I work in a McDonald’s, the happy meal toys now are awful. When I was a child, they were so good. The mp3 players slapped. Now they’re just paper /shitty plushies
The toys these days are Awful....Working at McDonalds for 10 Years and watching the toys become less of a toy hurt, Take me back to the Speakers in 2006!
They got it out at my school one time in 97 and a kid fell off and got a compound fracture, about a month later they had stripped it all out of the hall. 😭
I absolutely loved the apparatus! They always had the thinnest safety mats on earth and everyone would fight over who got to help put them out 😂 Those PE lessons were always goated
Knowing George was as into Doctor Who during that era as a lot of us were, to the extent of loving the Toys R Us display AND getting a load of Battles in Time cards (I still have that exact same folder, tho nowhere near as many cards shamefully) has made my year
But did you (or anyone else) have the plastic Tardis they sold in multiple parts that was a card holder? Cause I managed to get one as a kid and it made my childhood xD
George, I'm actually a really big Gogo's Crazy Bones collector. One of the biggest in the world actually. I have over 6300 of them from all around the world, including some that are super rare and even a 1 of a kind prototype. There are actually quite a few hundred dedicated collectors within the Gogo's Crazy Bones community.
What I miss about the argos catalogue is the weight of the pages when you were flipping through sections, and then circling the thing you were going to put on your Santa list so you could show your mum
I'm in my 40s. Shag bands were worn at school. they were "breakable" wrist bands in that you could pop them off, join them together etc... We used them as their namesake. If a person was wearing one, the rule was if you managed to break it off, you got a shag.
hex bugs were a solid b. you'd take them out, let them trundle around for a bit bumping into things, realize they don't work on most surfaces and can't go far, then put them away. their saving grace is they do look insanely cool
14:38 For my family it was because all our CDs were illegally downloaded for us by our neighbour, so we didn't have any cases to put on the shelves lmao. He burnt CDs for the whole estate and did it for like a fiver if you got three at a time.
I guess it's cos as we're aging, the percentage difference between us gets smaller. Back when we were watching him in 2017, he was comparatively quite a lot older than us.
For me Elefun is a "Only saw the ads, never actually played with one" thing. The CD/DVD wallets were because we used to have portable discplayers and instead of ludding all of these actual cases around with us, we just moved the discs into that wallet (and then lost the cases)
i'm not even that old but next to one of my secondary schools was a little tesco and i used to be able to get a packet of chocolate digestives (about 40p) a 2 litre lemonade (17p) and a bag of midget gems (about 30p) all under a quid
Techdecks we're great. Me and my mates in different classes would organise to pretend to need the toilet and gather in the loos to use the sinks as skate ramps.
The music players from McDonald’s where you put the cartridge in will forever be the most goated toy, it literally played one song but it was so good, I remember the spice girls and the black eyed peas ones 🤣
We call it lead because, originally, pencils were actually made out of lead. But the term was already a thing so pencil lead never changed even after the switch to graphite. 😊
Saw a whole bunch of those old McDonald's coke glasses in a charity shop, bought all of them. Can confirm. coke would make bank if they sold them. I am proof
Omg I remember getting the Argos catalogue at Christmas time and sitting for hours at the kitchen table circling all the toys I liked then going back, cutting out my favourites and sticking them on scrap paper to make my Christmas list. I almost never got anything on it but I had the best time making it 😂 Also Elefun and kurplunk were my absolute favourite games as a kid
Clarks worker here, the toys no longer exist. I assume it’s because of either covid or because maybe they were a choking hazard. Instead of that, most of our kids’ school shoes are linked to one of four characters in some Roblox game that Clarks made. There’s a T-Rex, a fairy, a unicorn and a leopard and all the school shoes are based around those
I work at Clark’s… two years ago the toys were mini torches but last year they stopped doing toy shoes for safety reasons- was secretly happy because my mum never let me get them
anyone remember how the blue pen in primary schools smelt like vinger and there were never working red pens , also are people nostalgic for that TV stand? I still got it
4:26 I remember those wristsbands being very popular at my secondary school in the early 2000s, they came in loads of different colours and if I remember correctly they were called "peace bands" and the idea was if you wore one you were protesting against Blair's warmongering in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You have all those Doctor Who cards too!!!!!! Damn I remember a few years ago I asked for more for Christmas and I have extra cards. But that Doctor who era especially the toys was amazing!
I don’t know why but ‘as a Scottish’ cracked me up but yeah I’m Scottish too and I’m the same love watching nostalgia videos like this from other people from the uk
0:09 No pencils use lead anymore, they instead use graphite or charcoal. Before moving on from lead, a lot of artists used to die from too much exposure to lead, which was also used in paint. Coloured pencils are usually wax based
Am Dutch myself. The books I collected in my childhood were 'Pinkeltje" (Fingerling) by Dick Laan and 'De Schippers van de Kameleon' (The Skippers of the Chameleon) by Hotze de Roos. I had every single book, carefully wrapped in brown paper so as not to hurt the originals covers. When I moved out at the age of 17 my mom gave them all away to my younger cousins. I fear to even think what became of those books. I have fond memories of the Sony Discman. I used to put them in the hood of my hoodie as late as the early 00's on my way to work to have some music as I rode my bicycle without them ever skipping. S-tier for sure. People with Umbro-backpacks were tossers. F-tier. Atari 2600? Bruv, S-tier, I wish I had one when I was a child. And yes, I'm that fucking old. I actually had that exact TV-stand. TV on top of the VHS-player on top and the VHS-tapes below. Yes, I repeat myself, I AM that old. Tazos? sounds like Pogs, we had them here for a while. Some kids collected them like crazy, never understood the charm. D-tier is being generous. The CD-'wallets'? Yeah why would you keep your CD's without their booklets and shit? F-tier. Don't really know about Doctor Who toys, but the Doctor that introduced me to the series was Tom Baker (the fourth Doctor, with the big scarf) Doctor Who was only shown on Dutch TV for one season, since it was deemed to scary for kids (please correct me if I'm wrong) For me, and I know this is controversial, the best Doctor ever was played by Peter Capaldi.
I'm only 19 and I remember almost ALL of these. I even remember some of the old TV shows I used to watch like Mr Ben, Rhubarb And Custard etc. This brought back a lot of memories for me ❤
That Battles in Time binder is the ABSOLUTE best thing ever. I remember getting the TARDIS card holder in the magazines. Lost my original one but grabbed a couple off eBay.
The apparatus is so real though. I think we used it once in through the entirety of primary school. Never saw it again, looked almost identical to the one in the video. Moving onto Sixth Form now, completely forgot they existed.
Beyblades were all the rage when I was at school in the early 00's. Lethal weapons, modifiable to inflict more damage, tradable and affordable. The chads would throw down the arena in the playground and battle would be vicious.
Catalog books in general were something else, especially the Sears Christmas Catalog books, where you could browse all the coolest toys, and accidentally see the gun's section on occasion.
Scoobies used to be made by hand and I was that good I could do it without looking. If someone wanted one, they'd come to me and give a quid and it'd be done in minutes
3:02 The Astrosaurs books were amazing omfg childhood 😂 ong the nostalgia hits different!! Still got a couple of em on my shelf somewhere. I may be born in 2008 but the nostalgia still hits for a majority 🙏
Great memories of these items, I actually had the umbro bag for few years. School books in the bottom with pens etc in the side, loads of space for my trainers to walk to school and back.
I had an awesome tape walkman when i was at school. Was one of the metal Sony rechargeable walkman and it got me through so many hours of boring classes. Was all about Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chilli Peppers etc. Good times.
4:51 By the time I reached secondary school, Umbro branded stuff was the lowest of the low in the social hierarchy. Not because they were bad quality products or anything- they were decent- but because having them probably meant you shopped at Asda
I work in a McDonald’s, the happy meal toys now are awful. When I was a child, they were so good. The mp3 players slapped. Now they’re just paper /shitty plushies
Went into work today and some kid was upset they got the animal cards, didn’t know what to tell him 😂
I wasnt around then but yea they are pretty appaling now
The toys these days are Awful....Working at McDonalds for 10 Years and watching the toys become less of a toy hurt, Take me back to the Speakers in 2006!
good to know they’re the same shitty ones in europe because they’re like that in australia
As someone with a very young sister who still has happy meals, can confirm
I'm only 19, but happy to be nostalgic for a solid 75% of these. You know I've still got my gogo's crazy bones collection somewhere
Sameee I younger than that and I felt nostalgic for 75% aswelll😂😂
same, Im 18 and not even british
Me sitting here nostalgic as fuck at 33 years old 😂
@@Montana-h5y same, 33 too
Tbf you don’t need to be that old really, I’m 16 and can relate to almost all of this from growing up in the early 2010s
the apparatus at primary school was the fucking best thing ever, you know it was gonna be a banging PE lesson when they got that shit out
they never got ours out once 😋
They got it out at my school one time in 97 and a kid fell off and got a compound fracture, about a month later they had stripped it all out of the hall. 😭
@@minmo2288what a selfish kid , he should’ve just not gotten a compound fracture
I absolutely loved the apparatus! They always had the thinnest safety mats on earth and everyone would fight over who got to help put them out 😂 Those PE lessons were always goated
@@rinnniiiii I loved putting the mats out! It was annoying and difficult to do but I felt so cool doing it
Knowing George was as into Doctor Who during that era as a lot of us were, to the extent of loving the Toys R Us display AND getting a load of Battles in Time cards (I still have that exact same folder, tho nowhere near as many cards shamefully) has made my year
But did you (or anyone else) have the plastic Tardis they sold in multiple parts that was a card holder? Cause I managed to get one as a kid and it made my childhood xD
@@mrchrischamp1 OMG I still have that, and the countless money box Tardises as well aha
George, I'm actually a really big Gogo's Crazy Bones collector. One of the biggest in the world actually. I have over 6300 of them from all around the world, including some that are super rare and even a 1 of a kind prototype.
There are actually quite a few hundred dedicated collectors within the Gogo's Crazy Bones community.
this is amazing. I love collectors, wow.
That is so cool
geek
I've got some potentially rare ones for sale if you're interested?
That's so sad😢
Thank you George, I'd completely forgotten the Astrosaurs books, I'm now being overwhelmed with memories
Me too! The joy I felt when he said them. Oh my god.
I loved them so much!
Same tooo I loved them
What I miss about the argos catalogue is the weight of the pages when you were flipping through sections, and then circling the thing you were going to put on your Santa list so you could show your mum
YES YES I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID THAT
Crazy how we all have the same lives
the weight of that thing came in handy, threw many a yellow pages/argos catalogue at the siblings over the years :D
YES😂❤
Astrosaurs absolutely SLAPPED - I work in a library now and it's a travesty that I haven't seen any on the shelves
I'm in my 40s. Shag bands were worn at school. they were "breakable" wrist bands in that you could pop them off, join them together etc... We used them as their namesake. If a person was wearing one, the rule was if you managed to break it off, you got a shag.
Fellow old fk here. I remember shagbands. No mention of pogs, beano, gameboys, pokemon cards, tazos, football stickers etc.
Hexbugs in anything lower than A is fucking criminal
I love you
hex bugs were a solid b. you'd take them out, let them trundle around for a bit bumping into things, realize they don't work on most surfaces and can't go far, then put them away. their saving grace is they do look insanely cool
@@giddycadet You don't use them on 'most surfaces' you use them on those hex bug tracks and build your own world or race track. It was class.
@@beans3117
When he showed the hex bugs something in me activated and I started belting WHAT'S THAT COMING OVER THE HILL IS IT A HEXBUG? IT'S A HEXBUG
When you got a fuzzy GoGo Crazy Bones was peak dopamine
golden gogos elite
man i used to run to the shop and spend my pocket money on gogos, i had a whole shoebox full of them 😭
I used to get them from a corner shop nearby my childhood home, my god do I get a rush of nostalgia whenever I see them
I'm a grown-ass man and I still have dozens of them and plan on completing my collection. Love them so much
So true
You know George is a real one when he mentions Astrosaurs
13:46 I’m an absolute die hard fan of Gogos and still collect them today! Absolute bangers fr
The Astrosaus books gave me a genuine shock of nostalgia when you mentioned them
14:38
For my family it was because all our CDs were illegally downloaded for us by our neighbour, so we didn't have any cases to put on the shelves lmao. He burnt CDs for the whole estate and did it for like a fiver if you got three at a time.
Love that George just had the dr who card card collection on hand
I love being old enough to actually get nostalgic now
I hate it
I don’t think I ever used that PE apparatus wall thing in primary school
PLEASE my school ditched theirs... i mean, we didnt use them anyways
it just teased us for 4 years straight lol
@@quandaledingleskibidi I remember using ours only once.
On a similar note, how about that rainbow parachute every school had for some reason?
I did once.. but that is now just a long gone fuzzy memory
@@ShogunTurnip vaguely in like reception or nursery
I loved the pencil cases back in the day
as a 21 year old i’ve always felt that george is like Wayyyyy older than me, it is very funny feeling nostalgic for all of the same things he is
I guess it's cos as we're aging, the percentage difference between us gets smaller. Back when we were watching him in 2017, he was comparatively quite a lot older than us.
For me Elefun is a "Only saw the ads, never actually played with one" thing.
The CD/DVD wallets were because we used to have portable discplayers and instead of ludding all of these actual cases around with us, we just moved the discs into that wallet (and then lost the cases)
I bought my daughter elefun in a charity shop for 2.50 many years ago, it was used about 2.50's worth at best. You didn't miss much
Did you have the diskplayers that you could strap to the headrests of the car seats for long journeys?
Who else remembers when a school classroom had either a tub or box of K'nex and/or Bionicle toys? The latter items were mint.
Astrosaurs was brilliant
its surprising how similar British nostalgia is to dutch nostalgia
Loving the nostalgia. I adored crazy bones 😂
Also, I used to nick the dolls out of the Clark’s shoes when I was younger & enjoyed doing it 😂
You did scoobies by hand. It's basically just a 4 way braid, but starting a chain off was pretty fiddly XD
i'm not even that old but next to one of my secondary schools was a little tesco and i used to be able to get a packet of chocolate digestives (about 40p) a 2 litre lemonade (17p) and a bag of midget gems (about 30p) all under a quid
I used to LOVE the Astrosaurs books when I was a kid. I'd always come home after school, sit with my dad and read them to him for my reading homework.
GoGos and TechDeck were peak childhood
Techdecks we're great. Me and my mates in different classes would organise to pretend to need the toilet and gather in the loos to use the sinks as skate ramps.
I had the astrosaurs books as well, holy shit that's nostalgic
Back then I used to buy cheap Cola 2L for like 18p from Tesco
The music players from McDonald’s where you put the cartridge in will forever be the most goated toy, it literally played one song but it was so good, I remember the spice girls and the black eyed peas ones 🤣
No pencils are made out of lead. Lead is just the name we give to the graphite core which is just solid carbon.
We call it lead because, originally, pencils were actually made out of lead. But the term was already a thing so pencil lead never changed even after the switch to graphite. 😊
Kids today will never know the feeling of destroying your thumbs pressing the little yellow dot on a battery to see how fully charged it is
Saw a whole bunch of those old McDonald's coke glasses in a charity shop, bought all of them. Can confirm. coke would make bank if they sold them. I am proof
Omg I remember getting the Argos catalogue at Christmas time and sitting for hours at the kitchen table circling all the toys I liked then going back, cutting out my favourites and sticking them on scrap paper to make my Christmas list. I almost never got anything on it but I had the best time making it 😂 Also Elefun and kurplunk were my absolute favourite games as a kid
i was an astrosaurs enjoyer as a child
My cat was obsessed with hex bugs, when the battery ran out, just the click of the on button was enough to wake her up and start losing her mind
astrosaurs was goated
Nah fake can/pringles pencil cases were 🔥
And why did they always have that incredible smell
I'm actually so sad that i lost my year 5 sour cream pringles can :(
I’m 23 and I used to get 17p Coke bottles from Tescos when I had sleepovers with my friend so you’re not alone in that memory lol
Oh my God the Astrosaurs!!! That has truly unlocked a memory, elite series
Mentioning astrosaurs just unlocked a memory I forgot I had
10:20 “Circle what you want for Christmas”
Who remembers those McDonald's Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Sonic and Sega LCD games?
YES oh my god i had like three each of the Crash and Spyro ones, i was obsessed
Oh my god yes !!
Clarks worker here, the toys no longer exist. I assume it’s because of either covid or because maybe they were a choking hazard.
Instead of that, most of our kids’ school shoes are linked to one of four characters in some Roblox game that Clarks made.
There’s a T-Rex, a fairy, a unicorn and a leopard and all the school shoes are based around those
George confirming his autism at 11:15
And 15:38
i still use my mcdonald’s coke bottles to this day
Bro get the super rose
I work at Clark’s… two years ago the toys were mini torches but last year they stopped doing toy shoes for safety reasons- was secretly happy because my mum never let me get them
brainlicker in e is crazy thats an s tier
anyone remember how the blue pen in primary schools smelt like vinger and there were never working red pens , also are people nostalgic for that TV stand? I still got it
ISTG RED PENS WERE SACRED
Astrosaurs was elite
Is it weird that I'm American and have no idea what he's talking about and getting 0 nostalgia from this, but I still like it?
the disk wallets in my house were purely for pirated movies lmao, back when you had to burn them onto a disk so you could watch them on the dvd player
4:26 I remember those wristsbands being very popular at my secondary school in the early 2000s, they came in loads of different colours and if I remember correctly they were called "peace bands" and the idea was if you wore one you were protesting against Blair's warmongering in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The people who chose fudge or bacon streaks as their nostalgic item had no childhood fr 😂
Also I was a scoobie expert ngl, before your time it seems George, deserves higher then D 😂 they're actually extremely simple once u know how
They might be under the age of 10 if they chose a FUDGE
You have all those Doctor Who cards too!!!!!! Damn I remember a few years ago I asked for more for Christmas and I have extra cards. But that Doctor who era especially the toys was amazing!
As a Scottish I love watching other youtubers from the uk
I don’t know why but ‘as a Scottish’ cracked me up but yeah I’m Scottish too and I’m the same love watching nostalgia videos like this from other people from the uk
YHHHH UP THE SCOTS
0:09 No pencils use lead anymore, they instead use graphite or charcoal. Before moving on from lead, a lot of artists used to die from too much exposure to lead, which was also used in paint. Coloured pencils are usually wax based
Anyone else remember Donutters? I never had it, but I always remembered the ad with the catchphrase "It's elephantastic!"
3:01 YES. FINALLY I HEAR SOMEONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT THOSE. ASTROSAURS CARRIED MY EARLY CHILDHOOD.
7:30 I literally have this tv stand down in my living room 😭😭
ME TOO😭
ITS IN MY DINING ROOM (shit name we dont even eat there)
I had one
Am Dutch myself. The books I collected in my childhood were 'Pinkeltje" (Fingerling) by Dick Laan and 'De Schippers van de Kameleon' (The Skippers of the Chameleon) by Hotze de Roos. I had every single book, carefully wrapped in brown paper so as not to hurt the originals covers. When I moved out at the age of 17 my mom gave them all away to my younger cousins. I fear to even think what became of those books.
I have fond memories of the Sony Discman. I used to put them in the hood of my hoodie as late as the early 00's on my way to work to have some music as I rode my bicycle without them ever skipping. S-tier for sure.
People with Umbro-backpacks were tossers. F-tier.
Atari 2600? Bruv, S-tier, I wish I had one when I was a child. And yes, I'm that fucking old.
I actually had that exact TV-stand. TV on top of the VHS-player on top and the VHS-tapes below. Yes, I repeat myself, I AM that old.
Tazos? sounds like Pogs, we had them here for a while. Some kids collected them like crazy, never understood the charm. D-tier is being generous.
The CD-'wallets'? Yeah why would you keep your CD's without their booklets and shit? F-tier.
Don't really know about Doctor Who toys, but the Doctor that introduced me to the series was Tom Baker (the fourth Doctor, with the big scarf) Doctor Who was only shown on Dutch TV for one season, since it was deemed to scary for kids (please correct me if I'm wrong) For me, and I know this is controversial, the best Doctor ever was played by Peter Capaldi.
give me backshots please George
me next! ooh boy!
yo wtf
I'm only 19 and I remember almost ALL of these. I even remember some of the old TV shows I used to watch like Mr Ben, Rhubarb And Custard etc. This brought back a lot of memories for me ❤
1:00 the euroshopper chocolate bars are 85p now, prettysad ngl
milk chocolate hazelnut one is banging tho
@@Loukas.ArsenalCCi need that
That Battles in Time binder is the ABSOLUTE best thing ever. I remember getting the TARDIS card holder in the magazines. Lost my original one but grabbed a couple off eBay.
15:03 you mean S tier right? RIGHT!?
The apparatus is so real though. I think we used it once in through the entirety of primary school. Never saw it again, looked almost identical to the one in the video. Moving onto Sixth Form now, completely forgot they existed.
Astrosaurs blimey George thats an almighty throwback!
Anyone else remember that rug that had roads on so you could drive your Hotwheels or Matchbox on? Those were the days
Beyblades were all the rage when I was at school in the early 00's. Lethal weapons, modifiable to inflict more damage, tradable and affordable. The chads would throw down the arena in the playground and battle would be vicious.
Catalog books in general were something else, especially the Sears Christmas Catalog books, where you could browse all the coolest toys, and accidentally see the gun's section on occasion.
Seeing those gogos crazy bones made me scream I had literally hundreds of them 💀
I feel pretty attacked that I still have my TV and PS4 on that black glass table.
I never thought I'd see anyone reference Astrosaurs! I have the whole series on my shelf still. Absolutely class
Using fountain pens at primary school might just be the most posh thing I’ve ever heard
Didnt realise that TV stand was nostalgic. I still have it! It's literally right in front of me rn and still in use!
Scoobies used to be made by hand and I was that good I could do it without looking. If someone wanted one, they'd come to me and give a quid and it'd be done in minutes
Those little Pringle-shaped Pringle holders for school lunchboxes come to mind, pure nostalgia
3:22 astrosaus ,beast quest and diary of a wimpy kid made my childhood
This nostalgia is bringing back so many memories
george you don’t realise how hard my jaw just dropped over the mention of astrosaurs. my world has been rocked
the way george just seamlessly whipped out the tier list format is something ill be telling my grandkids
love a good trip down childhood memory lane when life was simpler and so much less depressing :’)
3:02 The Astrosaurs books were amazing omfg childhood 😂 ong the nostalgia hits different!! Still got a couple of em on my shelf somewhere. I may be born in 2008 but the nostalgia still hits for a majority 🙏
Great memories of these items, I actually had the umbro bag for few years. School books in the bottom with pens etc in the side, loads of space for my trainers to walk to school and back.
I was so cool when I pulled up to Primary School with my Golden Series Crazy Bones from Toys R Us
Argos was so good circling what you wanted for Christmas 😂
fuck, those Clarks with the toys were so sick. i never had one but my mate did. serious bit of kit
I had an awesome tape walkman when i was at school. Was one of the metal Sony rechargeable walkman and it got me through so many hours of boring classes. Was all about Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chilli Peppers etc. Good times.
I had one of the coin makers, it was as true as you say. I used it once and never got anymore foil for it! (It was sick tho ngl)
11:11 just had the most vivid flashback to year 1
7:37... the worst thing is I've just moved house and I still have this tv stand in my bedroom 😂 ... maybe time for a new one lol
4:51 By the time I reached secondary school, Umbro branded stuff was the lowest of the low in the social hierarchy. Not because they were bad quality products or anything- they were decent- but because having them probably meant you shopped at Asda
can't believe george put the anti-racism wristbands in D tier, we all know who he voted for this week smh
WHO REMEMBERS ORIGINAL CRAZY BONES SHARKY ETC NOT THIS GOGO BOLLOCKS
I had all the Astrosaurs books. Saying that, I could no tell you anything to do with what they were about.
The TV stand 😭😭😭😭😭