TOY COMMERCIALS 1950/60's on DVD at TVDAYS.com

[SuperGamesLegend]

These are the lamest, dullest toys EVER. I'm glad I was born in '66 the good toys were just starting to come out!

[puppetmaster983]

Mono ftw.

[TheLafarouch]

3 people dont have the dildo dashbored

[TheHookahDude]

lol 1:55 so it wont burst into flames so it can be played with no attention ? ok

[janknuckey]

Best toy in the world? No question...LEGO, LEGO, LEGO!!! Bit early for that in this ad, but there's never been anything to touch it

[Mysterycat74]

WTF is at 00:34???? A train set you can play with in the water???? That's pretty RANDOM! never thought of an electric train track as a POOL toy!

[skeeterswamp1957]

how I miss these days... life was good.

we never worried about leaving our front doors open at night or locking our cars or staying out late. we was playing tag with the neighborhood. or softball. not indoors under foot.

[moktaihan]

I like those days where big boys played with toys as well :)

[DeviantCandy]

My grandma had that chemistry set and she said she was able to make acid out of it and burned a hole in the floor. LOL

[Lisajo1960]

Ah yes...the days before internet, iPhones, and Playstation, when you actually had toys that were educational. How nice it must have been back then. People could leave their front doors open at night. Kids could play outside without being kidnapped. I wish we could have those days back.

[Battlefieldcom384]

@Lisajo1960 Im mad i wasnt a kid in the 50's

[tigerboy1227]

what did they say? i was too busy looking at the toys

[ammisty]

this when tots were made here in USA .when toy makers care how safe were.not know the only how make cheaper like makeing in china and chinese people don't care about American kids,When Americans make toys for American kids there kids could play then without worry about kids getting harm from toys made by americans

[CrazyForVideos21]

this is awesome

[reinruof66]

If they came out with that hot house toy today the kids would growing weed in it. LOL

[Goingbeach]

That airplane dashboard toy at :30 is the one I never got!!!!

anybody remember it's name?

I guess i was too naughty! lol

[MELDtoys]

Grandparents! take the grandkids to the independent hobby shops and build a kit with them!

[14luisalonso]

00:35 "today's highly exaggerating selling techniques" Dude has nooooo idea...

[DasGreenCow]

oh my!!!! Electric train in the tub! Thats smart.

[cashdoggplayer]

dude at 1:11 i remember playing with that toy on the very left! its the bowling game. im only 16 now but my dad had that and he passed it down to me.

[hellhathnofury151]

check out the second article at :58

[pdogone1]

for me mattel was the big one wish i still had them! toys today seem so lame and cheap just my take

[imajika2]

I want that serenade record player with the doll! The 'make your own perfume' kit looks pretty cool too!

[Sheri451]

Whatever you do, don't put crayons on a radiator.They still make the Play Doh handle thing. They couldn't sell that bowling toy now, it's too much of a choking hazard. I used to have that clock. It played a song about an old man. I bet that bagpipe thing didn't last. That doodle dashboard is what a little boy I knew had. Grown ups love Model Cars.

[per437]

can u please give me the toy manufacures list that was in this video

per437

thank u

[terieber]

@theesixtiesguy: These weren't the top ten toys of all time or anything. They were the new toys that year which were submitted to Popular Mechanics for testing. I'm sure PM wanted to showcase most anything 'gadget-y' regardless of how dumb it was (the bagpipes...)

[ChineseGangStalker]

Trust us, the record player was a-ok when we dropped it.

Bobby, put on your play suit!

[NoxNoctisUmbra]

every kid had a suit on TV.. today normal clothes..

[LizardMe1]

I loved the Fact Finder game. I had forgotten all about it until I saw this video. Thanks for bringing back memories.

[welder541]

I wanted that eldon bowling game at christmas one year badly as a young boy, but i never got it , Dat gum it. Got a really COOL large size gilbert erector set instead, Yes santa was good that year. My best friend got an odd ogg and i can still remember well, going over on christmas day and playing with it with him. Thanks for rekindleing some cherished childhood memories:):):):)

[MediaWatchDawg]

I get the "feeling" some of this was shot at an orphanage.

[rippedwrangler]

Pretty typical of documentaries during this period. Popular mechanics didn't dare show any toys that actually FAILED the tests and tick off the manufacturers. That could affect ad revenues to Hearst Publishing's other publications. Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I don't think so.

[GenXer68]

The bowling game was pretty sweet what with the pin sweeper and all.

[thesixtiesguy]

Some observations. These are not toy commercials. How did "Plastic vegetable garden" and "Kenner Scotty bagpipes", and Little Garden electric greenhouse" make the top 10 toys? The Play Doh 3D Toy molder bacame the "Fun Factory".

I had an Odd Ogg and a Big T. Well. Gotta go. Can't wait to play with my plastic vegetable garden. Hours of action.

[rosmia2]

I had the Remco Bulldog Tank. It was awesome! Only took 6 D flashlight batteries!!

[theshadow1932]

The Big T is still on the market, actually. I've just bought one. Revell is doing it, these days. 'Got my first one for Christmas, 1963, when I was just about the age of the kid in the film. Great memories.

I remember the Scottie Bagpipe, too. God, how the parents must have loved THAT! Fortunately, the bag was just cheap plastic and didn't last too long!

Norm

[petulia68]

Must have been a bummer to find that Fact Finder game under the tree - kind of like getting a calculator .....

[ArizonaDelRio]

So... what did black people get to play with?

[cerealguy500]

That shortwave radio kit looks like it would be pretty fun to build.

[woodstock061]

why didnt i have cool shit like that when i was little?

[trogie6969]

10:55 "little girls like to tinker and experiment too"

[JTPolo101]

I couldn't imagine any of my kids playing with these today. But we had a ball with them.

I loved making things with Play Doh

[Snipereye64]

9:20, the dildo dashboard??

[azzaz691]

@Snipereye64 thats what she said

[mrbe5a1r]

The opening scenes showing boys being boys, riding rocking horses and shooting toy rifles, bopping punching dummies -- That's the trouble with American schools in the 21st Century: Boys are being feminized to the point where they don't measure up to girls in school anymore, not like they used to. Bring back boyhood and recess. If girls are to emerge as academically superior, so be it, but let boys be boys, and don't suppress them. Consider the writings of Glenn Sacks and Warren Farrell.

[Cris7naldo]

That Bowling toy looks pretty cool for something made back in the 50s.

[fabioproductions]

I saw the airplane landing toy wow that is soo neat

[generationboom]

The Scottie Bagpipe- guaranteed to drive any parent bonkers in 3.5 seconds!

[nickwalco]

it drove me crazy in the first second lol

[mabhekaphansi]

Now you know why parents act as they do ...

[nermalnermal]

"...examined by a panel of experts" *shows a bunch of kids rolling toys around on the floor*

[phillitupp]

11:30 to 11:35 look at the girl they so told her to smile a bit more LOL cool toy's

[HappyFace2231]

dude these toys look like so much freaking fun!!!!!!!!!

[StormRisingOriginal]

Walmart, Target, HEB, KBtoys, they all don't carry scale models anymore. Sucks, no kids want to build their toys anymore.

[ljcteehee]

I realized this the other day! I was looking for a model kit in ToysRUs and could not find one anywhere!

[LostInSpaceRobot]

@StormRisingOriginal no there in front of a computer all the time.

[LostInSpaceRobot]

@StormRisingOriginal /no there in front of a computer all the time playing games.Toys R Us don't carry models anymore either.

[jenzeppelin]

@StormRisingOriginal Mine does! I get him old kits. It's fantastic! Get it to them while they're young enough as they have fun with anything and everything is exciting to them. This is a retro household in every way. Old cartoons, old toys, old books, old games, old music. But of course he still does some of the new stuff on the side so he's up to date with his peers, lol.

[zombiehunters258]

@StormRisingOriginal well they have legos

[azzaz691]

@StormRisingOriginal no we dont thats why i play gta4 i get to kill hundreds not fucking assemble shitty ass china toys im not a sweat shop labor 12 year old from china

[StormRisingOriginal]

@azzaz691 I made models as a kid. Now I make video games like GTA, some just play all day, some make something.

[azzaz691]

@StormRisingOriginal true true

[ironman5454]

Unreal - 'Safety"'is listed LAST ! Those were the days - metal dashboards, no seat belts, smoke,smoke,smoke & eat everything with sugar - gives you 'energy' ! Toys that burnt & cut little kids left & right (I and a few) and 'safety' was the last concern ! I'll never forget getting my finger damn near amputated with an open geared electric Erector Set motor or shorting out my HUGE Lionel transformer and the rug burning. No helmets or pads - but we had fun damn it !

[Manwithjeep]

Thank God they labelled the Heat Test booth.

And come on! Children, water and electricity? That's just wrong.

I do like the doll drop test though.

That scotty bag pipe wouldn't last 5 minutes in our house.

[fredynek3]

Damn how mutch bullshit could they put up with...

[SWTPEA64]

Boy,would i love one of those toys :)