10 Cool Forgotten Toys from Ideal

[@alexnejako777]

Jaws is to scale to consume Adventure People, Mork, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars figures

[@alexnejako777]

arum yum yum. good times! sold Jaws in 92 or something.

[@jeffreycoogan09]

@That Junkman I think you may have meant (Buck Owens and his band The Buckaroos). ''Mera'' is the former Queen of the Dimension Aqua. She is the current ''Queen of Atlantis'', and wife of ''Aquaman''. Ideal's ''SUPER QUEENS'' are highly sought after by collectors. And are very valuable (MIB).

[@ThatJunkman]

Nice someone got the buck reference

[@jeffreycoogan09]

@@ThatJunkman Losing weight and turnin' mighty pale Looks like I've got a ''Tiger by the tail'' 🎶

[@jeremygregorio7472]

I didn't spend 8 years at evil medical college to be called Mr!

[@learning2bcivil]

I bought reproduction Dr.Evil & Captain Action figures a about 10 years ago made by a company called “Round2 LLC”, They have costumes to look like the Avengers characters like Captain America, Thor, Iron man, and Loki. I still have them and their costumes to this day.

[@Ochitecture]

That original tire is now located outside a Detroit suburb, off the I-94 freeway. Drive by it if I go to/from the airport.

[@matthewhopson964]

Buckaroo kind of complemented Golden Nuggets breakfast cereal. Apparently Prospectors (and mules) were in during the 1970's. Love Dr Evils' sandals!

[@jimsydnor7878]

Dr Evil's mask looks like Mike from All in the Family

[@ChazBell]

Junkman, you Never cease to remind me out of the blue of something I had.. holy smokes, I had an electro man. I never did know why he had a light on his head.. now I do…

[@rickwj324]

I had the Jaws game....LOVED it! My sister took me to the drive-in to see Jaws in '75. I was 5 years old! Scared the crap outta me!!

[@keithpayne701]

My elementary school had the jaws game in the early 80's. I have vivid memories of playing that game many a recess. Thanks Junk!

[@NOSHER]

I had the original ideal Jaws game ad he ate a LOT of star wars figures....

[@lt.danicecream]

I had the Jaws game. Then later on I had a similar game with an alligator

[@TheZogsvengali]

Ironically it’s Sunday’s and I came in from yard work to watch this

[@shaunmitchell2069]

Don't know if it's Ideal or not but I always wanted a ROM the spaceknight figure.It looked really cool in the comic book ads.But still I have never heard all the sounds he makes.And he came with heaps of accessories.

[@michaelwills1926]

Without looking I believe that was REMCO but could be wrong.

[@ryanbarker5217]

i loved ROM, played with him even after the arm fell off. to this day i'm baffled at how that arm was attached in the first place.

[@captlazer5509]

Ideal's Captain Action had the coolest bad guy, Dr Evil (not the Mike Myers Dr. Evil) with the blue skin and exposed brain.

[@williamwilkinson6665]

Hey Junkman , what would be a fair price for that jaws games loose in a the box condition.. I know where I can get one locally but the guy never prices his stuff

[@ryanbarker5217]

i had jaws, never played with it. i bought electroman at best products. loved that store, they always had the best micronauts. funny thing is i bought him with my own money and not a single time ever played with him. he felt cheap and at that scale with little hands the outfit moved around too much against the body. but, i did play with ROM until the arm fell off.

[@davidj5910]

YOOOO Junkman! I remember like it was yesterday. Christmas morning 5 yr old me opened up one of my presents and it was ELECTROMAN. I ran upstairs and burst into my parents room, who were still sleep, screaming "THANK YOU THANK YOU MOMMY!" The whole time I was flashing that bright ass light in their face. I stood there for like 5 minutes just watching them squirm from that blinking light. For years I have been trying to remember the name of that toy. Finally found the name last year. I have 2 on my watchlist on ebay. I also remember when we would all play that JAWS game. As always great video Junkman!

[@p.granger8824]

You should have sat Electroman on the handlebars of your bike.

[@brettonfett]

We had the Jaws game. I think everyone around that time had it. It was probably issued to suburban families in the mail with samples of Tide.

[@qwaurk985]

Packaged with Frampton Comes Alive!

[@themadatheist1976]

Need to bring back Lawn Darts, the ones with the metal spike!

[@stevedenis8292]

I have a set in the barn the plastic has gone very brittle probably should make some new fletches for them.

[@pieluvr7362]

But wait there's more now which shock power

[@garzilla7123]

I had The Evil Knievel, and The Fonz with the motorcycles that revved up and raced, I had the Jaws game and I had Electroman but I have not thought about him in years thanks for putting him back in my mind. I had him, Pulsar, and BulletMan. I know the last two aren't from this but I used to play with them altogether, they were all so cool. and I had Zogg too, my goodness you are taking me for a great walk down memory lane today. Thanks my friend. I miss being a kid, I am still big into toys but I miss the ones I had when I was a kid, if I only knew then what I know now, damn.

[@keithhorning7753]

Having evil and fonz race and not jump sharks, mmm

[@bradbrown8759]

I played the Jaws game with my friend who loved sharks. It sort of became a part of our action figure mayhem. We both were nuts for glow in the dark stuff also. We had countless glowy things. And supercharged it all with black lights. Lol! I like your little Pee Wee Herman figure. I have the same one on a shelf.

[@qwaurk985]

I got the Jaws game for Christmas. I remember snooping in parent's closet and finding it beforehand.

[@frankcostell8928]

What about KerPlunk?

[@ChrisRoth1972]

I remember the Toy Company Ideal obviously cause I was a kid in the early 80’s however many of these Toys I don’t remember except I vaguely remember the Jaws Game because the Box looks vaguely familiar.Thank You,Junkman.Look forward to your next video & have a good one!

[@acrodave9287]

Used to have Mousetrap and like anyone else I knew who had it, I never once played the game itself! It was just the cause and effect sequence that was fun...for about 15 minutes. Then one piece would go missing and the whole thing wouldn't work! Tchah!

[@oddeagle1968]

6:31, the bearded guy looks kinda familiar, just missing a ball cap. JM, is that you?

[@ThatJunkman]

Maybe so ;)

[@silversscratchbuiltproduct6277]

I also had the Jaws game and the Evel Knievel all of his stuff even had the little diecast rocket that was supposed to jump over the Grand Canyon

[@tombowling8646]

My parents got me a Doctor Evil for my birthday. It was so damn ugly, I played with it once. After that, it sat in the bottom of my closet for about eight years until my parents gave it to the Salvation Army.

[@stevegallo8483]

Is it just me, or does Dr. Evil's mask look like Mike (Archie's son in law better known as Meathead) from All in the Family.

[@genesanford9412]

Electroman ,Zog , Boneshaker. Electroman still works , Zog dont move anymore , & Boneshaker is broke & re-glued , no box for any of them , but i may do some RE-casts of Zog & sell em on Ebay...

[@machineman6498]

If Zog is all ready broken, maybe open it up and check out the circuit board. It wouldn’t be too expensive to make at least the sensor/ light up component.

[@genesanford9412]

@@machineman6498 Thanks. decent idea , though i bought a soldiering kit & supplies to fix some Ol Skool guitar pedals , i STILL havent gotten to it. I should get those out & Zog (whom i,m the only owner since i unboxed him as a boy) , & see wuts up. He,s never been dropped , or wet , so it might just be a solider connection ? ... thanks

[@thetshawkeye1035]

Whenever you are bored I'm usually up for a toy talk!

[@ciscodeer9094]

I didn't have any of those toys and Junkman go easy on the person who's mowing the lawn, I don't want to see you on the news

[@chevelleburke7252]

I'm 54 and I miss the 70s I had jaws the bike grip rev the 70s had the best toys I had STP smash up derby's AFX track with lights lawn darts six million dollar man lawn darts a KMX bike with front shocks rear shocks tank fenders I had minni trail 50 xr 80s built model cars played hot wheels good old days when your fam was alive and happy I seen jaws at the drive in in middleboro mass I was six in mom and dad's new Yorker with my sis brother these days suck there all passed when I see these vids it puts a smile on my face and I go back for a bit and smile 😊

[@Sammy_Boy_Smith]

He'd be even more evil if Dr Evil was wearing socks with those 🩴. Lol

[@michaelcline3123]

What about ( green ghost) ? It was a scary board game. Where you would reach into boxes. That had bones and stuff in them. The whole thing glowed in the dark. So cool

[@DrBlumers]

I had the Buckaroo game, got it for Christmas back in the 70's... It was a cool game, I wonder what ever happened to it....🤣🤣😂😂😂✌

[@michellebeckham5310]

Zog is the monster toy i asked about on another video. Cool, didn't know what he went with. He fought my Mattel Godzilla.

[@scottvincent3062]

I had the jaws game, doesn't Dr Evils mask look like Zach gallifanakis.

[@ThatJunkman]

Lol yes

[@wetdog1606]

Ideal was pretty big in the UK in the 70s - mostly through the Argos catalogue and Woolworths - but also independent toy sellers. Were the Battlestar Galactica flight toys (not the figures) made by Ideal? My sister had a Barbie UK knock-off called Cindy that had it's own cardboard and plastic, pin-ball 'get the ball in the hoop' game. Back then, Ideal, MB and Korean Knock-off Inc, were all about the same - sort of. If you got the cheap shite from your Grand-parents - you made it fit into your play, and you learned to love it.

[@drkmagneto]

I had The Jaws toy and one you didn’t list, the robot from Lost in Space!

[@ryanbarker5217]

robbie is too well-known, though.

[@devonrichardson6150]

I really want that jaws it looks cool

[@tperson8347]

I really want that Dr. Evil figure abd the monsters on motor cycles. :)

[@machineman6498]

Raw Power was the most durable toy ever made. I think I still have my brother’s Elecroman somewhere. I don’t remember Zog. When we got it, the gimmick was a sensor in his forehead would detect someone approaching. It actually worked. One weird thing was someone sculpted fat person dimples on his ass.

[@imperialpresence1173]

packaging sure has changed...how often do you see toys presented in a corrugated cardboard box?

[@genesanford9412]

Sweet! . Hell , i still have 3 of the 10... does that make me lucky , or weird? Nice Sunday Session ( you may think about that from now on ) ... Sunday Session... man i like the sound o that.. got a nice ring to it! ..rolls off the tongue real nice...

[@p.granger8824]

Thanks man, interesting. Of the stuff you showed, I think I only played Jaws. Btw: That newer Jaws board game is actually pretty fun. Better than it has any right to be.

[@TheDarrin68]

Smell the sound, taste the smell, Junkman

[@jeffdriscoll6096]

My buddy and I would buy a junk bike for a dollar back in 1970 and cut off the front forks and fit them to the front forks of our Schwinn Stingrays and we had the coolest chopper bikes on the block! Homemade Chopper bicycles

[@tomlevier3615]

Everyone in my neighborhood had the Jaws game. Pretty sure we were issued them.

[@thebeestingconspiracy]

How long before you make a Dr. Evil necklace T shirt?

[@ThatJunkman]

Not long ;)

[@NintendoSuperstar93]

I think they remade Buckaroo and it was released in 2004, remember seeing the commercial for it, and was released under Hasbro. This time the mule was brown instead of white and basically did the same thing. It got discontinued around 2005 or 2006, can’t really remember, because a kid was playing with it and one of the objects flew off and hit the kid in the eye and he had to have surgery. It was then re-released in 2008 with the instructions adjusted for safety reasons.

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

Trying to remember I saw the Electroman one somewhere. Looks familair.

[@justme4998]

as usual your talking about something that i had at least one of them....i had the jaws game....still do around here somewhere...

[@BanthaPooDoo64]

I hav the Frankenstein and Dracula cycles in my collection ,Jaws game had it once long ago in the ripple of time.

[@douglasnichols6116]

I’ve seen that tire on interstate 75 in Michigan or Ohio when I was young brings back memories. Not there now.

[@hydrolito]

Mera Appeared in Aquaman comics for years and they even a baby with same powers as his mother which is to control water and turn it hard and into different forms and the power to breath underwater.

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

LOL we had the Jaws game but not Mousetrap - our babysitter had Mousetrap and by the time she had set it up we'd have moved on to something else

[@katenunyabizness9221]

No Ker-plunk?

[@hydrolito]

Mera first appeared in Aquaman comic book in 1961. Has been in Aquaman comics, Justice League of America comics, DC Superhero Girls animated movies, Smallville TV series, Justice League movie, Aquaman movie although not the original one made for TV which had Siren instead. DC Comic Books also had two different Aqua Girls and an Aqua Lad, and woman named Dolphin that was similar to Aqua Girl. Also, Superman dated a mermaid named Lori Lemaris that that married a merman. Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) had boyfriends of merboy and bird boy.

[@Zan_Jayna]

I knew so many kids who had those annoying handlebar cranks

[@thegeorgiealityshow359]

I'm not surprise if they attempt to bring electro man & zogg back but more modern of course.JUNKMAN I have lots of noisy people here in NYC I know how annoying it is.Nice video & yup zip they lips.

[@ThatJunkman]

Went to NYC last month. Why do people honk the horn so much ;)

[@treyjohnson4035]

Buckaroo ,Jaws ,Alligator.the same game in different forms

[@andrews.2940]

I have a photo probably 1981 -82 me my brother during Christmas with Jaws some starwars.. My brother was 5 years older then me he would remember 81 better myself.

[@treyjohnson4035]

My cousin had Count Creepyhead play doh

[@silversscratchbuiltproduct6277]

There was a group of action figures that were monsters and based in the GIJoe world can't remember their names but I had 2 of them and they had a red light in their chest... You might know who I'm talking about

[@FayeMorgana]

Those are REAL characters from the comics!!!!!!

[@Zan_Jayna]

Do IRWIN next. I was a shareholder

[@josephgielniak9295]

Would love to repost this on my FB page Ideal Toy Company 1950- 1981

[@ThatJunkman]

sure why not! do it

[@timothyarlott5158]

Damn man scare cycles are expensive as hell now

[@GameHammerCG]

Buckaroo was a forgotten toy to you guys? Wow. In the U.K., everyone knew someone who had that game.

[@ryanbarker5217]

never heard of it until now. that's how toys are, though, sometimes they'd only get released in certain countries or regions.

[@GameHammerCG]

@@ryanbarker5217 Very true. It’s a fun game though.

[@stephanieneedham5932]

Has that we had the Jaws game and we played it

[@walterheinen5298]

Memories

[@allanbard6048]

Alright...lotta fearsome tshirts you led me to...so where is the IDEAL logo?

[@ThatJunkman]

I can’t find a good image of it

[@allanbard6048]

@@ThatJunkman Fair enough. Gonna get the other ones for a fearsome Christmas, tho. Keep the junk coming!

[@dgenergene4418]

I had the Idea Jaws game

[@Sammy_Boy_Smith]

Is that - Scuba Steve ? Lol

[@jamespeters2859]

Fun vid! 🙂

[@Boyer316]

Doctor Evil's mask looks like Kenny Rogers....

[@KitBasher1]

I had Jaws!

[@righty-o3585]

Hahaha OK, so I have to ask. What's the problem with doing yard work on Sunday afternoon?

[@ThatJunkman]

You have to do it outside

[@righty-o3585]

@@ThatJunkman Nothing wrong with that

[@ryanbarker5217]

when you do an obscure 70's toy video, check out one of my most favorite toys, hasbro's ghost gun. maybe do a video on toys that traumatized us. i had this fucking clown plushie thing with a hard plastic face. fuck that thing, it terrorized me as a kid.

[@constancecherry3996]

I think my brother hade one

[@ryanbarker5217]

making female figures isn't a 'get woke, go broke' situation and it never was. they just wouldn't sell nearly as well because that's not what boys generally wanted to play with. just facts. i mean, i had female action figures because i liked the characters, but as toys they never featured heavily in my play cycle, and were usually canon fodder, which i felt bad about... for about three seconds before moving on to wiping out the next wave of figures that i liked slightly better, but not good enough to be the last guys standing. be honest, never in any of y'all's play did princess ardala come face-to-face in the finale against darth vader any more than threepio squared off with baron karza.

[@ThatJunkman]

It was a joke

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

Electroman was good. But Rom was better 😝

[@quodnomenmihiest6283]

No homeboy, if the girl super heroines were released today, no one would be screaming that they went "woke and broke". Anyway, never even knew these existed, may have to hunt them down!

[@ThatJunkman]

You know that was a joke right???

[@quodnomenmihiest6283]

@@ThatJunkman As much of a joke as yours was.

[@nostrem82]

unfortunate that they always made the female super heroes like cheap barbies with limited articulation

[@leekronforst4589]

I came here for a toys not belly aching about politics and cancel culture

[@ThatJunkman]

then its a good thing you didnt get it

[@jamiepike6909]

Girls toys suck🤬

[@markbest5127]

My brother had Zogg.

[@davidurban6813]

Can't really say I remember them all. But the one I remember is Mouse 🐁 trap 🪤 it was as much fun setting it up as playing it.. I was after my Mom and Dad to.get it for me but I think they were afraid 😨 of all the parts that goes in to it. Just a thought. Have a great day everyone