Vintage UK Toys & Games Adverts (Vol.2)

[@alexskywalker4888]

me two minutes ago; freaking out over a 15 second advert on youtube. me now; sitting watching 15 MINUTES of adverts.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I know! Guilty pleasures. ☺️

[@urbandiversion7410]

So many memories! So glad I grew up in the late 70’s , early 80’s before computer consoles and social media.

[@TheMuddatrucker]

Take me back to 1980 and leave me there 😭

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

We had console in the 80s, collecovision, Atari 2600. Intellivision.

[@kristianTV1974]

I was born in 74, but still find this comment a bit weird. Game consoles were great, but social media is a very different aspect of technology in the years since. I suspect you're over 70 or demented anyway.

[@urbandiversion7410]

@@kristianTV1974 😂 Neither, just preferred the use of one’s imagination and creative play before any screen time! Showed my 11 year old son some of these toys, especially Big Track and Fantom 4 (both of which I had, along with others) his response was “what do they do ?” My response…. The possibilities were endless !! Drawn a blank stare before his attention went back to Zelda on his switch 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@mrshankly213]

Us Western kids from 70s-present should all be thankful our parents could get us toys for xmas every year. I'm sure the toys/consoles of each generation were great for that generation, no need to compete with each other.

[@MrMittens1974]

You know you're getting old when you remember quite a few of these from when they were actually broadcast.

[@amandam480]

Yes I remember bigtrack😊

[@Leon-lt5gv]

​@@amandam480your lucky ' big track had a big price tag 😁 i had most of these toys ' born bang on 1970 '

[@Yewbzee]

Loved growing up in the 70's. I want to go home.

[@niknoks7638]

🤣👏

[@chrisholland7367]

A time when you were able interact with other children of similar age groups. You would go out and play with your mates and you wouldn't come home until your parents came looking for you.

[@Habu2]

@@chrisholland7367 Yes Chris my parents had to shout us/me from the backdoor almost every night across to the nearby playing field.

[@1000sofusernames]

I would do but my parents 5 bedroom detached cost 5k in the 70s and it's about 350k if I want to buy it now.

[@Steve-K.G.]

Wish I could go back to those times, really miss them. Thanks for the video :-)

[@paulmuaddib3470]

When children were just children, boys and girls having fun 🙏🏼

[@mcwomble99]

Bollocks, kids are still being kids. Easy to look with rose coloured glasses at the past, but things are equally as crap then as it is now

[@jazzman1626]

@@mcwomble99 Nowhere near as many kids with depression and anxiety back then, so it’s not rose tinted, it’s memory.

[@Thorstvedt1]

Isn't it incredible that the kids in the ADVERTS appear to be happy playing with toys? What else did you expect?

[@MrWayout74]

And Saville was at his peak

[@deathkebab]

@@jazzman1626 I had chronic anxiety my entire childhood, never saw anyone about it though so I'm not in the statistic. Are kids actually more anxious now or are more people just seeking help for them?

[@geordiewishart1683]

I'm almost welling up! I was born in 1975 so remember a lot of these toys. They were much happier times

[@31wozza]

i was born 1975 love these ads

[@RetroSteveUK]

I'm a '74 kid, so very similar experience. 😄

[@PrinceBarin77]

I really wanted that Big Trak. Here I come eBay…

[@leoevs441]

Same here born in 74..👍👍

[@carlturner6256]

@@RetroSteveUK I was born in 68,... so when big trak came out I couldn't wait to get my hands on one

[@mrjohn.whereyoufrom]

I spent many hours throwing my Action Man out of my bedroom window trying to get the parachute working. Thanks for compiling these adverts. Takes me back to great, simpler times.

[@crispin8888]

And leaking in the bath in his diving helmet and lead boots ...

[@whiterabbit1632]

My dad made me a parachute from a bin bag with those sticky circles to protect punched paper to stop the string lines to stop ripping the bag. My action man sailed perfectly to the ground from an upstairs window for a fraction of the price.

[@voidkid420]

I took mine to school and we broke 3 action man legs that day.

[@jasonantigua6825]

My friends Nan live on the 7th floor of a tower block and we launched Action Man out the window! The chute didn’t open though

[@whiterabbit1632]

@@jasonantigua6825 You should of borrowed mine geez!

[@paulshepherd1348]

Wow.... that was quite the blast from the past... I had a lot of those toys and games, and wanted but never got around to others. What a happier, more innocent and better world is was back then.

[@RetroSteveUK]

... and we spend years trying to re-buy all that stuff on eBay, right? 🤣

[@paulshepherd1348]

@@RetroSteveUK yeah thinking it will help us relive those happy carefree days. Sadly the world has moved on to an almost unrecognizable state... not just technology, but people's attitudes and the way we live. Oh well... makes these kind of collections of ads all the more sweet. We can drift away and reminisce for a short time. 👍

[@Habu2]

Would have to agree Paul.....

[@paulshepherd1348]

@@Habu2 good to know, there is still a few of us the remember those carefree days.

[@redskin6146]

😍Even now, there is no better non-electronic boys toy than Action Man.... amazing how many options and accessories there were. Unmatched.

[@davidbowie2046]

Agreed. I got an Action man for Xmas and my Mum would get me some different uniforms for my Birthday for them. We didn't have loads of money, but I loved all the accessories.

[@niknoks7638]

I had an Action Man with eagle eyes and flexi-hands, I also had a Six Million Dollar Man .......I’m in my late 50’s and have regularly looked on eBay for the right vintage figures to buy, and YES, I would play with them even now! 🤣

[@Habu2]

Nothing wrong with that Niknoks....life is so fleeting.

[@redpillnibbler4423]

Action man was my favourite,we all had various action men with weapons,clothes and vehicles,I had a gyrocopter and a jeep.Bloody brilliant.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Funnily enough, I had the copter and Jeep as well! 😆

[@redpillnibbler4423]

@@RetroSteveUK God it’s bringing back fond memories.

[@adventurescotland]

I still remember my “Big Jim” and “Chief Tanuka”, later I also got Old Surehand. Was a great time to grow up…

[@redpillnibbler4423]

@@RetroSteveUK I also had the jeep but it took a bit of a tumble🫨💥 old A.M. survived though 🕺

[@rugbydazz2264]

As soon as I saw Big track I LMAO, I remember my mum shouting "I'm bloody sick of these adverts putting ideas into kids heads, they think we're bloody made of money" around October she would get stressed because the adverts would come on for Christmas toys and then I would be following her round the house with a KAYS catalogue trying to show her what I wanted, I didn't realise she didn't have much money she kept it well hidden, bless her.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah.. My most shameful moment was at age 6, when my mum said she couldn't afford the toys I wanted. I told her to "just write a cheque" ... I had no concept of where money actually came from! 🤣

[@OR0Z]

£40 in the 70’s was a lot of money back then! I just looked on eBay & found one for £45… sound investment 👍🏻🤣

[@OR0Z]

The days I spent ogling over dream toys in the Kay’s & Littlewoods catalogues… wishing I got pocket money so I could pay for it weekly for the next 4 years! I think that’s why I didn’t get pocket money 🤣

[@UncleFeedle]

£40 is around £170 today. And the trailer would be another £65. Yikes!

[@simonshepherd8357]

@@OR0Z You were ogling the ladies in the lingerie section you perv ;)

[@stephenwilletts2293]

I'm 64 year's old and I'm now buying all these old games and evel knievel was my hero.

[@RetroSteveUK]

eBay is a wonderful thing! 🙂

[@crispin8888]

@@RetroSteveUK True. You can literally buy your childhood ..

[@vanenmar7491]

As an 80's kid some of these brought back some awesome memories. Think I might have to have a look in the loft haha

[@cosmiconion87]

this is the actual length of adverts in the middle of programs now!!

[@betaville72]

Adam & The Ants obviously influenced the music on the 'Girl's World' advert. Love it!

[@5telaine]

I thought that too😁

[@steve-ip6qs]

what a blast from the past

[@keithnaylor1981]

You deserve an award for the amazing tv screen presentation idea!!!

[@RetroSteveUK]

📺😁👍

[@covmiss1]

tbh i was that engrossed i actually thought it was the tv no bs x

[@trevorshields7347]

I remember all of these bringing back memories of my childhood. Frightening how long ago it was

[@stephen.s5089]

The Game of Life song brought memories flooding back 😁

[@ipreston74]

I had the best Christmas days playing with these toys thanks mum and dad. wish I could go back🥲

[@moc7323]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@johnhigginbotham8291]

So do I!!!!

[@michaelsaunders6923]

I remember having Evil Knieval , shooting it across the school playground in middle school ,sadly it disappeared into the hedge never to be seen again ,really good memories of good times,thank you 😃

[@steevobarker581]

Mine was crap. Never got it to more than a couple of feet!

[@stevedickson5853]

That's Jon Pertwee doing the voice over in the Kerplunk and buckaroo almost sounding West Country in the buckaroo ad rather than western with the accent lol, love the Action man ads, when literally everyone I knew had an Action man of some sought

[@nickthomas181]

I still have all my action men and equipment ....And I'm 51!

[@stevedickson5853]

@@nickthomas181 I had the training tower, bike & sidecar, armoured car, helicopter, a few action men, all long gone but I still have Captain Zargon Space pirate hid somewhere

[@Rickstar1966]

WHO? LOL

[@stevedickson5853]

@@Rickstar1966.. Captain Zargon? ...he's in the Action men Ads

[@Mr.A_LDN]

Great compilation! I'd completely forgotten about Pocketeers - used to love those! I feel an Ebay search coming on!

[@SabretoothBarnacle]

I'd completely forgotten about these too!

[@RetroSteveUK]

I did just that after reading your comment! 😆 They're going for between £5 and £20 depending on condition.

[@Mr.A_LDN]

@@RetroSteveUK yeah, I'm watching about 8 of them 😂

[@moonchild666]

Same here. Can't believe these slipped my mind.

[@williamjason1583]

I had the fruit machine

[@BazGibb45]

51 year old here. Despite my parents having very little when I was growing up I'm amazed at how many of these I actually got for Christmas as a kid. They either sacrificed a lot or they were actually better well off than they let on bless them.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I know my mum was a bit like that. She always put me and my sister first.

[@dr.t.]

I remember someone at school bringing evel kinevel and wishing I had one, it was awesome in the late 70's 😎😎

[@peterrenn6341]

The way he fell off at the end. - Accurate! ;-) Someone in the ad agency with a subtle sense of humour...

[@mcwomble99]

Was awesome for 40 minutes, the relegated to the toy box

[@matthewrighelato7779]

Absolutely loved my Race n Chase, flying over the ramp, good times! 🤩

[@RetroSteveUK]

I never had a decent Scalextric as a kid. I had a second-hand set that never worked properly. When my wife heard this, she bought me a set for my birthday a few years back. It's the Crash'n'Bash set with a bump lane and a jump ramp. Frickin' awesome! 😄 I'm 48, by the way. 🤣

[@matthewrighelato7779]

It looks very similar, nice birthday present! 🤩

[@BinanceStuff]

yes race n chase was brilliant...we had barrels from something else that we put over the bridge to see how many we could jump over.

[@willdatsun]

the wooden TV frame is a nice touch, i wish youtube offered this as an option to watch old 4:3 videos in.

[@beakytzw]

I had the Evil Kneivel Chopper and Dragster. Ahh the memories. I had action man Helicopter, Armoured Car and Canoe. And I can remember riding a Tonka dumper truck down a hill and it never failed or broke. And a Raleigh Burner bike.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I remember getting the Action Man Gyro Copter one Christmas, the one with the button that mechanically made the rotors spin. That was great. Like you, I also had an indestructible Tonka dump truck for years. Used to play in the garden, like it was on a building site.

[@beakytzw]

@@RetroSteveUK Thats the copter, the more you pressed the button the faster the rotors would spin. The good old days.

[@beachcomberbob3496]

I was on an microprocessor electronics course in the early days of computing, and our lecturer managed to source the motor units for those Big Trak toys. Our final project was to design, build and program the circuitry to control one around an eventual obstacle course. I'm sure our 'breadboard' efforts were far more expensive in terms of materials and manpower than the Chinese versions, but they were a great learning experience.

[@johnbailey5616]

Another great video brings back happy memories 😊 Growing up late 70s early 80s .

[@davidmothersill1318]

Excellent brings back memories I grew up in the 70s those were the days we were always happy wish I could go back in time every thing was simple

[@clairem1266]

I realised watching this I remembered every world of that game of life jingle 😂 Sunday afternoon was saved for listening to the chart countdown and family board games so we had most of those at home and girls world!! I dyed the hair of mine with felt tip pen 🎉

[@D-C.]

My God. This bought back some memories. My Evil Knievil bike never seemed to work as well as the one in the advert. And who else got blisters on the side of their thumbs from the hand grips on the Grifter 😂 Happy days though, and much simpler times.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I remember getting blisters from playing Crossfire. Remember that one?

[@D-C.]

@RetroSteveUK I certainly do. I want to be a kid again 😆

[@mark.083]

Omg my childhood before my eyes, you have no idea how much these just took me back! AND NOT 1 COMPUTER GAME!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, the computer games were saved up for this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/moWtYouclKp8qqM 😉

[@workonesabs]

I feel sorry for today's kids, using the smart phone, alone in their room, talking or playing on-line without being interactive in real life.

[@mcwomble99]

None of these toys where really aimed at kids of “using smart phones” age. Kids these days still play with a lot of similar toys - lego, board games. The stuff they don’t have that was in these ads, was generally crap or obsolete.

[@3DPeter]

The parents of today's kids wasted their youth behind a commodore or a atari game console.

[@RockDove5212]

I think it's the opposite as far as play at home goes; today's children are able to talk and chat to each other; have real interactions on their play stations etc they have to negotiate and communicate situations with each other to win team games, whereas our generous spent hours often alone playing with plastic with these games

[@greatestytcommentator]

@D dR Evel Knieval

[@Habu2]

Agreed Paul but maybe they've had adequate interaction at school ? although I played out pretty much every night and always had a laugh. (born in 63)

[@handle-with-care63]

Watching the toy adverts were part of the excitement of the run up to Christmas for me as a kid. So watching these wonderful adverts again reminds me of how special those moments were. Looking at the prices of some of the toys here, they seem so cheap now but of course back then they weren't really. I had the game "Crossfire" not mentioned here but used similar components as the game "Rebound."

[@RetroSteveUK]

I played Crossfire at a friend's house. Got terrible blisters on my index finger.

[@scottkeys6212]

My Evel Knievel was really accurate. He kept falling off.

[@CustomJ]

This is bloody marvelous. Even down to the way the player looks exactly like the TV we would all huddle around watching these. I'm 10 years old again. Thank you so much!!!!

[@RetroSteveUK]

You're very welcome! 🙂👍

[@themanwithinflatableknees8770]

Weirdly it almost makes me a bit emotional thinking about those times. Quite incredible looking baxk

[@1976leejay]

A time when kids were allowed to be kids.

[@nathanreynard4286]

Oh my I just signed when I saw Bernard Cribbins in the Hornby advert. I'd forgotten about it and have just remembered I loved the advert ,

[@Captain-Cardboard]

'Chutes Away' looks like literally minutes of fun!

[@steve20664]

Pocketeers....I had fruit machine and the race one....😃😃forgotten completely about them.👍👍

[@LawnRight]

I had a bigtrak.. absolutely loved it

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

Remember the griffta bike, it was like a tank 😅

[@davidhiggins519]

Thank you so much for reminding me of these memories. It also reminds me of the many things I asked for but didn't get because my parents couldn't afford them at the time but did there best to find me a similar more affordable alternative. It was great to see the "Look-In" magazine again. We looked forward every week to this wonderful & totally absorbing comic. I hope there is still something like it still being published for kids to today.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I think a Look-in reboot would be good, but for us oldies to reminisce over. I swear if someone launched a Kickstarter I'd back it straight away!

[@Kickback-dm7zt]

@@RetroSteveUK cool video. There is a variation of the Evil Kinevil stunt cycle were the bike is a Motocross bike and the rider figure is a motocross style rider and it's a single piece of plastic moulded in the seating position and it has zero articulation.

[@Kickback-dm7zt]

@@RetroSteveUK was that Bernard Cribbins in the Hornby commercial?

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@Kickback-dm7zt Yes. Both of them.

[@Kickback-dm7zt]

@@RetroSteveUK thought so. Cheers. 👍

[@paulspopculture5592]

My late mom packed a lot of the latest toys in the 1970s Great video thumbs up 👍🙂

[@davidbowie2046]

What great memories. We never had much money years ago so my Mum used to get all seven of us a toy each for Christmas from the catalogue, an annual each, selection box each and an apple and orange. Not one of us complained and we always shared our sweets, even when one of us were greedy enough to eat the lot in one sitting. Usually them fruit polo's were left till the new year as no one liked them haha. Happy days that I'm glad we had :)

[@RetroSteveUK]

I remember waking up to a sock at the bottom of my bed Christmas morning. A satsuma, some nuts, a few Cadbury Roses or Quality Street, and a bit of loose change (50p pieces, usually). Was always one of the highlights of the morning.

[@seebarry4068]

I remember around Christmas, we’d be waiting for Corrie to finish so we could see the toy adverts 😂. Then grabbing the Argos catalogue and spending the next 15 minutes looking at that. Never got that tin-can-alley.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Same. Tin Can Alley was always out of reach.

[@Joanna7428]

Sindy dolls! Oh they made my year! Such happy memories thanks for uploading 🤗

[@Jamb1967]

Superb , so many that I didn't get in the day , but enjoy the memories

[@maydaygoingdown5602]

Loved my Action man with gripping hands and the eagle eyes. Also had the Steve Austin bionic man. Wish I could go back to those times,...and never leave:). Thanks for showing, loving your work. 100% subscribed to your channel.👍

[@RetroSteveUK]

Thanks! I had a couple of Action Men, along with some of the accessories. Never had the Eagle Eye Bionic Man, but one of my Action Men had the lever that moved his eyes.

[@maydaygoingdown5602]

@@RetroSteveUK yeah that's the action man I had, a little thing on the back of his head that moved his eyes left or right. Had the one with gripping hands too:). The Bionic man I had was the one with the square thing in his arm and the bionic eye. Used to look through it lol. Action man was the dogs bollocks though.

[@redpillnibbler4423]

I had that one too though he ended up with battlefield injuries and lost some of his fingers.

[@garyandrewranford]

Great work RetroSteveUK, I enjoyed that trip down memory lane

[@RetroSteveUK]

Thanks! 🙂

[@leeedwards3933]

OMG THATNK YOU RetroSteveUK, THAT brought back SOO MANY GOOD Memories, I had at least 4 of those Race and Chase/ Evil Rev ramp Wheelie Bike 80s BEST YEARS Of me racing around in a clapped out Mini At just 14 [ON Private Land of course] No Speed Ramps/Cameras watching your EVERY MOVE.

[@garethjohnstone9282]

Such gentle times.

[@redpillnibbler4423]

Our action men had a hard life but they pulled through.

[@paulharris7660]

The 80s I started at the age of eight. Two years after seeing star wars, Battlesstar galatica at the cinema. Wanted a big trak, thanks for uploading these adverts. 39.99 fir a big trak, seemed like thousands of pounds back then.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, that would be a lot more achievable now. Big Trak now would probably be about £100+

[@doublebo7]

Wow it brings back tears because I never had any of those toys 😭 no top deck, no striker and no cross fire, but I did get my wish of a b and w 10 inch portable tv which kept me happy in my bedroom for years 😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

You didn't miss much with Crossfire. I got to have a go on it at a friend's house. I came away with blisters!

[@CRB1971]

Used to love the Rayleigh Grifter but I had to make do with a Commando! The Matchbox Race & Chase reminded me of my TCR set where you could overtake the 'jam' cars.

[@RetroSteveUK]

My first bike was some kind of second-hand 'Budgie' with no brakes. Someone had modded a brake onto the front wheel using Meccano! 😣😆

[@simontracey3920]

Great blast from the past! Lucky enough to have a big trak and the trailer! So remember the pocket games.

[@shifty2755]

Life was much simpler before the Internet and Facebook. Thanks for the upload 👍.

[@lisajohnson1528]

Lol brings back my childhood look-in magazine, had evil keneivil sky rocket, 6 million dolkar man, pocketeers! Had loads of them lol

[@deathstars32]

Oh man I had the exact same raleigh boxer when I was a kid it was a cracking little bike. Used to try and make ramps with planks and old plastic crates or whatever was at hand. Happy memories

[@michellezimmermann9160]

I had the Sindy ballerina doll, it’s the first Christmas that I can remember! I can’t remember the advert though, but I must have seen it back in the day! As for the Girls World, I do remember pestering my mum for it every Christmas for what seemed a mellenia, but I never ever got one! 😂😂 My brother had Look in mag every week and I was as excited as him when he got it, we used to sit and look at it together. Lovely memories of my big brother who now lives on the other side of the world. Thanks for posting this trip down 70s/80s memory lane ❤❤

[@RetroSteveUK]

My older sister had a Girl's World. I think she lost interest in it pretty quickly.

[@somegeorgedownthehall9392]

Loved this! Born 73 and had a grifter, ker plunk, buckaroo, evil kenevil, Hornsby railway, action man eagle eyes, Steve Austin (six million dollar man) figure. I even had the Oscar goldman figure! Realising I was spoilt! But even I didn’t have a big track lol 😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, Big Trak. Priced out of the market, most of us.

[@speedbird737]

Wow I had Stop Police - loved it - happy memories

[@il9237]

I had Tornado Bowl. My mates used to come round and play it for a laugh when we were 15/16. On Friday nights we played rude word Scrabble, then a few months later we started going to the pub.

[@johnakyle5908]

I still have that pocketeers car race game , I'm 55 this year! I also had the six million dollar man figure and ship, long since gone somewhere..

[@Cornz38]

Amazing how many of these i had and had forgotten about. Chutes away being one.

[@cinnurgiants2277]

OMG that’s what it’s called! Big Trak!!! I had that and forgot what it was called. This just makes me feel spoiled and old. Lol. I had so many of these. I live in USA. Thank you for posting this. I keep watching all your videos. Excellent job. Hi from US.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Hi back, from England! 🙂👍

[@chipbuttytime3396]

Cheers, these toys rekindled some personal memories. Thanks for my toys Mam and Dad

[@RetroSteveUK]

🤗

[@caroleorion1273]

My son loved his evil knievel

[@aaronharris5275]

I saw Big Track but got the George Toy Robot as a child which was also programmable. Great toys!

[@infidelcastro5129]

My parents saved up all year to buy me a Bigtrak with 0.00001 kb of memory, and I’ll forever be grateful to them❤

[@RetroSteveUK]

I never realised it had so little RAM! Makes the 48k Speccy seem positively futuristic.

[@infidelcastro5129]

@@RetroSteveUK it could accept 16 commands, then that was it 😊

[@richhughes7450]

Big Trak. Wish I still had mine. . It came from an MB factory in Wales and had different decals on it. I miss programmed it and it went down the stairs and the wheels broke off.

[@phil955i]

I had a Big Trak! Taught me simple programming before I got my Sinclair Spectrum lol.

[@g2macs]

Makes you think that somewhere underground in a landfill, there’s tons upon tons of plastic in the shape of these toys.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Undoubtedly.

[@Cornz38]

I had a ZX81, a spectrum, Coleco vision, Grandstand TV game with a lightgun. I was spoilt rotten...

[@humansrants1694]

But did you get a Neo Geo AES

[@ScorchedEarth-cd5cl]

Trip down memory lane. I remember most of them. John Pertwee and Patrick Allen doing some of the voice overs.

[@oggie1967]

Hah, born in summer of 1967! Thanks for the memories!👍👏👏♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@greatestytcommentator]

So Many Toys that I never had Advertised a me hard enough.. I'm basically saying, I want them right now... 40 years later!

[@RetroSteveUK]

eBay! 👍

[@robleary3353]

Brilliant!. Happier simpler days! Feel sorry for todays kids!.

[@eimdeima]

Now I feel old.....😂 And now I see why I did not get some of these, the price of them, even back then....😯

[@gregorypeck876]

Our toys totally rocked back then !

[@london19657]

As soon as I saw the Big Track appear, I was laughing because I could hear my dad saying "Can't afford it"! Cheers.

[@AlexandraStarr1974]

Bloody hell dude, im getting some serious flashbacks now lol that lego castle advert was great, sadly my family could not afford it so I made one out of cardboard, was terrible! Not seen in these adverts, but does anyone remember those action figures that had a parachute attached to them? I could get them from the local newsagents in the mid 70s/early 80s, and then there were those weird chained up prisoner things you could win at the fair, made from wobbly rubber, full colour too, unlike monochromatic parachute man!

[@RetroSteveUK]

The parachute figures were great. Used to throw them from the upstairs window. Can't remember the other figures you mentioned, though.

[@AlexandraStarr1974]

@@RetroSteveUK hehe yeah, tossing them from the upstairs window, only for the wind to take them onto the roof for eternity! A few years back now, my parents were having work done to their roof, the workers found a snow trooper from Empire Strikes Back on the roof, he still had string tied round his waist, no chute though lol and after seeing the Grange Hill ZX video, I had to subscribe, as a musician myself, I totally adore what you did with that and had to subscribe there and then, thank you for making me smile x

[@russellstraw]

Bring back the old days please 😃

[@mellifluousfable]

Had quite a few of these. I loved my Big-trak but didn’t realise at the time quite how lucky I was to get all those expensive toys.

[@Hz-432Hz]

Big Trak! Completely forgotten about that and I really wanted one. Game of Life was expensive wasn't it in comparison to the cost of some electronic games. This is such a brilliant compilation and thanks for creating it and uploading.

[@ka5269]

I had Evel Kenievel and Big Trak. Thanks dad 🥺

[@camptube7621]

I had all the pocketeers. Great fun. One was even a mini crossbow.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I think I might have had the pocket fruit machine.

[@camptube7621]

@@RetroSteveUK I had that. The crossbow that fired plunger arrows. The car racing one shown here. Can’t remember the others but they were great.

[@stephenjones5079]

Absolutely amazing collection of adverts, superb 👌

[@rhysenna]

“Does anybody know how to work the Portcullis?” Brilliant! Good times.

[@winstonchurchill6506]

They brought that big trak out again a few years ago.nice one and a thumb up

[@HuntersMoon78]

Nice seeing the Big Trak advert again. got one for Christmas when I was a kid, absolutely loved it. Found 2 recently at the flea market both are the crap reproduction models.

[@RetroSteveUK]

If Big Trak came out today it'd be app controlled.

[@leighsaunderson9203]

I had to sell my original BigTrak as a kid, to put the money towards a computer. 5 or 6 years ago, my Mum found an original on E-Bay and got me it for a surprise Xmas present (*before* the repo version came out thankfully !)

[@trevorcourt1403]

Same

[@DerekNewtonKeswick]

I had one too. It was great for using with other toys.

[@Bass-guitarist]

I had at least three of the toys shown! Ahhh what a great childhood

[@bigdvinyl2012]

Great memories thanks please hope there is a volume 3 coming soon

[@RetroSteveUK]

Eventually. Takes a while to gather the ads. Thanks for watching.

[@pennydowning5085]

I wish there was a time machine to go back in time when these toys were about.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I think there is ... It's called eBay! 🤣

[@jonntischnabel]

Thank you for reminding me of pocketeers fruit machine. I used to love that thing. ❤️