One Xmas my mom bought my brother and I Mork from Ork with Egg Ships as stocking stuffers. At first we didn't know what to make of them. We loved the show, but it was hardly Star Wars. He quickly became a neutral peace envoy in our galactic battles that the Empire immediately shot down. Good times...
1979 was an AMAZING year to be a kid at Christmas! It was a very diverse time! Star Wars was kind of all the rage, but the figures released before Christmas, so I remember having those. But it was a great time for things like the Mego accessories, Micronauts, and the Shogun Warrior stuff! It was a very in-between year, which mean anything kind of went. Star Wars was available, but it's big hit would kind of be the next year with the release of Empire. G.I. Joe was at it's tail end with the Super Joe stuff, before the Joe Team took back over a few years down the road. Mego was still strong, but starting it's slide. From what I can remember looking back at that time, I think I got a Rom action figure, one of the big Shogun Warriors and a Godzilla, some random Micronauts, and some random "Metal Men" toys, those cheap dudes who would fall apart in about an hour. I remember it being a fun year, just not sure if my memories are accurate. I feel like I was always getting Star Wars stuff for my birthday, which was about a month before Christmas, so I usually got totally different stuff during the Christmas season. It would be fun to be able to completely access those memories and just take it all in again. My mother wasn't big on me getting toys the rest of the year, but she would go all in during Christmas. And the 70's and 80's were a great time to be a kid for the toys! The time right after action figures became a thing, but before they became things to sit in boxes on walls. I wore some of those poor toys out playing with them. And some I still have sitting on shelves! Great video!
Nicely put. Star Wars really cemented the toy tie in for all time. 1979 was still a time where there was inventive things like micronauts that were not tied to a movie or tv show.
That was a fun little time capsule. I remember when we'd get the wishbook and us kids would huddle around it, circling stuff and folding over corners to mark pages.
I got the Aquatron and the Hornetroid that year. Along with a couple of micronauts, I specifically remember a blue Time Traveler. I think I got the Mega-city set that year, too. My folks didn’t have a lot of money, but they always hooked us up at Christmas.
@@BrickMantooth I don't blame you - you had nothing to lose! If I was a kid I would have wanted... all of it! The saying about food might apply - 'Eyes larger than the stomach' (something like that) - except with toys it's different, there's no such thing as too much!
My mother bought me that Micronauts Hornet ship at Lionel Playtown. I totally forgot the name and toy line though. Back in '79 or '80, my dad took me catfishing. He promised after, I could buy any Buck Rogers toy I wanted at Playtown. All day I was dreaming of getting the Hatchet Fighter. Well, he only bought me Twiki. Come on Dad! You sell mountains of Meth and Coke and you can only spend the cash for the smallest figure in the entire toy line? After that, the only other toy my father ever bought me was the Star Wars: Biker Scout. Also, I had the Mork action figure with the Egg Ship. That's pretty rare.
'78 and '79 were very good Christmases as far as toys went. Star Wars under the tree. I think '79 was the Christmas that I got the cantina aliens with the Sears backdrop, power droid, R5-D4, and death star droid. That might be the Christmas I got Godzilla with fiery breath/or tongue (never could figure it out for sure). I figured the tongue was neater. FLAMING TONGUE! LOL. Everyone related to me was probably glad I got it so that I would finally quiet down about it.
I have 2 older brothers - one 6 yrs older and one 4 yrs older so I played with their mego's but none of my friends had any(I was born in 74) . Until the Internet, I never knew how huge the Mego range was. I feel blessed to have had access to the odd mix of 8"-ish figures we had:- Paul Morrow, Kirk, Starsky, Spidey n Cap vs the Fighting Furies, Dr Who and a WW1 French soldier from an odd Mego-ish line (Lion- something possibly?) Happy days indeed!
My memory of Mego comes from probably 83 or 84. I was a huge Heman fan and wanted the Heman figure badly. I still remember clearly the day I was to get Heman. It was a Sunday and we stopped at the mall. Mom ran in to get it while I waited with Dad in the car. I was chomping at the bit. When she came back she delivered the bad news that they were sold out of Heman, but she had got me something else. So she hands 4 - 5 year old me this figure. I probably had the look on my face you get when someone farts right next to you. It was John Schneider himself in his Mego Dukes of Hazzard form. That was my first and only Mego figure and I literally had no clue what I was going to use this figure for. It was compatible with nothing I had and I didnt have a car he could fit in. He was an outcast in my toy box.
@@BrickMantooth Yes it was the 8 inch and was probably a leftover in the discount bin at Kaybee. I had been a huge Dukes fan so Mom probably figured it was a safe buy.
I wanted the Micronauts Battle Cruiser so bad! One day I came home from school close to Chistamas and there was a package on the kitchen table. Guess what it was.. I usually went to my grandparents house, but not that day. Oh boy, was that great! I lied and said I never looked at it.
One of the retrospective mysteries of my childhood is that I was totally crazy for the Micronauts in 1978, but for some reason was totally uninterested by Christmas season of 1979. To the point that I don't even recall the existence of the Micronauts toys in this video.
I remember finding one each of Membros, Repto and Antron with their card accurate colour brains at the Eaton’s store in downtown Montreal. Back in those days companies would set up display tables and I think that these were accidentally left behind because not only was there no price tag on them but the department manager had no idea what to charge me. Since this predated bar codes by decades I assume he made up a price based on similar Micronaut figures that were in stock at the time.
I also have happy memories of Christmas 1979. That year my parents put all our Christmas presents on our ping-pong table in the family room instead of the living room furniture. We had already known the truth about "Santa" for a while. Star Wars, of course- that year I got the Droid Factory, the movie projector, and the large Jawa. I still have them all. I also remember getting Superfection (even more fun than Perfection). I have it again thanks to Ebay. I also got Vic the Voice-controlled Vette. Like Tobor the previous year, I still have it, but it no longer works. I sometimes put my Big Jim figures in the Vette. I also got the Muppets and Hawaiian Punch boardgames. The following year it was all Empire Strikes back toys, once again on the ping-pong table.
@@BrickMantooth It sure does. That ping pong table sat in our family room for about 20 years. Just about every family member and neighbor used it. I still have the two paddles.
78 was my last year of a 'Toy Christmas'... but I too had plenty of Micronauts in the day! & great idea with the Scrapbook Letter to Santa! Wish I had thought of that as a kid!
Hornetroid!!! Absolutely one of my all-time favorites! I still have mine from Christmas 1979; missing some parts, some wheels are glued on, and won't spin, but I still have the Hornetroid that was under the tree that year! Interestingly, I never had any aliens, so a Time Travler has always been the pilot - the hands fit onto the grips like it was meant for a Time Traveler anyway
I remember kids having mego time travelers from micronauts and being lucky enough to play with them. I remember having mego spiderman, given the fact that you pointed out the availability of him and hulk I'm sure just about every kid had him. What a time to be a kid eh?
I do have pictures of a little me with my Mego Batmobile and figures. From what I remember about my Christmas lists throughout my young years, they mostly revolved around GI Joe figures. Some Super Powers and marvel Secret Wars figures here and there, but the core of my lists were GI Joe.
Your childhood Christmas sounds so similar to mine but i was told to circle what i wanted in the JC Penney and Sears catalogs. I remember getting Hornetroid, Micronaut Rocket Tubes, Jawa Land, Falcon, all of the Buck Rogers figures and a lot more on the video. My mom was an only child and my Grandmother spoiled my brother and me.
I do remember asking for the Millennium Falcon, but I believe that it was after the full size (for action figures, not actual people) was out, and I didn't get it the first year I asked for it. Instead I received the Eagle 1 that came with the figures and it annoyed me at the time. I later grew to love that toy though, because it was one heck of a neat toy. I could have chucked it up to my mother's general confusion when it came to sci-fi properties (she used to refer to Kirk as the captain of the Millennium Falcon and Solo as the captain of the Enterprise), but I'd bet that the Eagle 1 was just a budgetary decision on her part, because that would have been a pretty cheap clearance item at the time. "Here kid, it's a big spaceship. Shut up now"... Now, that Jawa playset, I never had that. But, I literally begged for the Hoth playset, and that was nothing but a retooled, and recycled version of that Jawa playset. Oddly enough, I liked that toy at the time. But, I did get pretty annoyed when they actually released that Snow-Walker toy later on. Which alas, I never did obtain.
I bought that Hoth set as a kid. I had begged my father to take me on his sales calls so I could visit a big toy store and spend some birthday money. When we got there, the selection wasn't as I hoped and I bought it because I wanted to go home with something, I regretted it.
How very cool that you still have your Christmas list! I had a different method. I would put a circle, square or triangle around items in the various holiday catalogs. There would also be modifiers like asterisks and stars that could be added. All of these made up a hierarchical system as to how badly I wanted things. I'd also give my parents a legend to explain what everything meant. Wish I still had at least one of those catalogs.
While I remember plenty of the things I got for Christmas as a kid, I don't really remember what I asked for. With one odd exception. I was at J. C. Penny's with my Mom a week or two before and saw a Go-Bots Creepy figure. I asked and sure enough Mom got him for me. He was my favorite Go-Bot and the one I played with until he fell apart. I did get another one several years ago so I have my "dear friend" once again.
I didn't have many micronaut figures by I did have Hornetroid. It was a bit delicate to play with when fully assembled, but an impressive concept with the flapping wings, cockpit-head and foldaway landing gear legs.
That looks exactly like the type of list I would have made, sans the cat calendar. I had the Hornetroid but I can't remember if it was a Christmas gift. I know for a fact I got the Micronauts Warp Racer, Photon Sled, Crater Cruncher and Ultronic Scooter that year, and probably various Star Wars toys.
I can't believe this video because its like a mirror of my life these toy to me were so great.The showgun warriors micronaughts and Mego were a kids dream.
I had Green Goblin, Falcon, (actually I got a ton of Megos for Christmas that year) The Batmobile, the millennium falcon (I think it WAS 1980), a Micronaut (Time Traveller) from your list. My best Christmas 8 got Earthquake Tower, Stretch Armstrong, the Bat Cave, the Marx Guns of Navaronne Playset..Mom freaked out because my room looked like a Toys R Us exploded.
Thank you for a lovely slice of personal nostalgia. Its brought cheer to a very melancholy week. I'm inspired to pull some 1970s comics out, for the colour and energy.
Great video Brother. 1979 Christmas was My favorite Christmas as a 6 year old Kid. I remember getting a lot of Star Wars Toy's and A large size Super man action figure and a white space gun that made a couple of sounds. Thanks for sharing 😀 👍 ♥️ 🇨🇦🇺🇸🌎🎉🎉🎉🎉🎅🧑🎄🌲🎁🎁🎊🎊🎊🎊 and a Merry Christmas and a happy new year to You and Family 😀👍❤💯
fun vid....man... i had pretty decent micronaut hauls for a few chistmas's there but by 79 they just seemed like last years toy. glad to know some kids were still wanting them into the 80s. cheers!!!!!
As a kid I was pretty lucky, the family had some money and I was an only child. So I had more toys than I could play with. This created a bit of a problem, of course some toys I would destroy(who didn't have that kind of fun). But there were toys that just disappeared, I remember opening the present at Christmas. Playing with the toy a bit, setting it aside for the next one. Time would go by I would want to play with that toy again, and it was gone. This didn't happen just once it happened a lot. But here is the rub, my grandmother would throw away the toys I was wanting to keep in good condition. But she would leave the junk. This same woman as she was getting on in years, would throw her expensive jewelry in the trash. Yes, we had to go through her garbage on many occasions. We are sure some of her jewelry got away. Probably in the same place as some of my old toys(still in their original packaging).
Oh yeah memories got the green alien Micronaut , Reptro? Buddy had Membros we already had many other figures , got the buck Rogers white space vehicle and Twiki ? And the bald dude they all worked great with the micronauts and various star-wars … the articulation was very good more like the 80’s GI Joe. What also worked well was the adventure people space stuff and other vehicles all the same size worked great together
I wanted the Sand crawler as well. I got figures and a Tonka dump truck, as well as Lego and a Sesame street record plus the annual stocking of candy and what not :)
I remember as a kid I always wanted the Mego Batmobile , but never got it. But a few years ago I found one in pretty good condition at a local pawnshop for 15 dollars and it came with a beat up Robin doll. I didn't know at the time that one of the wheels was broken but glued back on, which it came off later, but some more glue fixed that right up again.
Nice. Christmas of 1979 I got Jawa r2d2 and Ben Kenobi action figures from jc penny that Year. My father God bless him upstairs splurge to get me the figures. We didn't have money so I was lucky I gt them. My first figure was stormtrooper which I got in 1978 and that year for Christmas I got the landspeeder. I would put the stormtrooper in the speederand he would drive it. Early in 79 my friends grandfather took me my friend jimmy and my sister to toy's r us and sked us what toy we would like. I saw a full display of star wars figures with boba Fett promotion on packages. I saw Luke and I asked for him. My sister wanted a figure too and got Lea my friend jimmy got Han solo. Later in my sister got tired of Lea and gave her to me. So I had a Luke Ben jawa stormtrooper and r2 for my landspeeder.
YESSS I have Hornetroid!!! NYAH NYAH NYAH!!! I loved it so much!! And i had ALL 3 of the aliens. I was so sad that the weapons didn't really "work"...i totally expected Repto's saw blade arm to spin on it's own, or with a wind-up feature. I had Buck Rogers, the Pretty princess (Queen Adala?), Wilma, the Ben Kenobi looking dude, and TWIGGI!!! I Loved TWIGGI...Bidi bidi bidi.
Your Video just brought back SO MANY Wonderful Memories! I was born in 1970 so am right there with you with many of the same toys in the Christmas wish list. The Mego Micronauts were SO COOL I had a few of them including the Battle Cruiser. I also LOVED Buck Rogers but I hated the fact that the Starfighter was made where the rear legs would BREAK OFF they should have Reinforced or had a different design so the ship could be played with.
In Christmas 79 I got a clear Time Traveler & a red Pharoid, probably some other Micronauts too but that's all I could see in pictures. 1980 was a good haul: Mobile Exploration Lab, a Galactic Defender, Karrio & Repto! I also got Hornetroid at some point but not sure when. There is a Millennium Falcon in the 79 Sears catalog (thanks to Mom for saving all of those). It's got a "non-removable Han & Chewy" and its only 5-3/4 long.
Great video. Christmas was so great as a kid. Not like now where they get presents all year round I only had toys at certain special times of the year and Christmas was the big one. Action man, toy cars, games - great memories. I think from the video you are only a couple of years older than me. Happy Christmas and new year - look forward to more of your great content next year. 🎄🎄🤝
I'm pretty sure asking for toys is how I became an artist. We never got the coveted Sears wishbook. So I would draw pictures of the toys I wanted. And yes those pictures would often include notes. Like where to find said toy at the store.
Cat allergy sufferers of the world unite! I have the double-whammy of also being allergic to dogs, and weirdly, horses. I believe that was the same year Simpsons made the downtown window display solid Micronauts (it could be the year before)...that was absolutely insane. I'm still trying to track down photos...they must've used 2 whole pallets of product.
I'm sorry to hear about the dog allergy, I don't know what I'd do. I'm always on the hunt for photos of that store window, I have a couple of shots but they're terrible photostats from the library. Apparently that thing caused a car accident according to my contact at Grand Toys.
@@BrickMantooth I live about a 5 min walk away from Toronto archives, which may have some shots of it, but they've been closed the entire pandemic...hoping they open next year.
Catching up on videos, so I'm a month late... but that was great. I made lists just like that but didn't think to paste the cut out pics. I was 5 so my memory is fuzzy about Christmas specifically, but I did get in that year the Mego Spiderman, Green Goblin and my favorite, The Lizard. Got the Sandcrawler and pretty much all 3 3/4" Star Wars stuff available, got Buck Rogers and his ship and I went nuts over the Micronauts Alien line, got all of them and Hornetroid, yep those glow in the dark brains were irresistible but really cool designed figures. Later on those Alien figures were stolen out of the backseat of my Father's car on a trip to Grandmas. I was indignant but at least now I think the thief had good taste. 79 was a great toy year.
I asked for the Hornetroid, Terraphant and the Superman Pocket Super Heroes from Mego, and I got the Hornetroid only and plenty of clothes (thats why I hate clothes as gift in Christmas)
The Millennium Falcon was released in 1979. Like you, I wanted the Sandcrawler but didn’t get it on Christmas 1979. My Mego Falcon was chewed up by the racist family poodle.
The falcon was released by Christmas of 79. I got both the playset one and die-cast. Still the best Christmas ever for me. Lol 😁
One Xmas my mom bought my brother and I Mork from Ork with Egg Ships as stocking stuffers. At first we didn't know what to make of them. We loved the show, but it was hardly Star Wars. He quickly became a neutral peace envoy in our galactic battles that the Empire immediately shot down. Good times...
That sounds exactly like when I got a Hawkeye Pierce figure, he didn't fit in with the Joes very well.
@@BrickMantooth Did he patch up wounded Joes?
Few things bring me greater joy than looking through old Sears toy catalogs.
We share that.
It’s amazing how much better the vehicles and playsets were back then.
Yeah we got some great stuff!
Before global junk
This was better than the Star Wars holiday special.
I was born in 1979, don't remember what I got for Christmas lol
Merry Christmas
Probably clothes and stuffed animals.
1979 was an AMAZING year to be a kid at Christmas! It was a very diverse time! Star Wars was kind of all the rage, but the figures released before Christmas, so I remember having those. But it was a great time for things like the Mego accessories, Micronauts, and the Shogun Warrior stuff! It was a very in-between year, which mean anything kind of went. Star Wars was available, but it's big hit would kind of be the next year with the release of Empire. G.I. Joe was at it's tail end with the Super Joe stuff, before the Joe Team took back over a few years down the road. Mego was still strong, but starting it's slide.
From what I can remember looking back at that time, I think I got a Rom action figure, one of the big Shogun Warriors and a Godzilla, some random Micronauts, and some random "Metal Men" toys, those cheap dudes who would fall apart in about an hour. I remember it being a fun year, just not sure if my memories are accurate. I feel like I was always getting Star Wars stuff for my birthday, which was about a month before Christmas, so I usually got totally different stuff during the Christmas season. It would be fun to be able to completely access those memories and just take it all in again. My mother wasn't big on me getting toys the rest of the year, but she would go all in during Christmas. And the 70's and 80's were a great time to be a kid for the toys! The time right after action figures became a thing, but before they became things to sit in boxes on walls. I wore some of those poor toys out playing with them. And some I still have sitting on shelves!
Great video!
Nicely put. Star Wars really cemented the toy tie in for all time. 1979 was still a time where there was inventive things like micronauts that were not tied to a movie or tv show.
My grandma also never threw anything out. This is why I still have an Empire Strikes Back catalog with circles around some things and x's over others.
Man, that is so wonderful to hear, I bet you treasure that.
@@BrickMantooth
Indeed I do.
That was a fun little time capsule.
I remember when we'd get the wishbook and us kids would huddle around it, circling stuff and folding over corners to mark pages.
Yeah, this seems to be a lost art these days sadly.
I got the Aquatron and the Hornetroid that year. Along with a couple of micronauts, I specifically remember a blue Time Traveler. I think I got the Mega-city set that year, too. My folks didn’t have a lot of money, but they always hooked us up at Christmas.
That's a really nice memory, thanks for sharing.
You wanted it ALL! The moon on a stick! There was some really great toys in that catalogue - a good time to be a kid!
Hey, I grabbed for all the marbles, I was nine. ;)
@@BrickMantooth I don't blame you - you had nothing to lose! If I was a kid I would have wanted... all of it! The saying about food might apply - 'Eyes larger than the stomach' (something like that) - except with toys it's different, there's no such thing as too much!
My mother bought me that Micronauts Hornet ship at Lionel Playtown. I totally forgot the name and toy line though. Back in '79 or '80, my dad took me catfishing. He promised after, I could buy any Buck Rogers toy I wanted at Playtown. All day I was dreaming of getting the Hatchet Fighter. Well, he only bought me Twiki. Come on Dad! You sell mountains of Meth and Coke and you can only spend the cash for the smallest figure in the entire toy line? After that, the only other toy my father ever bought me was the Star Wars: Biker Scout. Also, I had the Mork action figure with the Egg Ship. That's pretty rare.
Lol “best picture of me” I fell your pain!
Always wanted Aquaman. Never found him....got falcon and green goblin.
Yeah I had better luck with the Marvel guys as a kid, the DC characters went super quick.
1979 wish list! 2021 I will still be happy
Heh, yeah I could do with a boxed Aquatron.
'78 and '79 were very good Christmases as far as toys went. Star Wars under the tree. I think '79 was the Christmas that I got the cantina aliens with the Sears backdrop, power droid, R5-D4, and death star droid. That might be the Christmas I got Godzilla with fiery breath/or tongue (never could figure it out for sure). I figured the tongue was neater. FLAMING TONGUE! LOL.
Everyone related to me was probably glad I got it so that I would finally quiet down about it.
Oh Godzilla would have been an epic Christmas get!
@@BrickMantooth Such a fun toy for me. Played with it a lot!
I have 2 older brothers - one 6 yrs older and one 4 yrs older so I played with their mego's but none of my friends had any(I was born in 74) . Until the Internet, I never knew how huge the Mego range was. I feel blessed to have had access to the odd mix of 8"-ish figures we had:- Paul Morrow, Kirk, Starsky, Spidey n Cap vs the Fighting Furies, Dr Who and a WW1 French soldier from an odd Mego-ish line (Lion- something possibly?) Happy days indeed!
yup, Lion Rock was the name of Mego's factory. older siblings toys were the best.
@@BrickMantooth lion rock! Thank you Brian!
My memory of Mego comes from probably 83 or 84. I was a huge Heman fan and wanted the Heman figure badly. I still remember clearly the day I was to get Heman. It was a Sunday and we stopped at the mall. Mom ran in to get it while I waited with Dad in the car. I was chomping at the bit. When she came back she delivered the bad news that they were sold out of Heman, but she had got me something else. So she hands 4 - 5 year old me this figure. I probably had the look on my face you get when someone farts right next to you. It was John Schneider himself in his Mego Dukes of Hazzard form. That was my first and only Mego figure and I literally had no clue what I was going to use this figure for. It was compatible with nothing I had and I didnt have a car he could fit in. He was an outcast in my toy box.
Was this the 8"? Yeah they were sadly out of place by 1983.
@@BrickMantooth Yes it was the 8 inch and was probably a leftover in the discount bin at Kaybee. I had been a huge Dukes fan so Mom probably figured it was a safe buy.
I wanted the Micronauts Battle Cruiser so bad! One day I came home from school close to Chistamas and there was a package on the kitchen table. Guess what it was.. I usually went to my grandparents house, but not that day. Oh boy, was that great! I lied and said I never looked at it.
Well, we share that experience. It's part of childhood I guess.
Micronauts were the best toys ever. I still have a few of them.
Happy to hear, I have one or two childhood ones as well.
One of the retrospective mysteries of my childhood is that I was totally crazy for the Micronauts in 1978, but for some reason was totally uninterested by Christmas season of 1979. To the point that I don't even recall the existence of the Micronauts toys in this video.
I remember finding one each of Membros, Repto and Antron with their card accurate colour brains at the Eaton’s store in downtown Montreal. Back in those days companies would set up display tables and I think that these were accidentally left behind because not only was there no price tag on them but the department manager had no idea what to charge me. Since this predated bar codes by decades I assume he made up a price based on similar Micronaut figures that were in stock at the time.
I remember those display tables at the Eaton center! I saw a guy demonstrating the Karate Kid line back in '85.
I also have happy memories of Christmas 1979. That year my parents put all our Christmas presents on our ping-pong table in the family room instead of the living room furniture. We had already known the truth about "Santa" for a while. Star Wars, of course- that year I got the Droid Factory, the movie projector, and the large Jawa. I still have them all. I also remember getting Superfection (even more fun than Perfection). I have it again thanks to Ebay. I also got Vic the Voice-controlled Vette. Like Tobor the previous year, I still have it, but it no longer works. I sometimes put my Big Jim figures in the Vette. I also got the Muppets and Hawaiian Punch boardgames.
The following year it was all Empire Strikes back toys, once again on the ping-pong table.
That's really neat, so when you see ping pong tables does it bring you back to that?
@@BrickMantooth It sure does. That ping pong table sat in our family room for about 20 years. Just about every family member and neighbor used it. I still have the two paddles.
Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone.
Incredibly nostalgic and heartwarming!
thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!
78 was my last year of a 'Toy Christmas'... but I too had plenty of Micronauts in the day! & great idea with the Scrapbook Letter to Santa! Wish I had thought of that as a kid!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
Hornetroid!!! Absolutely one of my all-time favorites! I still have mine from Christmas 1979; missing some parts, some wheels are glued on, and won't spin, but I still have the Hornetroid that was under the tree that year!
Interestingly, I never had any aliens, so a Time Travler has always been the pilot - the hands fit onto the grips like it was meant for a Time Traveler anyway
Right on, the Aliens really didn't fit well in Hornetroid, so a Time Traveler was the best pilot.
I still have my Mork from Ork 3.75" figure, minus his egg ship.
Never got him as a kid. Was envious of the kids who did.
I remember kids having mego time travelers from micronauts and being lucky enough to play with them. I remember having mego spiderman, given the fact that you pointed out the availability of him and hulk I'm sure just about every kid had him. What a time to be a kid eh?
I do have pictures of a little me with my Mego Batmobile and figures.
From what I remember about my Christmas lists throughout my young years, they mostly revolved around GI Joe figures. Some Super Powers and marvel Secret Wars figures here and there, but the core of my lists were GI Joe.
Your childhood Christmas sounds so similar to mine but i was told to circle what i wanted in the JC Penney and Sears catalogs. I remember getting Hornetroid, Micronaut Rocket Tubes, Jawa Land, Falcon, all of the Buck Rogers figures and a lot more on the video. My mom was an only child and my Grandmother spoiled my brother and me.
Sounds like toy heaven!
A treasure of memories. Wonder did you collect Big Jim by mattel.
Yes I actively collect it, you'll find a bunch of videos on my channel.
I do remember asking for the Millennium Falcon, but I believe that it was after the full size (for action figures, not actual people) was out, and I didn't get it the first year I asked for it. Instead I received the Eagle 1 that came with the figures and it annoyed me at the time. I later grew to love that toy though, because it was one heck of a neat toy.
I could have chucked it up to my mother's general confusion when it came to sci-fi properties (she used to refer to Kirk as the captain of the Millennium Falcon and Solo as the captain of the Enterprise), but I'd bet that the Eagle 1 was just a budgetary decision on her part, because that would have been a pretty cheap clearance item at the time. "Here kid, it's a big spaceship. Shut up now"...
Now, that Jawa playset, I never had that. But, I literally begged for the Hoth playset, and that was nothing but a retooled, and recycled version of that Jawa playset. Oddly enough, I liked that toy at the time. But, I did get pretty annoyed when they actually released that Snow-Walker toy later on. Which alas, I never did obtain.
I bought that Hoth set as a kid. I had begged my father to take me on his sales calls so I could visit a big toy store and spend some birthday money. When we got there, the selection wasn't as I hoped and I bought it because I wanted to go home with something, I regretted it.
That was a very fun watch, really sweet that your Grandma saved that:)
Thank you and yes, I'm really grateful especially now that she's gone.
How very cool that you still have your Christmas list! I had a different method. I would put a circle, square or triangle around items in the various holiday catalogs. There would also be modifiers like asterisks and stars that could be added. All of these made up a hierarchical system as to how badly I wanted things. I'd also give my parents a legend to explain what everything meant. Wish I still had at least one of those catalogs.
Great video! I was 7 and in Micronaut mania as well.
Fellow Micro Maniac!
While I remember plenty of the things I got for Christmas as a kid, I don't really remember what I asked for. With one odd exception. I was at J. C. Penny's with my Mom a week or two before and saw a Go-Bots Creepy figure. I asked and sure enough Mom got him for me. He was my favorite Go-Bot and the one I played with until he fell apart. I did get another one several years ago so I have my "dear friend" once again.
I have to go check out this figure, I was in 9th grade when Go Bots arrived on the scene.
There were two versions. A mail order green one and the retail purple. He turned into some kind of scorpion monster. I just thought he was cool.
I didn't have many micronaut figures by I did have Hornetroid.
It was a bit delicate to play with when fully assembled, but an impressive concept with the flapping wings, cockpit-head and foldaway landing gear legs.
That looks exactly like the type of list I would have made, sans the cat calendar. I had the Hornetroid but I can't remember if it was a Christmas gift. I know for a fact I got the Micronauts Warp Racer, Photon Sled, Crater Cruncher and Ultronic Scooter that year, and probably various Star Wars toys.
Sounds like a terrific haul.
I can't believe this video because its like a mirror of my life these toy to me were so great.The showgun warriors micronaughts and Mego were a kids dream.
I had Green Goblin, Falcon, (actually I got a ton of Megos for Christmas that year) The Batmobile, the millennium falcon (I think it WAS 1980), a Micronaut (Time Traveller) from your list. My best Christmas 8 got Earthquake Tower, Stretch Armstrong, the Bat Cave, the Marx Guns of Navaronne Playset..Mom freaked out because my room looked like a Toys R Us exploded.
Sounds like an amazing Christmas!
Another awesome blast from the past! The Sears Wishbook was also my go to source for showing my parents what I wanted for Christmas. Sweet video!👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for a lovely slice of personal nostalgia. Its brought cheer to a very melancholy week. I'm inspired to pull some 1970s comics out, for the colour and energy.
I'm so happy to hear that, makes it all worthwhile. Here's to brighter days.
@@BrickMantooth I raise a glass to that. Cheers to all. And to Plaid Stallions which has let much warm sunshine into many years.
@@ununun I'm glad I contributed to anything positive.
Great video Brother. 1979 Christmas was My favorite Christmas as a 6 year old Kid. I remember getting a lot of Star Wars Toy's and A large size Super man action figure and a white space gun that made a couple of sounds. Thanks for sharing 😀 👍 ♥️ 🇨🇦🇺🇸🌎🎉🎉🎉🎉🎅🧑🎄🌲🎁🎁🎊🎊🎊🎊 and a Merry Christmas and a happy new year to You and Family 😀👍❤💯
Glad you enjoyed, Merry Christmas!
Nostalgia Overload! Awesome video i remember having twiggy and tiger man from buck rogers
Aw man, total kid envy!
fun vid....man... i had pretty decent micronaut hauls for a few chistmas's there but by 79 they just seemed like last years toy. glad to know some kids were still wanting them into the 80s. cheers!!!!!
Yeah, I stayed with them until the bitter end, something about that line just sparked my imagination.
As a kid I was pretty lucky, the family had some money and I was an only child. So I had more toys than I could play with. This created a bit of a problem, of course some toys I would destroy(who didn't have that kind of fun). But there were toys that just disappeared, I remember opening the present at Christmas. Playing with the toy a bit, setting it aside for the next one. Time would go by I would want to play with that toy again, and it was gone. This didn't happen just once it happened a lot. But here is the rub, my grandmother would throw away the toys I was wanting to keep in good condition. But she would leave the junk.
This same woman as she was getting on in years, would throw her expensive jewelry in the trash. Yes, we had to go through her garbage on many occasions. We are sure some of her jewelry got away. Probably in the same place as some of my old toys(still in their original packaging).
That is a very interesting idiosyncrasy.
I had the radio-controlled Sandcrawler and a sound-activated R2-D2.
Oh I had the R2 but it stopped working super quick. I may have gotten that instead that Christmas!
Awesome overview of many of our favorite toys!
I have a Hornetroid coming, my friends had one when I was a kid, loved that bug
I got a 1979 Star Trek calendar and a x-wing fighter.
Oh yeah memories got the green alien Micronaut , Reptro? Buddy had Membros we already had many other figures , got the buck Rogers white space vehicle and Twiki ? And the bald dude they all worked great with the micronauts and various star-wars … the articulation was very good more like the 80’s GI Joe. What also worked well was the adventure people space stuff and other vehicles all the same size worked great together
Oh yeah that stuff was great.
I got Buck and William as stocking stuffers this year! I wanted Twiggi but i guess he was harder to find.
He was definitely the most popular figure.
I wanted the Sand crawler as well. I got figures and a Tonka dump truck, as well as Lego and a Sesame street record plus the annual stocking of candy and what not :)
Did you get oranges and walnuts in that stocking? I always did, it's a UK thing, never ate them.
I remember as a kid I always wanted the Mego Batmobile , but never got it. But a few years ago I found one in pretty good condition at a local pawnshop for 15 dollars and it came with a beat up Robin doll. I didn't know at the time that one of the wheels was broken but glued back on, which it came off later, but some more glue fixed that right up again.
So awesome 👏✌️🇮🇪😎
Well done sir
thank you so much!
Nice. Christmas of 1979 I got Jawa r2d2 and Ben Kenobi action figures from jc penny that Year. My father God bless him upstairs splurge to get me the figures. We didn't have money so I was lucky I gt them. My first figure was stormtrooper which I got in 1978 and that year for Christmas I got the landspeeder. I would put the stormtrooper in the speederand he would drive it. Early in 79 my friends grandfather took me my friend jimmy and my sister to toy's r us and sked us what toy we would like. I saw a full display of star wars figures with boba Fett promotion on packages. I saw Luke and I asked for him. My sister wanted a figure too and got Lea my friend jimmy got Han solo. Later in my sister got tired of Lea and gave her to me. So I had a Luke Ben jawa stormtrooper and r2 for my landspeeder.
YESSS I have Hornetroid!!! NYAH NYAH NYAH!!! I loved it so much!! And i had ALL 3 of the aliens. I was so sad that the weapons didn't really "work"...i totally expected Repto's saw blade arm to spin on it's own, or with a wind-up feature.
I had Buck Rogers, the Pretty princess (Queen Adala?), Wilma, the Ben Kenobi looking dude, and TWIGGI!!! I Loved TWIGGI...Bidi bidi bidi.
Your Video just brought back SO MANY Wonderful Memories! I was born in 1970 so am right there with you with many of the same toys in the Christmas wish list. The Mego Micronauts were SO COOL I had a few of them including the Battle Cruiser. I also LOVED Buck Rogers but I hated the fact that the Starfighter was made where the rear legs would BREAK OFF they should have Reinforced or had a different design so the ship could be played with.
Great Video thank you so much for Posting ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In Christmas 79 I got a clear Time Traveler & a red Pharoid, probably some other Micronauts too but that's all I could see in pictures. 1980 was a good haul: Mobile Exploration Lab, a Galactic Defender, Karrio & Repto! I also got Hornetroid at some point but not sure when. There is a Millennium Falcon in the 79 Sears catalog (thanks to Mom for saving all of those). It's got a "non-removable Han & Chewy" and its only 5-3/4 long.
Wow,never knew Mego produced vehicles
Oh yeah, many.
Capcella was one of my favorites
Great video. Christmas was so great as a kid. Not like now where they get presents all year round I only had toys at certain special times of the year and Christmas was the big one. Action man, toy cars, games - great memories. I think from the video you are only a couple of years older than me.
Happy Christmas and new year - look forward to more of your great content next year. 🎄🎄🤝
Plenty more to come, thanks for the kind words!
Boy do I remember that year Christmas I wanted everything from the Hasbro GiJoe to anything and everything made by Mego
I'm pretty sure asking for toys is how I became an artist.
We never got the coveted Sears wishbook. So I would draw pictures of the toys I wanted.
And yes those pictures would often include notes. Like where to find said toy at the store.
Ha! I love it. I was very good at mentioning where things were as well.
Cool.xmas memories and video
Thank you!
Cat allergy sufferers of the world unite! I have the double-whammy of also being allergic to dogs, and weirdly, horses. I believe that was the same year Simpsons made the downtown window display solid Micronauts (it could be the year before)...that was absolutely insane. I'm still trying to track down photos...they must've used 2 whole pallets of product.
I'm sorry to hear about the dog allergy, I don't know what I'd do. I'm always on the hunt for photos of that store window, I have a couple of shots but they're terrible photostats from the library. Apparently that thing caused a car accident according to my contact at Grand Toys.
@@BrickMantooth I live about a 5 min walk away from Toronto archives, which may have some shots of it, but they've been closed the entire pandemic...hoping they open next year.
Catching up on videos, so I'm a month late... but that was great. I made lists just like that but didn't think to paste the cut out pics. I was 5 so my memory is fuzzy about Christmas specifically, but I did get in that year the Mego Spiderman, Green Goblin and my favorite, The Lizard. Got the Sandcrawler and pretty much all 3 3/4" Star Wars stuff available, got Buck Rogers and his ship and I went nuts over the Micronauts Alien line, got all of them and Hornetroid, yep those glow in the dark brains were irresistible but really cool designed figures. Later on those Alien figures were stolen out of the backseat of my Father's car on a trip to Grandmas. I was indignant but at least now I think the thief had good taste. 79 was a great toy year.
Great video of cherished memories from a great year! Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you! You too!
Another great video. Merry Christmas!
Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Great review
I used my Hornetroid with my Star Wars figures. Unfortunately only Princess Leia would fit in it (I didn't have a Jawa yet.)
yeah that cockpit is "Slim Fit"
Great video, Merry Christmas!!
thank you, Merry Christmas!
Right at 7:05 what is that air driven capsul toy .it’s like an air powered subway I have been try to figure out the name of it for years .
Rocket Tubes- Micronauts
I asked for the Hornetroid, Terraphant and the Superman Pocket Super Heroes from Mego, and I got the Hornetroid only and plenty of clothes (thats why I hate clothes as gift in Christmas)
I had one aunt that always got me a V neck sweater from "Marks and Sparks", I really hate sweaters to this day.
You said you share your birthday with Mark Hamill. Pretty cool. I share my birthday with George Lucas.
That's pretty cool!
The Millennium Falcon was released in 1979. Like you, I wanted the Sandcrawler but didn’t get it on Christmas 1979. My Mego Falcon was chewed up by the racist family poodle.
I'm super allergic to cats too!
Do they always come up to you? If people have a cat, it'll be in my lap immediately.
@@BrickMantooth all pets like me lol ...I can smell a house with cats too without even know it
didnt they have a falcon action figure case by 79?
What no appearance by Paul Lynne?
He was double booked. I'll get him next Halloween.
I asked for a Real Monster Truck, and I never got it lol.
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