Great Garloo commercial ( Marx 1961 )

[alldane1]

"I love you Great Garloooooooooooo!!!!" ;)

[loufalce]

Japanese moster movie

[macarthur19]

commies

[maureencora1]

I was 3 to 13 years old and I Love Christmas of the 1960s Thanks for the Post.

[affectivity]

this thing scared the hell out of me when I was a kid!

[SIGNALSTAT]

friend of mine when we were kids got one at christmas. the thing went crazy tore up the living room and ripped the christmas tree into shreds.

[650bigal]

How cool, a toy that destroys other toys. "Throw your big brother's Lionel train into the bathtub, rip Barbie's head off, fun for all...!"

[ibm5150]

at first i read "Greta Garvo by marx"... oO

[Craiglaca1]

Lets see 17.99 in today's money would be what 120.00 or so. Good luck in seeing that under the Christmas tree.

[crownprussian]

@jwallbanger The only thing "complex" concerning you is your extra chromosome. So enjoy your sad existence. You are dismissed.

[cre8tivly1]

Christmas 1961 my parents bought both Great Garloo and Robot Commando for 2 siblings. I never realized how much they paid for those toys back then......amazing!

[kitn64]

that girl kisses great garloo, and in the next shot she looks like she just had the big O.

[jwallbanger]

Have you noticed that both Big Loo and The Great Garloo have black people faces? Very similar to the racist cartoon black people of the times too. They are both "servant" robots with African American faces! Marx toy company was keen to capitalize on the racist views of the time.

[Navyfoots]

@jwallbanger Does everyone have to turn everything into an attack on white people? Society is sick. This is a TOY. (And people could call you equally as racist for insinuating there is such a thing as a "black face."

[jwallbanger]

@Navyfoots Now that's just ridiculous. Acknowledging obvious appearance differences among racial lines has absolutely NOTHING to do with racism. Would I also be racist for saying black people have dark skin? Or that native americans lack facial hair? You're just looking for something to get me on and coming up FAIL.

[Navyfoots]

@jwallbanger I won't allow you to hijack this video anymore. If you chose to come back again with a babyish comment like "come up fail" I won't even be looking anyway. You're just making yourself look childish and sanctimonious. Good day.

[jwallbanger]

@Navyfoots I guess I win the argument, since that's not a real response.  Hijack the video? Another ridiculous statement. Enjoy your blissful ignorance, at the expense of those of us with actual brains.

[crownprussian]

@jwallbanger "Black people faces"? Wow...you have just insulted every black person alive...way to go.

[jwallbanger]

@crownprussian Um, no. Here let me try to explain it in kindergarten terms for you guys....Different races of people look different, they all have distinguishing characteristics that make them well, their own race. This is not a bad thing, it's just mother nature.

In the 60's and earlier, it was culturally acceptable to make exaggerated cartoon faces of black people and use them in ads, cartoons, etc. This WAS racist, but common and accepted. I was merely pointing this out on this old toy.

[crownprussian]

@jwallbanger Hardly kindergarten terms, which, by the way, may be needed for a person of YOUR caliber, but hardly for Us. Just keep on insulting everyone...show them what your made of...

[jwallbanger]

@crownprussian Still too complex for you? Here, um, try this: See spot. See spot run...

And no more counter-bullshit for me? I guess my work is done here.

[jwallbanger]

@crownprussian Oh and thanks for the troll trophy on my comment page. Very nice addition to my collection.

[crownprussian]

@jwallbanger Glad you enjoyed it! As a "reverse troll" (one who causes trouble and see who bites) you should be highly satisfied. However, you have grown boring, and somewhat tiresome. You are dismissed. Good Day.

[jwallbanger]

@crownprussian Well at least, as your comment suggests, I was interesting at first, whereas you never were at all. Yes and thank you for dismissing me, Officer Fucklips.

[cr3861]

Feed him enough Italian, and he becomes the Great "Garlic." OK, OK, you can stop groaning

[fliegeroh]

Didn't sell too well as I remember.

[ededketra1]

GREAT GARLOO

[professortheremin]

I knew John Seely's music was used in Marx toy commercials, but Herschel Gordon Lewis' music, too?????

[SalsaDad1]

@djerwulfe not true. I had one and I wasn't super rich.

[jrndk]

"Minature city sold separately"

[shinkashank]

when my dad was a kid, he would serve drinks with this at parties

[Tibor0991]

0:42 "Time for a blowjob, my master..."

LOL!

[InteriorCommando]

Don't forget to set fire to your toy train layout kids!!!

[Navyfoots]

@InteriorCommando LOL it's so true! Nowadays they'd have to have subscript for "trains not included" and "do not attempt at home."

[SteveCarras]

Nice hearing the Capitol stock cues that Ideal Toys, Mattel Toys, Hanna-Barbera, Columbia and others used. Phillip Green composed those. The voice at the end sounds like charatcer actor H.Peary - radio's The Great Gildersleeve.Hanna-Barber'as Quick Draw and Super Snooper popularixed those stock cues, both currently availbale from Carlin Archives..!

[olddude521]

All this battery operated over sized Marx Mega toys always came out at Christmas.

You would see endless commercials for toys like this or something as crazy as the

5 foot battery operated aircraft carrier by Remco.Back in those days, they also told you the price of the toy. Always too much. you knew not to ask for it. Then after Christmas, you never saw these toys again.

[nauris708]

i like how he brought the kid a cup of whatever

[wolfmantip]

He was Cool But Not as Cool as BIG LOO.

[inkey2]

this was 17 bucks?......that was a hell of alot of money back then. For most kids that would be equivilant to over 17 weeks of their allowance in the early 60s

[kyolym]

WORTH ABOUT $300.00 TODAY

[majorferret]

@kyolym ,garloo is worth alot more than 300.00.you might be able to get a non working one for that much,but not one in good condition and working.

[Navyfoots]

@majorferret There's one in the box currently going on eBay for $1500 OBO. I kid you not.

[1484ish]

To Cell9Song You are right! that thing( Garloo) scared the hell out of me when I was a kid!!! LOL!!!

[2degucitas]

Garlic the mighty, garlic the untamed! Who can control that obnoxious smell?? YOU can!!!

[Petemonster62]

I wonder if anyone dressed up like the Great Garloo for Halloween?

[youbastardnufff]

The most monstrous thing is the faggy ass sandals this thing is wearing

[Horseshowchamp]

But will it blend?

[Blooderfly12]

My dad still had his and I'm pretty sure it was his favorite toy ever.

[CaptainScarlet2006]

The most horrible toy i ever seen.

[m8ar]

18 dollars in 1961 was Huge chuck of change.We were really poor and these high end toy commercials would drive me crazy( I was 9 years old in 1961)

[ExpertOfSound]

@m8ar

thanks for that :D

How much, in comparison to now, was 18 dollars back then?

[elc1960]

The Great Garloo - but don't play with him on carpeted floors! Clearly from the age of linoleum. That price tag was pretty steep back in the day. (I'm guessing 1959 or 1960?)

[TheZepmeister]

Wonder how many kids wrecked their train sets? Lol

[strafrag1]

That really was scary and my parents would have killed me if I did that to my electric trains!

[firewall50]

I had one of these, it was great!!!! My sister was afraid of it.

[kiwkee]

she kisses it? WOW - buy a dozen, put them on your front porch, and scare the shit out of the neighbors

[rondini2]

MY grandfather was a toy distributor. I had a Garloo. The most awesomest thing ever



[elc1960]

There's that same announcer again! 0:36 - "Hey Sis! Stop frigging slobbering all over Garloo or I'll tell Mom!" Damn, what a creepy looking toy.

[junkieinformant]

17 bucks? I'll give you 50 cents

[Membrane556]

That had to been so awesome back in 1961 since it could pickup things.

[needtashow]

we had this when we were kids..loved it - even after it started walking around by itself ,which really scared the hell out of us

[7DARKHELLS]

AWESOME!

[choirboyfromhell1]

The official mascot of sub-organists everywhere.

[BigBlackWolf89]

i have my dads i have the madallion hangin from a piece of string. but im tryin to get it to work. Needs sum tlc

[cantopia]

I still have mine. It developed a crack up its left torso seam and it went in a box in the attic. I still remember the first time I saw the ad on TV. I could not believe how cool the commercials were, by my standards at 9. $17.95 was really a lot of money then. I had a birthday coming and my mom asked if I wanted a bunch of little presents or one big present, which kind of signaled that they were going to spring for it. It worked extremely well, which was not the case with "Robot Commando."

[TomRoykouffVideos]

I'd love to have

a fully functioning Great GaLoo myself!

Why?

Because The Great GaLoo Rules!

[newjerseybt]

Sounds like the narrator is Claude Kirschner of Terrytoon Circus. He did many Marx commercials. (not Karl)

[yumyumsashimi]

I remember my pops bought out a toy store that was closed down and we must of had half a dozen of these and tons of other toys I remember this most of all because we beat the hell out of him with bats on our stingrays shot him up with our daisy bb rifles! The good old days My pops still has alot of the toys in the attic.

[GREATGARLOO1]

Yeah, my little sister did not like this guy at all...of course I made the situation worse by sending it towards her all the time...she was about 3 at the time....

[propatria431]

How many nightmares did this ugly bastard create? Remember kids, he's in your closet....so don't fall asleep or make him mad!

[mbluetyphoon]

I absolutely would not leave the store my parents and I were at until I was taking this big guy home! I made such a scene! I was 2. Garloo was my absolute favorite toy for a number of years, as well as Odd Ogg, and a Snoopy Sniffer pull toy made of a solid piece of wood with a pasted on lithograph of a beagle. Then, I went onto Barbie, Ken, Skipper, Real Live Lucy, and, finally, Chrissy. If I had all these toys today, my brother (at 45) would still murder me for them! : )

[n0gar]

This is a wild and kind of scary looking toy. I did not know that they had advanced toys like that back then! How did this toy do? This is the first I ever heard of this.

[dezurtdude]

It was fantastic to be a kid in the 60's with all of the cool toys, that by today's standards, would be considered unsafe or politcally incorrect. Check out my vids for demonstration of some of those great old toys.

[MARKLAR51]

Ran the C.P.I inflation calculator for Garloo. $17.95 in 1961 = $129.87 today. Guess that's why we didn't get one for Christmas back in the day.

[beatlebrian]

I loved that toy, and was my favorite Christmas present back in 1961.

[Fiftiesflashback]

This is one I never got for Christmas and I wanted GARLOO so bad! At $17.98 it was a little steep for us in 1961. Now the prices for an example in even poor on eBay are still way beyond my budget, even if you can find one. Oh, well...next lifetime, I guess.

[SgtRock57]

That was one creepy toy...yeeesh! I liked Big Lou better.

[mrkrinkle72]

arrrgh! my god my cousin had that thing in the back of his closet and just seeing it made my blood run cold!

[ilcooper]

I can't believe it..I had one and I really really wanted one so badly. Wow I can't believe this commercial is here

[w9jim]

I had one of those. Scared the crap out of me!

[rockergirl83]

Ugliest thing Ive ever seen, but I definitely would have played with it.

[Singingsal17]

I had a ball with this thing. I had the Kenner road set, erector set and would have this Garloo destroy the whole town...except the church....there was no video games so we needed to use our imaginations

[zingarelle7]

LMAO --I had this as a kid!

[somenonimportantguy]

Watch the pleading look in his eyes when he is forced to be a slave to these children. But he'll show them, HE'LL SHOW THEM ALL!

[booperkitty]

I got chased buy this toy when i was 2 years old by 1 of my sisters 6 years older than me and finally i stoped and shook handes with it ..and then i ripped its head off when they werent looking!!! Pissed off..i dont like to be chaced!!! LOL!!!

[xolta11]

I kind of want one

[SueBeaWho]

xolta11 hahaha yeah cool lol

[Knickinator]

Only 17.98???? WHOOOAAAAAAHH

[fuckiraq12]

damn i remember that shiit.when i was a little boy way back in the day. (i am a girl now)

[loumag7]

ODD OGG Half turtle and half frog. I thought I was the only one who remembered that toy!

[Utopiuh]

that shit must have sold like crazy, i would have got one

[SteveCarras]

Love the John Seely music cues used back then..the Garloo music and the final cue music, from from "Snooper and Blabber" and "My Trhee Sons",etc. is by light music legend Phillip Green, and is par tolf the famosu hub stock music library used by many, from Jerry Fairbanks to Nickelodeon a d even Disney.And Colbumia Screen Gems,of course.

[DemonicRemption]

What? Have You ever seen a "Beanie" doll before? Those things are creepy!

[satweavers]

APB - The difference between toy design then and now: today the manufacturers follow trends established by popular culture. Back then the trends existed, but the small-minded Execs side stepped the opportunity for lisencing deals with the studios and other creative teams. Instead, they decided to "save money" by keeping the entire process in-house and came up with abominations like "Great Galoo" and "Odd Ogg". I don't know what your problem is, but I seem to have touched a very tender spot.

[satweavers]

This commercial highlights the tragedy of Corporate Execs trying to cash in on "the young people's obsession with monsters" without having a CLUE about what was cool. As a kid, I watched that commercial and shook my head in disgust.

[ryree6567]

wow over 17 bucks that couldve bought a car back then

[dapoetmaster]

The Klaus Kinski monster toy.

[tridentum]

I had one as a youth. They don't make em' like that anymore.

[diddymuck]

essentially a striped down robot commando

[combo1724]

GARLOO JAM BAND!!!

[dizyootum]

was great to be a kid in the 60's

[BigDAS]

This was the commercial that made the sales. Marx finally capitalized on the Godzilla franchise by showing Garloo trashing miniature cities. I had hours of fun making Garloo terrorize my American Flyer train layout.

[BigDAS]

P.S. If you want one of these, you can buy them on EBay for from $300.00 to $600.00 price range.

[bigkahuna1961]

My brother used to use this thing to scare the crap out of me...he bought one on ebay for me and it sits in my living room as a 'fond' memory!!!

[musicmann1967]

I had one when i was a kid and it was my most memorable Christmas present ever. Didn't last very long before it broke, but I never forgot it. 2'tall was a pretty big toy for a 5 year old!!! yeeesh! And what a face on that thing!I loved it. : )

[garloo2]

i am the GREAT garloo2? ohhhhh yeaaaaaaa

[OxBigly]

thing looks satanic

[addyroth]

Who can control this monstrous creature? You can, kids!

[cell9song]

No sane child would want that f*cking creepy thing staring out into the dark bedroom when they were trying to sleep.

[TCMHitchhiker]

Sanity has always been overrated. ;)

[Thekockyroach3]

touche

[CheesyPanda1]

I agree!

Im 10 and I like that it can actually pick up things. It has a friendlier face than the Hulk toys out now and it has better self control. LOL!

Great things out of the old past.

Thanks for posting this vid.

It makes the past alive and a lot like today.

[DemonicRemption]

I know whatcha mean, my dad had one of which only the head remained, and that creeped out both me and my brother when we were preparing to move to Dallas, well that an the "Beanie" doll..

[DUSTYBASS]

@cell9song You sound like a product of two mommies, probably slept with a night light.

[MesterYT]

@cell9song

Speak for yourself, you little pussy.

Afraid of a toy, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[fractionstein]

I had one!

[1484ish]

@cell9song You are right about that that thing, (Garloo) scared the hell out of me when I was a kid

[mmangum4444]

@cell9song

lol!! (and so true).

[Mrgrauadler]

@cell9song When I was 4 years old, my cousin got this toy. I can still remember how he tortured me with it. It was horrifying.

[GonzoGuyy]

@cell9song I do not recall this toy. However I would have wanted one. I loved creepy stuff, and still do.

[SteveCarras]

That familiar music is from "Snooper and Balbber' form HB and was compsoed by Phil Green, and licensed to John Seely Producitons at Capitol. Heard recently in Boo-Boo and the man!

[johnh23]

$17.98 xpensive for the times.. I never got one

[michael2B]

I got a knock off from the Electricians Union party and it smoked cigarettes!

[WalleyTV]

$17.99 would be like those $79 Toy Robosapiens today.

[lichensimplex]

I did, but I wish I had 10 of them. I'd be very wealthy today

[psychospeakempire]

I had one. The best Christmas present I ever got as a kid!

[harpo103]

I still have mine. Marx made the BEST stuff!!!

[fromthesidelines]

Claude Kirschner, "the voice of Marx Toys" in the '60s {and the legendary "Ringmaster" of "SUPER CIRCUS"}, is the announcer.

[sweetiecinny]

I saw this going for $1000.00 with the box at the Antique Toy Show in Illinois this past May.

[tktseller]

My husband had one as a child. He put his initials on the bottom of it. About 10 years ago, he saw it in a window display and asked the store owner to turn it over, sure enough, his initials were there.

[cheaprelative]

kiss the monster. lol

[benjaminthefox]

Love how the girl's first instinct is to kiss the darn thing.

[dezurtdude]

Yes, she kissed him because his namesake is hidden under his loin cloth! Now you know why they call him "The Great Garloo"!

[AliasUndercover]

Wow, $18 back in '61? Wasn't that, like, a month's rent?

[psychospeakempire]

My parents' apartment rent for one month in the Bronx, NYC back then was $40.00. So this price was pretty high for back then. I had one though. The greatest Christmas present I ever got as a kid. I saw one a couple of years ago on for sale and it was $650.00. About half a month's average rent.

[ashtonlionheart]

Lol he has bling

[pocketmego]

A toy very much inspired by old AIP Roger Corman drive-in flicks!