i was skeptical at first, because im so used to watching everything in hi def, but now im into it. since everything is about nostalgia, the resolution kinda pulls me back into the past and ads to the theme.
I used to own a Merlin and I loved it! At the Goodwill Computer Museum in Austin, Texas, they actually have a Merlin and they thought it was a cellphone and that made me laugh at them. At the same Goodwill Computer Museum, they have an Apple Lisa and other older computers and I strongly recommend that you visit that museum. Another favorite hand held game was Micro-Vision, also had interchangable game cartridges, and I loved it!
Hello Paul. I originally watched your videos about webtv. The good old days. I have been watching some other videos which you have posted and I wanted to tell you that you did an awesome job thank you for all the cool retro nostalgia and original content A ++ + Great Charisma and simple to the point no nonsense presentations. Bravo
HellGarbage Thanks Dylan! I'm sure these kinds of toys have birthed lots of cool tracks! I actually used most of them in my side project Dead Studio Audience!
Hey Paul! it's CBoy Slim! haha dude these are so cool have you every researched circuit bending in music? lots of old toys are great for hackers to add hi-fi audio jacks, different audio effects (by purposefully breaking the toy), more responsive controls, etc. there is some really cool stuff out there especially using the old Speak and Spell machines. definitely seems like something you would enjoy
I had an electronic toy from Ohio arts in the 80s called "The Animator", it worked just like an etch a sketch, but it also allowed you to make short animations with it. Absolutely loved it. But your Snoopy electronic thing should work, there's not too much that can go wrong with them, it's usually the battery connections have rusted, which you can either re-solder or just stick a tiny ball of aluminium foil in between the two parts.
***** My mother has that animator at her house. I am not good with fixing things, never have been. I think you're right though, it probably is an easy fix.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Well if it's already broken, you've got nothing to lose in opening it up! It could be something simple like a loose wire even! But that's awesome your mother owns one too! Did you ever have a Speak n' Spell as well?
In the late 80's or maybe even 1990, I had 2 orange electric drum sticks that came with a little speaker you can clip on your belt. So like electronic air drum sticks. Anyone remember the name of them? It was popular enough to have a TV commercial and think there was a full line, not just drums.
Thank you for reminding me the name of the Magical Musical Thing. When I was very young, all I asked for at Christmastime on year was "a horn." My parents, try as they might, could not find just a simple horn toy for me so I guess this was the best next thing. I had lots of fun with it back in the day, but since then have been trying to remember what it was called for YEARS. I didn't really pay attention at the time. ;)
+housevil2 I understand! There are so many things I had when I was a kid and little by little, I am finding out what they were thanks to the internet! I'm glad you were able to find it in my video! Check out some of my other videos if you have a chance, you might enjoy them!
awesome Weird Paul! i thought about having a musical toy band for a long time. i think some people i knew took my idea and actually did it. everyone else thought i was crazy.
mymainmanskins there was this band called PIANOSAURUS that played all toy instruments - ruclips.net/video/dn4UmJgp24II/видео.html had an experimental project called DEAD STUDIO AUDIENCE and everything was performed on these music toys along with some effect boxes.
prett-ay, prett-ay, prett-ay, pretty good! i had a very short lived pots and pans band when i was little. my family put a stop to that. they needed those pots and pans to make dinner. keep on rockin Weird Paul!
OMG!!!!!! I had the magical musical thing! haha! It was a hand me down! Hahah! OMG Woodstock. I'm dying. This is so amazing. Thank you for this! hahahahahh!
Lot this video. I wish I still had my sound gizmo.Would love to see more of music toys/instruments if you have anymore, or even a video of your instrument collection. Oh and great rendition of What A Meal!
I am searching for a long lost electronic musical toy from my youth. I don't remember who made it or what it was called but it was very unique. I would like to find a picture, an actual toy or someone who also enjoyed this toy. I had a toy electronic "synthesizer" in the middle 80's that you "programmed" by inserting colored plugs into the keyboard. Each plug had its own note or tone. Either there were 12 or 8 tones I don't remember. You plug the tones into the keyboard leaving empty "keys" where you needed spaces. You then could control how fast the "synth" could play with a speed dial. There may have also been a pitch dial. You could produce fun rhythmic musical runs to sound like those from a real synth.
I do remember that big snoopy playmate toy. My grandmother bought it for me when I was a little girl back in 1980 and I was two years old. Unfortunately when I turned 12, she gave my toy away to my then baby brother who was only a baby at the time. I really wish that she didn’t do it because I loved that toy.
lol yeah I meant hugely popular and a' 'memory grenade' for me ; I uploaded my Entex Galaxian that was a pretty big peice and deep but oddly enough was easy to hold and play even when I was younger. I see they remade Merlin but with touch tone phone buttons. one thing I liked about the original is the light up 'buttons'
Hi. Do you still have Major Morgan? Could you do me a huge favour and let me know if he makes a different sound if you press more than one "note" at the same time please? I have a 30+ year old memory of this fact, but I'm just not certain if it was this toy. Thanks in advance!
When my uncle gave me a box filled with his atari 2600 games and console and in the box was a merlin! i wish it works, btw your vids are awesome and ill be commenting on alot of them!
I thought it was hilarious, I had to buy it. We used to put it in a pile of books and say "oh which book should we play?" and then pull it out and start playing it and people would be like wtf
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I actually tried to play [by ear] verses from "Rocky Mountain Way" by Joe Walsh on my Merlin... with guitar accompaniment on The Magical Musical Thing.
+Gaming Mule Merlin is great! I've actually used it to play music in a couple of songs that I wrote! Like this one: ruclips.net/video/85-rv58HfoU/видео.html
OH NO!!! you said mehgo not ME go ... don't let the hard core Mego collectors hear you say that LOL. but for sure awesome video, I remember most of those but a couple I forgot about and a couple I never heard of.
Can you recall a marble run game much like kongman but with more quality and the marble runs downhill instead of up going in and out of doorways etc? I cant find it anywhere online! Any ideas?
Wow, been looking for the magical musical thing and the sound gizmo on RUclips for years, but couldn't remember what they were called. Let's Make a Deal had an 80s themed show last week where they showed the Merlin, so I went looking for that and found this video. I was hoping you'd show off the sound gizmo a bit more. I wore that thing out in the early 80s. If you tuned the pitch control as high as it would go and put it on siren it almost went ultra-sonic! It also had a train, helicopter, gunshot and jet airplane. All the sounds it made were a combination of the tone and the white noise generators. Somewhere I have a cassette of me flying it around a pair of stereo mics, but my boombox won't play cassettes properly and I never got around to digitizing it. I also had Major Morgan. I had Simon, which had the green button as G below middle C, red was middle C, yellow was E above middle C, and blue was an octave above green. Then I went to a party and one of the kids had a similar toy called Einstein that did exactly the same thing, but was square and had it's notes in a minor key. My first thought was I want 1 of those too lol. Around 1977 I had a musical touch-tone phone that operated clappers on bells of different notes for each key, you could play phone ringing music on it. When you turned it on you heard the motor spin up that operated the clappers, but boy did it eat batteries! No idea what it was called. I also had a talking CB toy that must have had a little record in it that would play various CB-lingo phrases, 1 about every 10 seconds. I'm having no luck finding anything like that on RUclips. The only thing it said that I can remember was something about 2-wheeler. Like that's a big 10-4 there 2-wheeler or something like that. It also ate batteries for lunch. I got both of those the same year, 1977. Even before that I had a farm truck with a button on it that played farm animal sounds. I would play rhythms on the button like it was a sampler, which eventually broke it. That was around 1975 or 1976. In the 80s I'd do the same thing with my Sharp talking calculator. 19, 19, nininininini 19.
Where is Merlin, where did he go? Janie's got him playing tic-tac-toe! The neighbor across the street had a Merlin. I was envious. However, I did have the original, huge UFO version of SImon, so I won in the end.
+Kona jinx Wow, I totally forgot about that commercial, thanks for reminding me! I never had either of those until many years after they came out. I had some other handheld games, but none of those are in this video.
Very cool devices. I've been looking for a radio shack wire controlled mechagodzilla looking toy I got for Christmas back around 84-85. It had a black remote with 2 buttons and a sticker that said radio shack. I have found similar ones on ebay (same remote exactly) but they are godzilla but the one I had was silver and a mechanical looking T-Rex sort of like Grimlock from the transformers. Sadly I remember all too well what happened to mine it died by fire but was really cool watching him melt into the ground as he burned.
+ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Yeah it was a cool little toy. I think the eyes lit up red too but I could be mistaken. That Christmas morning in probably 84 or 85 I remember finding it on the coffee table along with a bunch of those little army men and these little plastic robots set up in a battle scenario that apparently my dad had set up. It was really cool.
They all had such a distinct sound. Reminds me of Christmas as a kid.
Am i the only on that loves the video quality?
I'm glad you like it!
i was skeptical at first, because im so used to watching everything in hi def, but now im into it. since everything is about nostalgia, the resolution kinda pulls me back into the past and ads to the theme.
its okay its free entertainment and when RUclips's obsess over making Hollywood videos it takes mouths before they upload.
i love the quality too
Rasmus Juhl It’s a little creepy! 😂
Have you heard the lost song "everyone knows that"? I wonder if it could be from a singing toy like some of these
As a kid I once owned a Major Morgan toy... great memories lol
I used to own a Merlin and I loved it! At the Goodwill Computer Museum in Austin, Texas, they actually have a Merlin and they thought it was a cellphone and that made me laugh at them. At the same Goodwill Computer Museum, they have an Apple Lisa and other older computers and I strongly recommend that you visit that museum. Another favorite hand held game was Micro-Vision, also had interchangable game cartridges, and I loved it!
I never knew about those toys. Thx for posting!
Guinness Book of Records, Beano Annual and Merlin...that was one my favorite Christmases ...those were the days!
🎶It's a peanut butter recall, I remember them all!🎶
A sci-fi sound-effects man's dream.
Hello Paul. I originally watched your videos about webtv. The good old days. I have been watching some other videos which you have posted and I wanted to tell you that you did an awesome job thank you for all the cool retro nostalgia and original content A ++ + Great Charisma and simple to the point no nonsense presentations. Bravo
Cool toys!
Always cool to see vintage toys that still work.
Beatlemania1799 Thanks!
Wow. This whole experience for me was indeed weird. You're a strange one, Weird Paul, and I couldn't stop watching!!!
I've got lots more, too!
I wonder if Fabulous Fred & Merlin ever got into a fight😉
Fantastic video. I know a good amount of people in the noise scene who would love to have these toys for circuit-bending purposes.
HellGarbage Thanks Dylan! I'm sure these kinds of toys have birthed lots of cool tracks! I actually used most of them in my side project Dead Studio Audience!
That Merlin game was a 70s flashback for me. Loved mine. Love your vids Paul.
Thanks Bryan!
This channel is perfect for me
👍
This looks like a super 8 video. I like it so much
Omg I had the magical musical thing! I can't believe I forgot about it. It was one of my favorite toys.
This looks like its from 1980s camcorder. lol
dmace81 I filmed it (and all my vlogs) with a 90s camcorder! Onto VHS tape!
@@weirdpaulp how long does it take to upload the vhs
@@Love_Lvna Once it's digitized, it takes the same time as any other video. Here's how I do it: ruclips.net/video/sv6FUE6eXpU/видео.html
Very more fantastic! My congratulations sincerely😊
Wow that Paul can certainly belt out a tune!
I had Merlin.... Loved it!!!
I loved my Merlin when I was a kid. I accidentally left it out on the deck one night and it rained, destroying my beloved Merlin.
I had major morgan and loved it!
Sherrie Bird It's awesome! We wanted it for Christmas when it first came out...I didn't get it until 1989 though!
Hey Paul! it's CBoy Slim! haha dude these are so cool have you every researched circuit bending in music? lots of old toys are great for hackers to add hi-fi audio jacks, different audio effects (by purposefully breaking the toy), more responsive controls, etc. there is some really cool stuff out there especially using the old Speak and Spell machines. definitely seems like something you would enjoy
2:41 I love how you sung your own song
I had an electronic toy from Ohio arts in the 80s called "The Animator", it worked just like an etch a sketch, but it also allowed you to make short animations with it. Absolutely loved it.
But your Snoopy electronic thing should work, there's not too much that can go wrong with them, it's usually the battery connections have rusted, which you can either re-solder or just stick a tiny ball of aluminium foil in between the two parts.
BBC600 It's going places, YOU'RE going places!
***** My mother has that animator at her house. I am not good with fixing things, never have been. I think you're right though, it probably is an easy fix.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL
Well if it's already broken, you've got nothing to lose in opening it up! It could be something simple like a loose wire even!
But that's awesome your mother owns one too! Did you ever have a Speak n' Spell as well?
I wish that's all it was...I guess I'll take it apart and take a look.
in the uk there was a progam called james may toy stories and in one episode there was a major morgan electronic organ orcestra
Wow, well I need to see that!
I've been trying to find it for years i might see if it's on dvd
Your Musical Storybook is missing it's cards. I had that thing when I was a kid and loved it.
I've had that over 25 years and I never knew it had cards! Thanks for the info, maybe I can track them down!
In the late 80's or maybe even 1990, I had 2 orange electric drum sticks that came with a little speaker you can clip on your belt. So like electronic air drum sticks. Anyone remember the name of them? It was popular enough to have a TV commercial and think there was a full line, not just drums.
Hit Stix!
Thank you for reminding me the name of the Magical Musical Thing. When I was very young, all I asked for at Christmastime on year was "a horn." My parents, try as they might, could not find just a simple horn toy for me so I guess this was the best next thing. I had lots of fun with it back in the day, but since then have been trying to remember what it was called for YEARS. I didn't really pay attention at the time. ;)
+housevil2 I understand! There are so many things I had when I was a kid and little by little, I am finding out what they were thanks to the internet! I'm glad you were able to find it in my video! Check out some of my other videos if you have a chance, you might enjoy them!
awesome Weird Paul! i thought about having a musical toy band for a long time. i think some people i knew took my idea and actually did it. everyone else thought i was crazy.
mymainmanskins there was this band called PIANOSAURUS that played all toy instruments - ruclips.net/video/dn4UmJgp24II/видео.html had an experimental project called DEAD STUDIO AUDIENCE and everything was performed on these music toys along with some effect boxes.
prett-ay, prett-ay, prett-ay, pretty good!
i had a very short lived pots and pans band when i was little. my family put a stop to that. they needed those pots and pans to make dinner. keep on rockin Weird Paul!
OMG!!!!!! I had the magical musical thing! haha! It was a hand me down! Hahah! OMG Woodstock. I'm dying. This is so amazing. Thank you for this! hahahahahh!
I wanted all of those toys so bad when they came out - had to wait until I got older to get them, but I still love them!
He looks like a 45 year old Kurt Cobain Who's had too much to drink
I had that first toy you showed made by mattel, when i was a kid. The long blue thing that was like a keyboard.
+melissa jones The magical musical thing! It's very wonderful!
wow Tandi and Radio Shack, nostalgia overload 😊
I had so many Tandy and Realistic products growing up!
i love the nostalgia look to it! its awesome.
Thank you!
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCK FOR REPLYING I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
man, they need to bring that magical thing back because I want one!!!!
I would love it if they brought that back!
Awesome review! Cheers, mate!
cool,I love old toys
They are the greatest!
1:53 - Weird Paul flipped me off U.K. style! 😱
00:35 I had Merlin! Forgotten all about it. Gosh, I feel old.
A couple days ago was the anniversary of the day my family got our Merlin! September 25, 1982!
...still got mine ...and its fully operational too!
Lot this video. I wish I still had my sound gizmo.Would love to see more of music toys/instruments if you have anymore, or even a video of your instrument collection. Oh and great rendition of What A Meal!
Chris Oliver Thanks Chris!
You can make music now with all that toys like Kraftwerk did with some.
Helderhugo Ten years ago, I did a show where I used many of these toys and effect pedals to make music. I used no real instruments!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I knew it! You have already do that many years ago. Is there any video or audio of that show?
I do have audio of it on a cassette. I would like to digitize it!
I am searching for a long lost electronic musical toy from my youth.
I don't remember who made it or what it was called but it was very unique.
I would like to find a picture, an actual toy or someone who also enjoyed this toy.
I had a toy electronic "synthesizer" in the middle 80's that you "programmed" by inserting colored plugs into the keyboard. Each plug had its own note or tone. Either there were 12 or 8 tones I don't remember. You plug the tones into the keyboard leaving empty "keys" where you needed spaces. You then could control how fast the "synth" could play with a speed dial. There may have also been a pitch dial. You could produce fun rhythmic musical runs to sound like those from a real synth.
I love The Magical Musical Thing!
The Snoopy one is so cool omg
I do remember that big snoopy playmate toy. My grandmother bought it for me when I was a little girl back in 1980 and I was two years old. Unfortunately when I turned 12, she gave my toy away to my then baby brother who was only a baby at the time. I really wish that she didn’t do it because I loved that toy.
I nearly died laughing when you broke into singing the peanut butter recall song xD!!! So friggin goofy!
oh man merlin was huge I forgot about that game!
It was hugely popular and also rather large!
lol yeah I meant hugely popular and a' 'memory grenade' for me ; I uploaded my Entex Galaxian that was a pretty big peice and deep but oddly enough was easy to hold and play even when I was younger. I see they remade Merlin but with touch tone phone buttons. one thing I liked about the original is the light up 'buttons'
I did, and I clicked. I also shared.
Michael Dill Thanks Michael!
Hi weird Paul I was just wondering but what do you like to do day to day, also do you have a job and if you do what do you do?
Am Im the only one who loves the video quality
I would love to see what's inside the Snoopy Playmate
There's an idea for a video series..."Let's See What's Inside"
Can you do a tour of your home and how you store your collections?
Joanna Dyndor Most of my collections are all in one room. It's a very full room!
Hi. Do you still have Major Morgan? Could you do me a huge favour and let me know if he makes a different sound if you press more than one "note" at the same time please? I have a 30+ year old memory of this fact, but I'm just not certain if it was this toy. Thanks in advance!
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Thanks! I hope that someday I will have even a fraction of the subscribers that you do!
When my uncle gave me a box filled with his atari 2600 games and console and in the box was a merlin! i wish it works, btw your vids are awesome and ill be commenting on alot of them!
Sean Sullivan Thanks Sean, I am glad you enjoy my videos!
Pretty awesome vintage toys, Paul. 👍 + sub
Thanks and thank you for the sub! I have a lot more vintage toys to show in the future!
You look like the guy who sang Life Is A Highway! Thanks, I remember some of these
Cool :)
We had most of these in the UK too. Also popular was the Speak And Spell, and the "Little Professor" calculator.
I got the Little Professor for Christmas in the late 70s. I wish that I still had it.
jnyc I had the little professor calculator. I had Merlin also but not speak and spell I always wanted it tho
I remember The Merlin the most.
It is really the classic electronic toy!
Awsome video the sound the Musical Story book does is so funny I couldn't stop laughing.
I thought it was hilarious, I had to buy it. We used to put it in a pile of books and say "oh which book should we play?" and then pull it out and start playing it and people would be like wtf
I forgot about so many of these
I'm familiar with most of what you displayed, but Major Morgan and Musical Storybook are new to me.
I never had heard of the Musical Storybook as a kid, but Major Morgan was a toy I really wanted back when I was 8 or 9.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I actually tried to play [by ear] verses from "Rocky Mountain Way" by Joe Walsh on my Merlin... with guitar accompaniment on The Magical Musical Thing.
The magic music thing reminds me of the stylophone but without the pen. So like a phone lmao
Coolest guy ever.
Thanks Martin!
Holy crap I had a Merlin which belonged to my brother!! It was amazing!!!!
+Gaming Mule Merlin is great! I've actually used it to play music in a couple of songs that I wrote! Like this one: ruclips.net/video/85-rv58HfoU/видео.html
Dude we must be the same age. We love the same toys. I am a 1968 baby ; )
Close! I'm 1970.
i want them all! :-)
+Lynne Thermann I still need to find some that I don't have!
You rock dude!
Thank you!
More retro reviews please Vloggeroonie!
OH NO!!! you said mehgo not ME go ... don't let the hard core Mego collectors hear you say that LOL. but for sure awesome video, I remember most of those but a couple I forgot about and a couple I never heard of.
Russ Gould I try not to make too many mistakes in my videos and research them the best I can. But I will always mispronounce things occasionally!
Remeber the great peanut butter recall of '86 or be doomed to repeat it! What is everybody else's favorite peanut butter recall?
sound Gizmo, like that
cool
+Nadine Cell Thanks!
i am searching for an obscure antique toy! can you help?
I know you a classic tv fan so what is your fave episode hogans heroes ?
Cool toys m u remind me a bit of Kurt cobain ,I think it,s the hair , very cool 😎! Rock on!
Where can you buy that sound gizmo
I would imagine your best bet would be eBay, but it won't be cheap.
Or maybe it will be cheap who knows
Major Morgan Organ looks familiar :)
creamofcardstv It was on me and my sister's Christmas lists the year it came out!
Do Friends of P on the musical storybook!
One of my sister had Merlin. If I remember that thing took like 6 or 8 battery AA or AAA.
Yeah I think it takes 8 AA...in a time when most things took C or D batteries which of course were much bigger and heavier!
Merlin was awesome. kids nowadays don't know a good thing.
"Its a peanut buttery call I remember them all"
Can you recall a marble run game much like kongman but with more quality and the marble runs downhill instead of up going in and out of doorways etc? I cant find it anywhere online! Any ideas?
No clue.
You should bring these to zombie fest next year Weird Paul!!
Joe Kline oh man, that would really be WEIRD!
Wow, been looking for the magical musical thing and the sound gizmo on RUclips for years, but couldn't remember what they were called. Let's Make a Deal had an 80s themed show last week where they showed the Merlin, so I went looking for that and found this video. I was hoping you'd show off the sound gizmo a bit more. I wore that thing out in the early 80s. If you tuned the pitch control as high as it would go and put it on siren it almost went ultra-sonic! It also had a train, helicopter, gunshot and jet airplane. All the sounds it made were a combination of the tone and the white noise generators. Somewhere I have a cassette of me flying it around a pair of stereo mics, but my boombox won't play cassettes properly and I never got around to digitizing it. I also had Major Morgan. I had Simon, which had the green button as G below middle C, red was middle C, yellow was E above middle C, and blue was an octave above green. Then I went to a party and one of the kids had a similar toy called Einstein that did exactly the same thing, but was square and had it's notes in a minor key. My first thought was I want 1 of those too lol. Around 1977 I had a musical touch-tone phone that operated clappers on bells of different notes for each key, you could play phone ringing music on it. When you turned it on you heard the motor spin up that operated the clappers, but boy did it eat batteries! No idea what it was called. I also had a talking CB toy that must have had a little record in it that would play various CB-lingo phrases, 1 about every 10 seconds. I'm having no luck finding anything like that on RUclips. The only thing it said that I can remember was something about 2-wheeler. Like that's a big 10-4 there 2-wheeler or something like that. It also ate batteries for lunch. I got both of those the same year, 1977. Even before that I had a farm truck with a button on it that played farm animal sounds. I would play rhythms on the button like it was a sampler, which eventually broke it. That was around 1975 or 1976. In the 80s I'd do the same thing with my Sharp talking calculator. 19, 19, nininininini 19.
Weirded pual I found you on vine and your pretty cool
Safak Yaldiz Hey Safak, thanks for checking me out on RUclips!
Where is Merlin, where did he go? Janie's got him playing tic-tac-toe!
The neighbor across the street had a Merlin. I was envious. However, I did have the original, huge UFO version of SImon, so I won in the end.
+Kona jinx Wow, I totally forgot about that commercial, thanks for reminding me! I never had either of those until many years after they came out. I had some other handheld games, but none of those are in this video.
Lol what a meal! what a meal!
:)
Holy shit! I had every toy here!
I would pay you 35 bucks for the magical music you keep it thogh qnd wright songs with it more and more
+Toby Mcdonald Yeah I can't sell it, it's too important to me!
How did you get that retro effect?
It's actually not an effect. I film with a camcorder onto VHS tape: ruclips.net/video/sv6FUE6eXpU/видео.html
lol,yes mate,I used to see a lot of them in charity shops,when I need one,I can't find one,typical hey??I'm looking to circuit bend one...
+reaz allykhan Yeah, it seems to be getting harder to find this stuff these days...
Lol,because musicians are buying them
I cant find the phone app
Has anyone ever told you that you look like peter tork?
They should remake those toys
Very cool devices. I've been looking for a radio shack wire controlled mechagodzilla looking toy I got for Christmas back around 84-85. It had a black remote with 2 buttons and a sticker that said radio shack. I have found similar ones on ebay (same remote exactly) but they are godzilla but the one I had was silver and a mechanical looking T-Rex sort of like Grimlock from the transformers. Sadly I remember all too well what happened to mine it died by fire but was really cool watching him melt into the ground as he burned.
+Nesmaniac I know the Godzilla one, my son has it. I have never seen the one you had but it sounds badass!
+ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Yeah it was a cool little toy. I think the eyes lit up red too but I could be mistaken. That Christmas morning in probably 84 or 85 I remember finding it on the coffee table along with a bunch of those little army men and these little plastic robots set up in a battle scenario that apparently my dad had set up. It was really cool.
It's not Zoidzilla is it?