80's Commercials Vol. 445

[@YodaPagoda]

Those McGruff ads worked with me! I was walking home from school, and someone said "my mom asked him to pick me up" and I said "NO" and ran away. Turns out, someone in the school office failed to relay the message. My mom did sort of congratulate me afterward, however. Voltron was so incredibly awesome, and I guess these ads were playing at the same time the cartoon was airing, but I didn't see any of these toys for at least another year. Still, it was must-see TV in the afternoon!

[@miketroncin749]

09:25 - they nailed the stereotype giant robot crew-- nerd, girl, chubby guy, guy in charge and guy that smarts off to and is somehow cooler than the guy in charge

[@DeadAutumnLeaves]

The TV Tropes 5 Man Band in its purest form- The Leader, The Lancer, The Big Guy, The Smart Guy, and The Chick.

[@mikelcarrow2787]

I still have my two voltrons. I miss the 80s. These commercials bring back the magic of being a kid at that time.

[@JoeAconite]

That Transformerrs commercial playing during the Go Bots is a real up yours to the Go Bots.

[@alyssast.thomas1015]

4:00 I love how she just finds a complete breakfast in the middle of the park

[@kayandaeddings4803]

Coming from the bay area, I remember some of these. I was around five years old in September at that time. And KTVU was our affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area. Thanks for the memories.

[@mrcrushin]

I love the transformer commercial airing during the go-bots stressing the little sticker that proves Transformers are the "real deal".

[@Aeravon]

That wasn't an attempt by hasbro to dig at the Go-bots, it was an attempt after the first year of Transformers popularity to curb counterfeit transformers streaming in from tons of companies. Original 1984 transformers just had stickers of their faction and no rub-signs. Jurassic Park toys in the 90's would do the same thing with the JP logos in their advertisements.

[@mrcrushin]

+Aeravon1 very interesting. Still didn't keep my go bots from feeling like bootsie-ass TF wannabes though, lol. Cy-kill was legit though.

[@Boomska316]

Didn't the GoBots actually come first? At least in the US?

[@optigrabbingit]

These are from Monday, 4/15/85 (not 1984). "Challenge of the Gobots" aired at 4 PM. The 3rd Annual "American Video Awards" aired on Saturday, 4/20/85 on KTVU at 8 PM.

[@RetroBigCat75]

McGruff commercials were good back in the 1980s & 1990s. Transformers commercials will never get old for me.

[@shatterball]

3:38 - I wonder what other song's are on the bee's fresh mixtape?

[@darktetsuya]

man I remember I HAD the KITT bike! Totally forgot about the brake though .... man those were the days. also cool were the Transformers and Voltron ads!

[@PrettyinPink9789]

That orange cereal sounded like it tasted gross lol. Then again I don't know, never had it. BTW I love watching these videos of 80s commercials. Gives me a glimpse of a time I missed. Born in '89 😉

[@niico76]

It wasn't bad, kinda like Trix & fruit loops.

[@chadkobylenski4193]

You just gotta love how there is a commercial for Transformers in a block of commercials for Challenge of The Go-Bots! Also, I remember that Knight Rider Big Wheel, I had one of those as a kid. Even though I had the Big Wheel and remember riding it up and down the sidewalk quite vividly, I do not recall watching the show a whole lot as a kid.

[@miketroncin749]

04:19 - ah, those care-free days when you could construct a fake bomb and no one would bat an eye....

[@redlion517]

That Transformers commercial sounded like it was trash-talking all the bootleg Transformers toys.

[@Triad3Force]

Yea exactly! Also, notice that this is a GoBots "special presentation", which Tonka probably paid out the bum for to compete with Transformers made by Hasbro/Tomy. And then the station aired that Transformer commercial which totally dissed their knockoff competitors like GoBots. Such brand drama in the 80s :D

[@usmc29er44]

Ahhh...McGruff. Keeping kids outta cargo vans with no windows for years!

[@TotallyRadCars]

Wow... Tonka spent some money on Challenge of the GoBots! =)

[@jnadle1]

That sounds like an alternative version of the GoBots theme song. Instead of a keyboard, it's a lead guitar.

[@MichaelMangi]

Wow, I didn't know Marine World had been in Redwood City. I had always visited it in Vallejo

[@80sCommercialVault]

It was in Redwood City from 1962-1986

[@BrendanFinnstrom]

Thank you!

[@jhutto1984]

Anyone else notice the music for those Stomper Speedsters was the same as the intro for the old Disney DTV specials?

[@80sCommercialVault]

It's library music. Disney did not create it and it shows up in tons of different things from back then.

[@ChapBloke]

I want a Skeletor tooth-paste topper.

[@seffola]

why did Kit leave those kids hanging @10:34? LOL

[@OpinionVille]

Gee, I wonder why the cereal that tastes like oranges didn't hit big.

[@oakboyh]

Love it

[@DreamDancer82]

I still have my original Koosa kitty. For some reason, we called her Wrapper. I have no idea where that came from.

[@corazonfeathers8116]

9:10 Hell yeah, OG Voltron!!

[@vicious-pi3rd]

Voltron and ALL Zords of Power Rangers. By far are awesome toy robots. I recalled besides lions there were other Voltron. There was a car version Voltron and a military one with tanks.

[@OzzieAstaroth]

Wow, at 7:32 its proto Megatron.

[@Boomska316]

I was wondering what that was. So did that version ever get released?

[@OzzieAstaroth]

Kind of, sort of, but not really. I think they confused the other gun Transformer named Browning in Japan, for Megatron here. A toy of Browning exists, but only in Japan, and it has a different color scheme with that same head.

[@Zanaaa50]

OJ's Cereal was a decent cereal my mom picked it up quite a few times, I recall. I do know for certain that we, as kids, made absolutely no correlation to O.J Simpson and the name of that cereal. I wonder if other kids our age did?

[@80sCommercialVault]

I dunno, I guess the mental image of combining orange juice and milk makes me queasy. Did they taste similar to Froot Loops?

[@Zanaaa50]

+80sCommercialVault I think they did, actually!

[@Zanaaa50]

+Cynical Atheist I think that's what I mean "fake oaty orange taste" My sister confirmed that as well!

[@DanZero77]

I lived, despite the quality! Nearly killed me, but too many cool toy commercials! I always wanted a Knight Rider power cycle, but I got the Dukes of Hazzard one instead. It also had a spin-out lever, but it wasn't nearly as cool as Knight Rider.

[@AIOctober]

...such weird, horror-movie-like vibes with the music and voiceover for a commercial for a silly remote-control chug-chug toy like the C.L.A.W. @.@

[@Nickrj3]

Boo for the Padres!!!!

[@BrendanFinnstrom]

Fucking epic!

[@Crimson7588]

I don't remember OJs but I don't think I'd like it

[@Boomska316]

McGruff kind of reminds me of Lt. Columbo. Golden Girls looks like a blatant rip-off of She-Ra, but this was before She-Ra so I guess not. Robin's in real trouble if he has to rely on Aquaman to save him.

[@TTrigg]

OJs-that cereal wasnt bad actually.. Fruit Bars commercial-yet another "everything about 80s fashion summed up in one ad" deal lol Amercian Video Awards-seems everybody was coming out with a music video awards show back then(i remember one of the local tv stations here had one) arent the Go-bots now canon with the Transformers universe ?

[@JohnnyUtah15]

Yeah, I remember that there were at least two to three music video awards' shows. I believe one I recall had a good amount of off-stage interviews.

[@yusakug]

Okay, a few thoughts here... -When did She-Ra come out, because Golden Girl looks like a blatant rip off. -4:17 - How nice of the Joker and Lex Luthor to take Robin hostage near water, so Aquaman would actually have something to do. 6:40- "The most perfect pizza on the planet!" Maybe back then, kid, but have you had Chuck E. Cheese lately? Also, am I the only one who preferred Showbiz to Chuck E.?

[@beckigreen]

I liked showbiz pizza a million times better than chuck e cheese.

[@miketroncin749]

I was the opposite- but it's prob because I went to Chuck e Cheese first, when I was in fourth grade. Also every couple months a costumed guy would come out during an assembly at school and sell Chuck-e-bux, $3 cash for $5 of tokens. I bet parents didn't appreciate that pressure to go just because their kid bought $3 in tokens

[@arielfilmsinc1926]

Both toy lines were about the same time Also in the ninties Mattel tried a Wonder Woman line kinda like She Ra did not get out of the show room though a cartoon was made Surprisingly have not found it on you tube yet

[@ScratStitch]

Golden Girl looks a LOT like She-Ra.

[@80sCommercialVault]

She-Ra didn't exist until 1985.

[@ScratStitch]

@@80sCommercialVault I was wondering if she was somehow a precursor to She-Ra (even with the different toy brand).

[@80sCommercialVault]

I think it was just another company coming out with a MOTU-esque doll line for girls and then Mattel making their own version shortly afterward. It might have been a similar situation to what later happened with Hasbro's Jem/Mattel's Barbie and The Rockers.