Through my 20s and 30s I was always all about the 70s and 80s. But as I've gotten older, I've come to realize how much 60s stuff I was actually into as a lad. I find myself these days far more attracted to the 60s over the 70s.
@@williamcurry4868 Being an avid toy collector, just the prices I've seen for 80s stuff can get sky high. I imagine something from the 60s would be a small fortune.
I had the small wind-up version of Garloo. Mom couldn't afford the big battery powered Garloo. I bawled for Robot Commando at Christmastime to no avail. Later I found a broken one in a neighbor's trash but it didn't work.
Back when kids, had 'social' relationships. Excellent lineup, of retro toy commercials, sir☺️👏. Saw a very young, Billy Mumy, and possible, Kurt Russell (Sonic gun comm ).I was a kid, back in the 60's-70's!!!
I had "Robot Commando" & "Astrobase"! Robbie the Robot from "Forbidden Planet" as well.- Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺, Georgia Perimeter College and GSU 🎉❤❤❤
Man, they really knew how to advertise toys back then! Garloo looks cool! I would definitely have wanted a King Zor. They weren’t messing around with that Sonic Blaster!
I saw a picture recently of an actual King Zor. Surprisingly, he was kind of a teal color with green legs and arms. More aquatic looking than I would have thought.
Rocker switches and a steering wheel do seem like the pinnacle of remote control design. I wish I was as talented as Robert. Very good collection of home videos
Wow, sir, doggone if you continue to find some of the greatest commercials for just neat stuff, especially with those ideal and marx commercials s. I hope we’ll see more in the future please.👍
You are in luck, good sir. Next week's episode will be a compilation as well as I prepare for the grand reopening of the "lounge". It's not toys, but it's pretty darn neat as well. Thanks for watching, William.
For me, Great Garloo is the star of the show in this collection. 🤖Robot Commando is pretty awesome too though. Great stuff as always Rob, it's always cool to check out some of the vintage toys before our time. I also dig that Silly Safari game. Looks like fun to set up and play as well. Have a great weekend ahead man!
Silly Safari did look like a good time. And that catchy little jingle too. I know it's not really sci-fi, but I thought it was just too fun to leave out. And for all we know, maybe it was a bunch of super intelligent silly safari animals created by a silly safari mad scientist. Either way, thanks for watching, good sir.
A neighbor kid had a "The Great Garloo" ( pretty cheaply made I recall) . I had a "Defender Dan" 50 cal as a kid. I wish I could recall the set of 2-60's plastic 'walking' monster insects with grasping jaws I got for Xmas. - the larger fat long oval one was green and there a was a smaller all flat orange "crablike" one . They were hard plastic and 6"-8" inches. I've looked but can't source them
I feel like I have seen all this before in another life. I have to say Robert The Talking Robot, King Zor, Astro Base,Robot Commando, and The Great Garloo are among my favorites. But it was also cool seeing all the other space toys weather rockets or toy guns or other play sets. Sorry for my extreme lateness.
Nonsense my fine feathered friend. Your mind is playing tricks on me again. That's all. And don't worry about the lateness at all. I know how the holiday season and the new year can be.
The stuff that Dreams are made of. As a kid I always wanted a lot of these toys mentioned. But it was never to be. Very expensive for those toys when sold in Canada. Robot Commando was $ 100 Canadian. So were many of the other Ideal and Remco Toys. However we were happy with what we got. One year my brother got a Great Garloo because at that time there was an official Canadian importer of Marx Toys. And someone got us the Simpson-Sear employee discount. He played with that for hours. . And when we did see them in the big department stores they had demonstrations and those battery toys in the video sure were noisy. Thanks for a walk down memory lane.
When I first started digging around for these vintage ads, I was surprised how expensive some of this stuff actually was. Even here in America. When you actually look at the prices adjusted for inflation, it's kind of shocking toy companies could get away with such high price points. But that is awesome that your brother got the Great Garloo. He was before my time, but I would have loved the heck out of that thing as a lad. I didn't realize that Canada had such high import fees back then. I do recall as a kid always seeing the Canadian price on magazine covers and it being different than the U.S. price.
@@AtomicSnackBar Yes the fees and duties were high and on top of all that a federal tax. They were all added in to the wholesale price for a retailer. And with the smaller market the retailers had to charge more. And it had very little to do with currency exchange rates. Even today with a dollar difference of 35% prices for some goods are 60% higher or more. even though we have free trade prices are a lot highher for many reasons.
@@garfieldsmith332 Totally off topic, but I don't get into many modern things. But I do like me some Canadian TV. You have some fine shows up there. Corner Gas. Trailer Park Boys. Cock'd Gunns. Schitt's Creek.
These toys were before my time. I think the best time for toys was the late 70s thru the 80s. If I had been born earlier, I would have collected the Marx playsets and similar toys, like the Ideal 1966 Batman and Justice League toys.
I had thought about doing a 70s volume as well. Perhaps if this one does well, I will. I would like to expand it into actual videos, discussing the history of some of this stuff. Though I did cover Robert the Robot in Sci-fi Robots II and really enjoyed doing that. Cause really, toys are still my favorite thing to cover. Picked up anything lately? Or still trimming down the collection?
@@AtomicSnackBar I've been getting graded Star Trek The Motion Picture aliens, like Arcturian Graded 85 for my birthday and Rigellian Graded 90 for Christmas. Also, I got a Remco Universal Monsters Wolfman carded. That's one of my favorite figures and altough I had three of them as a kid (2 non-glow and 1 glow), I opened them all and put them in a figure case. So it's nice to have a carded one.
@@destructarr Those are some great purchases right there. I really like the packaging and style of the Star Trek figures. And of course, I have a real soft spot for pretty much anything Remco.
I thank you much, good Mr. Blackmoor. I really enjoy these little compilations, even if they aren't as wild and wacky as the Sophisticated Weirdos. Thanks for watching, good sir.
Oh early voice control technology eh, well I had to look that up! It’s a bit of a ‘magic trick’, the child had to first use the controller to set the desired action, then their ‘voice’ activated it, but really any strong enough ’puff’ of sound caused a flat plate inside the ‘mic’ to connect the motor, so shout, or just blow. Clever stuff though, great interactive play!
Well, that's neat in and of itself. It's a fascinating topic. Vintage toys are one of my main interests. I actually did a little coverage of the Robert the Robot toy in my Top 1950s Sci-fi Robots Part II. My way of slipping some toy talk onto the channel.
Watch out for the Pink Robot Commando Sterling!! He is coming for you. You can never go wrong with Rock Em Sock Em Robots either. Wonderful finds and picks Sir.
I thank you, good Miss Tochi. And I will watch out for the pink Robot Commando. That is, so we can hang out. I like robots and my favorite color just happens to be magenta.
@ The Wacky World Lounge- I forgot the long handlebars too. We used to take playing cards and pin them to the spokes in the wheels. It made an awesome clicking sound that got louder the faster you pedaled. Haven't thought about that in years. Good times.
Garloo was a bit before my time, but I have no doubt I would have gone bananas over that guy. Heck, I'd still love to have one. Thanks for watching, Keith. Next week's episode will be another compilation as well whilst I prepare for the grand reopening.
Only one of these i had as a kid was a Mr. Machine but i see why my generation became either hippies or killers LOL !!! Wow i must say what a brave little kid to give little Billy Mumy a hard time & how lucky he didn't get sent to that cornfield; you know the one i speak of. Yea it's no wonder we who were born in the 50s turned out as we did!!! Lucky us .. I did have one those Machine guns that had the little red flame thing on the barrel that moved in & out when you fired it & the only Rockets i had were the ones you put a cap in & tossed so when they hit we got the big bang & the rockets that you put water in & it had this slide thing you hooked it to & pumped it up & got soaked when it launched . Man, they just didn't care what we did back then.
Either the cornfield or getting zapped by the robot. Neither sound too good. Growing up in the 80s, we were the last generation to have realistic toy guns. The dreaded parents groups were really coming into power back then and ruining stuff for everyone.
Did you ever notice how in the 1950s if an alien flying saucer landed on Earth, the knee jerk reaction was to blast him in the face with whatever gun was at hand? Kids were shooting everything back then judging from several of those commercials. That Space Patrol console "send 25¢ and the top off a Nestle's Ever-ready Coco was what inspired Ralphie from A Christmas Story to " Drink more Oveltine ". Billy Mumy seemed to be auditioning for the Twilight Zone judging from his commercial. Creepy kid. You can be sure that other kid ended up in the cornfield. Robots and Guns were clearly the favorite toys for boys in the 50s. More civilized times.
They may have had the right idea. Had they had that same attitude in E.T. that would have been a much better movie. And I think you may be onto something with the Bill Mumy commercial. That fourth wall breaking kid was never seen again. Robots and guns were favorites of my generation as well. G.I. Joe, Transformers, it's a dynamite combo. Thanks for watching this one again.
@ The Wacky World Lounge - Hm. Excellent observation, my friend. Combining Robots and Guns is a natural progression. Perhaps the plastic forming technologies weren't capable of the minute articulation without breaking. Transformers toys were quite revolutionary in hindsight. Inevitable. William C.Mumy grew into the Will Robinson role and thank God. He did project potential little psychopath vibes in that commercial. That kid with him did in fact meet a mysterious and premature demise. Lost In Space also brought us the hotness which was Marta Kristin aka Judy Robinson. And the classic Robot. I never heard the term B-9 before the last few years. Just like George Lucas' revisionism; Star Wars was just... STAR WARS... Bah-dah! Iconic.
@@tonysantiago255 I do want to say the Robot's model number B-9 was mentioned in the original series. But the family never called him that. It was always just "The Robot". Or "Robut" as Bill Mumy always said. I'm actually long overdue for another full rewatch. But I have so many boxsets I haven't watched yet. Space 1999. UFO. About 5 seasons of Ultraman.
@ The Wacky World Lounge- Have you seen the original Pilot episode for LOS? Well worth it. Much more straight forward Sci-fi/Fantasy. More serious in tone. But sans the "Robutt" and the necessary antagonist villain in Dr. Smith. It's also only about $10 almost everywhere. You certainly do have a number of full series to slog through. I wasn't particularly interested in UFO until I found out that it was done by Gerry Anderson of Super-Marionation fame. Now I'm very interested. Robert the Robot Co-pilot of Steve Zodiak is probably my 5-6 year old introduction to the World of Robutts and his transparent acrylic appearance and especially the way he spoke immediately made me a lifelong Robot fan. A fan of butts would come later after puberty hit. And their accompanying upper partners. UFO purple- haired nymphomaniacs are another selling point.
@ The Wacky World Lounge - I just watched this video again and man! That Sonic Blaster commercial with Kurt Russell squinting through the scope so reminded me of his future characters of Snake Plisken, and his roles in Big Trouble in Little China and the much ignored but terrific Soldier 1999(?) Sci-fi should be a classic. Have you seen that one?
It was indeed. I know that commercial wasn't technically sci-fi, but since Kurt went on to do quite a bit of it, I thought it was kind of a neat thing to include. Thanks for watching, Kurt.
I had a Robot Commando. I had more fun with him, clobbering the plastic army men. These were great toys to develop imagination. The 60s were a great time to be a kid.
That's great. He was before my time, but knowing me as a lad, I would have loved the Robot Commando. The only use I ever had for plastic army men was to fight my Imperial Godzilla toy.
@@joshuaperrine2019 We released two Best Of albums a month or two ago. All the songs were remastered, cleaned up, and even featured some new versions. Plus, they have tracks that have been unavailable for a long while. Those are all on Spotify now. There's a vinyl release planned, but the factory that makes them is having some tech issues. So those are on hold. I did though get the test copies and they are pretty darn neat.
Thanks again for a great video . I remember so few of these commercials and i wonder if they were aired or the toys sold in Ontario . I wish there were a toy museum close by and a comic book museum as well .
Oh and a Billy Mumy commercial? Your a bad man a very bad man!! And there he is the ever popular Curt Russell, the king of Mattel commercials! But I had an aircraft carrier which launched planes via rubber bands but I can't recall its name. And a model tank called battling Betsy but it had to many parts (500)I think and I could never finish it, I got the base done but the turret had to many gears and so small gears and it was programmable! To much for a 10 year old! I didn't flip and smash it but we moved and it got lost in the move!. But my brain injury brain shrink is calling so I have to be ready for him, or no PTSD meds for me!😵😱
Hey there Rob, been MIA due to reason (that may or may not have involved assisting Agent Zero-M on a covert op, very hush-hush), so catching up on videos & comments on Turkey Day 🦃 An altogether amazing assortment of adverts, would have been stoked to own any of these as a kid, but the ‘70s/‘80s toys we had were awesome in their own right too 😁 I’m guessing you were named after Robert the Talking Robit, as i know you also have a talent for delivering magazines while driving bulldozers (or so i’ve heard).
That Agent Zero, he really does eat up much of one's free time. Allegedly, that is. Wouldn't know anything about that. Fully agreed with you on the 70s/80s toys. I would actually quite like to do a video like this about Sword & Sorcery toys. But the bulk of the great lines never got commercials of any kind. Which is a shame. A Warrior Beasts ad would have been seven layers of awesome. And right again. I was indeed named after my father and do indeed share his magazine delivery skills.
@@AtomicSnackBar Some of the best lines from companies like Remco, Olmec, & Arco must have had zero advertising budgets beyond some comic book print ads. A shame that… 😕
Some lovely toys here. As a kiddling I loved sci-fi toys but I really didn't like 50s/60s look space stuff. I now really like it. I used to love Flash Gordon and King of the Rocket Men - so I should have liked it more. Thanks for a lovely vid some of these toys would work well with Godzilla - speaking of which, I have heard some really good things about the new film (minus one) I really liked Shin - so I'm keen to see it.
Even though they were slightly before my time, back in the 80s toys would often hang around on the toy shelves long after their day, so I had a few of the Flash Gordon toys. I always wanted the Lion Man. But I think he was long sold out by that point. As to Godzilla, I haven't really gotten into anything since the Showa era. I like the Big G when he's light, fun, and over the top. Once the 90s hit, all the fun went away. Oddly enough, that's just for Godzilla. Kamen Rider on the other hand, I like when they make him dark and serious. Those 90s films that felt like The Guyver were great.
@@AtomicSnackBar I've kind of tried some of that - but not really me. For some reason Godzilla just hits my spot - showa is definitely my favourite but some of the others do tickle my giggles and shin hit the spot that The Host also nudged. I just love those little moments when the big G looks big and bad and tough. Also love the music - not mentioned enough - the music is so good. That march - I would never have listened to anything like that - but that march....
@@wetdog1606 Still to this day when I think Godzilla music one of the first things to come to mind is the music from the NES game. I enjoy the heck out of that menu music. czcams.com/video/pmwalYLaOXk/video.html
It was indeed. I threw the Kurt Russel and Billy commercials in there, even though they aren't sci-fi, simply because they featured future sci-fi stars. Thought it would be kinda neat to see.
What no greenie stick um caps toys. And we had a mr. Machine in my kindergarten class and I always misbehave so I'd be put in the coat room where the mr. Machine was kept. I spent a good amount of time in there why because I was ambidextrous and my teacher wasn't having any southpaw in her class. She thought left handed people were sinestre which is Latin for left handed. So I was evil!!😇. But I'm not, at least I think I'm not?
As someone who is mostly left handed, I can neither confirm nor deny any amount of evilness. My teachers just did not want to admit to my left handedness, or just thought I had terrible writing, so I was made to learn to write right handed. I do nearly everything else left handed.
I like how the toys back then had a story to tell.
Makes me want a robot.
You should very much draw a vintage robot. In your trademark style, that would be killer.
You're don't have, a wife??
That man in space set is nowhere available....rare as hell
And extremely cool too. I would love to have that one. Though I'd love to have any of these really.
Love those 50's commercials.
As do I. They had a style all their own.
Thanks for watching again.
I am always happy when you upload a new video. I actually remember most of these! --Dan
Through my 20s and 30s I was always all about the 70s and 80s. But as I've gotten older, I've come to realize how much 60s stuff I was actually into as a lad. I find myself these days far more attracted to the 60s over the 70s.
I just saw Garloo in ebay for $500 .
Dang, who would have thought that they’d be priced like that?
That is a hefty sum. Was it still in the box? Or we talking a loose one?
@@williamcurry4868 Being an avid toy collector, just the prices I've seen for 80s stuff can get sky high. I imagine something from the 60s would be a small fortune.
@@AtomicSnackBar It's without the box.
@@CesarClouds That's rough. It would have to be in mega mint condition.
Loved the video. The commercials brought back fond memories of a younger age.
Glad to be of service, good sir.
I had the small wind-up version of Garloo. Mom couldn't afford the big battery powered Garloo. I bawled for Robot Commando at Christmastime to no avail. Later I found a broken one in a neighbor's trash but it didn't work.
I actually saw the big guy in person a few weeks ago at a record store. I didn't realize what a large toy it actually was. So it makes sense.
Back when kids, had 'social' relationships. Excellent lineup, of retro toy commercials, sir☺️👏. Saw a very young, Billy Mumy, and possible, Kurt Russell (Sonic gun comm ).I was a kid, back in the 60's-70's!!!
And back too when they actually went outside and didn't have fancy phones glued to their hands.
I had "Robot Commando" & "Astrobase"! Robbie the Robot from "Forbidden Planet" as well.- Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺, Georgia Perimeter College and GSU 🎉❤❤❤
Oh man, I can just image being a kid and playing with the Robot Commando and Astrobase together. That would have been good times.
Thanks, Michael.
I had none of them, I was behind the goddamn Iron Curtain not even knowing that stuff like that exists.
Man, they really knew how to advertise toys back then! Garloo looks cool! I would definitely have wanted a King Zor. They weren’t messing around with that Sonic Blaster!
I saw a picture recently of an actual King Zor. Surprisingly, he was kind of a teal color with green legs and arms. More aquatic looking than I would have thought.
Rocker switches and a steering wheel do seem like the pinnacle of remote control design. I wish I was as talented as Robert. Very good collection of home videos
Not enough is said for the steering wheel on electronics. I use one for editing videos. Really makes things nice and swirlie.
at 8:17 I'm getting a real Tim Curry "Into spaacce" vibe. I swear the guy is on the verge of cracking up in places. Absolute gold :)
I hadn't noticed that until you pointed it out. But it sure enough looked like he was about to crack. Good eye there, your grace.
Wow, sir, doggone if you continue to find some of the greatest commercials for just neat stuff, especially with those ideal and marx commercials s. I hope we’ll see more in the future please.👍
You are in luck, good sir. Next week's episode will be a compilation as well as I prepare for the grand reopening of the "lounge". It's not toys, but it's pretty darn neat as well.
Thanks for watching, William.
Why do I come here when I need to feel safe LOL
Probably because of all the robots.
For me, Great Garloo is the star of the show in this collection. 🤖Robot Commando is pretty awesome too though. Great stuff as always Rob, it's always cool to check out some of the vintage toys before our time. I also dig that Silly Safari game. Looks like fun to set up and play as well. Have a great weekend ahead man!
Silly Safari did look like a good time. And that catchy little jingle too. I know it's not really sci-fi, but I thought it was just too fun to leave out. And for all we know, maybe it was a bunch of super intelligent silly safari animals created by a silly safari mad scientist.
Either way, thanks for watching, good sir.
I used to have Robot Commando. Got it for Christmas one year.
What a great Christmas gift. I can just imagine that fine gentleman under the tree. Very neat.
I so miss the Ideal Toy Company, my uncle used to work for them making the molds for the toys.
That's really neat. Did he hold on to any of the stuff he worked on?
@@AtomicSnackBar No, unfortunately he did not...nor did his children.
A neighbor kid had a "The Great Garloo" ( pretty cheaply made I recall) .
I had a "Defender Dan" 50 cal as a kid.
I wish I could recall the set of 2-60's plastic 'walking' monster insects with grasping jaws I got for Xmas.
- the larger fat long oval one was green and there a was a smaller all flat orange "crablike" one . They were hard plastic and 6"-8" inches.
I've looked but can't source them
I do believe you are referring to Hamilton's Invaders by Remco. Came out in 1964, if I'm not mistaken.
The Sonic Blaster, talk about irony it looks like a LAWS rocket.
And I think the two came out at about the same time.
I feel like I have seen all this before in another life. I have to say Robert The Talking Robot, King Zor, Astro Base,Robot Commando, and The Great Garloo are among my favorites. But it was also cool seeing all the other space toys weather rockets or toy guns or other play sets. Sorry for my extreme lateness.
Nonsense my fine feathered friend. Your mind is playing tricks on me again. That's all.
And don't worry about the lateness at all. I know how the holiday season and the new year can be.
Great collection of all the toy commercials I grew up with but never owned…sadly.
A bit before my time, but hot dog, I would love to own every one of them here.
You grew up, poor probably, just like me🙄…………
I had a couple of Major Matt Masons and minor accessories, but my cousin had the lot including the base.
@@martykarr7058 Seems like we all had that cousin or friend who had all the cool stuff.
I remember these commercial. Bummer!
I'd say that is pretty neat.
Robot commando here to help you. An Oldie in any case!
I saw one in person recently and he was glorious.
The stuff that Dreams are made of. As a kid I always wanted a lot of these toys mentioned. But it was never to be. Very expensive for those toys when sold in Canada. Robot Commando was $ 100 Canadian. So were many of the other Ideal and Remco Toys. However we were happy with what we got. One year my brother got a Great Garloo because at that time there was an official Canadian importer of Marx Toys. And someone got us the Simpson-Sear employee discount. He played with that for hours.
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And when we did see them in the big department stores they had demonstrations and those battery toys in the video sure were noisy. Thanks for a walk down memory lane.
When I first started digging around for these vintage ads, I was surprised how expensive some of this stuff actually was. Even here in America. When you actually look at the prices adjusted for inflation, it's kind of shocking toy companies could get away with such high price points.
But that is awesome that your brother got the Great Garloo. He was before my time, but I would have loved the heck out of that thing as a lad.
I didn't realize that Canada had such high import fees back then. I do recall as a kid always seeing the Canadian price on magazine covers and it being different than the U.S. price.
@@AtomicSnackBar Yes the fees and duties were high and on top of all that a federal tax. They were all added in to the wholesale price for a retailer. And with the smaller market the retailers had to charge more. And it had very little to do with currency exchange rates. Even today with a dollar difference of 35% prices for some goods are 60% higher or more. even though we have free trade prices are a lot highher for many reasons.
@@garfieldsmith332 Totally off topic, but I don't get into many modern things. But I do like me some Canadian TV. You have some fine shows up there. Corner Gas. Trailer Park Boys. Cock'd Gunns. Schitt's Creek.
These toys were before my time. I think the best time for toys was the late 70s thru the 80s. If I had been born earlier, I would have collected the Marx playsets and similar toys, like the Ideal 1966 Batman and Justice League toys.
I had thought about doing a 70s volume as well. Perhaps if this one does well, I will. I would like to expand it into actual videos, discussing the history of some of this stuff. Though I did cover Robert the Robot in Sci-fi Robots II and really enjoyed doing that. Cause really, toys are still my favorite thing to cover.
Picked up anything lately? Or still trimming down the collection?
@@AtomicSnackBar I've been getting graded Star Trek The Motion Picture aliens, like Arcturian Graded 85 for my birthday and Rigellian Graded 90 for Christmas. Also, I got a Remco Universal Monsters Wolfman carded. That's one of my favorite figures and altough I had three of them as a kid (2 non-glow and 1 glow), I opened them all and put them in a figure case. So it's nice to have a carded one.
@@destructarr Those are some great purchases right there. I really like the packaging and style of the Star Trek figures. And of course, I have a real soft spot for pretty much anything Remco.
These old ads are a wonder to watch we'll done my lord wxelent collection!
I thank you much, good Mr. Blackmoor. I really enjoy these little compilations, even if they aren't as wild and wacky as the Sophisticated Weirdos.
Thanks for watching, good sir.
I still can't figure out how robot Commandos secret weapon is a secret when it's under a clear covering on top of his head...
I can't tell you.
It's a secret.
Thank you for the feast.....
My pleasure, Tater.
I want these toys!
As do I. I would love a collection of these.
Oh early voice control technology eh, well I had to look that up! It’s a bit of a ‘magic trick’, the child had to first use the controller to set the desired action, then their ‘voice’ activated it, but really any strong enough ’puff’ of sound caused a flat plate inside the ‘mic’ to connect the motor, so shout, or just blow. Clever stuff though, great interactive play!
Well, that's neat in and of itself. It's a fascinating topic. Vintage toys are one of my main interests. I actually did a little coverage of the Robert the Robot toy in my Top 1950s Sci-fi Robots Part II. My way of slipping some toy talk onto the channel.
@@AtomicSnackBar you must love automaton! I do…
@@Lumibear. Yes, indeed. One might call me a fan of robots.
Watch out for the Pink Robot Commando Sterling!! He is coming for you. You can never go wrong with Rock Em Sock Em Robots either. Wonderful finds and picks Sir.
I thank you, good Miss Tochi. And I will watch out for the pink Robot Commando. That is, so we can hang out. I like robots and my favorite color just happens to be magenta.
@TheWackyWorldLounge My favorite color also Sterling.
@ The Wacky World Lounge- I had a metallic magenta bicycle with a banana seat back in the late 60s. True story.
@ The Wacky World Lounge- I forgot the long handlebars too. We used to take playing cards and pin them to the spokes in the wheels. It made an awesome clicking sound that got louder the faster you pedaled. Haven't thought about that in years. Good times.
@@jennifertochi6253 Oh yeah? I wouldn't have expected that. I would have thought something like Tork Blue.
Robit. haha. Anyway, I always wanted a Garloo toy. And Mr. Sterling, I don't know where you get all these great old commercials, but keep it up!
Garloo was a bit before my time, but I have no doubt I would have gone bananas over that guy. Heck, I'd still love to have one.
Thanks for watching, Keith. Next week's episode will be another compilation as well whilst I prepare for the grand reopening.
@@AtomicSnackBar Looking forward to that!
@@keithrawlings7633 I think you'll enjoy it. Very fitting for what I do around here.
Great fun: cheers!
Good to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Wish I could have a Great Garlooo
I saw one in person a few weeks ago at a record store. He's really big. The commercials don't do him justice.
I love these cheesy commercials. Your videos always make me smile. But Santa i want a countdown for Christmas.
I just got an angry e-mail from Santa demanding I hurry up with the rebranding and get an actual Top List episode up again. I think he misunderstood.
What a fantastic channel. Thank you.
Ah, well thank you much. And I appreciate you watching.
Only one of these i had as a kid was a Mr. Machine but i see why my generation became either hippies or killers LOL !!! Wow i must say what a brave little kid to give little Billy Mumy a hard time & how lucky he didn't get sent to that cornfield; you know the one i speak of. Yea it's no wonder we who were born in the 50s turned out as we did!!! Lucky us .. I did have one those Machine guns that had the little red flame thing on the barrel that moved in & out when you fired it & the only Rockets i had were the ones you put a cap in & tossed so when they hit we got the big bang & the rockets that you put water in & it had this slide thing you hooked it to & pumped it up & got soaked when it launched . Man, they just didn't care what we did back then.
Either the cornfield or getting zapped by the robot. Neither sound too good.
Growing up in the 80s, we were the last generation to have realistic toy guns. The dreaded parents groups were really coming into power back then and ruining stuff for everyone.
this is just a list of things to put in a king kong comic
I would read that. Especially Kong vs. the Robot Commando.
Thanks for checking it, Rex.
@@AtomicSnackBar for me it's Kong Vs Garloo, keep up the amazing videos.
@@rexevans5477 That would be a very close second for me. It's long past time for our buddy Garloo to make a comeback.
@@AtomicSnackBar True but I would love to have a rerelease of it too put in my collection.
@@rexevans5477 That would be great. There's been a few new, really stylized versions, but they just don't have the same feel for me.
Did you ever notice how in the 1950s if an alien flying saucer landed on Earth, the knee jerk reaction was to blast him in the face with whatever gun was at hand? Kids were shooting everything back then judging from several of those commercials. That Space Patrol console "send 25¢ and the top off a Nestle's Ever-ready Coco was what inspired Ralphie from A Christmas Story to " Drink more Oveltine ". Billy Mumy seemed to be auditioning for the Twilight Zone judging from his commercial. Creepy kid. You can be sure that other kid ended up in the cornfield. Robots and Guns were clearly the favorite toys for boys in the 50s. More civilized times.
They may have had the right idea. Had they had that same attitude in E.T. that would have been a much better movie.
And I think you may be onto something with the Bill Mumy commercial. That fourth wall breaking kid was never seen again.
Robots and guns were favorites of my generation as well. G.I. Joe, Transformers, it's a dynamite combo.
Thanks for watching this one again.
@ The Wacky World Lounge - Hm. Excellent observation, my friend. Combining Robots and Guns is a natural progression. Perhaps the plastic forming technologies weren't capable of the minute articulation without breaking. Transformers toys were quite revolutionary in hindsight. Inevitable. William C.Mumy grew into the Will Robinson role and thank God. He did project potential little psychopath vibes in that commercial. That kid with him did in fact meet a mysterious and premature demise. Lost In Space also brought us the hotness which was Marta Kristin aka Judy Robinson. And the classic Robot. I never heard the term B-9 before the last few years. Just like George Lucas' revisionism; Star Wars was just... STAR WARS... Bah-dah! Iconic.
@@tonysantiago255 I do want to say the Robot's model number B-9 was mentioned in the original series. But the family never called him that. It was always just "The Robot". Or "Robut" as Bill Mumy always said. I'm actually long overdue for another full rewatch. But I have so many boxsets I haven't watched yet. Space 1999. UFO. About 5 seasons of Ultraman.
@ The Wacky World Lounge- Have you seen the original Pilot episode for LOS? Well worth it. Much more straight forward Sci-fi/Fantasy. More serious in tone. But sans the "Robutt" and the necessary antagonist villain in Dr. Smith. It's also only about $10 almost everywhere. You certainly do have a number of full series to slog through. I wasn't particularly interested in UFO until I found out that it was done by Gerry Anderson of Super-Marionation fame. Now I'm very interested. Robert the Robot Co-pilot of Steve Zodiak is probably my 5-6 year old introduction to the World of Robutts and his transparent acrylic appearance and especially the way he spoke immediately made me a lifelong Robot fan. A fan of butts would come later after puberty hit. And their accompanying upper partners. UFO purple- haired nymphomaniacs are another selling point.
@ The Wacky World Lounge - I just watched this video again and man! That Sonic Blaster commercial with Kurt Russell squinting through the scope so reminded me of his future characters of Snake Plisken, and his roles in Big Trouble in Little China and the much ignored but terrific Soldier 1999(?) Sci-fi should be a classic. Have you seen that one?
A very young Kurt Russell I believe. 17.27
It was indeed. I know that commercial wasn't technically sci-fi, but since Kurt went on to do quite a bit of it, I thought it was kind of a neat thing to include.
Thanks for watching, Kurt.
toys, they were so much better when I was young.
I'm pretty partial to the toys of my youth as well, but I do love the early sci-fi stuff.
I had a Robot Commando. I had more fun with him, clobbering the plastic army men. These were great toys to develop imagination. The 60s were a great time to be a kid.
That's great. He was before my time, but knowing me as a lad, I would have loved the Robot Commando. The only use I ever had for plastic army men was to fight my Imperial Godzilla toy.
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That is mighty kind of you to say. I appreciate that, Joshua.
@@AtomicSnackBar Anymore Vamp Star music in the works?
@@joshuaperrine2019 We released two Best Of albums a month or two ago. All the songs were remastered, cleaned up, and even featured some new versions. Plus, they have tracks that have been unavailable for a long while. Those are all on Spotify now.
There's a vinyl release planned, but the factory that makes them is having some tech issues. So those are on hold. I did though get the test copies and they are pretty darn neat.
Thanks again for a great video . I remember so few of these commercials and i wonder if they were aired or the toys sold in Ontario .
I wish there were a toy museum close by and a comic book museum as well .
My pleasure. I really enjoyed making this one. And not sure if you noticed, but there was a young Kurt Russell in one of the commercials.
@@AtomicSnackBar I saw it mentioned in the comments but I only noticed Billy Mummy, I'll have a closer look .
@@user-pj1lo1ry2k His comes it at around 17 minutes.
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Oh and a Billy Mumy commercial? Your a bad man a very bad man!! And there he is the ever popular Curt Russell, the king of Mattel commercials! But I had an aircraft carrier which launched planes via rubber bands but I can't recall its name. And a model tank called battling Betsy but it had to many parts (500)I think and I could never finish it, I got the base done but the turret had to many gears and so small gears and it was programmable! To much for a 10 year old! I didn't flip and smash it but we moved and it got lost in the move!. But my brain injury brain shrink is calling so I have to be ready for him, or no PTSD meds for me!😵😱
Sounds like you had some pretty spiffy toys as a lad. The good old days, when toys could still launch things.
Hey there Rob, been MIA due to reason (that may or may not have involved assisting Agent Zero-M on a covert op, very hush-hush), so catching up on videos & comments on Turkey Day 🦃
An altogether amazing assortment of adverts, would have been stoked to own any of these as a kid, but the ‘70s/‘80s toys we had were awesome in their own right too 😁
I’m guessing you were named after Robert the Talking Robit, as i know you also have a talent for delivering magazines while driving bulldozers (or so i’ve heard).
That Agent Zero, he really does eat up much of one's free time. Allegedly, that is. Wouldn't know anything about that.
Fully agreed with you on the 70s/80s toys. I would actually quite like to do a video like this about Sword & Sorcery toys. But the bulk of the great lines never got commercials of any kind. Which is a shame. A Warrior Beasts ad would have been seven layers of awesome.
And right again. I was indeed named after my father and do indeed share his magazine delivery skills.
@@AtomicSnackBar Some of the best lines from companies like Remco, Olmec, & Arco must have had zero advertising budgets beyond some comic book print ads. A shame that… 😕
@@Gappasaurus Odd too. Take Lost World of the Warlord. It had a comic, comic ads, yet not a single commercial.
@@AtomicSnackBar Maybe they thought commercials would have pushed their luck, considering the MOTU-style design influences 😅
@@Gappasaurus It was the 80s. A wonderfully lawless time. I somehow doubt that even crossed their minds.
Some lovely toys here. As a kiddling I loved sci-fi toys but I really didn't like 50s/60s look space stuff. I now really like it. I used to love Flash Gordon and King of the Rocket Men - so I should have liked it more. Thanks for a lovely vid some of these toys would work well with Godzilla - speaking of which, I have heard some really good things about the new film (minus one) I really liked Shin - so I'm keen to see it.
Even though they were slightly before my time, back in the 80s toys would often hang around on the toy shelves long after their day, so I had a few of the Flash Gordon toys. I always wanted the Lion Man. But I think he was long sold out by that point.
As to Godzilla, I haven't really gotten into anything since the Showa era. I like the Big G when he's light, fun, and over the top. Once the 90s hit, all the fun went away.
Oddly enough, that's just for Godzilla. Kamen Rider on the other hand, I like when they make him dark and serious. Those 90s films that felt like The Guyver were great.
@@AtomicSnackBar I've kind of tried some of that - but not really me. For some reason Godzilla just hits my spot - showa is definitely my favourite but some of the others do tickle my giggles and shin hit the spot that The Host also nudged. I just love those little moments when the big G looks big and bad and tough. Also love the music - not mentioned enough - the music is so good. That march - I would never have listened to anything like that - but that march....
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@@wetdog1606 Still to this day when I think Godzilla music one of the first things to come to mind is the music from the NES game. I enjoy the heck out of that menu music.
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Another great video. Is that Kurt Russell in the zero m sonic blaster comercial?
It was indeed. I threw the Kurt Russel and Billy commercials in there, even though they aren't sci-fi, simply because they featured future sci-fi stars. Thought it would be kinda neat to see.
I also wondered it was Kurt Russell.
@@robertdee648 I stumbled across that one simply by accident. It wasn't even labeled as Kurt.
I prefer Great Garlic, makes mealtimes better.
I'm more a mustard guy myself.
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Right back atcha, Dano.
What no greenie stick um caps toys. And we had a mr. Machine in my kindergarten class and I always misbehave so I'd be put in the coat room where the mr. Machine was kept. I spent a good amount of time in there why because I was ambidextrous and my teacher wasn't having any southpaw in her class. She thought left handed people were sinestre which is Latin for left handed. So I was evil!!😇. But I'm not, at least I think I'm not?
As someone who is mostly left handed, I can neither confirm nor deny any amount of evilness. My teachers just did not want to admit to my left handedness, or just thought I had terrible writing, so I was made to learn to write right handed. I do nearly everything else left handed.