Well, about ten percent of boys are becoming girls, so the demand for Remco ball turret machine gun toys is sure to drop. Oh, and of the remaining 90% of boys, probably another 10% to 20% those are being raised to be sissies. Best not to invest in the military-industrial-toy complex these days.
if you had a $100 bill, you practically had to go to a bank to change it, now just buy a pack of gum. I'd say cigarettes, but $100 might not be enough for a pack of those
This was back before toys were made in China, and the toy industry didn’t have to compete with video games for kids’ attention. When I was a kid, toys like this were still $10-20 each but adults generally made more than $8,000 a year. My dad found his old GI joes at my grandpas house and we had a blast playing with them together but we could still tell how much the quality had improved in my sets lol.
I'm pretty old. Todd like this totally sparked our imagination as kids. No cell phones. 13 TV channels but you had to wait for the day your favorite shows played. Locked out til lunchtime and then had to be home before the streetlights came on. I still like rc toys and adventure time though!
You're right. I noticed that error, too. Only bombers that served in WW2 and Korea had gun turrets. Well, if we're talking ball turrets, it would only have been B-24s and B-17s during WW2.
Oh for god sakes fellows it was just toys in the sixties. who cares if the B-52 had a ball turret or not.... If I was a little kid in the early sixties I wouldn't have gave a s*** I think that's a cool toy.
75 year old Boomer. The reason we had these toys was because it was just after World War Two, and we wanted to pretend to be our heros. And who where these Heros. They were our fathers, uncle, post man, teacher and preacher. In my case, even my mother got in on it, by working at the Willow Run Bomber Plant as a Rosie. I'm damn proud of her. So proud, that it was the reason I took my turn. USAF 1968-72.
I had the Remco Whirlybird helicopter, everything worked as advertised, probably the best toy I ever had. You could use the rescue hook to tow toy cars around the living room. Never really thought about the $9.98 price till now. My folks definitely weren't rich, but somehow they got it for me.
@@odinsson204 You can, just remember that price on EBAY is just the $9.98 price adjusted for inflation, it makes it sting a little less. Then convince yourself the rest of that price was rent for storage of your toy. It takes some mental gymnastics but you can convince yourself you're worth it. I am not ashamed of some of the old toys I bought just to have them again and the others ones that my parents wouldn't let me have. They're still fun to play with it, and friends still get jealous and wanna use them....
I wanted the helicopter too. But I did have a large toy plane. I think it was a C47 (the military version of the famous DC3). It had compartments for cargo and for carrying soldiers or paratroopers. On a fresh set of batteries it looked awesome with the propellers spinning and the landing lights, beacons, and nav lights on. Wish I had it today.
The Whirlybird Helicopter was based on the CH-45 Army Chinook Helicopter - affectionately called the Sh!t Hook because you could hook all your Sh!t onto it and fly off. 🪖
You have to understand that in this era a big portion of kids’ fathers had some sort of military service. Even in my childhood (1970’s) a big portion of my friend’s fathers were vets. I played with military toys all the time.
In Ken Burns' documentary on the Vietnam war, the soldiers talk about how most of the adults they knew fought in the war. Their fathers, their uncles, their teachers. My father grew up in that era, I wonder if he had any of these.
@@MrArcher7 It's a bit of stretch to say everyone fought. But it's fair to say everyone was involved in some way. And definitely that everyone knew someone who fought. My own great grandfather wasn't drafted because he was a steal foreman, and most of my great uncles were farmers.
These are/were truly rich kids toys. In 1958 our monthly rent for a 2-bedroom apartment was $25. In 1960 we rented a 3 bedroom house for $40 a month. So no kid I knew was getting a $30 toy for Christmas.
Right On! That's the same thing i said! I love that hot wheels are so inexpensive now, back then I couldnt even have those, parents couldn't afford the extra expence.🤷♂️🙆♂️🙋♂️🙏
So right Jeff and we played "army" all day on Saturdays with very realistic toy guns - outside with our friends, running around the neighborhood, getting lots of exercise, fresh air and sunshine.
@@txgunguy2766 you and me both. All these toys looked awesome to have, but also they weren’t cheap back in the early 60’s; I know my parents said if they spent that much on toys, my grandparents would have blown a head gasket. But that was back in the day when you spend $4-$5 on groceries.
Some how I still have the box to the B-52 Turret ! My mom used it to hold rolls of Christmas wrapping paper. No way she liked the clattering sound of it. Soon the batteries disappeared. I'm sure the toy was my dad's idea. He passed away several months after that Christmas morning, though. I was 9.
@@historybuff66Lol, remembering when Santa gifted me the same yellow plastic Seaview toy submarine for X-mas, back in the late 60’s while we were stationed at Pearl Harbor.
@@werdevo6 That was just over a quarter century past the infamous attack. And now, in a few days, it will have been 83 years. Where did the time go…(?)
I remember the Robot from the T V series, Lost in space toy. It cost only $12.99 then back in the 60s. Today an original one in the packaging is worth thousands.
I had one. The ammo belt broke. Also had the Steve Canyon Jet cockpit. With the neighbor kids, we used to make a whole bomber crew and play doing long missions.
@@HootOwl513 ...a guy who rented the front store on my dad's property in Fort Lee, NJ had a toy store and every once inna while dad would let me go and look around...I actually got my grubby little mitts on this once...
Had a life like Tiger Tank is the early 60s. That thing was huge! Worked on a Army style walkie talkie with wires running to it and firing cannon, with shell's you could fill with flour. My Mom got so mad, I used up a whole bag of her flour that Christmas day! All I can say is War is hell.. 🪖🎄... 🕶️🚬 ...
Mom: You used up all the flour! Johnny: Hello Quartermaster? Could you send down a replacement bag of flour? You better hurry my mom's about to go ballistic. 😄😂🤣
My uncle from the USA came to visit my dad in Canada one Christmas in the late 1960s. He brought his son along, and he brought his toys. As a young Canadian boy under 10, I was flabbergasted! My American cousin had a semi-automatic toy rifle that shot plastic bullets! My uncle was drunk the whole time he was visiting, but I had a great time with his son. Never saw them again, but they impressed this young lad in the frozen north!
I too was living in Toronto in the early sixties but I had no problem getting these Remco toys for Christmas and birthdays. The toy machine guns were so realistic looking with realistic sounds and eye gouging plastic bullets. The Johnny Eagle rifles was one of my faves.
Just another reason I’m ever so thankful that my Dad moved us from London, Ontario to Santa Ana California in late 1956 when I was three. I had toys like that myself.
@@lonzo61 I wish you could have seen the Remco commercials for this post-war toy. TV was filled with war history, war movies, and the Korean War was on the news at 5/6 and 11. Our families fought WWll. Kids knew about banzai charges, kamikaze’s and nazi death camps. A friend had a full nazi officer’s uniform hanging in his basement complete with the bullet hole that killed him. War surplus was everywhere. As kids we would have kicked Marylyn Monroe under the table in favor of a Remco 40mm quad mount, know in kid slang as “poppers.” A few years later we would have chosen otherwise. Oh, and that commercial, it was you or them, and it was gonna be them. Years later I joined the Army to become an Airborne Ranger. Funny what a little TV will do to a kids future choices.
My sister loved all these toys to, she joined the Army when she turned 18, couldnt wait to be a soldier. Lucky for her, they didnt send girls to Vietnam unless you were a nurse
My memories:My Grandmother worked at a grocery store on top self were Remco and other toys .That I would dream of .My father was in the Air Force and at the time didn’t have rank so we had little money.And $12.00 $9.00 dollars was a lot of money to us.I did have some of this cool toys but they were special occasions Christmas or you did something special to earn one.But to see see and wish for and think of the adventures you could have with them.See this brings back found memories.Thank you.
I used to sit in a tree, pretending im in a fighterplain, never got bored of it. I doubt that turred would have bored me. But that was a different Generation.
Do you play with rainbows? I don't know who does. I do have some pink army men though made by Tim Mee.....does that make you angry? In the early 70s I had some bright yellow army men too. Seems like a lot of anti America people are against other Americans today and fearful of gays...terrified of them and can't quit talking about and thinking about them. That's sick. A very sick mind obsesses on other people who don't effect them.
@@JB-js4xi The Homo agenda doesn't effect normal American's, that is the stupidest comment I have heard in a long time. At every turn in the American culture now, they are pushing that crap on TV shows, TV commercials, in schools, in girl sports, and in politics. They get a whole month to celebrate their existent. The veterans get 1 lousy day. I don't care about them and what they do, but when the whole country changes to "push" their lifestyle onto everyone, that's when I have a problem.
I still own the box to the B-52 Turret ! My mom used it to store her rolls of Christmas wrapping paper. She didnt like the sound of the gun clattering so the batteries soon disappeared. The toy must have been my dad's idea not hers. Sadly, my dad passed away several months later after that Christmas morning. I was 9.
I had a "Johnny Eagle" in the late '60's. It was a pretty realistic toy M-14 rifle that fired spring loaded plastic projectiles out brass coloured plastic cartridges. I was the envy of the block, until I inevitably broke the thing. Also loved the Sekiden pistols that fired clay pellets. Made in Japan and was the closest thing to a Walther PPK you'd find in the toy store. A must for any young James Bond fan. Good times. Played with stuff like this all through my childhood and never became a violent person. Could it have something to do with competent parenting and good role models?
Same her My dad bought me the m14 then when Mattel put out the m16 ,the one john Wayne used in the movie the Green Beret ,when he smash it against the tree .Good old days.
Back when each state could decide on what to teach its students. Usually the core basics needed in life, some morals with a healthy dose of common sense thrown in. Schools were old and coal heated with boilers yet somehow we learned so much more. Gone are the days of common sense and morals and yet our children go to new state of the art school buildings with millions spent on athletic stadiums. The country is screwed.
I had the helicopter. Unfortunately in the 80's my mother had the attic cleaned out and all my toys of the 50's were put in the trash. Robbie the Robot and everything else is gone.
Rick Daystar My mother threw out all my baseball cards from the 50s and early 60s, my comic book collection that had Superman and Batman issues from the 40s and a bunch of other things that probably would have enabled me to retire years ago after their sale.
@@fscap811 Unfortunately that's a typical story. I always thought my mother would ask me if I wanted any of my childhood toys ect. Nope! They were out of her way in the attic but one day her " Spring cleaning" went nuclear...LoL.
@@rickdaystar477 Every once in a while I would remind her that I probably would've been rich if not for her spring "cleaning"...cleaning it was, it cleaned me out 😂
@@fscap811 .. 🤣.. My little sister got into a box with my Xmen collection i had forgotten about ( issues 10 through 60 something around that .)... along with early Avengers and others. ....Crayons.. 😝
when my kid was totally into barbie and ken, i bought her a G.I. Joe, and Barbie finally seemed satisfied. He could wear his clothes and also kens preppie outfit fit him also.
@@johngillon6969 LOL, while watching this I flashbacked to when my daughter wanted a Ken doll but I bought her a G.I. Joe instead. She was upset until I pointed out that Ken came with a pink shirt, G.I. Joe came with a machine gun!😁
@@korbell1089 I surprised my little girl with a green bicycle. She wouldn't ride it because she wanted the pink one. It's ok. she turned out wonderful, just wouldn't share my passion for bicycles. she had a passion for piano, then the violin and viola. she played in school orchestra and hung out with those kind of kids so never got in trouble. i was lucky.
I remember looking through the huge Sears Christmas catalogue and half of it would be toys. I remember there would be various sized of toy soldier sets and some of the were monstrously large.
Man I wish kids toys these days had this much thought and effort put into them, the turret and battle ship are by far some of the coolest toys I have every seen
@@jamesrolfe9400 I think the ability to actually fly is a fair trade off. XD Also, we still have fancy plastic minies, and you can make as many as you please with a 3D resin printer. It's an enjoyable hobby to print and paint them.
The best and happiest memories as a kid in the early 60s playing war with the neighborhood kids. Had the most realistic toy guns and imitated the soldiers of the tv show, "Combat".
OMG! Does this video bring back memories! I haven't seen these toys in 60+ years! A few of us in the neighborhood had at least of of these Remco toys, and what fun we had with them! I'm 74 years-old, and I remember those Remco toys very well. My brother and I were always hoping to get Remco products for Christmas or birthday. Just about every boy I knew back in the late 1950s and 1960s owned some kind of toy gun. We all had them and had lots of fun with them. No one every got shot, or went out and became a mass killer. Just about every t.v. show had detectives, cowboys, and soldiers carrying guns and shooting people in each episode. Even with all this, we were nowhere near the sad point we are today with all the mass shootings. One toy I didn't see here is the Remco Bulldog Tank. My neighbor had one and it was pretty awesome for us kids. BTW, that $13.98 toy would cost a dad about $100 today.
In the eighties I had my dad's Fighting Lady sure a few things were missing but at least the horn and front gun turret worked sans the shell casing gimmick and one thing I have to say is that thing was extremely well-built
I loved my Jimmy Jet fighter console and with my Steve Canyon helmet, visor and oxygen mask I was as close to a fighter pilot as I would ever get. Thanks for posting, wonderful memories.
I had the ball turret and the Steve Canyon helmet. I think the next Christmas I got the 007 attaché case with the pop out plastic dagger, sniper rifle, decipher encoder and a wad of fake Russian Rubles. My dad was a plumber and mom worked at JC Penny's.
I missed that toy. But, I was fortunate to get a Defender Dan, a Johnny Reb Cannon and one of those green USMC Bazookas with the blue ammo. The Johnny Reb and the Bazooka also shot my mother’s sewing thread spools quite well off of the center shaft/wire. Many a car suffered an attack by a six year-old on Knight Drive at Lincoln Air Force Base.
I remmber the ads for the ball turret gun toy from Renco. A neighbor boy got one, so my mother and brother and I went over to see it. My mother thought it was a disappointment, a far cry from how it was depicted in the TV commercials, so she never got one for us!
I served in Vietnam, dad was a WWII vet and my brothers served in the First Gulf War and the GWOT. None turned into mass shooters. My dad's firearms were in his closet and were unlocked. We knew what was in store if we touched them....the sound of a belt clearing the belt loops on his trousers was a distinct sound that you did not want to hear.
My uncle would make use of the same 'persuader' if we didn't quiet down and go to sleep. How come I haven't rented a truck and driven through the local mall?
I remember Mattel coming out with a "Bombs Away" game in the late '50s. These were bombs on parachutes launched at a ground bullseye target. Someone objected loudly enough that the game was quickly modified to be "Chutes Away", a paratrooper game advertised by Dick Van Dyke. Great memories.
Somehow my Mom was able to buy one for me one Christmas. She saved a long time for that toy, and it was basically the only toy I got that year (my Mom had just became a widow.) I loved it!
Toys then: "Every giant whirlybird comes with 25 troops, a cannon, truck and even a tank!, all for 9.98$" Toys now: "Every 25 nanometer car comes with 1 piece of plastic, each screw sold separately. You can get it all for jut 64.59$!"
I got curious and had to run the numbers through an inflation calculator. A toy with a price of $11.98 in 1964 would be about $117, adjusted for inflation, today. That confirmed my hunch that a lot of these toys were "not exactly cheap" back in the day.
That's true...You know everybody sees those prices, and loses their mind...lololololol Dad worked 2 full-time jobs, six days a week. He was a depression era kid, and you couldn't give him enough money. The common phrase at our house was "We don't have any money...Put it on your christmas list" Christmas was bangin' at our house, but you didn't get high dollar stuff.
These toys were a bit before my time, and they were relegated to relics in an attic on account that the kids who played with them were all in high-school. I did, however, get enjoy many hours spent in my kid-sized Army uniform, complete with plastic helmet, and my realistic looking toy guns that went with it!
I had a Whirlybird. But what about the "submarine" that ran over the floor launching nuclear missiles at random intervals? I had one of those, too! Every boy (like me) wanted a Remco toy!
For me, "The one that got away" was a Johnny 7 OMA - The One Man Army gun. It looked amazing! Thinking back it may have been too expensive because my parents would have had to buy several to be fair to all the boys.
I wanted a Johnny 7 so dang bad! I don’t know how it worked for real but the commercials had me acting good from Thanksgiving on LOL. Never got one then and considering the prices I saw on eBay I guess I never will. I’ll have to put it in with the BB gun I never got. My parents were afraid I’d shoot someone with it…and they were right!
My favorite toy back then was a large jet fighter that resembled a Grumman F11F Tiger. When you moved a lever on the bottom, the canopy opened and the pilot ejected. Usually his little parachute didn’t open and he plunged to his demise. Far too traumatic for today’s kids, but we were a tougher bunch in the 50s.
My little nephew sure isnt traumatised from falling toys, neither was i when i was young, nor have i heard of a child being traumatised from playing with toys. No clue where you get that idea from.
I don't remember them either but I would have loved to own that stuff. I'd love to own them now. I bet they're worth a fortune. One hint. They mentioned the B-52 being Americas newest weapon. Mid-Fifties?
@@moboutmen I was born in 1960. These would have to be 1960-1963 because I recall none of them. The Remco brand is familiar but not these toys. Starting around 1964 I watched ALL toy commercials on TV. ;-)
Wow these were some toys!- loved the tail gun! I can see the art of gentle healthy persuasion into the Armed forces behind them too which is very apparent!
About the same time as this, there was a television show called "12 O'clock High" modeled after a movie with the same name about Word War 2 air core bombers. Part of every episode was an air battle with lots of machine guns.
My fort is made of sofa cushions, and is a lot better than your fort, I tell ya. OH, and I defend it with the old man's M1 rifle that he keeps in his closet. I take play army very seriously. Um, I probably should admit that I'm 60 years old. Hey, I quit smoking a month ago!! Whudyuhgonna do?
Fun Fact: in the original story, "A Christmas Story" begins with an adult Ralphie encounering a hippy in NY protesting against "violent military toys" marketed to children. This sets up the flashback to the story about the Red Ryder carbine.😂
I have the Jean Shepard books & reread them with great pleasure and not a little nostalgia. In my high school years '68-'72 there was one of those 'ban war toys' movements so my friend & I went to a toy store & bought plastic M16s that had spring-powered auto fire sound, just in case stuff like that was gone for good. Still have mine in a trunk-- the spring is tired and sounds like a single shot now😉
I had the first three toys. The Fighting Lady was missing the barrel. My Dad ordered one but they sent the electric motor control. He just made me a replacement with aluminum tube. All great toys.
So many of us had fathers that served in WWII or Korea. Vietnam was just coming to light. We watched TV shows and movies that took place in WWII, our boy scout leaders, little league coaches, our male teachers, so many of the WWII vets. Some kids were getting bolt action 22's for Christmas or birthdays. BB guns were everywhere. That we had Thompsons and Garands and Carbines and M2 machine guns, pinapple grenades, model PT boats, GI Joe foot tall with all kinds of accessories. In my neighborhood, we knew how to set up an ambush, lay mines, and apply tourniquets by 10 years old. Even Massachusetts was gun friendly then.
I remember these. Could only wish back then. Some favorites from back then that I actually got to play with were from the TV series Secret Agent Man. A friend had all the neat toys so I got to use some of them.
the poor miserable kids of today will be PUNISHED severly if they even pretend they have a gun and aim it someone else. when i was a kid, people brought toy guns to show and tell, and i carried a pocket knife every day.
@@cnfuzz That happened to him, his bird was shot away from under him. He was rescued. My parents' last neighbor had been a BUFF driver, took a SAM through a wing but the warhead didn't detonate.
Every boy wants a Remco toy... and so do girls. 🤣
Tom Boys, lol.
I traded my toys for girls, and boy, were they expensive!
Yup, bought a real airplane when I grew up too
Well, about ten percent of boys are becoming girls, so the demand for Remco ball turret machine gun toys is sure to drop. Oh, and of the remaining 90% of boys, probably another 10% to 20% those are being raised to be sissies.
Best not to invest in the military-industrial-toy complex these days.
Equality achieved from that quote
I remember all of these as a kid. My father worked 40 hours a week and made $8000 a year. $11.98 was a king's ransom in those days.
if you had a $100 bill, you practically had to go to a bank to change it, now just buy a pack of gum. I'd say cigarettes, but $100 might not be enough for a pack of those
Now, it's hard to live on 60 thousand dollars a year 😢
Amen.
This was back before toys were made in China, and the toy industry didn’t have to compete with video games for kids’ attention. When I was a kid, toys like this were still $10-20 each but adults generally made more than $8,000 a year. My dad found his old GI joes at my grandpas house and we had a blast playing with them together but we could still tell how much the quality had improved in my sets lol.
I know, my parents bought a brand new three bedroom brick home in virginia beach when we were little for 12000 dollars
Heck, I’m 64 years old and I still want these toys.
Lol me too 😂
Yes, I miss being a kid. Life sucks now.
Heck im 12 from the newest generation and i still want this instead of a phone or somththing
Me too!
@jena2664 😂😢😂😢
As someone born in the 2000s, I find these toys somewhat better than today’s toys.
I'm pretty old. Todd like this totally sparked our imagination as kids. No cell phones. 13 TV channels but you had to wait for the day your favorite shows played. Locked out til lunchtime and then had to be home before the streetlights came on. I still like rc toys and adventure time though!
General kenobi
Same
Dude we had real wooden toy rifles with steel barrels. Any bayonets were rubber, they weren't that lax, usually.😅
Agreed
Shell casing on the naval boat was very impressive. Such detail you don't see in today's toys.
Not for 12,98 for sure.
@@DerDrecksack87 in 1960 it's like 133$
@@DreBlomi of course, just tried to make the point how much everything including money has lost value.
Remco's Walker Bulldog Tank had the exact same gun mechanism; fired a round and ejected a brass casing. And yep, I had that one, too.
modern nanny state would sue them to death after 1 in a million kids choked on it.
As a 26 year old the one thing i can say is these look really well built, in comparison to the garbage released today and for awhile.
today us kids play with real guns in the classroom...
Not for long....@@barfuss2007
@@barfuss2007 We boomers did also. But we weren't stupid enough to shoot each other ...
These were very well built ....kids could this hammer on this pretty well before it broke
54 years old and I would buy that ball turret gun right now if I saw one.
Be extra neat to make it fire nerf projectiles!
@@suzi_mai we have one here that fires nerf. It's ok.
Problem with nerf is the bright colors. Looks like a toy. :(
columbus flea market, NJ... im here because i saw one there and was looking it up
@@mikey92362 paint it black
@@mikey92362 can’t blame them, your eyes are attracted by bright colors.
“The B-52 doesn’t have a ball turret. It only has a tail gun. And it first flew 10 years ago” -my dad in 1962, probably.
You're right. I noticed that error, too. Only bombers that served in WW2 and Korea had gun turrets. Well, if we're talking ball turrets, it would only have been B-24s and B-17s during WW2.
@@lonzo61 B-29 had two. One on top, one on bottom.
@@Doesitmatter113 Negative. They were powered, unmanned turrets--not ball turrets.
@@lonzo61 Same concept, but you're right.
Oh for god sakes fellows it was just toys in the sixties. who cares if the B-52 had a ball turret or not.... If I was a little kid in the early sixties I wouldn't have gave a s*** I think that's a cool toy.
75 year old Boomer. The reason we had these toys was because it was just after World War Two, and we wanted to pretend to be our heros. And who where these Heros. They were our fathers, uncle, post man, teacher and preacher. In my case, even my mother got in on it, by working at the Willow Run Bomber Plant as a Rosie. I'm damn proud of her. So proud, that it was the reason I took my turn. USAF 1968-72.
I had the Remco Whirlybird helicopter, everything worked as advertised, probably the best toy I ever had.
You could use the rescue hook to tow toy cars around the living room.
Never really thought about the $9.98 price till now. My folks definitely weren't rich, but somehow they got it for me.
I had that too. Wish I still had it.
I would love to have the helicopter now, lol! It was modeled after the Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee "Flying Banana"!
@@odinsson204 You can, just remember that price on EBAY is just the $9.98 price adjusted for inflation, it makes it sting a little less. Then convince yourself the rest of that price was rent for storage of your toy. It takes some mental gymnastics but you can convince yourself you're worth it.
I am not ashamed of some of the old toys I bought just to have them again and the others ones that my parents wouldn't let me have. They're still fun to play with it, and friends still get jealous and wanna use them....
I wanted the helicopter too. But I did have a large toy plane. I think it was a C47 (the military version of the famous DC3). It had compartments for cargo and for carrying soldiers or paratroopers. On a fresh set of batteries it looked awesome with the propellers spinning and the landing lights, beacons, and nav lights on. Wish I had it today.
The Whirlybird Helicopter was based on the CH-45 Army Chinook Helicopter - affectionately called the Sh!t Hook because you could hook all your Sh!t onto it and fly off. 🪖
You have to understand that in this era a big portion of kids’ fathers had some sort of military service. Even in my childhood (1970’s) a big portion of my friend’s fathers were vets. I played with military toys all the time.
In Ken Burns' documentary on the Vietnam war, the soldiers talk about how most of the adults they knew fought in the war. Their fathers, their uncles, their teachers. My father grew up in that era, I wonder if he had any of these.
Playtime. Playtime never changes
@@joshmcgill4639 the toys just get more advanced. Now we shoot down virtual planes in video games.
@@MrArcher7 It's a bit of stretch to say everyone fought. But it's fair to say everyone was involved in some way. And definitely that everyone knew someone who fought. My own great grandfather wasn't drafted because he was a steal foreman, and most of my great uncles were farmers.
@@Bustermachine I didn’t say everyone. I said a vast majority.
These are/were truly rich kids toys. In 1958 our monthly rent for a 2-bedroom apartment was $25. In 1960 we rented a 3 bedroom house for $40 a month. So no kid I knew was getting a $30 toy for Christmas.
Same here but I had a friend whose family was well off so I went to his house to play with all the cool toys he got.
@@unclecreepy4324 Touche', Me Too.
My dad was a E-6 in the marines. We were not rich. But both myself and my brother got these toys
Right On! That's the same thing i said! I love that hot wheels are so inexpensive now, back then I couldnt even have those, parents couldn't afford the extra expence.🤷♂️🙆♂️🙋♂️🙏
These were the toys we played with as children. None of us turned into mass killers as a result.
i was thinking the same thing ~!!
So right Jeff and we played "army" all day on Saturdays with very realistic toy guns - outside with our friends, running around the neighborhood, getting lots of exercise, fresh air and sunshine.
But back then if we screwed up we got our bare bottoms spanked red and sore today if a kid was disciplined a parent would be jailed !
jeff earle Speak for yourself 😈
Well in reality, turning us into mass killers is by bullying, neglecting, and abused by society
Not gonna lie that ball turret gunner toy looked awesome.
Yeah it did.
I'd love to have one even now.
@@txgunguy2766 you and me both. All these toys looked awesome to have, but also they weren’t cheap back in the early 60’s; I know my parents said if they spent that much on toys, my grandparents would have blown a head gasket. But that was back in the day when you spend $4-$5 on groceries.
Some how I still have the box to the B-52 Turret ! My mom used it to hold rolls of Christmas wrapping paper. No way she liked the clattering sound of it. Soon the batteries disappeared. I'm sure the toy was my dad's idea. He passed away several months after that Christmas morning, though. I was 9.
sounds like a lie to me
I remember from back in the 60s as a child having GI Joes, a Seaview toy submarine, and my Play guns from then. Those were the days.
Loved my yellow Seaview that actually fired torpedoes.
@@historybuff66Lol, remembering when Santa gifted me the same yellow plastic Seaview toy submarine for X-mas, back in the late 60’s while we were stationed at Pearl Harbor.
@@werdevo6 That was just over a quarter century past the infamous attack. And now, in a few days, it will have been 83 years. Where did the time go…(?)
I remember the Robot from the T V series, Lost in space toy. It cost only $12.99 then back in the 60s. Today an original one in the packaging is worth thousands.
@ vintage of item + useless nostalgia = current day goldmine
WOW!!! I wanted the ball turret twin MGs so bad when I was a kid...
I want it now!
I had one. The ammo belt broke. Also had the Steve Canyon Jet cockpit. With the neighbor kids, we used to make a whole bomber crew and play doing long missions.
@@HootOwl513 ...a guy who rented the front store on my dad's property in Fort Lee, NJ had a toy store and every once inna while dad would let me go and look around...I actually got my grubby little mitts on this once...
Kinda like millennium falcon turret
@@HootOwl513
My friend had that. I used to borrow it all the time.
Had a life like Tiger Tank is the early 60s. That thing was huge! Worked on a Army style walkie talkie with wires running to it and firing cannon, with shell's you could fill with flour.
My Mom got so mad, I used up a whole bag of her flour that Christmas day!
All I can say is War is hell..
🪖🎄...
🕶️🚬 ...
That story about your mom's flour had me laughing hard! 🤣🤣🤣
Lol😂
Tiger Joe it was called, we had one, made by Topper toys.
Mom: You used up all the flour!
Johnny: Hello Quartermaster? Could you send down a replacement bag of flour? You better hurry my mom's about to go ballistic. 😄😂🤣
I had one of those it was awesome.
My uncle from the USA came to visit my dad in Canada one Christmas in the late 1960s. He brought his son along, and he brought his toys. As a young Canadian boy under 10, I was flabbergasted! My American cousin had a semi-automatic toy rifle that shot plastic bullets! My uncle was drunk the whole time he was visiting, but I had a great time with his son. Never saw them again, but they impressed this young lad in the frozen north!
I too was living in Toronto in the early sixties but I had no problem getting these Remco toys for Christmas and birthdays. The toy machine guns were so realistic looking with realistic sounds and eye gouging plastic bullets. The Johnny Eagle rifles was one of my faves.
I had a Johnny 7. So much fun as a kid. Also never grew up wanting to kill or hurt people either (For all you flakes out there)…
@@Mike-ys2rr "YET...
Just another reason I’m ever so thankful that my Dad moved us from London, Ontario to Santa Ana California in late 1956 when I was three. I had toys like that myself.
This is my wifes account. I am 72 yrs old , I knew when I was 12 that those were the days. What a time to be alive at that age.
I’m about to turn 76. I can’t decide between the ball turret set and the frogman. I still miss Remco and their 40mm anti-aircraft gun.
@@rascal0175 Every boy should have a 40mm AA gun. Hell, I'd like one!
@@lonzo61 I wish you could have seen the Remco commercials for this post-war toy. TV was filled with war history, war movies, and the Korean War was on the news at 5/6 and 11. Our families fought WWll. Kids knew about banzai charges, kamikaze’s and nazi death camps. A friend had a full nazi officer’s uniform hanging in his basement complete with the bullet hole that killed him. War surplus was everywhere.
As kids we would have kicked Marylyn Monroe under the table in favor of a Remco 40mm quad mount, know in kid slang as “poppers.” A few years later we would have chosen otherwise.
Oh, and that commercial, it was you or them, and it was gonna be them.
Years later I joined the Army to become an Airborne Ranger. Funny what a little TV will do to a kids future choices.
That turret looks so awesome. Imagine releasing one of these today but with a matching video game.
I miss those games were the controller was a gun and you point at the screen to shot so much. I wish they would still make them
Yes, and they could add the smell of burning flesh as you hurl towards the ground trapped in thatball turret
I bet if it was released today it would hurt the feelings of someone
But they could release it in rainbow colours then it would be okay.
Not a ball turret, though. More like a tail gunner's station.
I LOVE THE AND SO DO GIRLS!!! with two brothers, this would have been my favorite gift!
My sister loved all these toys to, she joined the Army when she turned 18, couldnt wait to be a soldier. Lucky for her, they didnt send girls to Vietnam unless you were a nurse
My memories:My Grandmother worked at a grocery store on top self were Remco and other toys .That I would dream of .My father was in the Air Force and at the time didn’t have rank so we had little money.And $12.00 $9.00 dollars was a lot of money to us.I did have some of this cool toys but they were special occasions Christmas or you did something special to earn one.But to see see and wish for and think of the adventures you could have with them.See this brings back found memories.Thank you.
$120 for a dinky toy is still alot for most people
That Ball Turret was around 140 dollars back then in today's prices! That's insane!
$140.00 it looks like something a kid would play with twice and get bored of.
@@badgerattoadhall i wouldn't have gotten bored with it for quite awhile.
Theyre all 140 now
@@badgerattoadhallThey'd have more fun playing with the box 📦 😂
I used to sit in a tree, pretending im in a fighterplain, never got bored of it. I doubt that turred would have bored me. But that was a different Generation.
Toys were so much better than what kids have today.Also they were much less rushed commercials and so much more fun toys.
Back when toys were all about world domination and not playing with rainbows
These were expensive toys though. 13.98 from 1965 would be $130 today.
It was more about preventing world domination. Then again, it depended on which side you were on.
@@lonzo61 The Democrats are to blame for the downfall this country is in with their liberal, socialist, turn every boy into a homo, woke agenda.
Do you play with rainbows? I don't know who does. I do have some pink army men though made by Tim Mee.....does that make you angry? In the early 70s I had some bright yellow army men too. Seems like a lot of anti America people are against other Americans today and fearful of gays...terrified of them and can't quit talking about and thinking about them. That's sick. A very sick mind obsesses on other people who don't effect them.
@@JB-js4xi The Homo agenda doesn't effect normal American's, that is the stupidest comment I have heard in a long time. At every turn in the American culture now, they are pushing that crap on TV shows, TV commercials, in schools, in girl sports, and in politics. They get a whole month to celebrate their existent. The veterans get 1 lousy day.
I don't care about them and what they do, but when the whole country changes to "push" their lifestyle onto everyone, that's when I have a problem.
I still own the box to the B-52 Turret ! My mom used it to store her rolls of Christmas wrapping paper. She didnt like the sound of the gun clattering so the batteries soon disappeared. The toy must have been my dad's idea not hers. Sadly, my dad passed away several months later after that Christmas morning. I was 9.
Remco was a company we all loved back in the day.
... and girls too!
I had a "Johnny Eagle" in the late '60's. It was a pretty realistic toy M-14 rifle that fired spring loaded plastic projectiles out brass coloured plastic cartridges. I was the envy of the block, until I inevitably broke the thing. Also loved the Sekiden pistols that fired clay pellets. Made in Japan and was the closest thing to a Walther PPK you'd find in the toy store. A must for any young James Bond fan. Good times. Played with stuff like this all through my childhood and never became a violent person. Could it have something to do with competent parenting and good role models?
Same here.
@@johngardner1290 ditto!
Same her My dad bought me the m14 then when Mattel put out the m16 ,the one john Wayne used in the movie the Green Beret ,when he smash it against the tree .Good old days.
Back when each state could decide on what to teach its students. Usually the core basics needed in life, some morals with a healthy dose of common sense thrown in. Schools were old and coal heated with boilers yet somehow we learned so much more. Gone are the days of common sense and morals and yet our children go to new state of the art school buildings with millions spent on athletic stadiums. The country is screwed.
Yes. Most mass shooters didn't have a dad. Because of course they didn't.
I had the helicopter. Unfortunately in the 80's my mother had the attic cleaned out and all my toys of the 50's were put in the trash. Robbie the Robot and everything else is gone.
That Robbie the Robot would have been a collector's item worth some bucks now.
Rick Daystar My mother threw out all my baseball cards from the 50s and early 60s, my comic book collection that had Superman and Batman issues from the 40s and a bunch of other things that probably would have enabled me to retire years ago after their sale.
@@fscap811 Unfortunately that's a typical story. I always thought my mother would ask me if I wanted any of my childhood toys ect. Nope! They were out of her way in the attic but one day her " Spring cleaning" went nuclear...LoL.
@@rickdaystar477 Every once in a while I would remind her that I probably would've been rich if not for her spring "cleaning"...cleaning it was, it cleaned me out 😂
@@fscap811 .. 🤣.. My little sister got into a box with my Xmen collection i had forgotten about ( issues 10 through 60 something around that .)... along with early Avengers and others.
....Crayons..
😝
Here we go, I remember each one of these on the Box! Tv for the younger folks! I remember even more than these!
Saw these commercials while watching Saturday morning cartoons long, long ago.
Don't forget the cereals..like Sugar-pops..and Cap'n Crunch
Two days worth of sugar in every spoonful!
And...we're still here
The Navy ship was pretty cool with plenty of fire power.
That machine gun turret is pretty cool
I grew up with the 12 inch GI figures. Almost all of my toys were about WW2 fighting, and cowboys and indians! 👍
when my kid was totally into barbie and ken, i bought her a G.I. Joe, and Barbie finally seemed satisfied. He could wear his clothes and also kens preppie outfit fit him also.
@@johngillon6969 LOL, while watching this I flashbacked to when my daughter wanted a Ken doll but I bought her a G.I. Joe instead. She was upset until I pointed out that Ken came with a pink shirt, G.I. Joe came with a machine gun!😁
@@korbell1089 I surprised my little girl with a green bicycle. She wouldn't ride it because she wanted the pink one. It's ok. she turned out wonderful, just wouldn't share my passion for bicycles. she had a passion for piano, then the violin and viola. she played in school orchestra and hung out with those kind of kids so never got in trouble. i was lucky.
What was that 12 inch toy GI figure called ?
@@BHARGAV_GAJJAR GI Joe. The cowboys and Indians were probably Johnny West.
I remember looking through the huge Sears Christmas catalogue and half of it would be toys. I remember there would be various sized of toy soldier sets and some of the were monstrously large.
What year?
Sears, JC Penny had them to, looked at the year round..
@@CIintB3ASTW0oD About middle 60s.
Man I wish kids toys these days had this much thought and effort put into them, the turret and battle ship are by far some of the coolest toys I have every seen
WOW these toys were HUGE in scale i love it!!! We need these guys to make them again !!
The 1960 helicopter toy would be $148 in today's dollars. In 2023 you can get one that actually flies for that price now.
We have them. They are called "Drones". They only cost about $50-100, they really do fly, and back in 1960 would have cost around $5.
@@davidh9844 but they don’t have actual compartments to hold entire squads of army men and one or two Vulcan cannons!
@@jamesrolfe9400 I think the ability to actually fly is a fair trade off. XD
Also, we still have fancy plastic minies, and you can make as many as you please with a 3D resin printer. It's an enjoyable hobby to print and paint them.
The best and happiest memories as a kid in the early 60s playing war with the neighborhood kids. Had the most realistic toy guns and imitated the soldiers of the tv show, "Combat".
Sarge
Amazing generation for toys, wish I could’ve been there.
0:58 “and also girls”😂
Oddly Progressive.
We were envious of these toys seen in US comics during the 1950s, not marketed here in England!
I'm 73 now, and still hanker after one! 😁
The UK did have good stuff, you have to admit that an Action Man was much better than GI Joe.
Narrator:you are never out of ammo
Also narrator: JuST ReLOaD
I’m 41 and was a child of
The 80’s and I want that ball turret toy so
Badly lol
im 13 and want the ball turret toy
@@iamrons im 70 had one when 1st released now I WANT IT BACK !!!
Bro we need toys like these back.
My most famous post, Thanks. : )
The “ Stick anything in my ass Ken doll” will be the hot seller this Christmas
The woketard child psychologists would go crazy.
Another reason to buy them
Lego.
@@anamericancelt6534 Lego is NOT like this
@@Gravity_studioss But you can make things like them.
OMG! Does this video bring back memories! I haven't seen these toys in 60+ years! A few of us in the neighborhood had at least of of these Remco toys, and what fun we had with them! I'm 74 years-old, and I remember those Remco toys very well. My brother and I were always hoping to get Remco products for Christmas or birthday. Just about every boy I knew back in the late 1950s and 1960s owned some kind of toy gun. We all had them and had lots of fun with them. No one every got shot, or went out and became a mass killer. Just about every t.v. show had detectives, cowboys, and soldiers carrying guns and shooting people in each episode. Even with all this, we were nowhere near the sad point we are today with all the mass shootings. One toy I didn't see here is the Remco Bulldog Tank. My neighbor had one and it was pretty awesome for us kids. BTW, that $13.98 toy would cost a dad about $100 today.
In the eighties I had my dad's Fighting Lady sure a few things were missing but at least the horn and front gun turret worked sans the shell casing gimmick and one thing I have to say is that thing was extremely well-built
I loved my Jimmy Jet fighter console and with my Steve Canyon helmet, visor and oxygen mask I was as close to a fighter pilot as I would ever get. Thanks for posting, wonderful memories.
I also had a gray Steve Canyon gray flight suit. But never got the helmet.
I had the ball turret and the Steve Canyon helmet. I think the next Christmas I got the 007 attaché case with the pop out plastic dagger, sniper rifle, decipher encoder and a wad of fake Russian Rubles. My dad was a plumber and mom worked at JC Penny's.
I has the Thrush rifle with night scope from Man from Uncle.
I missed that toy. But, I was fortunate to get a Defender Dan, a Johnny Reb Cannon and one of those green USMC Bazookas with the blue ammo. The Johnny Reb and the Bazooka also shot my mother’s sewing thread spools quite well off of the center shaft/wire. Many a car suffered an attack by a six year-old on Knight Drive at Lincoln Air Force Base.
I remmber the ads for the ball turret gun toy from Renco. A neighbor boy got one, so my mother and brother and I went over to see it. My mother thought it was a disappointment, a far cry from how it was depicted in the TV commercials, so she never got one for us!
BTW, $9.98 in 1964 is equivalent to $97.66 in 2023.
In the 1960's children had to use their IMAGINATION when playing with toys .
I remember being on vacation at a Holiday Inn, they had a pool and some kid had the frogman. 50 yrs ago
Man. I want all those now !! I’m 55 and they look great. 😎
I WAS 8 YEARS OLD IN 1960'... MY FAVORITE TOYS ❣️👍
I WOULD LOVE THAT TURRET!
I served in Vietnam, dad was a WWII vet and my brothers served in the First Gulf War and the GWOT. None turned into mass shooters. My dad's firearms were in his closet and were unlocked. We knew what was in store if we touched them....the sound of a belt clearing the belt loops on his trousers was a distinct sound that you did not want to hear.
today's kids have their lawyers on speed dial
@@manofsan 'You've been bad... No TikTok for you tonight'
@@richardhockey8442 😂
Exactly. I was more afraid of that belt than my dad!
My uncle would make use of the same 'persuader' if we didn't quiet down and go to sleep. How come I haven't rented a truck and driven through the local mall?
These toys honestly seem better than what we have now.
For real man, as a teen who plays with gun replicas
I just love the "and so do girls" on the end there.
I remember Mattel coming out with a "Bombs Away" game in the late '50s. These were bombs on parachutes launched at a ground bullseye target. Someone objected loudly enough that the game was quickly modified to be "Chutes Away", a paratrooper game advertised by Dick Van Dyke. Great memories.
That one I can kind of understand given the anxiety over the world ending in atomic fire.
1960s 3 -12 yrs old Thanks For the Post, Fond / Fun Memories. (smile)
That ball turret is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen!
Somehow my Mom was able to buy one for me one Christmas. She saved a long time for that toy, and it was basically the only toy I got that year (my Mom had just became a widow.) I loved it!
@@KeithCooper-Albuquerquehow much is it todays money?
I love REMCO toys! Had many in my youth.
Toys then: "Every giant whirlybird comes with 25 troops, a cannon, truck and even a tank!, all for 9.98$"
Toys now: "Every 25 nanometer car comes with 1 piece of plastic, each screw sold separately. You can get it all for jut 64.59$!"
I got curious and had to run the numbers through an inflation calculator. A toy with a price of $11.98 in 1964 would be about $117, adjusted for inflation, today. That confirmed my hunch that a lot of these toys were "not exactly cheap" back in the day.
F for all the kids who saved up all their money and didn’t spend it on toys like this
Must have been a healthy profit margin for that plastic , you remember these cheap asian tin toys that cutted in your fingers
That's true...You know everybody sees those prices, and loses their mind...lololololol Dad worked 2 full-time jobs, six days a week. He was a depression era kid, and you couldn't give him enough money. The common phrase at our house was "We don't have any money...Put it on your christmas list" Christmas was bangin' at our house, but you didn't get high dollar stuff.
Those commercials are gems!
Yeah that was so what it is.
I had all of these toys as a child...Thanks for the memory...
These have to be some of the coolest toys I've ever seen. Love the remco battleship
These toys were a bit before my time, and they were relegated to relics in an attic on account that the kids who played with them were all in high-school. I did, however, get enjoy many hours spent in my kid-sized Army uniform, complete with plastic helmet, and my realistic looking toy guns that went with it!
I had a Whirlybird.
But what about the "submarine" that ran over the floor launching nuclear missiles at random intervals? I had one of those, too!
Every boy (like me) wanted a Remco toy!
Do girls too?
I believe that was the "Baracuda". Everybody wanted one of those.
We had the Baracuda sub!
@@fliegeroh That was it! I wonder what happened to mine.
@@DOI_ARTSi would
For me, "The one that got away" was a Johnny 7 OMA - The One Man Army gun. It looked amazing! Thinking back it may have been too expensive because my parents would have had to buy several to be fair to all the boys.
I wanted a Johnny 7 so dang bad! I don’t know how it worked for real but the commercials had me acting good from Thanksgiving on LOL. Never got one then and considering the prices I saw on eBay I guess I never will. I’ll have to put it in with the BB gun I never got. My parents were afraid I’d shoot someone with it…and they were right!
Is there a Django Gatling cannon (with coffin)?
Now there was a missed opportunity! Franco Nero in the commercial would have been icing on the cake.
In Japan, Lee Van Cleef previously appeared in a TV commercial for whiskey, which received high praise.
@@APW_Manbow I’ve seen that commercial, it’s awesome.
"My old friends!“
*3:25* Loading cargo onto slings underneath helicopters was my job in the Marine Corps. I didn't know they made toys like that.
How much did you have to pay to get to load those slings. I'm sure it was a lot of fun.
My favorite toy back then was a large jet fighter that resembled a Grumman F11F Tiger. When you moved a lever on the bottom, the canopy opened and the pilot ejected. Usually his little parachute didn’t open and he plunged to his demise. Far too traumatic for today’s kids, but we were a tougher bunch in the 50s.
My little nephew sure isnt traumatised from falling toys, neither was i when i was young, nor have i heard of a child being traumatised from playing with toys. No clue where you get that idea from.
@@PBODK That's not the point. Everything was better back them, especially the kids.
@@chrisbeckett9748 it was, if you were white, straight and christian.
@@PBODK Pull that stick out it must be painful, maybe the relief will make you less choleric & lighten up.
@@fishbmw Ay im just saying, the 50's was certainly not a good time for alot of Americans, for very big reasons. Peace.
The “wild blue yonder” in the background makes it better
They should remake these toys
Sure for the diversity boys n gals
Damn! I had no idea these toys existed! Way cooler than the stuff we had haha. Gotta love the flying projectiles which would be a no no for safety!
My parents opted to buy us Tonka Toys instead of what they thought was made of cheap plastic. Smart of them! 3 brothers were hard on 1960s toys!
I was born in 1957 and don’t remember any of these and I I was definitely a target market!
I wish they put the years this was on tv.
I had a Mighty Moe cannon and a Johnny 7 rifle back in the day!!
Mid 60's. I was a '57 model myself.
I don't remember them either but I would have loved to own that stuff. I'd love to own them now. I bet they're worth a fortune. One hint. They mentioned the B-52 being Americas newest weapon. Mid-Fifties?
@@moboutmen I was born in 1960. These would have to be 1960-1963 because I recall none of them. The Remco brand is familiar but not these toys. Starting around 1964 I watched ALL toy commercials on TV. ;-)
They are all on ebay with sellers claiming '61.
Radar protects the ship.
Corporal O'Reily: Wait for it......Anti-ship Missiles!
Great toys. Nothing wrong at all with these. I grew up playing with toys like this 😊
0:53 “…and so do girls”
So dismissive, I kinda love it.
Wow these were some toys!- loved the tail gun! I can see the art of gentle healthy persuasion into the Armed forces behind them too which is very apparent!
About the same time as this, there was a television show called "12 O'clock High" modeled after a movie with the same name about Word War 2 air core bombers. Part of every episode was an air battle with lots of machine guns.
I was not born when these commercials came out, but apparently Remco made some great toys.
Remco, Ideal, and Mattel were the 3 big toy companies of the 1950s and 60s.
Man it is 2022 and I want one To go with my blanket Fort
My fort is made of sofa cushions, and is a lot better than your fort, I tell ya. OH, and I defend it with the old man's M1 rifle that he keeps in his closet. I take play army very seriously.
Um, I probably should admit that I'm 60 years old. Hey, I quit smoking a month ago!! Whudyuhgonna do?
@@lonzo61 Pathetic! My fort was an airship made out of a two-story bed!
@@Gravity_studioss Well.....that is impressive, I have to admit.
Getting to experience all of the joys of being in a ball turret without the risk of being washed out with a hose as a red liquid sounds pretty good.
Fun Fact: in the original story, "A Christmas Story" begins with an adult Ralphie encounering a hippy in NY protesting against "violent military toys" marketed to children. This sets up the flashback to the story about the Red Ryder carbine.😂
I have the Jean Shepard books & reread them with great pleasure and not a little nostalgia. In my high school years '68-'72 there was one of those 'ban war toys' movements so my friend & I went to a toy store & bought plastic M16s that had spring-powered auto fire sound, just in case
stuff like that was gone for good. Still have mine in a trunk-- the spring is tired and sounds like a single shot now😉
I’m 16 and into collecting old toys, man these toys are cooler than modern day ones.
I’m 15 and can agree!
I had the first three toys. The Fighting Lady was missing the barrel. My Dad ordered one but they sent the electric motor control. He just made me a replacement with aluminum tube.
All great toys.
So many of us had fathers that served in WWII or Korea. Vietnam was just coming to light. We watched TV shows and movies that took place in WWII, our boy scout leaders, little league coaches, our male teachers, so many of the WWII vets. Some kids were getting bolt action 22's for Christmas or birthdays. BB guns were everywhere.
That we had Thompsons and Garands and Carbines and M2 machine guns, pinapple grenades, model PT boats, GI Joe foot tall with all kinds of accessories. In my neighborhood, we knew how to set up an ambush, lay mines, and apply tourniquets by 10 years old.
Even Massachusetts was gun friendly then.
I’d literally buy these
Yup! However, the B-52 doesn't have a ball turret. It only has a tail gun system.
They were just selling toys, realism secondary. Lol
Kids then: Play with military toys.
Kids now: Play Call Of Duty.
Nah Rainbow stuff
Nothing changed, I see
Those are the toys we grew up with. Weird part is, these haven't really change.
I remember these. Could only wish back then. Some favorites from back then that I actually got to play with were from the TV series Secret Agent Man. A friend had all the neat toys so I got to use some of them.
Back then boys loved cap guns and today they love Nerf guns. I guess some things never change XD
the poor miserable kids of today will be PUNISHED severly if they even pretend they have a gun and aim it someone else. when i was a kid, people brought toy guns to show and tell, and i carried a pocket knife every day.
Some things? Like gender, perhaps?
@@johngillon6969 Worse things are happening to poor miserable kids today as well, but the guns arent pretend.
Nerf guns are for the weak, BB guns were the way
I'm relatively sure that toy is now illegal in several states.
If authorities in California knew you were selling a ball turret toy at a trade show you’d be looking at a prison sentence.
I wanted one of those tail gunner toys so bad ! I did get that big helicopter though! It was cool !! ( thanks mom and dad ). ❤
This PC era doesn't have these army toys anymore. Just violent computer games and really, really gorey cgi war films.
The first sergeant of my squadron had been a B-52 gunner in Vietnam.
Not much to gun at , it was a sitting duck waiting to be downed by Sam or air to air missiles
@@cnfuzz That happened to him, his bird was shot away from under him. He was rescued. My parents' last neighbor had been a BUFF driver, took a SAM through a wing but the warhead didn't detonate.