Mr. Big Toyland Commercial

This is a commercial from the early '80's for the amazing 'Mr. Big Toyland' in Waltham Mass. It was on Moody street and was legendary due to the fact that it's owners, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, would go to Japan and bring back rare die cast metal Japanese Toys, such as Godaikins, Shogun Warriors, Space Ship Yamato related toys, Force 5 related toys and on and on and on. They had it all. This was no ordinary toy store, and anybody who remembers going there as a kid knows what I am talking about. Enjoy! Sorry it's low quality, but I did my very best to clean it up in QT Pro.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Mr.
• Big
• Toyland
• Waltham
• Godaikin
• Tetsujin
• Force
• Five
• Force5
• Star
• Blazers
• Robots
• Yamato
• Grandizer

[lectricworker]

It makes me so happy that all of you love seeing this as much as I do. I'm happy I posted it! Off to play with Tetsujin 28 and Voltes V :)

[ForceFiveFan]

ch 25 started out as WXNE-TV (stood for Christ (X) in New England) in October 1977. It was owned by CBN and ran family-friendly stuff as well as the 700 Club. During the 1980's they became more of an indie like fellow WSBK-TV 38 and WLVI-TV 56. They changed call letters when Fox finalised purchase in January 1987.

[jptang1701]

Thumbs up if you begged your parents to take you here but they refused because it was to far...... I lived in New Bedford at the time so I know what I'm talking about!!

[karsiyakaningulu]

Yup I took my son there and he sent me this video, and told me how happy he was that we took him there once. But i remember taking him few times but who am I arguing with cause now I am 62 and forget things easily.. what a walk on the memory lane.......

[morganfitzp]

This ad was exclusive to Channel 25 during their weekday afternoon anime shows—way before the American anime craze!

[Daishikaze]

I WENT THERE!!!! When I was six we went there and my brother and I got identical Mekanda Robo godaikin toys.

[claudio2216]

That was awesome...brings back memories

[LoranCehack]

I'm always amazed when I find pieces of mecha-related history, whether they be in toy or anime form, that came out of the Boston area. I'm an MA native but unfortunately, I'm a bit too young to have been around for this.

[kentavares]

thanks for the memories bro. Like others on this post; saw this commercial dozens of times as a kid. Always wanted to check this place out but never made it. Man, the money those toys are worth today. If I could only go back in time :)

[jsngallery]

Ha haaa, I remember this commercial. I ended up going there and getting one of the robots they had. Awesome, tks

[cg4167]

another piece of americana gone :(

[darthsideous1968]

I bought a medium sized version of the Argo from Star Blazers there back in the early 80s! I also saw a really sweeeeeeet fully functional daicast metal version of Grandizer there,with removable grandizer robot and saucer section as well, but sadly I didn't have enough money to buy it!!!!