1970s Forgotten Toys!

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Oh man. Takes me back. But you forgot to mention the coolest toy ever - Vertibird. The flying helicopter on a rod that you control with two levers. Others were Rock-em-Sock-em Robots. Loved the Micronauts. Other board games like Sorry and Aggravation were staples at our house. Monopoly was still going strong in the 70s. Oh yeah - GNIP-GNOP (ping pong spelled backwards) was a very fun hand coordination game where you shot ping pong balls through three hoops with tap buttons and tried to outdo your opponent by clearing your area of balls and putting all the balls into your opponents side. Then there was Mouse-trap, Operation, and countless others that made weekends fun before dating age. I grew up on the old arcade Atari and pinball-based games that were side amusement at the roller skating rink. Coleco, then Atari, then Activision, then Sega, then Nintendo, then Playstation. From Pong to Medal of Honor. Kind of stopped with the vidya games after that.

Still wish I had my Lawn Darts. Punching the blow-up clown was fun too. Can't remember what it was called. Evel Knievel "jumping that 4 ft ditch" as the ads said was cool too. Man, the ADHD kids of today missed out. Computer games are ok, but there is something missing when the physical, realistic element is absent. How about Socker Boppers - inflated boxing gloves to beat the dog shit out of your siblings without causing bruising and blunt force trauma- haha.

Also, bike riding and jumping hills and ditches was the norm. I bent so many handle bars doing that stuff. Backyard football, baseball, basketball, and makeshift olympics with high jump and pole vault made out of bamboo or cane sticks.

Another fun thing was playing chicken - someone sitting on your shoulders and confronting another "team" by trying to unseat them. This evolved into bicycle chicken, where you pedal toward each other in joust fashion and crashed bikes together or made them turn. We also tried bicycle jousting with china berry limbs, but this kind of came to a halt after the "loser" was unseated and went crying to mama with a gash in their face or belly.

Another fun thing to do was get the empty spools that the local REA/EMC (rural power supplier) stored power line cables on. They were across from my house, and we would "borrow" them and do the lumberjack "log roll" with them. We would race by walking the spools and see who made it to the finish line. Usually someone would bust their ass before they made it. Really loved that one. Ah man, I'm rambling now. But I bet a lot of people have similar stories. Oh yeah - tape ball. Notebook paper wrapped with electrical tape til it was a makeshift baseball. Used a stick for the bat. Guess its similar to Brooklyn stickball.

I had the evil kenival stunt bike

I'm a 90s kid but I do remember spirographs! Really loved those. I feel so bad for the younger generations nowadays since everything is virtual/artificial to them, nothing to touch with their hands and conceptualize directly, it's really alarming as this could effect the rates of intelligence in the future.

Great another list of toys we couldn't afford when I was a kid. Thanks for the evening of depression

None of these toys are forgotten. I remeber every one of these.

I had Wooly Willy!

Stretch armstrong

I had the Evel Knievel motorcycle in your thumbnail. Just that picture instantly took me back. Thank you.

What about tog’l blocks. At the time best Lego hands down.

I totally remember the castle my nanny used to have the castle. Oh my gosh are used to play with it all the time. Such good memories me and my cousins used to fight over the castle who got to be queen who gets to be princess we fart over the castle all the time, such good memories 😂

OMG I totally remember fisher price is a little people are used to play with them when I was a little kid and I still like them today ❤

Thanks for posting this video. I remember most of these, either as ones we or friends had or were at school. But just this last week, I was reminiscing that Micronauts were one of my favorite childhood toys. Seeing them in this video was awesome and brings back so many happy memories of playing with my friends. Again, thank you!

As a kid growing up I had a council tip near my house.
Anyway kids explore and i found loads of Evel Knievel bike toys up there.
They were obviously rubbish and broke easy.

I have a fisher price toy. Is called a puffalump. I have the puffalump bunny.

I remember a lot of these.

I don't know if these two were from the 70s or the 60s, but I remember well The Tigers, an 8 man military outfit. Each had a name and a moving part. They were about 60% the size of a G.I. Joe.

And I also remember the Matt Mason toys, various astronaut types, with a space station, a moon base, and a crawling transport device.

Both of these were favorites!

The wind up Evel Knievel toy was awesome on the kitchen linoleum floor ! After that it was Bo and Luke Duke and The General Lee !

Ah,those toys-I still have some of them.But the family I had back then was awful.

You didn’t mention Cox gas power airplanes and cars that we flew by wire, or the cars went in a circle with string and nail in the ground! Todays hobby toys are all remote control.

I still have fox engines and planes, and when my kids were 10-15 years old took them to park to fly planes.
Crowd would gather, kids of today wanted to see what was making all that loud noise as you held a handle and wire, and turned around and around following your airplane flying.

I’ll take 70’s over any decade. Kids were kids, always outdoors.

Anyone remember Lincoln logs? 😂

Remember Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots and original View Master!!! The Original Big Wheel trikes, Sun Tan Barber, Ken, Big Jim and their RVs, Corvette with camper trailer, Barbie's SunSailer Catamran, Banana seat bikes, play "war" running around the neighbourhood, making forts in the abandoned apple orchard nearby, we were allowed to play in specific garden beds to create towns and cities with our miniature toys, stones and branches, we'd be given a quarter and race off as a 'pack' to the local corner store to get banana popsicles or a small brown bag full of sweets we could chose--Double Bubble chewing gum and chocolate bars tasted ABSOLUTELY delicious. And...Sizzler cars and drag racers!!!

Action man was my favourite lol

Stretch Armstrong was my favorite.

Thanks for the memories! 🤗

It's almost 2024, and I still have my PAYDAY & MOUSE TRAP board game from 1978. Happy memories.

I didn't see stretch Armstrong though.

Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots

You forgot Colorforms.

I still have Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow, Gobbles the Crazy Eating Goat, Jaws, an original Blythe doll, random dogs from the Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop, Snoopy Snowcone Machine, Lite Brite, Mr. Machine, Pippi Longstocking paper dolls, Colorforms, and a life-size doll with red hair that I can't find any information on.

Barrel of monkeys hook them all together by their arm I grew up in 70's and 80's had a big wheel too

My favorite toys were hotwheels, and my plastic dinos and soldiers.

Great time until the bicycle helmets came along and ruined the world.

I remember as a kid growing up in 70's New Zealand going to the Coconut Flea Markets on a Saturday morning.

60,s 70,s where the best of times as a kid life then seemed so stress free as compared to now ,HAD A BLAST😊.

This is weird for me being that I was born in 1984 and I had quite a lot of these toys in their 1970s incarnations. We didn't have a lot and being that I was the youngest of 3 kids, my stuff was mostly all hand-me-downs and if not that, cheap thrift store purchases by my mother who I guess was still looking at these things for me the same way she did for my older brothers who were born in '71 and '72 respectively. I was a late addition to an older family so this is most of what I was exposed to, it was more old-fashioned upbringing compared to the other kids I grew up around.

I still have my orginal mattel football 2 and still play it at 57 years old LOL, i even bought the re-pop version a few years ago i like the feel of the real versions buttons over the re-pop they dont click and the screen doesnt glow as much like the " new" version does

I still play with All mine from time to time 🤫haha. Thank you so much for the happy memories, and reminding me its ok to still feel young.

Sit'n'spin was getting drunk before you cud get drunk.

Lawn darts.

Wow, was I ever spoiled. Had all of these toys except the knitting one.

I did hav evil kneival definit but can't remember how after u wound him up how did he release and fly off sure u had to hold his helmet while winding then let go

Awesome 😊

I loved playing with my Mattel Electronics to play football. Simple and it did the job. You could play against the computer or play with a friend. You tried to get a touch down and then it was your friends turn.

I has a bionic man figurine, and when you looked through a hole at back of its head, you saw a crosshair...very popular, and the show.

We had great toys in the 60s and 70s.

When I was a kid, I played hours with my Action Men.. I listened to music alot as well..

Excelente!🥰🇪🇦

lol, had that toy

Teeter totters, hula Hoops,lemon twist.