Ideal Toys Mr Machine 1960 Marvin Glass Design

[musiccrazy42]

I have one of these I'm rich bitch!!!!!!

[hattrick58]

I received one for Xmas one year. My uncle was fooling around with it, dropped and broke it. Don't remember what happened to it after that.

[audiophile55]

Finally! I finally got to hear how he sounded. I distinctly remember that little little grinding sound he made every few seconds, when he'd open his mouth. I wish I still had mine. I got one in 1960 and when I tried to take mine apart and put him back together...that was the end of him. : (

[UHLANDUS]

I got one of these when I was like 3 or 4. Thought it was the most awesome thing ever. One day shortly after I got it I seen it on top of the kitchen refrigerator. My mom said it broke and she needed to send it back to be repaired. I didnt like that but I understood it and disappointingly waited.

I never seen it again. Think it was driving my parents crazy and they returned it to the store, lol

[KillAllCellPhones]

We used to pretend we were Mr. Machines when we were little. We'd march around the playground like that.

[akamarufan501]

um how much is one of these actually worth? i have a vintage still-in-the-box mr. machine, and i need to sell it

[jayeburney]

@akamarufan501

how much? I had one as a kid and I loved it!!!

[jayeburney]

@akamarufan501

how much? I had one as a kid and I loved it!!!

Jayeburney@aol.com

[70jeannie]

I have one and want to sell it. Any offers??? I am in Hemet, Ca. jean.jurkiewicz@yahoo.com

[RandomDudeStuff]

Mr. Machine is the reason I became a mechanical designer! I still have my 1978 re-issue that my grandparents bought for us to have a toy to play with whenever we visited them... Or maybe my folks are the real reason it always stayed at my grand parent's house... Either way, it's a good thing it did otherwise it wouldn't have survived this long...

[dezurtdude2]

@thatguy0864

I got this one on ebay.

[Uglimusashi]

Mine used to whistle.. I guess that was the "70s reissue"? it got on my moms nerves something fierce. I have no idea what happened to it. I think it got buried in my toybox when I discovered Atari. one day I just didnt have it anymore

[dezurtdude2]

@Uglimusashi

Yes, you had the 70's version of Mr. Machine. He whistled and you coudn't take that version apart.

[Picklepimpdaddy]

That thing is F****ing huge!

[lockethegenius]

you guys were easily amused back then huh?

[Tonyolds442]

I had one as a little boy in the 60's . Parents felt bad for me being sick. Threw up all over Mr Machine but Mom cleaned him up. Took him apart and put him back together all the time. We moved in 69 and Mr Machine was never found again in my new home.

[squizzoo]

Was Mr. Machine made in the USA?

It is hard to believe the US could make anything that great.

Anyone know FOR SURE?

[dezurtdude2]

Mr. Machine was made in the early

1960's by the Ideal Toy Corporation in Hollis, New York. Mr. Machine was so popular that they adopted him as their company trademark. Ideal made some great toys. They are now defunct.

[midnightcaller200]

@squizzoo A lot of things were built in the USA back then back then toys had a imgagenion (SP)

[ToyRoom1959]

Great Video!

I see that your toy has the metal wind-up key. Others that I have seen have a blue plastic key.

Are the toys with metal key from the original 60's issue?

And are the ones with the plastic key from the 70's reissue?

[jrotem]

I was a very young girl back then and loved my brother's Mr Machine. I'd take it apart and put it back together all the time... he couldn't . ;)

[thesurfr]

They are worth a million bazillion katrillion dollers!!!!!

[SUPERSAYENNICK]

well i showed my dad his toys and he asked me what the mans name was i said marvin glass and my dad said he heard about him and he said i think hes jewish

[davidls11]

The TV commercial for Mr. Machine said you could take it apart and put it back together again. My mother wouldn't let me because she didn't think I'd be able to reassemble it. I think you can all guess the rest of the story.

[dezurtdude2]

Actually you can take him apart and reassemble him, but Ideal Toy's claim that a kid could do it was far fetched and bordered on false advertising. I've taken this one apart to clean it and it was not the easiest thing to do to reassemble. I've heard dozens of stories that end like yours does, and yes, I was able to guess.

[davidls11]

I also seem to remember commercials showing kids playing with flying toys that didn't actually fly. This was before they were even required to post disclaimers at the end of their ads. Is it any wonder we all turned to drugs in college? :)

[TreborK354]

I had a Mr. Machine around 1961. I was 3 and took Mr. Machine apart. I took a lot of things apart back then - especially mechanical alarm clocks and all the friction toys. I loved to take the little motors out and take them apart to "free" the gears and spin them like tops. Anyway, my father could not get Mr. machine back together either. Luckily my aunt's father had a store in Jamaica NY directly across the street from the Ideal plant so he took the parts back there and they put it together.

[SUPERSAYENNICK]

hey was marvin glass jewish?

[dezurtdude2]

Yes, I believe he was jewish. Why do you ask?

[Madhofd]

that is one noicy piece of cr@p!

[dezurtdude]

This "noisy piece of crap" is worth more than you probably earn in 3 days of work. You are viewing a 48 year old toy and toys back then were designed to be noisy to attract the attention of the child. The noise obviously attracted your attention!!!!

[monkeyroadkill7]

@dezurtdude

Actually, the fact that it looks like a creepified, robotic version of Abraham Lincoln that is going to consume my soul attracted my attention. The noise just attracted my desire to smash it into a thousand pieces

[dezurtdude2]

@monkeyroadkill7

I'm sure many parents in the 60's also wanted to, or did smash Mr. Machine into smithereens. Perhaps, that is why they are so collectible.

[jasonbc69]

i had one of those years ago. wonder what they are $