Top 10 Toy Lines of the 1970s
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I'm 50 years old. Thanks for the nostalgia! ❤❤❤
The Spirograph was also alot of fun.
You just cant believe it,you cant believe it.....the things you can do with a Spirograph
That’s in the honourable mentions in WatchMojo’s ‘60’s toy lines list
I loved mine!
It let non visual arts gifted kids like me make some truly beautiful pictures. As did spin-paint machines.
Oh Hell, for my own edification, I loved & still love, stuff like Etch A. Sketch. The variants they made over the years were pretty funky but you can NEVER go wrong w/Etch A Sketch! Or Play Doh OR Lite Brite as well!...😁
They sell them on Amazon. I got one.
Thank you for bringing my childhood back..
I'm surprised the Easy Bake oven wasn't included. My sisters got it a few times for Christmas. I always liked Tinker Toys.
Yeah no doubt Kenner started first producing that toy in the late 50s early 60s and it was always a huge seller all the way into the 90s.
robert chatel My sister had a turquoise one from the late 60's or early 70's. It made the best tasting chocolate cup cakes. Eating them while they're still hot is the secret. O.K, I'm getting hungry now.
yeah and oh oh what were those shoes with springs underneath called? member?
@@friedchicken1 moon shoes? They were the bottom shell of a shoe you would lace them over your normal shoes and you could bounce around with them.
Me and my sister manged to make jello into hard tack with the Easy bake oven
I remember literally playing with every single one of these toys in the early 80s. Sure brings back memories.
TONKA! YOU FORGOT TONKA!! I must have built 100 miles of road in the sandbox with my Tonka trucks.
Tonka Toys - I had a bunch of them. Loved making towns. Ertl farm toys, Too.
I became a Navy Seabee heavy equipment operator because of Tonka and ran heavy equipment most of my life.....if the dame cat stayed out of the sandbox I would have been happier. LOL
Let's not forget Buddy L and Structo
Truck Shackley I remember buying tonka trucks for my oldest son and I would get down with him and enjoy playing with them too 😆😂
Tonka for life! At least the ones during my kidhood! Sure, they weighed a ton (like manhole covers. Seriously!) & could fracture skulls when swung at another kid (if you could actually SWING them!), but solid pressed stainless steel meant it took a nuclear blast to even dent the damned things!
Yep, again startling, but who needed guns when my generation had for REAL weapons to play with?! Skull fractures, gashes, multiple bruises, road rash, sprains, torn ligements, & assorted bone breaks were a rite of passage!...🙃
Anyone remember the game “perfection “... where you had to put all the pieces in the right slots before the timer went off and popped all your pieces out lol
omg yes! and you knew it would pop all the pieces out when the bell rang but it would still scare the living crap out of you when it did, great fun!
My local rec center had Perfection....but the timer and popping mechanism never worked. 😄
I do - I always wondered how the game worked. What was the mechanism that it used to detect all the pieces were inserted? Was there a mechanism?
Yes I do. Loved that game!!
I had the upgrade which was Super- Fection or maybe it was called Super Perfection. There was a timer on it. If you didn't finish putting in
the pieces on time, they would pop up when the timer went off.
Our Walkie Talkies were Star Trek communicators. Hours of fun. And I always got my silly putty confiscated by the teachers at school! The 70's was a great time to be a kid.
There's a great show on Netflix about toys and one episode is all about Star trek toys
GrnXnham - I barely remember those years, I was very young, but I do remember the toys. Loved the etch-a-sketch, weeble wobbles, and Stretch Armstrong. I never did get a Big Wheel. A lot of kids had Big Wheel knockoffs.
Yep. Those were good years. It sucks to be old though. Oh well!
@@sign543 Oh yeah Stretch Armstrong! I remember mine kept getting holes in it and this jelly was oozing out. Someone told me to put bandaids on the holes to keep it from leaking, so my Stretch Armstrong had bandaids all over it LOL
GrnXnham - Yes, and we thought the jelly coming out was like pine tree sap! 😂 Yes...ours had holes, too. That’s because small boys are ROUGH on toys! Stretch had to fall, fly, punch, get punched 😂
Heck give me a 99 cent bag of Army men and I played for hours with them.
We used to use gasoline and stage explosions and burn them lol
@@toddlehman928 firecrackers
I noticed the quality of Army men went way down. Back in the day, they were higher quality.
@@dbloyd2 I just found mine-- forty years old. Unfortunately, they're not as flexible as they used to be. Still ready for missions as needed however.
you are all alone
I was surprised Mr. Potato head was not on the list. Every kid had one of those.
LOL, I liked using real potatoes.
@Lorne Malvo 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Too bad. Mr. Potato Head was about 5 seconds of pure pleasure. What is more fun then playing with a potato?!😁
@@tanyahendler6856 yea ha ha it's like what's better than 2 candles on a piano !
"Every kid had one of those." Ummm, no.
I think the game "Operation" should definitely have been listed here.
Oh my goodness, we had that game. One of my older sisters would do something to scare us, making us jump, right in the middle of our turn...😏
Oh, quite a lot have a right to be here. "Operation" was a blast, no question, but "Perfection" was big too, as was "Ants In Your Pants", "Cooties", "Mouse Trap", & definitely "Battleship"!
To be fair, many of the ones I mentioned hit the market before the '70s (the concept of "Battleship" has predated them all), but the TV commercials made them HUGE!
Really more of a "game" (like a board game) than a "toy", though.
monopoly
@Tediuki Suzuki
Operation was a board game. It had a picture of a man with openings at the leg bones, arm bones, etc. And you had tweezers to try and get the bones out without touching the sides or it would buzz and you'd be out.
Then, it was time for the next person.
I think it also lit up when it buzzed. It has been around 50 years since I played that game. It was fun.
Shrinky Dinks, spirograph and shaker maker were my favorites.
What was shaker maker?
Thing is, I was born in the 80s and remember playing with ALOT of these toys in the late 80s and in the 90s....these toys stood the test of time....
I was born in 1979 and I remember all these . Kids now will never know good toys . They’re too busy on their phones
I was born in 1999 and I played with toys! Like hungry hungry hippos and Mr.Potato head. I now collect old toys from Star Wars and Masters of the Universe.
I was born in the beginning of that decade 1970 so needless to say grew up with so many great toys because the 70s was the greatest decade ever in the manufacturing of toys period!!
@Redbladewell you got that right awesome response!
I have hope that's not gonna be the case. Even though I have no kids of my own (never got the right relationship for it & I'd probably be a crap dad anyway), I still love toys as a 50+ year old child. There's been a trend reviving "classic" toy & game lines. They're probably meant for old guys like me (nostalgia sells, kids!), BUT they're on the toy shelves anyway! Retooled to make them safer or cheaper to make, to be sure, but such things as the Fischer Price toys I fiddled w/as a wee one ("music box" record player, wind-up lenticular TV, House Clock, & on & on) Spin & Say, Lite Brite, Etch a Sketch, & of course, constant board & gimmick game tweaks & retweaks. If you buy them, & PLAY w/your kids using them, kids will play w/'em on their own too! THAT'S the ultimate solution!
Yeah and I bet kids of today would gladly swap an ipad for a space hopper 😒🙄
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I’m 50 now and still collect my hot wheels. 😜
Good for you! I got my g/son
very much into HOTWHEELS/MATCHBOX CARS!
I had like 3 general lee's. All beat up now from the Duke boys imaginary adventures. Good times.
Lincoln Logs!
I can’t remember the name of the other construction-type toy I had, but I used to build skyscrapers with it. The only parts I remember off-hand were black plastic vertical and horizontal “beams”, and some silvery mylar/plastic “windows”...all of it just snapped together. I made buildings 15+ stories tall with it, keeping me occupied for hours at a time.
I also remember my first gaming console from the late 70s. I *think* it was called Telstar 301, or something like that. You could flip a switch on the console to select the game you wanted to play - it only had three or four of them.
The toys of my childhood...I miss them.
That sounds right!
I looked at Google images for it, and the sets I saw looked really similar. I didn’t see the *exact* set I had, but the “beams” were the same.
Thanks for the name...that took me for a nice trip down memory lane!
bobtnailer that construction toy u mentioned was called girders and panels. i had the set myself.
I believe the construction set your talking about is called gerters and panals.
You can still find em on Ebay. I have been tempted to get a few. I spent so many hours building with that set.
Girder and Panel...Thats exactly what it was called. MY grandmother got them for me with here S&H greenstamps. I remember the panels were blue and silver. I remember having an elevator with it. I just looked it up and it was originally made by Kenner.
Sounds similar to the erector set. But it required screwing things together. Lincoln logs were the bomb tho. Lol
I had nearly all of these as a kid, and I was born in 2001! I had good parents.
I was a grandfather in 2001. Of course in today's world you could be a father now.
You had remakes of these because in the 1980s, the original Fisherprice families' farms & house were all changed. The families were made out of wood when I was little in the 1970s but were made out of plastic in the 1980s. They changed so many of the toys from the ones made in the '70s & '80s. Matchbox & Hotwheels did do a recall on a lot of their toys due to led being found in their paint & was becoming a serious health hazard to young children from the paint flaking off & accidentally ingested from the tiny flakes sticking to the skin. It's rare to come across toys that were made in the 1970s today. I'm glad I still have all of mine. I never even let my own daughters play with them when they were little. And yes, my childhood toys show years of play & age. Can't believe all my childhood toys will be from 41 years to 51 years old this Christmas.
You forgot the big wheel. 😞
The "Zoom - Zoom", the four wheel vehicle.
Had one myself, with the brake...
I killed all my big wheels..kept putting flat spots on the front tire lol
That was more 80's than 70's.
@@rowynnecrowley1689 ~ Not necessarily. Even though they were still around during the '80's, big wheels' popularity was going away. Other riding toys, such as skateboards, were becoming the rave. As a kid then, I had a big wheel in 1976. They were very popular in the 1970's...
How about the Easy-Bake oven, the Slinky, Mister Potatohead, Baby Tenderlove, and Crissy, the doll with hair that "grew"? Oh, and of course "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots"! 😀
Shiboline M'Ress Tressy was the doll who’s hair grew
I remember all those. How my sisters and I wanted a Chrissy doll. So one Christmas our dad got us the box they came in. But no Chrissy doll! Such a disappointment.
We eventually got Chrissy dolls.
Edit, and yes, Chrissy's hair did grow when you pushed a button on her stomach. Aww, great memories.
I still have a mini bake oven !!!!
@@francineross2353
Nice! Does it still work?
@@dstanl also Crissy.
I remember riding in the car and seeing a Frisbee on the roof of every third or fourth house.
Justin Case Nerf footballs too
YES! "Daddy will get it after.dinner"‼
@@chellybabyme My dad would put it off; and wait for a heavy downpour to wash it off the roof.
@@justincase3320 now you called up my memory of my dad hosing off the roof at night in the summer to cool the house off! (Off -topic, I know) Thanks!
Maybe some remote control planes or helicopters too, although I'm not sure if those go back to the 70s.
I think that's Jodie Foster in the Viewmaster ad.
YES-That's Jodie Foster!
I think the other viewmaster ad has an actor named Craig Littler, also known as Jason of Star Command...
And Henry Fonda
Are we sure it's not Tatum O'Neal I always get the two mixed up
she's a pretty good actress ruclips.net/video/xeUOUNNpYMc/видео.html
I’m an 80’s kid and i had the viewmaster toy. Aaah the nostalgia 🤩
The quality of the images was really good with 3D. I wonder what is in 2019 that can match it.
I had too and I wish I still had it.
👍I was talking about the View Master today with my boyfriend 🤗
I think I still have my Viewmaster and my Lite Brite somewhere. I was an 80s/90s kid born in 1983. I also had Hot Wheels, it was fun to whack my sister with the tracks, hehe, I was an evil big sis. Not the rare Red Line ones, the mass produced 90's ones which are not nearly as valuable.
When you realise you are not 40 years anymore rather 50 plus.
Uh .....60+
Wow ! That really brings back great memories; I was born in 1969 and I absolutely loved being a boy in the '70's. I had a lot of those toys, or if I didn't some other kid on my street did. I remember almost all of those shown. I wish I could go back in time sometimes to those days ! I really do miss them. Such great memories ! Thank you 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
I loved my Fisher Price playhouse. I would ring the doorbell so much my Dad threatened to take the bell out.😰 I still have my view master from the early 70's with all the old reels too. Im gonna go look at it now that I watched this. I forgot I still had it.
I still have my light bright from childhood! It's now a sign for my mini bar.
It was a great time being a child back then.All kids were active and appreciated our pocket money back then even though we all had our jobs around the house to do for it.In today's world kids are too spoilt to appreciate anything given to them.
I know the neighborhoods had kids out playing, we all knew each other and talked face to face.
As a kid I remember having the Lite Brite, the view master, and Simon. Those were all fun toys!
And how about the Etch-A-Sketch?
@@shibolinemress8913 yes I had the etch-a-sketch too.
Melissa Cooper pegs would get lost in the carpet and clog-up mom's vacuum cleaner, and some of the lights wouldn't work after a while so you could never get it the same as the commercials
@@charlespatrick8650 that's true because I had a Lite Brite myself.
i dunno, once you ran out of black construction paper, the lite brite was useless.
I love the old commercials voices.
"Hahahaa! And batteries not included!"
Six million dollar man, Star Trek transporter, G.I. Joe with the Kung Fu grip, Muhammad Ali action figure, Easy Bake Oven..etc.
no
*****
Yes, these are all the toys my uncles had in the seventies, except the easy bake oven.
Ron Lovell You're naming individual toys/action figures.
AlexTehGr8 So did WatchMojo.
Easy Bake Oven and G.I. Joe were in the 1960's list.
What about Legos or Roc’em Soc’em Robots?
Lego was and still is the best
Other episode of these
LEGO came out in the 50s
As far as roc’em soc’em robots I’m not sure but I think they were 60s
marc partridge , thanks for the info. I only made the comment because I grew up in the 70s and they were popular I thought. Also, the video said the list was based on when they were most popular, not when they came out. Or maybe they were not as popular as I thought. 🤷🏻♂️
@@kobayashimaru65 Rock'em sock'em robots were High-Tech!
"Hahahaa, batteries not included!" 😆😆
Mom hated buying batteries, they weren't cheap.
@@freedomring4813 Good times then...
either out of batteries or they leaked acid
Oh man, parents hated that. Probably why we didn't get too many toys that needed batteries. They were so expensive, and didn't last long...
Best toys of the 70s in no particular order: Action Man, Lego, the Weebles, Fisher Price treehouse and carpark, Fuzzy Felt, Matchbox cars, Speak and Spell, Starwars figures, walkie talkies, the Slinky, Plasticine, View master, Hornby train sets, the Chopper bicycle, Monopoly, Etch-a-sketch, The Bionic Man, Britain's Toys, plastic soldiers, the plastic chain link snake, Airfix models and Tonka trucks and specifically for girls: Barbie and Sindy.
@limecadoli why is that sexist?
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down! Loved weebles in the 70s!
Don't forget Major Morgan
I was a little surprised they didn't mention Monopoly, but it's really a board game rather than a "toy", per se.
No Battleship? The original and the electronic versions ruled! YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!
Man oh man....growing up through the 70's , these products certainly do bring back plenty of memories.
Can you imagine having those toys in their original boxes?💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
What about colorforms and paper dolls?
..or Legos?
Yes! Colorforms
Colorforms were iconic 70s!
I loved my Colorforms! I had the Blondie and Dagwood set and played with it, a LOT! Dang, I had forgotten all about those, too! =)
@@deborahmckinney1770 were they the little vinyl cut outs of people,cars,animals etc.that ya stuck on a sort of small type of dry erase board ?
Etch-a-sketch
Yeah, where's the Etch-a-sketch.
Yeah you are right .next best thing to sliced bread back then ha
👍Etch A Sketch Was Brilliance, So was speak and spell
Chantelle Roberts thank you! Oddly, loved having a Speak and Spell yet cannot spell very well at all! LOL 😆
Jon Hammer I had a Pogo Stick, used it only once, but my Etch-a-sketch went everywhere with me throughout my childhood. I suspect more kids had Etch-a-sketches than Pogo Sticks.
I always had fun playing "Mouse trap"!!! Games today come with controllers!!!
I kind of miss those years, it was a more simple way of life. We also didn't have
to be forced to go outside and we used our creativity to make up things to do!!!!!
I played with all of these as a child except for the pogo stick. I like how so many of those required using your imagination.
I remember Punch Me's as far back as 1967 when I was a small child . Bozo The Clown was a popular one , and who wouldn't want to punch him ?
LOL I got one as a little kid. Bozo horrified me. I poped it and hid it in my closet.
What about Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots and Stretch Armstrong?
or the six million dollar man? but, yeah, a pogo stick... that's what kids wanted for christmas. stupid content farm list.
I loved Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. My friend bought one a few years ago for his son and I think the adults played with it more than they did, LOL.
Does anyone get random memories from these videos? It's amazing how it stays in your brain for so long.
I say we all do! It's just natural!
Thank you for these memories I'm 55 years old now is a great time to grow up in the 70s and remember some of these toys
We had tons of Viewmaster "wheels" at home when I was a kid. There may have even been Viewmaster viewers at Sunday school and in the classroom as well, because of all the educational content available for the Viewmaster.
SIMON - Voice was Vincent Price.
📻🙂
@pkap617 no, it's not true
@pkap617 Yes, that's Vincent Price. Also, he was a regular guest on the Carol Burnett Show.
Yes, I caught Vincent's voice too and immediately thought of Michael Jackson's Thriller...lol.
That Fisher Price Garage caught me by surprise and I kind of choked up a bit. I hadn't thought of that thing since I was probably 6 years old. I loved that thing. Who else had one of those?
It was great being a kid during this decade. Lots of great toys and hours of fun. My "Six Million Dollar Man" action figure was my all time favourite from that decade. And I still have it.
I had The Death Star. Best Christmas EVER!
I bet!
Cool
Yeah well my parents went on a TMNT shopping bonanza for Christmas of 1990 (or 1989) and we got tons of action figures and tons of vehicles (pizza thrower, foot cruiser, module, etc).
I wanted the "Guns of Navarone" Playset from the Sears Catalog. Now available on Ebay for 110.00
For me, it was the Millenium Falcon. Man, that and a hockey stick, and you'd see me only for meals.
RIP Kenny R2-D2 Kenny Baker. May the Force be with you.
Anyone remember the "view master" version where it projected the image on the wall? What was it called? I had one.
I had one of those too. I think Yogi Bear was in mine, I can't remember.
Give a show projector.
I had the Apollo 11 set. It came with, like, a dozen reels and a record. All in a nice box. Close up images of moon rocks. I wish I still had it!
I had one too. I had KISS, Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie Brown, Batman....etc.
my brothers and I had one and very fortunately, we had a long hallway with white doors at the ends and event a plug for the project. We shut all the doors and the hall would be completely dark and we spent hours playing movie theater
I was born in 1970 and remember all these toys!! Thanks for the memories!!
I remember the Evil Knievil toys when I was in my toddler-preschool days, in the mid ‘70’s.
I had the Fisher Price garage.
I had the garage, house boat and the airliner all great!
Awesome! I played with it at nursery school, do you remember the treehouse?
I had the airport and sesame street one
The Viewmaster. What simple, quaint technology by today’s standards. I loved mine!
No Slinky or Stretch Armstrong?! This list is definitely incomplete!
I had the green stretch Monster!! That things worth a bundle now!!
@@thomaskemer8109 I had that one too. I think all of them have to be dry-rotted by now so yeah!
What about a baton for girls, it took finger dexterity!
Lawn darts. Nothing more hilarious than a guy running around the yard with a lawn dart sticking out of his prefrontal cortex! He’s all like waaaa! Mommy...
walter kersting Jarts! : )
"hey Kevin can you hear me?"
"of course I can jeff, there's no batteries in them yet"
No, @$$#0/&! You're hitting the wrong Goddamn key!
God! The FisherPrice Garage. I haven’t remembered that memory for over 30 years and now it’s all come flooding back so vividly! Good times!
Fisher price airline was badass great times!
I remember so many of these as an 80's child, they carried over.
Wombles dolls (and books) were huge in my country. Dunno if the Wombles were a thing in the US...(Most of the toys in this video stimulated the imagination of the child. Great stuff!)
The view master was great, I still love it.
As a kid of the 70s , I’m proud to say I still have my view master and loads of reels. Both my kids got a lot of pleasure from them when they were young too.
I loved my view master when I was a kid. I also had the talking one and the projector. I was also very good with the pogo stick. I also loved hot wheels. My favorite one was the Red Baron.
My goodness I remember all of this when I was a kid I'm 55 years old now and I was born in 66 but boy it sure does bring back great memories I had a lot of fun with it
one of my favorites from 1976 was The Little Professor.
I remember the name. But what was it?
@@chellybabyme It was a "toy" that gave you math problems and you had to solve them.
Wacky Packs and Shrinky Dinks. Stickers to collect and trade and peel off your locker door at the end of school and didn't the janitors hate scraping off the rest and plastic sheets to make groovy stuff with if you didn't burn the house down leaving them in the oven too long. And let's not forget Spin Art, one of the most efficient ways to splatter as much paint as possible in a 360° arc ever devised.
shrinky dink? is that after a guy's been in cold water?
Yulan Ottenfwicke I used to do spin art @an arcade in New Hampshire .
Hercules Brofister no, they were soft plastic people on paper u cut out then put in the oven to shrink
Loved spin art
Totally concur, with your #1, selection!! Was a gigantic fan of 'Hot Wheels', and had plenty of them. Had the Power House too, that kept them moving along. Had 'Johnny Lightning's' (the red track), also. I'm so glad you didn't mention, any sports toys, as these were for the unimaginative, do-do's.
I remember most of these toys because I had friends and cousins that owned them seeing as I was born in the mid 70's. They were the golden years for me.!
Thanks for the memories:)! However, I was disappointed that there were no 1970s popular girl toys like Holy Hobbie in this video.
Wanting One Angel Yes! I remember her! Also.... Bionic Woman. I hand the larger doll with doors that opened on leg and arm to repair the "wires" 😀
Or “Dawn” and her many friends like Longlocks, Glory and Jessica.
Wanting One Angel, Holly Hobby wasn't popular enough to make the list. I grew up in the 70s and didn't know anyone my age interested in Holly Hobby.
I was thinking the same thing. No Barbies, or specific dolls. I had a couple of them I liked. My younger sister had *Mrs. Beasley,* (though she cut all her hair off the doll...😁).
And being that her name is "Holly", my mother bought her a lot of the
*Holly Hobby* toys...
@@annieonymouse4467 ~ The pioneer toys may have been popular because of the
*Little House On The Prairie* television series. We use to love that show back then. Even though my mother hated it, she would still turn it on for us to watch it...🙂
I miss the late 70's and the 80's times were so much better and much simpler without all the technology.
@otterlover95 1 word: unsupervised
I tend to think that most generations say the same thing about the stuff they grew up and became familiar with. One of the saddest differences for me is that "batteries *ARE* included" now, mostly to increase total net profit, but they are usually horrible quality.
I don't mind the complexity of the technology we have now, I mind that so much damage can be done by one person with one computer and we even know who did it.
@@treborironwolfe978 God forbid a toy company should make a profit.
@pete knicks Did you mean to say that you are "out consigning" your toys, as in pawning them? Or did you mean that your school mate had most of the toys and you had few of them or you cared little about toys when you were at home?
- Etch A Sketch ?
- SuperBall ?
- GI Joe ?
Endless hours of FUN !
Rock em sock em robots, Jenner's Demolition Derby Cars, Aurora AFX slot car race sets, and Atari Pong ... the granddaddy of the video games!!
Some of my Favorite toys of the 70's - army men - model kits (glue and paint needed), Atari , science project kits from school (science fair), And the stereo and a stack of 78's. I also prefer matchbox over hot wheels. For Rainy days - board games! Oh yeah, forgot GI Joe....
Army men were 99 cents or less for a bagfull and I would find the guy I liked the best and would be him....hours of fun. The big GI Joe's and I had matchboxes before Hot Wheels came out . I once had ...I think they called them King Matchboxes a green Tractor Trailer with a reddish dozer. And models when I got around 13 mostly pickups and tractor trailers and heavy equipment.
Yes matchbox cars were better
Yea the fumes from the glue (testers) got ya stoned !
@@davideisemann7130 No, I didn't kill my brain cells, I built and painted them outside. I just like filling my bedroom with cool things.
@@cyclenut neither did I. But I remember in the late 60s to the mid 70s the older kids were doing it - pretty stupid. My brother and I were into the monster models and the toy store only sold it to parents. Them models would probably be worth some money today if they were still in the box ?
Those star trek walkies are sweet!
Those were just a hint to us that we would be speaking on FLIP PHONES
in the near future!
LOVE IT! Tyco race track sets were fun also.
Hot Wheels was based on a cartoon 1969-1971.
I remember the original cartoon. When it came on, NOTHING could drag me away from the TV‼️😁
I had all of these except the Star Wars toys, didn't really get it then and still don't understand the fascination now. That being said how can the Evel Knievel only be an Honorable mention. Every male under age 10 in the mid seventies had one. My friend had the Snake River Canyon rocket version and I was sooooo jealous. I don't remember the Space hop I had something called the Hippity-Hop. Same basic thing but it just had a rubber ring on top. Again my friend had a Hippty-Horse that had a horses head instead. Where's the Big Wheel? I think I drove my father crazy with the Fischer Price garage the bell when the elevator gets to the top was loud! plus a 6 year old do it over and over and over again must have driven him mad at times. If I remember right the Fischer Price Barn would moo when you opened the barn door. Thanks to my older brother my friend and I learned that the Hot Wheels tracks were more fun to whack each other with than assemble and runs cars on. Wait where's the Six Million Dollar Man doll, or the Easy Bake Oven. I grew up in a neighborhood with three males and 16 females I ate enough of those cakes baked by light-bulb to make me a type 2 diabetic. Needless to say all three of us had our pick of dates in High School and 2 of us got married to one of the girls. Can't believe it was 40! years ago or more. I miss those carefree days.
Stephen Harris where's G.I.Joe and stretch Armstrong? I remember being able to pick up truckers talking on their cbees from time to time on the walkie talkies...😝
The simplest toy walkie-talkies were 'crystal-controlled', like the ad said, to broadcast on Citizens' Band Channel 14. Range was up to 1/4 mile. Professional units had more power and features.
Stephen Harris I thought I was the only one who never understood the fascination the people have with that franchise. The worst thing is that I was born on May 4, go figure.
i didn't have any evil knievel toys. had tons of stars wars though. evil kneivel's probably dead. star wars is legendary and will live until the end of mankind.
Hercules Brofister He is dead but has a kid with the same name, I think, who also jumps over canyons. Evel was so popular - always loved watching him on Wide World Of Sports. I remember he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. We took my bratty little sister to see “Star Wars” the week it opened. She hated it; all we other kids loved it. My parents obviously weren’t paying attention bcz they got her the big action figures of the main characters for Christmas. She never played with them, and somehow, they found their way into the attic. 2 decades later, my parents were cleaning out their attic and found them. Li’l sis, all grown up and still bratty as hell, reclaimed them and sold them for a ton of money on EBay bcz they were in perfect condition and had never even been removed from their boxes.
Johnny Seven OMA, Match Box Cars, train sets and race tracks
I had a View Master from Disney back in the 50's. I loved the 3-d pictures. I also had the erector set. I think I still have some of that, and a Lionel Silver Streak, all from the 1950's. Good toys.
Mattel Electronics Football. That was so kickass. Micronauts, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Atari...The 70s were an amazing time to be a kid.
Of the ones mentioned i had Hot wheels, a version of the Simon game by another manufacturer and a viewmaster, i remember being facinated by the depth of the images.
My grandma still has the Fisher Price car garage.
Had fun times with it at the doctor's office playroom.
Dallas Ponder I also still have the Fisher-Price Car Garage but let me ask you this does the Garage toy your grandmother has does it have the two little white arrows on the red turnstile on the top or is it just plain red mine has the arrows but my sister has one without the arrows so I was just wondering if the one at your grandmothers had the the arrows or not
The spirograph was around in the 1970s, a fun, creative toy.
Great memories, great toys, just brings back good old days, thanks!!!!!!!
The evil knievel was my favorite toy. I'm glad you included it. I thought I was the only one who had it. Guess not.I agree with hot wheels being number 1 ,that definitely was my go too for my childhood. Used to play with my hot wheels track for hours. Silly putty ,had that, if you did the newspaper thing it was basically ruined,your hands would be black for days and the putty turned black and you couldn't use it anymore. Great scam I guess.
The Evel K toys were gd amazing.
It has long been my opinion that the Evil Knievel Stunt Cycle was the coolest toy created. They weren't all that expensive but damned near indestructable. I spent hours ad hours playing with mine. The sound it made when you were cranking it up on the launcher was one of the coolest parts and you hear it in cartoons to this day. It probably wasn't even part of the plan but a very lucky effect of the cogs that powered it.
And the toy ran on 100% kid power, no electricity or batteries!!!
I had one.
I had it, but preferred my Big Jim and bearded G.I. Joe's.
How about the Huffy Green Machine big wheel? I used to love that. Just found out they still make those today.
I still want one!!!
Or crazy wheel
Big wheel was too darn hard to actually pedal. We just stood up on it and kinda skate boarded just to use it.
I can honestly say I played with every one of these toys in the 70s. Some I had and the others were owned by friends and family, I played constantly with my Light Brite and View Master!
What a great list! I think there should be more like this and include more action figures too. Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman come to mind.
Any one remember the sit and spins?
My parents wouldn't let me have one. I had to use my mother's twister instead.
Yeah and hippity hop ball 😂
Way too many parents found another use for Hot Wheels track. After all, your pants don't fall down while you beat your kid with it. Then there was the irony of whipping a kid with one of their own toys.
My Aunt used to hit my cousins with those orange tracks.
Meh my mom just got the wooden spoon out....
One time it did break tho so I suppose the tracks work better 🥴
I had a GAF Viewmaster projector! Loved it! I could project scenes
from Philadelphia landmarks or the Grand Canyon on my own wall!
Great video! 🎥
Very cool!
What lovely memories, I was born in 1967 and loved this video, thank you x
Hey LOOK! That was Jodie Foster pushing View Master...all those years ago...and Hank Fonda!"
And was Henry Fonda the dad?
Good catch about Jodie Foster!
@@nrqed no mistaking that cute little face. She was a doll then and still is.
I have a feeling the toy industry is dying, choking on the success of virtual entertainment.
I meant devices like phones and tablets and such having all sorts of games and functionalities.
***** Sorry bro, you have to deal with the fact that whenever everyone goes to one direction you're going to have to follow or be left behind and forgotten.
You can fly away now, cap.
Not in Japan.
***** Oh?
I... I... I... simply love you for this video.
Good video. I'm 49 now. Watching the viewmaster stuff,which i had of course,makes me remember that Crank dial mini theatre with those 8 track looking cartridges. I had a six million dollar man one and a Snoopy one. Also,as far as toys,etc, Slinky,Kick n go,Strongman from another world 10" figure,Dart Shooting 24" Shogun Warriors, Mr Quarterback,SuperFoot, Bambino electronic boxing, Marvel 12" tall figures(Hulk & Superman),Pump up Water filled Rockets,Lightning Bug Trap,Quiz-Whiz,The Little Professor, The Green Machine (Recumbent pedal trike),Wild West Enclosed Shooting Gallery(With Miniature Gatlin Gun),The Shadow(Battery powered car),Rock em Sockem Robots,Star Trek Spinny Shooter Guns,Nerf Football,Tinker Toys,Lincoln Logs,Mouse Trap,Operation,Alien Figure(Around 18" tall with the chomping teeth). Probably plenty of other's that I don't remember off-hand.
I had the Fisher-Price Garage and also the airport one.
I think Stretch Armstrong deserves a mention over Space Hopper. Also, we there's Shrinky Dinks and Super-Elastic Bubble-Plastic. The line of Six Million Dollar Man action figures were cool too!
and goop
Super-Elastic Bubble Plastic! I forgot about that one! I spent an entire Summer nearly passing out daily from the strong toxic fumes and from trying to blow through that tiny little straw they gave you to dip into the mixture to blow the bubbles with.
I had the Steve Austin action figure, was so cool to look through the little hole in the back of his head to see through his bionic eye, and once you popped his bionic parts out of his body, they never stayed in place again and would often fall out and into his red jumpsuit he wore, so he'd suddenly have this massive lump appear on his arm like a tumour or his legs and look as if he had poo'd himself LOL
Let's see....from the late 1960s through to the 1980s we had: a Space Hopper, Fuzzy Felt, Mr Potato Head, Meccano, Lego, walkie talkies, Mattel Talk-Up dolls ("Here comes by bodddyyyy....!"), a Viewmaster, Bug Catchers (more educational than pure and simple fun), hula hoops, yoyos, and Silly Putty. Plus I had a wonderful Hornby train set, spirograph (purple set), a Lego Superman action figure, and a 1970 Tomy Karate robot. My brother had the Kenner Smash-Up Derby car set (THAT was fun!!), a Six Million Dollar Man figurine, and (I think) a Punch Me clown. Our sister had a Mattel Baby That away doll as well as the ubiquitous Barbies, a cousin had a full Hot Wheels set and a friend owned the Evel Knievel. I do remember Hungry Hungry Hippos and Simon, and desperately remember wanting both one of the garage sets and a magic kit called 'Hocus Pocus', in 1973. (THAT took a lot of dredging up!!)
In 1987 I got a pogo stick for x mas and I couldn't bounce up and down more that 3 times without loosing my balance. Aww those were the days of injuries but we still lived. Nowadays we almost send our kids out to play wrapped in bubble wrap to keep safe and a helmet! I remember my knees were scraped all summer long cuts all over me from climbing trees, tar from the streets on the bottom of my feet where I would go barefoot and sometimes I would step on a yellowjacket get stung pulled the stinger out and keep playing. I miss those days!