Johnny Eagle and Secret Sam toys - now that was a real Christmas!

@DFox-ud3gx

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget banana bikes

Wow, I had some of those toys. Better times back then. Most of those toys couldn’t even be sold these days. What a pity. Thanks for the memories

Who remembers the indestructible Tonka trucks ,Cranes, and Bulldozers

@Flowers4848

4 жыл бұрын

LOL …… I remember when we moved one year, and my dad used the heavy duty Tonka dump truck to move a refrigerator

@gw5309

4 жыл бұрын

Flowers4848 I’m 61 and still have a Tonka dump truck and Steam shovel I had as a kid

@Sluggo01

4 жыл бұрын

me.. still have em

@Sluggo01

4 жыл бұрын

Make America Great Again !!!

@The_Dudester

4 жыл бұрын

There are several youtube channels where they restore Tonka, Nylint, and matchbox toys that have been neglected over the decades.

I remember virtually all of these commercials! I actually had a Johnny Eagle Lieutenant rifle. Didn't realize Six Finger was part of the Secret Sam lineup; I remember seeing it shown by itself.

@aspensulphate

4 жыл бұрын

Me too... "Six Finger, Six Finger, man alive! (How did I ever get along with five?")

The toys were so much better quality for kids. The guys loved to play army outside together. When you unwrapped those toy gifts it was a real thrill. The toys back then can't compare to the plastic cheap crap made from China now.

These toy commercials were so politically incorrect it was refreshing!

@jackhill9304

4 жыл бұрын

They were correct for their day.

@JoseyWales44s

4 жыл бұрын

At the time they were politically correct because the culture, at that time, embraced traditional ideas. It is refreshing. I pity children growing up in today's culture.

@donaldhollums3278

4 жыл бұрын

Kennith Franklin you’re spot on there, My Friend.

@michaelpalmieri7335

4 жыл бұрын

@@JoseyWales44s One person's "traditional ideas" is another person's outdated, oppressive tyranny. At the time these ads aired, it was considered a traditional idea that the man should be the head of the household and the wife had to be the obedient and dutiful homemaker who had to do what her husband told her to do and agree with him all the time, even when he was in the wrong, and if the wife dared to disagree with her husband, he would probably beat the heck out of her, and in those days, there was little or nothing she could do about because the laws back in the day tended to favor the men more than the women, and a lot of people also felt that if a man hit his wife, or if the marriage fell apart, it was the wife's fault, or she did something to deserve what her husband did to her.

@Drivapete

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpalmieri7335 you just described my father in law to a tee! What a prick he was and still is. My wife and brother in law still carry emotional scars to this day about his abusive nature. Wasn't even a drinker, just ruled the roost and it was his way or the highway. No compromise or giving , it all about him! Very selfish and self centered.

Born in the 50s I remember these comercials good. When toys were real toys. People would cringe at these gun comercials today. Yep, when toys were toys. So proud to know those days.

@midwestfarmerleduc9256

4 жыл бұрын

Ok

@michaelpalmieri7335

4 жыл бұрын

@Alvin Marcus Why? Would you prefer that boys were taught to believe that violence and war is fun, that it's all just a harmless game? I'll bet some of the kids in these ads or the ones who played with the toys thought like that when they grew up and were sent to fight in Vietnam, where they saw what war was really like, especially when they saw unarmed civilians, including women and children, being killed, sometimes in cold blood, like during the My Lai massacre. If you asked me, the people who made these war toys were little more than obedient stooges for the Military-Industrial Complex.

@grantkruse1812

4 жыл бұрын

And yet 50% of Amerikkkans today think that a first strike on N Korea would be OK...By the time the Veetnam war was over, you'd be hard pressed to find 10% of Amurikkkans who'd be willing to go to war elsewhere...The war toys were fazed out during the 70s and non existent during the 80s and 90s...We can thank the Bush fam for bringing Amurikkka to love war again...The Trumpster is just the man to teach us what nukes can REALLY do...

@whitenas

4 жыл бұрын

No more commercials or real toy guns yet we have school shootings.... hhhhhhmmmmmmm

@hobo1452

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpalmieri7335 Words of wisdom [sic] from a typical know nothing Liberal. We didn't have mass public shootings back in those days.

Sears catalog...ultimate wishbook(Christmastime)

Those Topper Toys were very desirable to us kids back then. We all played with toy guns and none of us ever thought about shooting someone for real. Toy guns were no big deal back then. Now they can get you killed.

@erickellogg8532

6 жыл бұрын

Oscar Robinson its crazy

@debbieschmidling8158

5 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@milojanis4901

4 жыл бұрын

Toy guns can get you killed now. What a sad commentary on the deterioration of society.

@dalethelander3781

4 жыл бұрын

I thought Topper Toys were inferior to Mattel, Ideal, and Hasbro. They looked cheap and chintzy.

@krisrhood2127

4 жыл бұрын

My mom wouldn't buy me a toy gun. She once said that she regretted buying them my brother so many. I like the dolls, though

The good old days, unlike the BS today.

@thunderchief7

4 жыл бұрын

Jimmie, I had some of those toys growing up. They were BS. Propaganda shown on kids TV. I just had to have them. A few weeks later, they were tossed aside for the next new toy.

@roberttaylor6030

4 жыл бұрын

@@thunderchief7 Sounds like you were a spoiled little brat.

@michaelpalmieri7335

4 жыл бұрын

@@roberttaylor6030 Not necessarily. Maybe he was just disillusioned because the toys didn't work in the same way they did in the commercials. I should know. Things like that happened to me many times when I was a boy.

@LPTV84

4 жыл бұрын

​@@roberttaylor6030 He got toys that looked cooler on TV than they were in real life. Oooh a gun, what does it do? Well you hold it like this, aim with your eye, pull the trigger, and makes a pew-pew noise or it shoots little plastic dart ... like, c'mon dude, that gets boring quick after some time. A kid, no matter the decade or generation, will get bored of their toys. Some get tricked into buying something that looked cool on TV, but they were crap in hand.

@michaelpalmieri7335

4 жыл бұрын

@@LPTV84 Exactly what I was saying before!

A different time when things were simpler

@johnarmenta2199

4 жыл бұрын

Simpler for some; Extremely difficult, even impossible for others. A lot of it depended on the color of your skin and your gender . . . . . But I digress. . . . .

@bullsboat1

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnarmenta2199 and how old are you?

@johnarmenta2199

4 жыл бұрын

@@bullsboat1 I am 54. I saw my father experience some of that kind hardship. Fortunately, Civil Rights law - enacted in 1964, one year before my birth - removed barriers which allowed my father to attend college and graduate with a degree in Chemistry and Biology. He worked in well paying jobs every day since then and retired some years ago and is living quite well. He sent me to school where I earned a BSEE in 1989. I have been employed all my professional life since then, and recently sold two rental units, the proceeds of which enabled me to pay off my primary residence. It looks like I will retire in about 5 years - age 60 - with a lifetime pension. These things would have been impossible, certainly not simple, for people like me (and my dad) prior to 1964.

@bullsboat1

4 жыл бұрын

I'm 54 to......my path threw life was a little different than yours.

Trip down memory lane

I was shopping for toys for tots this last Christmas and I thanked God I got to grow up in the 50s and 60s because everything I looked at was junk

Please add more toy commercials like these these are really really cool. I wasn't born back then but toys were so cool back in the 60s.

Man I remember always wanting that Winchester style lever action rifle as a kid!!!!...You guys remember THE RIFLEMAN???.. All my friends and I would play in the woods pretending Cowboys n Indians!!!!

@miguelcastaneda7236

4 жыл бұрын

we did with our red ryder bb guns ..and yes we shot each other

@capie44

4 жыл бұрын

@David Goans Sooooo, how's them 60's "equal" & "civil" rights workin' out?

@EClark-nu5nr

4 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised no one has declared the Winchester an assault Rifle yet. You'll also note that Lucas McCain's rifle was modified with a larger lever for shooting faster.

They dont even make Mr. Potatoheads anymore. They got real humans to swap anatomical parts now.

@AngryHybridApe

4 жыл бұрын

@Some 1poisoned the water hole That institution needs a complete overhaul. The crap they're teaching now is meant to screw them up.

@AngryHybridApe

4 жыл бұрын

@Some 1poisoned the water hole btw. I like that name.👍. Makes me wanna change mine to "Some1 plopped a steamr in the gene pool". lol

@AngryHybridApe

4 жыл бұрын

@Alvin Marcus Time to make some french fries. lol

@AngryHybridApe

4 жыл бұрын

@Model629 Potatohead could have just said it was a typo

Back when toys were cool, and some even required some intelligence to not hurt yourself or others. So glad I was able to experience these as a child.

I always was a cowboy with hat, boots, and two six shooters that shot the rolls of paper caps all I wanted for then was a pony

Topper made some crazy, but cool toys back then, including - lest some of us oldsters forget - the "Johnny Lightning" die cast race cars and plastic track sets, which in my opinion as a kid in those days, "Blew the doors off Hot Wheels"!

@Bill23799

4 жыл бұрын

Johnny Lightning Cars were first made in a factory called " Gries Reproducer Corporation " located in my hometown of New Rochelle, NY. When we were kids we used to jump into their big dumpster at night and we found lots of reject Johnny Lightning cars. They also made those tinry Tool Sets you could get in the big plastic ball in a gum ball machine.

@marcaliventialiventi765

4 жыл бұрын

I will dig deeper with the Johnny lightning cars. I had the car carrier that looked like a Indy car

@Jhihmoac

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcaliventialiventi765 - Woww! I don't think I ever saw the carrier that was shaped like an Indy Car...Maybe one of my friends had one, but I can't remember...I just had the regular case-like one... I had the Al Unser #2 car itself though, back in the day...

@marcaliventialiventi765

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jhihmoac yeah, my grandma got it for me I think 1973. Had almost all the Johnny lightning cars and 3 different track sets. Fun part was taking off the cover on the launch track to see how far the cars could fly.

I remember walking in to a toys R us, when I was a kid and them having one whole aisle full of toy guns and they all looked realistic. Damn kids these days have no clue how bad ass are toys were ..

@stikcler

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno about that.. Ever see airsoft toys?

I'm 49yo and am going to ask santa for the tiger tank.

Just awesome ! I had a couple of the Johnny Eagle sets, I definitely remember the commercials and all the other toys!!

I had the Johnny Express..what a badass toy...I had the army attachment...so cool it was....

@Flowers4848

4 жыл бұрын

I got the same, Christmas of 67

@williamyanosko4010

4 жыл бұрын

@@Flowers4848 that's about when I got mine lol...my controller broke in a couple months but I still enjoyed it..lol..

@Flowers4848

4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed mine for years until my sisters tried to ride the cab, and broke the wheel axle

I had a Johnny Express. Now I have Greta. Good God.

@tonys4250

4 жыл бұрын

I still have one and it still works. Years ago I found a guy that manufacturers the parts for it. The exhaust and the mirrors always broke off.

@DFox-ud3gx

4 жыл бұрын

Tony I had the verooom motor on my banana bike too lol

THEY DON'T MAKE TOYS LIKE THAT NOOO MORE!!!,THAT'S HISTORY!!!

I'm almost 62 years old I have and I don't remember any of these commercials for these toys how bad is that huh

Im sixty years old and I still have the .45 pistol Lost all the bullets though But its still fully functional and it looks so real I could rob a bank with it Of course I would never do that. I would use my real 1911!!! Ha Ha Ha

@Bill23799

4 жыл бұрын

Haha....if I worked in a bank and I was being robbed by someone using a M-1911A1 as one 1911 guy to another I would have to compliment him of his choice of weapons.

Man I remember that spy camera. Remember those cars that would explode(come apart) when you crashed them? And someone made a bazooka that would fire rubber projectiles.

@steveskuras2515

4 жыл бұрын

I LOVED the cars that sprang apart when you crashed it....SO COOL!

@charlesward3661

4 жыл бұрын

I must have had ten of 'em. They were fun to snap back together.

@michaelcapobianco5627

4 жыл бұрын

i had that bazooka and just about every gun made . remember the johnny reb cannon which fired a hard plastic cannon ball.

@Ni999

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcapobianco5627 Forgot about the Johnny Reb. Also had a Remco bazooka, rockets were soft blue rubber. Inverted the noses to store them in the back of the bazooka. Neighbor had the Remco mortar, hard white rounds, same exact shape as the bazooka ones. I think that the Monkey bazooka was more popular, came later.

All those guns. Grew up with that stuff. I went to order a toy gun set for my grandson and amaz would not ship to my state. How far away we have come. I am trying to recall with my generation having all these Asult Weapons how many school shootings were there. Now I remember NONE. But it was great to see these old TV ads right before Christmas, oh is Christmas a bad word to use also.

@steveskuras2515

4 жыл бұрын

So sad...what the hell happened to our country?

@seemoretoys5944

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Whitman started modern school shootings in the 1960's.

I was 11 when I got my Johnny Express on 12/25/65. Never got the accessories.

Back in my childhood, I'd have loved to have those Johnny Eagle guns! I vaguely remember the commercial ads. I had a wire-remote "Tiger Joe" tank similar to this Topper tank, but a bit different. Great toys from a simpler time.

I use to hunt the nuns with my Johnny Eagle set

My niece in Portugal has two boys, and for their 10th birthday they got bicycles in 2019. I told them the story of my own 10 birthday in Nova Scotia, Canada back in 1971. In 1971 for my 10 birthday I received, from my Dad the best gift I will ever receive. A brand new 22 caliber single shot bolt action rifle. They seemed shocked that my Dad would give me a rifle at 10 years of age. My little brother got one, a year and a half later. This was normal, when I was a kid. 🇨🇦😉🇨🇦 Man times have changed.

@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy

4 жыл бұрын

I got a .410 shotgun (Mossberg single shot bolt action $29.00) for my 13th Christmas....rarely shot anything but clay targets but had a world of fun with it and learned to respect firearms. I am 67.

i remember i had a Johnny Eagle Lieutenant rifle !

The '50s through early '80s were a golden age of fun toys in America. This collection of Topper commercials is wonderful - thank you for digitizing and sharing!

The Go Go dolls. I’ve never seen them !

OMG I remember all this! AM I that old? OH NO!

I had the Johnny Express and I still remember the jingle in the commercial from 1966.

Topper had some great toys. My favorite were the Johnny Lightning cars and tracks.

Santa, if you're reading this, I know I've a prick but can I please have those trucks?

1965 was a Great Christmas I was 8 yrs old.

@whyme3904

4 жыл бұрын

It was fun. I miss the simpler times. Today liberals wouldn't have it

@Flowers4848

4 жыл бұрын

Yep and the toys lasted forever ….. I used to get the Tonka trucks and Cranes, they were practically indestructible

@AN-vt8qq

4 жыл бұрын

I was 10

@LisaSmith-tb8bb

4 жыл бұрын

maureencora1 Happy birthday me to

Topper toy was way ahead of the curve in those days Mattel, Hasbro, Kenner etc fell short but probably made more profit.

Oh wow!!! I would have loved to have had that Johnny Eagle M-1 Garand Rifle. I was a boy growing up in the 60's and i had a Mattel Lever Action Shoot-N-Shell Winchester style rifle. Th neat thing was it actually fired spring loaded individual plastic bullets.

@charliecopeland390

4 жыл бұрын

I got that for Christmas in early 60's and lost all bullets in a day or two. I cried until 2015 when my wife bought me a model 94 lever action Winchester 30-30..HAPPY CAMPER EVER SINCE!!!!

@charliecopeland390

4 жыл бұрын

@Model629 SSShhhhh, are you crazy for saying that out loud?? Someone will report you for crying out loud!!! hehehe

@Wa3ypx

4 жыл бұрын

I remember those. Gray plastic bullets

@charliecopeland390

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wa3ypx yeah they would hit the dog all the way across the living room. That reminds me? The dog probably ate the bullets!!

@Bill23799

4 жыл бұрын

@@charliecopeland390 Yeah but when you pull the trigger on your 30-30 you lose those bullets too,.

I remember the Johnny Express commercial. I must have seen it a lot. I don't remember the name Johnny Express, but I remember some of the images and some of the verbiage. Thanks!

I want those toys now WOW!

I remember bothering my folks for either a gun set or the Secret Sam case... and bothering my folks... and bothering my folks...

That Johnny Express truck looked awesome

@steveskuras2515

4 жыл бұрын

It was THE BEST...detailed, so well built. Hours of fun!

Had the m1 carbine w/heat shield. One of my favorite war weapons used to play army with other kids after school. Wr had stuff eventually not made later on, dart guns, glass klick klacks or disks flying accross rooms taking out the occasional eye, what fun !

@Bill23799

4 жыл бұрын

I had the Crossman M-1 Carbine Rifle. It wasn't as powerful as my Sheridan Blue Streak but it sure did look cool.

Would have LOVED to see these commercials at least in orange or red....as it gives you the idea of how it would looked like before changing to B/W....please provide this version friend...just love these commercials! And thanks for posting them!!!!👍

I had a Johnny express and a big bruiser tow truck when the batteries would die in my Johnny express I would tow it with my big bruiser to the kitchen so mom could put the batteries in the oven for a recharge.

@steveskuras2515

4 жыл бұрын

I had both of those toys too. I can't say which one I loved more...they were both GREAT!

This is a 1965 reel of several of the toys they offered during the fall, right into Christmas and afterwards. These commercials were usually seen on several network shows they co-sponsored that year: "TENNESSEE TUXEDO AND HIS TALES" [CBS], "HOPPITY HOOPER" [ABC], and "TOPPER CARTOON FUN" [ABC; repeats of the first season of "HOPPITY HOOPER" episodes, on Sunday afternoons].

I had this toy in 1965. The TIGERS I still have it

@farrypro

6 жыл бұрын

robert 4 cool 😃

12 year old boys from 1965 would overrun and rule the 2019 equivalent. lol

@lonesometinman3147

4 жыл бұрын

I agree... boys were taught to grow up to be a Man not manginas

@22steve5150

4 жыл бұрын

They'd get shot by jumpy cops because they look like they have real guns. That's why they aren't fucking sold anymore.

Wow...turns out I miss my childhood more than I thought! LOL

Back when fun and adventure for young minds was based more in reality and truly required ones imagination!

U could tell if it was the 60's they said swell

@knottreel

4 жыл бұрын

I find it interesting that Mattel made real M-16s for the military.

regardless of the condition, thank you.

I had some of this stuff

I had the Lieutenant Johnny Eagle. Awesome toy👍🏾

Silly Safari resembles Mouse Trap the Tigers line looks like Topper was trying to compete with G.I. Joe

@brianday6433

4 жыл бұрын

I had the Mouse Trap game. Fun for 1 or 2 days.

My dad didn't like guns but my mom would sneak one in under the Christmas tree as she had a gun when she was a little girl. Thanks, mom, I'm now a life member of the NRA and an Eddy Eagle gun safety instructor.

Is it me or is the most disturbing commercial the one where the doll cries in the light?

4 жыл бұрын

It's you!

Those designers at Topper "R&D" had A great sense of humor !

Ahhh - back when boys wanted to be men and girls wanted to be women. So long ago!

@vinalcoffin9927

4 жыл бұрын

And boy wanted girls and girls wanted boys

@sycopath5774

4 жыл бұрын

Now you don't know if it's he she it.🙉🙈🙊

@anthonywilcox2284

4 жыл бұрын

Just as many gay people back then they just hid it

@TodaysDante

4 жыл бұрын

@@anthonywilcox2284 - I'm not so sure about that. I know what you're saying, but it just seems that the LGBT community is encouraging this behavior to the point where it seems more nature than nurture - just the opposite of what they used to argue.

@gw5309

4 жыл бұрын

Jay Cee - it was so much simpler with two genders to select from

Topper made some really cool Toys when i was a boy. Liked...Subbed....Rang Bell

Real toys to real kids...

you will never see a toy so nice,precise and playable now a days!today everything is made of plastics...everything is made in china!!...sucks!!

@viewfinder1801

4 жыл бұрын

"Everything" was made in china then and they were made of plastics then and, no, they were not "nice, precise and playable". They were garbage then as much as they are now.

@lonesometinman3147

4 жыл бұрын

@F P yeah...couldn't of said it better myself... Probably the best laugh I've had all day 👍

Topper Toys sadly filed for bankruptcy in 1971, when an executive was caught fudging numbers with the Federal Trade Commission. The company died in 1974.

Commercials were so much better back to the days I was even being drawn into them…

Jonny Eagle made a One Man Army!! Hell of an expensive bit of kit. My Christmas was never so good, till I broke one of Mum's vases with a round. Learnt at early age , never shoot unless your sure of the target. Seen them on E pay. Bloody Hell!! If I knew then, but ould never have had the fun of playing with it.

had a jhonny express as a young boy .:)

I had a Johnny Express truck when I was a kid. I loved it! Shit, if I would have held onto it, I'd be drivin' an 18-wheeler right now!🚛🚛🚛🚚🚚🚚

@mickey1299

4 жыл бұрын

Your not missing much , Kev , trust me , i've been driving the real thing for 38 years . I also had a j express , i used to ride about on the trailer . Interesting thing is the advert shows two kids , standing on the trailer . When i did it , i broke the tractors back .

@steveskuras2515

4 жыл бұрын

I loved my Johnny Express...it was great trying to back the trailer in to a tight spot! That thing was so well built...I wish I still had that thing

@robertonline6543

4 жыл бұрын

@@mickey1299 lol... Now you can pretend you're a truck driver and now stuck on an overpass because your trailer too high with cars honking because your delaying traffic ., Look here come the cops... Cool...

@robertonline6543

4 жыл бұрын

@@mickey1299 those trucks look pretty cool so your saying they weren't as strong? I'm more a 70s 80s kid, I mainly wanted to be a truck driver because of bj and the bear and thought I have a pet chimp making out with hot trucker babes like bj did... Then reality happened... Sigh. ,🙂

@mickey1299

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertonline6543 Hah hah you fell for that one too huh , oh dear . I know loads of drivers that fell for that one , and similar , actually they still are . Truth is i kinda fell into it , originally to become an owner operator , but then the reality set it and i realised it was not a good move , after i gained my class one . I'm guessing your in the states , well i'm over the pond in the uk . Here constant gas price rises , with no decent increase in haulage rates eat into your operating profits to the point where you end up working for nothing . I stayed in haulage , but worked for other people , trouble is i kinda became good at it , plus escaped the boss for long period . He left me alone as he knew i would get the job done , i could go on , but i won't bore you . Back to the je , well the trailer was but not the tractor . The problem is , if you sit in the wrong place the weight distribution , as you should know , also moves . Sit or even stand over the rear wheels and it's fine , but move forward and more weight shifts to the tractors back axle , a concept i didn't even know , much less understand at 7 years old . In the advert they got over that by equally loading the trailers front and rear together , but i didn't . I stood on the front of the trailer , overloading the tractors rear axle , and it snapped between the axles . Dad did try to repair it , hah with meccano another blast from the past , but it never really worked properly again , it was really good fun while it lasted though .

Where can i buy Johnny Express truck ? They just don't make cool trucks like this anymore. I had one when i was 10 years old in 1968.

@yardlet6

7 жыл бұрын

Check eBay but make sure it works.

@dr.migalitoloveless1651

4 жыл бұрын

Get in a time machine and set it for 1963.

Back in the day I could walk all over town with toy guns strapped all over me nobody cared

@exautoshopowner5630

4 жыл бұрын

We even walked around with bb guns and pellet rifles and yes, nobody freaked out and called the national guard on us.

@jacksons1010

4 жыл бұрын

exautoshopowner “Back in the day” somebody called the cops on us during a neighborhood BB gun battle, and my friend almost got shot! That cop was nearly in tears realizing how close he came to pulling the trigger. There’s a damn good reason why we put orange tips on air soft guns and such.

@Sluggo01

4 жыл бұрын

yea many pellet and bb gun fights.. yea and shot each other.. below belt.. yes we did.. no problems.. welts but that’s it

@Drivapete

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sluggo01 I had a double barrel Daisy BB gun, nobody would let me play with them! I had 2 quick shots and broke it open for 2 more before they could quit yelling owwwww! So cool !

@Sluggo01

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Sherwood ...lol, I see why, didn’t know they made double barrel BB, I still have crossman, daisy, several others from the 50”s and 60”s. Gauges 177, 22, 20. Still shoot great, use them for small varmin

This is so darn cool.

they were so forward thinking back then. Especially when the lesbian couple comes into the room to check on their baby.

Topper Toys were cool, I don't remember them but by the 60's I was out grown of those type of toys

I always liked the toys for boys

My brother and I got spy briefcases one Christmas but they weren’t Secret Sam. Thery were the other one that was sold by a different toy company that also had a rocket launcher. We did have some of the Tigers. There was a back story for each of them. If I recall correctly Rock threw a grenade because he learned how to throw lumps of coal and hit what he aimed at when he worked as a miner.

Yep.. had those.

Memories,....i remember playing Yahtzee right around now back in "74",....Life, Monopoly,Battle-ship,Operation,Twister,...my GI-Joes,...MatchBox cars,...army-set,....*sigh*.

Great stuff!

Notice the commercials aren't loaded down with safety warnings? No matter how young a child was back then he knew to be careful with these toys.

The time came to move out of my childhood house. I had a lot of great toys. I took excellent care of them. I REFUSED to throw away my model cars, train sets and Johnny Express. Over 50 years later,...it's in (near) perfect condition. When I began to drive as a teenager, my family rented a trailer. I had no trouble backing into and up a long driveway. My mother asked where I learned to do that,....Johnny Express.

@steveskuras2515

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly!! I loved backing the Johnny Express in to a tight spot!

Kids today would fall out laughing at a "remote control" truck that had cables attached to it!

@jeffking291

4 жыл бұрын

fordtruxdad But at that time it was really something! 📻🙂

I prefer the toys I had in the 80's to this stuff, but that's how it is for all of us isn't it? We all look at toy commercials from when we were kids and to this day we see those products as infinitely superior to what other generations had before and after our own. Almost like it's part of human nature to feel that way about music, toys, and the social customs from the time that we were kids and particularly to look down on "new" stuff, "new" music, and especially "new" social changes.

@stikcler

3 жыл бұрын

Bravo! The most insightful comment in this whole section. Right on point.

I had the secret agent breifcase kit. Would have loved the trophy guns.

How did you get these videos do you have a time machine or something !!! 😐

Had a Secret Sam Spy attache. Camera only piece that made it to spring. Plastics brittle and broke easily.

Topper must have been regional, because I've never heard of any of these toys. I grew up in the Chicagoland area.

Lo que el viento se llevó . wonder years. Sincerely Fabian for ever. Mexico 2019

omg,, I had the secret sam spy case, thanks for the memory,,

@charlesward3661

4 жыл бұрын

I was lucky. I bugged the crap out of my parents until they got me one for Christmas.

I like the O.M.A because when my dad was a kid he got one but never opened it so he gave it to me yayayayyayayayayayyayayayayayya

Dont you just love those toys, really gets you ready to be a truck driver in Vietnam, and shoot at stuff with a plastic gun. Or be a "secret agent" ?

I had the USS battlewagon. They didn't show that one.

@billhuber2964

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky you.

@lancerevell5979

4 жыл бұрын

I had the Battlewagon too. They included a baggy of fine white powder to simulate smoke from the main cannons. Mom confiscated it. I'd have made a mess! The wheels were off set so the boat would rock and roll like on the sea. Springloaded missiles and planes, battery powered searchlight, separate landing boat and little troops. Great fun.

Cool toys back in the day but today's p.c. world wouldn't want sell toys to today's kids and I'm 49 I had a childhood like that I turned out ok

I had a secret Sam kit. God...I loved that

Pipe shooter ??? That's Epic !

6:38 do they come with a little body bags for the dolls when they get injured in war play?

I played with these