Mr. Hooper was the old guy. That playset graced our house, and occasionally was also a headquarters for Star Wars scaled figures. Very Urban Gritty, but it was 70's America. Spiderman was given a rubber glove sandwich on the Electric Company, Battle of the Planets was high end action, and Snuffalupagus was still an invisible friend. This stuff was normal compared to the fashions in a Sears catalog. Trust me.
Ms. Pac Man machine graced the outer lobby of Denny's, attached to the motel I stayed in as a kid with my family when we visited D.C. we ate Denny's every morning and hammered quarters into that thing like crazy. I think I remember being stuck with the intro theme walking all around the Smithsonian humming it.
I had that McDonalds playset when I was 4 or 5. It was great fun. The little cash register had a bell in it. You pushed down on the curved surface where the keys would be and it rang. Used to drive my granny crazy ringing that bell in her living room while she was trying to watch Lawrence Welk. Good times.
Oh yeah, Pizza Hut on the weekend. Interesting that you mentioned KISS, as the Hut’s jukebox introduced me to that band. “Shout It Out Loud” was my go-to. Later in life I actually worked for that same restaurant three separate times. And yes, that Sesame Street set was indeed as awesome as it looks.
As a child I was not aware of the Holiday Inn nor the McDonald's playsets. As an adult when i learned of them I always thought they were cool. Did another manufacturer also make Holiday Inn and McDonald's playsets at a different time or only Playskool? I don't know. I thought I've seen different. Anyway..... Great memories of staying in Holiday Inn. We stayed there a lot. And yes, Pizza Hut was an event for us. Good times, fun toys, thank you Junkman, great video. .....and how did Wendy's get pregnant? McDonald's forgot to cover his Big Mac.
I had the Sesame Street set. There was a Snuffalupagus figure because I definitely had one, but I don't think it came with that set. There was also a Sesame Street Clubhouse I also had, but it didn't look anything like anything on the show. The Green Giant kid was called Sprout. The grocer was Mr. Hooper. I don't know if he had a first name. He was played by Will Lee, and when he died, they wrote it into the show instead of replacing him and won an Emmy for showing his funeral. Big Bird used to call him Mr. Looper. It took him a while to understand that Mr. Hooper was never coming back, but by the time the funeral came, Big Bird said his name correctly out of respect, shocking everybody.
when I was like two years old, I had to stay at the Children's Hospital for like a week and they had that Little People Sesame Street set - the nurses let me keep it up in my room the whole time but that was my only exposure to it later on, we actually got the Clubhouse which was pretty cool - it had a trap door, a slide, a swing, a crows nest, and also came with some pipes and a cable spool that you could pop the figures into and roll them around
Every single playset on this video looks bad ass!!! I love how many fast food tie-in toys they had in the 70s and 80s! My oldest brother had the newer Little People Sesame Street playset...the one based on the famous Little People schoolhouse playset with the crank you'd turn to roll the figures across the roof until they go down the slide.
As a child of the 70's, I feel somewhat ashamed that I wasn't aware of any of these playsets.. I would've liked the Holiday Inn and Green Giant playsets. I just remember that Fisher Price toys were all the rage in the mid 70's, and if you had the garage playset, you were the coolest kid on the block!
i had that! - the McDonald's... it is one of the first toys i can remember having as a child. the figures didn't have arms but you could clip the tray under their chin to make them "carry" it to their table. it was actually pretty cool for a two-year-old or whatever. there was an even an assembly line-type deal inside to slide the trays down.
I had the Seasame Street playset ... It always became a hideout for my Star Wars figures. I explained everything being small because it was a Jawa base everyone took over. I also remember having one of those cars that came with the McDonalds playset...which I always wanted. Of course the plan was to get McDonalds so Luke, Leia, and the gang could go to McDonald's. Ahhh the 70s...
The Green Giant little one was named Sprout Fisher Price made a McDonalds as well Also FP made a Sesame Street clubhouse as well And additional muppets play people
I remember the 70s Mattel Tuff Stuff Plastic Toy Food Set. Those flat groceries you could teethe on. Indesctructible. I always wanted a McDonald's playset and Holiday Inn...
My grandma had a room for all the grandkids could play in with toys & books and she had that Holiday Inn playset that I remember playing with all the time in the 80's.
It's the Jolly Green Giant. And the kid character is Sprout. If you take the brand tie in out of it it's actually a pretty cool farm playset with a lot to do.
3:22 I had that. The register had a little spring-loaded bell in it, so you could click it and it would go- "ding ding ding ding", as you added items to the list of the customers orders. I was reeeeally little. 9:10 I had that, too. Weebles were a big thing in the 70s, too. I had the Weebles Mickey Mouse Clubhouse playset, it came with a spotlight (it was a bit of foil sticker like a mirror) and a movie camera. I left the Weebles out in the sun, and the inner piece that had Mickey's face on it all shriveled up. I also had the Weebles Tub Sub, a big white egg-shaped submarine that you put a Weeble in the pilot's seat, and the periscope raised and lowered. I think there was a valve button where it would sink deliberately, and empty to surface again. Sesame Street finger puppets were huge, I had messes of them. I had Oscar, Big Bird, Ernie and Bert, Grover, Super Grover, Sherlock Hemlock, I think I even had doubles or replacements of them, I had a habit of chewing the noses off of them.
I had a Weebles tree house that doubled as a hidden Rebel base for my Star Wars figures and this was BEFORE any Ewoks had shown up in the Star Wars Universe. That was played with even before the Empire had a chance to strike back(insert rim shot drum sound here).
Did the Weebles treehouse have a feature that the whole green part separated and rose up? Was there a little hedge, for the dog? I think I recall owning this.
@@georgetrapp6666 Mine was 70's. The green leaves you could take off and it just plugged into the tree branch. The top of the tree house itself was yellow and white with an opening in the roof and a little door you could open up and "hide" 1 Weeble in was like part way down the tree trunk itself. It was made where Star Wars figures could stand in the front, but had to sit in the back, as they were too tall.
Had the McDonald's playset! That thing was awesome! The cash register had a bell in it that would ring when you pressed it and the trays would clip into the little guys chins. My younger brother and I also had the sesame street set. That was a lot of fun too. Would love to get a set of the characters today.
These Playskool sets were were meant to emulate the little people toy sets that Fisher-Price put out for years. The kids down the street had the McDonalds and the Holiday Inn sets. Yes, the employees did where the paper hats back in the 70's, In and Out Burgers still has the employees wear them. Ironically, I did go to Florida in 1978 (I was 8) and we did stay in the Holiday Inn multiple times. Don't rip on our ugly assed clothes. We couldn't help how our stupid parents dressed us.
Can we rip on the ugly assed haircuts the parents of today are giving their kids? That girls outfit was ugly, but she had good hair. Not half her head shaved for brain surgery.
Lisa Marie Presley had some Christmas photos from when she was a kid in the 70s at Graceland and you can see that Pizza Hut oven was one of the gifts she got.
My relative had that McDonalds set when we were kids! I had the fisher price sesame street set!! IT WAS AWESOME!! There was an add-on set of figures for it that came with snuffleupagus, Sherlock Hemlock, Harry Monster, Grover, and more. I had em all. The good old days!
@0:44~At my school, I was among one of the few Black kids that was a KISS fan. My KISS lunchbox I brought to school was proof. And the scourge of the other kids hatin on me, LOL
Playschool always seemed to have an amount of education to their toys. back when kids were curious about everything and didn't get told to google it, they worked things out through playing. you would mimic what you saw your parents do, or in the case of the green giant playset, show, in a basic fashion, where canned veggies came from. hoping they would buy their product when they grew up. Back in the 70s, a jog at burger king, pizza hut, etc. was a decent job and a lot of kids older siblings would work at one of those as their first job. Back then the most powerful toy you had was your imagination. Kids to day don't need one. tech toys have made it where you don't need it.
I had the McDonald’s playset and the Burger King pop up tent when I was a bit older. I really loved them. I don’t know why but I loved them. The Burger King was set up in a corner of my bedroom and I used it as if it was a different room in my bedroom when I didn’t play Burger King (which was most of the time). Funny that you just made this video because I was thinking about these and I posted a few of the pictures on my Facebook just a couple of days ago.
I haven’t stayed at a Holiday Inn, but I’ve stayed at a Days Inn on vacation. Too bad the pool looked like the moving killer sludge blob from “The Raft” segment from Creepshow 2.
I had no idea any of these existed, except for the Sesame Street playset. My cousin, Bobby, had it and I always wanted to play with it. But I think he was missing a few of the figures that came with it. I also remember his having a ton of Star Wars toys. He always had the ones I wanted badly and never got. Like the AT-AT, Slave-1 and many others.
I had the Sesame Street playset. It was a lot of fun for my 5 year old self back in the day! Fisher-Price made an updated version around 2010 and I bought one for my little ones.
I had the Sesame Street playset. Got it for christmas. It was awesome. I had lost it somehow as I got older but I had the street lamp on a shelf all the way through high school.
Funny you should mention the Sesame Street playset ...I saw one at a thrift store today it was just the shell it didn't have any pieces that go with it . I actually had one when I was a kid
Sold a few McDees playsets. Found one in the box once, complete. The 70s were definitely wild, for sure. Many of our family vacays went through Hollday Inn. LOL There were a lot of weird Playdoh playsets too.
My neighbor's kids had that! It had water guns and stuff. The feet were all the same shape, so you could put anybody on all the stands. The figures were super squishy rubber. They used to play with that in the kiddie pool, not the bathtub.
I love watching Poltergeist for the Holiday inn sign at the end.. well thats not why I watch it, Also our Holiday Inn had a revolving restaurant at the top. Swanksville!
amazing how popular minecraft is today when they all look likes block heads. I had the old red bard with chickens, when they laid eggs. Great got Junkman
The Burger King joke. Classic. I forgot about it. Those playsets were a little weird. But fun. The playsets were cool when you would change them into urban warfare sets. Or have Evel Knievel jump the playsets.
That big giant green head is kind of creepy. I had the McDonald's one, and I had a bunch of different Fisher Price playsets as a kid. I know there were 2 different sesame street playsets. One was that apartment building, and I think the other one was like a playground.
I wanted but never had the Sesame Street playset. We, my sister and I, already had the larger Fisher Price City set, so my parents didn't see the need for another City set. Parents just don't get it.
Ho! Ho! Ho! Green GIANT!!! The little kid's name was Sprout. I had a stuffed animal toy of him when I was a kid. I think they were trying to get kids interested in vegetables.
Holy Crap Junkman, did my aunt contact you and tell you about all my old toys? I actually had the Holiday Inn, the McDonalds, The Sesame Street playset AND the Pizza Hut Oven...I wasn't stupid enough to ask for the cardboard box toys! I'd just make my own with an old TV box. And my house was a NO Barbies zone so I never saw the BK sets. One year my cousin bought me the Bionic Woman 12" action figure for Christmas and I didn't talk to him for months after that (Yeah I was a brat!). However, apparently the Bionic Woman figure is much more rare now for collectors and I could have sold it for some good money today if I still had it. As for the Holiday Inn & the McDonalds, these were two of my favourite pre-Star Wars playsets. I don't know why PlaySchool designed all the mini-figures to be Blockheads, but I remember these sets came out JUST before Webbles. SURPRISINGLY enough, the Pizza Hut pizzas weren't too TERRIBLE! Although I could never get the light bulb to cook them properly. You got a DOUGH packet, a tomato sauce packet, and some Kraft parmesan to shake on top. That's about the end of your "fixins". The Dough SMELLED really good when you mixed it with water, but didn't rise well so you basically had some tomato-like sauce on a hard cardboard dough, but it was fun! Once you ran out of packets though, that was it...I don't know if they ever bought me any refills for it. The Sesame Street set was cool as it folded back up into a carrying case (sort of) the figures or accessories would have a habit of falling through the windows as you carted it around. For other 70s toys, You should do a video on the IDEAL woodworking mini-power-tools...All miniature versions of full sized real power tools. Each came in little orange carry case. There was a mini-drill with bits, a mini-circular saw, mini-jigsaw, mini-router and big plastic workbench playset that came with lots of miniboards of Balsa-Wood. It was like Tooltime in the 70s. Obviously they didn't work all that well, but the workbench had POWER receptacles that the tools plugged into with mini-plugs. Lots of fun! IDEAL make the coolest toys in the mid-70s...Evel Kenevel was the best though. I had ALL of his stuff. Ended up selling most of all these toys mentioned so I could get my first Atari 600XL home computer. I miss it all though! Kept all the Star Wars toys though! No computer was worth trading that stuff!
Pizza hut...when pan pizza debuted in the early 80s and tasted nothing like today. The red cups. The cheese and pepper shakers. The plastic pitchers filled with soda. The beer. The arcade Miss that pizza hut, it doesn't exist anymore.
Have the Holiday Inn, McDonald's and the Sesame Street (there was a box set of Little People that had extra characters like Grover and Snuffleuppagus). I'd love to have that Kentucky Fried Chicken set, I like how it came with the Colonel but McDonald's didn't come with a Ronald.
Yepper , there WERE so weird "playsets" !. Most doubled as "forts" for army men ,et. I really wanted that "HoJo,s " playset .... man , i miss that Orange roof!...
My sister and I had that Pizza Hut oven when we were kids. The pizza wasn't too bad, I guess, but I remember the taste had a hint of (I kid you not) black licorice.
The Burger King restaurant for Jazzie (which NEVER measured up to Starr, BTW), wasn't the first, there was a McDonalds for Barbie in the early '80s and a Pizza Hut in the '90s. The McDonalds set was remade in the '90s, but it wasn't as cool as the'80s one.
I was a 70s kid and don't remember any of those. I'm just going to assume it was because I was way too cool for them. I do vaguely remember having some fisher-price stuff, particularly the parking garage set. I had that long past when I would've outgrown fisher-price just because it was cool to use with my matchbox and hot wheels.
Does the Holiday Inn playset come with a vibrating bed? I had my 7th birthday at Pizza Hut. I think I played with the Sesame Street one at the doctor’s office.
"Big Bird very much had a nest, JM! He very MUCH had a nest!!" [weeping and biting my knuckles] Sorry. :) hahah! The Sesame Street one is the best. I'd definitely get that one. :) I think, Kentucky Fried Chicken was shortening to KFC, because any company has to pay to use the word Kentucky. These playsets are strange, but I like 'em. :) Thanks for the video
Y’know if you say “OMG!” out loud it’s the exact same number of syllables as just saying “Oh my god!” So it’s kind of hilarious that it’s considered an abbreviation.
Was more of a Pizza Inn guy. Priazzo from Pizza Hut was the a childhood memory that I really cemented into legend. I had a play set hat was a family of fire fighters that lived in a tree. The top would pop open. Might have merged 2 memories there.
@That Junkman ''Pizza Hut Pete''! 😉''The Child Guidance Toy'' company made several educational playsets like the (KFC and Green Giant-Farm and Factory) sets during the 1970s. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any info on that company.
They knew all the manufacturing, auto plants, steal mills, and textiles were leaving the U.S. so they had to get the kids ready for the blue collar jobs that were left. Fast food, motels, grocery stores and auto repair shops. They probably all came with a little union buster figure too. 🇺🇸😥
I like the Fresh Air Barbecue place in Macon. Of course the original one is in Jackson and it’s better. That’s where I grew up. Don’t think they ever made a toy Fresh Air Barbecue. Thanks.
I still have my Sesame Street playset. They rereleased it in the mid 2000s. I got it for my daughter it wasn't as nice tho. It was much thinner. But love my original.
Yep that Holiday inn toy was the bomb! Cousin had it and it was awesome Plus my cousin had the KFC set. The trays sled down a little slide onto the counter.
All those fast food playsets, such an odd off-ramp of the past. Now McDonalds doesn't even have playgrounds or characters. Breakfast cereal is about the only food that markets directly to kids anymore.
@霞健四郎 They're turning into Starbucks. It all started changing after the Super Size Me documentary, no more super size, healthy options, even less kid focus. I didn't learn until much later that his results have never been duplicated and the whole documentary's premise is questionable. For anybody reading this that's unfamiliar, a guy ate nothing but McDonalds for a month. If they asked if he wanted it super-sized he would get it. Regular health checkups along the way made it seem like he was flirting with imminent death. McDs was the devil.
The 70s were the golden age of play sets. They tried everything.
It's at least nice to see playsets that were plastic, paint, and stickers, not just cardboard
Mr. Hooper was the old guy. That playset graced our house, and occasionally was also a headquarters for Star Wars scaled figures. Very Urban Gritty, but it was 70's America. Spiderman was given a rubber glove sandwich on the Electric Company, Battle of the Planets was high end action, and Snuffalupagus was still an invisible friend. This stuff was normal compared to the fashions in a Sears catalog. Trust me.
Going out to Pizza Hut on a Sat night was the best. Stuffing quarters in the sit down Ms Pac-man or the jukebox & getting your personal pan pizza!
Ms. Pac Man machine graced the outer lobby of Denny's, attached to the motel I stayed in as a kid with my family when we visited D.C. we ate Denny's every morning and hammered quarters into that thing like crazy. I think I remember being stuck with the intro theme walking all around the Smithsonian humming it.
I had that McDonalds playset when I was 4 or 5. It was great fun. The little cash register had a bell in it. You pushed down on the curved surface where the keys would be and it rang. Used to drive my granny crazy ringing that bell in her living room while she was trying to watch Lawrence Welk. Good times.
Best things about Pizza Hut in the 80s were the arcade games and the jukebox.
My favorite thing was the pizza.
When I was young, in the '70s, I much more preferred Shakey's Pizza. It had great pizza, arcade games and really cool atmosphere.
@@spankynater4242 Their pizza was definitely better then than it is now.
I got nothing on the 70's those must have been some sweet times.
Oh yeah, Pizza Hut on the weekend. Interesting that you mentioned KISS, as the Hut’s jukebox introduced me to that band. “Shout It Out Loud” was my go-to. Later in life I actually worked for that same restaurant three separate times. And yes, that Sesame Street set was indeed as awesome as it looks.
Of all the toy channels that have come and gone, you’re one of the very few that has fresh content and keeps things light and friendly.
As a child I was not aware of the Holiday Inn nor the McDonald's playsets. As an adult when i learned of them I always thought they were cool. Did another manufacturer also make Holiday Inn and McDonald's playsets at a different time or only Playskool? I don't know. I thought I've seen different. Anyway..... Great memories of staying in Holiday Inn. We stayed there a lot. And yes, Pizza Hut was an event for us. Good times, fun toys, thank you Junkman, great video. .....and how did Wendy's get pregnant? McDonald's forgot to cover his Big Mac.
I had the Sesame Street set. There was a Snuffalupagus figure because I definitely had one, but I don't think it came with that set. There was also a Sesame Street Clubhouse I also had, but it didn't look anything like anything on the show. The Green Giant kid was called Sprout. The grocer was Mr. Hooper. I don't know if he had a first name. He was played by Will Lee, and when he died, they wrote it into the show instead of replacing him and won an Emmy for showing his funeral. Big Bird used to call him Mr. Looper. It took him a while to understand that Mr. Hooper was never coming back, but by the time the funeral came, Big Bird said his name correctly out of respect, shocking everybody.
when I was like two years old, I had to stay at the Children's Hospital for like a week and they had that Little People Sesame Street set - the nurses let me keep it up in my room the whole time but that was my only exposure to it
later on, we actually got the Clubhouse which was pretty cool - it had a trap door, a slide, a swing, a crows nest, and also came with some pipes and a cable spool that you could pop the figures into and roll them around
@@Straight0uttaCrofton Yeah, the clubhouse was cool, but I wondered what it actually had to do with the show even then.
Big Bird called Mr. Hooper everything that rhymed with Hooper, Dooper, Looper, Booper, and Mr. Hooper would always correct him, "Hooper! Hooper!"
The jolly green giant and little green sprout.
Every single playset on this video looks bad ass!!! I love how many fast food tie-in toys they had in the 70s and 80s!
My oldest brother had the newer Little People Sesame Street playset...the one based on the famous Little People schoolhouse playset with the crank you'd turn to roll the figures across the roof until they go down the slide.
As a child of the 70's, I feel somewhat ashamed that I wasn't aware of any of these playsets.. I would've liked the Holiday Inn and Green Giant playsets. I just remember that Fisher Price toys were all the rage in the mid 70's, and if you had the garage playset, you were the coolest kid on the block!
i had that! - the McDonald's... it is one of the first toys i can remember having as a child. the figures didn't have arms but you could clip the tray under their chin to make them "carry" it to their table. it was actually pretty cool for a two-year-old or whatever. there was an even an assembly line-type deal inside to slide the trays down.
Right! The trays clipped into them! I owned this, and I forgot about that until you brought it up!
I had the Seasame Street playset ... It always became a hideout for my Star Wars figures. I explained everything being small because it was a Jawa base everyone took over.
I also remember having one of those cars that came with the McDonalds playset...which I always wanted. Of course the plan was to get McDonalds so Luke, Leia, and the gang could go to McDonald's. Ahhh the 70s...
The Green Giant little one was named Sprout Fisher Price made a McDonalds as well Also FP made a Sesame Street clubhouse as well And additional muppets play people
I remember the 70s Mattel Tuff Stuff Plastic Toy Food Set. Those flat groceries you could teethe on. Indesctructible. I always wanted a McDonald's playset and Holiday Inn...
My grandma had a room for all the grandkids could play in with toys & books and she had that Holiday Inn playset that I remember playing with all the time in the 80's.
It's the Jolly Green Giant. And the kid character is Sprout. If you take the brand tie in out of it it's actually a pretty cool farm playset with a lot to do.
3:22 I had that. The register had a little spring-loaded bell in it, so you could click it and it would go- "ding ding ding ding", as you added items to the list of the customers orders. I was reeeeally little. 9:10 I had that, too. Weebles were a big thing in the 70s, too. I had the Weebles Mickey Mouse Clubhouse playset, it came with a spotlight (it was a bit of foil sticker like a mirror) and a movie camera. I left the Weebles out in the sun, and the inner piece that had Mickey's face on it all shriveled up. I also had the Weebles Tub Sub, a big white egg-shaped submarine that you put a Weeble in the pilot's seat, and the periscope raised and lowered. I think there was a valve button where it would sink deliberately, and empty to surface again. Sesame Street finger puppets were huge, I had messes of them. I had Oscar, Big Bird, Ernie and Bert, Grover, Super Grover, Sherlock Hemlock, I think I even had doubles or replacements of them, I had a habit of chewing the noses off of them.
I had a Weebles tree house that doubled as a hidden Rebel base for my Star Wars figures and this was BEFORE any Ewoks had shown up in the Star Wars Universe. That was played with even before the Empire had a chance to strike back(insert rim shot drum sound here).
I heard that Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down. 🤔
Perfect "super" soldiers for the Rebel Alliance? :)
Did the Weebles treehouse have a feature that the whole green part separated and rose up? Was there a little hedge, for the dog? I think I recall owning this.
@@georgetrapp6666 Mine was 70's. The green leaves you could take off and it just plugged into the tree branch. The top of the tree house itself was yellow and white with an opening in the roof and a little door you could open up and "hide" 1 Weeble in was like part way down the tree trunk itself. It was made where Star Wars figures could stand in the front, but had to sit in the back, as they were too tall.
@@pauljoyner4338 I must be thinking of something else. Could have been Fisher-Price Little People, my treehouse thingy. Thanks anyway!
I think is a great side theme for the channel. I need more 70’s, 80’s toy info like this video. Good job Junkman!
Had the McDonald's playset! That thing was awesome! The cash register had a bell in it that would ring when you pressed it and the trays would clip into the little guys chins. My younger brother and I also had the sesame street set. That was a lot of fun too. Would love to get a set of the characters today.
These Playskool sets were were meant to emulate the little people toy sets that Fisher-Price put out for years. The kids down the street had the McDonalds and the Holiday Inn sets. Yes, the employees did where the paper hats back in the 70's, In and Out Burgers still has the employees wear them. Ironically, I did go to Florida in 1978 (I was 8) and we did stay in the Holiday Inn multiple times. Don't rip on our ugly assed clothes. We couldn't help how our stupid parents dressed us.
Can we rip on the ugly assed haircuts the parents of today are giving their kids? That girls outfit was ugly, but she had good hair. Not half her head shaved for brain surgery.
Remember when you could get a pitcher of beer at Pizza Hut?
Lisa Marie Presley had some Christmas photos from when she was a kid in the 70s at Graceland and you can see that Pizza Hut oven was one of the gifts she got.
I would absolutely wear the zebra print coat at 0:30. Also the little "green giant" was called Sprout.
Niblet was the Green Giant's side kick. The large Green Giant head over looking the farm like the flying stone head in Zardoz is pretty horrific.
My relative had that McDonalds set when we were kids! I had the fisher price sesame street set!! IT WAS AWESOME!! There was an add-on set of figures for it that came with snuffleupagus, Sherlock Hemlock, Harry Monster, Grover, and more. I had em all. The good old days!
@0:44~At my school, I was among one of the few Black kids that was a KISS fan. My KISS lunchbox I brought to school was proof. And the scourge of the other kids hatin on me, LOL
Playschool always seemed to have an amount of education to their toys. back when kids were curious about everything and didn't get told to google it, they worked things out through playing. you would mimic what you saw your parents do, or in the case of the green giant playset, show, in a basic fashion, where canned veggies came from. hoping they would buy their product when they grew up. Back in the 70s, a jog at burger king, pizza hut, etc. was a decent job and a lot of kids older siblings would work at one of those as their first job. Back then the most powerful toy you had was your imagination. Kids to day don't need one. tech toys have made it where you don't need it.
I had the McDonald’s playset and the Burger King pop up tent when I was a bit older. I really loved them. I don’t know why but I loved them. The Burger King was set up in a corner of my bedroom and I used it as if it was a different room in my bedroom when I didn’t play Burger King (which was most of the time). Funny that you just made this video because I was thinking about these and I posted a few of the pictures on my Facebook just a couple of days ago.
Hotel vending machine jumping beans and the kissing dogs were my favorites!
My mom kept all of our toys from when we were kids. My son loves the Play Family Sesame Street, if you're ever in Toronto come by, he would share!
When I look back I've got to say the 70's where pretty interesting
I haven’t stayed at a Holiday Inn, but I’ve stayed at a Days Inn on vacation. Too bad the pool looked like the moving killer sludge blob from “The Raft” segment from Creepshow 2.
I had no idea any of these existed, except for the Sesame Street playset. My cousin, Bobby, had it and I always wanted to play with it. But I think he was missing a few of the figures that came with it. I also remember his having a ton of Star Wars toys. He always had the ones I wanted badly and never got. Like the AT-AT, Slave-1 and many others.
I owned the Holiday Inn. Great toy. Great building for other toys.
I had the Sesame Street playset. It was a lot of fun for my 5 year old self back in the day! Fisher-Price made an updated version around 2010 and I bought one for my little ones.
I have the Holiday Inn, the McDonald’s, the Sesame Street playset, and not listed here, but one of my favorites, the Texaco gas station playset.
I had the Sesame Street playset. Got it for christmas. It was awesome. I had lost it somehow as I got older but I had the street lamp on a shelf all the way through high school.
That Holiday Inn Playset needs a Keith Moon action figure and Lincoln that he can drive into the swimming pool
Only as an adult, do I truly appreciate "sliding crops into the can" . . . if you know what I mean. 😉
My sister had that Sesame Street play set. It was used and loved for many years.
These were Playskools attempt to capture the Fisher Price Little People Line.
Funny you should mention the Sesame Street playset ...I saw one at a thrift store today it was just the shell it didn't have any pieces that go with it . I actually had one when I was a kid
Sold a few McDees playsets. Found one in the box once, complete. The 70s were definitely wild, for sure. Many of our family vacays went through Hollday Inn. LOL There were a lot of weird Playdoh playsets too.
little sprout!
What about the Gilligan's island floating playset? i remember playing with that during bath time when I was little.
My neighbor's kids had that! It had water guns and stuff. The feet were all the same shape, so you could put anybody on all the stands. The figures were super squishy rubber. They used to play with that in the kiddie pool, not the bathtub.
I love watching Poltergeist for the Holiday inn sign at the end.. well thats not why I watch it, Also our Holiday Inn had a revolving restaurant at the top. Swanksville!
Gee, man! I'm 37 and I'd love to have that Sesame Street playset right now!
Little Sprout was the tiny relation of the Green Giant.
I forgot about the McDonalds playset. I had it. I wanted the Sesame Street playset so bad. Luv these obscure toy videos. 😃
amazing how popular minecraft is today when they all look likes block heads. I had the old red bard with chickens, when they laid eggs. Great got Junkman
I had the Sesame street one. Later on, when I outgrew that, I used the building as a centerpiece to play army men
Great video Junkman if I had a little more room in my man cave i would get those sets their cool
The Burger King joke. Classic. I forgot about it. Those playsets were a little weird. But fun. The playsets were cool when you would change them into urban warfare sets. Or have Evel Knievel jump the playsets.
That big giant green head is kind of creepy.
I had the McDonald's one, and I had a bunch of different Fisher Price playsets as a kid. I know there were 2 different sesame street playsets. One was that apartment building, and I think the other one was like a playground.
I had that holiday inn set. I may still have the sign somewhere
I wanted but never had the Sesame Street playset. We, my sister and I, already had the larger Fisher Price City set, so my parents didn't see the need for another City set. Parents just don't get it.
I miss the 70’s 😢
Ho! Ho! Ho! Green GIANT!!!
The little kid's name was Sprout. I had a stuffed animal toy of him when I was a kid. I think they were trying to get kids interested in vegetables.
There was a “little” green giant character. I think his name was Sprout.
Holy Crap Junkman, did my aunt contact you and tell you about all my old toys? I actually had the Holiday Inn, the McDonalds, The Sesame Street playset AND the Pizza Hut Oven...I wasn't stupid enough to ask for the cardboard box toys! I'd just make my own with an old TV box. And my house was a NO Barbies zone so I never saw the BK sets.
One year my cousin bought me the Bionic Woman 12" action figure for Christmas and I didn't talk to him for months after that (Yeah I was a brat!). However, apparently the Bionic Woman figure is much more rare now for collectors and I could have sold it for some good money today if I still had it.
As for the Holiday Inn & the McDonalds, these were two of my favourite pre-Star Wars playsets. I don't know why PlaySchool designed all the mini-figures to be Blockheads, but I remember these sets came out JUST before Webbles.
SURPRISINGLY enough, the Pizza Hut pizzas weren't too TERRIBLE! Although I could never get the light bulb to cook them properly. You got a DOUGH packet, a tomato sauce packet, and some Kraft parmesan to shake on top. That's about the end of your "fixins". The Dough SMELLED really good when you mixed it with water, but didn't rise well so you basically had some tomato-like sauce on a hard cardboard dough, but it was fun! Once you ran out of packets though, that was it...I don't know if they ever bought me any refills for it.
The Sesame Street set was cool as it folded back up into a carrying case (sort of) the figures or accessories would have a habit of falling through the windows as you carted it around.
For other 70s toys, You should do a video on the IDEAL woodworking mini-power-tools...All miniature versions of full sized real power tools. Each came in little orange carry case. There was a mini-drill with bits, a mini-circular saw, mini-jigsaw, mini-router and big plastic workbench playset that came with lots of miniboards of Balsa-Wood. It was like Tooltime in the 70s. Obviously they didn't work all that well, but the workbench had POWER receptacles that the tools plugged into with mini-plugs. Lots of fun!
IDEAL make the coolest toys in the mid-70s...Evel Kenevel was the best though. I had ALL of his stuff. Ended up selling most of all these toys mentioned so I could get my first Atari 600XL home computer. I miss it all though!
Kept all the Star Wars toys though! No computer was worth trading that stuff!
Pizza hut...when pan pizza debuted in the early 80s and tasted nothing like today.
The red cups. The cheese and pepper shakers. The plastic pitchers filled with soda. The beer. The arcade
Miss that pizza hut, it doesn't exist anymore.
Have the Holiday Inn, McDonald's and the Sesame Street (there was a box set of Little People that had extra characters like Grover and Snuffleuppagus). I'd love to have that Kentucky Fried Chicken set, I like how it came with the Colonel but McDonald's didn't come with a Ronald.
That Sesame Street one could be used with 3.75 superheroes.
Yepper , there WERE so weird "playsets" !. Most doubled as "forts" for army men ,et. I really wanted that "HoJo,s " playset .... man , i miss that Orange roof!...
The little green dude was named Sprout.
8:05 You're thinking about Sprout. I'm pretty sure that was his name.
My sister and I had that Pizza Hut oven when we were kids. The pizza wasn't too bad, I guess, but I remember the taste had a hint of (I kid you not) black licorice.
The Burger King restaurant for Jazzie (which NEVER measured up to Starr, BTW), wasn't the first, there was a McDonalds for Barbie in the early '80s and a Pizza Hut in the '90s. The McDonalds set was remade in the '90s, but it wasn't as cool as the'80s one.
Playsets are cool they should bring em back
I was a 70s kid and don't remember any of those. I'm just going to assume it was because I was way too cool for them. I do vaguely remember having some fisher-price stuff, particularly the parking garage set. I had that long past when I would've outgrown fisher-price just because it was cool to use with my matchbox and hot wheels.
Sprout
All these play sets heIIa fawking cool...🤘🏼💯✔️ I soooooo would have wanted that McDonald's one...🤗🍔
Does the Holiday Inn playset come with a vibrating bed? I had my 7th birthday at Pizza Hut. I think I played with the Sesame Street one at the doctor’s office.
"Big Bird very much had a nest, JM!
He very MUCH had a nest!!"
[weeping and biting my knuckles]
Sorry. :) hahah!
The Sesame Street one is the best.
I'd definitely get that one. :)
I think, Kentucky Fried Chicken was shortening to KFC, because any company has to pay to use the word Kentucky.
These playsets are strange, but I like 'em. :)
Thanks for the video
They still have holiday inns
Lil' sprout was the name of the kid in the green giant commercials
Mr Hooper was the old man's name from Sesame Street.
Y’know if you say “OMG!” out loud it’s the exact same number of syllables as just saying “Oh my god!” So it’s kind of hilarious that it’s considered an abbreviation.
And then there’s people saying “VW” for “Volkswagen” where saying the abbreviation uses an extra syllable.
Make great plays set back in day
Was more of a Pizza Inn guy. Priazzo from Pizza Hut was the a childhood memory that I really cemented into legend. I had a play set hat was a family of fire fighters that lived in a tree. The top would pop open. Might have merged 2 memories there.
It's "WRAP" his Whopper, not cover, because they wrap it in the burger wrappers.
Some people I knew had just the play set of Sesame Street but all the stuff was lost. It’s super basic but it leaves a lot of space to play in.
My mom had the hotel then I played with it as a kid too but with the fisherprice people.
@That Junkman ''Pizza Hut Pete''! 😉''The Child Guidance Toy'' company made several educational playsets like the (KFC and Green Giant-Farm and Factory) sets during the 1970s. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any info on that company.
I am pretty sure I had the Holiday Inn and McDonalds playsets
They knew all the manufacturing, auto plants, steal mills, and textiles were leaving the U.S. so they had to get the kids ready for the blue collar jobs that were left. Fast food, motels, grocery stores and auto repair shops. They probably all came with a little union buster figure too. 🇺🇸😥
I like the Fresh Air Barbecue place in Macon. Of course the original one is in Jackson and it’s better. That’s where I grew up. Don’t think they ever made a toy Fresh Air Barbecue. Thanks.
I had the Sesame Street one. There were some other pieces that went with it
I had that holiday Inn playset the mcdonalds and the sesame street
I still have my Sesame Street playset. They rereleased it in the mid 2000s. I got it for my daughter it wasn't as nice tho. It was much thinner. But love my original.
I had the play family Sesame Street, and Oscar is 👑 king!
I had the McDonald's used to use it for my GI Joes . Would have loved to have Holiday Inn and the KFC set.
Mr. Roper was the store owner
Yep that Holiday inn toy was the bomb! Cousin had it and it was awesome
Plus my cousin had the KFC set. The trays sled down a little slide onto the counter.
All those fast food playsets, such an odd off-ramp of the past. Now McDonalds doesn't even have playgrounds or characters. Breakfast cereal is about the only food that markets directly to kids anymore.
McDonald's barely even has colors in its buildings anymore.
@霞健四郎 They're turning into Starbucks. It all started changing after the Super Size Me documentary, no more super size, healthy options, even less kid focus.
I didn't learn until much later that his results have never been duplicated and the whole documentary's premise is questionable.
For anybody reading this that's unfamiliar, a guy ate nothing but McDonalds for a month. If they asked if he wanted it super-sized he would get it. Regular health checkups along the way made it seem like he was flirting with imminent death. McDs was the devil.
I don't know why Pizza Hut has phased out dine-in restaurants. Really a bummer.