Just remember, you can’t take your smart phone with you back in time. No google, no internet, to Netflix or hulu or video games. I’m in. When are we leaving??
What a awesome trip back! I'm a 1972 model. 👧🏼 I had Merlin, the cap bomb and gun, old monopoly (waayyyy better hardware). Oh the smell of my old tinker toys...Yes! ❤️ Thank you for sharing your cool treasures.👍🏻
We used to smash a whole box with a big rock. Scared the crap out of the old people in the neighborhood. Of course, they yelled at us. Great time to be a kid.
Christmas memories for me as a young boy in the 1950's was heading into the chilly old living room alone before everyone got up and pausing to look at the big christmas tree with all our gifts of mine and my sister's. then later all excited opening one of mine a bright red Hubley kiddie toy fire truck with all the removable parts I still have that toy 67 years later. An innocent time back then. Unfortunately never took any photos.😟🎄
Geez, you were lucky. I didn’t dare leave my room before it was ok’d. Plus we had to go to church Christmas morning before opening presents. It was like torture.
Man, I still remember the smells of Erector Set and Tinker Toys. One was woodsy and the other metallic. I kept the electric motor from my Erector Set and used it for projects later in life. Ok, so I'm a pack rat.
I had Tinker Toys and Erector Set as well as American Flyer trains. Later in life, I built my home myself and a live steamer. I think there is a connection between those toys and my later endeavors.
Ah, good point my friend. And if there were no toys around, we could take a rock, a pine cone, and a piece of string and figure out some way to play with them.
I was lucky my Mother didn’t throw it away she said it was up to me when I was older Whoa She was a Cool Mother way ahead of her time doubt they think her way even today like I said ahead of her time!😳🤠😉🤩🇺🇸😇🙏
I enjoyed this very much. I completely forgot about Tinker Toys which I played with all the time. Also the bank with the hand collecting the coins. Very good.
Those were the days when all we had to worry about was getting in the front door before the sun went down. My cousins had Merlin and the football game. They were the "rich" cousins who got all the new toys. We went to their house 2 Saturday's a month.
I had both Tinker Toys and Lincoln logs the Lincoln logs were my favorite i got two huge boxes of them one from parents and one from my Uncle one Christmas. I would build huge forts for all my Plastic Army , Cowboys and Indians and Knights figures. Those were great times to be a child.
I was born in 1969 and I absolutely loved being a boy in the '70's ! My 3 favorites were Lincoln Logs, Legos and cap guns. Thanks for bringing back such great memories. 👍 Oh, and Matchbox cars, Hotwheels, and Tonka trucks ! And my pocket knives, slingshot, and Daisy BB gun ( air rifle ). We collected beer bottle caps for some reason.
Shit you guys didnt have the real shit to play with. My dumb ass or the son himself stole some .357 magnum bullets from a father of one of the kids. Yeah, I wouldnt have stole but I would ave received. And I stacked that standing vertical on the sidewalk and hit it with the rear of a hatchet. That cartridge blew up and exploded shell cartridge, nickle blasted into my leg. It hit extremely hard, lots and lots of pain but the wrangler jeans were like bullet proof for the shrapnel cartridge. Last time I tried that stupid shit. Then there was throwing bullets in a fire and people say that's not really dangerous but it is. There are deadly projectiles, just two at half the speed of one.
That's fantastic that you still have these toys! My mom would throw out anything I didn't play with 😢 I loved the tops, mecanno and tinker toys. These toys, unlike today, relied on a child's imagination. Thanks for sharing!
I used to have most all these toys from the 60s through the 70s. I also had an Astrolite by Hasbro. I played by the hrs with my Lincoln Logs set, my Legos set, my Erector set, my chemistry sets. Life was good back then.
Yeah, those good ol' toys us Boomers had helped us develop manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination. They were also actual three dimensional objects, not just images on a screen. We also played card games with a standard deck, which helped us develop basic practical math skills. And does anybody remember Kerplunk, Mouse Trap, Operation, or Green Ghost? Those were such great games!
the Wizzer thing really got me. I'd pretty much forgotten about that. Didn't have the boards for it, just the top I remember revving it up and letting it go with the metal tip and rubber around it. We did have a board game called Battle(ing?) tops, you wound a string around tops and pulled out it off with a key like holder, they would smash into each other in a ring, sometimes knocking the other top out of the ring. Had a couple of smaller erector sets as well, and yes the nuts and bolts always worked loose.
These are wonderful toys, many memories from time well spent with family and friends. Made you smile, think and be creative without all the gadgets of now. We still have some
Remember " Smash up derby"? How is that not the greatest toy ever? You got to smash cars together, and parts would go flying! My parents hated that toy, and right as one set was wearing out, good old grandma would show up with a brand new set. I sure miss you grandma, you were the best!
My husband bought our son a Tinker Toy set in the early 90s. I impressed all of his friends when I built this huge ferris wheel with it. Yeah, it was a monster set. Everyone thought it was funny that I could build better stuff with Tinker Toys than my husband did.
As a kid I had half those toys, and played with the other ones at friends houses. I’d add Silly Putty, 10 cent balsa glider kits, an inherited American Flyer train set, Clackers, and a vinyl & straw cowboy hat. These were ubiquitous toys, and I wish my kids had had a whole lot less TV and toy marketing crap, and more hands on the best: the original Lego sets, where everything was up to your imagination! Thanks for the nice memories.
I just really like old toys and seeing what kids did before technology. I was born in 2000 and have very little memory of life without tech. Seeing how kids played and entertained themselves before the turn of the century always amazes me. Thanks for posting this!
I like what you said. Having been born in 1963 I grew up with many of toys shown here, some were hand me downs from my brothers. My favorites were the ones where things were constructed, especially Tinker Toys, Lincoln logs and Erector sets. I really believe they fostered mechanical inclination, especially if there was someone around for guidance.
I remember all these toys. I passed my toys on to neighbors kids or my cousins. They never took care of them. I wish I could have saved them. I would have a freaking "Mint" literally !
I was born in July of 68 and I had tinker toys in the 70s as a child u brought back memories thanks who wouldn't have wanted to be a kid back then and even before that
Thanks for a great video! It certainly DID bring back many memories. Some were toys my mom & dad had, but some were toys we had during the 70s. The best part of childhood during all those decades is that we used our imaginations! Of course, you too said many times as we did, "We're going outside to play!" How many children do you think EVER utter those words today? Sadly, not many. They are truly missing out. I feel blessed to have grown up when there was still "magic" to being a child. And remember, "It's time to go home for supper when the streetlights went on..." 🏡🎈🌠😊
In the late 1960s, I was about 12, stayed outside on my bike ALL ALONE, for hours and hours, I sensed it was 8:P.M. and came in, and no one noticed or cared... did you play on your bike, sometimes going over to the school playground AFTER 10 P.M. , swinging on the swings? Ha! Try going to school playgrounds today in the after hours - barred fences all around Alta Vista elementary school today (what a shame).
I remember every item except the beer can looking item. I was able to play everything else. I was never into comic books. I had a lot of " oh yeah! I remeber that! " moments.
Merlin was the bomb! I had one of those things when I was a kid. I had a Simon, too - remember those? Similar kind of deal, but round, and more colorful. Those Mattel LED games were everywhere, back then. I think I had a Star Wars game they put out. Anyway, thanks for sharing - truly a blast from the past!
Thank you for tour nostalgic video, As I' m from Italy I didn' t know all these amazing toys, apart from monopoly, which was one of my favourite family games! We still Play with it during Christmas holidays!
@@AlleyPicked thank you for tour kind answer I see! Well , I know Sicily, it' s amazing, but I live far a away in a small village in northern Italy, on Iseo lake, not far from Milan. We have played monopoly today, a new version from the LOL dolls, bit still challenging As always I wish you a happy new year!
I loved the erector set, lincoln logs, and tinker toys. I played with every toy that used caps. The toys I remembered most were the little green plastic army men.
Great stuff. The Wizzer rocked and an Erector Set, like the Tinker Toy was the best way for children to develop fine-motor skills. I remember 'Merlin' was the Cabbage Patch doll of its day one Christmas. Fantastic video, keep them coming.
A long time ago I was doodling, remembered some toys I had. Made a list of toys I had that I could remember. A few years ago I added to that list. Recently I'm using that list for art projects. It's a complete list ... every toy I ever had! But then I see this video. Tinkertoys, check. Erector, check. But... that shiny silver gun - that seems _so_ familiar! Not on my list. Had no clue! But watching, wow, the shapes, the weight of it, the moving parts and how they feel, seems to real, sensory-vivid in memory. I don't know if I had one of those cap guns. Maybe our elderly neighbors had one in the ancient toybox from when they had kids, or one of my cousins had one. So familiar! And I know I've given that item exactly zero thought since I was, who knows, eight years old. Now I'm (mumble) decades old! Amazing. BTW, what's a "cap"? I never knew you could put something into that gun to shoot at anything. Duh!
In the early '80s my brother, who was only 18 or 19 yrs old was a electronics whiz kid and he worked for his girlfriend's father producing prototype and exotic and small run production circuit boards. The original Mattell and Atari hand held football, racecars, baseball, Pacman and Ms Pacman with the red LED lights all had circuit boards that my brother managed the whole manufacturing process of. Needless to say he and I were some of the very first people on the planet to have those games before they ever hit the stores. There may be one in a box in storage somewhere still.
Man, I had that baseball game, and I also had football, hockey, basketball, and the head to head football. My friend had the soccer and some of the others too.
I spent many hours in the 50s with my Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs. Unlike the toys today you had to use your imagination back then It was a magical time growing up back then . Thanks for the video it brings back wonderful memories
Loved my Merlin toy! Pretty hi-tech for the 70s. And Tinker Toys... I can still smell those wood pieces and making tall constructions! Thanks for the memories!!! 🪀
Wow do I feel old. I remember all of them the tinkertoy building set was my favorit followed by the cap gun. Thanks for the good memories we sure had fun back then, oh yeah I still have my first comic books to.
As an Aussie kid in the 60s, from among these toys I had a Whizzer (just the top, without the maze thingy), a Tinker Toys set, and a Meccano set (which was the British equivalent of an Erector set, very similar). I also had a cap rifle and a couple of other toy guns. I had plenty of other things to play with. My parents spoiled me a bit in the toy department, but they didn't take any malarkey from me, so I didn't grow up entitled 😁The Merlin had yet to come along - that was future technology, man. One of my young cousins had one, but my interest in toys had long since shifted to girls by that time 😁 I've never heard of the "Spill and Spell". Isn't that basically what Boggle is now?
Earlier tonight I was talking to my wife about my favorite toys. I named Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs, Gilbert? Microscope, and the one (with the wooden wheels with all the holes in them) not remembering the name) and here it is, Tinker Toys.
Toy shops kept boxes full of replacement cap rolls because guns were so popular. Later came a circular plastic cap cassette which was much louder, but only held around 12 shots. You could double or triple up the old paper rolls by folding them over in the bomb.
The Wizzer! I owned or played with all of those toys, except for the Erector set. For some reason I never came across one of those. Also I never had beer cans. My mom would have blown a gasket. I did have the Mattel Baseball, and I think the Football. My best friend had Merlin. Good times.
Nostalgia. I remember in the late 1970s, or thereabouts, we would amass a big amount of soda cans. They would be stacked very high. Those toys and games do seem familiar.
The wizzer reminds me of the wooden tops we had. We would wind a piece of string around them and toss it on the floor. You had to get it just right! Great memories of a simpler time. Thanks.
Can't believe all the wonderful toys & games we had growing up. Tinker Toys, man those were a riot. Always enough for friends to play with you. Loved Merlin & the baseball game. With the baseball game the pitcher would throw a pitch and you had to press a button to swing. You would get a strike, ball or a hit. Loved getting those home runs. Bought the game for someone once & just had to try it out beforehand. Played it so much had to replace the batteries before giving it away. Loved letting my sister play with the bank. Would coax her into putting her money in then watching her cry because her money would disappear. I would secretly take the money out & get her to go again. Pretty cruel but funny as hell. Can't wait to see if you have a Barbie that didn't bend. Frustrating trying to make the thing walk only on her stupid tiptoes. You could only make them hop. Can't forget Barbie's little sisters Tootie & Skipper. Then there was the rubbery blue trolls with the long stretchy arms & legs. They had a big head with a huge suction cup on the back of it. Those suckers stuck to anything. They left great blue circles on the walls. Had to be careful sticking them on skin especially the face as they left huge hickies! Thanx for bringing back fond childhood memories.
Okay, this time you mentioned my Tinkertoys - they came in different sizes ; I never got the most advanced, largest size - besides the toys you would also get a motor , for building a very large, TALL ferris wheel ...😮
Merlin!!! Sister 'mom, what are you playing?' Mom doesnt hear her as she is intrigued... Sister 'mom, WHAT are you playing?!' Mom 'ECHO!!' 👀 Sister 'Ok,,,,ok ok ok ok' I'll never forget when I got that Merlin for Christmas and it was fun!!
Thanks for sharing. Around 1975 I got a GIANT Tinkertoy set for Christmas. The largest plastic “sticks” were probably 3 feet high. You could build pretend houses, planes, etc. and sit inside them. I absolutely loved it.
I had tinker toys when I was a kid! You had to use your imagination whereas today kids just look at a screen and move their fingers. Kids today don't have the imagination today as the kids back then did.
I loved Merlin, my friend had it. I still have my brother's "Head to Head Football", it still works, lost the battery cover, but that's okay, I have the 9-volt wall plug. I still have a few of my childhood toys, two of them in my profile picture. Thanks for sharing.
Oh Thank You I’m 67 Buddy and don’t feel like an old lady yet and I played with boy’s and girls toys if it interested me I was picky I interested in cars wagons dolls jewelry board games marbles still have my marbles and best shooter ever !😁
I ALWAYS wanted an Easy Bake Oven. For some reason, it never appeared beneath the Christmas tree or among the birthday presents. (Likely my parents were concerned about safety.) Luckily, one of my friends had one! Spent many an afternoon at her house. I must say though, as a child, I was truly blessed. I'm grateful for all the wonderful memories. They were simple, happy times. 😊💖🏡
They were fun. I’d take a roofing slat and put a short log under as a fulcrum, put another short log on one end and launch it by slamming down on the other end with a fist. Like a catapult.
...had Tinkertoys also......the cap rocket too......had a bunch of cap guns also...good ones (Fanner 50s/Mattel Winchester 92...it was the golden age of the toy gun...with westerns & cop shows on TV every night
I had most of those toys. The Erector set I didn't have though. I guess the thought of loose bolts and screws all over the house didn't appeal to mom and dad.
Hey, great job. I'm 60 years old and remember many of those toys. One I would love to have is my vintage 1965 or so Voyage to the bottom of the Sea "Seaview Sub". All I remember is it was yellow but would be worth a lot in mint condition today.
