EPISODE NOTE: Since I've drunkenly stumbled into the ire of the internet once again, I wanted to mention that I did in fact want to include a Micronauts commercial. I just couldn't find one with good enough quality.
@@AtomicSnackBar I remember I had Baron Karza and Force Commander and a bunch of different colored Pharoid Time Travelers that would always fall apart 🤣
Dude, my brother and I got in trouble biking down to the Chinese store to buy micronaught toys when I wasn’t even in school yet. Acroyer and bug for the win….and yeah, I’m drunk right now
@@glocksNgrippers Micronauts mostly passed me by until I was an adult. But a kid brought one, the Biotron figure, to show and tell one year. I thought it was super cool, but didn't know what it was until decades later.
Nah. You guys are wrong. The action figures kids have today are light years away from what we had. The NECA stuff is insane. So were the McFarland toys.
This brings back memories! Some of these I had, others I wish I had. The Space 1999 Eagle was one of my favorite toys while it lasted, with the Battlestar Galactica toys (both starfighters and action figures) close behind.
@@AtomicSnackBar 😆 I don't recall doing that... anyway BSG was 6" figures (or really tiny figures in the spaceships, like 1") and Space ds1999 was 3" figures for the toy Eagle, so they wouldn't mix well.
@@danospitpatio6236 You do have a point there, but I just wouldn't feel right about it. But hey, I've already gotten two donations, and folks are really enjoying it. So time well spent.
Killing King Kong would have made me sad but a speed race between Lee Majors and Andre the Giant would have been super cool. I love these toy commercial extravaganzas. Thank you for harvesting another crop of Grade A nostalgia
I'm a big fan of the Mego Star Trek line. I have quite a few originals including a very beat up Enterprise playset. As a kid, though, I think the only Mego I had was a Hulk figure. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks, Ted.
That huge Space 1999 Eagle was soooo cool! I had that for many years but I eventually lost track of it. Of all the toys I used to have, I miss it the most.
That had a way of happening. I was really luckily in that my mom didn't throw out my toys or give them away. It's why I still have so many from my youth. And yet, some stuff still manage to just kind of disappear.
@ AtomicSnackBar - they are wearing those missing single socks. Sock...? Mini Black Holes appear and suck things into them randomly. They disappear just as quickly.
@@tonysantiago255 I'm not so sure. I've always held a strong belief in the sock monster that lives in the dryer. That is, until Mama Santiago's Hippie theory.
I had the Star Trek Playset! Mom got it for me for Christmas! Man, when I think about how much she had to scrimp and save to buy it, it brings tears to my eyes. Mom was a widow, and most of her income was a combination of her widow's SS pension and babysitting money. But back then, the dollar went a lot farther.
That's awesome. I do so enjoy hearing nice toy memories like that. And I actually have the Star Trek Enterprise Playset. It's really beat up, but still very cool to have.
That's awesome. I wanted the Muffit II and the Ovion figures so badly as a kid. But they were slightly before my time and already off shelves. That darn Imperious Leader sure hung around, though.
I had the original viper with the shooting projectiles but by the time I got the cylon raider and the colonial scarab they were revised. But I took them apart and cut the nubs off the projectiles so they worked right.
@@AtomicSnackBar_Rifftrax_ had a live show where they did a Christmas movie (I forget which one). Before the main feature, they showed toy commercials that included the ding-a-ling one. The audience howled at the hidden spy camera reveal, the "jumpin' jackhammer", and King Ding's elevator! 😏
It's so cool to see these commercials again. I had some of these toys. I had the intruder and bullet head. Great video Slim. It's cool that you had the redesigned Battlestar Galactica ships.
‘Not for use with other Battestar Galactica toys’ - clearly they’ve never mixed and matched action figures for maximum playtime effect! Fantastic video! They really knew how to market toys back then!
Ah yes, I know a little something about mixing and matching action figures. Not only that, but also pretending figures were other characters completely. Good times. Good times indeed.
They were preemptively attempting to circumvent customers from complaining that they didn't make vehicles in the same scale. Which has since been rectified by a fan toymaker in the past few years with 3D printing.
@@jaycee_baron Thanks. I legitimately wondered why they would say that. "Why wouldn't I use it with other BSG toys?! Isn't that the whole point of collecting them?"
I say old boy, these foreign advertisements are rather joyful. It is quite the treat to find out what toys were popular overseas in the 1980s?. I am especially interested in the Space 1999 Eagle. (We only had the Dinky versions). I read about them, but have never seem one from the advert up close. I have built many Eagles using the original plans over the years. I even made one in 1/6 scale for the 12" Action Man figures. I sold it for a pretty penny, because it was too bloody heavy and big to display anywhere in our home!
I find the foreign advertisements really interesting as well. As a kid, I always assumed that every country just had their own pop culture and toys. So it was interesting to find that in many cases it was just the same toys with different commercials or the same properties but with different toys. All the Eagle work sounds awesome. You have any of them still?
@@AtomicSnackBar Excellent. You are absolutely correct about most of the toys and their international markets and branding. It is fascinating stuff. As for my old hobby and Eagles; The wife loathed them. I am left with only one Studio Scale Sized Eagle, which I display in my Office. I gifted most of the rest to the RSPCA and old friends. When I started out, I naively used Stainless Steel Tubing, instead of Aluminium. Such a simple mistake for a beginner. It rests 'heavy' on my shoulders. Cheers.
@@AtomicSnackBar Thanks for that. I fell off my chair laughing when I read your comment. I can imagine a cut-away of my wife, (Her Ladyship), nagging me to fix the leaking radiators and and spend time with our children while they are briefly home from Public School, as I run a production line doing nothing but churn out the iconic Eagles. I am still chuckling. Nice one. I made a Studio Scale for display, when I was young to learn the skills. Friends and Customers would ask me to make one for them over the years. They only paid for materials (Sans Stainless Steel!). I did not charge for the build. We are not Church goers (England is turning her back on the CofE - See: The Great War. See: Scandals. See: Child SA See Child A. See Archbishop of Canterbury). We donate to charity instead. Rather than hand-over Four Ponies to the RSPCA, or give a Ton to Help for Heroes, On occasion, I would buy the raw materials and donate an Eagle. They would go for several bags of sand at auction (GBP £5,000.00 upwards). I was an avid Wargamer as a child. The Civil War was tremendous fun. The King's Royalists and Cavaliers would face off against Ironsides, Musketeers, Pikemen and Roundheads of Cromwell's New Model Army, er... literally, I suppose. I still make and paint Napoleonic figures and Zulu War miniatures, from time to time. When I am not tied up, my hobby is repairing old Toys, Mostly TIMPO. I hope you are having a grand old Thanksgiving. Cheers.
Man I'm getting old.😊 my mom got me almost every Star Wars toy by x-mas 1978. Bless her. Really wish i had a Galactica Viper to dogfight with an x-wing. 😊
@AtomicSnackBar 58 year old with an 11 year old son, get to kinda relive those days. Gotta spoil the boy. But wow..he loves old movies. And games. Loves Godzilla and King Kong. Thank goodness he says I'm weird when i watch Empire Strikes Back or Jaws. Got the best toys kid. Spare no expense
I used to have that Space 1999 Eagle back in the day, and my boys got me another one for Christmas last year. It’s so wild to see stuff I had back in the day and can finally afford to get again now that I’m grown up. Unfortunately, the prices have grown up too lol. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
My cousin had the Cylon Raider and Viper. He was so pissed when I lost the little brown pilot for the Viper. He even got more angry when I told him his mom could just buy him another one since she bought him every thing. What interesting is guy who played the little boy Boxy on the show said he doesn't remember anything from that time. Maybe he's just trolling fans and doesn't want to be bothered by nostalgia hunters.
That fellow was slightly before my time, but I did have some pretty darn cool Star Wars toys as a lad. I still have my Darth Vader bubble bath container.
@AtomicSnackBar The Force is strong with that bubble bath! Yeah, that R2 was so much fun, drove everyone mad with it LOL It bleeped like R2 did as well.
@@AtomicSnackBarI ate too much as well. I just finished watching _The Colossus of New York_ and thought of you. Also, I just watched Dr Gangrene's review of the same movie and mentioned you in my comment.
WOW, what a flashback! Myself and a couple best friends had a LOT of these in the day. 1 friend had all the Shogun warriors, except the Godzilla one with the flying fist..
@@Litauen-yg9ut I had one of the small figures. I want to say it had diecast parts. Not sure how I ended up with that one either. That line was a bit before my time.
Love the Six Million Dollar Man vs Big Foot Drag Race set, just a normal day in the Six Million Dollars Man’s life. Been after one of the Space 1999 Eagle 1 ships for years, obviously it would be inhabited by my vintage Star Wars toys if I had one.
@ Yeah it’s odd you say that, just a few hours ago I pulled up the the traffic lights, looked across at the car next to me only to discover it was actually Big Foot! Of course he sped away before I had chance to get his autograph.
Some lovely clips here - never realised how many of these toys had adverts. Big thanks for the UK Action Man advert. Coming up to Christmas this is a fantastic treat. So much feel good - just what I needed. Thank you for taking the time to piece together something that makes so many people happy. Sir, I salute you.
It's been nice hearing how many people have enjoyed it. I was mildly concerned I was going to get run out of town again by angry villagers with pitchforks and cilantro. Thanks, Jason.
5:17 Action Man! Had dozens of them (hand me downs from my big brother) with uniforms, vehicles and, thanks to big bro’s ingenuity, realistic battle damage and a few amputated limbs
I had always wanted that Buck Rogers fighter. Thanks for the memories! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving Mr. Sterling and I'd live to see more retro commercial compilations like this, basically a psychological fountain of youth!
Glad you enjoyed it. I figure it's a nice way to kick off the Christmas season. That way you know what to ask Santa for. And I shall keep that in mind. I forget, have you checked out my side channel The Sophisticated Weirdo?
The 1980s was a great time to grow up, but I think I would have been really happy as a '70s kid as well. Not to mention, I spent a large part of my 30s being darn near obsessed with the 1970s.
I had the dagget and twiggy, buck Rodger’s fighter, imperious leader (always looked like he had gum on his head), the bug guy, baron karza, cylon, robotech etc….
Those lines were slightly before my time. But a few of the Battlestar figures hung around on shelves for years after. I had the Imperious Leader, but I remember wanting Muffit II and the Ovion so badly after seeing them on the back of the packaging. But they were long gone by that point.
I always knew how lucky I was having so many of these classic toys. Gotta shout out my single mom for always getting me what I wanted for birthdays and Christmas! I had a great childhood 💙💙
I once got a scale model R2D2 for Christmas. My parents included a white tube of modeling glue that had an orange or lemon logo on it. The stuff had an incredibly noxious scent to it that gave me bad headaches. It was always awesome to get anything Star Wars related but that damn glue made it torture.
Modeling and related activities were well beyond my skill as a lad. So anything like that would have been handled by mom. I probably would have glued myself to the ceiling again.
@@AtomicSnackBar I used to love putting models together, then they changed the glue to “safe, non-toxic “ and it just wasn’t the same anymore. Must’ve been the fumes that was making me so happy.
@ chrisbridges4885 - Memory triggered! I remember in the 60s, there was a Public Service drug commercial with a 'Guy' trying to get kids on a city playground to try some, saying: "Hey kiddies. It's the Man with the Goodies... One sniff... it is aeroplane glue..." while waving the tube at them. The kids were all of course, too smart for him. They walked away saying in unison: " Nahhhh." Message conveyed. Don't do drugs!
My mom had an Atari when I was really small. I ended up with it years later, and even ended up buying my own copy of Dig Dug on clearance at Kaybee Toys.
Back in '76 there were three toys that would make or break your "kid greatness" toy legacy. A big wheel, one stretch armstrong and a pre-pumped water rocket for adverse moments up the block. BUT one toy ruled them all.. them Shogun Robots. You had one of them.. you were considered "IN".
Even though I grew up in the '80s, a younger cousin had a Shogun Warriors figure somehow. And even then, I thought that thing was glorious. I remember it being so amazingly big.
So close to 10K subscribers! Anyway, I had several of these toys in the 70s. Lots of army men too and the guns of navarone play set..😎 and don’t forget the legos..
It's kind of hard to believe. I struggled for subs for years. Heck, last year at this time I barely had a thousand. The Sci-fi of Hammer Films video really made this channel. And that The Guns of Navarone playset was really cool.
This video started off with a bang -- Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica figures. I don't think I've seen these commercials before. The Star Wars Death Star is cool (I've still got the trash monster from mine). I've got those Space 1999 figures, but they're flimsy -- an arm came off of one of them. My Cylon Raider and Colonial Viper launch missiles. This is a fun video.
I remember the Battlestar figures well because the Imperious Leader hung around on store shelves into the '80s. But other than the random Twiki Signal Flasher I had, I never ran across any of the Buck Rogers figures. Not even sure where I got the Twiki.
happy human american thanksgiving! I am not celebrating because dinosaur thanksgiving was a few months ago so I hope you enjoy feasting on my fellow members of the dinosauria claid!
@AtomicSnackBar they're based in Kent England still. But not sure who manufactures them. Part of hornby company. I've recently bought a captain scarlet angel interceptor & a captain scarlet SPV vehicle.....very good they are too!
I had a star fighter and a cylon raider. The ones that fired missles. Had the Death Star. I remember the shoguns. Had the 6 million dollar man. My cousin had the Star Trek set. Had a bunch of Star Wars figures and the board game. I have never heard the word “splamo” before.
Sounds like you did pretty darn well as a kid. That's a bunch of great stuff that would have crossed over quite nicely. Well, maybe not Steve Austin. He was a big large.
I had the Shogun Warriors when I was little I would say it was either 78 or 79, just a couple years after we moved to a small town in SE Missouri. I had never seen them before, nor did I ever see a commercial for them. My mom bought them for me for Christmas from a local department store, it sold everything from tires to guns, and toys to furniture. A lot of what they sold was returned overstock items from the bigger chain stores, kinda like Ollie’s is today. My mom saw them and thought I would like them. I remember one came without the original box, again these were return/overstock items. Non of them were broken or dirty and I was the only kid I knew that had them. Even my cousins in Florida and Ohio hadn’t ever seen them. I found out later that they did sell too well in the US, and mostly on the west coast and believe some in NY. I also saw how much they go for on eBay, even the ones that are busted and no boxes go for crazy money. I sold them at a yard sale when I was 19 or 20, and the two that came in the original boxes still had them and in great shape. I think got $10 for them. Sold them to some mom that had her three kids with her and I had no idea they would ever be worth anything. I did that with a lot of my toys from the 70s, not knowing that they would be worth a lot. Wish I knew then what I know now.
That was a wonderful thing about Christmas morning. My mom would often keep me away from toy stores leading up. So unless there was a commercial, often toylines would sneak up on me unaware. I'd awaken Christmas morning to be totally surprised with toys I didn't even know existed. Clearly, Santa had the good stuff.
Owned more than half of this and still own some. I still have one of my GI Joes with footlocker, Mego Star Trek figures. My bonus room looks like a Toys R Us.
I couldn’t help but to think about that really cool Atari console I sent you pictures of when I seen that old school commercial. Oddly I wasn’t familiar with a lot of the games it had. I only knew about a handful of them. I love that Star Wars Death Star space station especially considering it comes with the trash compactor. That’s a nice touch. I also really liked that Star Trek enterprise, of course the King Kong vs The World playsets. I do really dig classic playsets. I thought it was kinda funny how a few of these commercials tried to tell you to play with your toys by saying something to the effect they not to be used with such and such toys. Like there’s something wrong with mix matching toys. I thought that was kinda funny. Anyway this was highly enjoyable good buddy. Keep it Snacky!!!
It's really beat up, but I actually have the Star Trek Bridge playset. I keep it closed, but it still looks nice up on the top shelf. The interior pieces I have on my Mego Star Trek shelf. As to the Death Star playset, that was before my time, but man I would have loved that. I was fascinated with trash compactor scene and the little creature. I really wanted a figure of that. Had no idea that one actually existed.
@AtomicSnackBar the only thing I liked about it was everybody had x-wings as their player icon sort of thing and all the x-wings had different colored Squadron for each player for some reason I liked all the same kind of thing but different colors we're having lots of the same thing like R2 units And droids in general
I remember all of these, except the Ding-a-Lings. Somehow that one missed me. I had that electronic Star Wars game, the Death Star, the Enterprise deck, etc. Such an awesome time to be a kid.
I had that 18 inch tall Mazinga back in the 70s. I also had a Godzilla figure the same size, made by the same company. I had the Battlestar Galactica Viper and Cylon Raider too -- the ones made _before_ the lawsuit, that shot those little plastic projectiles. And I had the Star Wars figures and Death Star shown toward the end of the video. God I had fun with all that stuff back then.
I had the rust colored Buck Rogers spaceship was that the marauder it always bothered me because it didn't have plastic clear windows it just had holes
Yeah and they showed at the very beginning of your program next to Buck Rogers spaceship it's sort of has a hatchet shaped cockpit opening I remember a lot of sharp edges LOL
Howdy! Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you got some rest. Part of me wants to know where you get these commercials, they make good bumpers in your regular videos. The other part of me is happy not to know, 'cause they're fascinating when curated and deployed. lol, at Battlestar and their "not for use with other Battlestar Galactica toys". Like some 7 year old in the 70's is going to pause their playing for the sake of incompatibility within the same IP. I have to credit this channel for making me understand the depth of a Simpsons joke. In one of the earlier seasons someone was doing the "my ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, I want you to play with my ding-a-ling" bit and was interrupted by Skinner. As a kid, I had no idea that was a thing (maybe they didn't make it to Canada), I just thought he was being a crude kid. Anywho, cheers and have an awesome weekend.
Thank you kindly. I took a whole three days off, though I did still respond to comments, and played some Dragon's Dogma II and watched a bunch of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Good times. As to the commercials, they're everywhere. It's just a matter of finding nice enough quality versions, cleaning up the audio in some cases, and then putting them in order. That's probably the most difficult part. I put a lot of thought into the flow of these compilation videos.
@@AtomicSnackBar as I was watching, I wondered, how much for every toy in all these commercials, MIB, today. $20,000? More? A dream worth chasing down! :)
@@AtomicSnackBar I know I had the Eagle. Action Man looks familiar, but those Steve Austin and Bigfoot toys for sure. Did you have one those buddies who seemed to have all the cool stuff. I had a friend who had literally every Star Wars toy, plus Micronauts. Remember Micronauts? Thanks for sharing this…definitely a blast from the past
@ creech54 - I think in the 70s comics Superman left Earth in search of Krypton, so Batman had to do double duty. Yeah... I just made that up. Had you for half a moment though, didn't I ? Don't believe anything I say. Ask Sterling.
As a GenXer born in '74, I was too young to remember these commercials or toys. But man, I apparently missed out on some impressive stuff. However, I wouldn't trade growing up in the '80s for anything.... especially with the toys we had back in that decade. ❤
These are all action figures and toys. We didn't play with those. We had the Vertibirds, Hot Wheels, AFX race cars, trains, etc. And, of course, the bicycles with the banana seats and sissy bars.
@ tracyhurst4393 - "Sissy bars!" Wow! I haven't heard that term since the 60s. Boy, do words have a way of changing meanings. Or maybe it was the same? I think we called them long handle bars. And they were actually cool for a time. Banana seats were always cool.
I had one of the Shogun Warriors toys - Mazinga! He had cool armor, wheels on the bottom of his boots, a sword, and could fire 2” toy missiles from three spring loaded launchers on each hand, and came with a supply of about 15 missiles! That thing was the bomb to seven year old me!
I had an R2 That was supposed to be remote control and it didn't work so my parents took it back and then they didn't get anything else for me LOL and then at some point I had the same in a landspeeder form and that remote didn't work either so that went back so I saved my money and got a regular push around landspeeder which I liked better anyway
Bigfoot and Wild Boy action figures? As a kid growing up back then I would have been more excited over the Mighty Isis or even Captain Marvel and his grandpa riding around in that winnebago then a boy and his bigfoot. I knew a kid who had the Eagle 1 from Space 1999. The show was a favorite at my house. Btw Captain Caveman would have made a cool action figure.
Gotta love the Battlestar toys that tell you not to use with "other" Battlestar Gallactica toys. Right. Riiiiight. We're playing with them along with Space:1999 and Trek toys. Toss Barbie and a couple of her friends in there. Now we're talking a party! By the way, your videos are often discussed in the dreaded Green Room. But only in a good way.
I don't know. I think we should listen to them. There very well could be a Ghostbusters-esc "Don't cross the streams" situation going on there. You put the wrong Battlestar toys together and BAM, end of reality as we know it. Or even worse, a universe is created without the Green Room.
I'm old enough to remember almost all of those commercials with the exception of the one's from Japan. I also remember that the first run of the Battlestar Galactica fighters did launch missiles and the reason why the second series didn't.
It's odd, though, because growing up in the '80s, I had several toys that fired missiles and things of the like. So not every toy company learned that lesson.
@AtomicSnackBar Kind of surprised to hear that. Not to downplay the incident, it was truly unfortunate, but I was a part of the Generation that had things like lawn Darts, lead paint and chemistry sets that had dangerous chemicals in it, yet somehow 95% of us somehow managed not to do any lasting permanent damage to ourselves. Not sure if that was luck, or if Gen X just was built tough.
@ deniseboldea1624 - Yeah, I remember that in the late 60s, Parenting Groups starting influencing Lawmakers to Ban all kinds of toys and even some candies saying that they were a danger to children. There was a toy called ' Clackers' which had two hard plastic colored ball attached by a handle which you snapped back and forth to make them hit each other making a loud clicking sound. Apparently, STUPID children were hitting them so hard that the balls would splinter and the shards were deemed a "Danger!" Yet we were allowed to go out and run around the streets Halloween night unaccompanied and knock on stranger's doors. Government.😑
@@deniseboldea1624 There is much truth in what you say. And as much as I enjoyed growing up in the '80s, I think the '70s would have been a wonderful time to be a kid as well.
@@richardb6609 I know right? Though I'm one of those kids that frequently got into trouble for chucking them at my sister. What can I say? She was a master antagonist who was always claiming I didn't have the guts to do it. She's just lucky she could outrun them.😅
In a perfect world, there would have been a commercial for the Daisy and Violet Hilton action figure where at the end it would say "Each sold separately." The Dingaling campaign ran over budget and became the line of US Congress inaction figures. Buck Rogers had a space accident and lost his legs. He was thereafter known as "fifty cents" Rogers. The Battlestar Galactica Cylons became stockings, and were thereafter known as the "Nylons." A bit of 70s kitsch culture ladies and gentlemen.
Wow, Daisy and Violet Hilton. Now that, good sir, is a deep pull with a fine payoff. Kinda makes you feel bad for Fifty Cents Roger or even his buddy, who faired even worse, Lieutenant Starnickel. But who really gives an Adama?
50% of these commercials I've seen before. 50% of these commercials I've never seen before. 100% I enjoyed all the commercials. Is there anybody here, or knows anybody, that was rich enough to have the Entire Ding-a-Ling city?
There was someone earlier in the comments, I forget who, that mentioned they have the entire set even still. I've never even seen one in person. So that's pretty neat.
I totally had the Death Star the only bad thing about a lot of those sets is that they had cardboard as a main component but that is exactly what I had my trash compactor was orange even with a blue twist I'm sure my mom gave it away years ago LOL
@AtomicSnackBar yes absolutely it did it was really flexible rubber that was bright green and had one big eye on the end of a stock and it sort of had Wing Flappers on the side
@AtomicSnackBar oh yeah I think I remember it also came with some chunks or pieces of foam ra lot like used on those foam paint brushes, to put in the compactor. If I remember right, it had clear plastic wjndows, 3 on each side and I Remember Loving how detailed the hatch was.
I often say that I would be a terrible person to give a time machine to. I would just go back and buy vintage toys and see cool movies on the big screen.
EPISODE NOTE: Since I've drunkenly stumbled into the ire of the internet once again, I wanted to mention that I did in fact want to include a Micronauts commercial. I just couldn't find one with good enough quality.
@@AtomicSnackBar I remember I had Baron Karza and Force Commander and a bunch of different colored Pharoid Time Travelers that would always fall apart 🤣
I had Micronauts too!
Dude, my brother and I got in trouble biking down to the Chinese store to buy micronaught toys when I wasn’t even in school yet. Acroyer and bug for the win….and yeah, I’m drunk right now
@@glocksNgrippershell yeah! The weird centaur dude
@@glocksNgrippers Micronauts mostly passed me by until I was an adult. But a kid brought one, the Biotron figure, to show and tell one year. I thought it was super cool, but didn't know what it was until decades later.
Bionic Bigfoot... you just cannot get drugs of that quality anymore.
It was a better time, especially for bigfoots.
kids today have no idea
I certainly agree. They have their gizmos and doodads, but give me a Cylon Raider or a Muffit figure any day of the week.
If they had an idea it would die in solitary confinement.
@@w.adammandelbaum1805they only know what they know so let’s bring this back
Nah. You guys are wrong. The action figures kids have today are light years away from what we had. The NECA stuff is insane. So were the McFarland toys.
@@christopherhuff3123 Those are more so adult collectibles. Totally different story.
8:22 This one is Epic !! The Wacky World of "Ding-a-Ling" !!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Some might even say "incredible."
I had the Shoe Shine one.
😂😂😂
WTF????😂😂😂 How did this pass by their development team?
@@papigrande4378 It was the '70s, so certain substances could have been involved.
This brings back memories! Some of these I had, others I wish I had. The Space 1999 Eagle was one of my favorite toys while it lasted, with the Battlestar Galactica toys (both starfighters and action figures) close behind.
Did you ever go against the commercial's warning and mix & match the toylines? A little crossover between Battlestar and Space 1999?
@@AtomicSnackBar 😆 I don't recall doing that... anyway BSG was 6" figures (or really tiny figures in the spaceships, like 1") and Space ds1999 was 3" figures for the toy Eagle, so they wouldn't mix well.
@@whyherewhynow7418 Well, not with that attitude they wouldn't. I kid. I kid. Mostly.
These commercials sure bring back some memories of my childhood. Good video!
That's what I do. Thanks for watching, James.
Not even 2 minutes in and I am instantly submerged in the most excellent nostalgia. Thank you!
I certainly try. Thanks, Dano.
@@AtomicSnackBar Monetize it my friend. You are researching, collecting and editing. ALL of your time has worth.
@@danospitpatio6236 You do have a point there, but I just wouldn't feel right about it. But hey, I've already gotten two donations, and folks are really enjoying it. So time well spent.
Killing King Kong would have made me sad but a speed race between Lee Majors and Andre the Giant would have been super cool. I love these toy commercial extravaganzas. Thank you for harvesting another crop of Grade A nostalgia
I was always the same way. I generally always rooted for the monster/creature, especially in cases like Kong or Godzilla.
Thanks, Daniel.
I spent countless hours as a kid in the 1970's playing with my G.I. Joe, Six Million Dollar Man and Star Trek toys. Thanks for the awesome memories!!
I'm a big fan of the Mego Star Trek line. I have quite a few originals including a very beat up Enterprise playset. As a kid, though, I think the only Mego I had was a Hulk figure.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks, Ted.
I played G.I. Joe in the 70s too. Four years of it. Helped pay for my education.
I remember a few of those commercials.
They have a real charm that is completely lost in this day and age.
@@AtomicSnackBar Absolutely
That huge Space 1999 Eagle was soooo cool! I had that for many years but I eventually lost track of it. Of all the toys I used to have, I miss it the most.
@ alphawoolf5981 - If she was anything like mine, your Mom probably threw them out while you were away at school.
That had a way of happening. I was really luckily in that my mom didn't throw out my toys or give them away. It's why I still have so many from my youth. And yet, some stuff still manage to just kind of disappear.
@ AtomicSnackBar - they are wearing those missing single socks. Sock...? Mini Black Holes appear and suck things into them randomly. They disappear just as quickly.
@@tonysantiago255 I'm not so sure. I've always held a strong belief in the sock monster that lives in the dryer. That is, until Mama Santiago's Hippie theory.
My neighbor had one, but I remember the "action" figures could hardly be posed. The legs were fixed and trying to bend the arm made it pop off!
I had the Star Trek Playset! Mom got it for me for Christmas! Man, when I think about how much she had to scrimp and save to buy it, it brings tears to my eyes. Mom was a widow, and most of her income was a combination of her widow's SS pension and babysitting money. But back then, the dollar went a lot farther.
That's awesome. I do so enjoy hearing nice toy memories like that. And I actually have the Star Trek Enterprise Playset. It's really beat up, but still very cool to have.
@StuartistStudio1964 - Thanks for sharing that story. Moms are special people. Just curious, are you an Artist living in Stuart, Florida?
@@tonysantiago255 No, I'm an artist and self published sci-fi author named Stuart. I'm a Hoosier, born and raised.
Those vinyl edges were sharp!
SAME HERE BROTHER
AMEN 🙏
I had most of these toys. Including the ones that fired the projectiles.
That's awesome. I wanted the Muffit II and the Ovion figures so badly as a kid. But they were slightly before my time and already off shelves. That darn Imperious Leader sure hung around, though.
I had the original viper with the shooting projectiles but by the time I got the cylon raider and the colonial scarab they were revised. But I took them apart and cut the nubs off the projectiles so they worked right.
@@Bubbleguts1964 Clever indeed.
Damn, long live the 1970's. If I could go back tomorrow, I would no doubt about it.
Heck yeah. Save me a seat in that time machine, if you would?
Wow, I missed most of these commercials. Another great video!
I had some of the toys, but the commercials themselves were a hair before my time. Thanks as always, good Mr. Davis.
A nice trip down memory lane. I remember most of the commercials, and had at least some of the toys. Hope you had a good holiday!
Thanks, buddy, I certainly did. Food, Dragon's Dogma II, and some Curse of the Dragon Slayer last night. Hope yours was great as well.
Okay so things like this FORM THE ENTIRE JUSTIFICATION FOR MY EXISTENCE!! Thank you, sincerely and truly. :)
I do what I can. I wouldn't call myself the Santa Claus of classic sci-fi, but if you wanted to...
Ding-a-Lings😂😂 I just can't 😂😂😂
Don't let King Ding hear you say that.
I keep singing the Chuck Berry song.
@@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats Better than the Simpsons version.
@@AtomicSnackBar_Rifftrax_ had a live show where they did a Christmas movie (I forget which one). Before the main feature, they showed toy commercials that included the ding-a-ling one. The audience howled at the hidden spy camera reveal, the "jumpin' jackhammer", and King Ding's elevator! 😏
@@Driven2Beersthe one will “give you a shine like you never seen” 🥴
It's so cool to see these commercials again. I had some of these toys. I had the intruder and bullet head. Great video Slim. It's cool that you had the redesigned Battlestar Galactica ships.
Finally some toys that the great J-Man actually had. I'll count that as a victory.
‘Not for use with other Battestar Galactica toys’ - clearly they’ve never mixed and matched action figures for maximum playtime effect!
Fantastic video! They really knew how to market toys back then!
Ah yes, I know a little something about mixing and matching action figures. Not only that, but also pretending figures were other characters completely. Good times. Good times indeed.
@@AtomicSnackBar Glen or Glenda action figures. Now there's a mix and match.
They were preemptively attempting to circumvent customers from complaining that they didn't make vehicles in the same scale. Which has since been rectified by a fan toymaker in the past few years with 3D printing.
@@jaycee_baron Thanks. I legitimately wondered why they would say that. "Why wouldn't I use it with other BSG toys?! Isn't that the whole point of collecting them?"
1:05 "Not for use with other Battlestar Galactica toys."
Oh yeah? You plan on stopping me or something?
I know, right? Let's take a stand.
I say old boy, these foreign advertisements are rather joyful. It is quite the treat to find out what toys were popular overseas in the 1980s?. I am especially interested in the Space 1999 Eagle. (We only had the Dinky versions). I read about them, but have never seem one from the advert up close. I have built many Eagles using the original plans over the years. I even made one in 1/6 scale for the 12" Action Man figures. I sold it for a pretty penny, because it was too bloody heavy and big to display anywhere in our home!
I find the foreign advertisements really interesting as well. As a kid, I always assumed that every country just had their own pop culture and toys. So it was interesting to find that in many cases it was just the same toys with different commercials or the same properties but with different toys.
All the Eagle work sounds awesome. You have any of them still?
@@AtomicSnackBar Excellent. You are absolutely correct about most of the toys and their international markets and branding. It is fascinating stuff. As for my old hobby and Eagles; The wife loathed them. I am left with only one Studio Scale Sized Eagle, which I display in my Office. I gifted most of the rest to the RSPCA and old friends. When I started out, I naively used Stainless Steel Tubing, instead of Aluminium. Such a simple mistake for a beginner. It rests 'heavy' on my shoulders. Cheers.
@@tomsenior7405 Sounds like you have a real talent for that sort of thing. Did you ever build anything else? Or was it all Eagles, all the time?
@@AtomicSnackBar Thanks for that. I fell off my chair laughing when I read your comment. I can imagine a cut-away of my wife, (Her Ladyship), nagging me to fix the leaking radiators and and spend time with our children while they are briefly home from Public School, as I run a production line doing nothing but churn out the iconic Eagles. I am still chuckling. Nice one.
I made a Studio Scale for display, when I was young to learn the skills. Friends and Customers would ask me to make one for them over the years. They only paid for materials (Sans Stainless Steel!). I did not charge for the build.
We are not Church goers (England is turning her back on the CofE - See: The Great War. See: Scandals. See: Child SA See Child A. See Archbishop of Canterbury). We donate to charity instead. Rather than hand-over Four Ponies to the RSPCA, or give a Ton to Help for Heroes, On occasion, I would buy the raw materials and donate an Eagle. They would go for several bags of sand at auction (GBP £5,000.00 upwards). I was an avid Wargamer as a child. The Civil War was tremendous fun. The King's Royalists and Cavaliers would face off against Ironsides, Musketeers, Pikemen and Roundheads of Cromwell's New Model Army, er... literally, I suppose.
I still make and paint Napoleonic figures and Zulu War miniatures, from time to time. When I am not tied up, my hobby is repairing old Toys, Mostly TIMPO.
I hope you are having a grand old Thanksgiving. Cheers.
Man I'm getting old.😊 my mom got me almost every Star Wars toy by x-mas 1978. Bless her. Really wish i had a Galactica Viper to dogfight with an x-wing. 😊
As I often say, you are only as old as you feel. Which makes me a very old man.
@ AtomicSnackBar - my older brother was told that he was born old. I on the other hand have yet to grow up. And proud of it.🤔😄
@AtomicSnackBar 58 year old with an 11 year old son, get to kinda relive those days. Gotta spoil the boy. But wow..he loves old movies. And games. Loves Godzilla and King Kong. Thank goodness he says I'm weird when i watch Empire Strikes Back or Jaws. Got the best toys kid. Spare no expense
@@joerusso1161 Sounds like you are raising the boy right. Kudos, good sir.
@@tonysantiago255 I've often said that I am basically a merge of a 65 year old and an 11 year old.
I used to have that Space 1999 Eagle back in the day, and my boys got me another one for Christmas last year. It’s so wild to see stuff I had back in the day and can finally afford to get again now that I’m grown up. Unfortunately, the prices have grown up too lol. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
That's a great Christmas present. What kind of shape was it in? And how did you end up displaying it?
And thanks, William. You too, good sir.
My cousin had the Cylon Raider and Viper. He was so pissed when I lost the little brown pilot for the Viper. He even got more angry when I told him his mom could just buy him another one since she bought him every thing.
What interesting is guy who played the little boy Boxy on the show said he doesn't remember anything from that time. Maybe he's just trolling fans and doesn't want to be bothered by nostalgia hunters.
I wouldn't rule out Cylon mind control either, though. Boxy may be a sleeper agent like in the remake series. Really makes you think.
Ah, we had such cool toys in the 70's, especially all the Star Wars stuff. I had that remote R2D2,... happy days 😀
That fellow was slightly before my time, but I did have some pretty darn cool Star Wars toys as a lad. I still have my Darth Vader bubble bath container.
@AtomicSnackBar The Force is strong with that bubble bath! Yeah, that R2 was so much fun, drove everyone mad with it LOL It bleeped like R2 did as well.
@@paulbowler5345 It really was an added bonus if the toy could annoy adults as well.
@ AtomicSnackBar - I had the 1966 Adam West Batman bubble bath, so consider yourself one-uped.😉
I had it too
Thanks, hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving.
I did indeed. Thanks, Jerry. And yourself?
It was good, I spent it with my mom and her husband in Livingston, Texas. It's back to work, tomorrow afternoon.
@@jerryrichardson2799 I ate way too much, played a bunch of Dragon's Dogma II, and watched Curse of the Dragon Slayer.
@@AtomicSnackBarI ate too much as well. I just finished watching _The Colossus of New York_ and thought of you. Also, I just watched Dr Gangrene's review of the same movie and mentioned you in my comment.
@@jerryrichardson2799 Good choice. And I appreciate the mention. The Doc has some great stuff in his countdowns.
These bring back some very good memories. Thank you!
My pleasure. Glad you dug it.
Priceless memories. Thank you.
My absolute pleasure.
WOW, what a flashback! Myself and a couple best friends had a LOT of these in the day. 1 friend had all the Shogun warriors, except the Godzilla one with the flying fist..
I had a cousin who, even though he was younger than me, had one of the Shogun Warriors. That thing was huge and awesome.
@@AtomicSnackBar They were probably the biggest action figures around then. And all with flying projectiles...
@@Litauen-yg9ut I had one of the small figures. I want to say it had diecast parts. Not sure how I ended up with that one either. That line was a bit before my time.
I had the Great Mazinga from that collection. It's was one of my favorite early childhood toys.
@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 I had the diecast version of Gaiking. It was a favorite of mine as well.
Brain going up King Ding's elevator shaft and working His control stick! I just lost it and laughed!😂😂😂
I have a strong feeling the designers were having quite a laugh behind the scenes as well.
Only 28 more sleeps till Christmas boys and girls so be good for goodness sake.
Yes indeed. I'm actually kind of a Christmas nerd. Really get into it. So I'm excited.
@@AtomicSnackBar visions of heads dance on my sugar plums. Ah Xmas!
That was fun! I remember most of those, even though I was a college student by that time. --Dan
Connoisseurs of classic sci-fi such as ourselves are never too old too appreciate toys and games of the sci-fi variety.
And it was called a turbo laser and it was blue
So many wonderful memories:) I had a whole bunch of these:)
Glad to be of service. I didn't have many, most were already off shelves, but I know I would have loved them.
Love the Six Million Dollar Man vs Big Foot Drag Race set, just a normal day in the Six Million Dollars Man’s life. Been after one of the Space 1999 Eagle 1 ships for years, obviously it would be inhabited by my vintage Star Wars toys if I had one.
It's a little known fact that bigfoots love drag racing. It's why no one ever sees them. They drive away too quickly. Science.
@ Yeah it’s odd you say that, just a few hours ago I pulled up the the traffic lights, looked across at the car next to me only to discover it was actually Big Foot! Of course he sped away before I had chance to get his autograph.
Some lovely clips here - never realised how many of these toys had adverts. Big thanks for the UK Action Man advert. Coming up to Christmas this is a fantastic treat. So much feel good - just what I needed. Thank you for taking the time to piece together something that makes so many people happy. Sir, I salute you.
It's been nice hearing how many people have enjoyed it. I was mildly concerned I was going to get run out of town again by angry villagers with pitchforks and cilantro. Thanks, Jason.
5:17 Action Man! Had dozens of them (hand me downs from my big brother) with uniforms, vehicles and, thanks to big bro’s ingenuity, realistic battle damage and a few amputated limbs
It's a hard life, that of the Action Man. But it clearly prepared you for the life of an international man of mystery you lead now.
@@AtomicSnackBarI am, indeed, a mystery. My mother, may she rest in pieces, always said “son, you’re a real mystery to me”
I had always wanted that Buck Rogers fighter. Thanks for the memories! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving Mr. Sterling and I'd live to see more retro commercial compilations like this, basically a psychological fountain of youth!
Glad you enjoyed it. I figure it's a nice way to kick off the Christmas season. That way you know what to ask Santa for.
And I shall keep that in mind. I forget, have you checked out my side channel The Sophisticated Weirdo?
@AtomicSnackBar I wasn't even aware of it! I'll have to check it out!
@@AtomicSnackBar subbed on the Sophisticated Weirdo. I loved "It lurks in Late Night'
@@whipless9668 Good to hear. I appreciate it. That's basically what the entire channel is. Just compilations of late night TV stuff and mash-ups.
Thank you for that dingaling footage. Crazy. Also.. trash monster figure? That's awesome. Not sure how that star wars thing didn't catch on
@ interwebkaiju- Star what? Oh you mean Star Trek. That one I've heard of.
I'm sure there is a reality out there somewhere where Starcrash never came along to steal all the glory from that Star Wars thing.
Absolutely awesome memories triggering here!!
Great to hear. That's my main goal here at the Snack Bar.
Thank you for the time warp to my childhood born in 1971 great toys I remember everyone of them
The 1980s was a great time to grow up, but I think I would have been really happy as a '70s kid as well. Not to mention, I spent a large part of my 30s being darn near obsessed with the 1970s.
@AtomicSnackBar 100% agree you would have.
@@AtomicSnackBar you would have loved being a 60s kid RS
These are gold! A super-accurate cross-section of what was happening in sci-fi toys at the time. Amazing selection of ads here.
I thank you kindly. I put quite a bit of thought into the trailers and their order.
I had the dagget and twiggy, buck Rodger’s fighter, imperious leader (always looked like he had gum on his head), the bug guy, baron karza, cylon, robotech etc….
Those lines were slightly before my time. But a few of the Battlestar figures hung around on shelves for years after. I had the Imperious Leader, but I remember wanting Muffit II and the Ovion so badly after seeing them on the back of the packaging. But they were long gone by that point.
I get chills watching this video. I instantly have a flashback to when I was a kid. What a great channel.
Thank you much, Lazaro. That's pretty much my goal with the channel.
These commercials made me craving for those toys again
I'd love to have any one of these, especially the Battlestar stuff.
I always knew how lucky I was having so many of these classic toys. Gotta shout out my single mom for always getting me what I wanted for birthdays and Christmas! I had a great childhood 💙💙
That's really nice to hear. She sounds like a dynamite lady.
I had forgotten how huge a lot of these toys were.
A cousin of mine had one of the Shogun Warriors toys when I was a lad. It was so big, I'm not even sure how he played with it.
Wow! Great video! I remember almost all of these commercials when I was a kid.
The nostalgia is strong with this one.
Then my job here is done. I thank you kindly for watching.
I once got a scale model R2D2 for Christmas. My parents included a white tube of modeling glue that had an orange or lemon logo on it. The stuff had an incredibly noxious scent to it that gave me bad headaches.
It was always awesome to get anything Star Wars related but that damn glue made it torture.
Modeling and related activities were well beyond my skill as a lad. So anything like that would have been handled by mom. I probably would have glued myself to the ceiling again.
@@AtomicSnackBar I used to love putting models together, then they changed the glue to “safe, non-toxic “ and it just wasn’t the same anymore. Must’ve been the fumes that was making me so happy.
@ chrisbridges4885 - Memory triggered! I remember in the 60s, there was a Public Service drug commercial with a 'Guy' trying to get kids on a city playground to try some, saying: "Hey kiddies. It's the Man with the Goodies... One sniff... it is aeroplane glue..." while waving the tube at them. The kids were all of course, too smart for him. They walked away saying in unison: " Nahhhh." Message conveyed. Don't do drugs!
@@tonysantiago255 seems like we had one of those creeps in our neighborhood as well. Too bad for him but he made a great PSA about drug abuse
LMAO!!!! At 8:57 I'm literally on the ropes laughing here!!!!
Yeah, there is no way they didn't know exactly what they were doing there.
My mom bought me an atari when I was little.
I had a field day playing pacman all the time.
I didn't knew it had a commercial.
My mom had an Atari when I was really small. I ended up with it years later, and even ended up buying my own copy of Dig Dug on clearance at Kaybee Toys.
Back in '76 there were three toys that would make or break your "kid greatness" toy legacy. A big wheel, one stretch armstrong and a pre-pumped water rocket for adverse moments up the block. BUT one toy ruled them all.. them Shogun Robots. You had one of them.. you were considered "IN".
Even though I grew up in the '80s, a younger cousin had a Shogun Warriors figure somehow. And even then, I thought that thing was glorious. I remember it being so amazingly big.
6:50 - "these redesigned toys do not launch missiles..." I had the original ones that did and they were a blast. Memories.😊
I had several missile firing toys in the '80s as well. They were fun, even if the pieces were easy to lose.
Cool!
Thank you much. And thanks for stopping by.
Sterling...I love it when you do this kind of video., almost 10000... keep it up... Till next week. Same Bat Time same Bat Channel
Same bat room.
Glad you dug it. It was nice to do one again.
The quality of these commercials is amazing
Toy commercials used to be so well done. I'm not sure if commercials like these even exist anymore.
So close to 10K subscribers! Anyway, I had several of these toys in the 70s. Lots of army men too and the guns of navarone play set..😎 and don’t forget the legos..
It's kind of hard to believe. I struggled for subs for years. Heck, last year at this time I barely had a thousand. The Sci-fi of Hammer Films video really made this channel.
And that The Guns of Navarone playset was really cool.
@ AtomicSnackBar - Closing in on 10'000?!!! In the words of Shakespeare: "Holy crap-a-doodle Batman!"
@@tonysantiago255 My favorite Shakespeare play is "Tron".
@ TitularHeroine- I don't understand that comment, but it made me laugh!😄 My favorite might be Kenneth Branaugh's Thor.
This video started off with a bang -- Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica figures. I don't think I've seen these commercials before. The Star Wars Death Star is cool (I've still got the trash monster from mine). I've got those Space 1999 figures, but they're flimsy -- an arm came off of one of them. My Cylon Raider and Colonial Viper launch missiles. This is a fun video.
I remember the Battlestar figures well because the Imperious Leader hung around on store shelves into the '80s. But other than the random Twiki Signal Flasher I had, I never ran across any of the Buck Rogers figures. Not even sure where I got the Twiki.
Glorious! I had a lot of these toys. Takes me back!! Thank you!!!
My pleasure. Thanks for stopping by, Chris.
happy human american thanksgiving! I am not celebrating because dinosaur thanksgiving was a few months ago so I hope you enjoy feasting on my fellow members of the dinosauria claid!
I was too busy celebrating bowling shirt robot Thanksgiving, but I'm sure human Thanksgiving was good as well. Thanks, Rex.
@@AtomicSnackBar You're welcome mr sterling!
I seem to remember the background dancers for the Dean Martin Variety Hour were also called the Ding a Lings.
Yes, sir. There was the Dingaling Sisters and the Golddiggers.
Corgi batmobile! Corgi! ....Still making great models today!
Thunderbirds, capt scarlet vehicles are great!
I was actually just looking at a Corgi Batmobile. Not sure if it's a new one or a re-issue, but there is one coming out soon. Looks awesome.
@AtomicSnackBar they're based in Kent England still. But not sure who manufactures them. Part of hornby company.
I've recently bought a captain scarlet angel interceptor & a captain scarlet SPV vehicle.....very good they are too!
Holy crap I had the Buck Rodgers space craft and never knew where it came from! 😳
@@robinlarge1630 You don't happen to have any pictures of your collection online do you? I'd quite like to see.
@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 I had toys like that as well. The aforementioned Gaiking being one of them.
Had several of those growing up. I'm so old
You are among good company here at the Snack Bar. A place for the old and the old at heart.
I had a star fighter and a cylon raider. The ones that fired missles. Had the Death Star. I remember the shoguns. Had the 6 million dollar man. My cousin had the Star Trek set. Had a bunch of Star Wars figures and the board game.
I have never heard the word “splamo” before.
Sounds like you did pretty darn well as a kid. That's a bunch of great stuff that would have crossed over quite nicely. Well, maybe not Steve Austin. He was a big large.
I had the Shogun Warriors when I was little I would say it was either 78 or 79, just a couple years after we moved to a small town in SE Missouri. I had never seen them before, nor did I ever see a commercial for them. My mom bought them for me for Christmas from a local department store, it sold everything from tires to guns, and toys to furniture. A lot of what they sold was returned overstock items from the bigger chain stores, kinda like Ollie’s is today. My mom saw them and thought I would like them. I remember one came without the original box, again these were return/overstock items. Non of them were broken or dirty and I was the only kid I knew that had them. Even my cousins in Florida and Ohio hadn’t ever seen them. I found out later that they did sell too well in the US, and mostly on the west coast and believe some in NY. I also saw how much they go for on eBay, even the ones that are busted and no boxes go for crazy money. I sold them at a yard sale when I was 19 or 20, and the two that came in the original boxes still had them and in great shape. I think got $10 for them. Sold them to some mom that had her three kids with her and I had no idea they would ever be worth anything. I did that with a lot of my toys from the 70s, not knowing that they would be worth a lot. Wish I knew then what I know now.
That was a wonderful thing about Christmas morning. My mom would often keep me away from toy stores leading up. So unless there was a commercial, often toylines would sneak up on me unaware. I'd awaken Christmas morning to be totally surprised with toys I didn't even know existed. Clearly, Santa had the good stuff.
Yes yes yes. I loved these toys
Heck, I'd still love a collection of these guys.
I just realized that Mego and Mattel were my entire childhood!
I have a real soft spot for Megos, even though I only had a Hulk figure as a lad. But I've collected quite a few as an adult.
Oh the memories. I had so many of these toys. Even the Death Star plays set. I loved the commercials just as much as I loved the toys.
I remember enjoying commercial breaks as well as a kid. That was often when I would discover new and upcoming toys.
@AtomicSnackBar I remember trying to play with the figures like the kids did in the commercials. Goofy. Lol
@@roosternm6830 Commercial kids always did a lot of strange narrating, didn't they?
So that's when Modernity began -- with the Ding-a-Lings! Cheers Warren, who remembers Chuck Berry...& Bing's brothers, Ding & Ling!
I thought his brothers were named Larry, Darryl, and Darryl?
@ awarningtothecuriouswerewolves - Not to mention their great grandfather: Ming the Merciless!
@@AtomicSnackBar -- Naw, they were named Darryl, Darryl and Larry -- or Bob's my Uncle! Cheers, Nephew Warren!
@@tonysantiago255 -- And Howard's cousin Ping! Cheers Warring!
@@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves As long as it wasn't Darryl, Larry, and Darryl. That would have been silly.
Nice stroll down memory lane.
That's what I do.
@@AtomicSnackBar Ah memories, I'll never forget the time I had amnesia.
@@w.adammandelbaum1805 What? I forget what we were talking about.
I used to have shogun toy was Daytron back 1984 was pretty cool
I had the small version of Gaiking right around that same time.
Owned more than half of this and still own some. I still have one of my GI Joes with footlocker, Mego Star Trek figures. My bonus room looks like a Toys R Us.
That sounds great. My dining room is much the same. I even have a shelf of Mego Star Trek figures as well as the Enterprise Bridge playset.
Here comes the GREATEST DING-A-LING OF THEM ALL!
They said that same thing at my high school graduation.
I couldn’t help but to think about that really cool Atari console I sent you pictures of when I seen that old school commercial. Oddly I wasn’t familiar with a lot of the games it had. I only knew about a handful of them.
I love that Star Wars Death Star space station especially considering it comes with the trash compactor. That’s a nice touch. I also really liked that Star Trek enterprise, of course the King Kong vs The World playsets. I do really dig classic playsets. I thought it was kinda funny how a few of these commercials tried to tell you to play with your toys by saying something to the effect they not to be used with such and such toys. Like there’s something wrong with mix matching toys. I thought that was kinda funny. Anyway this was highly enjoyable good buddy. Keep it Snacky!!!
It's really beat up, but I actually have the Star Trek Bridge playset. I keep it closed, but it still looks nice up on the top shelf. The interior pieces I have on my Mego Star Trek shelf.
As to the Death Star playset, that was before my time, but man I would have loved that. I was fascinated with trash compactor scene and the little creature. I really wanted a figure of that. Had no idea that one actually existed.
I was spoiled by my grandparents and I never realized it. I even had that stupid board game lol
I'm not familiar with the board game. I had a Pac Man one, though.
@AtomicSnackBar the only thing I liked about it was everybody had x-wings as their player icon sort of thing and all the x-wings had different colored Squadron for each player for some reason I liked all the same kind of thing but different colors we're having lots of the same thing like R2 units And droids in general
I remember all of these, except the Ding-a-Lings. Somehow that one missed me. I had that electronic Star Wars game, the Death Star, the Enterprise deck, etc. Such an awesome time to be a kid.
I was really happy growing up in the '80s, but I think I would have enjoyed being a '70s kid nearly as much.
I had that 18 inch tall Mazinga back in the 70s. I also had a Godzilla figure the same size, made by the same company. I had the Battlestar Galactica Viper and Cylon Raider too -- the ones made _before_ the lawsuit, that shot those little plastic projectiles. And I had the Star Wars figures and Death Star shown toward the end of the video. God I had fun with all that stuff back then.
That does sound like a great time, especially if they all came together for a mega-battle.
The memories! Christmas was pure magic.
That it was. And still my favorite Holiday.
I had the rust colored Buck Rogers spaceship was that the marauder it always bothered me because it didn't have plastic clear windows it just had holes
I don't remember seeing that one. It was rust colored?
Yeah and they showed at the very beginning of your program next to Buck Rogers spaceship it's sort of has a hatchet shaped cockpit opening I remember a lot of sharp edges LOL
Howdy!
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you got some rest.
Part of me wants to know where you get these commercials, they make good bumpers in your regular videos. The other part of me is happy not to know, 'cause they're fascinating when curated and deployed.
lol, at Battlestar and their "not for use with other Battlestar Galactica toys". Like some 7 year old in the 70's is going to pause their playing for the sake of incompatibility within the same IP.
I have to credit this channel for making me understand the depth of a Simpsons joke. In one of the earlier seasons someone was doing the "my ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, I want you to play with my ding-a-ling" bit and was interrupted by Skinner. As a kid, I had no idea that was a thing (maybe they didn't make it to Canada), I just thought he was being a crude kid.
Anywho, cheers and have an awesome weekend.
Thank you kindly. I took a whole three days off, though I did still respond to comments, and played some Dragon's Dogma II and watched a bunch of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Good times.
As to the commercials, they're everywhere. It's just a matter of finding nice enough quality versions, cleaning up the audio in some cases, and then putting them in order. That's probably the most difficult part. I put a lot of thought into the flow of these compilation videos.
Great collection. Never heard of Dingaling. And I was living this timeline.
I'm thinking it was a rather obscure line. Though it did get a commercial, so it at least made it that far.
@@AtomicSnackBar as I was watching, I wondered, how much for every toy in all these commercials, MIB, today. $20,000? More? A dream worth chasing down! :)
@@paulgolin An excellent question. MIB, I could easily see it reaching 20K.
‘ not for use with other Battlestar Galactica toys”
Why? Just why?
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
@ this vid is like a Christmas wish list from an eight year old me
@@chrisbridges4885 I would have loved pretty much every toy here as a lad. I know I sure wanted the Muffit II and Ovion figures.
@@AtomicSnackBar I know I had the Eagle. Action Man looks familiar, but those Steve Austin and Bigfoot toys for sure.
Did you have one those buddies who seemed to have all the cool stuff. I had a friend who had literally every Star Wars toy, plus Micronauts. Remember Micronauts?
Thanks for sharing this…definitely a blast from the past
@ chrisbridges 4885 - And WHY were the batteries NEVER included?!
Did that guy say Batman was from Metropolis? 😁
The '70s were an odd time for Batman.
@ creech54 - I think in the 70s comics Superman left Earth in search of Krypton, so Batman had to do double duty. Yeah... I just made that up. Had you for half a moment though, didn't I ? Don't believe anything I say. Ask Sterling.
@@tonysantiago255 "Don't believe anything I say." That's what you say to a computer when you want it to blow up.
@ creech54 - Do_you _want_ to_play_Thermo-nuclear_ War?
Outstanding. I grew up on all of that. I had all of it. 👍
That's great. I missed out on most of it, but I sure would have loved it all.
As a GenXer born in '74, I was too young to remember these commercials or toys. But man, I apparently missed out on some impressive stuff. However, I wouldn't trade growing up in the '80s for anything.... especially with the toys we had back in that decade. ❤
I was an '80s kid as well. And I know exactly what you mean. Luckily, there was a little cross over. I somehow ended up with a few '70s toys.
These are all action figures and toys. We didn't play with those. We had the Vertibirds, Hot Wheels, AFX race cars, trains, etc. And, of course, the bicycles with the banana seats and sissy bars.
I never got into trains as a kid, but oddly enough, I dig them now and have been wanting to get some.
@ AtomicSnackBar - they actually are the perfect accessory to the base of a Christmas tree.
@ tracyhurst4393 - "Sissy bars!" Wow! I haven't heard that term since the 60s. Boy, do words have a way of changing meanings. Or maybe it was the same? I think we called them long handle bars. And they were actually cool for a time. Banana seats were always cool.
I had one of the Shogun Warriors toys - Mazinga! He had cool armor, wheels on the bottom of his boots, a sword, and could fire 2” toy missiles from three spring loaded launchers on each hand, and came with a supply of about 15 missiles! That thing was the bomb to seven year old me!
Shoot, that bad boy would be awesome to 40 something year old me.
I had the Mazinga shogun warrior robot thing as a young boy. That was one of my favorite toys.
That is indeed an awesome toy. I'd like to have one even now.
I had an R2 That was supposed to be remote control and it didn't work so my parents took it back and then they didn't get anything else for me LOL and then at some point I had the same in a landspeeder form and that remote didn't work either so that went back so I saved my money and got a regular push around landspeeder which I liked better anyway
I had the speeder bike that you pushed a button and it exploded. I got it for a last day of school present.
@AtomicSnackBar I had a Speeder bike but it didn't explode but it was so detailed I thought at the time it was really cool
Bigfoot and Wild Boy action figures? As a kid growing up back then I would have been more excited over the Mighty Isis or even Captain Marvel and his grandpa riding around in that winnebago then a boy and his bigfoot. I knew a kid who had the Eagle 1 from Space 1999. The show was a favorite at my house. Btw Captain Caveman would have made a cool action figure.
There was a bunch of Hanna-Barbera cartoons I would have loved toys of as a lad. The Herculoids in particular.
Gotta love the Battlestar toys that tell you not to use with "other" Battlestar Gallactica toys. Right. Riiiiight. We're playing with them along with Space:1999 and Trek toys. Toss Barbie and a couple of her friends in there. Now we're talking a party! By the way, your videos are often discussed in the dreaded Green Room. But only in a good way.
I don't know. I think we should listen to them. There very well could be a Ghostbusters-esc "Don't cross the streams" situation going on there. You put the wrong Battlestar toys together and BAM, end of reality as we know it. Or even worse, a universe is created without the Green Room.
@@AtomicSnackBar Noooooooo! The horror!
I'm old enough to remember almost all of those commercials with the exception of the one's from Japan. I also remember that the first run of the Battlestar Galactica fighters did launch missiles and the reason why the second series didn't.
It's odd, though, because growing up in the '80s, I had several toys that fired missiles and things of the like. So not every toy company learned that lesson.
@AtomicSnackBar Kind of surprised to hear that. Not to downplay the incident, it was truly unfortunate, but I was a part of the Generation that had things like lawn Darts, lead paint and chemistry sets that had dangerous chemicals in it, yet somehow 95% of us somehow managed not to do any lasting permanent damage to ourselves. Not sure if that was luck, or if Gen X just was built tough.
@ deniseboldea1624 - Yeah, I remember that in the late 60s, Parenting Groups starting influencing Lawmakers to Ban all kinds of toys and even some candies saying that they were a danger to children. There was a toy called ' Clackers' which had two hard plastic colored ball attached by a handle which you snapped back and forth to make them hit each other making a loud clicking sound. Apparently, STUPID children were hitting them so hard that the balls would splinter and the shards were deemed a "Danger!" Yet we were allowed to go out and run around the streets Halloween night unaccompanied and knock on stranger's doors. Government.😑
@@deniseboldea1624 There is much truth in what you say. And as much as I enjoyed growing up in the '80s, I think the '70s would have been a wonderful time to be a kid as well.
@@richardb6609 I know right? Though I'm one of those kids that frequently got into trouble for chucking them at my sister. What can I say? She was a master antagonist who was always claiming I didn't have the guts to do it. She's just lucky she could outrun them.😅
In a perfect world, there would have been a commercial for the Daisy and Violet Hilton action figure where at the end it would say "Each sold separately." The Dingaling campaign ran over budget and became the line of US Congress inaction figures. Buck Rogers had a space accident and lost his legs. He was thereafter known as "fifty cents" Rogers. The Battlestar Galactica Cylons became stockings, and were thereafter known as the "Nylons."
A bit of 70s kitsch culture ladies and gentlemen.
Wow, Daisy and Violet Hilton. Now that, good sir, is a deep pull with a fine payoff. Kinda makes you feel bad for Fifty Cents Roger or even his buddy, who faired even worse, Lieutenant Starnickel. But who really gives an Adama?
With no legs, wouldn't he have been Bum Rogers? Cheers Warren, who prefers the designation, "Hobo."
@ w.adammandelbaum - Cylons to Nylons!" Bahahahahahaha!!! Man, the shareholders really got hosed on that deal.
@@tonysantiago255 -- Oh, I dunno Tony -- seems to me the prospect had legs! Cheers Warren, who has never heard an actual Canuck say "Hosed!"
@ awarningtothecuriouswerewolves - Take off to the Great White North, Hoser!
50% of these commercials I've seen before. 50% of these commercials I've never seen before. 100% I enjoyed all the commercials. Is there anybody here, or knows anybody, that was rich enough to have the Entire Ding-a-Ling city?
There was someone earlier in the comments, I forget who, that mentioned they have the entire set even still. I've never even seen one in person. So that's pretty neat.
@ AtomicSnackBar - we need accessible Toy Museums in every town.
Trump.
I was born in 1970. I never knew a thing about Dinglings. Never even heard of em.
I'm thinking they were a bit more obscure.
I totally had the Death Star the only bad thing about a lot of those sets is that they had cardboard as a main component but that is exactly what I had my trash compactor was orange even with a blue twist I'm sure my mom gave it away years ago LOL
Was that the one that came with a little figure of the trash creature?
@AtomicSnackBar yes absolutely it did it was really flexible rubber that was bright green and had one big eye on the end of a stock and it sort of had Wing Flappers on the side
@AtomicSnackBar oh yeah I think I remember it also came with some chunks or pieces of foam ra lot like used on those foam paint brushes, to put in the compactor. If I remember right, it had clear plastic wjndows, 3 on each side and I Remember Loving how detailed the hatch was.
@@richardkohlhof That think was awesome. I would have loved it as a kid. But I didn't have very many Star Wars vehicles or playsets.
Amazing
Yes, indeed.
I remember most of the commercials and had most of the toys. I wish I still did. Actually, I wish I could go back to that simpler time in my life.
I often say that I would be a terrible person to give a time machine to. I would just go back and buy vintage toys and see cool movies on the big screen.
Ding-a-ling spy hides in the shadows and discovers your secrets with his secret camera. *camera pops out of groin on spring *Boing-g-g-g! 🤣
The camera was attached to his dingaling.
The strangest thing about it, though, was that it didn't strike me as strange until it was pointed out.
@@w.adammandelbaum1805 Hey now, watch that dirty talk. We don't use words like "camera" around here.
@@AtomicSnackBar depends upon your point of view.
Cameras then had only a single eye! Cheers Warren, who has a pair!