Old Army Toys

[@refealibazeta7886]

I'm 60 and still play with my army men soldiers. I bought most of the Timmy toys WW2 army men on E-Bay. I collect them all.

[@KıraçYıldırır]

This is my favorite video ever

[@jeffs60s]

Thank you!

[@jkssr1885]

Thanks man was my favorite mattel also. worker and collected soda bottles to pay for it. GREAT gun

[@genesanford9412]

These were so cool.Being a little kid in the early 70,s ,we had 100,s of soldiers, & 1/2 tracks ,jeeps tanks , & firecrackers for bombs.No lie.Yes , i was careful & still have all my digits :D those were the days,plastic armies ,& lots of dirt.

[@johnmilner9068]

No matter where we grew up, our memories are very similar. I grew up the Greater Cleveland area and we did the same things. Can you imagine the outrage by today's standards? Thanks for sharing.

[@jeffs60s]

Yes, the outrage would be ridiculous. Those times were the best days I can recall.

[@Indead125]

I am 12 turning 13 and ever since I was 4 I have been playing military ww2 and many other wars/gun related games and no ones as really cared

[@tonybanas9048]

Hey John, I grew up on E200th St. Where did you live?

[@masudashizue777]

I was born in 1954 so, naturally, I was in the TV show Combat and couldn't get enough of army toys. However, I was living in Japan so I had a tough time getting American toys. However, I was able to get a Mattel tommygun, a toy grenade, and a real M1 helmet, thanks to my father who was in the Army.

[@yikes5790]

I was also born in 1954 my father was also in the army was stationed in Germany. I also grew up watching Combat my favorite show my father was a WWII and Korean war veteran retired in 1964. My first Marx battleground play set Christmas 1963 and Marx M1 helmet and Thompson machine gun my brother got the German helmet with a German Luger. we would play in the woods for hours with all the neighborhood kids.

[@jacowitz3957]

I wish I was you when I was a child. I'm only 13 and I enjoy these old plastic army men.

[@paulfo2822]

I like them to

[@t.gojirafanstudios5853]

same

[@mikhael7948]

Im 12 and i still like them too

[@plaguecrow754]

me too but im eleven

[@AHAproductions712]

Same

[@johnsears8881]

My favorites were the Mattel Tommy Burst Machine Gun and the little green army men. My brother would chew off the heads of the army men unfortunately. My Mom worked and on Fridays would bring me these much bigger army men, maybe 5". I had them in American, German and Japanese. I too remember that sound of your gear bouncing around when you ran. Thanks for sharing.

[@jeffs60s]

The Mattel Tommyburst was my favorite army toy of all time!

[@elijahdagoatync9144]

@jacko channel they do

[@blaggard132]

I remember those 5" soldiers...And the Cowboys and Indians too.

[@manweller1]

I grew up in England at the time Airfix was huge there tank and plastic solider range was the bomb. Hours and hours of fun I have never been happier since. Thanks for posting

[@cuse445]

When my Dad returned from Vietnam in 1970, he gave me his helmet and canteen to play with, I was in heaven!

[@jongonzalez7775]

so cool

[@coleparker]

I was born in 1953. I had many of these old toys, especially the Army Men.

[@jlovebirch]

In the 60s there were so many WWII shows and films on TV it was a natural to play army in the woods where I lived in Conn. Had the helmet with netting and put leafy branches in it for camouflage. Plus there was GI Joe and the MPC and Marx Battleground plastic army men sets (US, German, Japanese). Great memories of a time when you used your imagination in play as opposed to simply reacting to a video game, etc.

[@walden6347]

When I was little, my friends and I also used pine cones as grenades, but we also used halves of a corn cobs. Since we lived next to quite a few cornfields, the Autumn harvests would bring corncobs that weren't taken in with the rest of the crop. The kernels were often times loose on them, so when we threw them on the ground or a hard surface, the kernels would fly all over the place in a spectacular explosion. These were affectionately called "cornades" by my buddies and myself.

[@oldgoat142]

OMG, the memories that have come flooding back to me while watching this! Playing army, collecting toys, holding massive maneuvers in the basement of the house with model ships, planes, and LOTS of toy soldiers! Wonderful, way more simple times when you can just be a kid. Terrific upload.

[@manweller1]

I bet you miss those simple days? I know I do

[@oldgoat142]

@@manweller1 Yeah, I really do.

[@TheSteveRobinson]

I remember these toys. Still have a lot of my 60's soldiers. Glad to see others feel the same way. Remember Johnny 7?

[@johndemelo5890]

Listening to you reminded me of , well me. Did the same the same playing army and watched Combat! as well. I also had the M-1 Garand to rifle. Alas, my grandfather was "spring cleaning" the basement and "disposed " of all my collection. He thought I was getting too old for it. NO. Still think about that time in my life, it was GREAT.

[@Kentucky_Caveman]

Army toys are my #1 favorite toys.

[@garypanter1881]

Sounds like we're about in the same age group. I had similar experiences. I grew up on Air Force dependent housing and there was so many kids we could literally make armies. I had all the Marx toys, the same Tommy Gun the Johnny Reb cannon and actual tripod machine guns. I had the Alamo set and the Iwo Jima Marines vs. Japanese, too many others to mention . Those toys are worth thousands today. Who knew huh? Well I flat just wore him out and when they broke I taped them or glued them and played with him till there was literally nothing left. When I was about 13 or14 I discovered the Battle of Waterloo and 172nd scale plastic toy soldiers the one inch kind I've been collecting and playing with them all my life to this day. When I finally retire I'll probably spend most of my days collecting and playing with them. When the Vietnam War hit that's about the time the protests against war toys started. You can still find them but you have to go online or someplace unusual Some of these seasonal Halloween stores actually have some pretty good-looking toy guns. Enjoyed the video, thank you

[@jeffs60s]

Hi Gary, so sorry I missed this comment. Thanks for all those great memories you conjured. I never had any ot the great play sets like Battleground, I just collected things piece by piece.

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[@brittanygearhart9168]

My greatest Grandpa was an American Soldier during World War II

[@idiotgamer7737]

I remember when my aunt bought me my first army men set at the DG. Had so much fun with those, still like to play with them today

[@natureman1740]

Wish I could’ve had your childhood Jeff. I picked up the camo Mattel Tommyburst on eBay a little bit ago, greatest purchase ever.

[@2NDCBT]

Thanks for the memories." The smell of plastic" Played army in the cornfields of Hershey Penn. Ended up joining the Marines in '82.

[@perth.railfan1522]

At 16 years old I remember when I was younger, I would've crawled through the long grass, getting dirty, ect and just the feeling of army and with the thousands of toy soldiers is a feeling kids these days will never experience unless they're one of the lucky few who do

[@dinkiizido7771]

It's fun hearing your stories sir. I can relate with collecting army men I used to have boxes and boxes of those things!

[@davehowe7332]

Good memories thanks for sharing.

[@tingang31]

Miss em. That gimme crying.

[@13thBear]

This is one cool, nostalgic thread fersure! I had a ton of military toys from the small Airfix figures and Minitanks, the two inch Marx Battleground playset, Timmee plastic army men, the 6 inch soldiers, toy guns, pistols, surplus army helmet, ammo belt, cap firing grenades, bazooka, machine gun, and even a mortar! I don't remember who made it, but it fired a blue plastic bomb like the bazooka shot, also. Great times! I watched Combat! on tv, Rat Patrol, and The Gallant Men. It was a swell time to be a kid. All that was probably why I enlisted in the Army and went to Viet Nam, so I could be a REAL soldier, an infantryman! Thanks for the memories and the pictures of our toys from the past.

[@DerREALpatrich]

Wish we had our own version of the 80cents store here in asia

[@alfredotorres2376]

I had one rifle that looks like the M1 what the bolt action that was fun and playing the GI Joes were cool back in the day from 70 to 72

[@jimchumley6568]

There was a large hill on the school grounds me and friends and my cousin use to use for various eras in history. We would always have to conquer the hill and set our flag on top. Neat times. Sometimes it took us two hrs to conquer the mountain. Awesome times!

[@MRE_Pizza]

Always fun to pretend to stab your friends - just don't actually stab your friends

[@mrsmooth1542]

hey, i am 14 years old and i grew up with little to none of this of what you are talking about. Im just sad on how my friends didnt want to play army. I would have loved growing up when you did, my dad did and he said him and some of the boys on the block got only like 2 guns and helmets and played and he said it may have been the most fun he has ever had. He gave me his toy soldiers, just like my grandpa gave me his metal ones. My grandpa said he used to dig holes on the side of a hill and put the plastic toy soldiers in um and blow um up with firecrackers. It really set into me that playing army was a part of every generation, except for mine. I own a huge toy soldier collection and still collect frequently today. Little to no one else does this and it just makes me sad. I feel old when saying "kids now-a-days!" but anyone who says that isnt wrong.

[@chejlr]

It was these toys in the 60s that made me join the army as soon as i was old enough.

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Feb. 2018---Remember as kids, my 2 brothers and I played with the plastic Army figures. Make trenches, pill boxes, etc. using a blanket for our troops, then shoot rubber bands at each others troops. I'm 64.

[@tonybanas9048]

Thank you Jeff for this video AAA+++ I'm 67 and have the same memories from Ohio.

[@bells-xc9gz]

I love the 60’s army toys I have a 1964 GI joe and army men and guns.

[@danielanderson3286]

I thought it was just me but I so miss those days memories sweet memories

[@jeffs60s]

They were the best of days. If you like this, you might like my Facebook page: facebook.com/60s-Memories-1398444800404144/

[@billsummy2412]

Wonderful memories thank you .... :-)

[@jeffs60s]

Thanks Bill!

[@antalgergo2699]

Bamboo stick as artillery gun's barrels,pinecones as grenades,sticks tied together as explosives,toilet paper rolls as M18 smoke grenades or,when taped together,as an anti tank weapon of any kind,it was all about improvising and using the things around us as basic toys,but since at school we couldn't bring toy guns we just used our hands,we even had different kinds of weapons and you had to learn all of them! Good times.

[@nolanwebster1039]

I used to have a toy AK-74 machine gun camoflauged similar to the thompson.

[@joshuahartsell9456]

You should make more video like this

[@jeffs60s]

Thank you!

[@imperialbricks4217]

I wish I was a kid in your time I am 11 and I love army men so much. And I am so sad they don’t make these anymore.

[@esquad5406]

I loved to play army when I was a kid. Now I do ww2 reenacting. Grown men playing army with real guns. And jeeps. AND TANKS!!!!

[@peterdiepenthal4090]

There were a lot of toys we had when we where kids that they would never make and release today

[@AlexBabcock-hw9iz]

LoL we did the same but bb guns the spring ones or just one pump of the pump types. For bazookas the old coke cans you could take cut the ends duct tape them together use lighter fluid and launch tennis balls. How the hell we didn't lose an eye,get burned up or kill each other I don't know. We also threw darts at each other pretty painful. We also built a jeep using 2 X 4's plywood and bike tires. The hood was a compartment a small kid could hide in and make a surprise attack from. Ahhhh good times for sure.

[@williamoxx9133]

I had the Mattel Tommy Gun and several other makes, but the Mattel was the best. Combat was my favorite show along with "The Gallant Men" that took place in Italy. I had several Grenades and a rubber bayonet that went on the end of the "Paris" Springfield Drill Rifle.

[@charlesguzman9045]

I loved those old army men and I played with them and my dad and me would play with them.

[@sloanchampion85]

The absolute best

[@arthurleino]

This is neat. I grew up west of Forest Grove, and we had a 88 cents store. I had a lot of Army men too. Thanks for the post.

[@jacobmullett4002]

Does anyone else recognize the theme of" The Great Escape" in the background? Miss those days, oh to be a child again. Still collecting army men, and military vehicles.

[@johncirrincione1522]

Beautiful memories we were active unlike the spoiled kids today

[@michellegarner6989]

Hi I hope you are reading this I am nine years old and I live in Canada and I Love army too

[@scorpio5289]

Loved the video.I can relate in all respects.

[@blaggard132]

Wow I had the same childhood playing Army and I went through hundreds of green Army Men. I loved those days.

[@facundogimenez7529]

love the theme from Combat!

[@IAM-ye6vy]

You have a lot OF army toys in the old days I HAVE a lot TO.

[@Guest-ok8fl]

the good old days

[@jefffawver3389]

Life was great.

[@leksilex5062]

I play army men toys and I am 9 years old and I have a lot of tans and greens and t and I love your videos and I liked it

[@allancove4483]

I know I'm going to date myself here, but seems I remember as a kid growing up back in the day, my childhood best friend had a army set called Battle Ground, complete with soldiers, both green American soldiers & gray German soldiers. It also included gray plastic barbed wire, along with these bridges, brown in color if memory serves me right, along with military vehicles like tanks in green & gray colors with halftracks like we saw in this video & of course jeeps & trucks N such. I mean we're talking the whole works. Does anyone else remember this, or am I'm just completely crazy? I know we played it back in the day, because we would go in the basement & set up our "army" & then find some small stones in the ally for ammo & one really decent size stone for the BIG BOMB that would really wreck havoc. lol We also would set em up outside in the summer & just let er rip!!! lol But yeah, does anyone else remember this or am I like I said, completely CRAZY?

[@pankermit2724]

I Love toy soldiers.

[@volt7815]

I have a lot of World War II army stuff a World War II American backpack helmet M1 Garand and a grenade but when I play with them outside I use pine cones to:)

[@captainlui5140]

I wish army toys were still like that

[@GhostofCicero]

Well we would have been good friends back in the day. I also had lots of army men. My favorite were a lot smaller than the traditional army men but they were much better detailed and came in better uniforms and poses. You could get German, Japanese, British, and American infantry and Marines. They were the absolute best. I would set up huge battle fields where small rocks and clods of dirt served as artillery, eventually moving up to firecrackers. Great memories.

[@josephberbano7047]

You can't find it anywhere now except online

[@mcfata3059]

I love army men to I have like I don't know maybe a 1,000 or less I have all sorts of color green yellow blue tan and brown man this guys are awesome I have star wars ones too

[@marcusmanibog5117]

I’m 14 but back in 2015 we use to have army wars in the streets we did everything we could to make it as realistic as possible one of them even built a tank using a rideable toy car

[@2lessc4437]

You were like me as off right know DUDE URE ARMY STUFF IS BETTER THAN ANYTHING I GOT :

[@johngalt6929]

Combat! was a great show.

[@camerong7365]

As much as I love old toys from th 50s to the 90s, I also really love the new toys that have been made today. Obviously a lot of today's toys are complete flops, but there are still very cool toys today.

[@yikes5790]

I was the same way growing up expect my father was in the Army retired 22 years WWII and Korea war veteran when I grew up I also joined the army retired 27 years Iraq war veteran.

[@lameking2839]

I wish there were store in 2018

[@johnrettig1880]

Some of my friends would call to see if I could come down to the park to play Army . Their mistake was they would play Army , when I was playing Marine Corps . Especially when I had my Johnny 7 " Seven Weapons in one " .

[@TheSteveRobinson]

Johnny 7 was the best military toy ever.

[@radiootoo]

We used pine cones for grenades as well! But I have to find a COMBAT JUNGLE DAGGER!

[@robertbeatty9563]

i grew up in the 70's playing army, cowboys, cops and robbers, army men, johnny west, gi joe, plenty of toy guns and holsters, caps

[@shaggydelcart8002]

The time of real toys

[@quinleyfishingandvlogsco.798]

I'm 12 and I have the same hobby

[@simonabunderla8611]

Im 13 and i love to play army and with toy army man

[@plaguecrow754]

@@simonabunderla8611 mee too i have grey,tan and green army men

[@ReconRookie]

I wish I was born around this time, instead I ended up getting into video games

[@tsmotions3446]

Dude that sounds fun

[@ritchiea.hall3819]

They still new army men in dollar tree but they only have the base

[@dinnoclans7346]

This is good

[@AverageOhioan1903]

I play an apocalyptic game called unturned (this is not an ad btw) and the remco bazooka looks just like a new Rocket Luancher they’ve added in resentfully I just find that intresting

[@thetrojanwarrior1467]

I play Unturned to

[@kerrycole8806]

Ditto except for mine was the five-and-dime in Perkasie Pennsylvania

[@dorihalbert]

Where can I find cool army toys near boise idaho

[@Xray6631]

just now starting do this stuff at 11 with airsoft guns with friends but we don't use pinecones we use airsoft grenades

[@Sgt-lott10]

X-Ray Studios Presents hello there

[@asklargaming632]

It's a shame they don't make this stuff anymore

[@herzogvonosterreich3027]

I am your 285th subscriber and your 180th subscriber

[@t.gojirafanstudios5853]

I 12 yrs old I have the same hobby to play with military Toys

[@edithmendez6280]

Me to

[@Eclipse_Nature]

What's the music in the background

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

A M E R I C A !

[@rileyjordan232]

I had a m1 grand😌😌

[@brighteffects9784]

Does the store still exist? I live in the area and really want to check it out!

[@jeffs60s]

I think that store closed sometime in the 70's.

[@jeffs60s]

It's been gone for more many years.

[@mackmyles9034]

Since now days they don't sell cool army kits like the gun ho kit me and my friend go to gun shows and get replica army gear (we don't damage the real antiques) and old airsoft guns and play like we are in Vietnam or the pacific in ww2

[@grixjay8620]

well... You let me remember my amazing memory when i was kid Nah! am going to college

[@knighttemplar6529]

Actually the Thompson toy is actually based off a slightly older one when they first came into service but they were simplified later

[@jeffs60s]

Thanks for that info, it's good to know that!

[@ninjagonzalez1520]

I have old army Man

[@puppetM-vv5eb]

Hey do u got any army men for sale?

[@german_shepard_2313]

I watched this vid like 8 times love the vid because I play with army soldiers I'm just a kid so my dad pays me $5 on every Sunday I'm saving up my money to buy a huge tan army ship I have a green one now I want a tan one it's $56 dollers I have $14 .