Please, send help... My middle-aged brother still thinks of himself as *James Bond,* no matter how many times I've pointed out that he is not only a fictional character, but also a terrible human being and definitely not a role model that should be followed. Thanks.
the motion sensor was lowkey fire when we were kids i’d put these things everywhere so whenever we would have a nerf war i’d know exactly were everybody was
I had all of this shit. I'd literally wait for the book fair at my school just to get more spy gear. I never used any of it or even tried to use it but the idea alone of me having some kind of power that my friends didn't got me instant street cred.
I was so obsessed with Spy Gear as a kid! I had the Mini Spy Kit and the Eye Link Communicator as a kid! As well as a few other minor ones but I don't quite remember the others. I would daydream of owning a Video ATV 360, the little remote control tank with a camera that you could see the POV of through a headset. This video was a wonderful trip down memory lane.
Try the RC Car/tank thing that has a camera and speaker so you can roam around and see things but also record or output your voice. That was the one I always wanted.
Idk if the spy watch was spygear but I loved that thing and I was low-key pissed when another kid told me how cool it was because that meant *they knew*
That "motion sensor" was always thrown in the boxes amongst all my toys and would be super infuriating when trying to browse through said toy box - beeping every couple seconds until I could find it and turn it off again...!
The one I remember having was something I got from Nabisco. There was a camera with film that attached to glasses. It was activated by a hand pump connected to a tube. As if the giant camera on your face didn't give you away, you can tuck the tube in a pocket or jacket to discreetly take photos. I still have it but need to find all the parts to use it again. It was this exactly: Spy Camera by Wild Planet www.amazon.com/dp/B00000J42B/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_DPD9DbY9F6MBC
I had a spy gear night vision goggle thing it actually semi worked but definitely the real thing would have been better. Essentially it was a camera strapped to infrared lights with a LCD screen attached to it I didn't even have the cool one where it could record as well.
I loved "spy gear" so much that I became a literal intelligence officer when I grew up....only to learn that there are no gadgets and just a bunch of power point.
This particular video reminded me of Spy Academy; a reality-game show that would make up some ridiculous totally-not-staged super villain plan and get six agents who totally went to the titular spy academy and are definitely not game show contestants to foil the plan with totally-not-product-placement niche toy gadgets. The show and it’s station YTV even staged a 4kids style “false station shutdown threat”. I wonder if anyone remembers that show.
@@pumpkinnecromancer2490Whenever someone says “totally-not”, that’s an instant sign that person is lying and it definitely is what he or she is saying.
7:38 "This is not meant for an adult". I can confidently tell you it was not made for kids either, my big brother had it, he was 12 and I was 9, and whoever wore it had to take it off due to it horribly pressing our temples, it felt like the glasses were trying to crush your head
True story: I once owned the spy gear night vision goggles like in the video, then in 2003, when I wanted to dress as a Jawa, my dad hacksawed off a pair of orange medicine bottles and stuck them over the goggles' lights. It was awesome. He even threw in a prop ion gun made of cans and duct tape.
Man that was the best. We used to play hide and seek and give each other hints through pictochat and since I was the dumb kid I'd have my volume on full
Pictochat!! Also, Billiam should go over the ds game "Ping Pals" which was an utterly useless chat game that just was not even better than the built in pictochat. I got a copy of Ping Pals for 5 bucks from blockbuster when I was a kid, and it was fun enough for an afternoon. You could customize your avatar and write secret words (things like baklava and emu and weird stuff) for more coins. I didn't have any friends that had the game though. I still have it, if Billiam wants it!
Story time: I was the spy-kid generation. We had team-VS-team matches with friends, but often we'd just spy on our family. We were using a periscope and listening device to try and see what out parents were up to... In their bedroom... At night... My dad kindly asked us not to spy on "mommy and daddy when they were alone". I asked why, and he told answered "Well... what if we're wrapping birthday presents?". I didn't know how close I was to spying something that could only be erased with years of therapy.
Well that's a story. Being an only child living in the middle of nowhere my excitement was sping on the telephone company when they came out to do work.
I remember that. I collected all the things you needed and sent it in. And then it didn't arrive. So my mom wrote them a letter like "what the shit guys?" And when it finally arrived and I lost my mind. Good times
I remember having one of the spygears. Having the “Satellite Listener” And as a kid, I was shocked whenever I heard a radio signal and just heard music. It was even worse when it literally picked up someones phone connection.
Back when wireless home phones where first coming out (I.e Phones that lets you talk over the landline wireless with a base station... you probably knew that lol) but in the beginning the home phones transmission was unencrypted. If you knew the frequency they transmitted on. You could tune in and listen to the conversation. Both ways. later on they started to encrypt the phones. But. This also worked on drive way fast food speakers. Being able to speak in a drive through speaker caused much fun. Wikipedia has a lot on this in a article. It’s pretty neat.
I can't put into words just how influential the early 2000's "spy" obsession was for my childhood and the person I was. I had my bedroom alarmed and booby trapped. My friends and I would meet up in hideouts and discuss things we found, or ideas we had about the neighborhood. When we couldn't afford or weren't allowed the fancy toys, we made our own. High tech digital communicators and ID badges made from cardboard (none of us had any cellphones at all). Secret weapons made of planks of wood and industrial scrap.
I had the spy goggles as a kid and I remember waiting till it was dark and laying on the grass and turning them on and realizing they didn’t work as advertised I got up and walked to my apartment and being like “man now I look stupid”
I think I've read instances of this, or it could just be kid marketing that's still in my brain. either way celebrities and athletes were definitely used as spies in other countries a lot. And adults seem to forget that kids can't comprehend or know anything about the adult world. Either way there was at least one movie if I could ever find the name of it where a group of kids sold a toy model plans for a us submarine ( think some sort of country like Russia possibly with a different name to protect the innocent ) to raise money as well as putting a concert on for their sick teacher. I would love to re-watch as an adult because it made my parents cringe and squeamish during the teen love scenes ... in the bathtub..... Kissy Kissy talk about relationships just so we're clear.
Remember when you were a kid and staying up to see nick at night and adult swim were forbidden pleasures 😂 I remember so many girls gone wild commercials on tv back then
I remember spy gear. The snitch in my elementary school used the toys to his fullest extent to the point where he had dirt on everyone. Wonder how he’s doing nowadays.
after that movie came out i had a kid in one of my classes that would constantly say it without provocation and laugh as if it was the funniest thing in the world. no one else ever laughed, and he got really pissy when anyone ever told him to stop it.
I'm still surprised the line "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created" is from a Spy Kids movie. It sounds like something from a movie that the Oscar award committee wouldn't be too chicken to acknowledge.
The motion sensor may seem useless now that we're older, but as a kid it was the most amazing and useful device for catching Santa when he came to give presents XD
So fun story about Spy Gear. Back in the early 2000s my friends and I were hard into the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. Spy Gear had a metal detector. And back then all the good YGO cards were foil. We would raid Targets, Toys R Us, and buy booster boxes and use the device to pull all the foils. For the booster boxes, we would get all the foils and sell the other packs. Good times.
Lots of neckbeards at my old locals would take literal drug scales inside to weigh the packs, to see which had foils. The owners of the shop let them, too, since it made no difference to them.
@@bane2988 I remember that was a huge problem with Pokémon Cards too, people would weigh them with kitchen scales and take all the heavier packs. But a couple years ago they took the card with the code for the online game that they include with every pack, and made them two different weights so that all the packs now weigh the same. Pretty ingenious solution.
I remember I got it as a kid as well. Lost everything but the goggles, which would lie at the bottom of my toy chest at the side of my bed. I'd bust it out every now and again as a prop for imaginary night missions.
Good god, I thought I was the only person who remembered those books. Does anyone remember what was in them? Because all I remember was the narrative tone being borderline surreal. Like, there was one incredibly long tangent by the narrator about camera perspective and its relation to literature, and it may have involved man-eating octopi. I'm telling you, there was something deeply weird about how those novels were written but I can't find any sources about it to confirm this.
PSYCH TASTY I remember a bit because I picked one up at a local public library when I was a kid and started to skim through it when I grew disgusted with its lackluster writing and horrific narrative structure (or lack thereof). Their long irrelevant tangents, an illogical spy organization that employed children and adults, and the antagonist was really forgettable. The characters were all flat and the twists were blunt and shit. At one point, one of the teens/young adults the kids are working with just turns to one of the kids just as they are starting their mission and say “By the way, turns out we’re cousins” and the kid goes “Cool” before they fist bump and continue on with the mission without any explanation or pondering the event. Seriously, the books sucked and felt like they were written by an unpaid freshman high school intern who’d never passed a single literature class and the company executives forced them to do the job or they’d go back to cleaning up the bathrooms on Chili Dog Fridays. Now I have to live every day remembering that shitty scene and fist bump. Ugh...
@@chris210racer Yeah I think I only remembered the irrelevant tangents and nothing else. Some reviews of the books I found make it sound less weird and more mediocre. Also fun fact, the author of the book series is Rick Barba, who is primarily known for making strategy guides for video games. That may explain a little of the quality.
I was super into the spy scene when I was a kid in the early 2000's and looking back it feels kind of creepy. I created my own agency with my friends and we plotted assassinations and spied on our sisters. It was dark and someone should've stopped us lol
7:58 Reminds me of the time I googled "Desert Eagle Handgun" and got no results, but the moment I added "for research purposes" I got the info I was looking for
@@deannacorff3246 these kids find an abandoned warehouse in the woods full of spy gear, then fight off government forces, weird monsters, and stuff. It's kinda vague since its been 10+ years, but they were a fun read, and I might go back to re-read the ones I have.
I was looking for this comment! I remember loving the books more than any toys I ever had. I never knew how big a brand this was or that the books were related to any toys. This was a good nostalgia trip.
I loved the motion sensor toy. I set them up in the hallway leading up to my room at night so that I could know when my parents were coming to check and see if I was asleep yet.
My guy. Armed with a flashlight and those Spy gear green visors, I gathered a group of like-minded pre-teens to hunt down a leprechaun that was living in Topeka, Kansas for some reason. Edit: and yes. We did get scared and proceeded to run back to our duplex houses at the cul-de-sac. Leprechauns confirmed.
Gave me PDST. That was the last sound I heard before out basement-box fort got stormed by Timmy and his team. He broke through the walls and we all got blasted by Nerf guns... They took everything from our safe and threw it in the nearby lake... Maybe I shouldn't have made the safe out of cardboard...
When I was a kid, Spy Gear was a HUGE thing for me and my brother; We were both convinced that we’d one day grow up to be real secret agents. The sets I had were the Starter Kit, the Night Goggles, the Briefcase, and the Night Scope.
I used to buy those kits all the time and would tell my teachers I wanted to be in the CIA... I also wanted to be a fashion designer, astrologist, palentologist, etc as well though lmao.
The only thing i remember from spy gear were the “nightvision goggles” that were just green tinted sunglasses with some og LEDs in there. And the RC car with the camera in it that only went like 20 feet
Finally kids can become real spies using their goverment issued spy-gear to denounce non-conformist acts among their freinds and neighbours to thinkpol.
I think my favorite story of the “spy” toys was the CSI fingerprinting kit that was always on sale at the Scholastic Book Fair. Then it randomly disappeared one year. For those wondering why, it was because the dust you fingerprinted on was fucking asbestos. Just straight up asbestos.
Imagine: You are a secret agent. You must sneak into an evil scientist's lab to steal blueprints. You manage to sneak in and find a place to hide, but then a guard passes you and your watch starts blaring. Talk about terrible timing!
Lol I had the spy goggles but never thought of that I'd hold a key chain flashlight that you had to hold the button down on to work between my teeth and point it at the screen lol I was that desperate for more Pokemon time
I was a kid in the ‘80s and although the brand Spy Gear didn’t exist, we did have spy kits like this. My favorite thing, which wasn’t necessarily a “spy accessory”, was this alarm that had a loop and you would hang it from a doorknob. Then it had a dead man’s switch attached you would slide between the door and the jamb...so if anyone opened the door, it would let out this ungodly noise. My parents loved it.
I remember my brother begging my parents to buy these for him back in the day. He got the spy mic for Christmas. Used it once or twice, then it sat in the toy box forever. Meanwhile I'm having fun playing Pokemon Crystal and trying to assemble a turbo megazord.
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My brother and I loved all this spy stuff, we used the motion sensors, the lasers, and a few of the other things, he still has his spy themed battleship set (it might be actual Spy Gear, I can’t remember) and he had laser tag guns that were so much fun. He later got air-soft guns that we would have “battles” with too. My sister usually just watched because she was scared of the air-soft 😂
Dude this is like walking down memory lane. As a child I loved spy gear. As for the idea to do a video on Firefly phones, please do because I had one of those as well and I was 7 yo when i got the firefly, it saved my life when i had an asthma attack after a crash on my bike. Me and my friends had some jumps made for our bmx bikes and i took a sewer pipe to the gut. I thought it was lame until that happened. Very interesting how you had to program phone numbers. You can only do a select few too. Please do a video on the Firefly as i was too young to fully understand what i was dealing with and i'd like to learn more.
Scooby Snax i had one as well. It was great until I couldn’t make any calls while at a festival and was allowed to roam alone since I had a phone (that didn’t work)
The 90s and early 2,000’s has to be the best Era for kids toys. Technology was just coming into its own so that was exciting but not at all like today so you still had to use your imagination which made everything that much more interesting.
I still have a huge box of this shit in my basement. I also bought all of the books. I think my favorite part of the book series was how in the last book the writers just gave up and turned the main characters into chickens at the end.
Wicked Erebus the only other time I heard of something like that was the Rugrats Wild Thornberrys movie. That’s really weird that I don’t remember it. I’m sure it was awful
We used to play bomb squad with the motion detector spy gear. It was like hide and seek where one person set up all the “bombs” in hidden areas likely to cause them to be activated and the other person would enter the room and try to “diffuse” them by turning them off without setting off the alarm. It was probably one of if not the most inventive and fun game of my childhood and young teen years as the older we got, the more intricate the game became. Especially when we would turn off all the lights in a room and have to use flashlights.
Is there any chance of a Digital Pets volume 2, with like more 00s toys like Pixel Chix and those cubes? More 00s toy/culture vids are always the best!
"Every kid wanted to be a spy" speak for your self, I wanted to be a ninja from Konohagakure, I wanted to be a member of the Mugiwara no ichimi, be a substitute shinigami, etcetera...
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