I've had tinnitus since 1967 because of my Mattel Sonic Blaster. It still works just fine after all these years but I don't hold it next to my head any more!
I had one of these and it was awesome. It was absolutely lethal to ears. That's why they took it off the market so quick. Kids were pointing it right at their friend heads and a lot of ears and eyes got screwed up. It was a lot of fun thinking up different things to shoot outta this thing.
This toy reeked of COOL. The only weakness was the handle that pumped the air. It was made of some type of weak plastic that started to turn white right at the stress point. And then it would break off. How do I know, I broke my older brother's baooka. Strangely enough he didn't beat me to a pulp. It was also good that I could run like the wind.
I remember playing hotwheels jets a long time ago on the pc and hearing the briefing about saving the tv from evil toys, but in the background you hear "It's called a Zero M Sonic Blaster" and now years later I see this
157db on dbA or dbC scale? Also it wasn't the sound of it that was what made the effect of knocking things over, but rather the force of the projected air that made the effect of knocking things over.
Also it's safe for the user, just not at another person if it was aimed at them. that's why it was only to be shot at inanimate targets like those paper things.
I had one of those things when I was a kid but I was so little I couldn't even pump the damn thing up, my dad had to do it. I think I shot the thing like 3 times and it either broke or my dad ditched it cuz they were banned. To this day I don't know what happened to the damn thing.
I had a sonic blaster. Yeah, it was loud against the ear. You could also hear the airball as it sailed past. If there was a smoker in the house, which was common in the mid '60's it was fun to get them to blow a lungful of cigarette smoke into the barrel shoot it across the room and watch it travel until it hit the opposite wall and spread out.
Consumer Reports magazine wrote about this toy in the 60s:
"The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB–above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult. We rate the toy Not Acceptable."
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yes Sir, the check is in the mail."
I had 1 of these when I was a kid and the damn handle you use to charge it broke right off, so I took a screwdriver and jammed it in the stumb and pumped away.
I got one of those when I was five. I don't remember too many toys, but I remember that one. Would be considered too dangerous today because someone would shoot someone in the ear and blow a drum out.
WOW!!!! I had a Zero M when I was a kid. It would fire a burst of air that would knock over a tin can at about 10 to 15 feet. Nowadays, these dumbasses out there would shoot a kid in the ear with it at 2 inches and their parents would sue the company for the kids lack of judgement and their lack of supervision. Kids and their parents today are dumbasses and they can't differentiate between fantasy and reality.
And it looks like it was all shot in Hollywood's Cahuenga Pass, about a mile from Universal Studios. That's the Hollywood Freeway down below. Somehow, I think if a kid with a bazooka-like device was there today, there'd be a S.W.A.T. team to shoot him down in about one minute.
Yes, it's Kurt Russell starring in this commercial. But, you should also recognize the narrator -- William Conrad. In later years, the portly actor played Frank Cannon on the TV series, "Cannon". His other voice work included narrating all the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons.
This thing was GREAT. I got mine for Christmas around.....when I was eight. I shot it off at about 6am that Christmas.....and the BEST THING ABOUT IT was...someone at Mattel forgot to but a safety valve in the air system, so you could pump it up enough to put a softball inside of it.......and shoot it about one hundred yards. I loved it!!! (I think my father had a stroke when I first shot it off, he thought I blew up the house. Good thing I didn't try it out in the living room....)
I had one of these when I was a kid. It was my all-time favorite toy. This video understates the noise it made, which was similar to a cherry-bomb.
It broke easily, and had to be cut open for repair, since it was all glued together out of polystyrene. I kept mine functional up through about '74, but it finally went to the landfill. Too bad.
This kid really does look like Kurt Russell, but he would have been 15 in 1966.
@dreamdump I had one of those things as a kid also, I didn't even remember the name of it. I was little and I couldn't even pump it up, my dad had to do it. You are correct that it broke easy, I think mine lasted about 1 week :(
we had one of those too. Dad had to put it away in attic after they banned then. Looked around for it but dont know what ever became of it. Mom might have made him get rid of it.
Oh, I had one of those Sonic Blasters, circa 1964-1965. Louder than hell. Mattel had to take them off the market because kids were blowing each other's eardrums out. I agree with TheRebel: if a kid used one of those things today, the cops would shoot first and ask questions later.
Notice that Kurt is playing with his toy bazooka near a highway. If any kid did that today, a dozen people would have called the cops on him and he would have be arrested and implicated in the Columbine Massacre AND 9/11!
I've had tinnitus since 1967 because of my Mattel Sonic Blaster. It still works just fine after all these years but I don't hold it next to my head any more!
FredMertzification 1 month ago
it needs to be pack a punched :)
MrGrimmreeper 2 months ago
I have heard157 decibels , and this toy was not that loud.
jhonnyjhomey 2 months ago
All you need is a potato.
DrewsAnimation 2 months ago
I had one of these , it was theee bomb toy . Lots of fun
jhonnyjhomey 2 months ago
I had one of these and it was awesome. It was absolutely lethal to ears. That's why they took it off the market so quick. Kids were pointing it right at their friend heads and a lot of ears and eyes got screwed up. It was a lot of fun thinking up different things to shoot outta this thing.
chuckbyf1 2 months ago
thats awesome
snwman91 2 months ago
Fus Ro Dah, 50 years before Skyrim invented it. Impressive.
Mechanikatt 2 months ago
Even as a kid, Snake Plisken was badass!
MiHiVidz 2 months ago
We used to set up candles on our train set and blow them out from across the room. Coolest toy ever! Well right behind my Phantom Raider anyway
originaldaver 3 months ago
This toy reeked of COOL. The only weakness was the handle that pumped the air. It was made of some type of weak plastic that started to turn white right at the stress point. And then it would break off. How do I know, I broke my older brother's baooka. Strangely enough he didn't beat me to a pulp. It was also good that I could run like the wind.
SgtRock57 3 months ago
This is the ad!!!!!!!!HAAAAAA!!!
I remember playing hotwheels jets a long time ago on the pc and hearing the briefing about saving the tv from evil toys, but in the background you hear "It's called a Zero M Sonic Blaster" and now years later I see this
2400dimension 3 months ago
Holy fuck! That's amazing!
BigFuckingPig 3 months ago
157db on dbA or dbC scale? Also it wasn't the sound of it that was what made the effect of knocking things over, but rather the force of the projected air that made the effect of knocking things over.
Also it's safe for the user, just not at another person if it was aimed at them. that's why it was only to be shot at inanimate targets like those paper things.
BankaiIchigo12345 4 months ago
That's William (Cannon, Jake & The Fat Man) Conrad narrating the commercial.
StatenIsland121 4 months ago
@StatenIsland121 You got it. He was Matt dillon on the radio show Gunsmoke.
chuckbyf1 2 months ago
I had one of those things when I was a kid but I was so little I couldn't even pump the damn thing up, my dad had to do it. I think I shot the thing like 3 times and it either broke or my dad ditched it cuz they were banned. To this day I don't know what happened to the damn thing.
clintonearlwalker 4 months ago
I think this is even before the cmputer who wore tennis shoes
mladenik 4 months ago
I had a sonic blaster. Yeah, it was loud against the ear. You could also hear the airball as it sailed past. If there was a smoker in the house, which was common in the mid '60's it was fun to get them to blow a lungful of cigarette smoke into the barrel shoot it across the room and watch it travel until it hit the opposite wall and spread out.
jjtrossen 5 months ago
my grandpa had one of these.
so he gave it to me.
and it works.
suck it, liberals.
burningsponge 5 months ago
Consumer Reports magazine wrote about this toy in the 60s:
"The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB–above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult. We rate the toy Not Acceptable."
Holy broken eardrum,Batman!
SardaukarPrime 6 months ago 8
@SardaukarPrime If there was a Toyota sticker on it,CR would have said it was the greatest toy ever.
Oldbmwr100rs 4 months ago
reminds me of the Thungergun
kougsohv9 6 months ago
what level you unlock this weapon?
ToxicSpiral 6 months ago
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yes Sir, the check is in the mail."
boritom 6 months ago 2
I had 1 of these when I was a kid and the damn handle you use to charge it broke right off, so I took a screwdriver and jammed it in the stumb and pumped away.
metalhank 6 months ago
and the guy that does the voice over later was the star of TV show CANNON -William Conrad haha
EMemRefugee 6 months ago
Put a Molotov Coctail on it :D
dxxa95 6 months ago
I want one
AwesomeChadTV 7 months ago
I got one of those when I was five. I don't remember too many toys, but I remember that one. Would be considered too dangerous today because someone would shoot someone in the ear and blow a drum out.
WALDEN88888 7 months ago
rljake so what?
notthatinnocent86 7 months ago
WOW!!!! I had a Zero M when I was a kid. It would fire a burst of air that would knock over a tin can at about 10 to 15 feet. Nowadays, these dumbasses out there would shoot a kid in the ear with it at 2 inches and their parents would sue the company for the kids lack of judgement and their lack of supervision. Kids and their parents today are dumbasses and they can't differentiate between fantasy and reality.
1911HeadBanger 7 months ago
@1911HeadBanger Kids were doing this back then. That's why they took it off the market.
chuckbyf1 2 months ago
i would have just used it for a bazooka if i had had it back in my youth
newkirkshultz 7 months ago
I remember putting a tennis ball in this and shooting my brother in the balls. XD
cacaman100oo 7 months ago
@cacaman100oo I have a felling your brother remembers that too! lol
ilovemartinmilner 7 months ago
I had one of these. "Tremendous roar" is a pretty accurate description. The sucker was deafening.
hippo99x 8 months ago
it looks like a boozka
azzaz691 8 months ago
Yes, kid with the plastic gun.... This mission is critical
sycomania134 8 months ago
Called the Zero 7 in Australia...then they banned it
wolfsige 8 months ago
This is how Snake Plisken (sp) got his start.
VoodooGTR13 8 months ago
why dont they make things like this any more...
DUDlightDeli42 8 months ago
hol-y shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that looks like halo rocket launcher
notthatinnocent86 8 months ago
@notthatinnocent86 You would have to fucking associate a toy from 50-60 years ago with a video game.
rljake2 8 months ago
I could use that for airsoft.
D3RK3 9 months ago
Dangerous toy and the reason I have hearing problems today
sparksmediagr 9 months ago
And it looks like it was all shot in Hollywood's Cahuenga Pass, about a mile from Universal Studios. That's the Hollywood Freeway down below. Somehow, I think if a kid with a bazooka-like device was there today, there'd be a S.W.A.T. team to shoot him down in about one minute.
Vidiot2005 9 months ago
Yes, it's Kurt Russell starring in this commercial. But, you should also recognize the narrator -- William Conrad. In later years, the portly actor played Frank Cannon on the TV series, "Cannon". His other voice work included narrating all the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons.
schladmingman 9 months ago
WTF!!!! I WANT THAT
jackedup447 10 months ago
This thing was GREAT. I got mine for Christmas around.....when I was eight. I shot it off at about 6am that Christmas.....and the BEST THING ABOUT IT was...someone at Mattel forgot to but a safety valve in the air system, so you could pump it up enough to put a softball inside of it.......and shoot it about one hundred yards. I loved it!!! (I think my father had a stroke when I first shot it off, he thought I blew up the house. Good thing I didn't try it out in the living room....)
bckari 11 months ago
Holy shit! How many Decibels is that thing packing. Talk about an unthinkable toy nowadays.
SardaukarPrime 11 months ago
I'd rather see a commercial like this than that stupid as Shamwow guy >:|
TooMuchDesignz 1 year ago
I had one of these when I was a kid. It was my all-time favorite toy. This video understates the noise it made, which was similar to a cherry-bomb.
It broke easily, and had to be cut open for repair, since it was all glued together out of polystyrene. I kept mine functional up through about '74, but it finally went to the landfill. Too bad.
This kid really does look like Kurt Russell, but he would have been 15 in 1966.
dreamdump 1 year ago
@dreamdump I had one of those things as a kid also, I didn't even remember the name of it. I was little and I couldn't even pump it up, my dad had to do it. You are correct that it broke easy, I think mine lasted about 1 week :(
clintonearlwalker 1 year ago
That kid looks like Cert Russel .
ZoidburgNKVD 1 year ago
Kurt fucking Russell! This is ace. 0 M!!!
shitcasecinema 1 year ago
we had one of those too. Dad had to put it away in attic after they banned then. Looked around for it but dont know what ever became of it. Mom might have made him get rid of it.
njdrummer763 1 year ago
Kurt Russel!!
SVMainUS 1 year ago
Om!
eotto2001 1 year ago
Put a cat in it. :D
Dudefish420 1 year ago
It's a terrorist, quick shoot him!
1560438 1 year ago
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Snake Plissken
tharber262 1 year ago
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tharber262 1 year ago
Oh, I had one of those Sonic Blasters, circa 1964-1965. Louder than hell. Mattel had to take them off the market because kids were blowing each other's eardrums out. I agree with TheRebel: if a kid used one of those things today, the cops would shoot first and ask questions later.
Vidiot2005 1 year ago
y dont they still have this shit????
MattsplatX117 1 year ago
Notice that Kurt is playing with his toy bazooka near a highway. If any kid did that today, a dozen people would have called the cops on him and he would have be arrested and implicated in the Columbine Massacre AND 9/11!
TheRebel2007 1 year ago
It's only weakness -- a paperweight.
pendulousphallus 1 year ago
thats a young Kurt Russell before he escaped from new york!!!
erick6371 2 years ago 28
they dont make stuff like this anymore....
AirborneSoviet 2 years ago
This so cool and now he marries to Goldie Hawn
This Air Blaster was cool. There was a Air Balster I believe by Whamoo
TL250Rider 2 years ago
kurt russell
BurgessFilms 2 years ago
man, they even had the orange tips in those days...
SpecialAgentRavage 2 years ago