Did you purchase any of these products or others? Is there anything you regret NOT buying?

@enyelredfieldlivegaming

4 жыл бұрын

My elder brother purchase some

@pjcaps100

4 жыл бұрын

Laura Legends “get big dick” 😂😂😂

@kevinobill4818

4 жыл бұрын

No, Dino Momma. I'm just being neutral.

@Andrew-se4tg

4 жыл бұрын

I think even at age 42, I'm still to young to have owned one of those comics, lol!

@edkeaton6093

4 жыл бұрын

I have only seen a lot of these ads in the back of comic books and other magazines but never really got the nerve to buy any of them because a lot of them seemed incredibly cheesey!

I got the 7-foot monster. Before ordering I asked my mother what 'polyethylene' was. She said it was a kind of plastic, so of course I imagined a 7-foot tall plastic statue of sorts. My brother suggested that it would probably take two mailmen to carry. "Yeah," I agreed, excitedly. It arrived in a manila envelope. When I opened it my reaction was like a robot from Star Trek when hearing an illogical statement. "Does not compute. Does not compute." I quickly reasoned that the company must be sending this a preview of what was to come. The real monster must take a long time being as big and heavy as it was. My mother said, chuckling, "No, I think that's it."

@hydrolito

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Spock on Star Trek says not logical, it was Robot on Lost in space that says does not compute.

@rickjobs638

3 жыл бұрын

Mark, funny I thought and felt the same thing/way as you.

@janorhypercleats

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, i had the 7-foot Frankenstein monster. Kind of a rip-off, but still a pretty good poster

@LATVERIAN1

2 жыл бұрын

I sent in my dollar and never even received even the blasted poster. 😒

@pavelsarneki354

Жыл бұрын

Uh yeah, that's what they said🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏻

After much begging, my father finally let me order the toy soldiers when I was about 8 years old. Upon arrival I was initially disappointed but after a while I came to love those cheap little things. There were so many of them. There was a constant war going on in my room from 73-75. They disappeared when we moved. :(

@gabrielaguilar1391

4 жыл бұрын

Timmeh Jay my brother and i ordered those, along with the warships and airplane sets. I still remember scrounging around to find enough change to purchase them. We really enjoyed them! Good memories!

@grimjack148

4 жыл бұрын

You left your Army men behind? You know nothing of war!

@TimmehJay

4 жыл бұрын

@@grimjack148 LOL I was just following direct orders from General Dad

@johnerwin9024

4 жыл бұрын

Had big collection AIRFIX soldiers, regretted years later to have thrown one day in the garbage-

I am guilty of buying the 1000 piece army set that came in a "Foot Locker." I waited for what felt like forever and a day for that HUGE "Foot Locker" to arrive. The day my mom handed me a tiny box with paper-thin army men in it was the day I learned that objects in the mirror may not be as close as they appear to be. I'm pretty sure I used them as "Puny Soldiers" to attack my Mego Hulk. So at least I played with them.

@ricka5959

4 жыл бұрын

I ordered that too. Same thing, I waited forever, and was expecting a large box. I wanted most of the junk on those pages, but that's the one thing I did order.

@ElectraOmega

4 жыл бұрын

@@ricka5959 That's the only thing I ever ordered. My mom warned me too but as it was in a comic book it HAD to be real!

@maddogziggy

4 жыл бұрын

yeap i had the army men set as well...used them up as BB gun targets and firecracker victims

@ricka5959

4 жыл бұрын

@@maddogziggy Yeah, as soon as I saw those army men in the video with the Fred Flintstone noses, I had a flashback. I could feel the rage I felt way back then trying to play with those pieces of shit tipping over :P

@ricka5959

4 жыл бұрын

@@ElectraOmega My mom warned me too, she said your not gonna get all that for a buck fifty!

My dad bought the Big Bang cannon for me on the Fourth of July when I was ten. It is well built and still operational. I’m in my 60’s now.

@kpadmirer

4 жыл бұрын

Still being made. 9" model shown sells for $100.

@gmjsimmons

4 жыл бұрын

I had one too. It was a legit toy not like most of this other cheap stuff.

@sailor_gaia

4 жыл бұрын

My dad too! I had no idea it was something he might have sent away for in his own youth but I recognized that cannon immediately from my own childhood. And, yes, we too still fire it on 4th of July!

@rmcomer

4 жыл бұрын

We had one too. Pretty loud bang. We'd always shoot it off on July 4th.

@martinbuchanan5551

4 жыл бұрын

I had the dual-wheeled 155mm howitzer

When I was around 6 or 7, I bugged my parents to let me order the 100 Toy Soldiers, which I think was about $1.50. My father finally gave in and said yes, but that I would be disappointed. When they came in, my father laughed and said, "see, I told you", BUT I loved them. I didn't play much with them at home, but when we would go visit relatives or my parents friends, I would take them with me and have a blast sitting at a coffee table playing war with them. Years later, my mother said they were the best buy made, since they kept me busy while on visits, and kept me from complaining about having nothing to do! LOL

@arostwocents

29 күн бұрын

Agree, the toy soldiers look awesome. Particularly back then. I'd want all the sets.

When I was about 8 years old, the teenage boy that lived next to my grandmother's house ordered a live monkey from an issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland. I don't know why his parents put up with it. It was a live squirrel monkey, but it was not domesticated at all. It threw feces at you, it tried to bite, and it had a stinky musk that always filled the entire house. This was in a north eastern part of the country, so leaving it outside was impossible, even if they had a garage. The few times it was let out of its cage it ran amok, and destroyed half the house. It was never a pet, it never bonded with them in any way.. All it did was eat and sh!t, scream like a banshee, and try to grab something it could bite and rip apart. My natural envy and lust to buy my own monkey was rightfully dashed every time I was in their house.

Being a Aussie kid in the 70s I read lots of comics from the US and always wondered what most of these items for sale were. The ads said US only and I had no idea what a zip code was. I never had any money anyway so it didn’t matter.

@dragonlordthekingofdragons6373

4 жыл бұрын

American kid who was born after they stoped doing these here; I wonder that too, one I saw was real cobra eggs, and considering they sent actual monkeys, I now really wonder if they sent actual cobra eggs.

@pitbullpowersystems8704

3 жыл бұрын

South african here same thing.

@Seal-hs5il

Жыл бұрын

I was the same. I grew up in Australia and I was always frustrated that I could not have these items. Now I realise that I was lucky that I was not duped into buying this junk (with the exception of the cast iron cannon).

We had a store in our local Mall ( which was a big thing back in the early 70's ) called " World Imports ". It had a Novelty section that sold many of these items. It was where I bought my Genuine " X-Ray Specs " . And yes, I bought them so I could see through lady's clothing. Hey, I'm a guy.

@brenthaymon280

4 жыл бұрын

I had a pair of those X-Ray specs back in the 70's.

@hydrolito

4 жыл бұрын

What did you actually see when you looked at girls and women with the X-Ray Specs?

@benconway9010

4 жыл бұрын

Yes but did they actually work??? No

@gravyboat2370

4 жыл бұрын

Yea man when I was 7 I wanted a pair of x Ray specs to see through the girls clothes. Dam

@stevebrownrocks6376

4 жыл бұрын

I had a pair, & I think the fun was had by seeing how people reacted when you had them on. Especially women! 😂😆😂

I loved this. The ad page was my favorite part of Boy's Life

@ricka5959

4 жыл бұрын

I sent away for a little pocket knife from Boy's Life when I was in grade school without my parents knowledge. As soon as I got my hands on it, I took it school to show it off. I ended getting suspended from school over it.

@night-x6793

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky the girls dodge the bullet by not getting these trouble making items and I mean actually getting into trouble that could put you in jail or killed.

@wascalywabbit

4 жыл бұрын

I remember that page as well... But as soon as i started to comment,it must be a flashback... What was the name comic about an alien invasion that was a continuing story in boys life? Do you remember that?...... God,i feel old....😄

@night-x6793

4 жыл бұрын

@Patrick Ancona I know I'm dealing with two dumbasses.

@iak706

4 жыл бұрын

It is the only part of boy's life i remember

I ordered the 7 foot Frankenstein. My dad laid it under the sheets on my mother's side of the bed. I can still hear her scream and my dad laughing.😂

@gmjsimmons

4 жыл бұрын

Best use ever for that cheap piece of crap.

@widetrackerinkazoo6559

4 жыл бұрын

I got the 6 foot glow in the dark life sized skeleton with movable joints! My sister still uses it at Halloween to this day. : )

@johna8973

4 жыл бұрын

@@widetrackerinkazoo6559 niice ! 👹

Back in the 70's I bought novelty items from the Johnson-Smith catalog. I had Sea Monkeys, a Venus fly trap plant, a resurrection plant that never died and garlic flavored chewing gum.

@Formerpresidentbarackobama696

4 жыл бұрын

is the resurrection plant still alive?

As a kid the cardboard tanks and planes where pretty cool, I used to live behind an appliance store and when ever they threw out a refrigerator box it was like Christmas would spend all day playing in it. A couple of crayons and draw what ever it was supposed to be on the sides, lol

Those kryptonite rocks are just rocks painted green. What a rip off. I'll just go over to the Superman Museum in Metropolis and buy kryptonite from them.

OH!The mighty Johnson Smith catalog! I bought the hand buzzer and a "Real 8 foot Flying Saucer!" The hand buzzer broke after second use, the "Real Flying Saucer!" turned out to be what I learned later was called a "Chinese sky lantern" : a box of tissue paper, a metal, spring-shaped thing I was supposed to glue the tissue paper to. I could then attach something like a Sterno can to the spring thing, THEN set that alight to sail over the brush-fire plagued hills of Southern California, I never built the thing (thank god) and can only imagine my first 15 minutes of fame on KTLA as the "Child arsonist who destroyed the Laguna Hills." OH! The humanity!

@phayzyre1052

4 жыл бұрын

OMG, I forgot all about the Johnson Smith Co.! They were gimmicky junk sellers extraordinaire. As a kid growing up in Florida I to ordered from them. Of all companies that were the biggest rip offs they were what I call the "grand ripper of the rippiest!"

@DadBodDrumming

4 жыл бұрын

I always wanted the flying saucer.. I bet it was a mylar balloon.

@ChrisGurin

4 жыл бұрын

Chad Sanborn Nope- paper, like those Chinese fire lanterns. This was WAY back in the 1960s, when stuff like Mylar was probably a DARPA black project, and even mentioning it would mean being visited by stern, well groomed white guys who AREN’T Mormon elders.

@michaelpalmieri7335

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisGurin You don't mean the Ku Klux Klan, do you?

@ChrisGurin

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpalmieri7335 No. "stern, well-groomed" would emphatically NOT describe that particular variety of sociopath. I'm talking about the sort of "Men in black" version of the 1960s FBI.

I purchased the "footlocker" of soldiers. Expected to have a delivery at the door or a note from postman to collect my goodies...what a dose of cold water when the yellow and black little box arrived. After making sure my Pops did not see me, (so I didn't get the "I told you so!") I emptied the contents on my bed. Big whoop. Did not even get the full 100 count. But I did use the figures as targets for my Daisy BB gun. (Figures, tanks, jeeps, ships ...the silhouettes were okay for that and worked off my DISAPPOINTMENT with aggression towards the little blameless pieces of craptacularness.) The jets were okay, 3D! But the proportions on all were so not to scale. So I ix-nayed on the Polaris sub! Ha! But now I kinda get a kick that I took the bait, like so many, and got the "you get what you pay for" lesson rubbed fully in. my face. Rite of passage for those times, I suppose. And it has saved me from more than one Nigerian royal hostage. All the best and keep up the fun! Bart

@johnzeszut3170

3 жыл бұрын

I did not buy the soldiers but a kid did down our street did. When I saw what he got I told him that he had been taken. For the remainder of the summer he kept trying to convince me of how much fun wafer thin army men could be. I got a letter once and I was informed that I was a member of the royal Nigerian monarchy! Of course money was wanted and not sent.

@MrAZZ00

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnzeszut3170 Oh, we got sooooooooooooo taken!😊👍

@johnzeszut3170

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrAZZ00 Yes - the adults who watched every dime we were allowed to spend gave cautionary advice such as "Your gonna get hosed." - "Kid they will see you coming." - "Before you mail that money kiss it goodbye." For all of that experience proved to be the best teacher.

As a kid I got a bundle of vintage comics from the 80's-90's and I always wanted the items in those adds! Cap pistol books, spy gadgets, code rings.... kid-me was so jealous of the kids who could order those items! I even considered mailing the order form's in, just in case they still made the items! haha

@maintoc

4 жыл бұрын

The Johnson Smith Company sold a lot of those things. Sadly, after something like 104 years of being in business, they folded last year.

@arostwocents

29 күн бұрын

😭 ​@@maintoc😭

A friend of mine when I was a kid got the sea monkeys and the dollar bill printer from the back of a comic book. Needless to say, he was disappointed with what arrived. There are stories of the hilarity of the hypnotist glasses and fake Xray specs everywhere. Those ads must have made a small fortune on the glasses alone.

I was a kid in the 1960's and remember all of these. The only products I ever bought were probably the most-advertised products of all: X-Ray Specs and Sea Monkeys!

I bought two chameleons (anoles) from a Batman comic when I was a kid. They were actually really good pets and would sit on my shoulder for hours just hanging out. They only lived for two years though 😔

Got to admit, the 2D plastic soldiers was a cool idea. I wouldn't have minded getting some.

@doktormcnasty

4 жыл бұрын

TBH they looked like a pretty good deal for the price, anyway.

@Trevin_Taylor

2 жыл бұрын

I thought they looked awesome. Way more bang for your buck.

I was overjoyed the day my sea monkeys arrived! I had almost forgotten about them cause I had left for summer camp. They died. I later found out they were only brine shrimp.

"Go into another world with this spoon, needle, lighter and magic rocks!" :P

I remember seeing these ads frequently in the comics me and my siblings read during the 60s and 70s. We never bought them since our family didn't have much money for such stuff back then. I have that book, and in retrospect the fact that we were poor probably saved us a whole lot of money :) Also, you should do an article on all the hokey "martial arts" crap ads from those same comic books. "Yubiwaza", the art of self-defense with one finger? "Count Dante"? Hoo boy!

@varanid9

4 жыл бұрын

There's quite a back story about that "Count Dante". You'll find a few videos about him here on KZread.

@Trevin_Taylor

2 жыл бұрын

The ad where Atlas muscle man kicks sand in the wimp’s face, so wimp orders the “miracle system” and steals his girl. Shouldn’t have smashed my sand castle, jerk.

Ddnt buy any but I'm really glad you made these clips as ever since I was a kid I wanted to know what these products were actually like ..cheers 💚

@pugle1

4 жыл бұрын

See? Buyer beware scrutiny. You we're a smart shopper as a kid. :) lol

@helbent4

2 жыл бұрын

Especially the various toy soldiers!

I got a cardboard tank for Christmas one year. It was great! The toys back then were designed to capture a child's imagination. Good times. We feared nothing, and had nothing to worry about, except nuclear annihilation of course. lol

I once won a "treasure chest of games" from a Cocoa Pebbles cereal box. I sent away for it (had to pay shipping and handing to claim my major award) and the drawing on the box was of a wooden treasure chest chock full of amazing games. What I got was a cheap large piece of paper that had game boards printed on both sides and cheap plastic pieces so you could play various games depending on how you turned the paper. It sucked. I tell you, I did not value that as a kid. But I wish I still had it now.

@nyyterp

4 жыл бұрын

I remember that contest. My sister and I were delighted that we won 25 board games (I believe that was the number). What arrived in the mail was... anticlimactic. Just cheap cardboard and plastic you had to break away into individual game pieces like you described. Not long after this, Post Cereal sent out a mass mailing to explain and apologize for that because so many consumers complained that they thought they were getting a more substantial prize than what was delivered. Part of the explanation was that they opted to ensure a lot of more winners by going cheap (as they did here) rather giving out fewer but higher quality prizes. They promised future promotions would make up for that. Don't recall if that came to fruition as by this point I stopped eating kiddie cereals.

I bought the "Civil War Soldiers," when I was a kid. The product was flat figures in brittle blue and gray plastic, most of which were broken. The cardboard box itself was crushed, as I recall. I remember being hugely disappointed. As it was, I had toys for one day before some other kid stole them.

OMG! I also had a TON of those “toy soldiers.” They were my “gateway drug” into real Wargaming miniatures, which were literally 100x more expensive (at that time).

THE QUEEN IS BACK! You can’t be gone so long! Hope you are well

I bought the fighting ships. It came with a bunch of plastic pieces and a thin plastic ocean terrain. I liked it :)

@jimg7647

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I had that and loved it. I just played with them and didn't use it as a game.

Oh yes, I had a "Big Bang" cannon. Calcium Carbide mixed with water makes acetylene gas.

@plumbalz

4 жыл бұрын

I still have my Big Bang Cannon. It's gotta be at least 40yrs old now and it still works

When we were kids, my little brother really wanted a set of those army men & machines that included the footlocker. I helped him send away for it and he was so excited! Needless to say, he was a bit disappointed when it arrived. Still, we made the most of it because we were among the many children back then who only received new toys two times a year, that being our birthdays and Christmas. We ended up having a lot of fun with them regardless, as I recall. But we never ordered anything from the back of a comic book again! 😀

#3 had me LMFAO, WTF LOL

As a kid i bought a ton of stuff from the "Johnson Smith Co" that was in a bunch of comic books, stuff like fake vomit, or a fake turd you could place on a doorknob, x ray glasses, the "electric" buzzer palm thingy, etc, lol

@artao5

4 жыл бұрын

There was SO MUCH stuff I wanted in those catalogs.

@jimg7647

3 жыл бұрын

Got the fake vomit and fake poop. Looked real and fooled a few.

@Ease54

3 жыл бұрын

I still have a couple of their old catalogs. Fascinating to look through.

Welcome back Laura! These ads could be classified as "crafty" marketing or just shady business at its finest. I loved this list.

"Rocket Engine" for $2.00 from a DC comic book(probably Sgt. Rock). Looked like a CO2 cartridge with some attachments. You put gasoline in the cartridge and cotton balls with a few drops of gasoline in a contraption suspended under the cartridge. You lite the cotton balls then stood back, far back. From the add, I was going to buy two of the engines and use them to "Rocket" myself around the neighborhood. Obviously that did not happen. I was probably lucky I did not catch myself on fire.

@kpadmirer

4 жыл бұрын

I bought one and mounted it on a cart made from erector set parts. Had as much thrust as the breath from a dying hummingbird. The company DID make a model pulse jet with a 5 pound thrust, however.

I was shocked when I was sent a REAL 7 FOOT MONSTER, who did my bidding and dispatched mine enemies with vengeance and furious anger

@danthefan28

4 жыл бұрын

And everyone else just got poorly made posters.

@Paula-mp7lp

4 жыл бұрын

@@coyotesmile8972 LMAO! One of the funniest comments ever. Thanks! 🤣

Re: the 7 foot tall monster: There were indeed two versions, three actually. The original, good version, was sold through the Captain Company, which was a fully licensed, painted Basil Gogos portrait of the Universal Frankenstein Monster and Dracula. (I think later they added a Mad Scientist.) They were beautiful portraits printed on thick semi-gloss cardstock. This was originally advertised as being 7 feet tall, which was technically accurate. In reality, the monsters were just under six feet tall with roughly six inches of negative white space at the top and bottom, making it seven feet. They came in two pieces originally, but after parents complained about the monsters not being a full seven feet tall, they lopped off a foot of white space and advertised them as being "over six feet tall." This version was one full poster instead of two smaller posters that needed to be taped together. The Captain Company was the house mail order brand for Warren Publishing (Famous Monsters of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, etc) so they weren't advertised in mainstream comics. The ripoff version was the one found in all of the comics of the era. This was the Taiwanese tablecloth with a spooky monster printed on it. At one dollar, they were 1/5 the price of the Captain Company version, so I'm sure they sold a ton of them. Coincidentally I purchased a Halloween tablecloth from Dollar Tree several.years ago that was... you guessed it... the spooky "seven foot tall" skeleton I bought out of the back of a DC comic in the early seventies. It was exactly the same plastic crap it was 30 years earlier.

@shawbros

4 жыл бұрын

"The Captain Company was the house mail order brand for Warren Publishing (Famous Monsters of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, etc) so they weren't advertised in mainstream comics." I was a big fan of the 1984/1994 comic books. I have the whole collection.

@ILoooooveCamels

4 жыл бұрын

Great supplement, thanks for sharing!

@ILoooooveCamels

4 жыл бұрын

@@houseoftheunusual too bad you can't order people skills through the mail

@houseoftheunusual

4 жыл бұрын

STAHPIIIT I am sorry for mis-understanding but I did not respond to you. I was responding to Marvin. I will try to respond in a better way. I am sorry you are right. After collecting over forty years just like to get the info right.

@houseoftheunusual

4 жыл бұрын

STAHPIIIT took off the response

I had the Frontier Cabin. It looked pretty much like a plastic bag over a table with an outline of logs. Even as a 4 year old, I saw it and thought , "This sucks." My parents promptly threw it away.

I didn’t have the cabin, but I had a diving Bell. And it went over the card table and look like a diving Bell. I also had a Kool-Aid tent that you had to string between two trees. And all it was was a big garbage bag that said Kool-Aid on it

@offbeatbassgear

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of us had those Kool Aid tents. I think they were a promo Summer Kool Aid deal and you are correct, you got a printed plastic sheet, twine and a set of wooden pegs. I do see them on e-bay in unused condition for a surprising amount of money..

Cripes, that stuff from the "snowstorm" tablet looks like asbestos.

@slagit

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah crazy to think of the toxic stuff sold as toy items through the years. Of course even many household, beauty type products were pretty toxic as these days I see lawyer ads about the cancer fallout from all these now!

@im1who84u

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. I wouldn't want to be in the room breeding in that stuff or have it getting my lungs or eyes. As a side note here. I am 66 and back when I was a kid, that sort of stuff was available in comic books. Get this, in stores it was not uncommon for parents to purchase chemistry sets for their children as birthday or Christmas gifts..... A....n.....d..... in these sets you could do such experiments that included honest to goodness real live radioactive uranium! What could go wrong? There was also something called "itching powder" that you could sprinkle on someones skin and it would cause them to itch. Now I wonder what was in that powder that made them itchy in that spot? Turns out it was finely ground up glass!

@LaikaLycanthrope

4 жыл бұрын

@@im1who84u All I ever really wanted from those comic book ads was that foot locker full of green army men, but it was always "no Canadian or foreign orders", which was really confusing when you grew up on the border and were geographically confused until about grade 1 or so.

@slagit

4 жыл бұрын

@@im1who84u Funny as a kid in the 70s I recall some of my pals having kid chemistry sets but wow I don't think they had uranium in them but maybe other questionable things. Man we had some brutal toys as kids it makes you wonder how we survived. Now a days the toys do same lame. LOL!

@varanid9

4 жыл бұрын

@@im1who84u Yup. I remember the chemistry sets in the late '60s/early '70s where you could actually cause little explosions.

As a kid I couldn't afford any of these mail order toys in the back of my comix books!

@JOHN27398

4 жыл бұрын

yeah me to

@gravyboat2370

4 жыл бұрын

Awwwwwwee

@chasstiles7611

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't afford the comic books

@momstermom2939

4 жыл бұрын

I had a heck of a time getting a nickel from my mother when the I cream man came by! A dime for a chocolate coated ice cream on a stick was totally out of the question. My father got my first bike out of the trash and painted it red and put white pin stripes on it. I LOVED IT!!!!

@michaelpalmieri7335

4 жыл бұрын

You're probably lucky, because according to these KZread videos, most of those items were just worthless pieces of junk.

I fell for the Army Men. Didn't like the soldiers but had a lot of fun with the aircraft. The only 3-D things in the box! :)

Why you gotta keep breaking down my childhood dreams of fooling/scaring my friends and family while toiling away in my super secret cabin hideout. You're post-validating my folks telling me "it's all junk". How dare you...

Scrolling down memory lane. Guilty as charged, in the late 70's, I'd got the secret book safe, a tube called liquid smoke ( used for magic tricks) and live sea monkeys..WTF was I thinking. Being 10yrs, young and naive..yet that's it. But still my childhood rocked. Oh, by the way. This showed up in my "recommend for you". Don't really know how.. KZread overlords are at again. But I'm a fan and new sub. Great video. Keep up the good work.

🤣 Great vid as always! Can’t believe the 🐊 was a real mail away.

Random but I remember when prizes came in the cereal box when having older siblings there was always a race to get the prize frosted Flakes had the floating Tony the tiger toy good times

@pauljoyner4338

4 жыл бұрын

I was the oldest and has two brothers and only one box of cereal. So Mom made the rule of I got one, then my middle brother, and then the youngest. We got to pick the cereal. Still didn't stop the 7am brawl all the time. Lol

@cindysue5474

4 жыл бұрын

That stuff caused Family fights in my house many of us were grounded because of them little toys lols.

@thegreatestshowonearth7623

4 жыл бұрын

@@cindysue5474 those toys caused a lot of family issues lol me and my sister got punished because we were fighting over the batman piggy bank when they had the batman cereal out

@r0bw00d

4 жыл бұрын

I miss toy prizes in cereal boxes. The closest I've seen lately was when _The Last Jedi_ came out and some brand name had six color changing spoons to mark the occasion.

@hydrolito

4 жыл бұрын

I got tiny comic books in Quake and Quisp cereal.

Thank you Laura for this wonderful trip down memory lane. I actually got those steam-rolled army men. Everything was so small and I was disappointed in how it all looked. I had an original 12" G.I.Joe and traditional green soldiers, so I did not like what I paid for. It was the end of my comic book purchases but look back fondly to that very carefree time. Was it a better time? It certainly was easier than now. Keep up the great work my dear. 🙏😊

I remember an ad at the back of a comic for "Floating Ghosts". They looked like miniature little ghosties that you could control at will. I think they were just handkerchiefs with black painted on eyes attached to "invisible" threads around your fingers that you...ahem...remotely controlled.

We actually bought the toy soldiers out of curiosity and found them hilarious. We also had the Cayman which we kept in a baby pool outside but it died from the cold.

Years ago in Mad Magazine a spoof was done of the mail order page. I wanted to order a "Genuine copper air torpedo" from the Spanish American war! Also rubber masks were advertised - "Blond Bombshell" was Marylynn Monroe - "The Devil" was Stalin - "Madman" was Hitler and "Idiot" was Alfred E. Newman! On another page of the magazine genuine Luger pistols were advertised and "it's o.k. to sell them to kids because the firing pin has been removed." A page later "Luger firing pins for sale"! I still roar with laughter.

These comic book ads were often a child's first good, strong dose of "caveat emptor." It's a timeless life lesson that's applicable not only to commerce, but to media and politics as well.

@siasti

4 жыл бұрын

True but the baby alligators are proof that you can also get exactly what you paid for. There's a lot more to life than disappointment!

Thank you. I could not afford any of these it is good to see my parents were right. I had a friend order a " Real Hovercraft" Nothing ever showed up. : ( I know that most adds said "USA only " This definitely saved me from buying junk.

@jimg7647

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was an invisible hover craft.

@helbent4

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimg7647 I think they had trouble getting the eels through customs.

My daughter, who's 6, and I love your videos. She especially love how you interact with Danto and muffin. Keep on hunting and stay safe.

The sexual innuendo of that machine gun advert I couldn't stop laughing

I remember loving those ads in the comics! Bought a "secret spy camera" once. It took so long to come that I forgot I had even ordered it! It did work though, even though you couldn't buy film for it anywhere! Lol!

@jimg7647

3 жыл бұрын

Had the spy camera too. You had to mail order more film and send it in to be developed.

We actually got the Army soldier set, and the Roman soldiers set.

Awesome content! Just liked and subscribed! All about that nostalgia. 🤙

Thanks for this trip down memory lane, Laura

I lost my frontier log cabin due to foreclosure. 😩😩

@dsandoval9396

4 жыл бұрын

When your childhood meets real world economics.

@ogarnogin5160

4 жыл бұрын

Some Mohawk kids down the street burned mine.

@AlexBabcock-hw9iz

4 жыл бұрын

Oh shit did you lose the cardtable too?

TO ALL COMMENTERS: Ad -- advertisement Add -- to find the sum of The More You Know

@williamvanhefner

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they are spelled differently in Canada? :-)

@r0bw00d

4 жыл бұрын

@@williamvanhefner I don't do maybes.

@mac11380

4 жыл бұрын

pet·ty /ˈpedē/ adjective 1. of little importance; trivial. "the petty divisions of party politics" Similar: trivial trifling minor small slight unimportant insignificant inessential inconsequential inconsiderable negligible paltry footling fiddling niggling pettifogging nugatory of little account piffling piddling penny-ante twopenny-halfpenny nickel-and-dime picayune vulgar slangchickenshit Opposite: important serious major 2. of secondary or lesser importance, rank, or scale; minor. "a petty official" Big deal dude, I bet you were one of those that reminded the teacher that they forgot to give out homework.

@motorteeth

4 жыл бұрын

No... it is not lol

@TrashPanda5150

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares man

AWESOME LAURA!!!!

I got the remote control ghost. I learned a lot about advertising trickery and being a savvy shopper after that. But it still didn’t stop me from buying the bald wig, spy pen radio or fake hand. Loved that catalog.

Yes the submarine and footlocker of toy soldiers. What a disappointment.

@johnzeszut3170

3 жыл бұрын

I saw what another kid received down the block when sent away for the toy soldiers. No tank nor submarine either - I suspect had waxed cardboard been used they might of lasted longer in the rain.

The fronter cabin looks perfect for a Hobbit in the comic image

@maintoc

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe a *short* hobbit, such as a child hobbit. :p :)

Welcome home! It's a triumphant return, too. I grew up seeing Dracula dirt pendants in old back issue comics, and as an adult I was able to buy one on Ebay, complete with COA, for just about the original price, adjusted for inflation. No regrets! I own a piece of Transylvania! I haven't experienced any supernatural effects, but I have felt a strange urge to eat it.

Absolutely brilliant episode idea! Loved this!!

12:15 Hey, that's Uncle Joe. He's a moving kinda slow. At the Junction!

@BIZKITJODE

4 жыл бұрын

Petticoat Junction.....toot toot....😯

@Noycey64

4 жыл бұрын

I thought that’s who it was.

@Bill23799

4 жыл бұрын

@@BIZKITJODE I would have been hiding in that big water tank with my mask and scuba tank when the gals from the Shady Rest Hotel came for a swim.

Oh snap! Live baby Alligator?!

The illustrations made everything look so cool, so intriguing!

While in grade school, I ordered ‘stink bombs’ from the back of Boys Life magazine. What I got was a small packet of plastic teeth that were broken off a comb. Instructions stated that I had to place them into a cigarette to get the ‘smoke bomb’ to work. It was the early 70’s, so buying cigarettes was no problem for a 10yr-old. I learned a few life lessons with that disappointing purchase.

Ahh, I remember Frankenstein. I was a lil' guy of around 10 (in the year 2012). I found a Frankenstein storybook in my school library and had the time of my life reading that 🤓.

My cousin and I ordered the army men...and were quite disappointed when they arrived haha

A few seconds in and I knew I had to be sure I'm subscribed. Also, I watch a lot of KZread but only, this time, I had to watch it twice. Laura, I love how expressive and funny you are and your charming use of eyebrows. Eyebrows matter. What a Doll!

Missed your post glad your back

My X-Ray glasses stopped working after reality shit kicked my imagination.

I think of the movie Creepshow seeing these comic ads.

this is gold! so many memories

Love your content, always interesting.

Another great mideo

Before you could get in trouble for false advertising.

@godmagnus

4 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, people are always complaining about how things were better when they were young and everything nowadays is terrible.

@SofaPop.

4 жыл бұрын

Technically none of them lied at all. Therefore it’s not false, merely exaggerated

We got the ghost. It didn't want to cooperate and scare people like we wanted it to do. So, it left to live in the old barn. When the loft door would open, during a storm, the ghost would be seen hovering. The best buy was the skull with keychain and light. It also had "priceless diamond eyes."

I would say this and part one are some of the greatest vids I've seen on youtube..I have no idea how you hit the home run of nostalgia..I could feel memories I thought were gone. True.

8:30 Aaaaaand demonetized. 😅

@dsandoval9396

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha...! No kidding

These were cool now a days we have wish.com as the modern equivalent

@hydrolito

4 жыл бұрын

Dollar Tree sells small plastic toys army men, farm animals, Zoo animals, air craft and cars.

After being critical of your previous post , I smiled when I saw the title and thumbnail of this one . Welcome back Miss Laura . I hope over time pt2 does as well as pt1 . A big hug to Dante and Muffin and stay safe .

These are fascinating videos. Thanks again for all you do and post,Laura. Growing up in the 80's and reading comic books I remember seeing a lot of these ads. As a kid,you're so intrigued. I never ordered any of these things but they held your attention. A floating ghost? X-ray glasses? So cool! But seeing them as an adult you're like," Please. Obviously a ripoff." lol

#7: Just put it on the end of the cigarette you're smoking at a 10 year old. Does no one else see the problem here?

@mikek4610

4 жыл бұрын

Scooter Campbell only the snowflakes see a problem

@TeeManVandy

4 жыл бұрын

Back in the late 60s all you needed was a note from your parents to show to the checkout clerk that the cigarettes you were buying were for your parents

@ScooterinAB

4 жыл бұрын

@@TeeManVandy But the kid probably wasn't smoking their parent's cigarettes, lest they get a beating.

I doubt us smokers care about "toxic stuff" on the ends of our cigs...the WHOLE THING IS TOXIC! lol

Love these videos. I had almost forgotten about these items.

Great job!

There was a company (Newbury Novelty) that sold everything a young boy would want; cigarette lighters, stiletto knives and police badges. The products were actually of good quality. They advertised in the back of Boys Life and Popular Mechanic/Science magazines. I spent my lawn mowing money on them.

@drpoundsign

4 жыл бұрын

Boys Life RULED!! You could buy a "free" Chameleon with a purchase of meal worms. There were buzzing fishing lures, and model rockets (both Centurion and Estes.) I purchased the latter and did model rocketry for several years. Then gave it up-guess I'm no rocket scientist. They also had a real chick incubator. My Late Dad went to get the eggs fertilized. I-knowing nothing about Life-was wondering why he couldn't just use the Ortho triple fertilizer granules he used on our lawn-LOL. The chicks-unfortunately-were all stillborn. They also sold plans to make a personal helicopter with a lawnmower engine. Sounds a bit hazardous.

This channel has all of my favorite things. Love it.

I love this channel. Laura, you are a legend 💯

Nice video Laura!

I have loved these two videos.

Love your Channel

Wow I love your channel! You deserved more subs

Thanks for the videos in this series! They brought back some fond memories from when I was a kid. I regret not buying every single one of these, haha. I discovered your channel today and was truly surprised to see you're just up-island from me in Victoria! Do you ever get recognized by local viewers when you're out and about? Keep up the great work and I'll be sure to say hello if I see you in town.