Classic Toys - "Vintage Tin Toy Airliners"
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2019
- Paying tribute to those wonderful tin lithographed airliner toys of our childhood! Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairli. .
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Thank-you for the show, Christian! As a child, I distinctly remember eyeing these toys in catalogues to the point of almost burning a hole in the page. The one thing I distinctly remember was how relatively expensive they were, especially the motorized and illuminated ones. For other than birthdays and Christmas, if I wanted a new toy, I had to purchase it from the allowance I received. As a price conscious consumer, these types of toys would have taken me a forever time (almost as long as 2 or 3 generations for a 7 to 9 year old boy) at 20 cents a week to accumulate. But also, even if I had saved up enough for the toy, there was the constant logistical problem of battery supplies, and the carbon batteries of old did not last all that long. Consequently, I purchased scale model aircraft to build and play with as a compromise solution.
Thank you!
It's like I was dipped in magic waters and taken back to the 50's & 60's.....
Thanks Classic
I think mine was a DC-7. It was beyond wonderful. I so wanted it to fly. The propellers just didn't spin fast enough so it would taxi and lights would flash and make a great sound.
That’s a great video! I’ve always loved planes - especially the prop jet Electra and Viscount and the DC6 and DC7. These old toys are classics! I have one in pristine condition - an Electra which is beautiful with flashing lights and moving props.
I was born in 1973...And I LOVE Airplanes and the AIRLINES...Thanks in part to my Late Father who worked for Lufthansa since 1961...Until 1989..😒😒😪🌹🌹
This is the single most awesome video I have ever seen of the collection I once had. My American Electra had lighted props. And I am frankly astonished to see the Viscount in colors of airline companies that never operated the type. I had the TWA DC-9 with steps, the American DC-7 with roll up stairs as well as the Flying Tigers CL-44. Fabulous. Thank You So Much for Great Memories. It underscores how hard my parents tried when they were having their own struggles in the 1960 's. I was one of the luckiest kids alive to have had these as toys and moved on to Travel Agency Display Models, First Class Seats and a Galley from a 1969 Piedmont Boeing 737.
Thanks very much George for the kind words; I hear you, and I'm right with you; TWA DC-9, big AA DC-7, Tigers '44 too. There were around three of those AA Electras that were very similar to one another, but the one you had was the only one with the lighted props. I had an AA Electra, just not sure which one.
Amazing to reminisce, all the joy and happiness this marvelous toys provided. I recognized two of my planes the AA with the moving stewardess and the BOAC VC10 it warms my heart.
Yep, played with a few of them.
i wish i was born back then😤
my friend you have the best toys ever . I had the 727 tin Avianca back in the days in 1974 , I can not forget that beautiful pc.
I have the 1960 American Airlines 707 N7501A tin toy, the first 707 in the American Airlines fleet. I had the original and bought my current example recently. It's in great shape.
This makes me mad that I didn't have such good looking toys when I was a kid
very cool video and toys the swept piston AA was strange though but my dad actually found his old jet airport with 4 jet planes set in my grandfather's attic in surprisingly good condition
Love this. Thank you so much for sharing with us ✨👍✈️😉
Wish i could find one of those AA L-188s..possibly my favorite toy ever, although our various dogs liked chasing the TW DC-9 around and barking at it.
At 2:50, and at 4:54 you see a Flying Tiger Line "Canadair CL44" with its swing tale, to facilitate cargo loading. At the time, the CL44 was the most efficient cargo plane (in terms of $/ton/nm).
Some of these could honestly be mistaken for models they are so realistic!
For Christmas 1961 I got a metal airplane similar to those shown here, only mine came with a wire tether connected to a control box with different colored buttons on it. If I remember correctly, the control box held 4 D-size batteries which powered the aircraft lights, four spinning props, and aircraft sounds. All these were activated by pressing buttons, including sending the plane slowly taxiing forward. It was an amazing toy for an 8-year old boy and I loved it. Now here is the funny part - the day after Christmas I was running the airplane and the two props on one wing quit spinning. Everything else - lights, sounds, and so on continued to work fine. Well, I pointed this defect out to my dad and he said he'd take care of. I figured he'd take it back to the store and get it fixed or get me another one just like it. Well, he took it back to the store alright and that was the last time I ever saw it. Guess he figured he could use the money on some golf balls. Never got another airplane or anything to take its place. Lesson learned early in life - a plane with two working props is better than no plane at all! Keep your mouth shut and just play. Now I'm 66 and would love to have that plane again. Any of you experts know what plane that was?
The nice toys.Thank.
Christian, this is a wonderful trip down "memory runway lane" for those of us who had these tin airliner toys as a kid. For me, I received for Christmas 1962 from my parents the Douglas DC-7C with the stewardess who'd appear in the door after the plane went through its engine startup and taxi sequences. Mine was in the 1960's TWA arrow colors (even though TWA didn't have the plane in real life). A few years ago I picked up a tin toy, Made in France by Joustra Air France Super "G" Constellation in nice condition at, of all places, an old car swap meet in Wisconsin. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Dan!
great collection, i remember always wanting these as a kid traveling, when i was at the airport where they sold them.
That was awesome Christian!
Loved especially the end....
Thanks Christos. :-)
Loved the end for 2 reasons, ....our favorite CL-44 , and the pic of your mom , which i have seen before....
I am losing mine due to dementia and old age right now,....she is 93 , after I lost my dad back in 2016 at 94......
I thank you Christian!....good evening from Athens
It looks like models where better back then than current model aircraft 😂
Had the TWA 707 , thanks for the upload..
Loved these toys》also spent time building both the basalwood planes & plastic ones as well....adding the livery decal strips w/water 》good times
I remember going to the airport with my dad, to watch the big planes. He got me a toy airliner once like one of these.
Love love love!!
Maybe it doesn't count because it wasn't a tin toy, but for Christmas 1960 (I was 7), I got Remco's Flying Fox airliner, complete with cockpit controls. I think it was based on the Lockheed L-188 Electra.
Indeed it was based on the Electra! I have the Flying Fox commercial uploaded as well, in the "Classic Toys & Models" playlist.
I still have my 1965 TWA Boeing 707
Thanx for a great vid,,I had a yellow and red one back in the mid/late 60s,,it had a small blue plastic window with a sparkler thing inside and whites when pushed on the carpet,,,gosh I only just remembered its whiting sound now some 49 years later,,,don't know what model it was but it was quite stubby,,,that's here in England,,,Wishing everyone a great week,,
Excellent compilation, I didn't see the Japanese Tin Pam Am 707 with the opening cargo door and flashing red engines which I still have. I got in 1965 I believe. It's similar to the TWA at 1:23 and the Braniff at 3:20 but has a cargo door up front.
I had the American Airlines DC-7. What I wouldn’t give to have that on my office shelf today.
I wish some company would remake theses fine toys.
Thanks for your videos Doug in Ga had 4 engine American Airlines had lights on wings what a great toy
A truly wonderful video.... I didn't know there'd been so many. I never had any tin plate...only a plastic Viscount with yellow wheels and see through fuselage. I think it was Mettoy? Wish I hadn't parted with it. The ones in the video are awesome... thank you for putting it together. Great backing song by Eric Clapton too...
Thank you!
I had the Boeing 377 but mine didn't have any airline livery-just some scratched off blue paint on the wings. The American orange paint scheme of the early 1960s was stunning and I wish the airline would bring it back, if only on a few aircraft.
Nice video 👍 👍 ☺
I had the Flying Tiger 4 engined plane with the tail that swung open and the helicopter/prop plane toy.
Canadair CL 44. I remember seeing them at LAX Flying Tiger Cargo terminal.
3:39 sweep back wings on a commercial piston airline AWESOME
Beautiful memories¡,, I,had lots of them made of plastic given to me by my beautiful mother, now I have a few of them made in pure metal by Herpa made in Deutschland and bought in Vienna.
I love the collection of planes thank you. Where can I find parts for these. Like four blade props.
Thanks for sharing .How about post some of them in action?
The Comet 1 and Fairey rotodyne model are rare AF!!!
DGJ P: That was wild! Is the Fairey Rotodyne the one they showed here that had the twin piston propeller engines and the big overhead helicopter rotor, and was there an actual, real one that flew?
That and the Comet 1 sure are rare AF, all right!
Huge like! I recall many of those from the 60s & 70s. The high points in this video are IMO the funny contraption that shows up at 03:38 and the SST at 04:08. This might well be the only piece of Boeing SST-related material that actually made it to metal hardware.
corisco tupi: Not so! Among other of these kinds of toy planes I had, I had a tin battery-operated Pan Am "Boeing SST 2707" with the variable-geometry "swing" wings, and it would roll along and the four engines would light up and flash red and make the "jet engine sounds", and the swing wings would swing open and closed. I also had a Pan Am Concorde SST. This was in the early '70s, and I really loved those! I thought those were the coolest things, and, at the time, I remember hearing that both of those planes were what all the airlines were soon going to be flying! No such luck, as I also remember hearing that environmentalists protested and shot the idea for the SST down. I don't know whatever happened to either one of those models, I sure wish I had them today!
I was just thinking about those the other day, and how the Pan Am name never graced a Concorde or a Boeing SST in real life. The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" really had a huge impact on me as a kid, when I saw that around the same time, in the early '70s, and that movie even depicted Pan Am spaceplanes flying up to orbiting space stations by 2001. THAT certainly never happened!
@@mel1nda12ax7 Nice recollection of the 70s spirit. And don't get me started on '2001', it is IMO the best sci-fi film of all time. Attention to detail was unsurpassed before or after. Oops.. I got started. :-)
corisco tupi: "2001" sure was (and is) the best sci-fi film of all time, definitely, IMO! Man! It STILL seems, even now, to be off in the future when I see it today, and, when I see it now, it freaks me out to realize that the REAL 2001 is already 18 years ago!
It would really be cool if we could still have orbiting space stations that have restaurants and hotels on board, as depicted in "2001". Do you think it will ever be possible?
@@mel1nda12ax7 Technically it seems that yes it's possible as confirmed by the ISS, still going strong in orbit after more than 20 years. One would think that it would be only in sci-fi movies that we would have a space station in orbit for over 20 years, yet there it is. But tourism and restaurants, etc, is more an economical and financial issue than technical or scientific. I do think we are still a long way away from that point, however. Time will tell. ...Cheers!
Had a tin and plastic 747 in TWA colors. Dad had/has a metal, and I say metal as opposed to tin because this thing is sturdy, DC-4 looking airplane in I think PanAm colors, been a while since I've seen it. It is from before that battery operation era and even the props are metal. That AA 707 at 4:13 with the boarding stairs is quite nicely done. That AA Lockheed Electra II there at 2:16 is quite nice; one at 3:14 has a nice shape, pity about the printing line-up issue. Fairey Rotodyne was interesting to see.
Anyone remember "Voice Controlled Kennedy Airport"?
Had the battery operated supersonic Concorde with electronic wings which moved
I don’t have the courage to buy one of these used toys.😢
So cool! I would love to find the "Jet Airport with 4 Jet airplanes" toy from Sears. How did you make this video?
You must be talking about the Marx playsets. I had one of those to with a 707 and Lockheed l-188 Electra. Later versions of the toy set had a convair 990 included also.
I had so many of those planes when I was kid. My old man smashed most of them. It's because of that they reason I hate my sister because she gave him my toys to break. I have written her off because she tried putting me in an assisted living center against my will. Now she will face arrest of she ever tries setting foot on my property again.
i have the Boeing 707 shown at 3:32.
It is in full working order.
Wingtip nav lights on the AA 727 are reversed....same with the AA Viscount. :-)
The AA Viscount has got to be a rare bird, given that AA never operated them.
@@jacksons1010 Same for the Yonezawa/Cragston TWA DC-7C.
In fact, AA never operated the 7C either, fun stuff!
1:55 I have this toy.
The Flying Tigers CL-44 is going for big $$$ on eBay.
How to get these vintage battery operated planes please let me know.
Yo tuve uno de esos, se aceleraban los motores y cuando se detenia se abría la puerta donde luego se veía una cabinera saludando
@Barrett Haynes He said: "I had one of those, they revup the engines, when it stops a door opened and there was a stewardess that comes out and greets you". I hope that helps.
Barrett Haynes: I'm pretty sure there used to be a "Translate" feature here on YT, that you just clicked on and it would translate anything written and posted in another language to English, or another language of your choosing. That was a really convenient feature. I don't know why they don't have that now.
Audio volume? Was it supposed to be just a vague background sound? Impossible to hear. Maybe a good thing. I had a friend with the Pan Am version of this.
i have Super Vc10.. but not working....!
The flying tiger plane has the wrong wing, it should not have jet engines
Should you do a face reveal?
No
Can you please tell me what the song is.
"Let it Grow" - Eric Clapton (1974)
@@mcdonnell220 Thank you for that.
@@RailsandSky Sure, you bet.
Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture: From Clapton's great, classic 1974 album "461 Ocean Boulevard"! While that album was great, my very favorite era of Eric Clapton was Cream and Blind Faith!
@@mel1nda12ax7 Great taste you have! I'm a big Byrds and Buffalo Springfield geek myself! Love Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, Cream, etc great, great stuff. I've always thought that Blind Faith was something very, very special. Had been planning this slideshow for the last two years, and had my heart set on this Clapton tune from the very start. Glad folks seem to be receptive to it.
I have one from 77 for some reason I think good deal on eBay back in 2010 or something I know it was one of the only things that wasn’t homestuck
Ps it was the super VC-10
Ah yes, the dangerous tin toys of the 50's and 60's. I was three years old in 1956 and my mom put me down for a nap with a tin friction car. I was driving it up and down my forearm when a sharp edge opened up my entire arm from elbow to wrist. Between my screaming and the spurting blood all over my bed, I don't know to this day how mom stayed cool and calm. Ended up with 45 stitches and a well founded fear of tin toys.
Today we have the same toys with worse quality from China.