Early 1970's Star Trek Toy TV Commercial Mego

[dst257]

Nope, not a cell phone, it's something we used to call a walkie-talkie.

If you see a war movie covering WWII or Korea, you may see what looks like an extra large green brick with a projection they speak into. When I was a kid, they made toy versions with MUCH less power & range [FCC regulations].

But Star Trek Communicators? HA! These were walkie-talkies with a cover stuck on the front.

[If you can FIND a set though, they are probably so rare as to be worth a fortune.]

[dst257]

@dst257 oh, almost forgot:

Live Long & Prosper.

lol

[robotech6886]

You're less than 1,300 feet away, but I can't see you! Send me a signal!

Man I always wanted this toy but I never got it. Had a Stingray bicycle, though!

[coindude49801]

Wow memories...but 1,300 feet, LMAO?, those things could not penetrate drywall

[southport97]

@coindude49801 Yeah you'd be lucky if you got 100 feet on a clear day.

[thegreatbungholio21]

I want a pair! I would like to see what a set of these would go for at a Star Trek convention.

[timpriddy73]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BY THE FRONT YARD RETARD

[alwrig]

They're dressed-up walkie talkies!

[oldschoolbx1970]

My uncle used to have these joints. I now don't know what he did with them. Lol.

[usaeagle1776]

i stil have those after all those years.

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

"Captain, there's been a death." "The guy wearing the red jersey?" "Yes, Captain. How did you know?" "The guy wearing the red jersey dies every episode. Don't worry about it."

[sickphil71]

Ah, yes, I had these and the phasers. Man, they were so crappy by today's standards--they barely resembled what was on TV.

[visor109]

"I don't want to hang out with you when this is over!"

"When this is what, Brian?"

[aquaristic]

I had a set of these when i was a kid too!!

[cowellwannabe71]

"I'm giving your bicycle everything she's got,Captain!"

[rf396]

Kevin this is Scott, Kevin this is Scott do you hear me? Over and out. Over and OUT??? He's calling for the other kid AND signing OFF at the same time? WTF?? LOL

[Draknfyre]

@rf396

That's an extremely common error in anything with a radio. It is perpetuated by movies and TV shows which use the phrase.

[rf396]

@Draknfyre Yeah I know Im just being a little literal jackass. A hobby of mine lol

[sirvegeta]

@rf396 rofl. Best comment ive seen in a while. had me loling IRL.

[rf396]

@sirvegeta whats REALLY funny is "range 1300 feet" at 1300 feet one kid couldnt SEE the other? he needed this walkie talkie to find him? Man these were some DUMB kids

[inkey2]

@rf396 yeah, and thats 1300 feet unobstructed and in a straight line. In actual distance it would be more like 200 feet

[johnbubbanewsdude]

I had a set of these. Remember they interfered with CB signals. My mom got there once and said 'Redbird this is Bluebird" and some guy said "Who in the hell is Bluebird?" Good times, good times.

[rf396]

@johnbubbanewsdude thats because all walkie talkies of THAt day (boy am I old) broadcast on the frequency used by CB channel 14

[inkey2]

@johnbubbanewsdude well its not that they interfere with CB signals because they were designed to be on CB frequencies. Thats really the only band something like that could have been on back then

[rf396]

Yes they operated on what was then Channel 14 but at such a low power level youd have to be OUTSIDE a guys house with YOUR anttena touching HIS and then MAYBE he would hear you LOL

[inkey2]

@rf396 LOL...i remember the real cheap walkie talkies....what I noticed about most of these cheapos is that they recieved far better than they transmitted

[skipdillard]

remember them well...wow what memories...those toys were tough to come by back then...

[FiendsInRedSatin1]

Wasn't there also a Star Trek toy that allowed you to see where the walkie talkies were on a screen?

[afanofoldradio]

1300 feet!!! that's damned near half a mile!!!

[towringer]

Wow, I remember those walkie talkies. I was 11 back in 1975. Didn't have one, but I had the Mego ST Tricorder and that banana-seat bike. If Scott needed a hand patching up the bike tire or putting the chain back on, I could've helped like I did for my kid brother.

[spacecowboy5000]

Holy crap! I had these! Except mine were this ugly baby blue. Still, me and my friends got into lotsa trouble with them.

[MegaBaustelle]

hey so sah mein erstes Motorola Handy aus :-D

[savere2006]

I had these. They were fun.

[morikahjo]

so what i'm wondering is, After his friend got there to help him with his bike...exactly what did he do? I'm sure his friend knew little more about bike-fixing then he did...

[joeyvader]

@morikahjo  I never thought of that...

[JP5466]

I had these!

[davidls11]

I don't remember Kirk's having a telescoping antenna.

[nextgeneration456]

I want one

[minimaluhftv]

I had them :) and I remember they came set to ch14 on cb! I met allot of people then thru it. now at 41 I'm a ham radio operator and thanks to them, I met a club dj that was on cb radio cause of him today I'm a dj/producer of dance music, and own a fm radio station. Those days were simple and fun.

73s

[Shufei]

@minimaluhftv I recall alot of simple handheld CB radios had set crystals for channel 14. (I had a Tandy 3 channel walkie talkie in the 80's; it came with channel 14 and space for two optional crystals.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe 14 was also the official "calling channel" as assigned by the FCC back in the semi-regulated days of the early 1960's-70's. I've often wondered if there was some connection. Do you know if this was mandated channel at some point?

73's, and back quiet.

[WOWJBEOWULF]

I had the Star Trek walkie talkies and the Star Trek phaser rifle; it was great fun, I really liked Star Trek. I had an entire fantasy of boldly going where no man has gone before to phaser them; this was before puberty, thus I did not understand the short skirts until much later for the lusty spacemen; but I did understand space cowboy, and we phaser everything with the communicator alert as I watched every battle scene. Fun times.

[woodsleeps]

@WOWJBEOWULF Perfect grammar and diction.

Oh what a fraud you are.

[HaraldTheTalker]

I had these walkie talkies in the mid 70's when I was a kid. Would love to have them now

[wdm1219]

Ah, simpler times when parents weren't so afraid to let their kids outside to play. Such simple pleasures. How I long for those days.

[v4552]

I still remember hearing that tracking signal ^.^

[TheSection25]

OMG, I loved these when I was a kid !!

[MattTheSaiyan]

Do any companies still sell walkie-talkies? They were a lot more fun than mobile phones, if much less practical.

[inkey2]

@MattTheSaiyan as far as your question " do any companies still sell walkie-talkies?"....yes.....bu­t today they are just hand held CB sets with 40 channels on them instead of just one. Radio shack, Midland and a few other companies still make them. I really miss the era of CB. When I couldn't sleep at night I would switch on the CB and there was always something interesting going on....usually some feud going on, lot of idle threats etc....it was hilarious

[rf396]

oh is THAT the truth!!!! LOL My friends and I started OUT all official and polite. Till we figured out that it was alot more fun to ruin the adults good time lol. Boy the threats that were made...ahahahhahhahahaa. Good times for sure. Pulling all nighters in the summer and actually watching TV stations SIGN OFF! Then watching them come back on at dawn. Damn I want my life back. Anybody got a time machine?????

[inkey2]

@rf396 my favorite thing was to listen to all the feuds going on......the most common threat I used to hear was...."I am going to find you and bring an army of friends to your house and rip your antenna down dragging your CB with it"...or other variations of that...........The constant real life threats is what made CB so fun. It was like a thousand Howard Stern's were on all at once....it was vile, crude & childish, and that was just fine with me

[TheNewVideos]

I think, it did not work very well, right? maybe 20 meters

[savere2006]

I got these walkie talkies one xmas. lol.

[Perktube1]

I remember ordering mine from the back of a comic book.

[DevSodDribble]

Wow, man, its the original cell phone. ;D

[Ashtaroth0083]

and it's motorola too

[Philflash]

Anyone remember the Aurora model set, communicator, tricoder, and phaser?

[luke19631963]

@Philflash Yes I had one of those model sets as a kid. Also had a model of the enterprise and klingon star ships.

[korg13]

I had a blue set they also had a black set you had to order. They were better than the next gen set.

The TOS walkie talkies range was almost a mile or more, the NG set range was 30 ft.

[ASH6977]

i also had a set when i was a kid.was heartbroken when dad come home and parked car in driveway over one of the walkie's..:( unlike spoiled kids today mine were never replaced..double frown :( :(

[ocerg1111]

@ASH6977 im as old as you, I had these when I was a kid too. But dad replacing something he broke isnt a child being spoiled, its a dad being responsible for his actions ;)

[sammyal14]

Retarted

[babyinblack]

coool they're huge but they're still cool because they're star trek, id like the new version of the toy, if there is one. lol.

[waffleownage]

diamond select has the best cheep communicator toy, and you can find it in most toys r us stores

[savere2006]

This brings back memories. I had this toy.

[gardenvarietypenis]

oh, they were loud!

[bklynboy9999]

I had a set of these when I was a kid. One worked and the other only received but did not transmit. I remember the guy at the store complaining as he went through about a dozen sets to find two that worked together. He said that most of them had to be returned to Mego. I suppose one was set to the wrong channel since they were just Channel 14 walkie-talkies. Ah, to be an ignorant kid again!

[ObiTrev]

You'll be amazed how diffrent they look from the ones featured on the show!

Who wants to talk to their freind by simply speaking into the device? NEW PUSH TO TALK FEATURE makes pressing buttons FUN!

[tellshiar]

I know what you mean. I just bought a command console and it looks nothing like the commercial. . . but it's still cool!

[chabba77]

That voiceover sounded like Leonard Nimoy himself.

[Ogma01]

Not only did I own these as a kid, my name is Scott and my best friend (who remains my best friend to this day) is Kevin! (and no, we weren't the kids in the commercial, but I KNOW we played with those damn walkies as kids)!

[username1105]

lol those things are GIGANTIC!And the antennas are as long as the kids.lol

[username1105]

lol those things are GIGANTIC! And the antennas are as long as the kids!

[visor109]

"Twin warp sound"? LOL!

[irvinetustin]

I had these when I was a kid. I thought they were something really special until I figured out they're just walkie-talkies.