May 30, 2007

Hey Everybody! Toy Commercials From the 1970s!!!

Please forgive my enthusiasm. I've eaten six bowls of booberry cereal today, and the sugar is taking its toll.

posted by Nickdanger 17 years ago
  • OMG MISTER MICROPHONE /collapses panting in the corner, legs twitching.
  • sorry, no video.
  • Holy crap, is that Cameron Frye in the D&D commercial?
  • OMG WITH SONIC SOUND
  • Hey, Nickdanger, we'll be back to pick you up later!
  • man i loved those stupid cars. that sonic sound totally kicked ass, analog stylee.
  • I was entranced by the banned Marmite ad. My parents actually HAD the Ronco Bottle and Jar Cutter.
  • Be a "mind sticker"?? Who's the marketing genius that came up with that one?
  • I dunno if that's Cameron Frye in the D&D commercial, but one of the girls sure looks like Jami Gertz a.k.a. Muffy Tepperman.
  • I still have the Smash Up Derby VW Beetle on my shelf at home. No, you may not play with it. Also, "Sonic Sound" is so my next DJ name.
  • KENNEDY! KENNEDY! KENNEDY! KENNEDY! Suh-WING battah!
  • Ride up and down, and up and down, on The Inchworm! Right - 'fess up! Who had one of those?
  • Where ya goin Tony?
  • I would comment, but there are not enough mind stickers here to hold a new thought.
  • I am so voting for Kennedy. If anyone had a Bing Bang Boing I order you to tell me how awesome it was.
  • If anyone had a Bing Bang Boing I order you to tell me how awesome it was. I tried to buy one but you know what I found out... There really is no sex in the champagne room...
  • Whoa, damn, I'm totally eight years old right now. I even stopped thinking about sex for a little bit.
  • Right in the boingo bucket!! It's smash up time again! It's fun to play in the dark! Keep a stiff upper lip. OH BOY, SLIP 'N SLIDE. Break a leg, baby!
  • Pretty weird that "Masterpiece" was included among toys clearly designed to cause bodily harm. We had one early 70s toy that involved building a plastic tower maybe 5' tall, then attempting to disassemble it beam by beam until the whole thing crashed to the floor, usually taking some of your mother's bric-a-brac with it. Probably from the same folks who gave us my all-time fave toy, Lawn Darts. A fine decade. *smiles wistfully, stirs large pot of jello for use at slip 'n slide party*
  • Pretty weird that "Masterpiece" was included among toys clearly designed to cause bodily harm. Clearly you weren't present at any of the art auctions of my youth.
  • I also remember a circus-themed Mousetrap/BingBangBoing style game called "Flying Finnegan." The object was to get this little plastic trapeze-artist type guy to jump into a shark tank. Good times.
  • Clearly you weren't present at any of the art auctions of my youth. I bet you always insisted on being Millicent Friendly.
  • That's how all the guys knew her. Millicent Friendly.
  • I think you have to go back to the 60s, though, for the really dangerous toys. My folks gave me an enamelling kit when I was 10; it was from Tandy and could melt glass. When you removed the red-hot object from the oven, you placed it on a small asbestos block. Model-building was great... all the Xacto blades and Testor's glue. Today's kids just don't know what fun IS. *chews thoughtfully on Space Food Stick*
  • EZ Bake Oven. Nuff said. Burn the crap outta ya. "Masterpiece" was designed to cause psychological breakdown among players over 8 years old. Ooooooo, lawn darts! Flip them up, and stand underneath watching them fall with your mouth open. Anybody else ever zoom down an incline and jam a Big Wheel under a pick-up truck? My Bro did that--to the tune of 28 stitches. And I broke my nose tipping of one of those Fisher-Price toddler ride 'em cars. So what if I was six, those things were designed to KILL!!
  • I still have lawn dart set on a shelf in the garage at home. No, you may not play with it.
  • Whoa, damn, I'm totally eight years old right now. I even stopped thinking about sex for a little bit. Strange. Being eight years old has the opposite effect on me.
  • I recall a Smash-up-Derby commercial that had the lyric "Come on little buggers, you can get it done. Crash. Bang. Smash'em up, Smash-up-Derby is fun." What I can't remember is if this was an actual commercial lyric, or some grade-school parody. I was hoping that this would convince me one way or the other, sadly it wasn't to be.
  • Not related to toys, but recently I was buying my kid some socks and saw a pack of "themed" underwear on the shelf, designed like Underoos except with pictures of cartoon insects on them. The name of this product? "LITTLE BUGGERS." I'm thinking they probably don't export.