Smash Up Derby - Toy Commercial (1970's)

[danthman114]

hey! i had that set when i was like 3! as a matter of fact my mon still has some of my toys from when i was a kid and i do believe one of the ramps is in there...

[shieroc]

I love these old commercials

[nebraskame]

Comes with everything you see righ-cher. :-D

[dbzmiri]

lol it's like a beyblade but a car

[zoltanms]

God, I miss those!

[johnpa2006]

OH MY GOD, I HAD THIS WHEN I WAS A KID. (im 38)

I want to cry now because they got thrown out.

Ohhh what a great flashback.

[WebVMan]

I bet some dude at the factory was like... "These cars are pieces of junk! They fall apart when you barely touch them! Wait- maybe I could sell these as demoliton derby cars! YEAH! That'll work! It's genius!"

[jabmalassie]

My parents wouldn't buy me this. Now growing up it is a stupid toy. I made clothes pin guns.

[tyroned532]

wonderful to see these memories, and you NEVER forget the songs!

[avonni]

Great memories, thanks! And really happy to see that this is the original version of the commercial. Later on they changed the lyrics and took out "It's smashin' time my friend", and put in "Smash-Up Derby is fun" in it's place. I hated that.

[VintageZundapp]

Love it!! I use to have this set. This is when toys were fun...

[smashstuff300]

i think they still sell iit some where i saw the commercial on tv in 2010

[Zzyyxxyyxx]

I had that back in the day. Loved it!

[biohazardgraphics]

I had my poor Dad driving me to every toy store in the Baltimore/DC area looking for the VW Beetle...never did find one.

[schlitze1]

SSP's are some of the coolest toys ever. I had the set in this commercial, and I remember it because it was such a fun toy. Toy companies are more concerned with movie and TV tie-ins now days than whether or not the toy is actually fun to play with.

[cyberzonie]

@schlitze1 I had this too! Those were the days!

[buzzlewie]

I got the one with the Volkswagen Bug and The Pick Up Truck and all the parts with it and the box.

[GroovyGuroo]

This was my favorite toy growing up. Thanks for the memories. I loved the zip-pull cars. I seem to remember having a dragster style as well.

[eimb1999]

Great toy! Was considered expensive at the time too, for about $5.00 or so! My mother and I played with it all Christmas day!

[zingbing01]

I remember seeing a METAL Smash-Up Derby set at a toy store back in the 70s. Couldn't convince mom to spring for that one. Anyone know what I'm talking about, or did I doze off watching Shazam after too many bowls of Pink Panther Flakes?

[thanksforthemessdick]

classic phile i found a broken baby doll cairrage in the garbage broke off the side panel which had 2 plastic wheels and viola my very own evil kinevil stunt bike ,of course there was no evil but i mangaged it keep it balanced 40 feet or so

[thanksforthemessdick]

rite cheer I had some fun with these til all the peices wound up in the heat duct or under the fridge

[begoneyoubum]

I remember this toy!! I got it the same day that our babysitter sexually molested me! That was along time ago and I think it's still in the original boxes in my Dads Attic.

[ArcadeGames]

I bet you lost the peices the first 5 minutes. Right cheer!

[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

[hounddog825]

i had a coupla SSP cars, but not that smash up derby set.that was the cats ass at the time!

SSPs did Not work well on 'shag carpet or gravel driveways...traded them for stretch armstrong a few years later : )

[yardking66]

Man my parents weren't rich, but I was able to convince my mom to buy me the original set shown and the newer version with the beetle and pickup a few years later. You should haved lived nearby, cause it sure sucked trying to play with them by myself. Not quite the same as two kids aiming them at each other like on TV

[JohnnyThunderzzz]

where can i get a high quality version of this commercial ???

[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.

[micmac99]

@classicphile I hear you. My family was low-income as well. The ONLY time I got even 2 or 3 toys was at Christmas and mainly through the Sears catalog. We played with our cousins' old toys they got bored with.