1977 Tyco Nite-Glow racecars commercial

[Ropponmatsu2]

If your little sister chewed any of those crash barriers....She got leukaemia.

[reid77]

Had this one. It worked great until the cars' contact patches started getting worn out, then the cars would stop on the track and I'd have to nudge them along.

[zadraking]

Light up your youngsters face! 0:20

[AzKaraokeman]

If you want to see a REAL set in action, I posted a video response of my Tyco Magnum 440-X2 Nite-Glow set.....over 60 feet of track and very cool.

[johnnyLikeVideo]

Of course!

[187hoser]

I had one of these and it worked great. It is probably still at my parents house somewhere. The power rails are no more dangerous than a train set.

[hlikes]

Bullshit! These things worked great! I used to have a whole bunch of Tyco slot car sets and they all worked perfectly! I used to love the glow in the dark ones, too!

[27mfost]

does antbody remember the Saturday Night Live skit w/the "Meat Wagon" racing set? I wish I could find it somewhere!!!

[ICEcoleman2k]

I love the comments about the plastic and electricity used and such that would never made it to shelves now. See, the thing is we knew how to handle outselves with electric current and didn't try to eat the toys. So those worrys were not a problem. The controllers did get hot after a lot of play, so we stopped playing and let everything cool down or just go outside and rode the bikes or something.

[RADIOACTIVEBUNY]

Here's where I was 15 minutes ago.

watch?v=r0WjqMOxP-Y&list=FLI-D­Gywo85Hw2-TanW3--gg&index=24&f­eature=plpp_video

[bestamerica]

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not real glow in the dark,,,

it was a BLACKLIGHT tube

[187hoser]

@bestamerica I had one and they did glow in the dark. No blacklight needed.

[bestamerica]

187hoser,

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okay thank explain,,,

i learn new to me

[2012goingNutz]

@187hoser it was radioactive plastic.

[trainlinezoo]

@2012goingNutz If that is true then that would mean that is still glowing today?

[trizzey138]

I got this track for Christmas one year back in the late 70's. Loved it! Thanks for sharing.

[jonnyfrii]

I like the fact that he says "You are about to see something incredible" then the camera starts panning down to his crotch.

[guyinfl99]

@jonnyfrii Very Funny !!

[Hot80s]

@jonnyfrii xD ROFL. Thanks this 40-something needed a good laugh & you got it!

[yungmuny123]

not as cool as TCR

[heatlightenin]

Glow in the dark idea was cool... especially if you had a black light to shine on it like they did.

[2012goingNutz]

@heatlightenin Um UV causes skin cancer. Bad idea.

[RippingTheSystems1x1]

Very cool and has a sort of tron feel to it ebay here I come!!!

[KartKing4ever]

That glow in the dark idea is so cool! Too bad toys don't do that these days.

[2012goingNutz]

@KartKing4ever  Because children will eat the toxic paint. Yes it is true. Children love plastic parts off toys.

[cmi2000]

got that christmas of 1978-- I think I got one car to loop once... LOL I just took the loops out and ran it. I ran it till the contacts fell out of the cars...

[P0V3RTY09]

That guy at the beginning reminds me of Count Dooku ,.............. " You have fear...you have anger....but you do not use them....I sense much fear in you" LOL I bet they wanted about $49.99 for this thing and parents all over the world were like , " Who in the world can afford such expensive toys ?"

[JBofBrisbane]

@MustiKKaKeiTTo824 - I bet I could get it to work, with a little time and effort.

[gscott419]

ok can someone please tell me where i can find one of those or one like it..i just got one for my nephew from an online yardsale but alot of the connecting pieces are partially broken..

[JBofBrisbane]

@gscott419 - If you don't want to spring for a new AFX or Micro Scalextric set, I can only suggest keep trawlin' those online yard sales.

[gscott419]

@JBofBrisbane i would spring for the good one..where can i find one??? I just dont know where to find them.

[slipknot789able]

kinda reminds me of space mountain at disney world

[wabankik]

@bmovies60...I had the same burden,my old man would say he wasn't gonna waist "His" money on only the cool Toys,& at Christmas I got crappy cheap toys (except my grand mother who did buy me really good kenner & mattel/mego stuff!), I was able to obtail goog Star Wars action figures & Micronauts by trading my recess lunches at school,until I had almost all of them!,(except for POTF)

[hlt241372]

I had this slot set. I totally forgot about this one.

[ELPerroBuddy63]

Electrocution was part of the learning curve with slot cars. Sometimes my cat gets shocked as a reminder.After 38 years and 8,000 slot cars , anything is possible......................­....

[francoisdamville]

Pfff, really, they invented nothing with Tron Legacy...

[ChromiumSilver]

My double looper gets a similar effect when you use a blacklight to light the room. That is how you got the effect of the commercials for this unit shown here.

[MIAMetsfan809]

From Tyco....of course lol

[PEANUTLOVEDADY]

remember the sears catalog the toy section i must of look at the toy section a million times lol

[vaibanez17]

See, what sucks is there are nerdy people who collect every set ever that drive the price up from probably $20 to $500 bucks for this. I bet if losers who collected EVERYTHING didn't exist, this would cost about $20 on ebay today...

[ChromiumSilver]

@vaibanez17 I doubt that very much. There is something magical about slot cars.... Trust me.

[WebVMan]

I had an Aurora set similar to this, but it was a figure 8 track with glowing pieces.

[armandolarch]

Dear Santa...

[WKRPinCINN]

this was the sound of my slot car toy:

REEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..... [THWAP!] the car goes flying into the wall

[ossiesixtysix]

I've still got a set in my shed.  The glow "strips" were terrible to try to keep on the track. Just kept peeling off & I'm pretty sure the headlights were a hit or miss proposition most of the time too. I also have a vague recollection of having to get replacements for tyres and/or the metal "skid" parts that on the bottom of the car that made contact with the track. Magnificent fun though & after watching that commercial again I'm half tempted to go and dust it off and see if it still works.

[SquirmingCoil1]

I had that exact same set when I was a wee lad. If you could keep the tabs on the track pieces from breaking off, you could get some years out of them!

[Steez51]

I was so poor that I had to eat these sets when people finally threw them out. Mostly tasted of burned armatures and foam tires. Still was better than Arbys.

[rctrucknut]

my father had this set when he was a kid and then he gave it to me when I was young, I used to have so much fun with it.

[albAX]

damn this looks awesome, a little bit like the original tron :D

[murdernumber222]

fuck that's cool

[er1c175]

Hey i had one of these!

and after x-mas my friends would come over and tear it up!

The Tyco company is nothing like it used to be!

[Macabeem1]

Wow

I'm 47 and I want one

[robby2448]

my dad bought one but in like the late 80's. i still have all the pieces but the cars caught on fire.

[rctrucknut]

@robby2448 the cars caught on fire? you must have ran them for a good hour straight for them to even smoke.

[madbassdude]

'As the camera pans down his torso'

We are about to see something incredible...

I was kind of disappointed when he revealed the cars. xD

[OnTheRun167]

I got a Tyco track with the nite-glow for Christmas years ago. It was the Super Duper Double Looper. My friends and I had lots of fun with it. Those were the days!

[TheGolfer95]

from tyco of course!

[worldoftone]

I still have my Nite-Glow set. They weren't as crappy as the comments posted here will lead you to believe. Mine worked great (still works great). The controllers did have an optional little plastic sleeve that prevented the user from plunging the trigger all the way down to get used to operating the car without full-power. Of course the cars will crash if you throttle them up all the way. The biggest problem these lighted cars had (A/FX too) was the headlights would burn out rather quickly.

[SkitzerPoindexter]

My brother and I got this set for Christmas (probably 1978). It was fully assembled on the floor when we woke up Christmas morning. In our room! It was one of the most magical Christmases ever! Except when we went to play with it, the cars wouldn't go, and when they did, they'd go full speed and shoot off the track at the corners. My dad took the set back to the store to get a replacement, but they were sold out. We ended up with some lame table tennis game that we played maybe 3 times.

[stevephil10]

I was 6 when this came out but I was 7 when I got it Christmas '78. I loved my TYCO Nite Glow...probably my favorite toy!! The only problem was Tyco was TOOOO detailed...they were like mini F1 racecars, so when they would roll off the tracks and crashed, that was the end of your car

[hilarioph]

We don't have this in the Philippines

[jtj909]

i had this .. and loved it!

[jasondevil55]

I remember back then when Japan is the China today

[robarin]

@jasondevil55 Ha! I know what you mean. Then again, maybe I don't. Are you talking about the "made in Japan=crap" comments people made in the 70s (which were largely untrue by that time, I think), or are you talking about the "Japan is taking over" comments casually tossed around in the 80s? Wait... I just noticed you're 22... why am I asking you? lol

[firewoodguru]

Notice the blacklight how it shines that blueish / purlple on the track and really lights up the glow in the dark pieces! Always looked better on TV, but still cool.

[K9FON]

Reminds me of my old tyco slot car sets i have. Yes i STILL have it and it works! its well over 30 years old and looks like the day i got it new.

[001GenLee]

I had the one from the mid 80's with the Corvettes. I remember The A-Team slot car set with the van, The Dukes of Hazzard slot car set, Knight Rider set, Fall Guy with the Truck, man, those were the days! Why'd they quit making the slot car sets now days? Now days' toys SUCK! LOL

[havertrace]

Ahh the 70's when being nearly electricuted was part of the fun!!!

[Aeleita1]

@havertrace LOL!

[quincee33]

@havertrace hey 2011 and baby cribs and strollers are still being recalled.....not much has changed!

[gopconservative78]

love the porno music

[bartybum]

he said a pun

[racevws]

Lite up your youngsters face!

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I'm 27 and female, and I want these!! My brother had car race tracks when we were kids and I always enjoyed playing with them!!!

[raufus3006]

check out ebay. lots of stuff there.

[sur3shot]

from tyco of course ha

[katotheother]

Frank Langella?

[akerockstar]

dude, i want this! haha

[MrClassicAds]

Awesome!

[ScrewAttackChina]

had this kit.. it was awesome......

[daymn33]

anybody get a shock off the loops?

[marleeguy]

i had one! the lights faded and we had to turn the lights on to "charge" them up

[E1MG]

sorry man - I just got your message - NO

I don't want to sell my child hood toy - but I love this video :)

[gameboykid11]

i think i got that my birtday but the cars were not in the box

[Semitruckman101]

I have a night glow but its a stunt one no loops and its with too Trans Ams i got it for free at garage sale it works good and in original package.

[E1MG]

I still have this set, everything still works!!!

the double loops are nice - once every 2 yrs I bring out the track and drive me family crazy.  kudos to you eyeh8cbs :)

[JediOfTheEarth]

wanna sell??

[youjones]

Oh my god I miss my Tyco! I didn't even remember that that's what it was called! We didn't have a glow-in-the-dark one...insane... it was probably '83.... holy crap.

I remember that thing was a crown jewel, so much fun... it's funny, I could swear my kid brother had a truck cab as his vehicle-of-choice... but I can't remember mine... I wonder where the heck our set could be...it'd be a miracle if it were in the attic....

[bmovies60]

I remember this commercial airing when I was a little kid (I was 8 years old in 1977). 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.

[lcvd1]

@bmovies60 I hope you don't remember your childhood this way, but I know exactly what you mean by this. 

[fijiboy68]

@bmovies60 I was poor just like you, LOL! We had a track that wasn't electric, it had a shifter that pushed/pulled? the cars around the track. This is probably the ONLY time my kid brother and I bonded. Great memories! If anyone remembers that, please let me. Thanks!

[Smfins]

@fijiboy68 Yes! i remember what you are talking about. Hot wheels ran on it and you would pull on an orange shifter looking thing and it would slingshot the cars around the track. it was actually pretty cool!

[fijiboy68]

@Smfins I finally found the name...HW Thunder shift 500. Thanks.

[pedalpunk57]

@fijiboy68 I loved the Hot Wheels Thundershift 500 set. I remember when I was I think 6 or7 that at Christmastime my brother and I each got the same set. I don't recall why our parents did that, after all it was meant for two kids to play with. But why argue? It was fun and I actually remember the two cars that came with the set...A yellow Monte Carlo stocker and a red Ford Torino stocker. Wish I would've been as smart then as I am now to preserve my old toys.

[fijiboy68]

@pedalpunk57 I remember that Monte Carlo, it beat my Torino consistently. Maybe it was my shifter hehe

[Privatedoe]

@bmovies60

You need a blacklight for it to work like in the commercial.

[moxie96]

@bmovies60 I got my portions of this set my dad found at goodwill. I still had the two glow in the dark cars left for long after the portions got too broken to re arrange and play with anymore but lost track of my cars now

[TheSovietBears]

@bmovies60 i feel soo bad for you i wish i can buy that for you lol

[Greedypro123]

@bmovies60 amen homie.

[raymondleeleggs]

I have one!

[mkhokett]

i had one of these, it never real glowed, but was a lot of fun, the only trouble was making the loop w/o running of the track cause there was a curve usually right after it

[mefault]

Hey, that's pretty neat!!!

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Until the car goes flying off the track and Dad manages to step on it whilst clambering to turn the lights back on to find it! :D

[mefault]

LOL!!

[ScrewAttackEurope]

That actually did happen to me one Christmas Day too when I was three, I got one of those Fisher Price Jack in the box things, had it for ten minutes before my Dad managed to tread on it and break the thing!!!

[2199]

I thought that Cliffhangers came out in the 1980's.

[OofusTwillip]

You definitely needed a blacklight to get the same kind of glow as you saw in the commercials. In later years, advertisers who used blacklights in their commercials were required to say and display the caption: "Special lighting used" in those commercials. They still have to do it today.

[raymondleeleggs]

I have a similar set and it works like new lots of track too

[cbsfm101]

I think you needed a blacklight to get the set to glow in the dark.