The kids in the first two commercials are probably between 70 to 80 years old now. Crazy if you think about it. I love the Mego Superhero figures. Had a bunch as a kid.
Definitely they’d be in their late 60s to early 70s if those kids were around 10 when filmed in mid60s. Mego recently released their 50th Anniversary Sets (on Amazon, in Walmart, Target etc) which are primarily DC based. They look identical to their 70s counterparts. Managed to get my hands on the latest wave: Batman, Robin, Aquaman, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Shazam, Joker, Penguin, Reverse Flash, Riddler. A new wave is set for Feb 2024 (DC). They can’t get the rights for Marvel, which really sucks.
Awesome commercials...from a time when imagination truly was limitless...No matter what action figure you had, your back garden, the beach or quarry pit was your playset and a ticket to hours of adventure and fun...what fantastic toys...
Akill Allah My absolute favourite was the Trouble commercial. Not because it was my favourite game, but it's the commercial I remembered from my childhood....imprinted on my mind. There's a Pine Sol commercial from the 60s or 70s that I also have itching my brain and I've never been able to see it again. Funny, what sticks in your mind...
Fatjohny100 Too funny. We used to circle stuff we wanted in the catalogs leading up to Christmas, too. I remember circling an Electroshot shooting gallery, rock em sock em robots, and a Ready Ranger backpack one year. My dad instructed me to scale it back a little. LOL.
The 1970's kicked ass for kids. Most of us had a imagination,played all the time. My favorite action figures was the mego superheros and of course the six million dollar man also super gi Joe with bulletman and mike powers damn cool video. For a few minutes it was a better time ,thanks for video!
Some great commercials from our childhood. I had nearly all of those toys when I was I kid. Loved mix and matching the figures in my battles. Had lot's of fun with those things! I wish I still had some of those action figures. I am trying to think back at when they must have been throwm out....cant remember!
Who thumbs this down? 60s kids? 80s kids? 90s kids? Who? Who damn it!! This was awesome! I am too young to remember this, 90s kid, but toys in the 70s looked great.
I'm an 80's kid and yeah these action figures beat anything out today! It seems they put a lot more work into their toys with real clothes and such, a more realistic approach. Even 80's toys were great! Sure they weren't hot toys quality of today but hot toys prices are insane! For the time and something mass produced these were tops!
I don't ever get my underwear in a bundle because someone chooses-for whatever reason...I'm sure they have them-to "thumbs down" a video. People like what they like, and dislike what they dislike...pretty simple. But I think that people whose modernized minds are far too complex to understand and appreciate the simplicity of these then popular toys could be one reason. Seems like anything that doesn't have CGI graphics, and someone being gorily murdered, it's not worth their time. We kids back then were far more intelligent and creative than this generation of youths, for the simple fact that we didn't need all these modern electronic gadgets to do all of our thinking for us. Those modernized "diseases" that we call Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD were basically unheard of. We had several things to stimulate our creativity. Not so, nowadays. This generation of kids is a mess.
therealmanos Very few of my friends in the early 70s really gave a crap about action figures. Big Jim was the sissiest toy imaginable. We thought most of them were boring as hell. This does NOT include Evil Knievel-- he was the coolest guy alive, and the stunt cycle was awesome. Six million dollar man and Maskatron get a pass, too. Don't get me wrong-- we'd watch ANY cartoon. I guess we were an unimaginative bunch when it came to games. We'd rather go outside and throw dirt at each other or play a pickup baseball game.
testodude Big Jim was (and is) just a 10" douche bag. Even though I had one of his figures, I'm pretty sure I made the GI Joe's bully the shit out of his unshaven baby face every chance they had. He might have answered the phones at GI HQ, I can't remember giving him a substantial role when it came to saving the day.
moxxi Too funny. Reminds me of one of the few times I spent more than 10 minutes with action figures as a kid. A neighbor kid got Johnny West and Sam Cobra for Christmas. I got a Maskatron. I said, "Sam robbed the bank. Let's make a posse." Maskatron and Johnny West caught Sam Cobra, and we hung him with an clothesline. That lasted about 15 minutes.
And Johnny Storm, "faster than the speed of light". I think they got him mixed up with the Flash. I had some of these, but my favourites were the Major Matt Mason figures. And the Gorilla from Big Jim.
Thanks I had a lot of Mego action figures. I had Batman where you can take his cowl off, all the Star Trek figures and of course G.I. Joe and Evel Kenievel.
I had a lot of these figures. I liked Maskatron. I used to have big battles between Mego heroes and toys from other lines, which included Stretch Monster.
This is the first time I've seen a commercial for the stretch guy that was see through.. I loved that toy I had to cut it open and see what was in there...turned out to be something like syrup
Yep, and we were much happier, and SMARTER with those simple-yet intriguing toys than you'll ever be with all these modern gadgets that do nothing but do all your thinking for you.
the atomic man for gijoe. I had that too. and I still got the outfit. I had that robin too. and the six million dollar man. I still got my evil kenivel. so cool.
The Falcon commercial was NOT racist in the slightest.. in the 60's and 70's people were actually NORMAL; not trying to find racism in everything in creation
Yes the like toys too. But where is the hispanic kid, or the indian one, or another race? Why is it that in many commercials or movies, they feel obligated to have the black race only, not many other races?
I just watched 3 videos containing commercials and clips from T.V shows from the 70's. seems they did this alot back then. think people were making an effort to be inclusive. At the time the G.I Joe and Mego commercials were being aired I was 8. I lived in a suburb of Minneapolis, my friend Jake was black and my friend avid was Jewish. We liked the commercials very much. We would gather around the T.V to watch them. It was a different time..not sure how old you are, but the world has changed quite a bit since then...I liked it better then...
Fatjohny100 Amen , brother-- you are soooo right. My how things have changed , There was a certain air of inocense and imagination that just isn't there anymore. Guess with video games and all that ---a child does not need much of an imagination anymore.
I had evil kenevil planet of the apes all main star wars guys Kirk spock superman joker Batman robin and his car and motorcycle with side car.ect.. Near mint until a fire .
Melvin Chong Sorry, I mean it was first launched in Britain in 1966 by the brittish toy company, Palitoy, as a licensed copy of Hasbro's first G.I. Joe line: America's Movable Fighting Man. Action Man was based on G.I. Joe.
Melvin Chong those Little GI Joes came out in the early eighties--originally they were like 12 inch action figures . I started getting them in the 70s ...but felt a Little cheated when I saw those 3 inch or so action figures
pig king Yeah...and they could ALSO have totally not had him there in the first place. Damn, I get so tired of folks constantly whining about something. Get over it. That's how it was in the 70s
Christoph, I guess you win the modern day "call anything that offends you racist" award. There was absolutely nothing "racist" about calling Falcon the "winged black superhero." This is how it was in the 70s. Black people back then were just happy to even HAVE a black superhero action figure...we didn't worry about him being called "black." You simply CHOOSE to deem something as racist, even though you're not even black, and probably have no concept of how it was in the 70s. I notice how you didn't say a word about them calling the Hulk a "green superhero." IS THAT not "racist" as well? Man, grow some backbone and stop trying to make yourself out to be the "racism" police. It's getting SO old
Bruh Mane Did you know the charge of "racist" was pretty much coined by Trotsky in his writings as a tactic to make Americans look and feel bad about each other? So, folks who throw the "racist" charge out so freely are acting like good little communists. Trotsky would be so proud. I guess that makes sense, doesn't it? BTW- You're right. 70s were awesome. Folks weren't uptight. They did their own thing, and weren't making excuses or looking for handouts.
The kids in the first two commercials are probably between 70 to 80 years old now. Crazy if you think about it. I love the Mego Superhero figures. Had a bunch as a kid.
Definitely they’d be in their late 60s to early 70s if those kids were around 10 when filmed in mid60s.
Mego recently released their 50th Anniversary Sets (on Amazon, in Walmart, Target etc) which are primarily DC based. They look identical to their 70s counterparts. Managed to get my hands on the latest wave: Batman, Robin, Aquaman, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Shazam, Joker, Penguin, Reverse Flash, Riddler. A new wave is set for Feb 2024 (DC). They can’t get the rights for Marvel, which really sucks.
Awesome commercials...from a time when imagination truly was limitless...No matter what action figure you had, your back garden, the beach or quarry pit was your playset and a ticket to hours of adventure and fun...what fantastic toys...
Damn this commercial brought back memories. I hadn't seen some of these for over 30 years.
Akill Allah My absolute favourite was the Trouble commercial. Not because it was my favourite game, but it's the commercial I remembered from my childhood....imprinted on my mind. There's a Pine Sol commercial from the 60s or 70s that I also have itching my brain and I've never been able to see it again. Funny, what sticks in your mind...
My childhood in a 20 minute clip. The days when you looked forward to the Sears Christmas catalog to finally come.
Still have a Sears catalog with all the circled Megos,Joes,Big Jim...now I gotta dig it out....
Fatjohny100 Too funny. We used to circle stuff we wanted in the catalogs leading up to Christmas, too. I remember circling an Electroshot shooting gallery, rock em sock em robots, and a Ready Ranger backpack one year. My dad instructed me to scale it back a little. LOL.
Oh god I feel my age after watching this... But those were the good Ol' days...Gone forever
I still have my Wonder Woman & Bionic Woman!
Wow, that was great. I was surprised how many i remembered considering i was born in 71.
God....such great memories....such awesome toys ....they really inspired my imagination....loved them so much
The 1970's kicked ass for kids. Most of us had a imagination,played all the time. My favorite action figures was the mego superheros and of course the six million dollar man also super gi Joe with bulletman and mike powers damn cool video. For a few minutes it was a better time ,thanks for video!
Mid 70's were amazing.
Had so many of these figures.
Which one did u like most?
Some great commercials from our childhood. I had nearly all of those toys when I was I kid.
Loved mix and matching the figures in my battles. Had lot's of fun with those things!
I wish I still had some of those action figures. I am trying to think back at when they must have been throwm out....cant remember!
Who thumbs this down? 60s kids? 80s kids? 90s kids? Who? Who damn it!! This was awesome! I am too young to remember this, 90s kid, but toys in the 70s looked great.
Agree 100%. I am an 80's kid and I feel that toys in the 60's and 70's were so much more creative than toys today.
I'm an 80's kid and yeah these action figures beat anything out today! It seems they put a lot more work into their toys with real clothes and such, a more realistic approach. Even 80's toys were great! Sure they weren't hot toys quality of today but hot toys prices are insane! For the time and something mass produced these were tops!
I'm a 60's-70's kid and I still have most of my original Joe's and Megos, Plus the toys I started collecting in my forties...
I don't ever get my underwear in a bundle because someone chooses-for whatever reason...I'm sure they have them-to "thumbs down" a video. People like what they like, and dislike what they dislike...pretty simple. But I think that people whose modernized minds are far too complex to understand and appreciate the simplicity of these then popular toys could be one reason. Seems like anything that doesn't have CGI graphics, and someone being gorily murdered, it's not worth their time. We kids back then were far more intelligent and creative than this generation of youths, for the simple fact that we didn't need all these modern electronic gadgets to do all of our thinking for us. Those modernized "diseases" that we call Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD were basically unheard of. We had several things to stimulate our creativity. Not so, nowadays. This generation of kids is a mess.
I remember when I was little in the 70's, all I wanted for Christmas was the 6 million dollar man.
I had most of these Superheroes. Great times indeed!
Kids, you will now see how they got all the action figures in Robot Chicken right here.
Amazing. Mixing DC with Marvel. It goes to show how both are/were on par with each other.
i had that 12 inch hulk too. dang this is like a time machine watching this. i feel like a kid.
Ah, memories.
I loled like hell when he said "Falcon: the black superhero".
nice trip down memory lane
This is 90% of my childhood.
I hear ya , brother....such great memories ...and awesome toys
Makes you wonder where has all that time gone to
therealmanos I was thinking exactly the same. These commercials and the Sears catalogs were what my dreams were made of back in the day.
therealmanos Very few of my friends in the early 70s really gave a crap about action figures. Big Jim was the sissiest toy imaginable. We thought most of them were boring as hell. This does NOT include Evil Knievel-- he was the coolest guy alive, and the stunt cycle was awesome. Six million dollar man and Maskatron get a pass, too.
Don't get me wrong-- we'd watch ANY cartoon. I guess we were an unimaginative bunch when it came to games. We'd rather go outside and throw dirt at each other or play a pickup baseball game.
testodude Big Jim was (and is) just a 10" douche bag. Even though I had one of his figures, I'm pretty sure I made the GI Joe's bully the shit out of his unshaven baby face every chance they had. He might have answered the phones at GI HQ, I can't remember giving him a substantial role when it came to saving the day.
moxxi
Too funny. Reminds me of one of the few times I spent more than 10 minutes with action figures as a kid. A neighbor kid got Johnny West and Sam Cobra for Christmas. I got a Maskatron. I said, "Sam robbed the bank. Let's make a posse." Maskatron and Johnny West caught Sam Cobra, and we hung him with an clothesline. That lasted about 15 minutes.
Falcon...that great BLACK superhero. lololol. too funny.
poetx64 like that was his power lol
that green superhero! and the black guy!
Wait...Mr.Fantastic and Invisible Girl BOTH turn invisible? Since when? LOL
Since they got lazy and made a doll of a stretchy hero that you couldn't actually stretch.
And Johnny Storm, "faster than the speed of light". I think they got him mixed up with the Flash. I had some of these, but my favourites were the Major Matt Mason figures. And the Gorilla from Big Jim.
thankyou for sharing those wonderful memories !!!
Awww nothing like taking your mego super hero out of the box and smelling it......
Thanks I had a lot of Mego action figures. I had Batman where you can take his cowl off, all the Star Trek figures and of course G.I. Joe and Evel Kenievel.
the six million dollar man rocket repair station I had that with all the pieces most my life and sold it at 30 years old. I am 40 now.
I remember I had the stretchy guy when I was 5 and I was able to break it so wasn't to strong
Big Jim, had companions too. Dr. Steel, Big Josh, and a dog named duke.
I had a lot of these figures. I liked Maskatron. I used to have big battles between Mego heroes and toys from other lines, which included Stretch Monster.
This is the first time I've seen a commercial for the stretch guy that was see through.. I loved that toy I had to cut it open and see what was in there...turned out to be something like syrup
What will our kids remember and miss when they grow up and get old ?
I remember toys about centaurs that were inter changeable. They were from the 70's.
You sir have done a great service.
I enjoyed all of them, especially the WW commercials, but I loved them ALL!!!! THANK YOU
Tonya Manning You're welcome! Thanks for taking the time to post a comment!
You guys are lucky. You all got this stuff when you were a kid, and all I get is a laptop. I wish I lived in the 70's.
Yep, and we were much happier, and SMARTER with those simple-yet intriguing toys than you'll ever be with all these modern gadgets that do nothing but do all your thinking for you.
Bruh Mane Well, there's always eBay for this stuff.
ahh strech armstong beat and streched him till he split ma made me throw it away dam it to hell gret times loved these toys
Cool! I love theses kinds of things!
I didn't knew that they mixed DC and Marvel back then.
gingaBANG I did I had a mix of both and made them team up and fight each other
i got the kiss dolls still yaaa. great video.
the atomic man for gijoe. I had that too. and I still got the outfit. I had that robin too. and the six million dollar man. I still got my evil kenivel. so cool.
That shit would be worth some money these days! !
16:37 "I wanna be a Pahr Shoo Jumpuh" Mego liked kids with New Yahk accents.
I feel asleep well watching it good video
Man, I had a lot of those. Completely forgot about Maskatron. Very cool toy. But since when did Mr. Fantastic have the power of invisibility?
Since you lost him!
Bill Smith
HA HA
Awesome!
Is that a Metal Gear NES reference? "I feel asleep"
Good times
I had a lot of these
everything seems to be sold separately back then.
BIG JIM !
The black winged superhero wow too funny
christopher bair You chose the perfect word-- funny. Not intended to be an insult-- they were making sure you noticed--- "hey, he's black! Cool!"
a time when kids knew how to play..
UK version of G I Joe was called Action Man sold by Palitoy.
The Falcon commercial was NOT racist in the slightest.. in the 60's and 70's people were actually NORMAL; not trying to find racism in everything in creation
+Snake Eyes40 yeah they were too busy trying to figure out how to get high off everything in creation
The Jude abides man. Mazel tov!
"falcon the great black super hero" lol
What? No Fembots. Lol. That was an amazing trip back in time. I had many of those dolls . R u a collector?
Falcon the winged black superhero.. The black one not Hulk,he's green Falcuuuuuun the Black Winged surperhero LOL..
Sunn Pd yeah
The Falcon was THAT great BLACK superhero!!!! OMG, the silliness of that moniker was just WRONG
Hey! No Billy Blast-Off?
It's funny how even back then they have to include the black kid in the commercials.
Well, they liked toys too...
Yes the like toys too. But where is the hispanic kid, or the indian one, or another race? Why is it that in many commercials or movies, they feel obligated to have the black race only, not many other races?
I just watched 3 videos containing commercials and clips from T.V shows from the 70's. seems they did this alot back then. think people were making an effort to be inclusive. At the time the G.I Joe and Mego commercials were being aired I was 8. I lived in a suburb of Minneapolis, my friend Jake was black and my friend avid was Jewish. We liked the commercials very much. We would gather around the T.V to watch them. It was a different time..not sure how old you are, but the world has changed quite a bit since then...I liked it better then...
Your story is nice, remembering the times when you were small :) Those are the good old times!
Fatjohny100 Amen , brother-- you are soooo right. My how things have changed , There was a certain air of inocense and imagination that just isn't there anymore. Guess with video games and all that ---a child does not need much of an imagination anymore.
I had evil kenevil planet of the apes all main star wars guys Kirk spock superman joker Batman robin and his car and motorcycle with side car.ect.. Near mint until a fire .
Back then they didn't care about dc and marvel
Robot chicken anyone
HORRIFIC BATTLE!
that was so rasiest when he said "Falcon the black hero"
hulk..posable superhero..falcon BLACK flying superhero -_-
Talk about Memories
Why would batman need to know why car got rob
Was GI Joe renamed as Action Man in the late 70s ?
Action Man is a European version of G.I. Joe.
TheCometAttack OK thanks :) So in Singapore, we had Action Man. The GI Joe toys were the much smaller action figures.
Melvin Chong Sorry, I mean it was first launched in Britain in 1966 by the brittish toy company, Palitoy, as a licensed copy of Hasbro's first G.I. Joe line: America's Movable Fighting Man. Action Man was based on G.I. Joe.
Melvin Chong those Little GI Joes came out in the early eighties--originally they were like 12 inch action figures . I started getting them in the 70s ...but felt a Little cheated when I saw those 3 inch or so action figures
hey moxxi, nice job with the wrong aspect ratio
You're welcome! I was going out of my way to piss you off and apparently, mission accomplished!
That falcon commercial was racist
it seems like every time they mention falcon it is because he is black wtf
was it not racist to continuously call falcon the amazing black superhero
not at the time
i guess they were trying to enthuse black people ---or not appear as racist
jorge pluas they could have said the amazing superhero instead of putting the word black in
pig king Yeah...and they could ALSO have totally not had him there in the first place. Damn, I get so tired of folks constantly whining about something. Get over it. That's how it was in the 70s
Bruh Mane I know im just saying
19:04 wtf?
"Falcon the winged black super hero" that is "Super" racist
Really?
Really wat
Christoph, I guess you win the modern day "call anything that offends you racist" award. There was absolutely nothing "racist" about calling Falcon the "winged black superhero." This is how it was in the 70s. Black people back then were just happy to even HAVE a black superhero action figure...we didn't worry about him being called "black." You simply CHOOSE to deem something as racist, even though you're not even black, and probably have no concept of how it was in the 70s. I notice how you didn't say a word about them calling the Hulk a "green superhero." IS THAT not "racist" as well? Man, grow some backbone and stop trying to make yourself out to be the "racism" police. It's getting SO old
Bruh Mane Did you know the charge of "racist" was pretty much coined by Trotsky in his writings as a tactic to make Americans look and feel bad about each other? So, folks who throw the "racist" charge out so freely are acting like good little communists. Trotsky would be so proud.
I guess that makes sense, doesn't it?
BTW- You're right. 70s were awesome. Folks weren't uptight. They did their own thing, and weren't making excuses or looking for handouts.
Where were the Hot Wheels? Every kid in America had at least one!
a time when kids knew how to play..