I too was also10 in 77, I had a really cool banana seat bike, w/high bars, a basket w/flowers and strings that hung frm the handles...when u road the bike, those strings would blow in the wind...so glad I was a kid in the 70's!!!
@@elmobolan4274 as did I. Lived my bikes back then. I used to put playing cards in my spokes so it sounded like a motor cycle. We grew up in an amazing time
@@elmobolan4274 Mine was lime green with that basket and those streamers! I think it was my 7th birthday present (so 1975) because of where we lived and because of training wheels. I remember Mom holding onto the C shaped "handle" in the back while I was trying to bike in a straight line, suddenly realizing I was doing it but she wasn't there when I looked back and then I hit a pine tree (young one about 2 years old)! No damage to the bike and minor to me. Mom and Dad had a laugh about it.
I come from a family of 10 siblings and we were poor. As a kid I always thought we didn’t get much. By way of toys for us on Christmas Day. But by watching videos like these. I can see how wrong I was. We were so spoiled by my Mom. We had all the popular toys back then. My brothers had Stretch Armstrong, Evil Knievel, Hot Wheels with the racing tracks. We had the Atari 2600 and more. I didn’t have the popular dolls back then. Because I liked drawing and coloring. But one year my Mom bought me the “Velvet Doll.” Where you could push a button on her back and her hair would grow. I loved that doll and still have it today. Right along with all my colored pencils and gel pens. It’s funny though… I never realized just how fortunate we were. Until I started watching these videos. Those were some really great times! Thank you for helping me see. Just how blessed we really were. 😊
I had several of these and they were all great. Oddly enough, I was very fond of the View-Master Viewer. The realism of the 3-D imagery still fascinates me.
I also was 10 around that time,being born in 66. These commercial advertisement take me back to my childhood instantly. I remember a particular transparent blue micronaut distracting me for long periods during school. I had many G.I. Joe’s with the fuzzy hair, which the neighbor kids broke. My brother and i had Stretch Armstrong and stretch monster. A multitude of others to include the Evel Knievel set up. I remember having crash up derby cars that came apart on impact. Planet of the Apes figures. Happy Days dolls. The AMX race tracks and cars. The Jonny West and the black Bart guys with their horses. I loved the action figures as a kid. We all thank you for the amazing upload and walk back through memory lane. To over share further, I still have dreams about recovering my long-lost toys. I do still have two vintage G.I. Joe’s from the late 60s. Other cool stuff from a time gone but remembered fondly by many. Long live the kid in us all and the joy a toy brings in imaginations smile.
I can still smell the pages of the old Sears Wish Book... hours and hours every year at Christmas, my brother and I scouring the pages and clipping out the items we wanted. (And fighting over the pictures if you wanted what was on the front but somebody else wanted the picture on the reverse page. Happy times. :)
I loved looking at all of the football jerseys with the team name on the front, I liked how they were lined up in the catalog, I'd look at em for hours.
Couldn't wait for the catalog every year. I loved the toys I got but my favorite was a coat that was on the cover in 1974. I loved that coat. I sat on my neighbors roof and watched Evil Kenevil jump the Snake River canyon. He went up and straight down. Not many people I knew in our area wanted his toy.
It was called "Wish Book" for a reason. That's as far as it got for me. I grew up in an era where parents didn't believe in giving kids everything they wanted.
@@mark_beastpriest5539 Y'know, it's funny but my parents rarely gave us any of the stuff we picked out of the WishBook. We dreamed of Sears but mostly Santa brought K-Mart. :)
As 70s kids, these ring a HUGE bell with me, my brother, and my wife. Those Christmas catalogs DEMANDED hours of attentive detail, being sure to circle ALL the items we could possibly want (always into unreasonable 1000’s of dollars) just so Santa could know what we “might” want, with special asterisks next to those “important” items… However, Micronauts and Atari were my main thing, despite us having gotten EVERY single item on this list at some point during our growing up! Fantastic work, Nostalgic Nick! Wistful and Merry all at once!
During this Christmas season this brings back so many fond memories. Being from a large family and the middle child I unfortunately got the shaft at Christmas but one year, 1973 somehow I asked for and received the Evil Kenivel Action cycle and van! How excited I was! Total blast. Almost had it stolen when some friends and I searched for hill to crash it down and left the safety of our neighborhood. Only by the charity of some older teenager guys I retained it but was told to get our asses home and never come back! The joy of inner city live in the 70s!!!
W-o-w!... I had the Evil Knievel Doll w/ Motor Bike & the Six Million Dollar Man Doll... Loved them both... Esp the Steve Austin Doll... Much taller than todays dolls... Great Memories!
I remember those days. Those catalogs were very LARGE and full of a child's dreams. I also remember when they started to get smaller and then discontinued. But NOTHING on the Internet can ever replace the joy and wonder that I experienced thinking of the toys and expression that I could have.
My favorite was Matchbox cars. I had 50+ of these, and even had the carrying case. I used to bring them on vacations with my parents and had the cars lined up all over the motel room. 🤣🤣
I remember Creepy Crawlers but maybe that was the sixties. Hard to say, but never has there been such a fun and dangerous toy! We bought all kinds of goop, and made all the bugs and reptiles we wanted. Then, the company added Edibles, Flowers and Creeple People. Such good times...
Omigosh yes! I loved my creepy crawler cooker! Toys then may seem dangerous, but like I tell my grandbabies "We kids back then didn't need coddling. We knew better than to stick our hand in an easy bake oven" 😅🤣😂
i was an 80s baby, but I loved Weebles & Little people. Colorforms, Playmobiles, The Barbie 3 level Townhouse that had a string to pull to work the elevator & was tall enough to be considered another piece of furniture in my room, Holly Hobbie, sit n spins, Jaws shark, Simon, Shrinkydinks, water ring toss games, Inchworm ride on- the big green bike you had to bounce up & down to go about 2” with each bounce, Lemon skip, Crazy foam, Barbie make up head, Viewmaster, Fisher Price movies, anything Star Wars, Fisher Price school desk, Toss Across, Hot Wheels Service center, superballs, WOW, I had a ton o toys-I could go on & on. Thanks for a great video
Loved the catalogs!! I was fortunate to have Baby Alive, Atari, Baby Alive, LOVED my Weeble Wobbles!! But my favorite was the wooden Basset Hound dog. I pulled that dog everywhere! I loved the clack clack sound! I still have it!!! When life was great!!! Thank you for the wonderful memories!
My all-time favorite was the Mattel VertiBird helicopter (introduced in 1971). I LOVED that toy!!! I played with it for many years. Two others were the Mattel Whizzers (introduced in 1969) and the Kenner SSP cars with rip cord (introduced in 1970).
Man you took me back! I had most of the toys on here. The Evil Knievel, Six Million Dollar Man doll especially. The electronic football game was awsome. I would take mine to school. Great time to be a kid.
I remember being fascinated by the Sears catalogue, especially the medieval action figures and sets and I remember NEVER knowing anyone who had them, or even heard of someone having them. I did however, once meet a kid who had a whole collection of 6" Planet Of The Apes figures with a playset! We spent the afternoon playing with them integrated with 6" Star Trek figures. And yes, he had the Enterprise set with the teleporter. One of the best play dates of my life, it's like an early 70's movie that never happened.
Six million dollar man rocket (officially called the bionic transport repair station)...Best Christmas present ever!...it was in short supply back in 76
@@Knight-of-Sarcasm When my daughter was little, in the 90s, we saw a very old Cher doll at an antique doll show. She was wearing that pink jumpsuit, had the eyelashes and blue eye shadow. My daughter said, "Is that Drag Queen Barbie!?" I said, "No. It's Cher." She said, "No it's not! Cher is only 29 years old!" She refused to believe me
We called it the wish book . We looked at it for weeks before Christmas. Man I miss the old days .mostly because as kids most of us are healthy fresh and full of wonder
My brother had the Evel Kneivel cycle, I had the Six Million Dollar Man with rocket/life support module. We both had a lot of fun with those. We also had the Mattel Electronics handheld football game(and a couple of the other handheld games). I don't know if anybody remembers this, but it was possible to run a touchdown every time you were on offense by moving the QB straight down, waiting for the defense to align at the bottom, then running across the cleared top row. If the way was blocked, all one had to do was wait on the bottom row until they moved again, then run across the top row again. The only limitation was the game clock. I wish I could remember our top score, but it was 4 decades ago. Lol.
I had the Coleco football game. Pressing the pass button continually for about 10 reps...would get you half way down field. It was guaranteed a touchdown in two attempts. I still have that game somewhere...👍
@@ocularpatdown YEAH!! I loved that thing. I got one on Christmas of 1978. I enjoyed the synthesizer, the puzzle game, and the Simon-like game. The tic tac toe game got as boring as quickly on Merlin as it did in real life. Lol. But, yeah, it was a cool device. My siblings and I were fortunate in that Dad liked electronic toys/gadgets, so he'd get that kind of thing for us for Christmas and birthdays.
@@gregorykiernan7849 I preferred to run, juke a few times then you were off to the races. Also had the Bambino Master Blaster and Wildfire Pinball handheld games. Good times.
My favorite , Major Matt Mason With space capsule & Space station. & Billy Blastoff was a space man (figure) & motor that operated , the moon Walker , & space jet.
I Had the Moon walker Mid 70's but was like 5 at the time and really didn't know what to make of it other than a cool toy given to me by my older brother.
Thank you so much for this video!! When I was a kid the JC Penny Christmas Catalog was magical all by itself and made your imagination transcend reality, next to watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The imagination is more powerful than reality. All these years I never imagined so many kids were looking through these catalogs dreaming just like me...
I feel sorry for the kids today, with the internet and all. They have shallow, instant gratification at their fingertips. We were a generation of dreamers! But the dreams were often better than possessing the actual product! Man I used to wear those Christmas catalog's out!
@@d.vaughn8990 It took me 40 years to understand these catalogs were not real. They were designed to stir the imagination. Most kids didn't get anything from these catalogs. But the imagination and dreams of promise... I'm so grateful.
Yes, always wanted that box w/the disco lights...I found one yrs later at a thrift store....I still have it and when I look at it, it reminds of those catalogs...
One of my favorites was a ballerina doll, named Dancerina, and two dolls named Velvet and Chrissy, both of which "grew" their hair by turning a knob in their backs!
I have a collection of 1970 dolls that i didn't have then. I have the1970's hair growing doll called Sheena. I have 12 tiny tears dolls. 2 1970 sindys. 6 early 1980 sindys. A red haired 1970's action doll and 3 later versions of the wombles. Also, i now have a mid 1970's lundby barton dolls house. In the mid 1970's these dolls houses were the top and most expensive type of dolls house on sale. My doll's house by lundby barton is called Carolines House. In the early 1970's my parents bought me a laughing doll called chuckles. Not the evil one that was in the horror film. My dolls and doll's house are on display so that i can enjoy looking at them
I had the $6million Man action figure. Had the space capsule too. I discovered early on that, the chest pocket(s) of the track-suit could hold a Chicklet. Instant sensor packs, just like in the show.
OMG you just went through my childhood. I remember almost all those toys, either had them, saw them on TV or in a Sears or Penneys catalog. Oh wow…thank you!
I had the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, Mattel Electronic Football, and the Six Million Dollar Man. I played with them endlessly. My sister had Baby Alive. My grandparents had Atari Pong. Everybody had Nerf. My friend had Stretch Armstrong. It split into two pieces very early in its life. I am a true child of the '70s. I even had a pet rock and a mood ring.
Big Jim and the Wolf Pack! So many awesome adventures and missions with them. Yes, Star Wars was popular and like you said the late 70’s. I had the land speeder and x-wing fighter.
In December of 1977 I got a big full color card showing all the Star Wars action figures. It was a promissory note. It was one of my Christmas presents and it was probably one of the best I ever got. There was still nothing on the shelves by the summer of 1978. In mid summer of 1978 I made a trip with my dad and stepmother to New Mexico to see my mom and family. My great grandmother took me to a department store in town and told me to pick out whatever I wanted. She made tons from a couple trailer courts she owned. No bog deal. I got to the toy section and on am end cap was every Star Wars figure and space ship in the first wave. She bought me one of each. When my dad picked me up my stepmother handed me a brown paper sack and inside was every action figure so now I had doubles. I couldn't believe it. I felt like the luckiest kid on Earth. It was awesome.
Let's be real? Every time we had a chance to go into "Two Guy's" and Woolworths, I would steal all the stormtroopers I could. Just to have an army of them, like the movie. Absolutely the best of times.
I was a ‘73 baby, so I do remember many of these. My older brother had the EK stunt cycle, I had a Weeble DisneyWorld Magic Kingdom, we had Pong, my brother was obsessed with his Electronic Football…always played it on car trips, and he also had the Steve Austin doll.
So cool, I had Weebles and Baby Alive, I also had a doll that could crawl and turn her head, those two dolls were my favorite! Thank you for sharing ❤️
The amazing thing about the Micronaut sets, is that all the individual pieces of vehicles etc. Could fit "Lego style" to other parts . I made a different ship every time I played.👏 Having 2 younger brothers, I no longer have a single piece of any of it.😅
WOW, brought back a lot of memories. I've had just about all of them boy toys. I loved that Evil motorcycle toy, and the J. I.Joe's, Six million dollar man? Aw man, Atari was just awesome. Had them both. Stretch Armstrong, Pulsar, the electronic football game. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
MrRaymondd1021: Hell, yeah, I was waiting for someone to say Stretch Armstrong!! He was my absolute favorite toy, Christmas of 1976. Then I just had to stick one of my Mom's sewing needles in him several times to see WHAT made him stretch...& that was his demise. I was crushed!
@@MrRaymond1021 Reddish pink, very thick.corn syrup. Once it leaked out of his(several) holes, it hardened very quickly, & though my six-year old self desperately tried to clean him up & put band-aids on him & stuff to try to save/fix him...it was all over for ol' Stretch. I was freaking devastated 😭
@@larakeller2478 Wow, reddish pink corn syrup? I guess the builders knew someone was going to stab stretch, and make it look like blood? They were really trying to traumatize someone trying to make it look like blood? Crazy. Thanks for sharing.
I had a few of the Micronauts, but my favorite on the list was the Six Million Dollar Man. I played with him all the time until the release of Kenner's Star Wars action figures. I kept him in his rocket ship in a box in the attic until a few years ago when he accidentally got thrown away. I was thrilled when I found a replacement on eBay, almost complete (without the engine block or top bionic module) for only $30!
I had all the GI Joe and the GI Joe Adventure Team. These were my Favorite!! I also had Big Jim (Big Jake) and the Wolf Pack, Evel Knievel, Tonka trucks (still have one I got for Christmas in 1973). Good times 😊
@@acefrehley9411 HOLY #@$&!!!!!! I don't believe that ACE FREHLEY commented on my reply!! Dude, you are AWESOME!!! I've seen you with KISS, but I have to say that I enjoyed seeing you with Frehley's Comet a Hell of a lot more! "Rock Soldiers" kept me going during the Gulf War 1990-1991. You're the GREATEST! As far as our toy box, I still have one of my GI Joe with Kung Fu grip. Everything else is long gone. GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER!!!! You have made my Day!!!!
@@andrewwright01 hey brother thankyou so much for your kind words about the band and thankyou so much for your service . im so glad my music helped you through hard times . hey its great that you still have the kung fu grip im just so glad that i still have all mine there awesome keep rockin dude
In 1977, when I was five, the toy I HAD to have for Christmas was Baby This And That. I was so thrilled when Santy Claus came through for me and gave me one. Unfortunately, those dolls were not designed to survive older brothers who took things apart to see how they worked. The doll barely lasted a month.
Electronic Battleship was pretty fun when I got it one Christmas! Same simple game with great noises! One I always wanted but never got as a younger kid was the Green Ghost game because the commercials made it look so cool!
I was born in 1966 November 17th I'm 55 now and in the 70s when I was a kid I loved these toys I have such great memories I remember playing with the kids and everything it was just a great time to be a kid and those toys such wonderful memories
Loved this. :) I had the Baby Alive doll, and let's not forget about the legendary Easy Bake Oven! That's back when it actually looked like a lil oven, and not like a microwave nowadays. ;)
Had the Stunt Cycle, Atari, Nerf Foot and the Electronic Football game. My stunt cycle was amazingly indestructible. I sent mine off way too many things. Loved them all though.
I loved anything about the 1970's. I was 10 in 1972 and yes I am giving away my age. Thanks for the memories. By the mid part of the 1970's I was a teenager. Oh, but I remember the years of the 1970's.
I remember having baby alive one Christmas, I loved that doll.The packs of food that came with her didn’t last and you couldn’t buy it in any toy shops I remember as well asking my mum and dad to get more food for her. And my dad brought packets of real baby food. Bringing back good memories.
Oh man that was the one toy that I got but never got. I finally got one and it didn’t work. She would never take in the food and after a few hours my parents packaged her back up and took her back. They didn’t replace her.
Back in 70-71 for Christmas my favorite toy was fort apache Now the first one I got I'm not sure if it was called fort apache it was all sheet metal kinda like a suitcase and I always was cutting myself playing with it but it didn't stop me from playing with it. My second was the fort apache the following April for my birthday I think my mom got tired of me cutting myself 😄 over the years it disappeared but in 1992 on my way to the coast my sister and I stopped by a antique store and there was a fort apache I told my sister let's go check it out and I said you know what happens to be an old cereal box a little single serving ones that I used to cut open and use it like closests little doors would open, I told her if there's one of those in there wrapped in aluminum foil this is my old one my old fort Apache and sure enough it was there plus little cowboys and Indian that I used my mom's red finger nail polish on to paint blood like stains and there was. So I bought it and I still have it today True story
I had that Mattel electronic football game 🎮 I also had the one where the football field vibrated and the little plastic figures would just go around in circles...Lol
I remember Homer Simpson using one of those for inspiration when he was coaching Bart's team. He even instructed one of the players to simply spin around in a circle.
Not featured here but I had the bionic woman doll. I remember receiving it for Xmas, and was so excited. 😃 I loved that doll and all the cool accessories. 😁
The first half of the 70's was Ruled by Hotwheels, Tonka and Big Wheel for my friends and I. We also had a couple of SSP Cars that had a geared T-Handle that you pulled to get the traction wheel spinning same sort of toy as the Evel Knievel Cycle (1 of my friends had that), by '74 we too old for "toys" so we were into Bikes, Skateboards (yes the first Urethane Wheels) and playing Sports.
@@Pamer21 Ah I made a mistake they were called SSP, I edited my post, there's a couple on Ebay that have the Power T Handles there's even the Handles only for Sale...they're pricey though
Ever burn your brothers arm with the high speed spinning rubber wheel with your SSP toy? 😂 😒 We loved torturing each other with em back in the seventies. 😲💪
I was 11 in 1970 the coolest toys games and TV shows we're back from the late 60s through the 70s. Looking back in retrospect I'm so glad we didn't have the internet and social media bullshit, that does nothing but make kids Lose there imgergnery thinking. Thank you for the amazing video of bringing back great memories. My favorite toy was GI-joe
My friend had an evil kenivel stunt cycle that we played with for hours. We built jumps everywhere and made his chihuahua hide every time. What an amazing toy. You didn't need any extra track. Just an imagination and open space.
I loved my Stretch Armstrong. But the one thing I got for Christmas one year and kept for years was "Sea Diver". Basically a plastic bottle that you would squeeze and this little yellow submarine would go down to pick up treasures.
My brother got a Stretch Armstrong for Christmas in 1978 or 79. He had it for about 2 years and suddenly it started getting lots of wear & tear. That's when we discovered the jelly inside of it lol 😂
@@QueenAlexis556 I discovered that by poking him a bunch of times with one of Mom's sewing needles because I just HAD to see what made him stretch. I was so bummed that he was ruined!
I never had an Evil Knievel stunt cycle, but I did have a Six Million Dollar man doll. My mom bought me the " critical assignment" after market legs, and the portable lab. " rocket" My all time favorite 70s toy is the SSP smash up derby sets! I own two sets now, the blue station wagon, and orange coupe, and the Bi centennial set from 1976. I was big into " adventure people" too, dam I miss the 1970s.
I always wanted a Baby Alive but my mom wouldn't get me one. LOL My brother had the 6 Million Dollar Man. I love watching your videos & seeing all the old commercials.
The one toy I had to have for Xmas of 1977 was the " Guns of Naverone" play set. I woke up and there it was....unwrapped in all its glory.( mom gave up on trying to wrap that thing)
Mego action figures..well, dolls really....they were HUGE, too. I had both the Micronaut toys and comics, plus ROM the Space Knight. Growing up in the 70s was an awesome time to be an oblivious kid.
We all had the Evil Knievel bike and whoever could jump the longest ramp to ramp was the champ and you could pick your nose anywhere. My Evil lasted a good while until he started doing more and more hazardous jumps. Eventually someone made him jump off the roof and that was his last jump.
I loved Clackers. They were 2 solid HARD lucite balls that came in colors. Each ball was attached to a cord. You would get the momentum going so they would hit each other and make a clacking noise. They were like Argentinian Bollas that were used to kill animals. Hey Clackers were fun….until they injured kids. I still thought they were fun!!! Miss them
As a kid in the 70s I had many of them toys! Hot wheels redlines, the stretching man, the bionic man, evil knievel, Star Wars figures, and so on and on! That if I have those today! I would be making a fortune with them!👌😎👍
Best list I've ever seen on RUclips! The only item I disagree with is Weebles. Definitely an iconic 70's toy - but not a "must have". Star War's product's were a must have - maybe the biggest of the 70's.
I think my Evel Knievel toys lived in fear of me, and whatever suicidal law of physics defying stunt I had planned for them next. They probably hated me and my friends, who had even less respect for concepts of gravity...
@@thedys70 did you ever put Evel on the bike in the most precarious way possible, just to see him fly off and get "hurt"? My friends and I laughed too much at that
@@bbb462cid Pretty sure he didn't get very far standing on the seat, arched over holding the handle bars; a normal man would have been paralysed several time over at my/our hands. Walls and doors were not his friends. But his helmet always remained on his head, regardless of the severity of impact; bravo Mattel!
Yea but the first clackers were the bomb. The sound they made when you got the timing down was sublime. And never had one break on me. The later models, as with almost anything enjoyable, were cheaply made sadly. Loved my yo-yo’s too. Such great memories.
You should have included SSP Racers and Hot-wheels. Those were awesome. Gi-Joe with the Kung-Fu grip (1974) was also great. I think lawn-darts were beginning to be popular in the late 70's too.
I was 10 in 77. it was an amazing time for toys and tv shows!
I too was also10 in 77, I had a really cool banana seat bike, w/high bars, a basket w/flowers and strings that hung frm the handles...when u road the bike, those strings would blow in the wind...so glad I was a kid in the 70's!!!
@@elmobolan4274 as did I. Lived my bikes back then. I used to put playing cards in my spokes so it sounded like a motor cycle. We grew up in an amazing time
@@zilla66 Me too!!!! And I was a girl, u had to use a close pen...hahaha!!!
@@elmobolan4274 Mine was lime green with that basket and those streamers! I think it was my 7th birthday present (so 1975) because of where we lived and because of training wheels. I remember Mom holding onto the C shaped "handle" in the back while I was trying to bike in a straight line, suddenly realizing I was doing it but she wasn't there when I looked back and then I hit a pine tree (young one about 2 years old)! No damage to the bike and minor to me. Mom and Dad had a laugh about it.
@@Knight-of-Sarcasm My bike was a light blue...
I come from a family of 10 siblings and we were poor. As a kid I always thought we didn’t get much. By way of toys for us on Christmas Day. But by watching videos like these. I can see how wrong I was. We were so spoiled by my Mom. We had all the popular toys back then. My brothers had Stretch Armstrong, Evil Knievel, Hot Wheels with the racing tracks. We had the Atari 2600 and more. I didn’t have the popular dolls back then. Because I liked drawing and coloring. But one year my Mom bought me the “Velvet Doll.” Where you could push a button on her back and her hair would grow. I loved that doll and still have it today. Right along with all my colored pencils and gel pens. It’s funny though… I never realized just how fortunate we were. Until I started watching these videos. Those were some really great times! Thank you for helping me see. Just how blessed we really were. 😊
10 children?
That's gross.
I had several of these and they were all great. Oddly enough, I was very fond of the View-Master Viewer. The realism of the 3-D imagery still fascinates me.
View Master was awesome
EXACTLY
I also had the View Master Projector
They were amazing! I always liked the dinosaur landscapes. As a kid, it felt like you were there.
I had a Talking View Master.
I also was 10 around that time,being born in 66. These commercial advertisement take me back to my childhood instantly. I remember a particular transparent blue micronaut distracting me for long periods during school. I had many G.I. Joe’s with the fuzzy hair, which the neighbor kids broke.
My brother and i had Stretch Armstrong and stretch monster. A multitude of others to include the Evel Knievel set up. I remember having crash up derby cars that came apart on impact. Planet of the Apes figures. Happy Days dolls.
The AMX race tracks and cars.
The Jonny West and the black Bart guys with their horses. I loved the action figures as a kid.
We all thank you for the amazing upload and walk back through memory lane. To over share further, I still have dreams about recovering my long-lost toys. I do still have two vintage G.I. Joe’s from the late 60s.
Other cool stuff from a time gone but remembered fondly by many.
Long live the kid in us all and the joy a toy brings in imaginations smile.
I can still smell the pages of the old Sears Wish Book... hours and hours every year at Christmas, my brother and I scouring the pages and clipping out the items we wanted. (And fighting over the pictures if you wanted what was on the front but somebody else wanted the picture on the reverse page.
Happy times. :)
I loved looking at all of the football jerseys with the team name on the front, I liked how they were lined up in the catalog, I'd look at em for hours.
Couldn't wait for the catalog every year. I loved the toys I got but my favorite was a coat that was on the cover in 1974. I loved that coat. I sat on my neighbors roof and watched Evil Kenevil jump the Snake River canyon. He went up and straight down. Not many people I knew in our area wanted his toy.
It was called "Wish Book" for a reason. That's as far as it got for me. I grew up in an era where parents didn't believe in giving kids everything they wanted.
@@mark_beastpriest5539 Y'know, it's funny but my parents rarely gave us any of the stuff we picked out of the WishBook. We dreamed of Sears but mostly Santa brought K-Mart. :)
@@ingridfong-daley5899 Sears used to cost more. 🤣
As 70s kids, these ring a HUGE bell with me, my brother, and my wife. Those Christmas catalogs DEMANDED hours of attentive detail, being sure to circle ALL the items we could possibly want (always into unreasonable 1000’s of dollars) just so Santa could know what we “might” want, with special asterisks next to those “important” items…
However, Micronauts and Atari were my main thing, despite us having gotten EVERY single item on this list at some point during our growing up! Fantastic work, Nostalgic Nick! Wistful and Merry all at once!
My favorite was The wonderful world of Dawn. I love my collection of Dawn dolls.
During this Christmas season this brings back so many fond memories. Being from a large family and the middle child I unfortunately got the shaft at Christmas but one year, 1973 somehow I asked for and received the Evil Kenivel Action cycle and van! How excited I was! Total blast. Almost had it stolen when some friends and I searched for hill to crash it down and left the safety of our neighborhood. Only by the charity of some older teenager guys I retained it but was told to get our asses home and never come back! The joy of inner city live in the 70s!!!
W-o-w!... I had the Evil Knievel Doll w/ Motor Bike & the Six Million Dollar Man Doll... Loved them both... Esp the Steve Austin Doll... Much taller than todays dolls... Great Memories!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane brought back so many great memories.
I wish those catalogs would still be out every holiday season! I think A LOT of people would go through those catalogs despite the internet!💖
The catalog is way better then the internet
Yes, I miss the old Sears and JC Penney Christmas catalogs, FILLED with toys, those were the good ol days. 😊
Miss argos catalogues and the next directory
I have several of those old catalogs- Sears, Aldens, JC Penney, Montgomery Ward. They sure are fun to look at- lots of memories of the good old days.
I remember those days. Those catalogs were very LARGE and full of a child's dreams. I also remember when they started to get smaller and then discontinued. But NOTHING on the Internet can ever replace the joy and wonder that I experienced thinking of the toys and expression that I could have.
Had a lot of these toys. Favorite was Atari and the Evil Knievel. Thank you so much for the nostalgic look back. They were GREAT times.
I had the Evel Knievel cycle, webbles, and a 1979 Atari. I still have the electronic football game. The best of times!
Oh I was a big evil Knievel fan and still am. I had all of the evil Knievel toys. The van and the crash car and the sky cycle
My favorite was Matchbox cars. I had 50+ of these, and even had the carrying case. I used to bring them on vacations with my parents and had the cars lined up all over the motel room. 🤣🤣
These all happen to Toys that I never bought but the ads for them are still very reminiscent and Nostalgic.
One of the most romantic gifts my husband gave me was a vintage Sears Christmas catalogue from 1977
Priceless and precious. Something special to look back on with fondness!
I remember Creepy Crawlers but maybe that was the sixties. Hard to say, but never has there been such a fun and dangerous toy! We bought all kinds of goop, and made all the bugs and reptiles we wanted. Then, the company added Edibles, Flowers and Creeple People. Such good times...
I remember those as well. Had one from the early '70s on, but was also entering my teens then and staying home was rarely on the list.
Yup had those in the 60's but still got them for my son born in 96 when he was older
I had the flower edibles. Weren't they called "Incredible edibles"? Whole new meaning now....
Omigosh yes! I loved my creepy crawler cooker! Toys then may seem dangerous, but like I tell my grandbabies "We kids back then didn't need coddling. We knew better than to stick our hand in an easy bake oven" 😅🤣😂
Loved creepy crawlers!!
i was an 80s baby, but I loved Weebles & Little people. Colorforms, Playmobiles, The Barbie 3 level Townhouse that had a string to pull to work the elevator & was tall enough to be considered another piece of furniture in my room, Holly Hobbie, sit n spins, Jaws shark, Simon, Shrinkydinks, water ring toss games, Inchworm ride on- the big green bike you had to bounce up & down to go about 2” with each bounce, Lemon skip, Crazy foam, Barbie make up head, Viewmaster, Fisher Price movies, anything Star Wars, Fisher Price school desk, Toss Across, Hot Wheels Service center, superballs, WOW, I had a ton o toys-I could go on & on.
Thanks for a great video
I had all of these ,too. I loved them all.
Loved the catalogs!! I was fortunate to have Baby Alive, Atari, Baby Alive, LOVED my Weeble Wobbles!! But my favorite was the wooden Basset Hound dog. I pulled that dog everywhere! I loved the clack clack sound! I still have it!!! When life was great!!! Thank you for the wonderful memories!
Snoopy Dog! I had one too!
My all-time favorite was the Mattel VertiBird helicopter (introduced in 1971). I LOVED that toy!!! I played with it for many years. Two others were the Mattel Whizzers (introduced in 1969) and the Kenner SSP cars with rip cord (introduced in 1970).
All awesome! I had a Verti-Bird that was the Star Trek Enterprise!
I had an SSP car. I also had the helicopter. That was 1977 or 78.
Beautiful Crissy was 1968, I remember, I got that one along with Dancerina that year :)
Man you took me back! I had most of the toys on here. The Evil Knievel, Six Million Dollar Man doll especially. The electronic football game was awsome. I would take mine to school. Great time to be a kid.
I remember being fascinated by the Sears catalogue, especially the medieval action figures and sets and I remember NEVER knowing anyone who had them, or even heard of someone having them. I did however, once meet a kid who had a whole collection of 6" Planet Of The Apes figures with a playset! We spent the afternoon playing with them integrated with 6" Star Trek figures. And yes, he had the Enterprise set with the teleporter.
One of the best play dates of my life, it's like an early 70's movie that never happened.
Six million dollar man rocket (officially called the bionic transport repair station)...Best Christmas present ever!...it was in short supply back in 76
Oh yes, those catalogs were so wonderful, enjoyed them so much.
Between my sister and I we had every single toy shown. It brought back a lot of memories...
Had most of these toys when I was a kid in the 70's, great time to be alive.
yeah craig thats right i feel bad for the people that never got to experience the magical times of the 70s
Light Bright, Spirograph, and the Mount Everest of board games, the one board game that every kid wanted but none seemed to have, Mouse Trap.
We had mouse trap. It was a fun one.
I had mouse trap too.
I had the poor kids version of mousetrap, kerplunk.
I had it Lol. Got one for my kids in the 90s and they loved it too 😁
One of my favourite toys in the 70’s was my Cher fashion doll. Her clothes were gorgeous and her hair was to her ankles.
My best friend had Cher, I had Barbies....guess who became doll-best friends? Grins. The Bob Mackie doll clothes wouldn't fit on Barbie. We tried. Lol
@@Knight-of-Sarcasm When my daughter was little, in the 90s, we saw a very old Cher doll at an antique doll show. She was wearing that pink jumpsuit, had the eyelashes and blue eye shadow. My daughter said, "Is that Drag Queen Barbie!?" I said, "No. It's Cher." She said, "No it's not! Cher is only 29 years old!" She refused to believe me
I had & loved her!!
Oh gosh yes I had one of those - and the Donnie & Marie dolls!! Haha
@@happymemories8873 LOVE IT!
I had and still have The Bionic Woman, Chrissy, and Charlie's Angels.
Chrissy Snow?
One of my favorite toys is a Light Bright.
The Johnny West collection was a lot of fun.
We called it the wish book . We looked at it for weeks before Christmas. Man I miss the old days .mostly because as kids most of us are healthy fresh and full of wonder
My brother had the Evel Kneivel cycle, I had the Six Million Dollar Man with rocket/life support module. We both had a lot of fun with those. We also had the Mattel Electronics handheld football game(and a couple of the other handheld games). I don't know if anybody remembers this, but it was possible to run a touchdown every time you were on offense by moving the QB straight down, waiting for the defense to align at the bottom, then running across the cleared top row. If the way was blocked, all one had to do was wait on the bottom row until they moved again, then run across the top row again. The only limitation was the game clock. I wish I could remember our top score, but it was 4 decades ago. Lol.
I had the Coleco football game. Pressing the pass button continually for about 10 reps...would get you half way down field. It was guaranteed a touchdown in two attempts. I still have that game somewhere...👍
@@ocularpatdown YEAH!! I loved that thing. I got one on Christmas of 1978. I enjoyed the synthesizer, the puzzle game, and the Simon-like game. The tic tac toe game got as boring as quickly on Merlin as it did in real life. Lol. But, yeah, it was a cool device.
My siblings and I were fortunate in that Dad liked electronic toys/gadgets, so he'd get that kind of thing for us for Christmas and birthdays.
@@gregorykiernan7849 I preferred to run, juke a few times then you were off to the races. Also had the Bambino Master Blaster and Wildfire Pinball handheld games. Good times.
My favorite , Major Matt Mason With space capsule & Space station. & Billy Blastoff was a space man (figure) & motor that operated , the moon Walker , & space jet.
I Had the Moon walker Mid 70's but was like 5 at the time and really didn't know what to make of it other than a cool toy given to me by my older brother.
Thank you so much for this video!! When I was a kid the JC Penny Christmas Catalog was magical all by itself and made your imagination transcend reality, next to watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The imagination is more powerful than reality. All these years I never imagined so many kids were looking through these catalogs dreaming just like me...
I feel sorry for the kids today, with the internet and all. They have shallow, instant gratification at their fingertips. We were a generation of dreamers! But the dreams were often better than possessing the actual product! Man I used to wear those Christmas catalog's out!
@@d.vaughn8990 It took me 40 years to understand these catalogs were not real. They were designed to stir the imagination. Most kids didn't get anything from these catalogs. But the imagination and dreams of promise... I'm so grateful.
Yes, always wanted that box w/the disco lights...I found one yrs later at a thrift store....I still have it and when I look at it, it reminds of those catalogs...
One of my favorites was a ballerina doll, named Dancerina, and two dolls named Velvet and Chrissy, both of which "grew" their hair by turning a knob in their backs!
I have a collection of 1970 dolls that i didn't have then. I have the1970's hair growing doll called Sheena. I have 12 tiny tears dolls. 2 1970 sindys. 6 early 1980 sindys. A red haired 1970's action doll and 3 later versions of the wombles. Also, i now have a mid 1970's lundby barton dolls house. In the mid 1970's these dolls houses were the top and most expensive type of dolls house on sale. My doll's house by lundby barton is called Carolines House. In the early 1970's my parents bought me a laughing doll called chuckles. Not the evil one that was in the horror film. My dolls and doll's house are on display so that i can enjoy looking at them
Thanks for bringing me back to my childhood for a few minutes 👍🏻
My siblings and I had a Big Wheel and Hippity Hop! Remember those? Great time to be a kid! The best! 💙
yep the very best magical time to be a kid always loved the big wheel great fun
We also had big wheels and hoppity hops. So much fun.
@@jillefeldme9452 lol 😂! I loved Colorforms too, and Shrinky Dinks! Remember? You painted them, then put them in the oven and they shrunk!
I had the $6million Man action figure. Had the space capsule too. I discovered early on that, the chest pocket(s) of the track-suit could hold a Chicklet. Instant sensor packs, just like in the show.
I had that to great memories wish I could go back to the 70s as a kid it was great better than now
I loved Chicklets. And the tiny ones in a yellow foil pack. Can't think of the name at the moment.
I had Oscar Goldman as well, with his 'exploding' briefcase.
@@67THEROCKER i totally agree trev the 70s where fantastic magical times to be a kid
OMG you just went through my childhood. I remember almost all those toys, either had them, saw them on TV or in a Sears or Penneys catalog. Oh wow…thank you!
Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
They was my favorite toys growing up in the 70s
they were one of my favorites too so awesome
Yes I had both six million $ man and the bionic woman board games that was super fun 2 play
I had the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, Mattel Electronic Football, and the Six Million Dollar Man. I played with them endlessly.
My sister had Baby Alive.
My grandparents had Atari Pong.
Everybody had Nerf.
My friend had Stretch Armstrong. It split into two pieces very early in its life.
I am a true child of the '70s. I even had a pet rock and a mood ring.
You missed what is easily one of the most popular toys of the late 70s, STAR WARS toys! Once they released, everyone wanted them.
That's exactly what I was going to say . Wish I still had all mine .
Beat me to it. I was going o say the same thing. Also missing, "The World's Greatest Superheroes" Mego action figures!
Big Jim and the Wolf Pack! So many awesome adventures and missions with them. Yes, Star Wars was popular and like you said the late 70’s. I had the land speeder and x-wing fighter.
In December of 1977 I got a big full color card showing all the Star Wars action figures. It was a promissory note. It was one of my Christmas presents and it was probably one of the best I ever got. There was still nothing on the shelves by the summer of 1978. In mid summer of 1978 I made a trip with my dad and stepmother to New Mexico to see my mom and family. My great grandmother took me to a department store in town and told me to pick out whatever I wanted. She made tons from a couple trailer courts she owned. No bog deal. I got to the toy section and on am end cap was every Star Wars figure and space ship in the first wave. She bought me one of each. When my dad picked me up my stepmother handed me a brown paper sack and inside was every action figure so now I had doubles. I couldn't believe it. I felt like the luckiest kid on Earth. It was awesome.
Let's be real? Every time we had a chance to go into "Two Guy's" and Woolworths, I would steal all the stormtroopers I could. Just to have an army of them, like the movie. Absolutely the best of times.
I was a ‘73 baby, so I do remember many of these. My older brother had the EK stunt cycle, I had a Weeble DisneyWorld Magic Kingdom, we had Pong, my brother was obsessed with his Electronic Football…always played it on car trips, and he also had the Steve Austin doll.
So cool, I had Weebles and Baby Alive, I also had a doll that could crawl and turn her head, those two dolls were my favorite! Thank you for sharing ❤️
The amazing thing about the Micronaut sets, is that all the individual pieces of vehicles etc. Could fit "Lego style" to other parts . I made a different ship every time I played.👏
Having 2 younger brothers, I no longer have a single piece of any of it.😅
Major Mat Mason and the gang! I loved anything having to do with space!
WOW, brought back a lot of memories. I've had just about all of them boy toys. I loved that Evil motorcycle toy, and the J. I.Joe's, Six million dollar man? Aw man, Atari was just awesome. Had them both. Stretch Armstrong, Pulsar, the electronic football game. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
MrRaymondd1021: Hell, yeah, I was waiting for someone to say Stretch Armstrong!! He was my absolute favorite toy, Christmas of 1976. Then I just had to stick one of my Mom's sewing needles in him several times to see WHAT made him stretch...& that was his demise. I was crushed!
@@larakeller2478 what was in it, some kind of clay?
@@MrRaymond1021 Reddish pink, very thick.corn syrup. Once it leaked out of his(several) holes, it hardened very quickly, & though my six-year old self desperately tried to clean him up & put band-aids on him & stuff to try to save/fix him...it was all over for ol' Stretch. I was freaking devastated 😭
@@larakeller2478 Wow, reddish pink corn syrup? I guess the builders knew someone was going to stab stretch, and make it look like blood? They were really trying to traumatize someone trying to make it look like blood? Crazy. Thanks for sharing.
yeah man how awesome is pulsar not many people seem to know who he is
I had a few of the Micronauts, but my favorite on the list was the Six Million Dollar Man. I played with him all the time until the release of Kenner's Star Wars action figures. I kept him in his rocket ship in a box in the attic until a few years ago when he accidentally got thrown away. I was thrilled when I found a replacement on eBay, almost complete (without the engine block or top bionic module) for only $30!
I guess the lesson here is too open all the boxes were hoard thoroughly; they are in the attic for a sentimental reason!
I had all the GI Joe and the GI Joe Adventure Team. These were my Favorite!! I also had Big Jim (Big Jake) and the Wolf Pack, Evel Knievel, Tonka trucks (still have one I got for Christmas in 1973). Good times 😊
sweet brother we have the same 70s toy box lol
@@acefrehley9411 HOLY #@$&!!!!!! I don't believe that ACE FREHLEY commented on my reply!! Dude, you are AWESOME!!! I've seen you with KISS, but I have to say that I enjoyed seeing you with Frehley's Comet a Hell of a lot more! "Rock Soldiers" kept me going during the Gulf War 1990-1991. You're the GREATEST! As far as our toy box, I still have one of my GI Joe with Kung Fu grip. Everything else is long gone. GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER!!!! You have made my Day!!!!
@@andrewwright01 hey brother thankyou so much for your kind words about the band and thankyou so much for your service . im so glad my music helped you through hard times . hey its great that you still have the kung fu grip im just so glad that i still have all mine there awesome keep rockin dude
In 1977, when I was five, the toy I HAD to have for Christmas was Baby This And That. I was so thrilled when Santy Claus came through for me and gave me one. Unfortunately, those dolls were not designed to survive older brothers who took things apart to see how they worked. The doll barely lasted a month.
Electronic Battleship was pretty fun when I got it one Christmas! Same simple game with great noises! One I always wanted but never got as a younger kid was the Green Ghost game because the commercials made it look so cool!
My favourite was my "Six Million Dollar Man". Every kid had one, and I still have mine.
awesome man i still have mine too
Mine had a Crystal radio backpack with it... almost forgot about that.....
The Evel Knievel cycle and Super Toe were the best gifts I ever received for Christmas.
That was nice. Thanks for taking me down memory lane. 👍🏻
I was born in 1966 November 17th I'm 55 now and in the 70s when I was a kid I loved these toys I have such great memories I remember playing with the kids and everything it was just a great time to be a kid and those toys such wonderful memories
it really was the greatest time to be a kid beautiful times and magical memories
I had the Evel Kneivel stunt cycle too! Wish I still had it!
Loved this. :) I had the Baby Alive doll, and let's not forget about the legendary Easy Bake Oven! That's back when it actually looked like a lil oven, and not like a microwave nowadays. ;)
My sister had the aqua marine one.
@@samanthab1923 lol, YESSSSS!!! That's what mine was. 😊
Did you get the odor with the Baby Alive too....ew. Mom made it disappear.
Wanda..omg my favs baby alive and easy bake oven 😸😸😸 born in 70.
A neighbor had Baby Alive...feeding her real food was an epic fail...she got maggots inside
Had the Stunt Cycle, Atari, Nerf Foot and the Electronic Football game. My stunt cycle was amazingly indestructible. I sent mine off way too many things. Loved them all though.
I loved anything about the 1970's. I was 10 in 1972 and yes I am giving away my age. Thanks for the memories. By the mid part of the 1970's I was a teenager. Oh, but I remember the years of the 1970's.
I remember having baby alive one Christmas, I loved that doll.The packs of food that came with her didn’t last and you couldn’t buy it in any toy shops I remember as well asking my mum and dad to get more food for her. And my dad brought packets of real baby food. Bringing back good memories.
Oh man that was the one toy that I got but never got. I finally got one and it didn’t work. She would never take in the food and after a few hours my parents packaged her back up and took her back. They didn’t replace her.
The Mattel Vertibird Coast Guard Rescue Ship, best Christmas present ever. That Sears Wishbook was wonderful torment for all 70s kids.
Back in 70-71 for Christmas my favorite toy was fort apache
Now the first one I got I'm not sure if it was called fort apache it was all sheet metal kinda like a suitcase and I always was cutting myself playing with it but it didn't stop me from playing with it.
My second was the fort apache the following April for my birthday I think my mom got tired of me cutting myself 😄 over the years it disappeared but in 1992 on my way to the coast my sister and I stopped by a antique store and there was a fort apache I told my sister let's go check it out and I said you know what happens to be an old cereal box a little single serving ones that I used to cut open and use it like closests little doors would open, I told her if there's one of those in there wrapped in aluminum foil this is my old one my old fort Apache and sure enough it was there plus little cowboys and Indian that I used my mom's red finger nail polish on to paint blood like stains and there was. So I bought it and I still have it today
True story
Oh my goodness, the memories these toys bring back.
I want to know who remembers the Sears Wish Book, we would wait all year for that!
i know it felt like forever before you could see it again
I had a Steve Austin and my brother had a Evel Kenevil. Obviously once Star Wars got going in 1977 it's all anybody wanted.
I had that Mattel electronic football game 🎮 I also had the one where the football field vibrated and the little plastic figures would just go around in circles...Lol
I remember Homer Simpson using one of those for inspiration when he was coaching Bart's team. He even instructed one of the players to simply spin around in a circle.
Not featured here but I had the bionic woman doll. I remember receiving it for Xmas, and was so excited. 😃 I loved that doll and all the cool accessories. 😁
The first half of the 70's was Ruled by Hotwheels, Tonka and Big Wheel for my friends and I. We also had a couple of SSP Cars that had a geared T-Handle that you pulled to get the traction wheel spinning same sort of toy as the Evel Knievel Cycle (1 of my friends had that), by '74 we too old for "toys" so we were into Bikes, Skateboards (yes the first Urethane Wheels) and playing Sports.
Lol! I actually did an online hunt for SST cars recently. Loved those! Found a few, but the speed strips were missing.
@@Pamer21 Ah I made a mistake they were called SSP, I edited my post, there's a couple on Ebay that have the Power T Handles there's even the Handles only for Sale...they're pricey though
Ever burn your brothers arm with the high speed spinning rubber wheel with your SSP toy? 😂 😒 We loved torturing each other with em back in the seventies. 😲💪
I grew up in the 70's, so many good memories.
More simpler times.
I Was A Child Of The 1970s I Had Some Of Theses Toy's Man If I Could Go Back I Would Love And Miss Thoses Day's ✌️✌️
I was 11 in 1970 the coolest toys games and TV shows we're back from the late 60s through the 70s. Looking back in retrospect I'm so glad we didn't have the internet and social media bullshit, that does nothing but make kids Lose there imgergnery thinking. Thank you for the amazing video of bringing back great memories. My favorite toy was GI-joe
Yes, I loved those catalogs with all the toys.
i know the best could not beat it and could not stop looking at it lol
Another great one was the "Vertibird" helicopter on a tether. Loved it!
I had the entire Micronauts collection as well as The Six Million Dollar Man collection.
nice work! The Micronauts collection was as pre-Star Wars OCD as you could get!
Awesome memories thank you
My friend had an evil kenivel stunt cycle that we played with for hours. We built jumps everywhere and made his chihuahua hide every time. What an amazing toy. You didn't need any extra track. Just an imagination and open space.
yeah thats awesome man
I loved my Stretch Armstrong. But the one thing I got for Christmas one year and kept for years was "Sea Diver". Basically a plastic bottle that you would squeeze and this little yellow submarine would go down to pick up treasures.
My brother got a Stretch Armstrong for Christmas in 1978 or 79. He had it for about 2 years and suddenly it started getting lots of wear & tear. That's when we discovered the jelly inside of it lol 😂
@@QueenAlexis556 I discovered that by poking him a bunch of times with one of Mom's sewing needles because I just HAD to see what made him stretch. I was so bummed that he was ruined!
My dad got me a rock out of the garden and put eyes on it. He refused to buy a rock in a box. I still have that rock somewhere. 🤣
Yes! Lol!😂
I had Evel Knievel, Six Million Dollar Man, and Micronauts. But my biggest collection was the Mego superheroes.
I loved my baby alive doll! I vividly remember playing pong at my best friends house while in high school!
I never had an Evil Knievel stunt cycle, but I did have a Six Million Dollar man doll. My mom bought me the " critical assignment" after market legs, and the portable lab. " rocket" My all time favorite 70s toy is the SSP smash up derby sets! I own two sets now, the blue station wagon, and orange coupe, and the Bi centennial set from 1976. I was big into " adventure people" too, dam I miss the 1970s.
Kind of sad seeing Mike Nesmith and the Monkeys in one of the commercials when he just died today. Great toys. RIP Mike
I always wanted a Baby Alive but my mom wouldn't get me one. LOL My brother had the 6 Million Dollar Man. I love watching your videos & seeing all the old commercials.
The one toy I had to have for Xmas of 1977 was the " Guns of Naverone" play set. I woke up and there it was....unwrapped in all its glory.( mom gave up on trying to wrap that thing)
Oh man, I played with that thing for countless hours. Wow, what memories!
@@blockmasterscott I thought nobody would remember that thing....so cool.
@@2laughandlaugh it was like Indiana Jones finding the Ark!
My husband had that and our own kids played with it just a few short years ago.
Rockem sockem robots and Time Bomb 💣those were my two 70s toy favorites. Much love from Jacksonville FL
Now most kids wanna get Transformers or play on their phones, but Hot Wheels and Matchbox are classics that date before the 70’s.
Mego action figures..well, dolls really....they were HUGE, too. I had both the Micronaut toys and comics, plus ROM the Space Knight. Growing up in the 70s was an awesome time to be an oblivious kid.
yeah thats for sure im lucky enough to still have my micronauts and mego dolls
2:44 the “small child” is Pebbles from the Flintstones!
We all had the Evil Knievel bike and whoever could jump the longest ramp to ramp was the champ and you could pick your nose anywhere. My Evil lasted a good while until he started doing more and more hazardous jumps. Eventually someone made him jump off the roof and that was his last jump.
My favorites in the 70's were BIG JIM, Mego superheroes and every girl had to have a Chrissy doll,
My younger sister had Chrissy & Velvet
Big Jim and Big Josh were awesome. Remember his pet eagle?
@@rosswilliam2472 Sure do
Yes, I collect them! Still have them.
I still have my Chrissy Doll!
I loved Clackers. They were 2 solid HARD lucite balls that came in colors. Each ball was attached to a cord. You would get the momentum going so they would hit each other and make a clacking noise. They were like Argentinian Bollas that were used to kill animals. Hey Clackers were fun….until they injured kids. I still thought they were fun!!! Miss them
We all had them back in 68
You learned to use them or breathe your fingers lol
We drove the poor nuns bat shit with those clackers!
Honour Joyce They deserved it. Scared the hell out of me. Only went to 3rd grade too!
@@samanthab1923 They weren't so bad once you got to know how to avoid them.
As a kid in the 70s I had many of them toys! Hot wheels redlines, the stretching man, the bionic man, evil knievel, Star Wars figures, and so on and on! That if I have those today! I would be making a fortune with them!👌😎👍
yep i know if you only knew as a kid to look after them
Best list I've ever seen on RUclips! The only item I disagree with is Weebles. Definitely an iconic 70's toy - but not a "must have".
Star War's product's were a must have - maybe the biggest of the 70's.
Evel Knievel stunt cycle is the greatest toy ever made.
I think my Evel Knievel toys lived in fear of me, and whatever suicidal law of physics defying stunt I had planned for them next.
They probably hated me and my friends, who had even less respect for concepts of gravity...
@@thedys70 did you ever put Evel on the bike in the most precarious way possible, just to see him fly off and get "hurt"? My friends and I laughed too much at that
@@bbb462cid Pretty sure he didn't get very far standing on the seat, arched over holding the handle bars; a normal man would have been paralysed several time over at my/our hands. Walls and doors were not his friends. But his helmet always remained on his head, regardless of the severity of impact; bravo Mattel!
Yo-yo's were big in 1970 at my elementary school in New York. "Footsie" was popular too, and safer than Clackers.
Yea but the first clackers were the bomb. The sound they made when you got the timing down was sublime. And never had one break on me. The later models, as with almost anything enjoyable, were cheaply made sadly. Loved my yo-yo’s too. Such great memories.
Hot Wheels cars, tracks, and recharger…they were so choice !
The six million dollar man, I had the later version. I remember spending hours looking through the Sears Wish Book
You should have included SSP Racers and Hot-wheels. Those were awesome.
Gi-Joe with the Kung-Fu grip (1974) was also great.
I think lawn-darts were beginning to be popular in the late 70's too.
Agreed Kung Fu Grip GI Joe should have been on this list.
SSP, Hotwheels, AFX Slot Car Tracks...
Tonka Trucks...made of real metal.
The Mattel Vertibird!? ...complete with a foam Coast Guard Cutter.
still got my hot wheels cars and one kung fu grip gi joe love this stuff
@@CraigHollabaugh love the kung fu grip gi joes
Remember 'Slingin' Slot' from Mattel, 1974? It was a brown and green vertical slot machine that used metal slugs. Lots of fun when we were kids!