Banned Toys - Dungeons & Dragons, TMNT, Satanic Panic, EC Comics - TOY HISTORY #41

It's an all new almost banned toys episode, this week we take a look at a couple books and protest manifests created to bring down toyline IP's and their subliminal violent underlaying occult themes! Say your prayers and strap in for some Toy History!
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[@autobotjazz1972]

i recall the D&D bullshiat, the parents of the one kid were looking for something to blame for his death and latched on to D&D rather than admit the kid had problems and never got the help he needed.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Another case of where parents should have probably been parenting instead of networking at church

[@warhorse03826]

in 1988 I was at the gencon/origins game convention in milwaukee. there was a guy protesting outside saying we were all worshiping demons and sacrificing babies inside. I offered to buy him a pass, and show him what was actually going on. he went in, and all he could say was "that's it? that all this is?" "yup, a bunch of people sitting around tables rolling dice..." later I saw him hogging time on the battletech simulator. they had to drag him out of it...

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

They’re afraid of what they don’t know they just need a little getting used to the new thing and then they like it 🤓 cool story

[@IIIISai]

he was right

[@warhorse03826]

@@IIIISai he was right before, or after? because after he saw what was really going on. and it was nothing that he thought it was.

[@the13throse]

on one hand satanic panic stuff is hilarious because you've got grown adults pointing at Pikachu and acting like they're being shown the literal devil. on the other hand, it's really depressing because you know that behind the scenes, they're enforcing major restrictions on their kids and basically teaching them to fear the entire world

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

It’s scary that they actually got away with it, what they’re talking about is fantasy as well but because its religious its hands off, mattel and others should have sued them for discrediting their products

[@SpookTroop]

If pikachu is the devil hell doesn’t seem so had

[@themadhamster3771]

Gary looked like he was having a little too much fun with that snake mountain. But seriously guys, this pandemic was a nice test run but don't you think it's time we kick off the apocalypse in earnest? We have been plotting this for 30-40 years now.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤣

[@mightyfilm]

I dunno. Skeletor would be quite flattered if someone said he was the master of the universe.

[@Tayfrog]

That video of the guys talking about the "satanic" toys is a blast from my past. My church had us watch that video during a church camp. I had Mumm-Ra and Skeletor with me. I didn't buy what the video was saying, but some of my camp group did. Let's just say that my toys got hidden for the rest of the trip.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yikes that sounded like they were gonna confiscate them to burn 😵‍💫 luckily the counselors just asked to keep them hidden 😏 mummra is a sweet toy!

[@smb-c3po]

Ironic how the churches accuse everything we enjoy of being evil when it's literally a brainwashing cult.

[@rodrickadamginsburg8960]

I am so grateful that my mother was not one of these wackos that had to get anything banned!

[@1life744]

All problems start at home. It's always the parents. You can blame the outside yet the home is where the personality is molded.

[@smb-c3po]

The parents grew up in a bigoted household.

[@1life744]

@@smb-c3po trauma gets passed down until someone decides to heal it.

[@smb-c3po]

@@1life744 Those previous generations needed therapy.

[@1life744]

@@smb-c3po yes

[@smb-c3po]

@@1life744 Is each generation really getting less religious?

[@sonicmario64]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤘 right on!

[@OmegaOrdained]

Right on! Happy Friday everyone! 😎👍

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 🤓

[@Lio_Convoy]

Yeah, I did an entire series about the Deception of a Generation special

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

An entire series 😁 that’s epic buddy!

[@AndrewHawnt]

Fantastic episode! There's a great book I'd recommend checking out called 'Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s'. It's a treasure trove of material on that weird era!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks yeah ive seen that one pop up 🤓

[@nomadjones9112]

Thanks to being inspired by cartoons like Captain Planet, The Racoons and Toxic Avengers as a kid, i've spent 20 years teaching environmental education. Go Planet!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

The power is yours 🤘

[@christopherNTSC]

wish you’d left a link for that mini documentary. “in the parking lot, with he-man in his hand, running in circles!” reminds me of the film ‘the burbs’, and walter is talking to tom hanks about satanic ritual etcetera. haha! “you’re chanting ray! chanting!” 😂

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqGVq4KkjMyogqM 🤓

[@gabrielsoto863]

Great video, thanks for the info. This brings a lot of memories of people trying to convince my parents to burn my masters of the universe collection. I am so glad and proud of my parents for having a mind of their own and not following the masses. Still have a lot of my figures. Once more rad video!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yikes 😵‍💫 i’m glad your parents didn’t go along with that

[@smb-c3po]

Biblical religion is all a cult.

[@christopherNTSC]

HOLY SMOKES! sorry to hear that. My story is the complete opposite of that. I guess i was lucky. I was an only child. I did go to a private catholic school until they asked me to leave after my 3rd grade year. I was the same age as my cousin, so we kinda came up together. my aunts & my grandmother would literally take the backing cards from star wars, motu, and all of the random lines over the years that we had gotten into, and they were the original toy hunters. they’d have their checklists and it was full on beanie baby style obsessive shopping but they were into it. on xmas they’d take those flat sweater boxes from macy’s so you’d think “oh that’s clothes. i’ll save that one.” but there would be multiple action figures all packed into those boxes! they were nuts about it, & my cousin & I were the ones who came out on top! obviously.

[@brushstroke3733]

I'm pretty sure my mom wouldn't let my brother or I have Skeletor when we were kids because of the satanic panic.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

He did have an evil look 😵‍💫 but it’s just a toy

[@brushstroke3733]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut The mass hysteria then was similar to what we observe today. People are not rational when they are afraid.

[@JohnDoe-gh7bc]

Pokemon caught alot of the same attention when it was new, especially Kadabra from Uri Geller

[@TheNostalgicBasement]

Totally, my cousin wasn’t allowed to have Pokémon because my aunt said it was Satanic

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

No way that sucks, the same thing happened with harry potter 🥲

[@JohnDoe-gh7bc]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut Yeah it got so bad they stopped making cards for him for over 10 years, and I remember how mad people got over someone turning into a cat in the first Harry potter book. Its crazy the random 1 thing people get hung up on

[@Acidonia150reborn]

In UK like the Third Largest Retail Toy store called The Entertainer will not sell Harry Potter or Pokemon anything. Thing is they used to sell pokemon but owner banned it when someone told him Pokemon Go was evil.

[@smb-c3po]

The world would be better off without biblical religion brainwashing people.

[@Arkuz8248]

I remember the push to ban/censor music, video games amongst other types of media entertainment, ultimately ending up with ratings guide for parents. Mortal Kombat was one of the "poster kids" held up for example.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Those fatalities were the whole reason i went to the arcade 😁

[@felipeterrazas317]

I was a child from the 80’s and I grew up just fine. 🤦🏽‍♂️ these fools didn’t care about us children. All they cared about is a paycheck to sell their books.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I wonder how much books they sold tough

[@profile1674]

Ed, weer een goeike, makker! En op het laatst nog een vermelding van Venom, nice! You rule, my friend!!!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Dankuwel 🤘

[@SpeekyGeeky]

Sooooo freaking good, love your deep dives, this was great, learned a lot of new info from this one, very fun and informative :)

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks dude 🤓

[@Yubl10]

It's now believed that the guy that the movie and book mazes and monsters was based on might have been gay and that was why he took his own life. His parents were also really religious, and the fact that being gay wasn't accepted back then. It's pretty sad, really.

[@phreakazoith2237]

Smurfs being evil zombies? Good Lord. I know many Christian kids, me being one of them, whose parents highly approved them playing with Smurfs, reading the Smurfs comic books, watching the Smurfs cartoons, even watching the cartoons togther with their kids, cause they were stuffed with positive values.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I think at one point they were just like, this is fun, got any more with real occult inspired stuff. No but we can make up stuff 😅

[@cadencero5313]

Does anyone remember a toy in the late 1980s that was banned? It was these ninjas that had Swords made out of real metal. Also I think they were stretching too.

[@nick_knows_stuff]

My Dad was a minister in the Nazarene Church Denomination, so I remember all the controversy from He-Man, Smurfs, Thundercats and any other cartoon to have sorcery in them. I wasn't allowed to watch any cartoon with magic. It was so bad, my Grandparents who bought us the "cool" toys for Christmas, bought me the Snake Mountain set, and my parents almost took it away. Some Church people are really demented. And the Dungeon and Dragons controversy, like it was satanic, and caused people to murder was all over the news and another thing band by our church. Thankfully I was able to catch up with what I missed out on.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Glad to hear you got to catch up, i think kids would still learn it from other kids at school but it might also alienate them from not being able to talk about seeing the same cartoons

[@johnpatterson4816]

Oh yes.I've always felt that if you get involved In Dungeons and Dragons you've officially gone over to the Dork Side!!!

[@nick_knows_stuff]

@@johnpatterson4816 I tried D&D, but with all the rules and having grown up with Game Genie, Game Shark, and cheat codes that let you have control over your game, it just didn't gel. But mad respect for the dungeon masters who come up with the quests, that is some serious imagination.

[@Empiretoys1138]

hahah great. Remember my mum losing it when i was younger because i brought a James Bond Goldeneye gun home from the car boot sale. She took it off me! Glad she did because i could of gone down the wrong path into a life of crime.... instead i buy toys i never got as a kid lol

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

😏 i always liked the world is not enough better

[@Pegwarmers]

Great episode! I had a buddy who used to play D&D with us who was suddenly not allowed to play anymore back in the day.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yikes that’s gotta suck 😩

[@danielc3472]

I remember those crazy times it was like a witch hunt! Great episode!👍🏼

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 🤓

[@juggaloclownpreacher]

I was put in a foster care home with a woman totally believed that the child's play the body transference spell was a real thing and it would bring the devil on her house.

[@eltenda]

Love this series man! Great job!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 🤓

[@nick_knows_stuff]

I liked when they tried to crucify Dee Snider, and he just made them look silly.

[@NerdRahtio]

Pastor here. Most of the satanic panic stuff was emotional over reactionary nonsense. Are there folks out there influencing people’s thoughts through fiction? Sure. That has always been part of the reason to tell stories. It is great to teach kids to notice the messages communicated in any fiction, but rather than fear those messages, or hide from culture, have them evaluate them, learn where to get truth and where to escape with some fun, and even respond with their own voice through their own fiction.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Indeed its the overreacting, the extreme that is in all sorts & groups of people. 🤓 looking back from a now different culture perspective where its pretty much a given you have a sorcerer mentor and a dragon or 2 in the closet whilst fighting off dark magic devils with cobra kai karate and superheroes everywhere 😅

[@williamwright9079]

Very interesting and well put together. Thank you sir!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks for watching 🤓

[@ashleyh7073]

Yikes, honestly whats terrifying is those people like those guys in that video talking about toys. It sounds like the craziest crap ive ever heard. They dont even realize they themselves are who is acting like a cult. Even now at 29, i recently got into D&D a few years back and someone at my moms work tried to tell her I had joined a gang haha she asked me about it and I couldnt believe it lol. Luckily my mom believed me when I said no.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yikes so weird how they really just go with the first impression that what they heard the game was, it is

[@edwardgeronimo1018]

And now I have to see that crazy video...

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Go for it there’s the full vhs on youtube!

[@theflyingninja1]

Where I live, nunchuks were banned so Michelangelo had a damn grappling hook instead.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

They even changed it to the grappling hook in the second season everywhere

[@theflyingninja1]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut I'm sorry my country made that happen 😅

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤣🤣🤣

[@christopherNTSC]

excellent video. born in 78’ & have ALWAYS stayed into toys. the 80’s we’re crazy!! ✌🏼©.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 🤘

[@NostalgiaFix81]

“Those toys are the devil Bobby Boucher! The devil!” -Waterboy’s mom.

[@otaking3582]

From what I've heard, TSR did get permission from Lovecraft's estate to use Cthulhu in their books. The problem was that another TTRPG company had their own Lovecraft game and thought it created a conflict of interest. ProJared explains it better in one of his videos, but that's at least what I got from it.

[@Windrave]

I remember the Dungeons & Dragons stuff mostly due to my mother watching the news but at that early age I never knew about it being a board/RPG game as I only saw the cartoon. The moment I mentioned the name I was told I couldn't watch it which confused me (born in early '79). Funny enough the airings of Dungeons & Dragons was always plagued by being preempted by an early sports game or being jumbled from channel to channel that when it was on at a different time and a very different channel other than the big 3 I never mentioned what it was and even saw it while she was in the room by not saying the name. 😄 The only other odd head butting we had was over the Nintendo Ghosts N Goblins game. The moment I mentioned one of the bad guys was named Satan (the North American name for what was originally called The Red Arrancar) I was told immediately I couldn't play it even though I told her the point was you were to fight him and even wore armor that had a cross shield. She never budged and I remember being completely confused.

[@Acidonia150reborn]

In UK like the Third Largest Retail Toy store called The Entertainer will not sell Harry Potter or Pokemon anything. Thing is they used to sell pokemon but owner banned oit when someone told him Pokemon Go was evil.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Whaaaat 😵‍💫

[@fizz576]

As much as I think it's ridiculous I can kinda understand how some people thought dnd was satanic but thinking the turtles are some how evil is just crazy.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I know right 😵‍💫 they just keep searching for something to bring them down

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I know right 😵‍💫 they just keep searching for something to bring them down

[@80svillainstoys63]

I love this series of videos!!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 🤓

[@WakoDoodle]

"darkness is evil" I'm pretty sure the bible mean't the darkness in man's heart, not literal darkness. But lets say she's right. So are we banning Night now? I'd like to see how she'd make it daytime, everywhere, forever.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

We need bright lights all the time so nothing evil can happen

[@andrewgrant2990]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut ... or the Glow Worm!

[@shtdaprdtr]

Banning darkness??? That's racist!

[@rmbl349]

Blind people: thug life

[@angelawildman122]

“Darkness = evil” is also very closely linked to systemic racism. It’s largely what drove settler-colonialism of indigenous people and the slave trade if you look into history!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I'm not even going to fake it. I am a big meat lover..lol

[@staalhard666]

Where were these idiots when Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, The New Adventures Of He-Man and Rise Of The TMNT came out? That's when these lines really deserved all the sh-t hahaha

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤣🤣🤣 haha yes!

[@ryanhudgins9004]

Duuuuude .... I never knew about that TMNT book that tried to make them out to be something evil ! How miserable do you have to be in life to try and throw shade on something like that !! Ridiculous !!!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yeah it was pretty mind boggling to discover it had been made

[@fletchkeilman2205]

The fact that she used information from Ashida Kim (and considered it "research") tells me she was definitely cognitively impaired.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤣

[@robertfournier4660]

My friend’s mom stopped him playing D&D with us

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

That’s sad to hear 😕

[@kmaru80]

You think ET is gonna confuse the little bastards? Better not tell them about Horus

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

😅 haha indeed

[@PrivateOGITH]

did you Know That Theres a 28TH Episode of Dungeons and Dragons' but its in Sound Only ☹️

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yeah but didn’t they replace some of the art with newly drawn and action scenes from other episodes? I think a fan made one

[@canibaloxide]

9:06 I was waiting for that clip

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I feel like when he does the exocism from a vhs tape he looses all credibility 😅

[@quartercomicsart6610]

Keep up the good work on your videos Ed, love this channel.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks 🤓

[@Chasing80sToys]

Great video as always Ed😉👍

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 😁

[@darkwoods1954]

I hate how fashionable cancel culture is becoming again. Yet time and time again it's proven to be nonsense throughout history.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I guess they get so caught up or need something to blame for a loss

[@Andulvar]

I find it odd that it's the Left this time around. Before it was the Religious Right. Now those same enemies of culture are defending it.

[@darkwoods1954]

@@Andulvar I agree. It's strange how the tables have turned.

[@theflyingninja1]

It'll pass. It always does.

[@rodrickadamginsburg8960]

Congratulations on 55K!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks 🕺🏻

[@NARC.1]

One of my faves so far man! Amazing job

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 🤓

[@elliottdeiters4630]

thank u for the video man

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks for watching 🤓

[@elliottdeiters4630]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut your welcome man

[@werewolfantipaladin]

Methinks Gary has a few skeletons in his closet and in the crawl space under his house

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I think so too 😕

[@All-Fur-Coat_No-Trousers]

Seems like Gary and Phil really needed a hobby... maybe they could've taken up toy collecting

[@Mr.Boglin]

That Goddamned "Turmoil in the Toybox" book ruined MONTHS of my young life growing up in the late 80s. some Nutjob gave it to my Overly Christian Grandmother at the time, and while my Mom was the greatest ever, she would never stand up to my grandmother over ANYTHING. so for MONTHS anything and everything i wanted, i had to be lectured too about how it was a "Tiny Plastic Demon!" one day i found that book while she was in the bathroom and i grabbed that POS and hid it in my backpack. took it home with me and threw it into OUR trashcan outside. "Hidden under a massive pile of leaves for good meassure" my Aunt was just as much of a Fake, Evil Christian too. she gave me money for Easter not even 6 Months after my house burnt down. i was literally 4, going on 5 when it happend in 1987. so in early 1988 she gave me an "Easter Gift" a few candy eggs and $10. so at the time i was literally CRAZY about Beetlejuice. so my Mom took me to Toys R Us to get a Beetlejuice Toy. i got his Vanishing Vault. when my Aunt asked what i got, i showed her, she literally EXPLODED at me, saying i was and i still remember this to this day at 41 years old "A Goddamned, Evil, Satan Worshipping Little Shit" and how she would quote "NEVER give me another dime, and she believed it was GOD who burnt our house down, so all my evil toys would be destroyed in the fire" keep in mind, that house fire literally nearly killed me, my mom and dad... if it hadn't been for my dog Duchess waking my dad up by jumping up on the bed and literally bouncing on his Balls, and Hernia, we would have all died... while we was trying to get out of the house, Duchess got scared and ran under my moms desk and hid... she died in that fire.. i've never gotten another Dog to this day out of respect for her... if you want a semi happy ending though, in 2013 after my dad died from lung cancer, my aunt "during my mothers worst time of need" Cut us off as family and refused to speak to us anymore... my mom fell in 2020 on November 12th.. a couple hours before friday the 13th.. she broke her hip... and later not even a month later died from a blood clot.. which really put me in a terrible place mentally, but here is the "Happy ending" part.. i now own 50% of my Grandmothers house, my Aunt owns the other.. my aunt is refusing to sell because she let her worthless son live in the house. well, now im at the end stages of a partition court battle, she has done so many things in "Bad Faith" my Lawyer says there is a very good chance ill get FAR over 50% once its said and done. not only due to her owing me back rent, current rent, but her also breaking a sale contract we had finally settled on, but at the last minute she said "God told her not to sign" so basically on Monday the Lawyer is taking her before a Judge and HOPEFULLY she'll get the Karma back for calling a 4 year old with PTSD a Satan Worshiper for enjoying a fucking TIm Burton Movie character :) "Among many, MANY other terrible things she's done over the past 40 some odd years" TL;DR a Fake Christian who called a kid who just lost everything in a house fire a "Satan Worshiper" for buying a Beetlejuice Toy, is about to be Legally "Sacrificed" by that same now 41 year old Beetlejuice fan!

[@andystoysandmodels9582]

Great video dude. It really helped me understand my love of Satanic rituals. 🤣🤣🤣

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

No Andy stay away from the occult just join the toy cult

[@oxleymations]

I actually have a copy of that Saturday morning mind control book, it was at my local goodwill and the only reason i picked it up was for the ninja turtle on the cover lol

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

What does it say i haven’t been able to look into that one but i’m sure its a wild trip to the phil phillips multiverse

[@oxleymations]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut i honestly haven't read it, just got it for the turtles collection lol

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I totally get that ive been looking for one too for the collection 😁

[@Subzero271978]

Gary needed to lay off the drugs himself.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤣🤣🤣

[@robk.6591]

TMNT: A Critical Analysis looks hilarious! 😄 Whenever I'm questioning myself about a big life decision I usually ask, "What would Master Splinter Do?" #WWMSD

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤣 perfect!

[@quitaulla1569]

Very cool video! 😀✌ I love info about toys; the pictures and videos were awesome! The ignorant guy in the video who kept talking and writing about all that evil stuff in the toys, games, and comic books; and kept pushing the public to believe all that crap....... He is the one with the evil brain and heart because he is the one seeing all that bad stuff. He is the one with the problem. 😄😄😄😜

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks 🤓

[@travisburkley23]

Yes!!! I love these from you!!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks 😁

[@PoopFrogg]

Lol I had to order that TMNT Exposed book on Amazon.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I wonder if its a bestseller

[@ToyKennections]

Hey happy 55K subs Ed!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks my friend 🤓🤘

[@rodrickadamginsburg8960]

Another well done and extremely enjoyable video!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 😁

[@FNHot]

I love how hypocritical people are. In the 50's, the kids parents were like "This rock and roll stuff is corrupting our children!" the kids were like WOW OUR PARENTS ARE SQUARES! IM GONNA LISTEN TO ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT! ...... they grow up, have kids in the 80's, and now they're like "This MTV and Metal music is corrupting our children!" ..... like seriously? Can you not remember your youth? It just endlessly repeats.

[@JamesChessman]

Well I never listened to "rock and roll." Nor MTV or "metal music." Can you please stop listening to such music? Thanks!

[@johnpentiak2240]

“Things were better and more wholesome when I was kid! The kids today are wrong!” -parents just don’t understand

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Lets not forget the rebelling against jazz 😅 or disco

[@lunarmodule6419]

Super fun and well researched! Thx

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks 🤓

[@JO-iv7tl]

In a culture I've been exposed to. A child wasn't supposed to play with a toy that is a skeleton or depicts death in any way.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Woah there a lot of skeleton toys out there 🤓

[@colt5189]

It's so funny the 80's and 90's had the "Don't do drugs" campaign you saw all the time, but you don't see that anymore. I haven't hardly seen any "Don't do drugs" things in like two decades. And on the eco craze of the early 90's. It's interesting to see so many toys about that then that you don't see anymore now even though some people have gotten more crazy about the "eco-craze". I guess they figured kids wouldn't be interested in getting toys around an eco theme nowadays. It's so funny seeing that criticism of the original TMNT cartoon compared to the kind's of cartoons we are getting today that are way more "violent" and graphic. The cartoons out today make that original TMNT cartoon look like it's for babies.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yeah, they don’t really do the this is your brain on drugs thing anymore… the eco craze I think also had to do with in order to market something with cartoons, the cartoons needed to have a moral lesson or educate in a way so being eco friendly was an easy way to piece your story around

[@geoffreygiraffe1675]

This is the most ABSURD shit I have ever seen I needed a good laugh and this gave it to me in droves

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Glad it gave you some entertainment 🤓

[@NickA7062]

I don't know I grew up watching Conan it was my favorite movie and still is lol I love my Conan toys

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

You mean the remco line? 🤓

[@scubapete9500]

Throughly enjoyed it Ed! 😎

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 🤘🤓

[@thegeorgiealityshow359]

Wow Im stunned that bootleg toys didn't get target at all.They went after the official tissue,the name brands.Keeping those brands in their mouth boosted fame for them.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Well they wouldn’t get the same attention as trademarked toy representations on a book cover 😅

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

Because they could make profit off these idiotic accusations and such. Good luck getting any from bootlegs and china, heh.

[@smb-c3po]

Brainwashed churchgoers are always looking for excuses to prevent people from enjoying anything fun.

[@Snake-sg7yc]

Hello

[@smb-c3po]

@@Snake-sg7yc There are toys these days that probably should be banned for being shitty ideas.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I loved this old stuff.

[@dogeman0526]

Strap in for some toy history

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

👹 yes indeed

[@MartinCarterProduction]

Great Video, good research. Top. Greetings :)

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks 🤓

[@Ghostbuster_6109]

Loved the video

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks buddy 🤓

[@Scotty-Z70]

i wanted the KISS dollls, but mom said they were Knights In Satan's Service. I have both books of "Turmoil in the Toy Box" and still love JESUS CHRIST and enjoy TOYS.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

😅 i think turmoil went a bit overboard but it’s never bad to put things in perspective

[@Scotty-Z70]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut I was brought up secular and didn't go to church until 8th grade, and even then HATED it until i met Jesus at summer camp at age 15...so i don't know what it's like to grow up sheltered like the author may have been. I just know that He-Man is a good guy and Skeletor is evil..and it's just as good to me as C. S. Lewis's stuff. I don't see the conflict on MOST things. Now...i'm not going to say all toys are okay, but i used to run around mocking the author saying "Smurfs are evil"...naugh. I don't know the hearts of men, but I'm going to play with my toys the way i play with them, and create my own stories. In my universe Castle Grayskull IS the castle of Skeletor (like the original comics hinted at, and the original commercial stated).

[@wanderingoryx3710]

And then everyone moved onto manga

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤣

[@SkeletortheLitch]

We had the best toys. It was awesome being a kid in the 80s.

[@MiTBender]

Omg my parents had Deception of a Generation on VHS cassette back when it came out. I think they got it from the church. I remember watching it as a young kid and thinking what a load of crap it was 😆

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Still cool to see Gary unbox that sectaurs toy, gary the og unboxing toytuber

[@mightyfilm]

Never liked how the TMNT got on the "Drugs are bad, M'kay" bandwagon when 80's Mikey talked like a stoner.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

🤘🤣🤣

[@blubariblub6960]

Idk but the person behing the TMNT exposed reminds me of my dad. Your media has violence or talks about a crime? then it's EEEEEEEEEVIIIIIL and the one who wrote it's messed up in the head Has violence against (insert specific group)? then it's ok

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yikes 🥲 indeed

[@jasonstimecapsule641]

I personally remember hearing about the D & D conspiracy as a kid. The other ones were news to me. I thought it was hilarious when the nay sayer was using Snake Mountain’s 🎤, classic ignorance.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

The full thing is even better where he gets feedback from snake mountain mic … 🤣

[@jasonstimecapsule641]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut this might be worth looking into brother!

[@bossvalordave]

Great video

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thank you

[@ChickenCoop82]

As a Christian I will say this These people are awful, they give the normal Christians bad reps, most of us don’t believe like this, those are just really overanalyzing everything

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Indeed, they’re just the small group extreme in their own way 🤓

[@malecbellopajaro3738]

Finally! A Christian like me with a mind and not like those fundie bastards!

[@mikefarristhegamebunny]

The comics code put western comics behind manga when it came to genre diversity. That’s why superheroes are dominant in comics while manga has a diverse selection of genres.

[@Theretrosaint]

Yes!! Another video!!

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Thanks 🤓

[@WillS724]

Fast forward 30 years later to where parents are bringing guns to parent teacher conferences and telling teachers what to teach their kids lmaoo

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yeah the times they are a-changing

[@jasond2831]

I remember when I would go visit my Great grandma when I was a little kid. he-man was popular and I just got the slime pit. There was a kid next door I would always play with when I visited her. I knew they was religious but not how much till I brought that slime pit over and we were playing with it on his porch. His dad came out and seen it and lot his mind. Telling me how it was a toy of satan. Anything that was mythical with creatures was satans work according to him. Rock, blues, country, anything but gospel music was evil. That was the first time in my life I felt bad for a kid that had to live with all that religion. The only thing he was allowed to play with was toys along the line of what was actually real in the world.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Yikes that’s a real culture shock 🤯

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I loved being a turtle 🐢 ❤️

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

I'm still a big d&d fan.👍

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Aw yeah 😁

[@phreakazoith2237]

it's sad when an IP is not bashed for what it is but for being popular. In order to get more media attention you bash something that never deserved it. Sure it's technically the parent's job to teach their kids values but He Man and Smurfs were not too bad in this department as well.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

They went after the popular ones cuz that what parents saw in their kids toychests and on tv

[@quartercomicsart6610]

Some groups, especially religious groups can take things further than they should ... Which can do a few things ... Parents banning and kids desiring more ... I am glad my parents saw MOTU not as occultic, but as imaginative and expanding my imagination as a parent I got called evil for buying my kids Pokémon even when it actually helped my son's with math skills and social skills. SMH.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Kids bond so easily over these toy properties so why keep it hidden

[@quartercomicsart6610]

@@EdsRetroGeekOut exactly right .... I didn't worship the evil of Skeletor, I thought he was an awesome looking villain, so much so I dressed as him one Halloween and everyone thought I was cool.

[@rodrickadamginsburg8960]

Oh I remember the ABC’s…. 😶‍🌫️

[@Andulvar]

Considering that the book was aimed at American's and the way they do business and not Canadians I can see why the cattle industry wouldn't like it. They don't add hormones into their meat and the amount of pasture used for them wouldn't even feed a large city. Seems like the got some green peace morons to write it. They're well known to never do research into things. Pretty sure Gary Greenwald didn't have his doctorate degree or was a ordained pastor. Should be mentioned he also saw martial arts, yoga, statues and jewelry to be evil. Also, you can do whatever you want with Greek mythology, it's not copywritten. The biggest issue was the original Pitfiend or Balor (forgot which, it's been over 36 years for me) as they were called "Balrog" which is owned by the Tolken Estate. There's an interesting story from Sandy Petersons about the whole CoC thing which lead to TSR just removing it from the book in another printing, no lawsuit on that.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

I wonder about the sales on that vhs gary made and indeed I question that degree as well