Let's take a little trip down memory lane as we watch classic toy commercials from the 80's and 90's, including Easy Bake Oven, Teddy Ruxpin, Skip-It, and more!
The Micro Machines guy is John Moschitta Jr, a New Yorker who once held the Guinness World Record for the fastest talker (his record was broken in 1990). He's the one who sang Michael Jackson's BAD in twenty seconds. He can articulate 586 words per minute which is still incredible
Fun fact, I snuck out of the house routinely as a teen, and used my brother’s ground floor window to get back in (because he could and has slept through a tornado before). One night he left his Teddy Ruxpin near the window and it must have had a motion sensor or something and as I slipped inside it announced, “Hi, my name is Teddy Ruxpin, can you and I be friends?” And proceeded to kick its dang fool head off. He was grounded for breaking his Christmas gift, and I confessed my crime to him on his 30th birthday. But really, I did us all a favor, because that thing was terrifying talking nightmare fuel in fuzzy bear form.
True story; one Christmas, one of my cousins got a first-gen Teddy Ruxpin, and I replaced the usual cassette with 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be."
Came to the comments just to see what other tapes people put in! I was just a little too old for the toy when it came out, so we put a Pantera tape in it.
Do you remember 2XL? It was a robot that used 8-track tapes, and it was all educational type stuff. One of my cousins had one, and I remember playing a Black Sabbath album through it. :)
Okay I'm 63. I didn't have a skip it but I did have a precursor to it. It had a hard plastic ring that you slipped over your foot and around your ankle, a plastic cord that attached to a ball with jingle bells in it. I also had an operation game that would scare the bejesus out of me. I did have an easy bake oven and I absolutely loved it. I got my granddaughter an easy bake oven for her birthday one year and she absolutely loved it. My youngest son had a Teddy ruxpin and even after it broke he would not let me get rid of it. I think it's still around here somewhere. Everybody had Hot Wheels. I was really disappointed not to see rock'em sock'em robots. Great stroll down memory lane.
@@geralynnmatta2763 Hi! I had the Lemon up skip it myself. It was back around 1977 I think. Every time the skip it commercial came on I told my husband look that's the Lemon up skip toy I had! He said he was too old for it when it came out the first time. I'm glad someone else remembered it. Take care, stay safe, have a nice day. 👵🙂✌️☮️🖖 😷 🙉🙈🙊
Our school has had the low-tech, plastic skip-its in every classroom's playground equipment since 2019. Few of them get used because the ankle loop either doesn't fit over kids' shoes or it is too loose and flies off as they play. And there's always the one kid who uses it as a flail, swinging it at kids for no good reason.
I never had a Furby when they first came out but I did find myself one at a thrift store last year. My husband and I use it to torment each other by hiding it around the house. It also talks at random which makes it all the better. Best spot is between the towels across from the toilet... The stuff of nightmares...
@Parrottsonthe platueo, I remember my daughter wanting a furry the first year it came out and it was extremely hard to get one so a guy that worked at wal mart had bought all of them and was selling out of his trunk of his car behind of the store for double the cost . It felt like an unsafe drug deal going back there to get that toy she wanted so badly . She only played with it a few times too . The things parents will do to make their kids happy at Christmas is crazy now that I look back it , I can't believe I done that , honestly . My grandson would love those soccer poppers he would beat the crap out of himself playing with the though .
I remember all these commercials. To answer the question that was asked, Gremlin’s came out about a decade before furby did. One of the three our family had would wake up in middle of the night and start talking his fool head off, his batteries got removed first. 🤣🤣🤣
Back in the '50's, my Dad and I watched cartoons, Laurel and Hardy, Three Stooges, etc. Dad would diss the toy commercials with comments like, "Aw, that's just two cents worth of plastic.". Glad he took time to watch TV with us kids. Even tho later on, when I watched Humphrey Bogart movies, Dad always said, "well there's that Goon again".
When my son was a toddler he loved Hot Wheels. When it came time to potty train him I used this love to my advantage. I bought 7 Hot Wheels and told him,"Every time you go poo poo on the potty you get a Hot Wheels." It worked like a charm.
I loved Hot Wheels. My son loves hot wheels. I used Hot Wheels to help potty train my son when he was 3. Unfortunately, as a parentI have concluded that Hot Wheels are worse than Legos. Legos have never been used to crack a cellphone or 56-inch TV. :P
In the 70s and 80s my mother always made his turn down the sound to nothing when the commercials would come on for toys. She would say this is how it'll be in real life if you have that toy. She was so right!
"Blow 'em up, put your hand inside" *That's what she said* Teddy Ruxpin may be scary, but not as scary as It's A Small World at Disney must be after the park closes
@@ponykarr1396 OMG, so did I! For at least a half-hour, right next to one of the amplifiers. Used to be one of my favorite rides, but haven't been on it since.
My Easy Bake was from the 60’s the cake was great - though my older brother you to snitch them before I could frost them. I still have the oven and it still works with the original 60 watt lightbulb!
Grew up with my dad's childhood Tonka dump trucks to play with. Metal, to boot. They hurt to hit your shin on. But they are phenomenal to dig in gravel, haul dirt and rocks. We got Guess Who for road trips. Loved it. Still have it. Mom got my brothers a lot of little matchbox/hot wheels style cars. Mom is saving them for future grand kids - in ice cream buckets
We had to destroy my son's Furbee No joke, it went berserk in the middle of the night. My husband and I, dazed from waking up to a crazed furbee couldn't figure out how to turn it off and smashed it with a hammer. My sons didn't care, because they were kind of creeped out by Furbee too.
@Skyla Carleton my sons Furbees did! That night it was moving around and talking gibberish all by itself. My sons didn't really like them anyway, cause they were CREEPY AF
I wanted a Skip-It, but I had adult size feet as a third grader so that didn't happen lol. I had a friend whose dad got drunk, screwed around with Teddy Ruxpin, and would thereafter use it to play his Metallica tapes (I guess it wasn't supposed to be able to play anything but the official TR tapes). The Easy Bake oven needed a 100 watt light bulb and at least 3 in my neighborhood caught fire. This is why I never got one for my daughter when she was little, even though it was supposed to be safer lol. I was low-key hoping for My Buddy/Kid Sister, but they aren't often in the 'old toy commercial reaction' videos. I just really remember wanting one specifically because I'm the oldest of six and wanted a sibling I could turn off whenever I wanted lmao. I did have all of the Care Bears AND their cousins, though!
My cousin had a ferbie that freaked out, literally started acting demonic with a deep distorted voice and random blinking eyes and movements and then he started smoking, made a screaming sound and then just died. A little bit of smoke just started coming out of the top and then it just stopped. We picked it up with gloves, threw it in the yard, sprayed it with the hose and threw it in the trash. It was horrific.
Electric/chemical/powered toys always have injured kids, less often mentally. Remember ber the movie Poltergeist and the rich kid toys that went whack.
I was so annoyed when Socker Boppers came out because my siblings and I were already doing that with rolled up sleeping bags, and it felt like they stole our idea.
My cousin had a furbee when she was younger. And then years later she was asleep and woke up to it going off. It said, “I’m hiding.” Yeah I would’ve thrown it away immediately
My friend's daughter had a Furby that was defective. It never shut off! That thing scared the crap outta me, and I was a full grown adult with 3 kids. My children never got a Furby. This made me think of toy commercials in the 60's and 70's. Anyone else remember the Whizzer? They were little tops that you revved up on the ground and let them spin. In the commercial, they showed a kid who put it on his head. So, of course, I tried it and ended up with a bald spot on my head because my mom had to cut it out with scissors.
I worked for Kay Bee Toys and Toys R Us during this time and sold all of these. We played with all this stuff during down time. My favorite was laser tag and super soakers, running around the aisles of Toys R Us when it was closed. So much fun! Now that damn Teddy Ruxpin, every employee hated that!!!! When we turned out the main lights at night, that possessed bear would start talking and scare the hell outta all of us. Picture a totally silent, dark toy store, with weird shadows on the walls, then suddenly...BAM! Teddy starts talking somewhere down an aisle. Creepy! I wouldnt touch it. *SHUDDERS*
My cousin had a precursor to Teddy Ruxpin. It was a talking bear named Biff. When you pulled the string, his mouth moved. My cousin was just a baby when he got it. They pulled the string and Biff said, "I think I'll go beat up a ... a... chipmonk!" My cousin burst into tears. He didn't really warm up to that bear until he got a little older when he figured out how to poke his finger in the bear's mouth to shut him up.
The Guess Who commercial shown here is the updated version....they had to add "tiles do not talk" because the original commercial showed them talking and the game was purchased based on that and people expected them to talk.....I think they might have been sued because it was shown as false advertising to show them talking when they didn't. (Back in the days when the commercials had to show the TRUE experience....now people know most of it is CGI)
I had the lemon twist too - it had beads or something inside that made a very satisfying "shiiick shick" as it spun around. I loved mine, but never thought to hula too!
If my memory serves, Furby caused a kerfuffle and was banned from certain intelligence agency buildings, as it was feared it could record classified conversations.
Before my time. My childhood toy commercials memories began in the early 2000s, Easy Bake Oven, Care Bears, Barbie, Hot Wheels. Those crayons you melt together. Ahh the rapid words at the end of each commercial that you're not supposed to catch. Cartoons and toy commercials. Veggie tales was a major part of childhood too.
My niece got one for her first birthday, when the Teddy Ruxpin started to talk she procieded to run up my brothers arms to her mother, he was holding her in a chair, while opening presents.
The cake baked itself. It was loaded with chemicals, I’m sure. It was the consistency of a brownie at best. I remember them and eating them as a child. I thought they were great.
Guys, Loved the video. Maybe you can do one on toys of the 70's like the deadly ClickClack, the ultra safe Lawn Jarts and other educational toys we had back then. Again, Love all your content. Please keep it up.
I still have my clacker that I got when I was in Junior High. They are red and I had so many bruises on my right arm from it. lol I'm 65 years old now. Tha's how old they are.
We girls were just talking about lawn darts at work the other day. We used to play chicken with the lawn darts. We'd throw them up in the air and stand there and see who could last the longest before we jumped out of the way. LMAO miraculously, none of us were ever hurt.
So many childhood toy memories in one video! My sister and I had Guess Who, Socker Boppers, and a Skip-It! I had Hot Wheels cars, but never that tower or any Micromachines.
My daughter has a teddy rudskin bear. The cassets would go in and he would read a story..thats why there are the books to follow the story The micro machine guy actually talked that fast and thats why the disclaimers sound fast to try and imitate the guy...He was the only guy that could talk that fast.
I think 'Operation' was from the 70's, as was Hot-Wheels. Those two, I think are older than the 80's. They just had a longer marketing program. :) I also remember adults from work getting those Furby's and having them at their desk. I think they were told to turn them off. :)
Hi B E, I remember the neighbor's kids had the Operation game back in 1967 or '68. And it wasn't new when they taught me how to play it. So it was a 60's game, not a 70's game. The game is over 50 years old. Hope this helps. Take care, stay safe, have a nice day. 👵🙂✌️☮️🖖 😷 🙉🙈🙊
@@BROUBoomer I stand corrected. :) I was born in the 60's, but wouldn't have been aware of the game until the 70's. Thanks for setting me straight. I love 'just the facts'. :)
SKIP IT!!! I was describing this to a friend the other day and I couldn’t remember the name. Thank you, we now can complete our conversation. And we can move on to micro machines. Loved those.
Children's toys have been crazy for decades . There were lawn darts that actually injured several people , chemistry sets , a nuclear lab with real nuclear material , a soldering iron with wood planks . The original Boba Fett action figure launched a projectile that got recalled after some kids choked on it . There was a toy locomotive that burned fuel to produce steam , and a pop gun that used chemicals to shoot a ping pong ball . In the 70s I had a rocket launcher that used a pump to compress water .You could injure yourself if you held your face in front of the rocket when you tripped the trigger .
Heh, I remember playing with that water rocket... I think it was toys from the 1970s Battlestar Galactica that led to the "laser" redesigns. We had the earlier versions as kids.
@@CantankerousDave Yep . Mine was clear red plastic . Did you have an Evil Knievel wind-up motorcycle with action figure ? Did you have the SST car that used a ripcord to spin the drive wheel ? Did you have the Smash Up Derby cars that exploded when they crashed into your mom's furniture ?
Our house is made up of 60s (erector set, moon shoes, lawn darts) and 70s (stretch Armstrong, lemon twist) kids, but we remember all these from our kids and baby siblings. And it reminded us of lots of other toys - I still want a hippity hop!
I had a hippity hop when I was a kid... or at least an off brand one lol. I loved that thing!!! I completely forgot about it until I just read your comment.
@@alicesmith7020 I had one of those, or maybe my neighbor did. I remember playing on one when I was really little. I can't believe I used to be able to spin like that and think it was fun. Now I get motion sick in those high up restaurants in cities that slowly turn so you get a full view. Ugh, worst dinner I ever had. I had to fight puking the entire time. Getting older sucks lol
Hi JonSnowRadio, I had the Hippity Hop in blue. Every time I took it outside to play with it I was the last one to get to use it. My parents went first, if my cousins were over they went next, aunts and uncles too, any neighbors. By the time it was my turn it was getting dark and time to go to bed. I had a love hate relationship with my Hippity Hop. It was only safe to play with it early on summer weekdays. Before anyone else noticed. It was really fun, I'm sorry you missed out on it. Take care, stay safe, have a nice day. 👵🙂✌️☮️🖖 😷 🙉🙈🙊 *Have you looked into one of those giant exercise balls that you sit on? It would be close to the Hippity Hop. 🤔
Awesome. Remembering raising my kids in the 90's and bought a lot of these toys. But I remember as when I was a kid and I had a lemon twist kinda looked like the skip it. But there wasn't a counter. Would y'all review some of the toys commercials in tht late sixty's and seventies?🤷♀️😜
I had a skip it and I once maxed out the counter so it is doable. I also had a Furby and it was creepier than my cousin’s Teddy Ruxpin. I once took the batteries out and it kept talking.
We had the sockem boppers for one day. My dad was really protective. He was worried I would hurt my little brother so he said "take it easy dont hurt him." Well my little brother just so happened to be just enough shorter than me that every punch he threw hit me square in the nose. My eyes started tearing up after several punches. I finally shouted "I quit!" Also I remember the furbies. I never had one but always thought they looked eerily similar to a character named Furbis from Masked Rider. (It came on Saturday mornings)
Dang! I thought I was not that much older than them. I remember these toys when I was a kid. Even looking thru the Sears catalog to make a Christmas list. 👀
..If I recall, the Micro-Machine guy was in the Guinness book (at that time) for being the World's Fastest Talker.. Sidenote: You haven't lived untiL you were a kid in the 80's and put a "Straight Outta Compton" cassette inside your Teddy Ruxpin!!! 😂
That fast-talking guy was famous for about 15 minutes, because he was among the fastest talking people according to the Guinness Book. Seems like I remember him being on one of those shows like That's Incredible! or whatever.
The Micro Machines guy is John Moschitta Jr, a New Yorker who once held the Guinness World Record for the fastest talker (his record was broken in 1990). He's the one who sang Michael Jackson's BAD in twenty seconds. He can articulate 586 words per minute which is still incredible
He and Michael Winslow were the Voice guys of the Eighties. And Rich Little, but he did impersonations.
And I just read your coment in his voice. lol
He also was the voice of the Autobot Blur in Transformers cartoon
Kimmy Schmidt made fun of this when she was in therapy and wanted to get through 15 years’ worth of trauma in one day.
He was also the Autobot Blurr.
Fun fact, I snuck out of the house routinely as a teen, and used my brother’s ground floor window to get back in (because he could and has slept through a tornado before). One night he left his Teddy Ruxpin near the window and it must have had a motion sensor or something and as I slipped inside it announced, “Hi, my name is Teddy Ruxpin, can you and I be friends?” And proceeded to kick its dang fool head off. He was grounded for breaking his Christmas gift, and I confessed my crime to him on his 30th birthday. But really, I did us all a favor, because that thing was terrifying talking nightmare fuel in fuzzy bear form.
His 30th birthday!! Ha!! That’s awesome!! Made me laughoutloud.
"Has slept through a tornado." Wow!!!! Now that is what I am calling "dead" to the world. Talk about super amazing.
That's awful you let him get punished for your crime!!
Teddy was awesome..... putting a rock tape in him and watching him sing rock.... good times.
Yes! Teddy Ruxpin was the worst!!
"I have a scar..." The start to every interesting story.
Who remembers "Clackers" talk about injuries.
I loved my clackers. So sad as a kid when they were banned. But now as a grandma, no way I let my granddaughter play with it! 🤗
They do break. That was the goal, actually. You get some arm strength built up. Shame some Karen got 'em banned.
True story; one Christmas, one of my cousins got a first-gen Teddy Ruxpin, and I replaced the usual cassette with 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be."
Came to the comments just to see what other tapes people put in! I was just a little too old for the toy when it came out, so we put a Pantera tape in it.
I put Ozzy Osborne crazy train in my cousins Teddy ruxpen, completely freaked her out
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Do you remember 2XL? It was a robot that used 8-track tapes, and it was all educational type stuff. One of my cousins had one, and I remember playing a Black Sabbath album through it. :)
We could never get Teddy R to work correctly. Returned a couple before we gave up on him. He may be up in the attic with Castle Grayskull
Okay I'm 63. I didn't have a skip it but I did have a precursor to it. It had a hard plastic ring that you slipped over your foot and around your ankle, a plastic cord that attached to a ball with jingle bells in it. I also had an operation game that would scare the bejesus out of me. I did have an easy bake oven and I absolutely loved it. I got my granddaughter an easy bake oven for her birthday one year and she absolutely loved it. My youngest son had a Teddy ruxpin and even after it broke he would not let me get rid of it. I think it's still around here somewhere. Everybody had Hot Wheels. I was really disappointed not to see rock'em sock'em robots. Great stroll down memory lane.
Also the lemonhead jump and skip.
The whole time I was watching, I was thinking, I'm too old for these, but I remember the precursor toy(s) for several of them.
@@geralynnmatta2763 Hi!
I had the Lemon up skip it myself. It was back around 1977 I think. Every time the skip it commercial came on I told my husband look that's the Lemon up skip toy I had! He said he was too old for it when it came out the first time.
I'm glad someone else remembered it.
Take care, stay safe, have a nice day.
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Our school has had the low-tech, plastic skip-its in every classroom's playground equipment since 2019. Few of them get used because the ankle loop either doesn't fit over kids' shoes or it is too loose and flies off as they play. And there's always the one kid who uses it as a flail, swinging it at kids for no good reason.
I had the lemon one, too!
Who else in the 70s got excited when JCPennys Christmas toy catalog came out?
Oh that was the best going through it and making up your wish list. I miss those days.
@@juliearmfield2634 sit there all day and dream.
Not just JC Penney's, but Montgomery Wards, and Sears & Roebuck, too!
It was the toys r us catalog for my generation, that and the eastbay magazine.
Oh yes! And then the Toys r us catalog later
I never had a Furby when they first came out but I did find myself one at a thrift store last year. My husband and I use it to torment each other by hiding it around the house. It also talks at random which makes it all the better. Best spot is between the towels across from the toilet... The stuff of nightmares...
Then you get a second one and place them both near each other.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣~wheeeeeeeze~
@Parrottsonthe platueo, I remember my daughter wanting a furry the first year it came out and it was extremely hard to get one so a guy that worked at wal mart had bought all of them and was selling out of his trunk of his car behind of the store for double the cost . It felt like an unsafe drug deal going back there to get that toy she wanted so badly . She only played with it a few times too . The things parents will do to make their kids happy at Christmas is crazy now that I look back it , I can't believe I done that , honestly . My grandson would love those soccer poppers he would beat the crap out of himself playing with the though .
@KiyokoWilkinson , thanks for your story!
I think i need to do that. My gf will kill me, but the laughter i'll howl out as she does so will be glorious.
I remember all these commercials. To answer the question that was asked, Gremlin’s came out about a decade before furby did. One of the three our family had would wake up in middle of the night and start talking his fool head off, his batteries got removed first. 🤣🤣🤣
My neighbor used to put cassettes of poison and AC/DC in his Teddy Ruxpin and that was the funniest thing ever.
Back in the '50's, my Dad and I watched cartoons, Laurel and Hardy, Three Stooges, etc. Dad would diss the toy commercials with comments like, "Aw, that's just two cents worth of plastic.". Glad he took time to watch TV with us kids. Even tho later on, when I watched Humphrey Bogart movies, Dad always said, "well there's that Goon again".
I'd like to see videos from each decade starting with the 50's, or whenever they started having toy commercials!
When my son was a toddler he loved Hot Wheels. When it came time to potty train him I used this love to my advantage. I bought 7 Hot Wheels and told him,"Every time you go poo poo on the potty you get a Hot Wheels." It worked like a charm.
I loved Hot Wheels. My son loves hot wheels. I used Hot Wheels to help potty train my son when he was 3. Unfortunately, as a parentI have concluded that Hot Wheels are worse than Legos. Legos have never been used to crack a cellphone or 56-inch TV. :P
My grandmother and dad did the same for my little brother in early 2000’s
Cute
This just makes me feel old. Every one of those commercials came after my childhood.
My nephew had the toys.
You are not alone!
In the 70s and 80s my mother always made his turn down the sound to nothing when the commercials would come on for toys. She would say this is how it'll be in real life if you have that toy. She was so right!
I remember the micromachine dude and those toys! He was the Guinness Book of World Records fastest talker in the world at the time.
I remember that too! He kinda showed up everywhere, for a while.
"Blow 'em up, put your hand inside"
*That's what she said*
Teddy Ruxpin may be scary, but not as scary as It's A Small World at Disney must be after the park closes
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Got stuck on that darned ride... If I never hear that horrible song, it will be too soon.
I went on that ride c1976 and my sister freaked, (almost 5).
Oh yeah, can you imagine? It's bad enough when you're stuck in place for about 30 minutes, 12 hours of that? Oh hell naw🤣🤣🤣
@@ponykarr1396 OMG, so did I! For at least a half-hour, right next to one of the amplifiers. Used to be one of my favorite rides, but haven't been on it since.
I'm old so I remember all of these. 😄
My Easy Bake was from the 60’s the cake was great - though my older brother you to snitch them before I could frost them. I still have the oven and it still works with the original 60 watt lightbulb!
Grew up with my dad's childhood Tonka dump trucks to play with. Metal, to boot. They hurt to hit your shin on. But they are phenomenal to dig in gravel, haul dirt and rocks.
We got Guess Who for road trips. Loved it. Still have it.
Mom got my brothers a lot of little matchbox/hot wheels style cars. Mom is saving them for future grand kids - in ice cream buckets
We had to destroy my son's Furbee No joke, it went berserk in the middle of the night. My husband and I, dazed from waking up to a crazed furbee couldn't figure out how to turn it off and smashed it with a hammer. My sons didn't care, because they were kind of creeped out by Furbee too.
@Skyla Carleton my sons Furbees did! That night it was moving around and talking gibberish all by itself. My sons didn't really like them anyway, cause they were CREEPY AF
@@sharonsmith583 hello dear
It's toys like the Furbee that keep the Chucky movies relevant.
I wanted a Skip-It, but I had adult size feet as a third grader so that didn't happen lol. I had a friend whose dad got drunk, screwed around with Teddy Ruxpin, and would thereafter use it to play his Metallica tapes (I guess it wasn't supposed to be able to play anything but the official TR tapes). The Easy Bake oven needed a 100 watt light bulb and at least 3 in my neighborhood caught fire. This is why I never got one for my daughter when she was little, even though it was supposed to be safer lol. I was low-key hoping for My Buddy/Kid Sister, but they aren't often in the 'old toy commercial reaction' videos. I just really remember wanting one specifically because I'm the oldest of six and wanted a sibling I could turn off whenever I wanted lmao. I did have all of the Care Bears AND their cousins, though!
My buddy My buddy, My Buddddyyy & me.
My cousin had a ferbie that freaked out, literally started acting demonic with a deep distorted voice and random blinking eyes and movements and then he started smoking, made a screaming sound and then just died. A little bit of smoke just started coming out of the top and then it just stopped. We picked it up with gloves, threw it in the yard, sprayed it with the hose and threw it in the trash. It was horrific.
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What the?!?!?!!!
Sometimes the factory workers mess with toys in assembly. My nephew’s Teletubbie said, “Fagg*t, fagg*t, bite my butt!” 🤣🤣
Electric/chemical/powered toys always have injured kids, less often mentally. Remember ber the movie Poltergeist and the rich kid toys that went whack.
When you said he started smoking, I thought you meant like smoking cigarettes.
Sad they didn't cover the commercial for the first Polly Pockets
This was awesome. Y'all need to do a full series like this! So many great old commercials out there.
I was so annoyed when Socker Boppers came out because my siblings and I were already doing that with rolled up sleeping bags, and it felt like they stole our idea.
I was expecting Lincoln Logs and Erector Sets. but then I'm not that young.
During a game of Guess Who, one of my kids asked, "What is your person's social security number?"
That’s amazing 😂
Way to make us all feel old. But this is great!
My cousin had a furbee when she was younger. And then years later she was asleep and woke up to it going off. It said, “I’m hiding.” Yeah I would’ve thrown it away immediately
My family was always too poor to afford all those toys but luckily I went to a daycare that had them. 😋
I loved playing Guess Who with my son.
Really
My friend's daughter had a Furby that was defective. It never shut off! That thing scared the crap outta me, and I was a full grown adult with 3 kids. My children never got a Furby.
This made me think of toy commercials in the 60's and 70's. Anyone else remember the Whizzer? They were little tops that you revved up on the ground and let them spin. In the commercial, they showed a kid who put it on his head. So, of course, I tried it and ended up with a bald spot on my head because my mom had to cut it out with scissors.
I worked for Kay Bee Toys and Toys R Us during this time and sold all of these. We played with all this stuff during down time. My favorite was laser tag and super soakers, running around the aisles of Toys R Us when it was closed. So much fun! Now that damn Teddy Ruxpin, every employee hated that!!!! When we turned out the main lights at night, that possessed bear would start talking and scare the hell outta all of us. Picture a totally silent, dark toy store, with weird shadows on the walls, then suddenly...BAM! Teddy starts talking somewhere down an aisle. Creepy! I wouldnt touch it. *SHUDDERS*
One of my favorites with the jump scare was Crocodile Dentist.
You haven't lived unless you put Ozzy Osbourne's "Blizzard of Oz" cassette into a Teddy Ruxpin and hit "Play"....
We tried a lot of cassettes, but thought the Motor City Madman was the best.
Soundtrack from Heavy Metal was pretty good, too.
Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang actually made Teddy pretty dang cool
@@mikeorr3333 Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil was pretty awesome
My cousin had a precursor to Teddy Ruxpin. It was a talking bear named Biff. When you pulled the string, his mouth moved. My cousin was just a baby when he got it. They pulled the string and Biff said, "I think I'll go beat up a ... a... chipmonk!" My cousin burst into tears. He didn't really warm up to that bear until he got a little older when he figured out how to poke his finger in the bear's mouth to shut him up.
Teddy Ruxpin doesn't achieve his full potential until you pop in a Ted Nugent cassette.
Ted Nugent, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, all great choices for Teddy Ruxpin.
@@TheBBow Black Sabbath... don't forget Black Sabbath. You haven't lived until you've seen Teddy Ruxpin do Iron Man.
I feel like Talia was horrified throughout this entire video, she kind of came around for Guess Who but only momentarily 😂💜
The Guess Who commercial shown here is the updated version....they had to add "tiles do not talk" because the original commercial showed them talking and the game was purchased based on that and people expected them to talk.....I think they might have been sued because it was shown as false advertising to show them talking when they didn't. (Back in the days when the commercials had to show the TRUE experience....now people know most of it is CGI)
My girls had the Skip It because I had a Lemon Twist as a child. Same type of toy but no counter. We would hula hoop and Lemon Twist at the same time.
I didn't have Lemon Twist. I am so old, I had the original Footsie.
I had the lemon twist too - it had beads or something inside that made a very satisfying "shiiick shick" as it spun around. I loved mine, but never thought to hula too!
you should watch toy commercial from the 60s and 70s if you want to see strange things lol
For real! 😝
Strange ... and dangerous. 😏
Lawn Jarts🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hands down, Skip-it was my favorite toy growing up. One of my few talents as a kid.
The Long Furby: For when a plain ol' Furby just isn't creepy enough!
If my memory serves, Furby caused a kerfuffle and was banned from certain intelligence agency buildings, as it was feared it could record classified conversations.
Before my time. My childhood toy commercials memories began in the early 2000s, Easy Bake Oven, Care Bears, Barbie, Hot Wheels. Those crayons you melt together. Ahh the rapid words at the end of each commercial that you're not supposed to catch. Cartoons and toy commercials. Veggie tales was a major part of childhood too.
My niece got one for her first birthday, when the Teddy Ruxpin started to talk she procieded to run up my brothers arms to her mother, he was holding her in a chair, while opening presents.
The cake baked itself. It was loaded with chemicals, I’m sure. It was the consistency of a brownie at best. I remember them and eating them as a child. I thought they were great.
E-e-w! Maybe I was spared a tummy ache by not having an Easy Bake Oven.
Everything is made of chemicals. All matter is made of chemicals. So you scared yourself and probably your children for absolutely no reason.
@@DocR16 fruit loop
@@cynthiaamitrano8915bless your heart.
@@cynthiaamitrano8915bless your heart.
There was nothing like putting an Ozzy Osbourne album in a Teddy Ruxpin.
Guys, Loved the video. Maybe you can do one on toys of the 70's like the deadly ClickClack, the ultra safe Lawn Jarts and other educational toys we had back then. Again, Love all your content. Please keep it up.
I loved my clackers!!!!!
I still have my clacker that I got when I was in Junior High. They are red and I had so many bruises on my right arm from it. lol I'm 65 years old now. Tha's how old they are.
Same here...and let's not forget the super safe "Creepy Crawlies"!!..lol
We girls were just talking about lawn darts at work the other day. We used to play chicken with the lawn darts. We'd throw them up in the air and stand there and see who could last the longest before we jumped out of the way. LMAO miraculously, none of us were ever hurt.
Oh the ClickClack bruises! Taught me coordination though!
So many childhood toy memories in one video! My sister and I had Guess Who, Socker Boppers, and a Skip-It! I had Hot Wheels cars, but never that tower or any Micromachines.
My daughter has a teddy rudskin bear. The cassets would go in and he would read a story..thats why there are the books to follow the story
The micro machine guy actually talked that fast and thats why the disclaimers sound fast to try and imitate the guy...He was the only guy that could talk that fast.
I think 'Operation' was from the 70's, as was Hot-Wheels. Those two, I think are older than the 80's. They just had a longer marketing program. :) I also remember adults from work getting those Furby's and having them at their desk. I think they were told to turn them off. :)
Hi B E,
I remember the neighbor's kids had the Operation game back in 1967 or '68. And it wasn't new when they taught me how to play it.
So it was a 60's game, not a 70's game. The game is over 50 years old.
Hope this helps.
Take care, stay safe, have a nice day.
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@@BROUBoomer I stand corrected. :) I was born in the 60's, but wouldn't have been aware of the game until the 70's. Thanks for setting me straight. I love 'just the facts'. :)
SKIP IT!!! I was describing this to a friend the other day and I couldn’t remember the name. Thank you, we now can complete our conversation. And we can move on to micro machines. Loved those.
The Mico-machines man first became famous doing commercials for Federal Express...before they were known as Fed-Ex.
When it is absolutely, positively, HAS to be there overnight.
The tagline for the furby commercial - " Creating nightmares for children regullarly .". That thing was creepy !
Children's toys have been crazy for decades . There were lawn darts that actually injured several people , chemistry sets , a nuclear lab with real nuclear material , a soldering iron with wood planks . The original Boba Fett action figure launched a projectile that got recalled after some kids choked on it . There was a toy locomotive that burned fuel to produce steam , and a pop gun that used chemicals to shoot a ping pong ball . In the 70s I had a rocket launcher that used a pump to compress water .You could injure yourself if you held your face in front of the rocket when you tripped the trigger .
Heh, I remember playing with that water rocket... I think it was toys from the 1970s Battlestar Galactica that led to the "laser" redesigns. We had the earlier versions as kids.
@@CantankerousDave Yep . Mine was clear red plastic . Did you have an Evil Knievel wind-up motorcycle with action figure ? Did you have the SST car that used a ripcord to spin the drive wheel ? Did you have the Smash Up Derby cars that exploded when they crashed into your mom's furniture ?
Victor Waddell the electric trains with the bare wires and electric track. More than OUCH...
Our house is made up of 60s (erector set, moon shoes, lawn darts) and 70s (stretch Armstrong, lemon twist) kids, but we remember all these from our kids and baby siblings. And it reminded us of lots of other toys - I still want a hippity hop!
Ooh, remember sit and spin? I would play with it until I was throwing up.
I had a hippity hop when I was a kid... or at least an off brand one lol. I loved that thing!!! I completely forgot about it until I just read your comment.
@@alicesmith7020 I had one of those, or maybe my neighbor did. I remember playing on one when I was really little. I can't believe I used to be able to spin like that and think it was fun. Now I get motion sick in those high up restaurants in cities that slowly turn so you get a full view. Ugh, worst dinner I ever had. I had to fight puking the entire time. Getting older sucks lol
Hi JonSnowRadio,
I had the Hippity Hop in blue. Every time I took it outside to play with it I was the last one to get to use it. My parents went first, if my cousins were over they went next, aunts and uncles too, any neighbors. By the time it was my turn it was getting dark and time to go to bed.
I had a love hate relationship with my Hippity Hop. It was only safe to play with it early on summer weekdays. Before anyone else noticed.
It was really fun, I'm sorry you missed out on it.
Take care, stay safe, have a nice day.
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*Have you looked into one of those giant exercise balls that you sit on? It would be close to the Hippity Hop. 🤔
@@alicesmith7020my sister called it “Sit and Sick” 😂
I absolutely LOVED my Furby and we all still have ours to this day lol.
Awesome.
Remembering raising my kids in the 90's and bought a lot of these toys. But I remember as when I was a kid and I had a lemon twist kinda looked like the skip it. But there wasn't a counter.
Would y'all review some of the toys commercials in tht late sixty's and seventies?🤷♀️😜
I had a lemon twist too! It was fun, never saw the skip it.
Best thing about teddy was that you could put any tape inside and it would play it. We put rock music tapes in him. Lol
The socker bobbers are great marriage communication tools.🤣
I remember a lot of these. Sincerely, the girl from the 90s.
I was surprised you didn't include the two that are still stuck in my head, My Buddy and Kid Sister. Where ever I go, they go.
The instantaneous, synchronized head nod at 5:43, If I'm not being impertinent, is worth the whole series!! That was awesome!!!
Does anyone else remember the first one as “sock’em boppers?”
I didn’t know they weren’t sock’em boppers
@@bedraggleddragon3570 in the commercial it’s soccer bopper, but I specifically remember socc’em
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"He has a mullet for a reason." 🤣🤣🤣
What I love most about this video is how they make them share headphones.
This really made me remember all the toy crazy of my childhood and my own children's too. I love this video and would like more like!
I had a skip it and I once maxed out the counter so it is doable. I also had a Furby and it was creepier than my cousin’s Teddy Ruxpin. I once took the batteries out and it kept talking.
Ohmygosh! My kids had all these toys except for Teddy Ruxpin & Furby (which we couldn’t afford) 😂😂
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I feel like a Furbee will walk in your room and say “ Bless Your Heart “ in the middle of the night
Heck, y'all should check out some of the nightmare toys we had when I was a child in the early to mid 60's. ROFL
That, and your creepy Easter bunny.
My Nephew was buried with his Teddy. I had to fix him several times before, Jimmy passed away. Love you Jimmy.
We had the sockem boppers for one day. My dad was really protective. He was worried I would hurt my little brother so he said "take it easy dont hurt him." Well my little brother just so happened to be just enough shorter than me that every punch he threw hit me square in the nose. My eyes started tearing up after several punches. I finally shouted "I quit!"
Also I remember the furbies. I never had one but always thought they looked eerily similar to a character named Furbis from Masked Rider. (It came on Saturday mornings)
People were laughing right at the intro. I'm here for it.🍿
I survived Jarts (Lawn Darts) in the 60s. I am invincible.
I don't remember the commercials but I do remember the toys. Fun fact the easybake ovens were even around in the 60's.
I had all but two of these toys lol
you needed to include creepy crawlers, wood burning kit, and Jarts!!!
Man, I loved Jarts.
Love creepy crawlers, make them with my nephew and each year he made some into Christmas gifts.
Those were before their time. You can make some nice fishing lures with the Thingmaker, if you cook them with a fish hook inside.
Dang, these commercials bring back when I was a kid in the 90's...🤔
Dang! I thought I was not that much older than them. I remember these toys when I was a kid. Even looking thru the Sears catalog to make a Christmas list. 👀
I loved micro machines when my son was that age. I still have his micro machines: saved for any grandchildren.
You all are you youngin’s. These toys are from my KIDS childhoods. I still have my 29 year olds Teddy Ruxpin.
I remember finding my childhood Teddy Ruxpin sometime in highschool and using him to play a Metallica tape! Good times!
I love the commercials for Wild and Wacky Action Bike and ALABAMA MAN. "ALABAMA MAYUN! He beats his wife and sleeps it off!"
“I created a whole little world what’s the first thing I’m gonna do? I’m gonna kill somebody!” I’m dead 🤣
I feel like i am the only one who loved her furby and still thinks their great!
ATARI, etc commercials were my favorite. The 70s -mid 80s especially.
..If I recall, the Micro-Machine guy was in the Guinness book (at that time) for being the World's Fastest Talker.. Sidenote: You haven't lived untiL you were a kid in the 80's and put a "Straight Outta Compton" cassette inside your Teddy Ruxpin!!! 😂
Skip It--- I remember that song like yesterday :D
i remember all these commercials
I remember most of those commercials. I feel so old now.
I remember my little sister’s EZ Bake oven. It had a real light bulb for heat.
Lmao those Furbies were spreading COVID xD
"Your furby sneezed.... and now mine has a cold!"
That fast-talking guy was famous for about 15 minutes, because he was among the fastest talking people according to the Guinness Book. Seems like I remember him being on one of those shows like That's Incredible! or whatever.
I would love to see toy commercials from the 60’s There must have been multiple ways to off ourselves there also. Lol!
Bless your hearts for thinking this was "back in tha day".........youngsters .......
Am I the only one who thought they were sock'em boppers? Nephew had them, he loved em.
Thanks for the commercial memories!