My dad was born and raised in Long Beach California he used to tell me stories of how he used to surf with those long big wooden boards before fiberglass surf boards came out back in the '60s he graduated in 1965 and went into the US Air Force a few years later for Vietnam.Sadly he passed away in 2013 at 67 he used to burnouts in his 1964 GTO in high school 389 6-speed two double barrel carbs.

Talk about another trip through the Way back machine! This was a fun watch for me, our small hobby shop/five & dime had most of these kits at one time. Mister Amsberry would order kits for us if he didn't have them. He had a model wish book for us kids to look through. I remember hussling mowing lawns so I could get a model kit I wanted. Good times!

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2 жыл бұрын

Hi again. Thanks again. Kind of a off subject but still fun.

@krissfemmpaws1029

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision it was fun and to think these were the in thing in their time. And now those of us that remember them are doing the "Oh wow I remember those!" It comes back to what is old is cool again.

Gidget Does The Beach was a great film. I watched several parts over and over again.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

Oh!!! Well I’m sure if was fun.

Thx again

The acronym comment was a hoot! Thanks, I did not realize there were so many releases (of course I was only 8 at the time and not particularity aware of much.)

My quest .to get some of those kits . really cool . thank you . Have a great week

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

They are readily available! Not in production but boy they’re just everywhere even on Amazon

We always pronounced it hodad. My brother was (and still is at 71) a surfer and during the surfer craze we lived about 5 miles from Huntington Beach, Ca. We both grew up inundated with all things surfer. I thought (at the time) that Rick Griffin's Murphy cartoon in Surfer Magazine was hilarious. These models make me wonder if they were inspired by Murph in an offhanded way.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

One of Ed Roth’s many ventures were two magazines called car toons and hot rod cartoons. Later he did Surf tunes. Big hit again. It was quite an era.

I forget about those models

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2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

It was so cool to learn something new - that skating was called sidewalk surfing back in a day

Thanks

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

My brother back in 1964 almost got killed by a car that blew a red light to make a right turn. He was in to the skate boards, sidewalksurfing. He took a pair of roller skates, took the wheels off it and I forget if he nail them onto a board or screwed them on but luckily he had jumped of his Sidewalk Skate Board when the car illegally did it's turn and ran over the board. He built a couple more and than bought a real one and went all over the city with it until he got his driver's license in 1967. I never got into it but did water skiing at 30 years old and it took me 3 years to learn. Hated water and didn't care much for swimming, than I was a mess spending 11 months straight on 3 Aircraft Carriers in the Mediterranean Sea. Than they sent me West Pac and it took 30 days to go from Mayport Florida down around the tip of Africa and up to Cubie Point Philippines. Crazy world.

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2 жыл бұрын

Amazing history!! Before the red sidewalk surfer, we’ll before we could afford them, my friends and I would bag old roller skates and screw them to a piece of plywood. Worked. But not too well. We lived to see how fast we could go down hill. The bearings would heat and the axle break. So we built a set with dual rears and a bolted rear axle. Well the first one snapped at about 25mph. Sent my friend about 20 feet into bushes. So… we gave up on that.

Another fun episode! I had somehow missed seeing those models, but then again I did grow up on a ranch that was 40 miles from a small town.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

Hi again. And as always thanks

Very kool 🚂❤️😎👍

Hello from Detroit Michigan 👋

Dale: I'm trying to comprehend why some people might not know what a 'church-key' is. I'm 79 years of age, and I still have an attached magnet-style church key held up to the side of my sheet metal encased refrigerator. The 'old-style duplicator the teachers used in school for copying tests and other documents was called a 'Spirit Duplicator'. It used a special kind of liquid alcohol in a tank of the device. And every time the master page, which was attached to the turning barrel and had come into contact with the alcohol barrel's wide brush, it would wet it. Then when the copy paper came into contact, a little of the master compound would be released onto the sheet of paper, hence the blueprinting on the page. Then the 'pièce de résistance' would be the odor (fragrance) of the alcohol left behind on the pages, which was even stronger if the duplication was completed in the last 30 minutes or so before the teacher was administering the test. The alcohol smell was extremely intoxicating.

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2 жыл бұрын

Animal House. The guys find the tissue master for the finals in the dumpster. I’m betting people under 30 or 40 have no idea what they found. Mimeograph or Ditto machines.

To me the Rat Finks were a little one dimensional compared with the Hawk kits. The Daddy coffin model was my favorite. 🙂

Oh forgot; never boring!

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

Hi again!! Thanks again.

I also missed these models I was more interested in building aircraft.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

Any model is fun. Well almost any.

I've never known about these Weird-Ohs and Bill Campbell's model kits. While growing up during the 1960s, the model kits I was familiar with and put together were muscle cars and vehicles from television series like the Seaview submarine from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea which also included the Flying Sub model kit. Other model kits that I had were aircrafts and ships. I didn't do so bad when I assembled the model kits (with model glue). But, the one model kit I had back around 1967 was the famous and beautiful vintage automobile from the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flick. I ruined the model kit while attempting to put it together. And, after all these years, I'd still like to kick myself for ruining it. What a waste! I wish a model kit company would re-issue the "Chitty" car so I can do it again, but, this time without messing it up. I was really heartbroken. I still am. 😢 Well, thanks for another interesting show. 👍😉

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2 жыл бұрын

After reading your post I went a little bit nuts. There’s got to be someway to find another copy of that model. But as it turns out it’s extremely rare. I can only find one that was made in Great Britain so I’m assuming that’s the one. But most of the models are pre-built diecast. Get on eBay and try to find that thing! Set up an automatic search! Get another one and repair it! The universe will not be correct until you build a proper one.

@everettthepetractionguy4222

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision hello again! 👋 I searched the internet for the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" all plastic assembly kits and I came up with what I believe is the plastic assembly kit I had and ruined back in 1968, when I was a young kid. It's an Aurora 1/25 scale plastic model kit, product no. 828-300. The kit is indeed rare and, therefore, very hard to find. I was shocked to find that this "Chitty" car plastic kit was produced by my FAVORITE company: Aurora! That's the reason why the model was the best looking "Chitty" car model on the market at the time. Aurora made the best looking looking plastic model kits back then. They were always more realistic looking and proportionately correct. I think eBay has one listed with a few yellow plastic pieces missing, and the seller is asking $249.00 for it. I haven't been on eBay for a number of years and I don't have my password handy. Perhaps, I'll try my luck elsewhere. I think you'll have a good chance of obtaining this model kit if you're interested. After all, you're the Toy Man. It will fit right in with your awesome toy collection!!! 😁

I had to build my skate board. I bought the rear half of a friends sister’s roller skates. Drove my mother nuts because of the bangs and scrapes. We went down every steep side walk and street. There weren’t many people that even looked at the instructions.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

My friend tonight built many skateboards out of old discarded rollerskates. They would literally break out from underneath the board and send us flying! Later when the actual sidewalk surfer came out we managed to raise the necessary money to buy them. They too fell apart rapidly. But then something resemble a real life skateboard came out and I bought two of them at Kmart. Actual composite reels! Hardwood board. With inlaid racing stripes. Oddly enough still have them! One has never been opened and is still in the package. Even a Goofy collector back then

@kenshores9900

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision My friend figured out why skiers would solum to slow down. When we figured that out the big hills were our. It was rough in the ball bearings though. I found the key to the board not breaking was using 8-10 inch wide fir. If you went wider than 10 it would break. Wow and you mentioned “Kmart”. Ever shop at Grant’s? Great memories of a not so pleasant teenage youth.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenshores9900 no grants. Know the name though. Before K Mart they were Kress. Still around after K Mart opened. But over time vanished. Also Jewel Tea. Same chain.

@kenshores9900

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision Grant’s is a story of bad management. They disappeared in the 70’s. Back to skate boards. My childhood friend really use to press the corners going down hills. He was the first to pop a bearing out. Kreges made it to the 90’s but most of the stores were gone by then. It was a shame I bought many Christmas gifts there as well as many model kits.

Ah my blue banana board....apparently not for me.... turned to nasty old choppers instead haha...

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2 жыл бұрын

Cowabunga! Well out here it was more Cow a Bungee. Lotsa cows. No surf.

Never saw these either. You're right the others were better

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2 жыл бұрын

It was always one of the great debates which was better Rat Fink or weirdo. I loved both! But in fairness Rat Fink got there first. He’s sort of has squatters rights. Anyway I do think the Rat Fink models are better

Rat fink lives

Don't forget the smell of bananas 🍌from the mimeograph.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

Sort of like fermented bananas

Yes, it is easier to say Rat Fink! God do you have lots of stuff!

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again ken

Guess you better show us a Kiddle! Problem spelled wrong, but I never heard of one.👻🤖💩🤡

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

You’ve got the spelling correct! Google that on our channel and you’ll find several shows on them

Somehow I became unsubscribed?? Of course I fixed it. Just letting you know in case it happens to others.

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2 жыл бұрын

KZread has been going through and trying to get rid of all the bots. Unfortunately that has been unsubscribing lots and lots of real people. I don’t think KZread cares. I assume that they assume that the real people will just Re subscribe.

Those lose value the second you open the box.

@72dodge340

2 жыл бұрын

I won't own something that I won't use as intended. If a car, drive it. If it's a bike, ride it. If it's a model, build it.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

We have some in the box collections but agree. Models were made to be built. So we buy two. Build one.