Great Garloo commercial ( Marx 1961 )

This is a wild and kind of scary looking toy. I did not know that they had advanced toys like that back then! How did this toy do? This is the first I ever heard of this.

Ran the C.P.I inflation calculator for Garloo. $17.95 in 1961 = $129.87 today. Guess that's why we didn't get one for Christmas back in the day.

I loved that toy, and was my favorite Christmas present back in 1961.

This is one I never got for Christmas and I wanted GARLOO so bad! At $17.98 it was a little steep for us in 1961. Now the prices for an example in even poor on eBay are still way beyond my budget, even if you can find one. Oh, well...next lifetime, I guess.

That was one creepy toy...yeeesh! I liked Big Lou better.

arrrgh! my god my cousin had that thing in the back of his closet and just seeing it made my blood run cold!

I can't believe it..I had one and I really really wanted one so badly. Wow I can't believe this commercial is here

I had one of those. Scared the crap out of me!

Ugliest thing Ive ever seen, but I definitely would have played with it.

I had a ball with this thing. I had the Kenner road set, erector set and would have this Garloo destroy the whole town...except the church....there was no video games so we needed to use our imaginations