Vintage UK Toys & Games Adverts (Vol.2)
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Күн бұрынGames & toy adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video.
Check out the playlists on my channel page for more vintage ad compilations: / retrosteveuk
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Big Trak
00:29 Pocketeers
00:44 Game Of Life
01:04 Evel Knievel
01:39 Look-in (Bionic Magazine)
02:10 Sindy Doll (Active Sindy)
02:26 Fantom 4 Hovercraft
02:39 Action Canyon
02:56 Aurora Slot Cars (Stop Police)
03:27 Electronic Detective
03:57 Action Man (Eagle Eye)
04:27 Chutes Away
04:56 Raleigh Bikes (Grifter/Strika/Boxer)
05:27 Girl's World
05:47 Six Million Dollar Man
06:16 Hornby Sized (Bernard Cribbins)
07:01 Othello
07:32 Action Man SkyHawk Kite
07:47 Petite Typewriter
08:19 Barbie
08:49 Lego Land Town
09:10 Action Man (Today's Action Man)
09:30 KerPlunk & Buckaroo
10:02 Jimmy (Electronic Football)
10:32 Scruples
10:53 Look-in (Richard O'Sullivan)
11:23 Matchbox Powertrack
11:52 Mouse Trap & Rebound
12:22 Hornby Sized Again
12:52 Fisher Price Dolls
13:22 Matchbox Race & Chase
13:53 Lego Castle
14:23 Action Man Space Ranger
14:43 Blockbusters Board Game
15:13 Look-in (You Won't Get A Look-in)
@paulmuaddib3470 2 жыл бұрын
When children were just children, boys and girls having fun 🙏🏼
@applecorp 2 жыл бұрын
Indeed, now look at the absolute mess we are in with gender politics, pronouns and all the other insanity. Sick of it.
@mcwomble99 2 жыл бұрын
Bollocks, kids are still being kids. Easy to look with rose coloured glasses at the past, but things are equally as crap then as it is now
@jazzman1626 2 жыл бұрын
@@mcwomble99 Nowhere near as many kids with depression and anxiety back then, so it’s not rose tinted, it’s memory.
@Thorstvedt1 2 жыл бұрын
Isn't it incredible that the kids in the ADVERTS appear to be happy playing with toys? What else did you expect?
@MrWayout74 2 жыл бұрын
And Saville was at his peak
@Yewbzee 2 жыл бұрын
Loved growing up in the 70's. I want to go home.
@niknoks7638 2 жыл бұрын
🤣👏
@chrisholland7367 Жыл бұрын
A time when you were able interact with other children of similar age groups. You would go out and play with your mates and you wouldn't come home until your parents came looking for you.
@Habu2 Жыл бұрын
@@chrisholland7367 Yes Chris my parents had to shout us/me from the backdoor almost every night across to the nearby playing field.
@alexskywalker4888 2 жыл бұрын
me two minutes ago; freaking out over a 15 second advert on youtube. me now; sitting watching 15 MINUTES of adverts.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I know! Guilty pleasures. ☺️
@urbandiversion7410 2 жыл бұрын
So many memories! So glad I grew up in the late 70’s , early 80’s before computer consoles and social media.
@TheMuddatrucker 2 жыл бұрын
Take me back to 1980 and leave me there 😭
@jean-lucpicard5510 2 жыл бұрын
We had console in the 80s, collecovision, Atari 2600. Intellivision.
@kristianTV1974 2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 74, but still find this comment a bit weird. Game consoles were great, but social media is a very different aspect of technology in the years since. I suspect you're over 70 or demented anyway.
@urbandiversion7410 2 жыл бұрын
@@kristianTV1974 😂 Neither, just preferred the use of one’s imagination and creative play before any screen time! Showed my 11 year old son some of these toys, especially Big Track and Fantom 4 (both of which I had, along with others) his response was “what do they do ?” My response…. The possibilities were endless !! Drawn a blank stare before his attention went back to Zelda on his switch 🤷🏻♂️
@mrshankly213 2 жыл бұрын
Us Western kids from 70s-present should all be thankful our parents could get us toys for xmas every year. I'm sure the toys/consoles of each generation were great for that generation, no need to compete with each other.
@geordiewishart1683 2 жыл бұрын
I'm almost welling up! I was born in 1975 so remember a lot of these toys. They were much happier times
@31wozza 2 жыл бұрын
i was born 1975 love these ads
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I'm a '74 kid, so very similar experience. 😄
@PrinceBarin77 2 жыл бұрын
I really wanted that Big Trak. Here I come eBay…
@leoevs441 2 жыл бұрын
Same here born in 74..👍👍
@carlturner6256 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK I was born in 68,... so when big trak came out I couldn't wait to get my hands on one
@MrMittens1974 Жыл бұрын
You know you're getting old when you remember quite a few of these from when they were actually broadcast.
@amandam480 Жыл бұрын
Yes I remember bigtrack😊
@Leon-lt5gv Ай бұрын
@@amandam480your lucky ' big track had a big price tag 😁 i had most of these toys ' born bang on 1970 '
@walterz77 2 жыл бұрын
If adverts were like this nowadays, I’d watch them.
@user-et6pj4db9s 5 ай бұрын
Get watching then cos they're all exactly the same...
@rugbydazz2264 Жыл бұрын
As soon as I saw Big track I LMAO, I remember my mum shouting "I'm bloody sick of these adverts putting ideas into kids heads, they think we're bloody made of money" around October she would get stressed because the adverts would come on for Christmas toys and then I would be following her round the house with a KAYS catalogue trying to show her what I wanted, I didn't realise she didn't have much money she kept it well hidden, bless her.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Yeah.. My most shameful moment was at age 6, when my mum said she couldn't afford the toys I wanted. I told her to "just write a cheque" ... I had no concept of where money actually came from! 🤣
@OR0Z Жыл бұрын
£40 in the 70’s was a lot of money back then! I just looked on eBay & found one for £45… sound investment 👍🏻🤣
@OR0Z Жыл бұрын
The days I spent ogling over dream toys in the Kay’s & Littlewoods catalogues… wishing I got pocket money so I could pay for it weekly for the next 4 years! I think that’s why I didn’t get pocket money 🤣
@UncleFeedle Жыл бұрын
£40 is around £170 today. And the trailer would be another £65. Yikes!
@simonshepherd8357 Жыл бұрын
@@OR0Z You were ogling the ladies in the lingerie section you perv ;)
@Steve-K.G. 2 жыл бұрын
Wish I could go back to those times, really miss them. Thanks for the video :-)
@niknoks7638 2 жыл бұрын
I had an Action Man with eagle eyes and flexi-hands, I also had a Six Million Dollar Man .......I’m in my late 50’s and have regularly looked on eBay for the right vintage figures to buy, and YES, I would play with them even now! 🤣
@Habu2 Жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with that Niknoks....life is so fleeting.
@workonesabs 2 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for today's kids, using the smart phone, alone in their room, talking or playing on-line without being interactive in real life.
@edwardgrist6920 2 жыл бұрын
I agree, I was born 72 thank god my 8 year old and my 5 year old talk to me about how I used to play with my action figures they do the same now 😁
@mcwomble99 2 жыл бұрын
None of these toys where really aimed at kids of “using smart phones” age. Kids these days still play with a lot of similar toys - lego, board games. The stuff they don’t have that was in these ads, was generally crap or obsolete.
@3DPeter Жыл бұрын
The parents of today's kids wasted their youth behind a commodore or a atari game console.
@RockDove5212 Жыл бұрын
I think it's the opposite as far as play at home goes; today's children are able to talk and chat to each other; have real interactions on their play stations etc they have to negotiate and communicate situations with each other to win team games, whereas our generous spent hours often alone playing with plastic with these games
@greatestytcommentator Жыл бұрын
@D dR Evel Knieval
@mrjohn.whereyoufrom 2 жыл бұрын
I spent many hours throwing my Action Man out of my bedroom window trying to get the parachute working. Thanks for compiling these adverts. Takes me back to great, simpler times.
@crispin8888 2 жыл бұрын
And leaking in the bath in his diving helmet and lead boots ...
@whiterabbit1632 2 жыл бұрын
My dad made me a parachute from a bin bag with those sticky circles to protect punched paper to stop the string lines to stop ripping the bag. My action man sailed perfectly to the ground from an upstairs window for a fraction of the price.
@voidkid420 2 жыл бұрын
I took mine to school and we broke 3 action man legs that day.
@jasonantigua6825 2 жыл бұрын
My friends Nan live on the 7th floor of a tower block and we launched Action Man out the window! The chute didn’t open though
@whiterabbit1632 2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonantigua6825 You should of borrowed mine geez!
@paulshepherd1348 2 жыл бұрын
Wow.... that was quite the blast from the past... I had a lot of those toys and games, and wanted but never got around to others. What a happier, more innocent and better world is was back then.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
... and we spend years trying to re-buy all that stuff on eBay, right? 🤣
@paulshepherd1348 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK yeah thinking it will help us relive those happy carefree days. Sadly the world has moved on to an almost unrecognizable state... not just technology, but people's attitudes and the way we live. Oh well... makes these kind of collections of ads all the more sweet. We can drift away and reminisce for a short time. 👍
@Habu2 Жыл бұрын
Would have to agree Paul.....
@paulshepherd1348 Жыл бұрын
@@Habu2 good to know, there is still a few of us the remember those carefree days.
@redskin6146 2 жыл бұрын
😍Even now, there is no better non-electronic boys toy than Action Man.... amazing how many options and accessories there were. Unmatched.
@davidbowie2046 Жыл бұрын
Agreed. I got an Action man for Xmas and my Mum would get me some different uniforms for my Birthday for them. We didn't have loads of money, but I loved all the accessories.
@vanenmar7491 2 жыл бұрын
As an 80's kid some of these brought back some awesome memories. Think I might have to have a look in the loft haha
@steve-ip6qs Жыл бұрын
what a blast from the past
@stevedickson5853 2 жыл бұрын
That's Jon Pertwee doing the voice over in the Kerplunk and buckaroo almost sounding West Country in the buckaroo ad rather than western with the accent lol, love the Action man ads, when literally everyone I knew had an Action man of some sought
@nickthomas181 2 жыл бұрын
I still have all my action men and equipment ....And I'm 51!
@stevedickson5853 2 жыл бұрын
@@nickthomas181 I had the training tower, bike & sidecar, armoured car, helicopter, a few action men, all long gone but I still have Captain Zargon Space pirate hid somewhere
@Ricksta66 2 жыл бұрын
WHO? LOL
@stevedickson5853 2 жыл бұрын
@@Ricksta66.. Captain Zargon? ...he's in the Action men Ads
@redpillnibbler4423 Жыл бұрын
Action man was my favourite,we all had various action men with weapons,clothes and vehicles,I had a gyrocopter and a jeep.Bloody brilliant.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, I had the copter and Jeep as well! 😆
@redpillnibbler4423 Жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK God it’s bringing back fond memories.
@cosmiconion87 2 жыл бұрын
this is the actual length of adverts in the middle of programs now!!
@keithnaylor1981 2 жыл бұрын
You deserve an award for the amazing tv screen presentation idea!!!
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
📺😁👍
@michaelsaunders6923 2 жыл бұрын
I remember having Evil Knieval , shooting it across the school playground in middle school ,sadly it disappeared into the hedge never to be seen again ,really good memories of good times,thank you 😃
@steevobarker581 2 жыл бұрын
Mine was crap. Never got it to more than a couple of feet!
@stephenwilletts2293 2 жыл бұрын
I'm 64 year's old and I'm now buying all these old games and evel knievel was my hero.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
eBay is a wonderful thing! 🙂
@crispin8888 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK True. You can literally buy your childhood ..
@fizzer11 2 жыл бұрын
Love the finishing touch of a wood panel effect square tube TV filling up my wide-screen telly.
@dr.t. 2 жыл бұрын
I remember someone at school bringing evel kinevel and wishing I had one, it was awesome in the late 70's 😎😎
@peterrenn6341 2 жыл бұрын
The way he fell off at the end. - Accurate! ;-) Someone in the ad agency with a subtle sense of humour...
@mcwomble99 2 жыл бұрын
Was awesome for 40 minutes, the relegated to the toy box
@Mr.A_LDN 2 жыл бұрын
Great compilation! I'd completely forgotten about Pocketeers - used to love those! I feel an Ebay search coming on!
@SabretoothBarnacle 2 жыл бұрын
I'd completely forgotten about these too!
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I did just that after reading your comment! 😆 They're going for between £5 and £20 depending on condition.
@Mr.A_LDN 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK yeah, I'm watching about 8 of them 😂
@moonchild666 2 жыл бұрын
Same here. Can't believe these slipped my mind.
@williamjason1583 2 жыл бұрын
I had the fruit machine
@betaville72 2 жыл бұрын
Adam & The Ants obviously influenced the music on the 'Girl's World' advert. Love it!
@5telaine 2 жыл бұрын
I thought that too😁
@matthewrighelato7779 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved my Race n Chase, flying over the ramp, good times! 🤩
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I never had a decent Scalextric as a kid. I had a second-hand set that never worked properly. When my wife heard this, she bought me a set for my birthday a few years back. It's the Crash'n'Bash set with a bump lane and a jump ramp. Frickin' awesome! 😄 I'm 48, by the way. 🤣
@matthewrighelato7779 2 жыл бұрын
It looks very similar, nice birthday present! 🤩
@BinanceStuff 4 ай бұрын
yes race n chase was brilliant...we had barrels from something else that we put over the bridge to see how many we could jump over.
@ipreston74 2 жыл бұрын
I had the best Christmas days playing with these toys thanks mum and dad. wish I could go back🥲
@moc7323 2 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏
@stephen.s5089 Жыл бұрын
The Game of Life song brought memories flooding back 😁
@1976leejay 2 жыл бұрын
A time when kids were allowed to be kids.
@steve20664 2 жыл бұрын
Pocketeers....I had fruit machine and the race one....😃😃forgotten completely about them.👍👍
@darrenwales1092 2 жыл бұрын
What Do you give Barbie, a doll that has everything .... a good ole session with Action Man of course . C'mon , you know you did it too !
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I ain't sayin'' nuthin', for fear of implimicating myself! 😳🤣
@rustystuff 2 жыл бұрын
Loved this, thank you 🙏 So many happy memories.
@beakytzw 2 жыл бұрын
I had the Evil Kneivel Chopper and Dragster. Ahh the memories. I had action man Helicopter, Armoured Car and Canoe. And I can remember riding a Tonka dumper truck down a hill and it never failed or broke. And a Raleigh Burner bike.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I remember getting the Action Man Gyro Copter one Christmas, the one with the button that mechanically made the rotors spin. That was great. Like you, I also had an indestructible Tonka dump truck for years. Used to play in the garden, like it was on a building site.
@beakytzw 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK Thats the copter, the more you pressed the button the faster the rotors would spin. The good old days.
@Joanna7428 2 жыл бұрын
Sindy dolls! Oh they made my year! Such happy memories thanks for uploading 🤗
@simontracey3920 2 жыл бұрын
Great blast from the past! Lucky enough to have a big trak and the trailer! So remember the pocket games.
@trevorshields7347 2 жыл бұрын
I remember all of these bringing back memories of my childhood. Frightening how long ago it was
@garethjohnstone9282 Жыл бұрын
Such gentle times.
@redpillnibbler4423 Жыл бұрын
Our action men had a hard life but they pulled through.
@stephenjones5079 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing collection of adverts, superb 👌
@johnbailey5616 2 жыл бұрын
Another great video brings back happy memories 😊 Growing up late 70s early 80s .
@london19657 Жыл бұрын
As soon as I saw the Big Track appear, I was laughing because I could hear my dad saying "Can't afford it"! Cheers.
@MrDominic152 2 жыл бұрын
Great memories of those toys and adverts :)
@Bass-guitarist 2 жыл бұрын
I had at least three of the toys shown! Ahhh what a great childhood
@whiterabbit1632 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this Retro Steve; made my Saturday morning!
@chipbuttytime3396 7 ай бұрын
Cheers, these toys rekindled some personal memories. Thanks for my toys Mam and Dad
@RetroSteveUK 7 ай бұрын
🤗
@garyandrewranford Жыл бұрын
Great work RetroSteveUK, I enjoyed that trip down memory lane
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Thanks! 🙂
@Jamb1967 Жыл бұрын
Superb , so many that I didn't get in the day , but enjoy the memories
@Cornz38 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing how many of these i had and had forgotten about. Chutes away being one.
@CustomJ Жыл бұрын
This is bloody marvelous. Even down to the way the player looks exactly like the TV we would all huddle around watching these. I'm 10 years old again. Thank you so much!!!!
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! 🙂👍
@speedbird737 2 жыл бұрын
Wow I had Stop Police - loved it - happy memories
@grahamfranklingf Жыл бұрын
Brilliant this really took me back in time, great upload.
@leeedwards3933 2 жыл бұрын
OMG THATNK YOU RetroSteveUK, THAT brought back SOO MANY GOOD Memories, I had at least 4 of those Race and Chase/ Evil Rev ramp Wheelie Bike 80s BEST YEARS Of me racing around in a clapped out Mini At just 14 [ON Private Land of course] No Speed Ramps/Cameras watching your EVERY MOVE.
@willdatsun 2 жыл бұрын
the wooden TV frame is a nice touch, i wish youtube offered this as an option to watch old 4:3 videos in.
@paulwilliams7070 Жыл бұрын
thank you brought back so many memories
@beachcomberbob3496 2 жыл бұрын
I was on an microprocessor electronics course in the early days of computing, and our lecturer managed to source the motor units for those Big Trak toys. Our final project was to design, build and program the circuitry to control one around an eventual obstacle course. I'm sure our 'breadboard' efforts were far more expensive in terms of materials and manpower than the Chinese versions, but they were a great learning experience.
@mark.083 Жыл бұрын
Omg my childhood before my eyes, you have no idea how much these just took me back! AND NOT 1 COMPUTER GAME!
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the computer games were saved up for this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrp6ZLuXxKutpHU.html 😉
@thedad7313 2 жыл бұрын
Cheers for that. Many many happy memories. Cheers
@carolined668 2 жыл бұрын
Had to subscribe! Love your ads brings back happy times. Thanks👍❤
@nathanreynard4286 2 жыл бұрын
Oh my I just signed when I saw Bernard Cribbins in the Hornby advert. I'd forgotten about it and have just remembered I loved the advert ,
@jonntischnabel 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for reminding me of pocketeers fruit machine. I used to love that thing. ❤️
@Ste_365 Жыл бұрын
Oh man, such good memories!!
@handle-with-care63 Жыл бұрын
Watching the toy adverts were part of the excitement of the run up to Christmas for me as a kid. So watching these wonderful adverts again reminds me of how special those moments were. Looking at the prices of some of the toys here, they seem so cheap now but of course back then they weren't really. I had the game "Crossfire" not mentioned here but used similar components as the game "Rebound."
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
I played Crossfire at a friend's house. Got terrible blisters on my index finger.
@paulspopculture5592 2 жыл бұрын
My late mom packed a lot of the latest toys in the 1970s Great video thumbs up 👍🙂
@seebarry4068 Жыл бұрын
I remember around Christmas, we’d be waiting for Corrie to finish so we could see the toy adverts 😂. Then grabbing the Argos catalogue and spending the next 15 minutes looking at that. Never got that tin-can-alley.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Same. Tin Can Alley was always out of reach.
@jhunter1573 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memorys👍🙌👌
@russellstraw 8 ай бұрын
Bring back the old days please 😃
@davidhiggins519 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for reminding me of these memories. It also reminds me of the many things I asked for but didn't get because my parents couldn't afford them at the time but did there best to find me a similar more affordable alternative. It was great to see the "Look-In" magazine again. We looked forward every week to this wonderful & totally absorbing comic. I hope there is still something like it still being published for kids to today.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I think a Look-in reboot would be good, but for us oldies to reminisce over. I swear if someone launched a Kickstarter I'd back it straight away!
@Kickback-dm7zt 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK cool video. There is a variation of the Evil Kinevil stunt cycle were the bike is a Motocross bike and the rider figure is a motocross style rider and it's a single piece of plastic moulded in the seating position and it has zero articulation.
@Kickback-dm7zt 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK was that Bernard Cribbins in the Hornby commercial?
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
@@Kickback-dm7zt Yes. Both of them.
@Kickback-dm7zt 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK thought so. Cheers. 👍
@Captain-Cardboard 2 жыл бұрын
'Chutes Away' looks like literally minutes of fun!
@themanwithinflatableknees8770 Жыл бұрын
Weirdly it almost makes me a bit emotional thinking about those times. Quite incredible looking baxk
@paulharris7660 Жыл бұрын
The 80s I started at the age of eight. Two years after seeing star wars, Battlesstar galatica at the cinema. Wanted a big trak, thanks for uploading these adverts. 39.99 fir a big trak, seemed like thousands of pounds back then.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Yeah, that would be a lot more achievable now. Big Trak now would probably be about £100+
@bigdvinyl2012 2 жыл бұрын
Great memories thanks please hope there is a volume 3 coming soon
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Eventually. Takes a while to gather the ads. Thanks for watching.
@michellezimmermann9160 Жыл бұрын
I had the Sindy ballerina doll, it’s the first Christmas that I can remember! I can’t remember the advert though, but I must have seen it back in the day! As for the Girls World, I do remember pestering my mum for it every Christmas for what seemed a mellenia, but I never ever got one! 😂😂 My brother had Look in mag every week and I was as excited as him when he got it, we used to sit and look at it together. Lovely memories of my big brother who now lives on the other side of the world. Thanks for posting this trip down 70s/80s memory lane ❤❤
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
My older sister had a Girl's World. I think she lost interest in it pretty quickly.
@ka5269 Ай бұрын
I had Evel Kenievel and Big Trak. Thanks dad 🥺
@Sjmby95 Жыл бұрын
These bring back memories
@winstonchurchill6506 2 жыл бұрын
They brought that big trak out again a few years ago.nice one and a thumb up
@cinnurgiants2277 2 жыл бұрын
OMG that’s what it’s called! Big Trak!!! I had that and forgot what it was called. This just makes me feel spoiled and old. Lol. I had so many of these. I live in USA. Thank you for posting this. I keep watching all your videos. Excellent job. Hi from US.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Hi back, from England! 🙂👍
@bumbleo8993 2 жыл бұрын
Happy days happy memories thank you.. 🤗
@boogiel01 2 жыл бұрын
wow that pocketeers i dug one out recently the racing cars going round still enjoyed it :)
@aaronharris5275 Жыл бұрын
I saw Big Track but got the George Toy Robot as a child which was also programmable. Great toys!
@thomascook578 2 жыл бұрын
Love it, I had pocketeers, electronic detective, and chutes away
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
My most memorable is Action Canyon. I had that & forgot about it until I saw it in a vintage toy shop a few years ago. They wanted £10 & I just had to have it! Still works, too. 😄
@AlexandraStarr1974 2 жыл бұрын
Bloody hell dude, im getting some serious flashbacks now lol that lego castle advert was great, sadly my family could not afford it so I made one out of cardboard, was terrible! Not seen in these adverts, but does anyone remember those action figures that had a parachute attached to them? I could get them from the local newsagents in the mid 70s/early 80s, and then there were those weird chained up prisoner things you could win at the fair, made from wobbly rubber, full colour too, unlike monochromatic parachute man!
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
The parachute figures were great. Used to throw them from the upstairs window. Can't remember the other figures you mentioned, though.
@AlexandraStarr1974 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK hehe yeah, tossing them from the upstairs window, only for the wind to take them onto the roof for eternity! A few years back now, my parents were having work done to their roof, the workers found a snow trooper from Empire Strikes Back on the roof, he still had string tied round his waist, no chute though lol and after seeing the Grange Hill ZX video, I had to subscribe, as a musician myself, I totally adore what you did with that and had to subscribe there and then, thank you for making me smile x
@maydaygoingdown5602 2 жыл бұрын
Loved my Action man with gripping hands and the eagle eyes. Also had the Steve Austin bionic man. Wish I could go back to those times,...and never leave:). Thanks for showing, loving your work. 100% subscribed to your channel.👍
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I had a couple of Action Men, along with some of the accessories. Never had the Eagle Eye Bionic Man, but one of my Action Men had the lever that moved his eyes.
@maydaygoingdown5602 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK yeah that's the action man I had, a little thing on the back of his head that moved his eyes left or right. Had the one with gripping hands too:). The Bionic man I had was the one with the square thing in his arm and the bionic eye. Used to look through it lol. Action man was the dogs bollocks though.
@redpillnibbler4423 Жыл бұрын
I had that one too though he ended up with battlefield injuries and lost some of his fingers.
@CRB1971 2 жыл бұрын
Used to love the Rayleigh Grifter but I had to make do with a Commando! The Matchbox Race & Chase reminded me of my TCR set where you could overtake the 'jam' cars.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
My first bike was some kind of second-hand 'Budgie' with no brakes. Someone had modded a brake onto the front wheel using Meccano! 😣😆
@johnakyle5908 2 жыл бұрын
I still have that pocketeers car race game , I'm 55 this year! I also had the six million dollar man figure and ship, long since gone somewhere..
@altyfc2010 2 жыл бұрын
Great video !!
@DerekNewtonKeswick Жыл бұрын
So nostalgic I could smell those toys.
@ScorchedEarth-cd5cl 2 жыл бұрын
Trip down memory lane. I remember most of them. John Pertwee and Patrick Allen doing some of the voice overs.
@davidbowie2046 Жыл бұрын
What great memories. We never had much money years ago so my Mum used to get all seven of us a toy each for Christmas from the catalogue, an annual each, selection box each and an apple and orange. Not one of us complained and we always shared our sweets, even when one of us were greedy enough to eat the lot in one sitting. Usually them fruit polo's were left till the new year as no one liked them haha. Happy days that I'm glad we had :)
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
I remember waking up to a sock at the bottom of my bed Christmas morning. A satsuma, some nuts, a few Cadbury Roses or Quality Street, and a bit of loose change (50p pieces, usually). Was always one of the highlights of the morning.
@shifty2755 2 жыл бұрын
Life was much simpler before the Internet and Facebook. Thanks for the upload 👍.
@LoftyVisions 2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes the Raleigh Grifter, crushed my nuts on the crossbar many a time when those bloody gears slipped 😄 Great memories! Thank you
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
🤣 Ouch!
@trevorrandom 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic memory's 😁👍
@peteg9011 2 жыл бұрын
Memories
@somegeorgedownthehall9392 2 жыл бұрын
Loved this! Born 73 and had a grifter, ker plunk, buckaroo, evil kenevil, Hornsby railway, action man eagle eyes, Steve Austin (six million dollar man) figure. I even had the Oscar goldman figure! Realising I was spoilt! But even I didn’t have a big track lol 😂
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Big Trak. Priced out of the market, most of us.
@davidjones6470 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome vid Steve 👌🤘
@DruGunners Жыл бұрын
I remember most of these. Looking back we had some cheesy toys but they was hours of fun.
@HiyaEverybody. Жыл бұрын
Big Trak! Completely forgotten about that and I really wanted one. Game of Life was expensive wasn't it in comparison to the cost of some electronic games. This is such a brilliant compilation and thanks for creating it and uploading.
@il9237 2 жыл бұрын
I had Tornado Bowl. My mates used to come round and play it for a laugh when we were 15/16. On Friday nights we played rude word Scrabble, then a few months later we started going to the pub.
@1971carmichael 2 жыл бұрын
loved the 70s a time of learning..action man and barbie shit i learned the karma sutra from them lmao..action mans eyes were epic....if only barbies were the same lmfao
@greatestytcommentator Жыл бұрын
So Many Toys that I never had Advertised a me hard enough.. I'm basically saying, I want them right now... 40 years later!
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
eBay! 👍
@AndrewSvonja 2 ай бұрын
"sky hawk" looks wicked!
@pennydowning5085 Жыл бұрын
I wish there was a time machine to go back in time when these toys were about.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
I think there is ... It's called eBay! 🤣
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