Most Popular Toys from The 1960s | The Year You Were Born

We list the Most Popular Toys from the 1960's. So if you were born in the 60's, this list will show you what toy was popular when you were born. Even if you just want to look back at the most popular toy from 1960 to 1969, this list is for you!
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[@cyclenut]

The 60's had lots of fun toys. Almost all were made in the USA, were built for real kid play, and provided lot of fun play... This practice seemed to end in the 90's as toys were no longer made in the USA and the toys suffered... I'm glad I got be a kid back then.. I feel sorry for kids today with their zombie screens.

[@berdinderindas]

ok boomer

[@RetroCrunch]

I was waiting till some idiot would say this. Lol.

[@berdinderindas]

@@RetroCrunch Lol

[@susanyeadon6657]

I’m with you Paul

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

I'm sorry for kids today too, growing up with video games? Don't they want to paint and build their own car models( in the 1970s, car model kits were $2.00 each ).

[@testodude]

If you were a 12 year old boy in 1966, your life's mission was to talk the neighborhood girls into a game of Twister.

[@krislippert9375]

So great to see my childhood toys! I still have my Easy Bake oven(with original box) and Barbie camper. 😊

[@vickielawson3701]

I still have my Barbie camper and my first Barbie I got her when I was 3 and I'm now 57 I still have my Marble the Mustang as well...

[@kevinharrissr5255]

Kris Lippert I could never get my sister's to work. Just outta curiosity did yours ever really work. My sister never figured it out either. Now that ive given it some thought, it was probably just defective lol

[@krislippert9375]

@@kevinharrissr5255 She did. I guess the longest employment had to be, as an adult, 6 years? That was under dire circumstances too. For real! I kid you not...LOL😊

[@kevinharrissr5255]

@@krislippert9375 lol

[@sadiegrill2846]

Kris, I LOVED my yellow Easy Bake Oven. All of my friends had one as well.

[@kevinharrissr5255]

Anybody out there remember those ssp's with that zip tie pull string. Or mattel's sizzlers hot wheels. Ah man good times and good stuff. Oh yea and those click clacks which was just to glass balls on a string that you clicked together. Or the wheelo. Man I need a time machine.

[@sadiegrill2846]

We called them Clackers. Loved them. My Mom, not so much. 🤗

[@kevinharrissr5255]

@@sadiegrill2846 lol that name makes sense. But they were so dangerous imo

[@tubecrazy65]

OMG Kevin me and my brother had those sizzler cars when we were little we had tons o fun with those things thanks for jogging my memory buddy

[@tubecrazy65]

And guess what guys we all had loads of fun even without video games we didn't know about Atari until I was about 13 maybe

[@machineman6498]

Smash up racers? Red and blue with ejecting body panels. Miss those.

[@steveb7310]

Anybody remember “Air Blaster”? I got one when I was about 5 years old... and it still works.

[@walterfechter8080]

Erector Sets, Flinstones play sets, Moon base play sets, Chatty Kathy dolls, The Seaview sub ("Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea") Remco army guns, Lionel train sets, slot cars and tracks, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. guns, GI Joe, Barbie, Skipper, Ken, model kits (cars, ships, aircraft, monsters, et al). Play Doh Fun Factory, Frisbee discs, board games, Twister, Vaccu-Forms, The Thing Maker (Mattel) stuffed animals (Teddy Bears et al) and a LOT more! Remember Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Macy's, Halley's (in Cleveland, OH). Those mail order catalogs! Kids standing in amazement as they leer at displays in storefront windows (right after Thanksgiving)! Man -- those were the days! Where's The Way-Back Machine! MERRY CHRISTMAS 2020 to everyone -- everywhere! BUY AMERICAN-MADE (if possible)!

[@RetroCrunch]

Some awesome toys you listed!

[@walterfechter8080]

@@RetroCrunch -- Thanks! My Ma worked at Halley's department store in Cleveland (OH) and at a Western Auto chain store in the early 1960s. My Ma and Pop played "Santa" and spoiled my siblings and I at Christmas during the early 60s. Ha! We appreciated everything we got for Christmas! That stuff was made in America too! Cheers and Merry Christmas 2020!

[@RetroCrunch]

@@walterfechter8080 They did spoil you! You were calling out toys I totally forgot about. lol

[@tubecrazy65]

Did you ever make a drawbridge with yours

[@walterfechter8080]

@@tubecrazy65 -- Yes, I did. :-) I was also into collecting toy dinosaurs. :-)

[@jeffbecker8716]

You're off by a year. Hot Wheels came out in '68. I remember getting them for Christmas that year, and then I got the Supercharger in '69. In 1970, I was eight and got upgraded to rechargeable electric Sizzlers with a Juice Machine and by '73 I was whole hog into AFX slot cars.

[@RetroCrunch]

It's not by when they came out my dude. It's the year they were the most popular toy.

[@tubecrazy65]

Omg all these comments and toys are letting me relive my childhood memories this is fantastic

[@Johnnyboy792]

Aww Dude, you forgot Rock em Sock Robots :):):)

[@RetroCrunch]

It wasnt the most popular.

[@Johnnyboy792]

@@RetroCrunch Those were awesome !!! :)

[@Linda7647]

The ONE THING I wanted most throughout my childhood was the Easy Bake Oven. I BEGGED my mom to get me one for several years, but she always said no because she was afraid of me burning the house down with it or something of that nature.

[@RetroCrunch]

Please tell me you bought one later in life. If not, you should go treat yourself by buying it as a keepsake from your childhood missed.

[@Linda7647]

@@RetroCrunch No, I never did :(

[@escotthollingsworth6074]

You're not alone. My older sister was told the same thing.

[@Linda7647]

@@escotthollingsworth6074 Your sis and I should get together and tear up the kitchen with Easy Bake Ovens, LOL

[@sadiegrill2846]

Linda7649. That's too bad. They were fantastic.

[@ronnie6902]

I loved the " Air Blaster" gun. It would shoot a ball of air. You could put out a match or blow down a house of cards from across the room. LOL.

[@steveb7310]

I still have one of those and it still works after over 50 years.

[@ronnie6902]

@@steveb7310 I would keep it, it may be worth money. Old toys and games become valuable. Just like the Furby toy. It is worth a lot of money if you have the original. It was popular back in the 80s-90's.

[@ronnie6902]

@Jayce Roesel that is great! keep it for old times memories and also it may be worth a lot of money, especially if it is in good condition and it works good.

[@bobmg50]

I love how they put LOL on the toy light Brite supposedly from the 60s. I know the toy is from the 60s but you think they might’ve come up with something more appropriate like a smiley face. I did get a laugh out of it LOL

[@padraicodomhnall2760]

Good point Robert.

[@kevinharrissr5255]

Could never get my sister's easy bake oven to work. Always ended up eating the batter

[@RetroCrunch]

Mine always came out not fully cooked. We'd send it through a second time and push it out faster.

[@kevinharrissr5255]

@@RetroCrunch ok. So my sister's oven was defective I'm sure. All it ever did was humm. But the memories of trying and trying over and over again to get it to work is so halarious now when I think about it. Fun times though. Priceless

[@piobmhor8529]

My brothers and I had great adventures with G.I. Joes. Being a Canadian with a father in the Royal Canadian Artillery, 1967 was the year the Canadian Commando model came out, complete with a Brodie helmet, battle dress and puttees just like dad wore. I remember that was all I wanted that Christmas, and sure enough Santa came through. My older brother got the Wehrmacht version. They had epic battles and we have fond memories.

[@RetroCrunch]

How did you feel about the smaller 3 inch figures in the 80s?

[@piobmhor8529]

Just wasn’t the same. I know kids’ imaginations are infinite, however a tiny representation of a fictional character portrayed in a Saturday morning cartoon sort of limits that imagination. By the way, I was wrong about the year, it was Christmas 1966 not 1967 when the Canadian Commando was released. If my memory is correct, the soldier came with Lance Corporal stripes, a Sten gun and WW2 webbing. Pretty cool for a six year old boy.

[@melissacooper4482]

I remember playing with some of those toys listed but I wasn't born until 1979.

[@lauraann7816]

I'm born the same year as Chatty Cathy yay!

[@eleyanalake1069]

I din't have Barbie, , here in the UK. when I was a little girl. That came a bit later! I had a Sindy doll, and a Lady Penelope doll, from Thunderbird's are go series! I also remembered my cousin had Thunderbird rockets!! So I played with them, when I went to visit! We had the famous Matchbox cars, which my Dad got for free, whenever he got petrol for the car! I loved playing with them too!!! I can also remember the Tressie doll, which my younger cousin had. You would press the button, and her hair would grow!!!! The toys were far better quality then , compared to how they make them now!

[@carrasco2011sc]

And most of these toys are forgotten while Little Miss no name doll has gotten very pricy now.

[@erichamilton3373]

Someone mentioned lego...but lego didn't become popular in the US till late 70s. All these toys were still really popular in the 70s too.

[@machineman6498]

For a split second I was about to search for a MadL shaped Light Brite.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

No A.C. Gilbert stuff? I'm a baby boomer so I remember all of them!

[@myapinion7532]

Wish l could find the equivalent of this video of British toys from the sixties. I live in Ireland.

[@carolmoorby9363]

I have many of the vintage toys I saved ( many from the 60’s). Tonkas , Barbie’s, Cabbage pitches, most Fisher Pice play sets, tupper ware sets, games, hot wheels, match box cars, and on and on! I even have a spring horse from 1965 in fantastic condition as well as a s all tricycle. just wondering what they’re worth now, especially all of the Fisher Price sets.I would love to be able to get some smallwooden people that go with those sets

[@chrisparkes2179]

1:10 more realistic than the average boy band.

[@johnantes6394]

No silly puddy or slinky ...hmm

[@RetroCrunch]

They werent as popular I guess.

[@sandydevin8580]

Ohhhh, I loved silly putty on the Sunday comics. And slinky... hours of fun.

[@emerald9578]

@@sandydevin8580 oh how i remember!

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@@RetroCrunch I liked silly putty ALOT. but not Slinky too well.

[@emilylynn3217]

OMG! those Barbies are nothing like mine today's Barbies. I would love to have a Chatty Cathy Doll like that one in this video.

[@dawnelder9046]

I had Chatty Cathy. My daughter's also played with her.

[@neilbedford5082]

Meccano, Scalextric, Airfix...

[@stargazer4508]

I found out Chatty Cathy would gurgle under water.....then she stopped talking! I was so 😠 🗯 😡

[@RetroCrunch]

I find this scary, sad, and also funny..

[@sarasmith19]

She scared the heck out me

[@sarasmith19]

Barbie was bald if you took her ponytail down

[@padraicodomhnall2760]

😂

[@TheEDNC]

1:07 Gi Joe? More like the Village People...

[@traveltimegaming4724]

good year toys

[@tubecrazy65]

I had most of them

[@russellcandy9850]

Did any of you guys have a Burger Chef? Male version of the Easy Bake Oven. It cooked a burger with a lightbulb. Real bitch to clean!! Fun though!!

[@marthabixler1606]

Our version of gaming was board games my personal favorite was trouble

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@Mrs T I played Monopoly, Fame and Fortune (with gold coins), Careers, and The Game of Life - but the Life games today don't have the Revenge! spaces anymore! When you landed on that you either send an opponent back ten spaces, or you make them pay - was it $100,000? (If they had it).

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@Mrs T I'm sorry that you didn't play the original The Game of Life - at the start you get your diploma and auto insurance, after that fire insurance and a stock certificate, but they're optional - at the end you could be at - maybe Millionaire Acres or the poorhouse? The new version of Life changed that - a retirement home? Anyway, counting your big stash of money at the end ( alot bigger than Monopoly) decides the winner of the game.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@Mrs T I'm assuming you didn't play Careers either (I forgot most of it anyway) did you ever play Green Ghost, with the board that lights up in the dark (play at night only)? I forgot what they calledthem in the game, but I didn't mind reaching down into those three graves - one had snakes in it (rubber bands).

[@joannamcpeak7531]

I had a friend who was creeped out by chatty Kathy

[@donhgr]

Legos 1962 and let us not forget Tonka trucks

[@emerald9578]

Ruggid trucks they were!

[@tubecrazy65]

Is anybody familiar with a silver mountain Express train

[@escotthollingsworth6074]

The Astrolite fron Hasbro was one of my favorite toy when it came out on 69. Depending when it emerged for sale, I was either 9 or 10 at the time. I loved it till in the early 70s when I was told that my half-brother was to get it. All he did was break all the pieces and lose other things. Could have shot him for doing that, but that was the way it was in my life. Got something that I loved and he got them later to destroy.

[@peterhogan9537]

hot wheels came out in 1968.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

It was either 1967 or '68, on Xmas day I got my fairly big, thick cardboard playhouse. It came with nuts, bolts, and washers in a plastic bag, I got a screwdriver and pliers and went outside, at 9:A.M.,by 12 noon the church bells up the street were ringing and I was jumping in the air, my playhouse was finished (but unfortunately, didn't last too long)!

[@raf1425]

I got a GI Joe for Christmas though i wasn't into them. Took one of my Dad's power tools, drilled a hole in it's butt, inserted an M-80, and blew him up. i got more pleasure from that than ever playing with the damn thing.

[@tubecrazy65]

We gave GI Joe a hard time mine fell out of a tree and broke his neck of course he had some help getting that way

[@Laceykat66]

I still HAVE my Chatty Cathy.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Were you in a hurry when you made this?

[@RetroCrunch]

No. Just still in a learning phase at the time I guess.. I could do a much better version nowadays. 😀

[@RetroCrunch]

A good honest question though.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Retro Crunch - yes please do. I think most people like to look back and enjoy wonderful memories with their toys. Each item needed to be covered a little longer. Look forward to your next one.

[@peachyuwu9072]

And edward mobley? >:(

[@alabardaspaziale3208]

☺👍

[@angelicaherrera8379]

Hello

[@thomasmulhall4873]

Why do you have that awful music? Not appropriate for the 1960s.

[@angelicaherrera8379]

I am l love you

[@ronniebiggs4026]

Very very annoying music