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  • @billiam
    @billiam  Před 4 lety +1164

    Thank you to Lexi, Chase, and Nikko for helping with this video!!!!

    • @salexume9622
      @salexume9622 Před 4 lety +6

      Hey bro only a few mins in but i wanted to ask, do you remember shaman king? I'd love to see a video about it. Keep up the great work fam c:

    • @geoleo965
      @geoleo965 Před 4 lety +5

      Please, send help... My middle-aged brother still thinks of himself as *James Bond,* no matter how many times I've pointed out that he is not only a fictional character, but also a terrible human being and definitely not a role model that should be followed.
      Thanks.

    • @thecriptkeeper
      @thecriptkeeper Před 4 lety +1

      @@salexume9622 I was thinking the same! Shaman king was awesome

    • @salexume9622
      @salexume9622 Před 4 lety +1

      If only i could sub twice

    • @Suprkpa
      @Suprkpa Před 4 lety +2

      You should do a review of TI-84 Calculator games

  • @casp3r_de_gh0st90
    @casp3r_de_gh0st90 Před 4 lety +4068

    the motion sensor was lowkey fire when we were kids i’d put these things everywhere so whenever we would have a nerf war i’d know exactly were everybody was

  • @gunraptor
    @gunraptor Před 4 lety +2018

    I loved "spy gear" so much that I became a literal intelligence officer when I grew up....only to learn that there are no gadgets and just a bunch of power point.

    • @captaineardrum6208
      @captaineardrum6208 Před 4 lety +393

      You should wear the spy gear watch to work every day

    • @agentk1205
      @agentk1205 Před 4 lety +83

      Yes wear it everyday please.

    • @b0t_345
      @b0t_345 Před 4 lety +65

      Every singular day

    • @smallorphan1192
      @smallorphan1192 Před 4 lety +49

      gunraptor just wear the spy gear to sleep, be the soy you dreamt of being, don’t let other people’s judgments cloud your dreams!

    • @Markyroson
      @Markyroson Před 4 lety +4

      gunraptor :(

  • @moontrooper2587
    @moontrooper2587 Před 4 lety +2293

    I remember constantly thinking: “Oh my god! How is such high technology being sold in Walmart?! This is like beyond military grade, what??”.

    • @cupcakethesabertooth6802
      @cupcakethesabertooth6802 Před 4 lety +106

      Yeah, I thought that too lol

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision Před 4 lety +73

      “Beyond military grade” lmfaooo u were a gullible kid huh

    • @moontrooper2587
      @moontrooper2587 Před 4 lety +108

      Leo Velli
      I’m not gullible. I simply lied to myself.

    • @nairerodriguez9362
      @nairerodriguez9362 Před 3 lety +125

      @@MerkhVision "gullible" bro what kids know about military

    • @theonlybilge
      @theonlybilge Před 3 lety +121

      Military grade would, in actuality, be in one of two categories:
      Mass produced and reliable
      Or
      Mass produced, shitty, unreliable, and janky.

  • @SoloJona
    @SoloJona Před 4 lety +302

    7:38 "This is not meant for an adult". I can confidently tell you it was not made for kids either, my big brother had it, he was 12 and I was 9, and whoever wore it had to take it off due to it horribly pressing our temples, it felt like the glasses were trying to crush your head

  • @FailosHD
    @FailosHD Před 4 lety +1927

    "breaking into NASA with only SPY GEARS toys | CHALLENGE"

  • @myshreksbox
    @myshreksbox Před 4 lety +1123

    I just realized this series is “the toys that made us” of the niche toys we grew up with in the 2000s

    • @pumpkinnecromancer2490
      @pumpkinnecromancer2490 Před 4 lety +18

      This particular video reminded me of Spy Academy; a reality-game show that would make up some ridiculous totally-not-staged super villain plan and get six agents who totally went to the titular spy academy and are definitely not game show contestants to foil the plan with totally-not-product-placement niche toy gadgets.
      The show and it’s station YTV even staged a 4kids style “false station shutdown threat”.
      I wonder if anyone remembers that show.

    • @handlesarestupid154
      @handlesarestupid154 Před 3 lety +3

      The toys that made us but not cringe

    • @lucasahumada6913
      @lucasahumada6913 Před 2 lety +1

      The toys that made us is actually pretty good imo

  • @donniemontoya9300
    @donniemontoya9300 Před 3 lety +28

    I can't put into words just how influential the early 2000's "spy" obsession was for my childhood and the person I was. I had my bedroom alarmed and booby trapped. My friends and I would meet up in hideouts and discuss things we found, or ideas we had about the neighborhood. When we couldn't afford or weren't allowed the fancy toys, we made our own. High tech digital communicators and ID badges made from cardboard (none of us had any cellphones at all). Secret weapons made of planks of wood and industrial scrap.

  • @kabobawsome
    @kabobawsome Před 3 lety +73

    "Without the threat of inciting diplomatic chaos"
    No, the chaos is exactly why I wanted to be a spy.

    • @chrishorst1318
      @chrishorst1318 Před 3 měsíci +1

      That makes you the 1st honest spy ever.

  • @aradigm1890
    @aradigm1890 Před 4 lety +931

    So fun story about Spy Gear.
    Back in the early 2000s my friends and I were hard into the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. Spy Gear had a metal detector. And back then all the good YGO cards were foil. We would raid Targets, Toys R Us, and buy booster boxes and use the device to pull all the foils. For the booster boxes, we would get all the foils and sell the other packs.
    Good times.

    • @TheRealLazerBlazer22
      @TheRealLazerBlazer22 Před 4 lety +130

      I have to admit, that was a good idea.

    • @alicehargest
      @alicehargest Před 4 lety +113

      I had the metal detector...
      I loved Yu-Gi-Oh...
      ...I missed out on a great opportunity 😭

    • @bane2988
      @bane2988 Před 4 lety +103

      Lots of neckbeards at my old locals would take literal drug scales inside to weigh the packs, to see which had foils. The owners of the shop let them, too, since it made no difference to them.

    • @anthonyle9788
      @anthonyle9788 Před 4 lety +18

      Oh my god this is such a big brain idea

    • @CommanderWiggins
      @CommanderWiggins Před 4 lety +63

      @@bane2988 I remember that was a huge problem with Pokémon Cards too, people would weigh them with kitchen scales and take all the heavier packs. But a couple years ago they took the card with the code for the online game that they include with every pack, and made them two different weights so that all the packs now weigh the same. Pretty ingenious solution.

  • @writersblock1991
    @writersblock1991 Před 4 lety +321

    As a kid, no one could convince me that Carmen from Spy Kids' "Oh, shi...take mushrooms" wasn't the best line in cinema.

    • @KBraid
      @KBraid Před 4 lety +34

      after that movie came out i had a kid in one of my classes that would constantly say it without provocation and laugh as if it was the funniest thing in the world. no one else ever laughed, and he got really pissy when anyone ever told him to stop it.

    • @TheOuroborosLoop
      @TheOuroborosLoop Před 4 lety +7

      Best bit of cringe, you are correct sir.

    • @otakuribo
      @otakuribo Před 4 lety +35

      "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?"

    • @NimhLabs
      @NimhLabs Před 4 lety +44

      I'm still surprised the line "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created" is from a Spy Kids movie. It sounds like something from a movie that the Oscar award committee wouldn't be too chicken to acknowledge.

    • @nekrophilervorderasiate7092
      @nekrophilervorderasiate7092 Před 4 lety

      @@otakuribo Obama

  • @-Sirens-
    @-Sirens- Před 4 lety +155

    The audio listening device was for listening through walls, not listening to things far away

    • @gingerette3316
      @gingerette3316 Před 2 lety +10

      I was gonna say this! You’re supposed to place it against the wall, that’s why it has that cone-like shape to it

  • @theholyjosh5384
    @theholyjosh5384 Před 4 lety +98

    Omg i remember kid cuisines had a thing where you could get spy gear when you collect enough cardboard things on the back of the box

    • @noahgaller9951
      @noahgaller9951 Před 3 lety +8

      I remember that. I collected all the things you needed and sent it in. And then it didn't arrive. So my mom wrote them a letter like "what the shit guys?" And when it finally arrived and I lost my mind. Good times

  • @davidperezz7248
    @davidperezz7248 Před 4 lety +607

    I remember I heard my neighbors having sex with spy gear.

    • @davidperezz7248
      @davidperezz7248 Před 4 lety +63

      @Jordan Joestar I was like 7 and was wondering why are they stirring macaroni and cheese?

    • @juste.une.mouche
      @juste.une.mouche Před 4 lety +11

      Jordan Joestar omg

    • @trotskyvoinovich8307
      @trotskyvoinovich8307 Před 4 lety +6

      Lies your were listening to your parents 🤔🤣

    • @thomasmreichert
      @thomasmreichert Před 4 lety +4

      I tried to have sex with Spy Gear too, but it hurt my penis. 🤣

    • @twizz420
      @twizz420 Před 4 lety +4

      Yeah that spy gear when I was a kid was called "glass on wall"

  • @Ranstone
    @Ranstone Před 4 lety +1027

    Story time:
    I was the spy-kid generation.
    We had team-VS-team matches with friends, but often we'd just spy on our family.
    We were using a periscope and listening device to try and see what out parents were up to... In their bedroom... At night...
    My dad kindly asked us not to spy on "mommy and daddy when they were alone".
    I asked why, and he told answered "Well... what if we're wrapping birthday presents?".
    I didn't know how close I was to spying something that could only be erased with years of therapy.

    • @imark7777777
      @imark7777777 Před 4 lety +72

      Well that's a story. Being an only child living in the middle of nowhere my excitement was sping on the telephone company when they came out to do work.

    • @undeadknight01
      @undeadknight01 Před 4 lety +35

      Sounds like my friend. His parents called it "discussing Christmas"

    • @adumaxster01
      @adumaxster01 Před 4 lety +6

      Why would listen to your parents having sex require years of therapy?

    • @unusunus4613
      @unusunus4613 Před 4 lety +34

      @@adumaxster01 Why wouldn't hearing your parents have sex when you're a child not cause the need for therapy...

    • @user-xg8yy7yl1d
      @user-xg8yy7yl1d Před 4 lety +10

      Adumaxster
      Because to a kid it’s extremely fucked

  • @Fr4nk4000
    @Fr4nk4000 Před 3 lety +83

    I love the fact that most of these toys shown here can be replaced by a phone

  • @Oyster_Man
    @Oyster_Man Před 3 lety +40

    This channel covers all the things from my childhood that I thought I was alone in experiencing. It's crazy.
    Thank you for making all this.

  • @dereketnyre7156
    @dereketnyre7156 Před 4 lety +1246

    Motion detector was good for rubbing one out in a busy household......

    • @dadams106
      @dadams106 Před 4 lety +212

      ...I feel like we lived different lives, I like yours.

    • @My_Alchemical_Romance
      @My_Alchemical_Romance Před 4 lety +44

      Derek Etnyre damn man great idea, the innovation in you! Lol

    • @brianheisler4115
      @brianheisler4115 Před 4 lety +25

      back in your early 30s

    • @Wiener-Fag
      @Wiener-Fag Před 4 lety +25

      Man was ahead of his time

    • @HSstriker
      @HSstriker Před 4 lety +29

      Yeah all the kids with half a brain used it for that. Or when i was making trebuchets and crossbows in the backyard.

  • @machiner6
    @machiner6 Před 4 lety +435

    True story: I once owned the spy gear night vision goggles like in the video, then in 2003, when I wanted to dress as a Jawa, my dad hacksawed off a pair of orange medicine bottles and stuck them over the goggles' lights. It was awesome. He even threw in a prop ion gun made of cans and duct tape.

  • @RedForeman
    @RedForeman Před 3 lety +44

    Remember when you were a kid and staying up to see nick at night and adult swim were forbidden pleasures 😂 I remember so many girls gone wild commercials on tv back then

    • @indigobaby0305
      @indigobaby0305 Před 3 lety +1

      Those damn steele drums still haunt me to this day

  • @harrietr.5073
    @harrietr.5073 Před 4 lety +56

    "Hi, I'm Obama. I'm a dog-"
    My favourite quote from this video.

  • @WitheringAurora
    @WitheringAurora Před 4 lety +641

    I remember having one of the spygears.
    Having the “Satellite Listener”
    And as a kid, I was shocked whenever I heard a radio signal and just heard music.
    It was even worse when it literally picked up someones phone connection.

    • @AlmostCosmic288
      @AlmostCosmic288 Před 4 lety +7

      Lol

    • @xavierrodriguez2463
      @xavierrodriguez2463 Před 4 lety +171

      tfw spygear toy wiretapped someone

    • @Wileybot2004
      @Wileybot2004 Před 4 lety +133

      Back when wireless home phones where first coming out (I.e Phones that lets you talk over the landline wireless with a base station... you probably knew that lol) but in the beginning the home phones transmission was unencrypted. If you knew the frequency they transmitted on. You could tune in and listen to the conversation. Both ways. later on they started to encrypt the phones. But. This also worked on drive way fast food speakers. Being able to speak in a drive through speaker caused much fun. Wikipedia has a lot on this in a article. It’s pretty neat.

    • @almostkinda
      @almostkinda Před 4 lety +2

      I got this one too

    • @AlmostCosmic288
      @AlmostCosmic288 Před 4 lety +91

      It’s funny to me that it’s a toy made for kids to pretend to be spies, and you could legitimately spy on folks with it.

  • @bananasrfr14
    @bananasrfr14 Před 4 lety +828

    For the “texting for kids” video, don’t forget to mention the Nintendo DS chat!

    • @landofgrundo
      @landofgrundo Před 4 lety +40

      Man that was the best. We used to play hide and seek and give each other hints through pictochat and since I was the dumb kid I'd have my volume on full

    • @DanielSmith21
      @DanielSmith21 Před 4 lety +15

      When I had one I always wished I'd had a friend to text with :(

    • @violettheory
      @violettheory Před 4 lety +14

      Pictochat!! Also, Billiam should go over the ds game "Ping Pals" which was an utterly useless chat game that just was not even better than the built in pictochat. I got a copy of Ping Pals for 5 bucks from blockbuster when I was a kid, and it was fun enough for an afternoon. You could customize your avatar and write secret words (things like baklava and emu and weird stuff) for more coins. I didn't have any friends that had the game though.
      I still have it, if Billiam wants it!

    • @ImDemonAlchemist
      @ImDemonAlchemist Před 4 lety +2

      Pictochat

    • @kaysonoleen5261
      @kaysonoleen5261 Před 4 lety

      pictochaaaat

  • @jakeellsworth10
    @jakeellsworth10 Před 3 lety +32

    I was super into the spy scene when I was a kid in the early 2000's and looking back it feels kind of creepy. I created my own agency with my friends and we plotted assassinations and spied on our sisters. It was dark and someone should've stopped us lol

    • @rogue_2k374
      @rogue_2k374 Před rokem +2

      No. You did good. I had my group, the Spy Detectives. Nothing happened around us though.

    • @VicariousReality
      @VicariousReality Před rokem +2

      Loser; there's nothing wrong or "creepy" about the spy scene.

  • @beythastar
    @beythastar Před 4 lety +33

    7:58 Reminds me of the time I googled "Desert Eagle Handgun" and got no results, but the moment I added "for research purposes" I got the info I was looking for

    • @robertmartin8907
      @robertmartin8907 Před 3 lety

      Funny joke, but if you Google it you can find plenty of online stores. It isn't illegal.

    • @The_Bird_Bird_Harder
      @The_Bird_Bird_Harder Před 3 lety +2

      @@robertmartin8907 depends on country.

    • @sanguine2552
      @sanguine2552 Před 3 lety

      ? You mean while at school or something? Is google censored in your country?

  • @TheHouinMark
    @TheHouinMark Před 4 lety +629

    Imagine some guy living in a shady ghetto neighborhood and actually using these as security equipment.

    • @creatorchance
      @creatorchance Před 4 lety +38

      I used it to guard my bike from being stolen .

    • @DrownedLamp
      @DrownedLamp Před 4 lety +16

      Well it's more secure than the IoT systems we've got now.

    • @ImJustJAG
      @ImJustJAG Před 4 lety +2

      LOL

    • @drottle
      @drottle Před 4 lety +11

      Dude I'm setting on my lunch break in my car and this one comment made me laugh like a maniac

    • @jakobunderwood9604
      @jakobunderwood9604 Před 4 lety +3

      if that was a TV show id watch it

  • @fiercetooth4330
    @fiercetooth4330 Před 4 lety +806

    I remember spy gear. The snitch in my elementary school used the toys to his fullest extent to the point where he had dirt on everyone. Wonder how he’s doing nowadays.

  • @soyburglar1878
    @soyburglar1878 Před 2 lety +3

    I was a kid in the ‘80s and although the brand Spy Gear didn’t exist, we did have spy kits like this. My favorite thing, which wasn’t necessarily a “spy accessory”, was this alarm that had a loop and you would hang it from a doorknob. Then it had a dead man’s switch attached you would slide between the door and the jamb...so if anyone opened the door, it would let out this ungodly noise. My parents loved it.

  • @xato3796
    @xato3796 Před 2 lety +3

    We used to play bomb squad with the motion detector spy gear. It was like hide and seek where one person set up all the “bombs” in hidden areas likely to cause them to be activated and the other person would enter the room and try to “diffuse” them by turning them off without setting off the alarm. It was probably one of if not the most inventive and fun game of my childhood and young teen years as the older we got, the more intricate the game became. Especially when we would turn off all the lights in a room and have to use flashlights.

    • @chrishorst1318
      @chrishorst1318 Před 3 měsíci

      Be better if your parents gave you real explosives and weapons.

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga Před 4 lety +1503

    Who else here got the McDonald's Spy gear tie in toys they had back then ?

    • @jaxyaboy
      @jaxyaboy Před 4 lety +55

      I had the wrist thing that would pop up and be a sort of magnifying glass

    • @nore5888
      @nore5888 Před 4 lety +2

      Yes.

    • @danglydang3410
      @danglydang3410 Před 4 lety +27

      IF YOU HAD THEM ALL IT TURNED INTO THE BUG

    • @JT5555
      @JT5555 Před 4 lety +1

      Right Here.

    • @johnkoch9315
      @johnkoch9315 Před 4 lety +8

      I had a Cody Banks (2?) super PG spy pocket knife McDonald’s toy :)
      It had like a screwdriver or a ruler or something haha.

  • @TheVANITYKILLJOY
    @TheVANITYKILLJOY Před 4 lety +633

    I had the spy goggles as a kid and I remember waiting till it was dark and laying on the grass and turning them on and realizing they didn’t work as advertised I got up and walked to my apartment and being like “man now I look stupid”

  • @Skrenja
    @Skrenja Před 4 lety +9

    Spy Kids 2 is the greatest cinematic achievement of all time, change my mind.

  • @speckofdignity2487
    @speckofdignity2487 Před 3 lety +5

    My brother and I loved all this spy stuff, we used the motion sensors, the lasers, and a few of the other things, he still has his spy themed battleship set (it might be actual Spy Gear, I can’t remember) and he had laser tag guns that were so much fun. He later got air-soft guns that we would have “battles” with too. My sister usually just watched because she was scared of the air-soft 😂

  • @TheOneTrueOfficialLordGod
    @TheOneTrueOfficialLordGod Před 4 lety +107

    I had all of this shit. I'd literally wait for the book fair at my school just to get more spy gear.
    I never used any of it or even tried to use it but the idea alone of me having some kind of power that my friends didn't got me instant street cred.

  • @kerricaine
    @kerricaine Před 4 lety +157

    sooo the motion alarm one is how i found out santa claus was just my parents....

    • @PixelaGames2000
      @PixelaGames2000 Před 4 lety +3

      kamenkewl wow

    • @swedsteve93
      @swedsteve93 Před 4 lety +2

      Same

    • @dill422
      @dill422 Před 4 lety +3

      kamenkewl man, I wish. I found out Santa wasn’t real the day my great grandma died. I cried about Santa. I still get bugged for that

    • @letsgotomarsman
      @letsgotomarsman Před 4 lety +2

      dill422 what

    • @macehilmatecilof4140
      @macehilmatecilof4140 Před 4 lety +1

      I still have that one, I lost the rest of them though.

  • @Lucas51397
    @Lucas51397 Před 4 lety +10

    "Cool. We got sOMething out- WE GOT SOMETHING OUT HERE."

  • @hyenaedits3460
    @hyenaedits3460 Před 3 lety +1

    I remember my spy phase. Recently a local museum had a spy exhibit with silly little games that demonstrate probably-outdated-by-now spy tech and codes and ciphers. I had an absolute blast going through it with my mom. And the best part was, since it was during the pandemic, nobody else was in the museum so we didn't have to compete with screaming kids (it was a private family party which was the only thing they were allowed to do at the time).
    A lot of the activities in that exhibit were very similar to these toys.
    Also, anyone else remember those little square staple-bound books with different codes and ciphers and stuff with the goofy little cartoon spy? I can't for the life of me remember the title or the publisher or anything but I had the complete set and read them obsessively.

  • @dragonspirit996
    @dragonspirit996 Před 4 lety +96

    The motion sensor may seem useless now that we're older, but as a kid it was the most amazing and useful device for catching Santa when he came to give presents XD

    • @MrReviewtime
      @MrReviewtime Před 2 lety +1

      WTF that just unlocked the memory of me using my motion sensor for that

  • @fugitive_
    @fugitive_ Před 4 lety +583

    Dude I didn’t realize I was a threat to the Russian government as a kid

    • @chad6846
      @chad6846 Před 4 lety +23

      fugitive cowgirl oh no wonder a guy in a coat speaking foreign langauge was stalking me for a while.

    • @gretathuumberg
      @gretathuumberg Před 4 lety +14

      @@chad6846
      Sorry, my mistake. meant to follow someone else.

    • @imark7777777
      @imark7777777 Před 4 lety +2

      I think I've read instances of this, or it could just be kid marketing that's still in my brain. either way celebrities and athletes were definitely used as spies in other countries a lot. And adults seem to forget that kids can't comprehend or know anything about the adult world.
      Either way there was at least one movie if I could ever find the name of it where a group of kids sold a toy model plans for a us submarine ( think some sort of country like Russia possibly with a different name to protect the innocent ) to raise money as well as putting a concert on for their sick teacher. I would love to re-watch as an adult because it made my parents cringe and squeamish during the teen love scenes ... in the bathtub..... Kissy Kissy talk about relationships just so we're clear.

  • @SrsBismuth
    @SrsBismuth Před rokem +1

    I was so obsessed with Spy Gear as a kid! I had the Mini Spy Kit and the Eye Link Communicator as a kid! As well as a few other minor ones but I don't quite remember the others. I would daydream of owning a Video ATV 360, the little remote control tank with a camera that you could see the POV of through a headset. This video was a wonderful trip down memory lane.

  • @tyrannosuperior5248
    @tyrannosuperior5248 Před 2 lety +2

    Billiam: Ain't no thumbs in real life.
    Me, looking at my hands: what weird toes!

  • @chris210racer
    @chris210racer Před 4 lety +120

    Spy Gear actually had a collection of kids novels that gave a story to everything

    • @maxwellvest2667
      @maxwellvest2667 Před 4 lety +8

      Good god, I thought I was the only person who remembered those books. Does anyone remember what was in them? Because all I remember was the narrative tone being borderline surreal. Like, there was one incredibly long tangent by the narrator about camera perspective and its relation to literature, and it may have involved man-eating octopi. I'm telling you, there was something deeply weird about how those novels were written but I can't find any sources about it to confirm this.

    • @chris210racer
      @chris210racer Před 4 lety +9

      PSYCH TASTY I remember a bit because I picked one up at a local public library when I was a kid and started to skim through it when I grew disgusted with its lackluster writing and horrific narrative structure (or lack thereof). Their long irrelevant tangents, an illogical spy organization that employed children and adults, and the antagonist was really forgettable. The characters were all flat and the twists were blunt and shit. At one point, one of the teens/young adults the kids are working with just turns to one of the kids just as they are starting their mission and say “By the way, turns out we’re cousins” and the kid goes “Cool” before they fist bump and continue on with the mission without any explanation or pondering the event. Seriously, the books sucked and felt like they were written by an unpaid freshman high school intern who’d never passed a single literature class and the company executives forced them to do the job or they’d go back to cleaning up the bathrooms on Chili Dog Fridays.
      Now I have to live every day remembering that shitty scene and fist bump. Ugh...

    • @maxwellvest2667
      @maxwellvest2667 Před 4 lety +9

      @@chris210racer Yeah I think I only remembered the irrelevant tangents and nothing else. Some reviews of the books I found make it sound less weird and more mediocre.
      Also fun fact, the author of the book series is Rick Barba, who is primarily known for making strategy guides for video games. That may explain a little of the quality.

  • @smithmanish
    @smithmanish Před 4 lety +252

    "Thumbs don't exist"
    Looks at thumbs while they have an existencencial crisis

  • @er1010ic
    @er1010ic Před 3 lety +7

    The only thing i remember from spy gear were the “nightvision goggles” that were just green tinted sunglasses with some og LEDs in there. And the RC car with the camera in it that only went like 20 feet

  • @MattFyrm
    @MattFyrm Před 3 lety +34

    The hate my parents had for the motion tracker can not be put into words

  • @liamaitken6555
    @liamaitken6555 Před 4 lety +323

    OMG, I had these as a kid and loved them so much. Nobody ever talks about these your are a true hero

    • @DJROCKSTAZ
      @DJROCKSTAZ Před 4 lety +2

      I remember I got it as a kid as well. Lost everything but the goggles, which would lie at the bottom of my toy chest at the side of my bed. I'd bust it out every now and again as a prop for imaginary night missions.

    • @luisgonzalez5482
      @luisgonzalez5482 Před 4 lety +3

      Its you're*

    • @atomic-art
      @atomic-art Před 4 lety +1

      Luis Gonzalez stop being a grammer police and fuck off

    • @onijester56
      @onijester56 Před 4 lety +1

      Part is...like, I forgot they were an actual brand.

    • @luisgonzalez5482
      @luisgonzalez5482 Před 4 lety

      @@atomic-art then use words properly.

  • @ponscholangiogram7023
    @ponscholangiogram7023 Před 4 lety +393

    I used my spy gear to “catch Santa” that’s how I found out Santa was made up

  • @grimaldur778
    @grimaldur778 Před 3 lety +11

    When most spying was literally binoculars & a note pad

  • @fancyf33t295
    @fancyf33t295 Před 3 lety +4

    My guy. Armed with a flashlight and those Spy gear green visors, I gathered a group of like-minded pre-teens to hunt down a leprechaun that was living in Topeka, Kansas for some reason.
    Edit: and yes. We did get scared and proceeded to run back to our duplex houses at the cul-de-sac. Leprechauns confirmed.

  • @samuelpierce2.088
    @samuelpierce2.088 Před 4 lety +60

    When I was a kid, Spy Gear was a HUGE thing for me and my brother; We were both convinced that we’d one day grow up to be real secret agents.
    The sets I had were the Starter Kit, the Night Goggles, the Briefcase, and the Night Scope.

  • @sonata1275
    @sonata1275 Před 4 lety +40

    I loved the motion sensor toy. I set them up in the hallway leading up to my room at night so that I could know when my parents were coming to check and see if I was asleep yet.

  • @krelekari
    @krelekari Před 3 lety

    THE RECORDER WAS THE BEST ONE >:0
    It was the only hand held thing available to us kids that was both affordable self recording, without being tied to a stuffed animal, but also let you pitch shift! Which to a young sound clown enthusiast, was everything I needed

  • @Dreigonix
    @Dreigonix Před 4 lety +1

    SPY GEAR WAS THE _BEST._ I had a lot of these when I was a kid, and I _swear,_ I wore my Spy Night Patrol/Listener headset like it was a king’s crown- I also had the Spy Night Scope binoculars with the little pop-up flashlight, and this cyborg laser hand thing that you’d think could melt metal with how much we hyped it up.

  • @MurdochCreates
    @MurdochCreates Před 4 lety +317

    I had the binoculars, the “night vision” goggles, and I think I had some kind of Spy pen.

    • @cakecreep2491
      @cakecreep2491 Před 4 lety +3

      ninjaboy56 was it a voice recorder pen? If so I had that

    • @joshmeisegeier2279
      @joshmeisegeier2279 Před 4 lety +7

      Yo those night vision goggles worked really well!

    • @BoydSmurf
      @BoydSmurf Před 4 lety +17

      The pen thst wrote in white ink and the light was a black light so you could write hidden messages.

    • @MurdochCreates
      @MurdochCreates Před 4 lety +5

      Cake creep I believe it was the one that wrote in invisible ink.

    • @LemonMoon
      @LemonMoon Před 4 lety +3

      Those night vision goggles were very easy to accidentally blind people with, if we’re thinking of the same ones.

  • @TylerJordan601
    @TylerJordan601 Před 4 lety +736

    This guys personality is very 2019 youtube safe.

    • @MorganHunter92
      @MorganHunter92 Před 4 lety +105

      Here in 2020 he is too dangerous to live.

    • @wickederebus
      @wickederebus Před 4 lety +22

      I wish he'd stop censoring his swearing.

    • @Parappadarappa2
      @Parappadarappa2 Před 3 lety +51

      Wicked Erebus he censors swearing to not get demonized

    • @nicolea2839
      @nicolea2839 Před 3 lety +4

      That’s right! I am dangerous

    • @BeatAces
      @BeatAces Před 3 lety +38

      @@Parappadarappa2 “Demonized”

  • @Pantsinabucket
    @Pantsinabucket Před 2 lety +9

    I think my favorite story of the “spy” toys was the CSI fingerprinting kit that was always on sale at the Scholastic Book Fair. Then it randomly disappeared one year. For those wondering why, it was because the dust you fingerprinted on was fucking asbestos. Just straight up asbestos.

  • @hottea9546
    @hottea9546 Před 4 lety +1

    The 90s and early 2,000’s has to be the best Era for kids toys. Technology was just coming into its own so that was exciting but not at all like today so you still had to use your imagination which made everything that much more interesting.

  • @lordmegatron4789
    @lordmegatron4789 Před 4 lety +219

    i used to army crawl around my house in the middle of the night with a few of these

  • @RichardNixion357
    @RichardNixion357 Před 4 lety +81

    11:08
    *0W0*
    Notices your a spy,
    Then captures you.
    *Rawr XD*

  • @VioletLunaVirgo
    @VioletLunaVirgo Před rokem

    I know this is an older video but my childhood best friend had the voice recorder you bashed on, he ended up giving it to me as a gift and I loved it. One day I was at my Nan's place while homesick and she let me play the N64 so I recorded a couple of Ocarina of Time songs (Sun Song, Song of Storms) in an attempt that playing them outside would have an affect. Thank you for letting me relive a fond moment of childhood joy.

  • @WeirdToYourMother
    @WeirdToYourMother Před 2 lety

    6:44 You mouthed the words to your own recording AND laughed at your own joke before you were finished telling it and shit like this is why I respect you as an artist

  • @lindseyw.4948
    @lindseyw.4948 Před 4 lety +51

    The thumbnail alone came up and slapped me in the face with nostalgia.

  • @ChadHex
    @ChadHex Před 4 lety +93

    For the "kids' cell phone" idea, there was the ChatNow from Tiger Electronics as spin-off from the VideoNow line.

    • @fc7777fc
      @fc7777fc Před 4 lety +3

      Cnote0717 YES I had one of these. It worked pretty well too, I was able to use it to talk to a friend who lived a couple blocks away.

    • @ChadHex
      @ChadHex Před 4 lety +3

      @@fc7777fc That thing supposedly had a 2-mile radius! Pretty decent for a walkie-talkie toy.

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 Před 4 lety

      Don't forget that girl tech one that could open remote control garage doors.

  • @skylar8277
    @skylar8277 Před 4 lety

    I have a horrendous memory and repressed most of my childhood so watchinf videos like this brings back all my good memories

  • @joelmacha2104
    @joelmacha2104 Před 4 lety

    I had a bunch of these. I also remember I was subscribed to a spy gear type thing from school where they sent a box with a book and educational stuff themed to whatever you wanted. Spy stuff was just one, which had stuff on codes and disguises. I also remember a sea life version of the same idea.

  • @scraggypants
    @scraggypants Před 4 lety +128

    I used to have a Firefly phone to talk to my parents when they got divorced. You should do a video on those

    • @johnkoch9315
      @johnkoch9315 Před 4 lety +16

      He mentioned kids texting devices. There was one that was definitely targeted to girls I never had but thought the commercials made it seem kind of cool. There was a device kind of like a phone that was able to save text messages to chips which were shaped like butterflies and flowers and things, but could only be read on the devices so it was kind of like passing notes but super secret because it was only visible to people that had the device. They made it look really intriguing and covert in the commercials so it must have been real shit to have never caught on at all.

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake Před 4 lety +4

      John Koch Y’all talking like your parents would by stuff you wanted

    • @PlankGFX
      @PlankGFX Před 4 lety

      He should do a video on all the gifts parents tried to buy our love with when they got divorced 🤔😢

  • @ihat3youall123
    @ihat3youall123 Před 4 lety +265

    You forgot about the Disney channel original movie “get a clue”

  • @maureenobrien4968
    @maureenobrien4968 Před 2 lety

    I remember there was one kid in my preschool class that loved Spy Gear. When we went on a field trip to the town our teacher lived in, we stopped at McDonalds for lunch, and they were coincidentally offering Spy Gear toys in Happy Meals around that time. Needless to say, that kid was very happy.

  • @ravenofroses
    @ravenofroses Před 2 lety

    that computer voice going "sensor one" unlocked so many memories from my childhood. O.o

  • @annajull328
    @annajull328 Před 4 lety +81

    “There ain’t no thumbs in real life” is right up there with “cats don’t have mouths”

  • @endertrot9998
    @endertrot9998 Před 4 lety +167

    Forget the toys
    Look at the books
    The Spy Gear books were _wild_

    • @deannacorff3246
      @deannacorff3246 Před 4 lety +5

      Describe

    • @JDawgManiac23
      @JDawgManiac23 Před 4 lety +44

      @@deannacorff3246 these kids find an abandoned warehouse in the woods full of spy gear, then fight off government forces, weird monsters, and stuff.
      It's kinda vague since its been 10+ years, but they were a fun read, and I might go back to re-read the ones I have.

    • @JDawgManiac23
      @JDawgManiac23 Před 4 lety +11

      I was looking for this comment! I remember loving the books more than any toys I ever had.
      I never knew how big a brand this was or that the books were related to any toys.
      This was a good nostalgia trip.

    • @steamwings.6532
      @steamwings.6532 Před 4 lety +1

      I have the first 2 on my shelf and holy shit those books were wild, someone totally should cover them.

    • @user-fn8fm7qz1r
      @user-fn8fm7qz1r Před 4 lety +1

      JDawgManiac that sounds like spy kids one

  • @drenemelia2960
    @drenemelia2960 Před 3 lety +3

    I remember having the spy gear wrist launcher. I'd shoot the darts at the roof and try to stick them to a support beam, then wait for them to fall back down and move before they hit me in the face.

  • @zacharysolano6375
    @zacharysolano6375 Před 3 lety +2

    4:17
    i can say with confidence that that was my face as a kid whenever i saw that same type of packaging, jesus did i hate anything that had that type of packaging

  • @Loopzxx
    @Loopzxx Před 4 lety +90

    The motion sensor noise gave me memories I didn't realize I had

    • @PurpleWolfer
      @PurpleWolfer Před 4 lety +1

      Same!

    • @Ranstone
      @Ranstone Před 4 lety +6

      Gave me PDST. That was the last sound I heard before out basement-box fort got stormed by Timmy and his team. He broke through the walls and we all got blasted by Nerf guns... They took everything from our safe and threw it in the nearby lake...
      Maybe I shouldn't have made the safe out of cardboard...

    • @vizzy61
      @vizzy61 Před 4 lety

      PDST?

    • @earlm4744
      @earlm4744 Před 4 lety +3

      ah yes the post distress syndrome trauma

    • @nicolea2839
      @nicolea2839 Před 3 lety

      I have the motion sensor

  • @noobpro9759
    @noobpro9759 Před 4 lety +121

    All of the voices through the recorder sound like Christopher Walken.

    • @orage8802
      @orage8802 Před 4 lety +3

      Iss krisstopha wakken

    • @tylorkelly168
      @tylorkelly168 Před 4 lety +2

      Pipe down, I'm. Walken here

    • @Him69429
      @Him69429 Před 4 lety +1

      Yoo, there's someone coming, better stop doing what you're doing or you'll get in trouble

  • @bradlazar7568
    @bradlazar7568 Před 3 lety +2

    One time my hamster got out and we used the motion sensor to find him, great use of product, I give it 10/10 hamsters

  • @tihy9s168
    @tihy9s168 Před 4 lety

    Oddly fascinating. Wasn’t old enough to experience these but I still enjoyed watching this for some reason??? Good job man.

  • @Under10Hours
    @Under10Hours Před 4 lety +84

    I had that "spy ear" toy that let you hear from "very far away." I used to squeeze it because I swore it helped me hear farther.
    It didn't last long.

  • @flaviapetrorossidefigueire6044

    A part of my childhood I didn’t even knew I remembered , except for spy kids , I always remember those movies

  • @eringilstrap7578
    @eringilstrap7578 Před 3 lety

    I had the eye link communicator as a kid. And just learning about AOL from my big sister Made that toy the Coolest thing in the world. My Cousin and I would Sneak around my grandparents house with these on to Spy on our parents and older cousins. Typing out "BRB going in " or " AFK " when we were Spotted and needed to hide the head piece. So fun!!

  • @Lameashellcosplay
    @Lameashellcosplay Před 4 lety +29

    I used to buy those kits all the time and would tell my teachers I wanted to be in the CIA... I also wanted to be a fashion designer, astrologist, palentologist, etc as well though lmao.

  • @EveMizgala
    @EveMizgala Před 4 lety +21

    "Hi, welcome to my channel! I dredge up you deep childhood memories and confirm that no, you didn't imagine that that was a thing!"

    • @laboon344
      @laboon344 Před 4 lety

      Ok dredge is a word also your*

  • @jaskirat1999
    @jaskirat1999 Před 2 lety

    I literally had every single one of these. Very fond memories of playing around with friends.

  • @russellhoude5744
    @russellhoude5744 Před 4 lety

    I'm 23 right now, Spy Gear toys were some of my favorite toys and I actually had that first set that you showed as well as some others. Never cared about some other character, my brothers and I made our own characters. My personal favorite was actually the motion sensor, to 8ish year old me that was the best

  • @S7AINLESS
    @S7AINLESS Před 4 lety +56

    I had so much of this state of the art military grade equipment when I was a kid....

  • @Deoxy360
    @Deoxy360 Před 4 lety +140

    I remember my brother begging my parents to buy these for him back in the day.
    He got the spy mic for Christmas. Used it once or twice, then it sat in the toy box forever.
    Meanwhile I'm having fun playing Pokemon Crystal and trying to assemble a turbo megazord.

    • @thomashernandez6536
      @thomashernandez6536 Před 4 lety +6

      I wish I had all my zords still. I miss those things!

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake Před 4 lety +8

      Trying? So you failed? My heart goes out to you.

    • @Deoxy360
      @Deoxy360 Před 4 lety +5

      @@Gloomdrake I was a reckless and rebelious kid, I didn't follow the instruction manual.

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake Před 4 lety +3

      Deoxy360 Livin’ the dream

    • @evancunningham
      @evancunningham Před 4 lety +2

      Always Had Some Sort Of Power Ranger Toy.Morpher,Megazord,Figures,Everything
      I Was Born In 2006 But Grew Up On The 2 90s Movies And The Disney Seasons.Alwayd Wanted The Turbo Megazord And Turbo Or Zeo Morpher.Still A Dream To Owm The Original Morpher

  • @Inyuasha6
    @Inyuasha6 Před 2 lety +1

    I remember my childhood best friend and i would hide the motion tracker device and the game was for the other person to find it without triggering it. Good times, thanks for the nostalgia trip

  • @oddcirumstances
    @oddcirumstances Před 2 lety

    I had all the spy gear stuff! And there was this book at the book fair that was also something "spy gear" based, and I used to spend hours writing down license plates and descriptions of cars that drove by my dad's house.

  • @kasinokaiser1319
    @kasinokaiser1319 Před 4 lety +47

    Or as they were known back in my playground days, "stalker's arsenal"

  • @victfv
    @victfv Před 4 lety +75

    "There are no thumbs in real life."
    *Thumbs start to fade away*
    No! What have you done?

  • @MS-xk1ne
    @MS-xk1ne Před 3 lety +2

    I collected these as a kid. I was super into them. I had so many. 😂 They were honestly truly so fun, so thank you for making this video.

  • @cjhs2006
    @cjhs2006 Před 4 lety

    Dude,as a Kid I Was Addicted to Spies,PIs,&,1920s Gangsters,I Collected Stuff Dedicated to All of That,I Even Went to The Spy Museum in Washington DC When me,&,my Mom Went,it Was Beyond Awesome,I Still Love Good Movies,TV Shows,&,Books About That Stuff,The Cool Thing About That is That at The Time a Bunch of Kids I Went to School With Who Were The Same Age as me Were Actually Obsessed With Those Too,so my Autistic Kid Self Was Very Happy to Finally Have People With 3 Shared Interests as me

  • @kelly_seastar
    @kelly_seastar Před 4 lety +21

    Imagine: You are a secret agent. You must sneak into an evil scientist's lab to steal blueprints. You manage to sneak in and find a place to hide, but then a guard passes you and your watch starts blaring.
    Talk about terrible timing!

  • @curtailedbike4123
    @curtailedbike4123 Před 4 lety +23

    Every time i come to this channel, i remember a peice of my childhood i forgot about

  • @RozekillDeadFlower
    @RozekillDeadFlower Před 4 lety

    I remember winning that exact 'night vision goggles' item off of Radio Disney when I was in middle school. I thought it was really cool then finally realized it was just flashlights. I also had this girly spy gear. It had a compact-like item for a mirror and notes, lipstick as a recording device, mascara that was a pen, some other stuff I cant remember. Was really cool to play around with. :)

  • @maxineschultze922
    @maxineschultze922 Před 2 lety

    OH MY GOD THE GOGGLES ARE SUCH AN ANCIENT MEMORY it definitely fits under the "its not really specifically what you wanted but it's a nice thing to get someone", my aunt bought them for me randomly when I was like eight and they were kinda cool ig

  • @zoinksxscooby
    @zoinksxscooby Před 4 lety +36

    Dude this is like walking down memory lane. As a child I loved spy gear. As for the idea to do a video on Firefly phones, please do because I had one of those as well and I was 7 yo when i got the firefly, it saved my life when i had an asthma attack after a crash on my bike. Me and my friends had some jumps made for our bmx bikes and i took a sewer pipe to the gut. I thought it was lame until that happened. Very interesting how you had to program phone numbers. You can only do a select few too. Please do a video on the Firefly as i was too young to fully understand what i was dealing with and i'd like to learn more.

    • @Jimmy2shits
      @Jimmy2shits Před 4 lety +1

      Scooby Snax i had one as well. It was great until I couldn’t make any calls while at a festival and was allowed to roam alone since I had a phone (that didn’t work)

  • @doubledamn2599
    @doubledamn2599 Před 4 lety +102

    Every impression on that recorder sounds like Christopher Walken.

  • @kagen112
    @kagen112 Před rokem

    My favorite Spy Gear toy was this RC surveillance tank that had a camera and some slick shades that gave you a live feed.

  • @tywilkins2584
    @tywilkins2584 Před 3 lety

    I had that EXACT mini spy gear kit you got. Can’t remember what year, probably around when I was 10 years old (17 years ago or so) and this brought up so much nostalgia. Trying to spy on my little sister and using that motion sensor to keep her out of my room and using my N64. Thank you for this, I can’t thank you enough.