New opening for the show, very cool. 58 years old and we watched all the same shows, built models, and made our own 8mm films.

The model kit of the “one-eyed monster.” It’s of a cyclops holding a boulder over its head. I just bought a reissue of it at the Monster Mania Expo in Cherry Hill, NJ.

@MoviesMusicMonsters

3 ай бұрын

Nice. The reissues are fantastic.

I had a Robot that was gray we bought in 1967 in "Bargain Town", "Toys R Us", name before the name change, I'm that old, Lol. When we moved in 2003, I couldn't find my robot so I imagine he's in a landfill now. 😞

The coolest lost in space toy I ever had was the Jupiter 2 I made from taping 2 paper plates together 8-)

@MoviesMusicMonsters

3 ай бұрын

Yep. I think just about everybody tried that once :-)

It is not knowledge alone that makes these videos so remarkable, but the fact they come from someone who really loves what he talks about and who had a first hand experience of all that.

i remember the day my sister was born.. i remember playing with my lost in space robot july 1970

@boogertait

3 ай бұрын

THAT AROUND WHEN I GOT MINE

So true about chasing down our childhood toys! Especially true about 10 times the original cost!!

@darkstardavros

3 ай бұрын

Oh definitely. When I see the prices of stuff that we used to get out of cereal boxes for free and think to myself. We had piles of them and now having to hunt for affordable models of the things.

I had the red Remco robot! It was one of my Christmas presents in 1969! I still remember taking it to my grandparents with me riding in the back of our 1964 Chevy! I sure wish I still had it!

The best thing the 1997 movie did was cause Trendmasters to release all the classic series toys. I still have the 10" B9 robot, the set of classic doll figures, & Jupiter 2 playset all from the 90's. About a year later I remember the Jupiter 2 playsets selling at my local Kmart for $20 but stupidly never bought any to keep unopened, considering what they sell for now!

Thank you Dan for your constant recognition of this show. You devote so much coverage to Lost In Space while no one else does. Thank you again.

Watching your videos is like reminiscing with childhood friends.

For this 63 year old monster kid, Dan, you are an absolute source of unbridled joy!

I would crank up my Robot Lines C.D.'s while sitting at a red light with the windows down at night. People would be looking all over to see where that crazy Lost In Space fan is.

I'm doing this now I'm 63 and grew up on this stuff lost in space the jetsons astro boy, gigantour, speed racer, war of the worlds, the classic monsters glad I'm not alone repurchasing my childhood.

I found a much larger (2 foot?) toy version of the Robot at an estate clean out, unfortunately it was in pretty bad shape. Absolutely love your channel!

4:50 I had a MAQ robot! Was one of my favorites, but MAQ was not the name of the toy company, Lili/Ledy was the brand, they named the robot MAQ because they didn't had the license from Lost In Space. Was also a talking robot, with phrases like: "a meteor shower is coming", "does not compute, insufficient data", but sadly no: "danger Will Robinson!".

I had the white Jupiter II with the chariot. The ship was made of styrofoam like a cooler and therefore quite delicate. I took care of it the best I could, but I was a kid. I think I may have gotten through one summer with it before it got totally broken. The chariot lasted longer but I have no memory of the action figures that supposedly came with it. Such fun flying the ship around and landing it in alien sandboxes.

Anyone remember Major Matt Mason? My friend down the srreet had the moon crawler, which I thought was the coolest thing!

@stevenserna910

20 күн бұрын

Yup I had one too. I used to tie twine strings to a large t-shirt to the backpack of the astronaut. Toss him up in the air and pretend he was ejecting from his "ship". My t-shirt parachute ejection idea was not very healthy for Major Matt Mason.

I wish I had my Remco robot and my View Master discs. I can remember dad bringing the models home and laying newspapers out when we built them. Who knew how lucrative it was to save your toys? Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

It is beyond impossible to express how COOL those toys were! You, good sir, have come closest to the exhilaration felt by every kid back then.

I still have my REMCO Lost in Space Robot and my yellow Seaview from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ❤️

Glad I got my YM-3 while stationed in Japan. He keeps company with all my Zeriods.

Hey Dan. Keep up the good work. Lost in space toys were awsome. Loved this show. Fyi these videos you are making are outstanding.

I Love this channel. Dan Monroe, we could have been cool friends when I was 9 or 10. We boys had our own bikes and we had places to explore. We boys built our own boat and floated the Savannah that was behind the neighborhood. Our childhoods were cool.

My brother and I got the Mattel "Lost In Space" Roto-Jet gun (just one) for Christmas back in the day. Very cool!

You Americans ALWAYS got so many more super toys than we got in the UK. Love the new intro and outro . The 'flying' Jupiter 2 is so good. You are producing top rate videos. "HOW COOL IS THAT" ?

Gosh I love this channel. I’m 52 years old and this relates so much

Lines are open, you decide. You are the king of catch phrases! I keeping that one.

This is rapidly turning into one of the best, if not the best, channels out there. I've seen quite a few bits of the aforementioned Lost In Space products and some of them can go for some astronomical prices. I loved the series back in the sixties. Although I still haven't gotten around to getting any of the merchandise yet as I've basically concentrated more on the Daleks and Gerry Anderson TV shows gene. Although I've always wanted to get hold of a Jupiter 2. Maybe one day I will. Anyway keep on making these fantastic videos. They're great.

I'd love to see a review of Micronauts. I can still rattle off some of the names: Biotron, Aquatron, Mobile Exploration Lab, Time Travelor. They were a huge part of my childhood.

I bought one of Fred's Robby kits back in the day. He is now in the robotics museum up in Boseman Montana.

MY GOD DOES THIS BRING BACK MEMORIES IN 1966 IT WAS MY BEST CHRISTMAS EVER BECAUSE I GOT A LOST IN SPACE ROBOT I JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY WHEN I FIRST SAW THAT BIG BOX WITH THE ROBINSON FAMILY IN COLOR IN THEIR FIRST SEASON UNIFORMS WOW...... WE DIDN'T HAVE A COLOR TV UNTIL 1968 AT THAT TIME IT DIDN'T MATTER BECAUSE THE FIRST SEASON OF THE SHOW WAS IN BLACK AND WHITE ANYWAY HOWEVER MY PARENTS KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVED LOST IN SPACE I ALSO HAVE THE LUNCH BOX AUTOGRAPH BY MARK GODDARD AND MARTA KRISTEN! MET BILL MUMY AND ANGELA CARTWRIGHT AND THE LOVELY JUNE LOCKART AND DR SMITH AS WELL OH THE PAIN😅😅😅

I have great LIS and Robby robot collection. Painted them myself. I used to sell on eBay Remco reproduction decal treads, boxes and Instruction sheet. Best ones you ever saw. Dude, the Rotogun is so rare it fetches thousands on eBay. I think I knew a kid who had one and may have handled it once.

I still have my robot including the original box. Even as a 10 year old child i was modifying it and fixing things that broke or got lost. It definitely looks like a kid owned it.

Used to have loads of toys, magazines etc, but am gradually getting rid of them. I have reached that age where I have realised that what I hold dear means absolutely nothing to my kids and will likely end up at the Council waste facility when I shirk off this mortal coil.

The opening Theme-Song Music always gets me...Especially the Count-Down...=))

Am a huge Lost in Space fan, watched in the 80’s. I did not have any of the toys sadly. Great video!

I had the model with the chariot and the cyclops, it was awesome !!!! Great show Dan !!!

Dan, this channel lifts my heart! There, said it.😊 Martin (UK).

Wow, such cool toys and games. I don't remember hearing of any of these as a kid, and my parents and I watched Lost in Space religiously from the very first episode. I finally did get my one and only toy a couple of years ago, and that is the 11 inch robot with lights and 12 different sounds of Robot's vioce.

Where I live I never saw any Lost in Space toys around when I was young in the 70s accept possibly the View Master one. I find the lack of Jupiter 2 toys from the early days a bit strange. I always wanted one and I vaguely remember making one out of cardboard. Great video thanks.

I had the dark-blue and red version of the Robot. I remember the levers on the back to make the arms move. Thanks for bringing back the memory!

Dan, we are almost the exact age. I think I’m just a year older than you or maybe two. You are bringing back so many wonderful memories to my mind. Keep it up. This channel is amazing and so are you

OMG.... The trading cards!!!! Well done young Lord

Super video again, thanks Dan. I remember being frightened of the robot back in the sixties when he was a bit of a baddie before being reinvented.I was only little.

@MoviesMusicMonsters

3 ай бұрын

Haha me too :-) but that version of the early robot was always my favorite. I like them best when he acted like a robot.

I'm sure I had a few different copies of this one. Because it's the king of robots! Great job 💯❤️😀

Wow, i remember the Sears Christmas Holiday catalog was called the "Wish Book." 😊

Dan. Wasn’t expecting a new episode today. I wasn’t having the best day but this really helped turn it around. As always,thanx

@MoviesMusicMonsters

3 ай бұрын

That is so incredibly awesome to hear :-)

@JohnCompton1

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad your day turned around as well Ron! 😊

@RonH-tf7gi

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnCompton1 thank you very much John

@JohnCompton1

3 ай бұрын

You are most welcome Ron!

I was 4 and my cousins had one of these remco robots. It just fascinated me. So right about trying to recapture that childhood magic!

Lost in space was a favorite show of mine growing up in the 70s. Thanks for the vid !

Great video. Well done for being a little part of history with your graphic designs! It’s interesting that the inexplicable “Lost in Space” helmet has an uncanny resemblance to the inexplicable (infamous?) “Star Trek” Spock helmet.

It's somewhere around 1969 or 70 maybe. Lost in Space is already in syndication and Im about 5 and already a huge Lost in Space fan and Im thumbing through a department store catalogue, either JC Penny or Montgomery Ward's and there in the toy section was the Remco Robot. I fell in love. I had never in my life felt such a strong sense of longing. The price was somewhere around $8.00 and I knew that was outside my mom's budget. Two years later I got a toy robot for Christmas. It was from Ideal's Zeroid line of toy robots. I loved it.

I had one of those Remco robots in red/black. Got it for Christmas circa 1970. I have a picture of me with it and the memories but sadly not the actual robot.

As a child I loved this series, sadly did not have any toys. However as an engineer I managed to find 3D files of the black laser gun and printed it on my 3D printer. Never too old to own neat toys.

Another wonderful trip down memory lane. As far as “Lost in Space” toys go, I recall being six years old and receiving the Remco robot for Christmas-I remember it like it was yesterday. Surely, the best of times.

I had one of the Switch N Go toys as a kid and loved it! The Jupiter 2 was made out of a Styrofoam which was easily dented but still fun.

you may not believe it, but I discovered "lost in space" when the film was released in the 90s. The series remains unpublished in my country, only one episode was broadcast in the 80s. The series therefore remains relatively unknown here. Since then I've had the opportunity to watch a few episodes to see Guy Williams, because Zorro is very well known and appreciated in our country.

I loved my Remco robot. I used to remove the bubble top and put my GI Joe inside. He fit up to his chest. I used to pretend that he was riding in an armored robot transport unit. I had a black one with red arms.

The Mexican company was Ledy and they gave the robot the name of MAQ. Santa Claus brought it to me one Xmas of 1969 not 1973 . I was a fan of the show since 1968 and yes , I still have it . Beside the lights and movement it has like 6 classic phrases in Spanish with the voice of the Mexican robot dubbing .

I had the Switch n Go set too! The first casualty was that styrofoam Jupiter 2. Still great fun to play with.

Back in the 60's I had a metal wind up Robbie the robot. No one ever told us to save our toys back then.

Polar Lights was a godsend for those of us a tad too young to be trusted with paint,model knives and glue or the patience to build a kit right for the Aurora kits as well as kits Aurora should have made but never did. Was medically retired at 59 back in 2020 and have been working into mine and my late wife's stash of model kits and am currently working on the PL Spindrift and will probably put the PL J2 on the workbench next. Do have the toy J2,the die-cast LIS toys and the smaller robot. Did have the 2 foot tall RC robot but had to sell it to keep the wolf back away from the door in some of the tight fiscal days after my wife passed.

My family has a classic photo of my father and older brother playing with my Roto-Jet Gun on Christmas Eve 1966... after I had been sent to bed! 😆

Great video as always Dan...There are a few other 60's & 70's collectibles that you missed, namely the GAF Magic Eyes Story Set, the paperback novel, the Ben Cooper Halloween Costume, the AHI Walkie Talkies, the AHI Saucer & Gun Set, the 2 Milton Bradley Frame Tray Puzzles, the various Fan Club cards and TV guides....boy, it seems like it never ends...love your channel Dan.

i was born in '66 and loved this show growing up. sadly the only LOS toy i had was a Jupiter 2. technically it was a white Frisbee painted silver, but it could fly.

@MoviesMusicMonsters

3 ай бұрын

Haha I used to do the same thing with paper plates

Keep it up. Dan. You have a magical combination of elements that make your videos highly watchable.

It's really quite amazing how LiS and Forbidden Planet are remembered and loved even now some 60 years plus since they were on the good old Telly. I was wearing a Tshirt featuring Robby from Forbidden Planet the other day at a shopping centre and a middle aged bloke eating at the outside seating of a cafe called out "Robby !" as I walked past, he knew exactly who Robby was. His jaw hit the table when I told him I was 3d printing a full size static Robby. Long may they be remembered.

Hi great content .I'm 66 yrs old. I had the metal Lost in Space lunch box with thermos. Does anyone remember a Styrofoam Jupiter 2? I had one the top came off to place all the crew figures and the chariot, Robot and the Giant holding the lg rock. Your taking back to memory lane.

This video brought back so many happy memories! As a boy, I had the Remco Robot, the Switch & Go Set, the GAF Viewmaster Packet, and the full bubblegum card set. I spent hours playing with all these toys over the years.

Dan, a Mattel switch and go lost in space set is set up at the action, figure and toy museum in Pauls Valley Oklahoma. Also, the Johnny lightning robot is just the right size to put on display with the figures in the aurora model featuring the cyclops and the chariot, and all the figures.

Thank you for sharing with us the complete, as far as you know, line of Lost in Space toysat our antique mall over in Fort Worth. The place is huge and the prices are quite reasonable.

One of my favorite shows, lotsa memories. Keep up the great work!!

Without a doubt the balloon saucer with an operable directional fan was the coolest Lost in Space toy. I'm really surprised it wasn't mentioned.

Ah, Dan! The memories. I didn't have the dioramas, but I was a model kit fanatic and had the robot kit. I loved it! Please keep these videos coming. Believe it or not, they make this 66 year old feel like a kid again!

dan, you, your host voice, your channel, and videos are super-cool af! keep it up!

I'm gonna need you to develop a passion for Walt Disney's Zorro. And... go!

Yep, I remember the 1st season of Lost on Space and how great it was.. something about B&W shows/movies will always draw me in! Great discussion and video Dan!

It's always fun to look back in time at a show that looked forward in time.

I've got the Lost In Space music CD from the original television series. It has the same cover art photo as used on the View Master set. I was listening to it today while working in my shop. It evokes a lot of feelings and good memories. Each Christmas my daughter hangs our B9 robot ornament on the tree. If only it could talk.

Dan, I dont know why its taken me so long to comment on your channel but man, you have tapped into a “main vein” of nostalgia! Not just with this video but with your channel as a whole. You have a great broadcast voice as well as a gift for production. The kind of guy id like to run into at a sports bar during trivia night! I NEVER understood why those Remco robots came in colors so far removed from the one on the show? I was kinda hoping you’d touch on that… Given your incredible knowledge, you’re probably aware of the (car dealer?) guy in Massachusetts who built a full scale chariot!!! I can almost hear you saying “HOW COOL IS THAT????” Please dont forget about the cool remco “Voyage to the bottom of the sea” toys… i had both the Seaview and the flying sub… i remember being heartbroken when the rubber band broke on the Seaview…i wasnt very mechanically inclined when i was five years old! Man, much respect and thanks for your channel…. Tom (63)

Another great presentation! Thank you!

Dan, your Lost in Space videos are the best. Good memories, thank you! ❤

Hey Dan, I was going to ask about the Sawyer's company which owned View Master before GAF. It seems GAF bought them in 1966 and made more reels for the kiddos including licensed products like Lost In Space. I remember Henry Fonda doing GAF film commercials from the era. I have a View Master projector that projects the reels on the wall, not in 3D, but it's cool. Well, THE BULB that the projector uses is HOT as there is a metal piece that covers it and touch that and learn about physics!

My younger brother got one of those Switch 'n' Go Chariot sets. The Jupiter 2 was made of styrofoam and didn't last long at all. I remember the Switch 'n' Go mechanism was really odd and I don't think we used it much. I don't remember what happened to most of that set, only the chariot itself got much play use. I don't remember any of that stuff lasting more than a year or two. He also built the robot model. I saw a picture of a Jupiter 2 model in a mail-order catalog a few years later, and I really wanted one. I was always more interested in the Jupiter 2 than the robot. But I still dadn't have any independent income at the time, so such a model was always only a dream. Of course we regularly played "Lost in Space" off of our new deck in the back, at least while the show was still being broadcast.

Like Ralphi had his BB Gun moment in the movie, I had my Switch N Go Lost in Space set moment one Christmas. I remember it like it was the loss of the Holy Grail on that fateful Christmas Morning. Barely an hour into pure Space Junkie nirvana, my sister trying to wade thru the wrapping paper and toys, inadvertently stepped onto my styrofoam space ship. Pure devastation overcame my being! There are no words to describe the horror of seeing the top of your brand new flying saucer in several pieces. The reindeer poop was still wet outside in the yard and here I was left with a rover, some figurines, and a round styrofoam boat. As an "older" kid and as an aerospace maintenace adult, I have made many things, glued many things, and fixed many things. You must realize the very first thing I can remember in my life that I EVER tried to repair as a little kid,... sniff, sniff, was my styrofoam space ship. Today, I could probably do an incredibly impressive job of bonding that a shattered Jupiter 2 back to airworthiness condition but in the early 60s, the salt on the 6 year old's mortal wound was the heartbreak of finding out that Elmers paper white glue was not going to bring my spaceship back from the interstellar spacecraft graveyard. I hope no one else has had to live with such anguish and scars. 🤕

@myleb

3 ай бұрын

😢

@miklosernoehazy8678

3 ай бұрын

...you're lucky a piece of styrofoam didn't spring up from the floor and fly into your face... ...it would of put your eye out... 😉

@SWAMPTTHING

3 ай бұрын

@@miklosernoehazy8678 lol, how do you know I didn’t do that already with the missile launcher on the Rover?

I knew a couple kids that had the lunchbox when I was in grade school (Yes, I'm old! lol). We always wondered about the non-matching thermos.

I had the lunch box. I was the envy of my classmates. The movie...Ughh. what were they thinking. Don comming on to Judy that way, disgusting protrayal of a wholesome series. Bill Mumy passed when they rejected his ideas. Good for him. The cameos were good to see though.

@richardlionheart3935

3 ай бұрын

Totally agree with you. I was so excited going into the movie theatre with my wife to see it and was so dissapointed walking out. I think the only thing I liked about it was the fact that Dick Tufeld reprised the robot's voice.

I grew up watching lost in space as s child. Then I first see it again on tv for isnt years until we moved to houston Texas in the early 1980s, abd then I didn’t see it again until 1986 and I was hooked all over again and then again in the late 1980s via the USA cable network. It’s always been a good old friend serious or campy, although I still preferred the first half of the first season and the first half of the third season when it concentrated more on adventure and less camp. I akways wanted a remvo robot but could kit afford one but a friend made me a 3d modeled and printed replica. I also wrote a book about how the Jupiter 2 worked that presented logical blueprints of the ship which was published by ata press in 2011. I was also lucky to meet mark Goddard and bill mumy once and talked with Marta Kristen over the phone once. I also have autographed photos from Angela Cartwright and June Lockhart.

I had the blue and red robot from sears in Trenton New Jersey. If I recall, the price sticker was 8 dollars! Also I had the lunchbox with thermos. One day I dropped the thermos and since it was glass lined it broke inside. Imagine taking a sip of that cool aid mixed with glass.

Oh Dan, I got that Roto Jet rifle for Christmas 1966. It was absolutely amazing. Sadly, the toy is long gone. However, I do have the wind-up robot (purchased at a Manhattan shop called The Last Wound-Up circa 1991), and the Johnny Lightning Chariot from the 1990s. When I was in kindergarten, my world revolved around Lost in Space. Keep 'em coming, my dude! 😊

Excellent vídeo, Dan ! It is a travel back in time. When I was a kid, I dreamed with the B-9 robot that could be found in some Ovomaltine (Ovaltine) cans (there were cupons giving it). But only as an adult I bought my Polar Lights B-9 robot kit.

I own a Remco robot in the same red and black color scheme as yours. Mine isn't exactly in mint condition any more. The claws got broken off and have been glued back on, one of the tabs to hold the head on is broken off, the rubber rotted off the small rudder wheel, the paper stickers on the sides of the treads are slightly dirty, and the dome is somewhat scratched from when I tried to use a piece of sandpaper to smooth the seam between the two halves. The last I checked, I don't think the motor ran, but that could be a loose wire somewhere. I also have the 11" Trendmasters robot in the normal colors and the chrome plated version (although I wish they hadn't chromed the legs). I wanted the 7" version, but every time I checked the website, it said it was coming soon, then one day it said it was sold out. I emailed them and asked how it was possible to be sold out when the website never showed it being available. "Oh, that's just the online store, all the 7" robots were sent to stores months ago." I never saw one in any of the stores around here. I have the four Johnny Lightning toys. Fun fact, if you take the robot's body apart, you can flip the arms over so that they're point up instead of down. I have the ornament that came in a green Christmas box, as well as a couple of the keychains. I missed my chance to get the Carlton Cards ornament at a decent price. I have the Masydaya windup version, as well as their small version of Robby. Speaking of Robby, I have both the Trendmasters(?) one from about 20 years ago, with the wired remote, as well as the more recent Walmart exclusive version. I have the Polar Lights robot kit as well as their Robby kit, which I was kind of disappointed in. The base of Robby's head is a perfect circle, how hard would it have been to add a pivot so the head would turn? I wanted to get the Morbius robot kit, but then I'd want to get all the additional detail parts, which add up quickly, and then I'm not sure I have the skill to build it the way I'd really want it. There's a video of someone who added animated head parts, a remote control for the working treads, a power pack that actually shuts down and activates the robot, motorized body, and you can even press each of the small chest buttons to turn then on or off. It's really incredible. I'd want my robot to be like that, but I wouldn't have the first clue how to do that.

Good one Dan. You're really catching fire in the last couple of months - good for you! I really wish I could go back to these days.

A friend of mine had the Switch n Go set and I thought it was the greatest thing ever.

@MoviesMusicMonsters

3 ай бұрын

That's so cool. I wish I had had one :-)

Wow! You are a TRUE fan!!! This was great! Your involvement is amazing!

I still have my TrendMasters Robot, and it still talks when I press the two buttons, "Danger! Danger Will Robinson!". And, the other button, "My Sensors indicate an intruder is present". alien presence. I'm looking at it right now in fact. Thank you for the use of your files!😂 I also have the, "Jonny Lighting" Robot miniature, as well as the Space Pod.

One of my best memories going to school in the early to mid 70's was looking at other kids lunch boxes. Unfortunately mine was a paper bag.

I had the small windup toy version of the lost in space robot as a kid that I bought from a local comic book shop.

The Remco Robot!!! They need to re-release it. Exactly as it was.

For Christmas, my wife got me the a ultra hard to find, talking Diamond Select Antimatter lost in space robot. It's black and white, and says the lines from the Antimatter episode (from the stunt robot in the cage) as well as the first season lines when the robot was trying to kill everyone... what a Gal...