ruined childhood for the next generation of kids.
Ok, those self made cars are very cool! I mean think about it, if we had something like that say in collages You'd have actual professionals who've basically built their own cars or boats for a collage course. Hell the final exam could actually be testing and really building your design
26:05 I don't know how safe and solid Blaze really was, but he probably held together better than the wooden rocking horse I had; one of its legs split and just missed slashing my leg. Those plastic ones hanging from springs on a metal stand looked a little tacky, but I'll bet they were safer.
They didn't show the censured commercial of the Mattel M-16 toy with the white background and a kid hopping around firing on continual automatic. My brothers always won the neighborhood battles not knowing that someday that we would be using the real one to stay alive.
Used my sister’s dolls with mother’s scarves as parachutes from rooftop. Dropped crayons from paper airplanes as bombs. Melted rubber green army men with magnifying glass. Played Army in woods with guns made by Grandpa. Never a dull moment.
3:22 Snapping those tracks together could be a pain in the nutz!. I remember getting something similar for Christmas and each time I got to the last piece, all the others fell apart before I could make that final snap. I thew such a tantrum that my mother threatened to take the whole thing away. I think it was the next day before I finally got it together and after that everything worked perfectly.
I was born in 53. Remember these, but we were too poor to buy most of these. My 25-cent allowance took a while to get enough to buy what I wanted. Christmas was great though.
Anyone else see the irony we're watching an hour's worth of commercials we used to walk away from while skipping the ads in the video the instant the 5 second mark allows it.
In the 70s when i was a kid. Kids taught me how to build my own gun. Board, rubber bands, nail, clothes line clip, bottle caps, dad did not want me to have it though. 1 hour to play anyways.
The good ole days when toys were real toys and kids were real kids playing OUTSIDE!!! Instead of being little zombies all up on their phns and computers, parents paying an arm and a leg for games so they can become little zombies!!!
Yea, but were the countless medical bills really worth it? I mean eye injuries Burns Neck injuries Being fed through a tube the rest of your life Neck injuries Yea I'll stick with my gaming and bad vision hahahahaha
@@pvtread5207 I am trying to remember all of my friends that were being fed through a tube. Besides blurred vision, how about sedentary diseases like diabetes and heart disease. I played with guns (usually World War type play) and I have never owned a rea run. I did burn myself really bad, screwing around with a rope I caught on fire (on purpose) and cut my leg open on a homemade wooded playhouse. I wrecked my bike a few times and had scrapes and bruises. You can't live in bubble wrap. Oh, BTW, not a single medical bill from any of my incidents playing. Mom always fixed me up.
Has a kid who grew up in the seventies and eighties I can remember quite a few unique toys I still remember fondly of the Evel Knievel playsets the Tonka four by fours Hot Wheels and then the introduction of the remote control NASCAR series cars was pretty fun we had a lot of fun with all those toys back then😅
Boys had the best toys back then. Seems all the girls had were Easy Bake Ovens and a doll that Pee'd! Give me a cap gun and a Jimmy Jet anytime! My brother got a chemistry set ifor Christmas 1962, took him only 2 days before he blew a hole in the wall of his bedroom! Those were the days!
Clutch cargo, Johnny Quest, Thunder-birds and all the other great kids shows come to mind watching these commercials. A great time to be a kid. Shootings and stabbings unheard of in my time. Worst you got was a punch in the nose or a "black eye" by the school-yard bully. (who would get suspended after his parents had to come and pick him up from the principles office.)
