Military Toy Commercials 1960's

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2 жыл бұрын

One of my projects in restoring these rare one of a kind television shows and commercials is to tell the story of the boomers that help shape America and the World rolling with their toys in their youth. One story would be to profile the men and women that went into the military. I'd like to hear from anyone who has a special toy collection along these lines that wouldn't mind being profiled as well.
Somewhere out there if you have home movies playing with toys during the holiday or birthdays I would get the films transferred for you free.
#Remco #TVDAYS #IraGallen #Navy #Airforce #Marines #Frogmen

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@DragonShield1776 Жыл бұрын

Every boy wants a Remco toy... and so do girls. 🤣

@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b 11 ай бұрын

Tom Boys, lol.

@hemming57 11 ай бұрын

I traded my toys for girls, and boy, were they expensive!

@spurgear4 11 ай бұрын

Yup, bought a real airplane when I grew up too

@lonzo61 11 ай бұрын

Well, about ten percent of boys are becoming girls, so the demand for Remco ball turret machine gun toys is sure to drop. Oh, and of the remaining 90% of boys, probably another 10% to 20% those are being raised to be sissies. Best not to invest in the military-industrial-toy complex these days.

@Brigadium75 11 ай бұрын

Equality achieved from that quote

@jeffearle8172 2 жыл бұрын

These were the toys we played with as children. None of us turned into mass killers as a result.

@dlakoba4459 2 жыл бұрын

i was thinking the same thing ~!!

@SamhainBe 2 жыл бұрын

So right Jeff and we played "army" all day on Saturdays with very realistic toy guns - outside with our friends, running around the neighborhood, getting lots of exercise, fresh air and sunshine.

@jhonsiders6077 2 жыл бұрын

But back then if we screwed up we got our bare bottoms spanked red and sore today if a kid was disciplined a parent would be jailed !

@fscap811 Жыл бұрын

jeff earle Speak for yourself 😈

@jeffearle8172 Жыл бұрын

@@fscap811 that pretty much all I can do, right?

@alexcreates7171 10 ай бұрын

As someone born in the 2000s, I find these toys somewhat better than today’s toys.

@dilligaf1009 8 ай бұрын

I'm pretty old. Todd like this totally sparked our imagination as kids. No cell phones. 13 TV channels but you had to wait for the day your favorite shows played. Locked out til lunchtime and then had to be home before the streetlights came on. I still like rc toys and adventure time though!

@Leo51017 7 ай бұрын

General kenobi

@theworldoftoys2081 6 ай бұрын

Same

@don2deliver 5 ай бұрын

Dude we had real wooden toy rifles with steel barrels. Any bayonets were rubber, they weren't that lax, usually.😅

@Jart-tl6ej 5 ай бұрын

Agreed

@michaelpelzek8882 7 ай бұрын

As a 26 year old the one thing i can say is these look really well built, in comparison to the garbage released today and for awhile.

@barfuss2007 4 ай бұрын

today us kids play with real guns in the classroom...

@Quasimodo1957 11 ай бұрын

I remember all of these as a kid. My father worked 40 hours a week and made $8000 a year. $11.98 was a king's ransom in those days.

@frostyjim2633 11 ай бұрын

if you had a $100 bill, you practically had to go to a bank to change it, now just buy a pack of gum. I'd say cigarettes, but $100 might not be enough for a pack of those

@billhillyer334 11 ай бұрын

Now, it's hard to live on 60 thousand dollars a year 😢

@rascal0175 11 ай бұрын

Amen.

@Db--jt7bt 11 ай бұрын

This was back before toys were made in China, and the toy industry didn’t have to compete with video games for kids’ attention. When I was a kid, toys like this were still $10-20 each but adults generally made more than $8,000 a year. My dad found his old GI joes at my grandpas house and we had a blast playing with them together but we could still tell how much the quality had improved in my sets lol.

@camperman101 11 ай бұрын

I know, my parents bought a brand new three bedroom brick home in virginia beach when we were little for 12000 dollars

@mikey92362 11 ай бұрын

54 years old and I would buy that ball turret gun right now if I saw one.

@suzi_mai 11 ай бұрын

Be extra neat to make it fire nerf projectiles!

@mikey92362 11 ай бұрын

@@suzi_mai we have one here that fires nerf. It's ok. Problem with nerf is the bright colors. Looks like a toy. :(

@briankorneff5604 11 ай бұрын

columbus flea market, NJ... im here because i saw one there and was looking it up

@JustSomeWeirdo 11 ай бұрын

@@mikey92362 paint it black

@man-o-war1685 11 ай бұрын

@@mikey92362 can’t blame them, your eyes are attracted by bright colors.

@ieajackson5518 11 ай бұрын

0:58 “and also girls”😂

@Antelope2008 3 ай бұрын

Oddly Progressive.

@caribman10 9 ай бұрын

These are/were truly rich kids toys. In 1958 our monthly rent for a 2-bedroom apartment was $25. In 1960 we rented a 3 bedroom house for $40 a month. So no kid I knew was getting a $30 toy for Christmas.

@Db--jt7bt 11 ай бұрын

“The B-52 doesn’t have a ball turret. It only has a tail gun. And it first flew 10 years ago” -my dad in 1962, probably.

@lonzo61 11 ай бұрын

You're right. I noticed that error, too. Only bombers that served in WW2 and Korea had gun turrets. Well, if we're talking ball turrets, it would only have been B-24s and B-17s during WW2.

@Doesitmatter113 11 ай бұрын

@@lonzo61 B-29 had two. One on top, one on bottom.

@lonzo61 11 ай бұрын

@@Doesitmatter113 Negative. They were powered, unmanned turrets--not ball turrets.

@Doesitmatter113 11 ай бұрын

@@lonzo61 Same concept, but you're right.

@Richardzmaxdragway 11 ай бұрын

Oh for god sakes fellows it was just toys in the sixties. who cares if the B-52 had a ball turret or not.... If I was a little kid in the early sixties I wouldn't have gave a s*** I think that's a cool toy.

@resolute123 11 ай бұрын

Shell casing on the naval boat was very impressive. Such detail you don't see in today's toys.

@DerDrecksack87 11 ай бұрын

Not for 12,98 for sure.

@DreBlomi 11 ай бұрын

@@DerDrecksack87 in 1960 it's like 133$

@DerDrecksack87 11 ай бұрын

@@DreBlomi of course, just tried to make the point how much everything including money has lost value.

@fredmullison4246 11 ай бұрын

Remco's Walker Bulldog Tank had the exact same gun mechanism; fired a round and ejected a brass casing. And yep, I had that one, too.

@drsssssssss 11 ай бұрын

modern nanny state would sue them to death after 1 in a million kids choked on it.

@JGL841 8 ай бұрын

My uncle from the USA came to visit my dad in Canada one Christmas in the late 1960s. He brought his son along, and he brought his toys. As a young Canadian boy under 10, I was flabbergasted! My American cousin had a semi-automatic toy rifle that shot plastic bullets! My uncle was drunk the whole time he was visiting, but I had a great time with his son. Never saw them again, but they impressed this young lad in the frozen north!

@phild8095 9 ай бұрын

So many of us had fathers that served in WWII or Korea. Vietnam was just coming to light. We watched TV shows and movies that took place in WWII, our boy scout leaders, little league coaches, our male teachers, so many of the WWII vets. Some kids were getting bolt action 22's for Christmas or birthdays. BB guns were everywhere. That we had Thompsons and Garands and Carbines and M2 machine guns, pinapple grenades, model PT boats, GI Joe foot tall with all kinds of accessories. In my neighborhood, we knew how to set up an ambush, lay mines, and apply tourniquets by 10 years old. Even Massachusetts was gun friendly then.

@crystalrock18 11 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie that ball turret gunner toy looked awesome.

@txgunguy2766 11 ай бұрын

Yeah it did. I'd love to have one even now.

@crystalrock18 11 ай бұрын

@@txgunguy2766 you and me both. All these toys looked awesome to have, but also they weren’t cheap back in the early 60’s; I know my parents said if they spent that much on toys, my grandparents would have blown a head gasket. But that was back in the day when you spend $4-$5 on groceries.

@bradphillips6287 11 ай бұрын

Some how I still have the box to the B-52 Turret ! My mom used it to hold rolls of Christmas wrapping paper. No way she liked the clattering sound of it. Soon the batteries disappeared. I'm sure the toy was my dad's idea. He passed away several months after that Christmas morning, though. I was 9.

@Derpherppington 11 ай бұрын

sounds like a lie to me

@terrybutler1911 11 ай бұрын

This is my wifes account. I am 72 yrs old , I knew when I was 12 that those were the days. What a time to be alive at that age.

@rascal0175 11 ай бұрын

I’m about to turn 76. I can’t decide between the ball turret set and the frogman. I still miss Remco and their 40mm anti-aircraft gun.

@lonzo61 11 ай бұрын

@@rascal0175 Every boy should have a 40mm AA gun. Hell, I'd like one!

@rascal0175 11 ай бұрын

@@lonzo61 I wish you could have seen the Remco commercials for this post-war toy. TV was filled with war history, war movies, and the Korean War was on the news at 5/6 and 11. Our families fought WWll. Kids knew about banzai charges, kamikaze’s and nazi death camps. A friend had a full nazi officer’s uniform hanging in his basement complete with the bullet hole that killed him. War surplus was everywhere. As kids we would have kicked Marylyn Monroe under the table in favor of a Remco 40mm quad mount, know in kid slang as “poppers.” A few years later we would have chosen otherwise. Oh, and that commercial, it was you or them, and it was gonna be them. Years later I joined the Army to become an Airborne Ranger. Funny what a little TV will do to a kids future choices.

@michaelmartin4552 8 ай бұрын

Remco was a company we all loved back in the day.

@jimdennis2451 5 ай бұрын

... and girls too!

@polancanintospace8158 6 ай бұрын

These toys honestly seem better than what we have now.

@captainjohn6923 Жыл бұрын

Had a life like Tiger Tank is the early 60s. That thing was huge! Worked on a Army style walkie talkie with wires running to it and firing cannon, with shell's you could fill with flour. My Mom got so mad, I used up a whole bag of her flour that Christmas day! All I can say is War is hell.. 🪖🎄... 🕶️🚬 ...

@blockmasterscott 11 ай бұрын

That story about your mom's flour had me laughing hard! 🤣🤣🤣

@doubleedgedfist1535 11 ай бұрын

Lol😂

@andicog 11 ай бұрын

Tiger Joe it was called, we had one, made by Topper toys.

@pbxn-3rdx-85percent 11 ай бұрын

Mom: You used up all the flour! Johnny: Hello Quartermaster? Could you send down a replacement bag of flour? You better hurry my mom's about to go ballistic. 😄😂🤣

@whereswaldo5740 11 ай бұрын

I had one of those it was awesome.

@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676 11 ай бұрын

You have to understand that in this era a big portion of kids’ fathers had some sort of military service. Even in my childhood (1970’s) a big portion of my friend’s fathers were vets. I played with military toys all the time.

@MrArcher7 11 ай бұрын

In Ken Burns' documentary on the Vietnam war, the soldiers talk about how most of the adults they knew fought in the war. Their fathers, their uncles, their teachers. My father grew up in that era, I wonder if he had any of these.

@joshmcgill4639 11 ай бұрын

Playtime. Playtime never changes

@MrArcher7 11 ай бұрын

@@joshmcgill4639 the toys just get more advanced. Now we shoot down virtual planes in video games.

@Bustermachine 11 ай бұрын

@@MrArcher7 It's a bit of stretch to say everyone fought. But it's fair to say everyone was involved in some way. And definitely that everyone knew someone who fought. My own great grandfather wasn't drafted because he was a steal foreman, and most of my great uncles were farmers.

@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676 9 ай бұрын

@@Bustermachine I didn’t say everyone. I said a vast majority.

@Cosmicblast77 11 ай бұрын

The best and happiest memories as a kid in the early 60s playing war with the neighborhood kids. Had the most realistic toy guns and imitated the soldiers of the tv show, "Combat".

@beartooth867 4 ай бұрын

Sarge

@kittymervine6115 6 ай бұрын

I LOVE THE AND SO DO GIRLS!!! with two brothers, this would have been my favorite gift!

@Slickgoodlin 11 ай бұрын

I had the Remco Whirlybird helicopter, everything worked as advertised, probably the best toy I ever had. You could use the rescue hook to tow toy cars around the living room. Never really thought about the $9.98 price till now. My folks definitely weren't rich, but somehow they got it for me.

@odinsson204 11 ай бұрын

I had that too. Wish I still had it.

@truckerray7533 11 ай бұрын

I would love to have the helicopter now, lol! It was modeled after the Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee "Flying Banana"!

@ablemagawitch 11 ай бұрын

@@odinsson204 You can, just remember that price on EBAY is just the $9.98 price adjusted for inflation, it makes it sting a little less. Then convince yourself the rest of that price was rent for storage of your toy. It takes some mental gymnastics but you can convince yourself you're worth it. I am not ashamed of some of the old toys I bought just to have them again and the others ones that my parents wouldn't let me have. They're still fun to play with it, and friends still get jealous and wanna use them....

@WitchidWitchid 11 ай бұрын

I wanted the helicopter too. But I did have a large toy plane. I think it was a C47 (the military version of the famous DC3). It had compartments for cargo and for carrying soldiers or paratroopers. On a fresh set of batteries it looked awesome with the propellers spinning and the landing lights, beacons, and nav lights on. Wish I had it today.

@jamesburns2232 11 ай бұрын

The Whirlybird Helicopter was based on the CH-45 Army Chinook Helicopter - affectionately called the Sh!t Hook because you could hook all your Sh!t onto it and fly off. 🪖

@rickdaystar477 2 жыл бұрын

I had the helicopter. Unfortunately in the 80's my mother had the attic cleaned out and all my toys of the 50's were put in the trash. Robbie the Robot and everything else is gone.

@keithallver2450 2 жыл бұрын

That Robbie the Robot would have been a collector's item worth some bucks now.

@fscap811 Жыл бұрын

Rick Daystar My mother threw out all my baseball cards from the 50s and early 60s, my comic book collection that had Superman and Batman issues from the 40s and a bunch of other things that probably would have enabled me to retire years ago after their sale.

@rickdaystar477 Жыл бұрын

@@fscap811 Unfortunately that's a typical story. I always thought my mother would ask me if I wanted any of my childhood toys ect. Nope! They were out of her way in the attic but one day her " Spring cleaning" went nuclear...LoL.

@fscap811 Жыл бұрын

@@rickdaystar477 Every once in a while I would remind her that I probably would've been rich if not for her spring "cleaning"...cleaning it was, it cleaned me out 😂

@alfrede.newman6626 Жыл бұрын

@@fscap811 .. 🤣.. My little sister got into a box with my Xmen collection i had forgotten about ( issues 10 through 60 something around that .)... along with early Avengers and others. ....Crayons.. 😝

@johncartwright8154 11 ай бұрын

We were envious of these toys seen in US comics during the 1950s, not marketed here in England! I'm 73 now, and still hanker after one! 😁

@neilbertuk1 11 ай бұрын

The UK did have good stuff, you have to admit that an Action Man was much better than GI Joe.

@Cavan357 5 ай бұрын

Toys were so much better than what kids have today.Also they were much less rushed commercials and so much more fun toys.

@Elburion 11 ай бұрын

That Ball Turret was around 140 dollars back then in today's prices! That's insane!

@badgerattoadhall 11 ай бұрын

$140.00 it looks like something a kid would play with twice and get bored of.

@ryanbarker5217 10 ай бұрын

@@badgerattoadhall i wouldn't have gotten bored with it for quite awhile.

@johnconnor8937 9 ай бұрын

Theyre all 140 now

@WackadoodleMalarkey 8 ай бұрын

@@badgerattoadhallThey'd have more fun playing with the box 📦 😂

@vornamenachname1218 8 ай бұрын

I used to sit in a tree, pretending im in a fighterplain, never got bored of it. I doubt that turred would have bored me. But that was a different Generation.

@mohammedcohen Жыл бұрын

WOW!!! I wanted the ball turret twin MGs so bad when I was a kid...

@JD-wn3cc 11 ай бұрын

I want it now!

@HootOwl513 11 ай бұрын

I had one. The ammo belt broke. Also had the Steve Canyon Jet cockpit. With the neighbor kids, we used to make a whole bomber crew and play doing long missions.

@mohammedcohen 11 ай бұрын

@@HootOwl513 ...a guy who rented the front store on my dad's property in Fort Lee, NJ had a toy store and every once inna while dad would let me go and look around...I actually got my grubby little mitts on this once...

@codenameak3402 11 ай бұрын

Kinda like millennium falcon turret

@toastnjam7384 11 ай бұрын

@@HootOwl513 My friend had that. I used to borrow it all the time.

@jehb8945 11 ай бұрын

In the eighties I had my dad's Fighting Lady sure a few things were missing but at least the horn and front gun turret worked sans the shell casing gimmick and one thing I have to say is that thing was extremely well-built

@aprillagman5113 5 ай бұрын

Narrator:you are never out of ammo Also narrator: JuST ReLOaD

@rockoorbe2002 11 ай бұрын

That turret looks so awesome. Imagine releasing one of these today but with a matching video game.

@mentalmans_6561 11 ай бұрын

I miss those games were the controller was a gun and you point at the screen to shot so much. I wish they would still make them

@admiralcraddock464 11 ай бұрын

Yes, and they could add the smell of burning flesh as you hurl towards the ground trapped in thatball turret

@ME262MKI 11 ай бұрын

I bet if it was released today it would hurt the feelings of someone

@elchaposexcitingadventures1674 11 ай бұрын

But they could release it in rainbow colours then it would be okay.

@TheJTMcDaniel 11 ай бұрын

Not a ball turret, though. More like a tail gunner's station.

@eeeae 11 ай бұрын

Bro we need toys like these back. My most famous post, Thanks. : )

@pfcwar5150 11 ай бұрын

The “ Stick anything in my ass Ken doll” will be the hot seller this Christmas

@MrGchiasson 11 ай бұрын

The woketard child psychologists would go crazy. Another reason to buy them

@anamericancelt6534 11 ай бұрын

Lego.

@Gravity_studioss 11 ай бұрын

@@anamericancelt6534 Lego is NOT like this

@anamericancelt6534 11 ай бұрын

@@Gravity_studioss But you can make things like them.

@RobertL.JonesJr-hz8vl 5 ай бұрын

I remember from back in the 60s as a child having GI Joes, a Seaview toy submarine, and my Play guns from then. Those were the days.

@michaelschramm1064 4 ай бұрын

Loved my yellow Seaview that actually fired torpedoes.

@EWAIRCRAFTONTOP Жыл бұрын

I WOULD LOVE THAT TURRET!

@schallrd1 Жыл бұрын

The Navy ship was pretty cool with plenty of fire power.

@quaileggsvermont 8 ай бұрын

Here we go, I remember each one of these on the Box! Tv for the younger folks! I remember even more than these!

@tootired76 5 ай бұрын

My parents opted to buy us Tonka Toys instead of what they thought was made of cheap plastic. Smart of them! 3 brothers were hard on 1960s toys!

@FA-Q20-1 5 ай бұрын

Tonka was no joke. Talk about taking a beating and still going.

@agb1953 Жыл бұрын

Saw these commercials while watching Saturday morning cartoons long, long ago.

@MrGchiasson 11 ай бұрын

Don't forget the cereals..like Sugar-pops..and Cap'n Crunch Two days worth of sugar in every spoonful! And...we're still here

@bradphillips6287 11 ай бұрын

I still own the box to the B-52 Turret ! My mom used it to store her rolls of Christmas wrapping paper. She didnt like the sound of the gun clattering so the batteries soon disappeared. The toy must have been my dad's idea not hers. Sadly, my dad passed away several months later after that Christmas morning. I was 9.

@Mokkers_stuff 11 ай бұрын

"and so do girls" tacked on at the end of each commercial, lol! I particularly liked the frogman because, and this is schoolboy in me coming out, it didn't look like a propeller was moving him forward, it looked more like he had "excess gas"!

@trevorgwelch7412 5 ай бұрын

In the 1960's children had to use their IMAGINATION when playing with toys .

@blockmasterscott 11 ай бұрын

I grew up with the 12 inch GI figures. Almost all of my toys were about WW2 fighting, and cowboys and indians! 👍

@johngillon6969 11 ай бұрын

when my kid was totally into barbie and ken, i bought her a G.I. Joe, and Barbie finally seemed satisfied. He could wear his clothes and also kens preppie outfit fit him also.

@korbell1089 11 ай бұрын

@@johngillon6969 LOL, while watching this I flashbacked to when my daughter wanted a Ken doll but I bought her a G.I. Joe instead. She was upset until I pointed out that Ken came with a pink shirt, G.I. Joe came with a machine gun!😁

@johngillon6969 11 ай бұрын

@@korbell1089 I surprised my little girl with a green bicycle. She wouldn't ride it because she wanted the pink one. It's ok. she turned out wonderful, just wouldn't share my passion for bicycles. she had a passion for piano, then the violin and viola. she played in school orchestra and hung out with those kind of kids so never got in trouble. i was lucky.

@BHARGAV_GAJJAR 11 ай бұрын

What was that 12 inch toy GI figure called ?

@imaouima 11 ай бұрын

@@BHARGAV_GAJJAR GI Joe. The cowboys and Indians were probably Johnny West.

@wramsey2656 11 ай бұрын

WOW these toys were HUGE in scale i love it!!! We need these guys to make them again !!

@Doggeslife 11 ай бұрын

The 1960 helicopter toy would be $148 in today's dollars. In 2023 you can get one that actually flies for that price now.

@davidh9844 11 ай бұрын

We have them. They are called "Drones". They only cost about $50-100, they really do fly, and back in 1960 would have cost around $5.

@jamesrolfe9400 11 ай бұрын

@@davidh9844 but they don’t have actual compartments to hold entire squads of army men and one or two Vulcan cannons!

@Bustermachine 11 ай бұрын

@@jamesrolfe9400 I think the ability to actually fly is a fair trade off. XD Also, we still have fancy plastic minies, and you can make as many as you please with a 3D resin printer. It's an enjoyable hobby to print and paint them.

@user-vm3zy1ix4j 11 ай бұрын

I was not born when these commercials came out, but apparently Remco made some great toys.

@WitchidWitchid 11 ай бұрын

Remco, Ideal, and Mattel were the 3 big toy companies of the 1950s and 60s.

@Fouremyleofceres 11 ай бұрын

"And so do girls!" Don't remember any of these toys, but then they were probably hawked when we were out of country. I was all about Fireball XL5 and Major Matt Mason.

@PaulNelson980 11 ай бұрын

My memories:My Grandmother worked at a grocery store on top self were Remco and other toys .That I would dream of .My father was in the Air Force and at the time didn’t have rank so we had little money.And $12.00 $9.00 dollars was a lot of money to us.I did have some of this cool toys but they were special occasions Christmas or you did something special to earn one.But to see see and wish for and think of the adventures you could have with them.See this brings back found memories.Thank you.

@zzaacchh 8 ай бұрын

$120 for a dinky toy is still alot for most people

@ralphpastine4587 Жыл бұрын

I’m 41 and was a child of The 80’s and I want that ball turret toy so Badly lol

@bonk747klm 11 ай бұрын

im 13 and want the ball turret toy

@joshblack4037 11 ай бұрын

I’m 16 and into collecting old toys, man these toys are cooler than modern day ones.

@hello4542 7 ай бұрын

I’m 15 and can agree!

@robertboeger1456 8 ай бұрын

I had one of these as a child... hoowa brothers and sisters

@JeepWrangler1957 11 ай бұрын

I served in Vietnam, dad was a WWII vet and my brothers served in the First Gulf War and the GWOT. None turned into mass shooters. My dad's firearms were in his closet and were unlocked. We knew what was in store if we touched them....the sound of a belt clearing the belt loops on his trousers was a distinct sound that you did not want to hear.

@manofsan 11 ай бұрын

today's kids have their lawyers on speed dial

@richardhockey8442 11 ай бұрын

@@manofsan 'You've been bad... No TikTok for you tonight'

@JeepWrangler1957 11 ай бұрын

@@richardhockey8442 😂

@elchaposexcitingadventures1674 11 ай бұрын

Exactly. I was more afraid of that belt than my dad!

@ivanleterror9158 11 ай бұрын

My uncle would make use of the same 'persuader' if we didn't quiet down and go to sleep. How come I haven't rented a truck and driven through the local mall?

@thatdudeinasuit5422 11 ай бұрын

I just love the "and so do girls" on the end there.

@331SVTCobra 5 ай бұрын

Love the message: "this will make you the neighborhood hero". LOL

@pi.actual 4 ай бұрын

I had the ball turret and the Steve Canyon helmet. I think the next Christmas I got the 007 attaché case with the pop out plastic dagger, sniper rifle, decipher encoder and a wad of fake Russian Rubles. My dad was a plumber and mom worked at JC Penny's.

@leokimvideo 11 ай бұрын

Back when toys were all about world domination and not playing with rainbows

@thystaff742 11 ай бұрын

These were expensive toys though. 13.98 from 1965 would be $130 today.

@rascal0175 11 ай бұрын

It was more about preventing world domination. Then again, it depended on which side you were on.

@cajun869 11 ай бұрын

@@lonzo61 The Democrats are to blame for the downfall this country is in with their liberal, socialist, turn every boy into a homo, woke agenda.

@JB-js4xi 11 ай бұрын

Do you play with rainbows? I don't know who does. I do have some pink army men though made by Tim Mee.....does that make you angry? In the early 70s I had some bright yellow army men too. Seems like a lot of anti America people are against other Americans today and fearful of gays...terrified of them and can't quit talking about and thinking about them. That's sick. A very sick mind obsesses on other people who don't effect them.

@cajun869 11 ай бұрын

@@JB-js4xi The Homo agenda doesn't effect normal American's, that is the stupidest comment I have heard in a long time. At every turn in the American culture now, they are pushing that crap on TV shows, TV commercials, in schools, in girl sports, and in politics. They get a whole month to celebrate their existent. The veterans get 1 lousy day. I don't care about them and what they do, but when the whole country changes to "push" their lifestyle onto everyone, that's when I have a problem.

@darkwood777 2 жыл бұрын

The flames after the explosions was probably lighter fluid set off by the firecrackers. Good work kids.

@AltHistoryCountryballs 11 ай бұрын

First people were saying that rock music would turn people into murderers, now it’s video games, but we had these commercials back then and they didn’t turn people into murderers.

@dev-L0 11 ай бұрын

Man this is every kids dream toy

@user-pb3cl3iv3n 11 ай бұрын

I had a "Johnny Eagle" in the late '60's. It was a pretty realistic toy M-14 rifle that fired spring loaded plastic projectiles out brass coloured plastic cartridges. I was the envy of the block, until I inevitably broke the thing. Also loved the Sekiden pistols that fired clay pellets. Made in Japan and was the closest thing to a Walther PPK you'd find in the toy store. A must for any young James Bond fan. Good times. Played with stuff like this all through my childhood and never became a violent person. Could it have something to do with competent parenting and good role models?

@johngardner1290 11 ай бұрын

Same here.

@jeffearle8172 11 ай бұрын

@@johngardner1290 ditto!

@russelllamonaco2283 11 ай бұрын

Same her My dad bought me the m14 then when Mattel put out the m16 ,the one john Wayne used in the movie the Green Beret ,when he smash it against the tree .Good old days.

@10mmfan 11 ай бұрын

Back when each state could decide on what to teach its students. Usually the core basics needed in life, some morals with a healthy dose of common sense thrown in. Schools were old and coal heated with boilers yet somehow we learned so much more. Gone are the days of common sense and morals and yet our children go to new state of the art school buildings with millions spent on athletic stadiums. The country is screwed.

@tartrazine5 11 ай бұрын

Yes. Most mass shooters didn't have a dad. Because of course they didn't.

@Wa3ypx Жыл бұрын

I remember being on vacation at a Holiday Inn, they had a pool and some kid had the frogman. 50 yrs ago

@patrickmcgrath5411 8 ай бұрын

I WAS 8 YEARS OLD IN 1960'... MY FAVORITE TOYS ❣️👍

@Feuerspringer08 10 ай бұрын

I'm a kid of the 70/80's. And I envy the children from back then, we already had a lot of great stuff, back then it was just better...mhmm...when I see what children have today, it doesn't surprise me that the generations are so...different

@lard_lad_AU Жыл бұрын

They should remake these toys

@cnfuzz 11 ай бұрын

Sure for the diversity boys n gals

@pschroeter1 11 ай бұрын

I remember looking through the huge Sears Christmas catalogue and half of it would be toys. I remember there would be various sized of toy soldier sets and some of the were monstrously large.

@CIintB3ASTW0oD 11 ай бұрын

What year?

@thedbcooperforum 11 ай бұрын

Sears, JC Penny had them to, looked at the year round..

@pschroeter1 11 ай бұрын

@@CIintB3ASTW0oD About middle 60s.

@felixmadison5736 9 ай бұрын

OMG! Does this video bring back memories! I haven't seen these toys in 60+ years! A few of us in the neighborhood had at least of of these Remco toys, and what fun we had with them! I'm 74 years-old, and I remember those Remco toys very well. My brother and I were always hoping to get Remco products for Christmas or birthday. Just about every boy I knew back in the late 1950s and 1960s owned some kind of toy gun. We all had them and had lots of fun with them. No one every got shot, or went out and became a mass killer. Just about every t.v. show had detectives, cowboys, and soldiers carrying guns and shooting people in each episode. Even with all this, we were nowhere near the sad point we are today with all the mass shootings. One toy I didn't see here is the Remco Bulldog Tank. My neighbor had one and it was pretty awesome for us kids. BTW, that $13.98 toy would cost a dad about $100 today.

@dansykes7594 9 ай бұрын

The placement and action of the "motor-driven propeller" make the diver look as though he's having a severe "digestive event." 🤣

@6omega2 11 ай бұрын

I got curious and had to run the numbers through an inflation calculator. A toy with a price of $11.98 in 1964 would be about $117, adjusted for inflation, today. That confirmed my hunch that a lot of these toys were "not exactly cheap" back in the day.

@avus-kw2f213 11 ай бұрын

F for all the kids who saved up all their money and didn’t spend it on toys like this

@cnfuzz 11 ай бұрын

Must have been a healthy profit margin for that plastic , you remember these cheap asian tin toys that cutted in your fingers

@charlesappleget4657 11 ай бұрын

That's true...You know everybody sees those prices, and loses their mind...lololololol Dad worked 2 full-time jobs, six days a week. He was a depression era kid, and you couldn't give him enough money. The common phrase at our house was "We don't have any money...Put it on your christmas list" Christmas was bangin' at our house, but you didn't get high dollar stuff.

@Bill23799 2 жыл бұрын

Radar protects the ship. Corporal O'Reily: Wait for it......Anti-ship Missiles!

@Scottjoplin_kingofragtime 8 ай бұрын

Holy moly I would love these when I was younger and still do now

@edwinkirkland8856 8 ай бұрын

Im 76. Sorry 66..had a blast with these

@Kltpzyxm17 11 ай бұрын

My Dad bought me everyone of these toys. God bless you Pop.❤

@fredmullison4246 11 ай бұрын

Yep. God bless my parents, too. The Remco toys made of plastic didn't pass the test of time.......long gone. But I still have my collection of 11 steel NyLint, Doepke and Smith-Miller construction equipment toys. I'll never sell them. They are physical reminders of my parent's dedication to us kids.

@scottward7813 11 ай бұрын

That ball turret is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen!

@KeithCooper-Albuquerque 11 ай бұрын

Somehow my Mom was able to buy one for me one Christmas. She saved a long time for that toy, and it was basically the only toy I got that year (my Mom had just became a widow.) I loved it!

@UberChargeGaming-ek4nm 9 ай бұрын

@@KeithCooper-Albuquerquehow much is it todays money?

@hawkmaster381 10 ай бұрын

I’m 62 and I want this!

@donfrandsen7778 11 ай бұрын

Dam straight!!! American toys!!! Back in the day Wow!!!! Instead of video games Rocks!!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

@PsyduckIsTheBest_ 10 ай бұрын

Man, I never saw these, I wasn’t even alive when this stuff aired. It’s fascinating to compare these over enthusiastic ads from the 60’s to todays ads.

@DarthFrodo Жыл бұрын

I am almost 60 and want these toys....NOW!!

@johnbauman4005 11 ай бұрын

For me, "The one that got away" was a Johnny 7 OMA - The One Man Army gun. It looked amazing! Thinking back it may have been too expensive because my parents would have had to buy several to be fair to all the boys.

@clarencebland4861 4 ай бұрын

I wanted a Johnny 7 so dang bad! I don’t know how it worked for real but the commercials had me acting good from Thanksgiving on LOL. Never got one then and considering the prices I saw on eBay I guess I never will. I’ll have to put it in with the BB gun I never got. My parents were afraid I’d shoot someone with it…and they were right!

@crucialbeatle7935 11 ай бұрын

Man I wish kids toys these days had this much thought and effort put into them, the turret and battle ship are by far some of the coolest toys I have every seen

@timarnold9969 2 жыл бұрын

I missed that toy. But, I was fortunate to get a Defender Dan, a Johnny Reb Cannon and one of those green USMC Bazookas with the blue ammo. The Johnny Reb and the Bazooka also shot my mother’s sewing thread spools quite well off of the center shaft/wire. Many a car suffered an attack by a six year-old on Knight Drive at Lincoln Air Force Base.

@timothytikker3834 11 ай бұрын

I remmber the ads for the ball turret gun toy from Renco. A neighbor boy got one, so my mother and brother and I went over to see it. My mother thought it was a disappointment, a far cry from how it was depicted in the TV commercials, so she never got one for us!

@timothytikker3834 11 ай бұрын

BTW, $9.98 in 1964 is equivalent to $97.66 in 2023.

@mysteryblueboy911 5 ай бұрын

I’m 13 and I love old toys from 50s and 60s I want to buy all these😊

@robertmchaney3046 8 ай бұрын

That B-52 machine gun toy would have been great to have. Never knew Remco made that toy. Thanks.

@s.patrick6136 11 ай бұрын

Man. I want all those now !! I’m 55 and they look great. 😎

@Liddledriver 11 ай бұрын

I loved my Jimmy Jet fighter console and with my Steve Canyon helmet, visor and oxygen mask I was as close to a fighter pilot as I would ever get. Thanks for posting, wonderful memories.

@Redwhiteblue-gr5em 11 ай бұрын

I also had a gray Steve Canyon gray flight suit. But never got the helmet.

@michaelclarke5860 8 ай бұрын

The slogan gets me every time. “-and so do girls!” Just makes me laugh. They couldn’t figure out how to make it rhyme.

@EternalGaming786 10 ай бұрын

"You'll never run out of Ammo" Most Murican thing ever. :'3

@carsten4594 11 ай бұрын

I remember Mattel coming out with a "Bombs Away" game in the late '50s. These were bombs on parachutes launched at a ground bullseye target. Someone objected loudly enough that the game was quickly modified to be "Chutes Away", a paratrooper game advertised by Dick Van Dyke. Great memories.

@Bustermachine 11 ай бұрын

That one I can kind of understand given the anxiety over the world ending in atomic fire.

@davidsiller9078 11 ай бұрын

I love REMCO toys! Had many in my youth.

@mjrootz 7 ай бұрын

LOL I'm 66 years old and I still want those

@Andrecio64 11 ай бұрын

The (and so do girls) parenthesis of the ball turret commercial is gold.

@DeliveryDemon 11 ай бұрын

The whirlybirds! Aka the Piaseki Flying Banana

@1982field 2 жыл бұрын

Man it is 2022 and I want one To go with my blanket Fort

@lonzo61 11 ай бұрын

My fort is made of sofa cushions, and is a lot better than your fort, I tell ya. OH, and I defend it with the old man's M1 rifle that he keeps in his closet. I take play army very seriously. Um, I probably should admit that I'm 60 years old. Hey, I quit smoking a month ago!! Whudyuhgonna do?

@Gravity_studioss 11 ай бұрын

@@lonzo61 Pathetic! My fort was an airship made out of a two-story bed!

@lonzo61 11 ай бұрын

@@Gravity_studioss Well.....that is impressive, I have to admit.

@Meauxluv 11 ай бұрын

Christmas 1987. I had every gun and Rambo toy Toys r us had to offer.

@vane909090 5 ай бұрын

Wow you Americans had awesome toys as early as the 60's. I like how they say "for girls too" at the end lol.

@josephpadula2283 11 ай бұрын

I was born in 1957 and don’t remember any of these and I I was definitely a target market! I wish they put the years this was on tv.

@OldCoot816 11 ай бұрын

I had a Mighty Moe cannon and a Johnny 7 rifle back in the day!!

@moboutmen 11 ай бұрын

Mid 60's. I was a '57 model myself.

@robertsansone1680 11 ай бұрын

I don't remember them either but I would have loved to own that stuff. I'd love to own them now. I bet they're worth a fortune. One hint. They mentioned the B-52 being Americas newest weapon. Mid-Fifties?

@Doggeslife 11 ай бұрын

@@moboutmen I was born in 1960. These would have to be 1960-1963 because I recall none of them. The Remco brand is familiar but not these toys. Starting around 1964 I watched ALL toy commercials on TV. ;-)

@wladmuir 11 ай бұрын

They are all on ebay with sellers claiming '61.

@sipioc 11 ай бұрын

0:53 “…and so do girls” So dismissive, I kinda love it.

@user-nu8be1rq2p 11 ай бұрын

This might be the coolest thing I have ever watched.

@skovner 11 ай бұрын

I had a Whirlybird. But what about the "submarine" that ran over the floor launching nuclear missiles at random intervals? I had one of those, too! Every boy (like me) wanted a Remco toy!

@DOI_ARTS 11 ай бұрын

Do girls too?

@fliegeroh 11 ай бұрын

I believe that was the "Baracuda". Everybody wanted one of those.

@bas1010 11 ай бұрын

We had the Baracuda sub!

@skovner 11 ай бұрын

@@fliegeroh That was it! I wonder what happened to mine.

@NyBrix1 11 ай бұрын

@@DOI_ARTSi would

@dr.burtgummerfan439 11 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: in the original story, "A Christmas Story" begins with an adult Ralphie encounering a hippy in NY protesting against "violent military toys" marketed to children. This sets up the flashback to the story about the Red Ryder carbine.😂

@sanseijedi 11 ай бұрын

I have the Jean Shepard books & reread them with great pleasure and not a little nostalgia. In my high school years '68-'72 there was one of those 'ban war toys' movements so my friend & I went to a toy store & bought plastic M16s that had spring-powered auto fire sound, just in case stuff like that was gone for good. Still have mine in a trunk-- the spring is tired and sounds like a single shot now😉

@jeffs7915 5 ай бұрын

We need more toys like this today.

@magnatarbeing8749 5 ай бұрын

I remember playing with the " Mighty Matilda carrier" and the " Phantom Raider" ( a gunned up freighter).. had tons of fun.

@electra2259 11 ай бұрын

My favorite toy back then was a large jet fighter that resembled a Grumman F11F Tiger. When you moved a lever on the bottom, the canopy opened and the pilot ejected. Usually his little parachute didn’t open and he plunged to his demise. Far too traumatic for today’s kids, but we were a tougher bunch in the 50s.

@PBODK 11 ай бұрын

My little nephew sure isnt traumatised from falling toys, neither was i when i was young, nor have i heard of a child being traumatised from playing with toys. No clue where you get that idea from.

@chrisbeckett9748 11 ай бұрын

@@PBODK That's not the point. Everything was better back them, especially the kids.

@PBODK 11 ай бұрын

@@chrisbeckett9748 it was, if you were white, straight and christian.

@fishbmw 11 ай бұрын

@@PBODK Pull that stick out it must be painful, maybe the relief will make you less choleric & lighten up.

@PBODK 11 ай бұрын

@@fishbmw Ay im just saying, the 50's was certainly not a good time for alot of Americans, for very big reasons. Peace.