GENIUS 1970s toys we WISH would COME BACK

[@joelyisdoingherbest]

Magna Doodle was the 70’s?? I’m shocked they were around a long time! My kids had them in the late 90’s/early 2000’s

[@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

I wanted a Merlin for Christmas in 1978 soooo bad, it hurt!! I begged and begged to have a Merlin for Christmas, and did NOT get one!!! I was crushed. Especially since a couple of kids at school came to school with them right after the Christmas break was over. I was pissed!! Now I just LOVED my Light Bright!! Had one for Christmas in 1972 - when it first came out. I played for hours. Mom had to keep getting more black papers to put in to the screen for my making new templates. Loved it.

[@95blahblahhaha]

I would've beat myself up in the mirror and then tell the teachers your parents did it and when the police took them away look at them and say "you should've gotten me a Merlin 😂😂😂😂😂😭🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️"

[@95blahblahhaha]

Too much??🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

@@95blahblahhaha LOL, no. It was such a new type of system, my parents did not understand it. It was like the first hand held gaming system. And they thought I was nuts to want one. It was too new. The other two kids at school that had them were boys. Maybe my Mother thought I was confused. LOL Oh well. I never did get one. Oh to go back in time.

[@revel8or]

I had a Merlin. Loved it.

[@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

@@revel8or Still have it?

[@avonee1976]

That Computer Perfection game, I swear I've had this in my head for years! I remember my sister and I had one, but I couldn't remember what it was called! I also had a Lite Brite, got it for Christmas in 1979. Thanks for this wonderful walk down memory lane!

[@JigsawPuzzleConnection]

Only heard of one of these and I was a kid in the 70's.

[@tombuilder1475]

loved Starbird toy as a kid in 1970's!

[@chrisneumann4202]

I had one. I didn't remember what it was called but I remember playing with it for hours.

[@tarotbrarian]

We loved our Big Trak!

[@laranaarana]

I remember buying Magna-Doodle for my 5 YO niece back in the '80s

[@jons.6216]

I see you included the tail end of the original Lite Brite commercial! It's been a running joke I've used since childhood - and especially when I see old sets in Goodwills - that if you think you're going to be able to make Bugs Bunny or Bozo the Clown you'd be out of luck because you have to get refills to make them! Haha! Never understood why they didn't just include enough pegs in the first place!

[@mariekatherine5238]

Lite Brite was lots of fun, but it was a bit dangerous with risk of overheating bulb. MagnaDoodle is still fun to play with.

[@lavenderflowersfall280]

I didn't even realize you guys had toys like this back in the 70s. Maybe I need to buy a few of these toys and see what all the fuss is about. Because when I was a kid it was Pokemon cards and PS2 or Nintendo. I hate to see how much these things cost though lol We did have a Lite Brite though but I always had to ask before I could use it and normally it was "maybe later". I'm absolutely serious.

[@frankboff1260]

When I was a kid we were lucky to get a doll. On a special Christmas we got a bike each. By the time I was 12 I got nothing. At least I never received a lump of coal like Scott Morrison did a few years back lol

[@JohnSanborn-y2n]

The Starbird was my favorite toy i had as a kid I played with it every day. It was the same time the blizzard of 78 hit when I got it for christmas.

[@lp-xl9ld]

Simon and Lite Brite are the only ones I remember (even though I didn't own either). Funny, though, how the Star Bird looks like a cross between a STAR WARS X wing and a STAR WARS Y-wing. It even looks like it's got R2D2 in the back.

[@RishonaCampbell-q7r]

I had Computer Perfection. It was a hand me down though and all the buttons didn't work. But it didn't matter. The housing was so cool -- I used to pretend that it was a master command center!

[@invisigoth777]

i converted a merlin into a musical instrument, and wrote my first 5 songs on it, before i was introduced to a piano keyboard

[@williammitchell4417]

Computer Perfection was used as a prop for the Buck Rogers TV show.

[@henrikharbin5521]

Even before you named the first one, I thought of Merlin.

[@MemoryManor]

Great minds think alike!

[@MrDDawson]

I have a 70's simon on the shelf behind me on my on cam setup. Have the box and all. I had Merlin as well but the guitar, that sent me on the path of being a guitar player for life.

[@glennso47]

Magna Doodle was like the Etch A Sketch. Just a different brand.

[@charlesk8578]

I still have my Intercept game. Not only was it larger than he described, but his explanation had nothing to do with the game. There were no 'Codes' or James Bond espionage. It was basically just Battleship with planes.

[@westtexas.2238]

My older brother had Star Bird

[@thepeternetwork]

Hasbro would eventually buy out Milton Bradley, making half the toys in this vid their own. Hasbro: 'Til All Are One.

[@martykarr7058]

Had the Big Trak and Starbird.

[@maryroberts2099]

My games were Perfection, Connect 4 and Operation

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

I had computer perfection, but I could never figure it out. I didn't have the manual

[@glennso47]

I remember that I rather play with the box than the toy that was in the box.

[@baddie21358]

Nerd

[@glennso47]

@@baddie21358I know a lot of little kids who love to play with boxes. I have grandkids who are like that.

[@MemoryManor]

What would you do with it?

[@joeydepalmer4457]

me and my brand new tv. had more fun with the giant box than with the tv

[@4508bluesky]

I still have my Merlin

[@MamaWolfCallahan50]

I had a light bright and I also had a merlin

[@MemoryManor]

What was your fondest memory playing with them?

[@janetbaker645]

I had Simon and beat the one game finally….i wanted Light Bright…but I never got one….

[@glennso47]

The only toys I enjoyed were Nylint metal toy trucks.

[@MemoryManor]

Interesting! Why did you love them so much?

[@joeydepalmer4457]

Big Trak did not have anything to do with the space program. it was about the tv show.

[@MaxStax1]

The only ones i remember are Lite-Brite and Simon.

[@MemoryManor]

Did you enjoy playing them when you were young?

[@glennso47]

The woman who was in the middle of the video looked like a female Harry Carey! The play by play announcer for the Chicago Cubs.

[@joeydepalmer4457]

Any one who says "Bee's Knees" for 1970s stuff, makes you wonder if they knew the 1970s. thats more of a 1940s/1950s thing for preppies. if they said it in the 1970s was only because they where stoners from the old days and where just coming out of it in the 1970s

[@mariekatherine5238]

Bees Knees is from the 1920’s!

[@joeydepalmer4457]

well it was something like tha. I knew it was not from the 70s@@mariekatherine5238

[@baddie21358]

Magna Doodle would sell till this day

[@MemoryManor]

Do you think it would beat the iphones kids have these days?

[@MikeLutton]

i stil got my simon

[@paulallen8495]

Dollar Tree sells a miniature Simon knock-off, for $1.25, in the toy section. I've got one around here, somewhere.

[@tedkolterman]

no MERLIN sucked simon rubics cube train race tracks and atari were more popular

[@jjohnson71958]

i love lite brite original my adhd loves it

[@MemoryManor]

What’s your favorite part about it?

[@jjohnson71958]

nostalgia and memories @@MemoryManor