Kenner SSP Smashup Derby TV Commercial 1973

[spindlecrackey]

no this was a kickass post!...i never forgot that song, awesome thanks!!

[elc1960]

My friends and I didn't waste our time with this - we used our Matchbox, Johnny Lightning and Hot Wheels cars instead! We called our stupid little contests "Car Wrestling" (after a concept we saw in an episode of "Speed Racer"). They took a long time to break, but when they did we laughed. Idiots that we were, we now look at the vintage cars we had and have to fight back tears at all the money we could have gotten for them had we kept them intact and sold them on eBay. God, were we stupid.

[elc1960]

@odantoro Thanks for your response. The tears I shed over the cars I wrecked were caused purely by the capitalist in me, while the laughter over the wrecks was due to the sheer fun we had in our destructive little acts . . . having had time to think about it since my original comment, I would have to agree with you. We did have loads of fun.

[Trund27]

My brother had these and we would take little home movies of them smahing up, or running over a fully articulated GI Joe doll!

[smashmaximus]

I have the largest collection of these on the planet!!! Theyre featured on Kenner UK website check it out!!!!

[shelbb123]

I was a kid then so yep ,,,I cracked em up! and I BURNED THEM UP, BLEW THEM UP (with M 80s) after all that, I Gave them up!

[answerstolucky]

'comes with everything you see rightcheer.' haha

[Cryten1974]

LoL, I had this when I was a kid, sideboards still have the dints in them from where the cars smashed into them

[yemyrrej]

I got this set when I was a kid. I think I played with them every time the commercial aired. They eventually broke into pieces that wouldn't go back together. They sure were tough, though. The only childhood toys I have from that era are my tonkas. More steel than my new car.

[classicphile]

I remember this commercial airing when I was a little kid in the 1970s. Damn, but I wanted this toy. My family was dirt poor and we couldnt afford store bought toys advertised on tv like this one. My toy collection pretty much consisted of mis-matched odds and ends, bits and pieces, that were handed down to me by friends, or found in the streets somewhere, etc. Toy commercials, like this one (and being a big watcher of tv, I saw thousands of them), only served to torture me.

[annoyingfeatures]

protest to jasmin toys (they make smash up derby now) to remake smash up derby like it used to be and not with suvs like they do now

[magnacore11]

I've had the later version of these toys...from about 1982

Kick ass product!

[overcum1]

I lost track of the cars, but kept the ramps and used them when I started collecting Evel Knievel!

[worldoftone]

Oh yeah, got this one for Christmas 1973. HA HA! Loved it!

[apatheticempathy]

I collect these RARE vintage toys. I have some for sale, contact me at:

ert113 @ hotmail. com

Just take out spaces above

[pav777tube]

I remember my parents would step on the pieces barefoot early in the morning.Good times

[BuStFaCe]

I had that.

[MyThrillKillKult]

wow its 1974 thanks

[buzzlewie]

Thanks for posting the smash up derby set, I found the set myself, and now have the orange truck and orange VW. I have so much fun that my wife says I'm a kid at heart. Last I had the set was 35 years ago. Also does anyone remember The SSP Tournament of Trills?

[btwokyu]

Yeah, I had the Tournament of Thrills. That was the one with the stuntman on top of the white car, right? Run up a ramp and hang on the pole? Jump over the barrels? That was my SSP set, played with that darn thing for hours on Chrismas Day 1977 lol

[buzzlewie]

Whoa!! That's the same day I got The Tournament of Trills Christmas day 1977.  Small world isn't it?

[annoyingfeatures]

i need one but you are to mean to give me one