Imagine you're a parent and you bought this toy for your kid and work a graveyard shift. It's Saturday morning and this thing starts chugging away in the living room.

@venusalien5153

2 жыл бұрын

Straight to the trash.

@Backroad_Junkie

2 жыл бұрын

There were lots of toys when I was a kid (back when dirt was young), that made all sorts of noise. Equivalent to buying a kid a drum set today, lol...

@larrybruce4856

2 жыл бұрын

Noise was not as much a problem then as it is now. many people sit around on the iPhones now. Their brains are in their iPhones where back in the 50's, 60's and even the 70's toys were educational. my favorite toys were my American Flyer electric train, erector set, and building blocks. Those toys helped me become an engineer.

@cynthiamolenaar770

2 жыл бұрын

Well then the only thing I’d think would be: “ wonderfull, my kid is having fun”. People are soooo overreactive these days!! Drunk people yelling and screaming on the streets at night, that is something I hate!

@MsFred58

2 жыл бұрын

@@larrybruce4856 Same here.

Love these old tin toys. So colourful and full of textural details.

@pimuce

2 жыл бұрын

Rare toy ? Must be expensive

@davidurban6813

2 жыл бұрын

@@pimuce yeah how much is one in mint condition. Just wondering. Have a great day everyone

@johngerardlim5215

2 жыл бұрын

Agree

This must have been so much fun to play with for like five minutes.

@spurgear4

2 жыл бұрын

I think kids had longer attention spans back then, social media has changed us more than we would like to admit

@michaelwray1034

2 жыл бұрын

@@spurgear4 brianne.. Brilliant comment so true.

@diedertspijkerboer

2 жыл бұрын

@@spurgear4 Yes, this would have been much more entertaining than most of the other things around at the time

@steven6956

2 жыл бұрын

We had to use our imagination a lot more back then, I played with mine for hours at a time, imagining all sorts of great adventures.

@spurgear4

2 жыл бұрын

@Omnibud I had a mamod steam engine...I actually still have it. I'm an aircraft mechanic now so I was kinda a strange kid

This brings me back 50 years. I was with my mom in a HEMA store back in Holland. I was about 5 years old and some "big" boys were playing with one of these on display . I started watching too, forgot to follow my mother and lost her. Yes, I did find my mom again.

@rainerzufall689

2 жыл бұрын

... after spending 13 years in an orphanage and ten more years of search :) And you would do it again ^^

@pascalcoole2725

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that one to, i think my neigbour kid had one.

@slayer2450

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clarifying

@sandal_thong8631

2 жыл бұрын

Of course you found her; your mother wasn't the mother of Billy from Shazam movie!

@farmcat3198

2 жыл бұрын

My mom drove away and didn't come back. I had a long walk home. I'm still bitter about it.

As a young boy in the 1960s, I would've loved to have had this toy, but my passion then was Tonka trucks and tractors.

@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome

2 жыл бұрын

And Meccano.

@onazram1

2 жыл бұрын

I had the Johnny Express with the flat trailer and bridge accessory,

@Altenholz

2 жыл бұрын

I forgot this name " Tonka" completely, but you are fully right!

Toys like this were _everywhere_ as I was growing up in the '60s. I had 'em, my younger brothers had 'em and kids throughout the neighborhood played with these. One friend of mine had a stamped steel and painted drive-in movie theater which showed strips of film, discarded movies I think, on the set's screen. My favorite was a set that had a couple wind-up cars that ran along a debossed, winding track and was (probably) hours of fun for my four year-old self. Too bad none of these items survived my rough play nor being handed down to my brothers.

I still love this mechanical ingenuity of these toys.

I always drooled in front of these. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

The boy nextdoor had one of these, or one very like it. I watched him play with it for hours. Four such a small footprint it had a lot going on, and perhaps not surprisingly, when he got bored, he'd do silly things like letting the cars run on to the track when the train wasn't there, and I seem to recall him running the cars along the train track, though I guess the train either, wouldn't fit the car track, or it couldn't get round the tight bends. He was a bit of a clown though. Nowadays, they'd call him 'scientifically inclined'.

I love how well made this is. Every detail was thought after and it can, proove in this vid, outlast the weight of decades.

I had the British version that had train always running late and was replaced by a bus service on Sundays.

@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO !!

All Right !!! I had one similar only with cars and it was a freeway forming an eight (8) with a bridge

@beaufighter245

2 жыл бұрын

Lesney made one for the matchbox cars. Cars moved via a continuous spring mounted in the track. Any matchbox car could be used by sticking a small plastic pin to the underside that engaged with the spring. Memories! Wish I had these toys now.

@coloradostrong

2 жыл бұрын

@@beaufighter245 BINGO! I had one also! Hot Wheels and then...Sizzlers! And a Big Bruiser wrecker truck.

Reminds me of a train set from the late 70s. It was 'slot car'-like, powere by a single lantern battery camouflaged under a structure in one corner. Santa brought it one Christmas, but we had to send it back to the elves due to difficulties in operation. I never got it back, somehow forgetting about it at the time.

I remember this. making my brain hurt. But I have a challenger for you. I had a kit that had a spinning Dremel type tool. it used plastic rivets and could weld beams together to make something. I had a car. maybe a race car I think it was and one that was a skyscraper. The other item was a glass maker for kids that you took pop bottle and made cups from them . Both of these would be consider dangerous toys today. But they sure made Darwin proud. You got a first hand education what hot plastic did and sharp glass. I carry those lesson today.

@Backroad_Junkie

2 жыл бұрын

You can still find glass cutting/glass making gadgets out there today, Just do a search. The building set was called the "riviton"? The one recalled because kids were choking on small parts? Still not as dangerous as those lawn darts, lol...

@David-ci1vn

2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine boys being allowed to lauch Jetex rockets.

@BuhdaPunk

2 жыл бұрын

I would have really like to see Charles Darwin write a bit on Lawn darts.

A neat toy!

Thank you for taking the time to show this toy form the past.

I’m too young for this to have been in my life originally, but it puts me in mind of a similar toy called “Big Loader”. That had a motorised buggy that travelled round a building site. It would first collect a dump truck, which would collect black pellets from a hopper and dump them into a quarry. The buggy would then leave the dumper body and pick up a digger, which would scoop up the pellets and lift them up onto a loader, which fed them into some strange truck with a bucket at a high level. You could get the dozer to repeat as often as necessary. Then the buggy would leave the digger, collect the bucket thingy, which would climb a small hill and dump the pellets back into the hopper. I remember being utterly fascinated by it. And now I want to scour eBay for one…

@thewannabeweeb

2 жыл бұрын

Ah the big loader sets! I believe TOMY still sells them but only the Thomas & Friends variant of it though it is still functionally similar

What a great toy! Really like how it works. It also got something for everyone. Cars, a nice landscape and a train.

This makes me feel very happy. Thank you for sharing.

In all honesty, if I got that when I was a kid, I would have been so so happy. We had a thing a lot like this called slot car tracks and those were some of the coolest things ever. The 90s were such a beautiful time for toys. It's crazy what the Germans invent and what they have done throughout their many many thousands of years of development.

This Is So Cool! I Wish They Had A Motorized Auto Rack Accessory Like This In HO Scale

@proudyorkshireman7708

2 жыл бұрын

There was a slot cars system available in the U.K. called minic motorway where cars could be loaded onto railway wagons for 00 gauge it had a lot of interesting accessories. Really wish it was still made but unfortunately people want detail nowadays. It could probably be done with the Faller road system or R/C but there’s too much fiddling about with that

@Gnulltt

2 жыл бұрын

A few years ago there was a Rollende Landstraße System available for Faller Car System. Sold out, but with patience... Also, there is Brima Road System.

Wunderschön! Klasse! Da haben sie in ebay etwas wundervolles ersteigert :-) Schade, heute können Kinder nicht mehr richtig spielen.... Es seih denn, die Eltern bringen es ihnen wieder bei. Zu träumen, sich zu freuen....

WOW!!!!!! I LIKE IT!!!! Awesome Video👍 ...........Like & Greetings

This just showed up for me via KZread’s video stream. What a cool toy set. Better that yours still works fine. Thanks for sharing

I absolutely love this!! Keep up the great work on all of your videos

KZread was invented for videos such as this. Thanks Joe.

Beautiful Toy.

Brilliant toy! I wish had one of these as a kid

I saw this last Saturday in Vienna in the Technical Museum at 3 pm. 4 pm I watched your video. Wednesday afternoon I received "my" Auto Train from ebay. As noisy and collectable as yours :-).

Cool. Never seen something like that before

Che spettacolo... le cose fatte con amore...non le fanno più...

It's amazing how they work. Hours of fun. I had something similar 😃

I like the people enjoying under the umbrellas in the center!

Ero un bambino e mio padre mi regalò per natale,questo stesso identico bellissimo gioco e ricordo che ci trascorrevo interi pomeriggi a giocare… dopo tanti tanti anni, ho potuto rivederlo grazie a questo video!!! Grazie!!😊😊

Many of Christmas my mom used to say "we should have just bought you guys card board boxes". We would be playing with the boxes instead of the toys that they came in...........we were innocent and simple.....or simply innocent.... Kids today look at this and say "So the object is to steal the cars and load them on the train like Grand Theft Auto?"

Lol i had one when i was child in the 80s needed 2 square battery 4.5 volts , every minute play with this was like be in heaven for me ^^

I had one like that as a kid! Thanks for bringing back some good memories :-)

@paluxyl.8682

2 жыл бұрын

How was the reaction of your parents about it , I ask because it seems very loud . I think my parents would not give me very often batteries for it or let me run it just 1-3 times in a week . ^^

@freggo6604

2 жыл бұрын

@@paluxyl.8682 I grew up in post war Germany. Batteries where a luxury. I had to manually move everything. Except for my engine noises the whole affair was rather quiet. My parents had me rather play indoors as outdoor play was in bombed out buildings where you found all sorts of goodies (ammunition, grenades and more).

@paluxyl.8682

2 жыл бұрын

@@freggo6604 I'm from Germany too but was more an 80s and 90s child ........ but I have not get batteries often for my remote control cars (with cable) or walkman too . ^^

Vert Cool Vintage Toy... From a World when Life was Good and Simple things Pleased Simple Minds and imagination was whatever you could Dream of.

Wow, wow, wow, you have just engendered instant jealousy, thanks for sharing.

Wahnsinn was ihr so für tolle Spielsachen hattet!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😊

this set look amazing imagine how fun the kid will have with this set its sad we dont see toys like this one novadays

Excellent toy. Great job. Congratulation. Luiz Paulo- Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.

Brilliant toy. Except for the noise, almost perfect (I read they were quite inexpensive, too). You demonstrated it very well, imho. Thanks. ✌️

I have never heard of much less seen such a toy!! But it looks like it would have been a lot of fun!!!!

I had a Matchbox cardboard player as a kid, to run my toy cars around that was very similar. Lovely thing.

Toys like these were awesome when I was a kid, before they worried about kids cutting themselves on sharp metal edges.

Great mechanism and painting! And the car mechanism makes a more trainy noise than the train itself 😂

Amazing! I love it, i' m also build in 1967 😊

Had that one when I was a kid. Figure that and the Marx wind up train were my first trainsets until gram and gramps got me a Tyco Pennsylvania freight train set a year or so later.

I was looking up Amtrak Auto Train and KZread suggested this video. This must be the technology they use. With two D batteries, my car is good for the trip. Thanks for this educational experience. ;)

Very cool, thank you for showing this.

As a approximately 4 year old i saw this toy , it’s been stuck in my memory banks unidentified since, about 50 years! NOW I KNOW WHAT IT WAS!

Anche io da piccolo avevo un giocattolo simile peccato che lo abbia distrutto per il troppo uso!

Fascinating, thanks!

I would have been thrilled with this toy when I was a kid. Actually I’m thrilled by it now! Thanks

Lang ist's her: Technik zum Anfassen, nicht so ein virtueller Krimskram. Toll!

Wow thats a pretty cool vintage toy.

Such a nice video. Joe is so polite.

Never seen one of these before. Very cool.

All these sets are a real joy. Not hard to see why he chose to collect them.

My Great Aunt worked for the Wolverine Toy Company in Pittsburgh PA. They may all kinds of pressed-aluminum toys like that. As a child, I had one that features street cars that would climb and roll around the track LOVED IT, but I was 4 or 5 and I had no idea of the value that would have one day (yes... I trashed it...).

So cool!

Old is gold, that thing we go on forever!

What a wonderful toy.

Cool Train toy. I thought it was Thomas the Tank Engine Playset at first but actually it's just a Diesel Train brings three cars.

i can just imagine this to be a fun gif on loop just to watch for as long as you like

I like the way when the cars arrive ready to load onto the train it results in a multiple fender bender - not sure if that was the best education?

I'm not sure why this popped into my feed but I had one as a kid.👍😊

@coloradostrong

2 жыл бұрын

They know _everything_ about you.

Man that is a cool toy.

I was born in the 70s in France and didn't know the existence of this toy since today. I'm pretty sure I would have drooled to have one if only they had been sold in France.

Wow that looks pretty cool

Beatiful clássico🤜🤛

That looks adorable/complicated/brittle/noisy!

I had a toy similar to that in the uk around 1970, it was a 2 lane figure of 8. You could use matchbox/corgi cars on it, you stuck a plastic pin to the bottom of the cars & this caught the spring.

@tooleyheadbang4239

2 жыл бұрын

The Matchbox Motorway. It worked when it was new. Next time not so well.

@scotiajinker8392

2 жыл бұрын

@@tooleyheadbang4239 that was the toy , thanks for giving me the name of it.

Beautiful!

A friend had this... In 2007 or something. Incredible

This game is older than me, but it looks adorable!

This is just so cool.

The poor parents from back then. You get crazy with the noise.

I had one of these toys when I was very young.

Amazing engineering

Lo avevo anche io. Bellissimo!

Wow that's cool!

2 words spring to mind, Everard Junction.

That's pretty cool

I love it

Awesome toy

A centerpiece Christmas gift for some lucky child.

I've found this in my grandma's attic and used to play with it all the time (I was like 7 years old and the game wasn't working at all. one half of it was missing)

See something similar to this in the 60s , it was at Xmas time in the toy department in a family owned store called barbers of fulham.

I am amazed how many highly complex "single use" toys like this have been made - as the novelty factor is gone after 10-30 minutes ("can I only use this with it?") and another piece of Xmas present piling up on the attic....

i would have never gotten anything like this as a boy growing up, as toys like this would've made way to much noise for my dad to tolerate🥺😢

@svogender

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm Your dad didn't tolerate "noise"... My dad was never home, the bars was more fun Sad but true..!! 😒

@truckerray7533

2 жыл бұрын

@@svogender and with all the drinking going on, he never remembered anything,

Its so fun and its so old but functions great i want it

Möchte am liebsten mitspielen. Weckt die Phantasie.

This was interesting as well as hilarious.

Excellent. 💙 T.E.N.

Toy autoracks. Gotta love it.

Amazing.

Wow ! Super !!!

Beautiful, certainly don't make classics like that anymore ❤️❤️❤️❤️