Top 1960s Sci-fi Toys

[@YootoobSteve123]

Man, that Mr. Machine story was epic! I had one myself but after taking it apart, I never seemed to be able to get him back together again. Thank goodness my older brother was more proficient in the engineering dept! Great memories here for me.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

You bring up an interesting point. So often toys like that weren't so easy to get back together. There was this line in the '80s called Manglors that you were supposed to be able to rip off their body parts, and they would stick back together. Sure, they stuck back together. . . for about 5 seconds.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ AtomicSnackBar - Here's a deep pull: back in the early/mid 60s there were plastic toy cars that you could smash into a wall and they would fall apart. Then you could snap the pieces back together and do it over and over. Crazy fun.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@tonysantiago255 That sounds vaguely familiar.

[@mariannalogsdon1286]

I was little girl in the 60’s who wanted the Garloo. Of course I didn’t get one. So I made my own out boxes and grandmother crocheted his accessories. Great memories and makes want to order a pendant for myself engraved with GARLOO❤️🐸

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That's a great little story. And probably just as memorable as getting the real deal would have been. A pendant would be pretty darn cool as well. There's a few stylized figure releases currently available. They lack the charm of the original, but still kinda neat.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ mariannalogsdon1286 - You are indeed a true Unicorn. Boys were always making toys from cardboard boxes, but you showed great fortitude in creating your own giant robot. And much respect to your Grandmother for assisting your creativity. Chandu to you both!

[@Randall1001]

Forrest Tucker was far too busy at this time building the prototype for the Gemini space capsule before piloting himself from Cape Canaveral to Las Vegas for a test weekend.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

A very good point. I sit corrected.

[@AlliAsAlways]

Most excellent. Now, I'm still waiting on my martini!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

You've been cut off for trouble makering and shenaniganing.

[@whipless9668]

Mr. Sterling, the Bernie Casey reference is actually your subconscious suggesting a 1972 Gargoyles review in a future video. Great stuff. Now I got to find me one of those Mattel machine guns, I got aliens to scare away.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That's not a bad idea at all. I really should find a place to squeeze Gargoyles in proper. I was all about that movie as a lad. Thank you much, good sir. Good luck with that alien issue.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ AtomicSnackBar - I'm sure you're already aware of it, but despite Bernie having to endure the layers of latex, not to mention the weight of the gargoyle suit repleat with the extra poundage of the wings, they didn't use his voice. The upside was that it was voiced by the Great Vic Perron, the Control Voice of the Classic Outer Limits 60s series. More factoids for that upcoming review.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@tonysantiago255 No slight to Mr. Perron at all, but the dubbing over of Bernie is one of the most head scratchingest moments in movie history.

[@BadChizzle]

“Watch the skies” Ha Ha! Hope you’re doing great. Thanks for more fun stuff.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I always watch the skies. Unless I'm donut watching. Or bikini girl watching. Or suitmation watching. Okay, maybe I'm not watching the skies that often.

[@gregg2560]

A journey down "Memory Lane". I love it.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I think I live on Memory Lane. Moved there decades ago.

[@vpower962]

Great toys, indeed. I agree that, considering the era, some of the toys were quite expensive, and you adjustment for inflation is spot on.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

It is rather wild thinking about how expensive this stuff really was.

[@aleistercrowley7549]

Wonderful toys! To get the most out of them required something that most kids don't have anymore: imagination and patience. Okay, that was two things...

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Who needs imagination, patience, or even decent posture when you have a cellphone glued to your hand?

[@tonysantiago255]

@ AtomicSnackBar - to do your thinking for you.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

​@@tonysantiago255 I let a phone do all my thinking. Granted, it's a rotary phone that isn't plugged in to anything.

[@sethkaicer319]

Atomic snack bar and I levitate beers to each other 😎🍺

[@AtomicSnackBar]

We're getting pretty good at it too. Only three mishaps with the neighbors this week.

[@sethkaicer319]

@AtomicSnackBar nobody's perfect

[@robertdee648]

Forest Tucker, toy designer-you had me going there for a second.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

How cool would that have been, though?

[@YandereShiki]

I had the rock em sock em when i was small Mother found it in the thrift store Man i miss that toy

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Luckily, that's one you can still find, brand new, for a decent price. Speaking of, have you ever drawn robots?

[@cleophusA]

I was actually the proud owner of "The Great Garloo" when I was 8! I guess my constant whining and begging actually did pay off, but it cost me the trade off of NEVER again being able to ask for toys or candy while shopping with my Mother or, most especially, in the check out line! It was a fair swap. What a great toy! The last time I remember seeing him, his head was poking out from under some insulation in the attic of my parents house. I wonder if he's still there???

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Oh man, that would be awesome if he still was. Even if you didn't want to hang on to him, I bet he would fetch a pretty penny. I would just love to start collecting '60s toys. But I'm also found of so many other collections. Always a pleasure, Cleophus.

[@augusthawks6576]

I've only heard of Mr Machine and Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. I guess that's what happens when you're raised in a cave. Great stuff. Keep it comin'.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

But hey, it was a really nice cave, especially with the Hawkcomputer and the Hawkmobile.

[@larrydavis3645]

Another great video. My brother and I received an Astro Base one Christmas. I was driving the space car when a rocket when off and broke a decoration on our Christmas tree.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Oh man, that's kind of awesome. Not many can say their Astro Base attacked their Christmas tree and won.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ larrydavis3645 "- that story gave me a real smile. Was the ornament one of those colored glass types and did it shatter into a bazillion fragments leaving you and your brother with shrapnel wounds? The scars of honorable battle.

[@larrydavis3645]

@@tonysantiago255 It was as dramatic as that. You set a manual timer for the toy we had, and as you drove the car, it would move and release the rocket. It just happened to be pointed at the Christmas tree when it went off It hit the glass decoration it fell to the floor in many shards

[@terryenglish7132]

I broke an ornament w a Shootin' Shell . They were fragile

[@TitularHeroine]

The mental picture I have is awesome! Very cool story ;)

[@the_flyattractor8656]

And the Great Garloo just had a bit of a comeback...You can geta Mini-Loo in Walmarts!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Now that's interesting. Is it the really stylized figure?

[@benbradford9533]

They should release a 2025 version of Mr. Machine that ALWAYS spews clouds of frightening flying insects! That would grab the attention of today's jaded tots!!!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That is, if they looked up from their phones long enough to notice. Hopefully they aren't man-eating insects.

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

I grew up in a poor neighborhood in Canada in the 60s, where no one was getting "Rock'em & Sock'em Robots" for Christmas -- so, not to be depraved -- deprived, we took up "Robot Rumble," which involved us putting old garbage cans over our heads & whacking each other in the noggin with old 2X4s! Man, that was fun -- &, believe it or not, one of the safer things we did as kids -- but I still have ringing in my ears! As we got older, we took up safer activities -- street racing & ice hockey! Cheers Warren, who still has 28 of his original teeth!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Robot Rumble, coming soon from Curious Werewolf Toys. 2x4s sold separately. Not for use with other Curious Werewolf Toys. Batteries mostly included.

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

@@AtomicSnackBar -- Batteries are what the 2X4s were for! Cheers Warren, who just might stage a Robot Rumble for the Curious on my channel -- & no, I do not have toys in the attic!

[@tonysantiago255]

@ awarningtothecuriouswerewolves - Metal trash can lids were a seriously versatile toy for the monetarily challenged boy child. I remember taking taking red and white crayons and turning one into Captain America's shield! I threw that thing all over the place until it was seriously warped. Good times.

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

@@tonysantiago255 -- Awesome Tony, just awesome -- we weren't as creative up here in Skid Row Canada! Mind you, if I -- who was born in the USA -- tried to make Capt. America's shield out of a garbage can lid, the locals would throw away their 2X4s & whack my A$$ with their hockey sticks -- which could have caused serious brain damage! I would have had to be Johnny Canuck! Cheers Warren, who long ago learned to put a lid on it!

[@tonysantiago255]

@ awarningtothecuriouswerewolves - 😆😆😆 Good times indeed. Except for your noggin.

[@wayneclingman689]

Fun Stuff

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Thank you much, Mr. Big.

[@KyleWessels-c8z]

Hello from Oregon, Mr. Sterling. Love your program and I always look forward to hearing from you, one of my favorite hep cats. Very entertaining! Thanks, and have a groovy weekend.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Ah, very cool. I really appreciate that, Kyle. And very nice to hear from you. Thanks for hanging out at the Snack Bar.

[@KyleWessels-c8z]

Till the next time, see you later, alligator.

[@thrashpondopons8348]

Thanks so much for letting me add my proverbial 2 Cents to the Piggy Bank! Great stuff & glad to be a part of it! Happy New Year!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Thanks for joining me here at the Snack Bar. But I think it's time for you to leave. The neighbors are complaining about all the polka music and breakdancing.

[@Junk_World_Templar]

That Robot Commando needs a sub title of ‘The Mauve Marauder!’. Awesome video.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That would work as long as the commandoing doesn't interfere with the marauding.

[@paullevine1813]

Hello Stirling, I loved the fact as a kid in the 60s no one cared what we played with or how dangerous some of our toys were which sure isn't the case for today's kids. Of what you show i did have a Mr. Machine but i never too it apart, so it ran great till he finally gave up the ghost, & i had many toy machine guns like this one & some had this little red fire thing on the barrel that went back & forth when fired. Here i don't see any of the robots i had & wished now i had kept but as a kid who cared about saving these they were made to play with & that we did. I also had a space helmet which sort of smelled bad after a year of wearing it with the shield down LOL & yea i had those Rock em Sock em Robots. Lots of robot Tanks some quite large & a mess of those Cap rockets & cap guns. Yea indeed they never cared at all what we played with, and we still managed to stay alive!!!!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Now that you mention it, I'm not even sure they make toy guns anymore. At least, nothing that isn't a brightly colored water gun. I'm actually curious. Hold on a second. Okay, I'm back. I went and checked Amazon. Sure enough, they do still make toys guns. And man, I had a ton of fun with those as a lad. Many an imaginary alien invader fell by my hand.

[@paullevine1813]

@@AtomicSnackBar As i am older than you we played Army as we watched Combat all the time & i still love that show which i watch as reruns here. Though a monster freak i don't think we really went after the Aliens just the damn Nazis. Yea you can find just about anything from our childhoods on E Bay even caps for your guns & rockets. Now I'm pretty sure if you went to a toy store you most likely will not find any toy guns & we can thank all the loonies that hurt people for that. Like i said back then they never cared at all what toys we had & most were dangerous as hell but we didn't care either & we were not as dumb as the toy makers thought. LOL!!!!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@paullevine1813 I never really played war or anything like that as a kid. But I sure played ninjas and pirates and things like that a whole lot.

[@paullevine1813]

@@AtomicSnackBar Like i said I'm older than you & born only 11 years after the WW2 so it was sort of ingrained but not to the point, we knew what we were really doing or what real war was about. My folks served so it was just part of my growing up but hey we were little kids that didn't know any better, but we were quick learners as to the real horrors of war.

[@stephenshoshin3190]

Welcome back for another year of great videos! (I hope.) The Mattel Thunder Gun commercial immediately brought to mind the 1953 Invaders from Mars film where David (not Billy) observes a flying saucer landing outside his bedroom window. I wonder if it was influential in the making of the commercial. But, like Billy, David saves the day and the Earth! I fondly remember the Great Garloo but I was unable to convince my parents that I had to have one. I did have an original Mr. Machine, though. Nostalgic memories are evoked for me by many of your videos. Things I haven't thought of in many, many years are brought back. Thanks for that and the great work you do!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That is certainly the plan. But you never know when I might get mixed up in some back alley donut scheme with robot repercussions . . again. But serious stuff aside, I do appreciate that Stephen and the support you've given this year.

[@metaplante]

Where is my DeLorean ? I need a trip in the 60's

[@AtomicSnackBar]

When you find it, come and pick me up.

[@creech54]

@@AtomicSnackBar Darn, I wish that thing had a back seat!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@creech54 I'm a pretty thin fellow. Perhaps we can squeeze into the front seat. Because I'm definitely not riding on the hood again.

[@creech54]

@@AtomicSnackBar 😁

[@tomsenior7405]

Fascinating stuff. Thank you. The Mr Machine Toy looks like the perfect science-fiction toy for kids. The insect infestation could have been a feature, and not a bug. I am sure there is the potential for a Twilight Zone styled episode within your story. Children's toys carrying tiny invaders may be the perfect way to start a twisted tale.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Coincidentally, I've been comparing the Mr. Machine incident with a certain bug-centric segment from the first Creepshow. So it was definitely in the realm of creepy anthologies. I can just hear Serling now.

[@tomsenior7405]

@@AtomicSnackBar Spiffing.

[@katiecook6006]

Amazon just randomly sent me a Great Garloo reproduction figure that I didn't order along with my kid's other Christmas gifts. I had no idea what he was. Now I know, lol.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Now, I'm not going to say that that is Snack Bar magic, but I'm not not going to say that either.

[@rogervandusen8361]

Rock-em Sockem Eobots I distinctly remember receiving one Christmas.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I never had Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, but I remember seeing it outside of a pawn shop one time. Yet I don't remember why we were at a Pawn Shop. Not really my parents' style.

[@ICE9RLN0]

let's be clear here "The Infested Mr. Machine" sounds like it would be a cool movie.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Or at very least, a deleted scene from the first Creepshow.

[@ICE9RLN0]

@@AtomicSnackBar well, you'd still want to see it.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@ICE9RLN0 As icky at that may be, you are correct indeed, good sir.

[@ICE9RLN0]

@@AtomicSnackBar we're not talking about My Sister vs Godzilla here.

[@chrisbridges4885]

I gotta say it was a great memory. Don’t be too hard on your cousin, it’s very hard to avoid those critters in the South.

[@georgesulea]

Ok, seriously cool toys:) Also, love your Luchadore shirt!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Thank you much. It's an odd material and I had to get it tailored, but it's quite the fetching garment, I must say.

[@paulcooper8818]

I had a King Zor. Hitting its tail with a dart was harder than you would think. What was really scary about Zor was how he ate batteries.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I can imagine. Suction darts already barely stuck most of the time as it was. So trying to hit a small, moving target, I imagine you would have had to of been right up on it. Thanks for stopping by again, Paul.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

Toys back then had a nasty habit of running down the batteries even when not running. It didn’t take too much of that before you realized you had to remove them batteries when not in use.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@trappenweisseguy27 And something that happened to me a few times, was I would leave the battery in for too long and it would go bad inside the toy or electronic.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

@@AtomicSnackBar oh yeah, the yummy exploding with acid trick. I don’t believe that there were alkaline batteries back then, just the exploding cheapies iirc.

[@piratepercy8309]

This was a really fun episode, I'm all for more humor and hearing your odd anecdotes along with the video content. On topic, I had Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots as a kid - it was fun for maybe 20 minutes, then it wound up in the Garage of Unwanted Toys. Sad, and very very plastic.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I didn't have one, but I know what you mean. I liked the toys I could really play with it. And though I think it's neat now, Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots did too much of the work for you. I would have been happier with just two robot toys. Thanks for stopping by, Percy. I appreciate it.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ AtomicSnackBar - not to mention that it required that you had a friend over to fight them with. For most kids, there is a lot of solo play time which is where your imagination developed.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@tonysantiago255 That is an excellent point.

[@danf321]

Another great video, sir👍. And if your cousins “Mr. Machine” was infested with bugs…I can only imagine what the bedroom and kitchen were like😳 😱

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I certainly wasn't sleeping over, that's for sure.

[@wetdog1606]

Didn't think that this vid would be for me, but I really enjoyed it. Mostly it was your talent for making everything cool, but also your editing and choices, just made me think about my own beloved childhood toys. My one big boast, was that I recently discovered that the really cool space ship thing that my nan bought me; was actually a 'GI Joe Rocket Command Centre' that was for a failed smaller scale - it worked great for Star Wars figures as an Imperial Star Cruiser. I don't know where she got it - I'd like to think that she got it from Arthur Mallard - who we used to see a lot when I visited my nan, and he used to ruffle my hair (he wasn't in her house - we used to see him walking around) - who's Arthur Mallard - people of a certain age in the UK know - check him out - if your interested in obscure British 60s film actors. Yet again, great stuff - thank you.

[@wetdog1606]

oops - that's Arthur Mullard - not Mallard, which is obviously me 'ducking' out of a mistake.

[@wetdog1606]

just read his whole Wikipedia entry - yeah, no that's grim - don't read that, just the IMBD, or maybe just no.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That's really interesting. I find the whole presence and arrival of G.I.Joe in the U.K. really interesting. Was it actually labeled G.I.Joe? Or Action Man? I know in the '80s all the G.I.Joe was rebranded and merged into the Action Force line. Some pretty neat exclusives figures there. Thanks as always for your time and support, my good sir. You are appreciated.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@wetdog1606 I supposed I shall take your word on that one.

[@wetdog1606]

@@AtomicSnackBar most of the GI Joe stuff was named Action Man - but for some reason the rocket command centre was packaged as something like Commander Power!

[@rudynorte5353]

Got the Horrible Hamilton Giant Bug Monster for Christmas in the early 60s It was a pull string rolling toy with moving insect legs and 3 toy soldiers to combat it. Heaven. Thanks so much for the stroll down memory lane. As always you’re awesome with your content and humor.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Horrible Hamilton was another really awesome '60s toy. If there had been a commercial for it, that would have been a great entry for the list. And co-inky dinkily, that was one of the first '60s toys I was ever aware of. Thank you much, Rudy. Nice to hear from you again.

[@TitularHeroine]

Oh yeah. And. I used a Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots minifigure head to custom make a 4" Robotman (from Doom Patrol) action figure to hang out with my smaller superhero figures. My lil brother (okay, hes over 40, but still) is a huge robot afficionado and has him now. :)

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That sounds like something I would have done. I was always using existing toys to stand in for characters from properties that didn't have toys. My G.I.Joe Hydro Viper was my Predator figure in those days before Predator had toys.

[@paulbowler5345]

So cool! I had a robot punchy toy / game like that. Was loads of fun. Man, I think our Gen had the best toys back in the day.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

The collectables made for adults are pretty darn spiffy these days, but the toys actually meant for kids don't even come close in comparison.

[@Flytrap]

I got one of those Robot Commandos for Christmas. Then I got into trouble for taking it apart. But I was able to put it back together and it (mostly) still worked.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That must have looked three kinds of awesome under the Christmas tree. I was really impressed with that guy when I saw him in person. Probably wouldn't fit on my toy shelf, though. But hey, I'd find a spot for him.

[@Slasheruprising]

You know, I think any one of these would look great displayed in a toy collection. I especially like the playsets much like yourself, I believe I like the Lost In Space playset the best. The Great Garloo was also a standout. I’m digging the look of that one and I especially like that he is green. This was highly entertaining good buddy!!! Keep It Snacky!!!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Great characters come in green. Forgot to mention the other day, Boba Fett, Godzilla, Hedorah, and Biolante. And I've always been a sucker for little playsets with small plastic figures. There were several really great sword & sorcery sets in the '80s. Keep it slashy, el Slash-o-rino.

[@terryenglish7132]

I had a Commander Robot. My friend had a Johnny Reb Cannon. We set up a battle to see which boy would be hit by the opponent's rounds.He thought the cannon balls would knock over the robot, but they just stopped its forward motion for a second.I got him w one of arm balls.I think the missle hit the cat after bouncing off the ceiling.

[@terryenglish7132]

I should mention the mike controller was a joke. Like you said it was an air movable switch. Just blowing softly did it , screaming loudly w out any air did nothing.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Though I may be a hair biased, I am not only pleased but also unsurprised, that the Robot Commando won in the end. It's all about the robots.

[@chrisbridges4885]

That must have been hilarious when the cat took a round

[@terryenglish7132]

The Johnny Reb Cannon was very cool tho. The cannon balls were tennis ball size hard plastic w a hole thru the middle. The cannon barrel had a shaft that fit the hole, in the center of a spring. You'd set the cannon ball on the shaft, then ram it down w a ramrod so it would lock ,just like a real cannon. It stung if it hit your leg or arm. It hurt a lot if it hit your face. " I'm not crying it just made my eyes water". Fortunately too big to " Put Your Eye Out ".

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@terryenglish7132 Those were an interesting toy. And by Remco too, I just read. I dig some Remco.

[@horrorhands666]

All of these toys look like they could be the antagonist in a Full Moon movie 😂 Bugs running out of the Mr Machine definitely sounds like something from a horror film. The Lost in Space set looks awesome, too bad there’s not much information on it.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I could totally imagine the Robot Commando hanging out with the Demonic Toys, which, by the by, I think is rather underrated as far as Full Moon killer toy films go. And yeah, the Mr. Machine incident definitely had some Creepshow-esque vibes to it.

[@el4174]

Nice!!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Thank you kindly. And thanks for stopping by.

[@HorrificNightmaresJM]

Fun stuff Slim. The great Garloo looks cool. I do remember Mr Machine, never owned one, but I remember.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

And he remembers you as well. Mr. Machine never forgets.

[@lurkerrekrul]

Robot Commando - It kind of reminds me of Moguera from The Mysterians. When I was little, I had an interesting toy from the late 60s or early 70s called Grippity Gravity. It had two battery operated space vehicles that traveled along a plastic track. The novel thing about it was that the track was designed to hold the vehicles to it, so that they coule travel straight up, or even upside down. It also included a couple of turntable pieces, where when the vehicle drove onto them, the wheels would cause it to turn 180 degrees and release the vehicle back the way it came. The track both normal curves and ones that from horizontal to vertical. Strangely, all the pictures and videos seem to show boxy vehicles that look similar to the TOS shuttlecraft, but the one I had, had one that looked the Saturn 5 Command Module, and one that looked like a rocket plane with a cockpit. It might still be buried in my attic, although I'm not sure if it still works, or how many of the pieces are there. Oh, I just remembered, mine also had a chunky blue piece that would rotate sideways to flip the vehicle upside down so it could continue on an inverted track.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That sounds really neat. And since so much of this stuff didn't have a commercials or big ad campaigns, I bet there is a whole lot that has just fallen into obscurity, waiting to be discovered in an attic. You should definitely make the journey up and see if it's still there. I'd be curious to know what other rarities are up there as well.

[@lurkerrekrul]

@@AtomicSnackBar I know my large Space 1999 Eagle is still up there, I refused to part with that. However, if I still have any of the figures, they're be buried in the bottom of a misc. box somewhere. I'm pretty sure the waist joints broke on all of them. And the tiny laser guns were lost long ago. I'm pretty sure my Kenner X-Wing and Tie Fighters are still there, as is a Kenner storm trooper rifle. I think I still have a battery operated hovercraft that no longer works. It was shaped like a white flying saucer, or maybe the back of a speaker, with a little motor in the center, fan blades under it, and a small rechargeable battery. It had a big, white plastic base that it fit into, and then you plugged in the 1/8" charging cord. It would charge for a minute or two, then you could unplug it the cord, twist the cap on top to turn it on, and for a couple minutes, it would smoothly glide across the floor in whatever direction you shoved it. As I recall, it stopped working at some point. Other than some little stuff, that's pretty much it for sci-fi toys that I think are up there. I think in the box with the Grippity Gravity is a simple black plastic race track. It's maybe a foot long and maybe 8" high, all sloped downhill, with the track curving around a couple times in a kind of "S" shape. The four cars are simple plastic shapes in primary colors (red, blue, etc), with four little black wheels, and underneath each one is a small ball bearing for weight. A pin on each car fits into the track, with a simple mechanism at the top to release them all at the same time. Then you see which one makes it to the bottom first. I remember having two other motorized toys, that I'm pretty sure are long gone. The first was a skiing toy. It had a motorized hill to pull them up to the top, then each skier would roll down the twisting track to end up back at the foot of the hill again, for another go. The skiers were all little plastic animals, like bears, and such, with a pair of skies at their feet, and wheels for rolling down the track. The second was a motorized race track. It had several pieces that snapped together in a straight line, and 4-5 lanes for the cars. Each car was designed so that there was no top or bottom. At one end was a motor that would take the cars, fling them around a loop and shoot them down to the other end of the track. There, there was a non-motorized loop that the cars would go around, and which would also count the number of times each car made the trip. The loops were both outside loops (the cars were on the outside of the loop), but they were enclosed so that the car was basically inside a chute. I forget if there was a time limit, or if you just ran it until you got tired of watching the cars go round. Then when you shut it off, you could see which car won. I used to have a dinosaur playset that came with a plastic mountain that you put together from 3-4 pieces. It included cavement and pastel-colored dinosaurs. I had a 1700-1800s fort that was made out of 6-8 pieces of rubbery plastic, and which included a bunch of different soldiers. The odd thing about that set was each of the figured was made out of separate pieces in different colored plastic. For example, they had brown (or maybe dark blue) legs with a typical base, then a blue and white torso, separate arms holding muskets, a white collar, flesh colored head, brown hair, and a black hat. It was a nice idea that make them look quite detailed, but often then pieces didn't fit together that well, and the hats, or even heads would just fall off. :) Finally, I had a medieval castle playset. It came with a castle in 6-8 pieces, although I think that was brittle plastic, and included a bunch of figures in white and red, with swords, bows, etc. It had a large (compared to the figures) crossbow that fired arrows. It has just a white molded piece (not even real wheels), with a red crosspiece. You attached a ribber band to it, hooked one of the arrows (which all had flat tips), and fit it onto a ridge to hold it in place. To fire it, you just flicked the tail end of the arrow up a little. That probably wouldn't be acceptable today, but honestly, it was so weak, it could barely reach the top of the walls to knock the figures off.

[@captlazer5509]

Where the hell is Major Matt Mason? The Mattel line had astronauts, aliens, vehicles, and space stations. Ya know, space stuff. It also had Captain Lazer. Cool name, huh? Tom Hanks was going to make a feature film of Major Matt Mason, but it fell through. You did show some classics. Thanks!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Yeah, that was definitely a cool line that ran for a long time. There were several more I would have liked to cover as well. Horrible Hamilton, for example. But here I was going for more iconic. And as cool as Matt Mason was, it's the line itself that is memorable. Not so much an individual toy from said line.

[@captlazer5509]

@AtomicSnackBar it's a broad subject. There was also Billy Blastoff, another toy line of 60's space weirdness. Do a part 2..or 3. Thanks!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@captlazer5509 I hope to. Toys are pretty much my favorite thing to cover.

[@interwebkaiju]

I'll be honest, I did not know of Garloo until some new versions came out this year which definitely pale in comparison to moving monster man capable of destroying model train tracks and the like but I do find it cool that there are figures of figures that aren't just reproductions. I didn't have any of these aside from some rock'em socke'ms but the commercials speak to me on a very personal level. Perhaps too personal.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That is interesting indeed, the whole figures of figures type releases. I also really dig the imitation retro type stuff like the Reaction line or the MotU-esque 5.5 inch figures. And to those toy commercials, they do tend to get a bit too personal after they've had a drink or two.

[@lsd2587]

Wish Santa brought me one of these space toys!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I would have loved any of these as a lad. Heck, I'd love most of these even today.

[@walterfechter8080]

Brilliant! Thanks, Mr. Sterling!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Certainly, Mr. Fechter. And thank you as always for stopping by the Snack Bar.

[@walterfechter8080]

@@AtomicSnackBar All the best to you, your loved ones and your viewers in 2025!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@walterfechter8080 Thank you kindly. To you as well, good sir.

[@walterfechter8080]

@@AtomicSnackBar 👍🤖

[@GreyhawkGrognard]

Ah, great stuff. I'm a little surprised not to see Major Matt Mason on the list, but I totally get your robotophilia when it comes to 60's toys.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That would have been a great entry for the list. There were a few really good ones I didn't have room for. Horrible Hamilton, for example. Now, if I try this again with '70s toys, that's going to be a TOUGH one to narrow down.

[@GreyhawkGrognard]

@@AtomicSnackBar No kidding -- the 70's was the high water mark of action figures. Six Million Dollar Man (including Bionic Bigfoot!), Star Wars, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes...

[@cd21234]

Half way through I was thinking... "Surely he going to mention Lost in Space...". Score! As for me, I was lucky if I got tinker toys...

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Yes, siree. I will find any excuse I can to mention Lost in Space. I just wish I had had more information on that little marvel of a playset. Thanks CD.

[@w.adammandelbaum1805]

I got the wooden bits that smelled bad... Stinker toys. Then I got Lincoln Logs which I needed like a hole in the head. Then I had the pirate building toy Peg-Lego. Not being able to afford the Great Garloo, I got the not so great kazoo, but that toy blew.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@w.adammandelbaum1805 Oh, see, I just split the difference and asked for a Great Gazoo. Yet all I ended up with were some small, rounded lollipops.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ AtomicSnackBar - Wait. Are you alluding to the Great Kazoo of Flintstones fame? Voiced by the very silly Harvey Korman. Classic.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@tonysantiago255 Yes, siree. And if you remember his catch phrase, it all ties together.

[@euansmith3699]

A video that is an advert for toy, interrupted by an advert for a toy. It is like the 1980s all over again! Regarding Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots; Lee Marvin could certainly take a lickin' and keep on tickin'. I guess he's got real steel.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

And don't forget, a video that is an advert for toy, interrupted by an advert for a toy, hosted by a plastic robot that was mostly made in the '80s.

[@euansmith3699]

@@AtomicSnackBar Do you have a large key in your back, or do we need to scrounge up some triple-A batteries?

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@euansmith3699 I'm high tech. It's all about the watch batteries.

[@doltsbane]

Somebody needs to do a Great Garloo vs. Robot Commando movie.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I'd watch that. Well, as long as it wasn't CGI.

[@w.adammandelbaum1805]

@@AtomicSnackBar CGI- Commando Garloo Imagery.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@w.adammandelbaum1805 If only.

[@nafex3740]

Nice work buddy 👏 Excellent !!!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I do appreciate that. And thanks for watching.

[@raulcruz716]

Why did the toy commercials of the 60s make for better monster movies than the actual American monster movies of the 60s?

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Most of the giant monster talent ended up at Marvin Glass and Associates, apparently.

[@raulcruz716]

@AtomicSnackBar they obviously had the better contracts for the monstars.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@raulcruz716 Commercial work is good money.

[@jerryrichardson2799]

Lol!

[@lbbotpn5429]

That's good wackiness! My only question is how is it that I'm sitting here in 20-freaking-25 and I still don't have a robot butler? We were right there on the edge of an automaton-servant paradise 60 years ago!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I say stuff like that all the time. Sure, the internet is pretty neat, but overall, the future has been a massive disappointment, especially the fashion.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

Sounds like your cousin had the special version “Mr. Roach Machine” 🤢. The “space race” and anything to do with rockets and space exploration was also a driving force for anything and everything from 65-75. Most of these toys were expensive for the time and I don’t remember seeing any of them except for the lucky kid here and there with the rockem sockem robots. I usually got what every kid yearned for, crap like socks and sweaters for Christmas 🤨I’d forgotten all about that Gargoyle movie but I do remember it scaring me pretty good. It looks like it holds up a lot better than most horror movies of the time. Salem’s Lot scared the bejeezus out of me as well.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I first caught Gargoyles on Grandpa Munster's Super Scary Saturday back in the late '80s or early '90s. Not only does it have great looking creatures, but also that 1970s made-for-tv movie vibe I dig so much. There is just nothing else like it. As to Salem's Lot, I still maintain that the window scene is the creepiest vampire scene ever put on film.

[@chrisbridges4885]

Hell yeah! That scene in the graveyard when the caretaker jumped down in the grave….. I had nightmares for a week

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@chrisbridges4885 Once again, the power of 1970s made-for-tv movies.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

@@AtomicSnackBar yeah that “buddy” of his floating around outside his window was creepy. There was a Scandinavian movie that kinda ripped that scene off. It was called something like “don’t let the wrong one in”.

[@chrisbridges4885]

Now that’s an amazing collection of sci-fi toys. Aside from the Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots, I’ve never heard of any of them. These are just a little before my childhood. Did you see the feet on the Great Galoot? Bigfoot better watch out! Looking good in your Luchadorean finery and sounding great! Thanx fer sharing!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Oddly enough, I never had Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots as a lad. I wasn't as into the toys that did most of the work for you. Action figures that swung their own swords or had power punching action, that was the domain of the kids with poor imaginations in my thinking back then.

[@chrisbridges4885]

@@AtomicSnackBar I hear that. Imagination, the real MVP for making creative, fun play. A uniquely shaped stick can be the perfect raygun, or sword. That tree in the corner of the yard could be a spaceship, castle, or huge boss fight. I know I loved my green army men, plastic dinos, and matchbox cars.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@chrisbridges4885 I certainly had a collection of cool sticks I would use for different games. There was one in particular that looked just like a wizard's staff. Man, I loved that thing.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ chrisbridges4885 - Hear! Hear! Well said, good Sir.

[@TheVid54]

I too had a Robot Commando for Christmas! I used it to attack our dog, who would bark like crazy the minute it came out of the closet. Sadly that head rocket was chewed up in a week, and needless to say it probably was why I never got a Johnny Seven OMA when I asked for it. Lotsa great presents here - I never thought of it but Mr. Machine did remind me of a moving ant farm! Thanks for the memories Mr. Sterling and Cheers to all 'til next Friday!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That is awesome. I have to ask. Was the Robot Commando wrapped? Or did you wake up Christmas morning to just find that fantastic gentleman waiting for you under the tree? My parents always did a mix. The stuff from them was wrapped. The stuff from Santa was just magically there, unwrapped and often assembled, Christmas morning.

[@TheVid54]

@@AtomicSnackBar Same for me. They just stuck a ribbon on top of Santa stuff. Always got onions in the stockings we hung.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@TheVid54 Onions, you say? I'm not familiar with that tradition.

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

Mr. Machine reminds me of the Masters of The Universe character Roboto who also has a transparant body (and who was supposedly designed by Forrest Tucker). Best wishes for the new year btw.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I liked some Roboto as a kid. And talk about a great toy commercial. Roboto. Roboto. Roboto. And thanks, Wim. You too, good sir. Of all the regulars here at the Snack Bar, you've been with me for one of the longest times.

[@KarlWitsman]

Cats in a trenchcoat? I have to CATegorically deny that allegation. Where do you get such ideas? (hides tail under coat)

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Oh, I didn't mean you, of course. Now had I said, "Three cats in a trench coat each wearing a fez," then you might have had some concern.

[@deniseboldea1624]

You can still buy Rock em sock em Robots, but the modern version lacks that satisfying whizzzzzz noise when you successfully knock your opponents head off.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Well, that doesn't sound nearly as rewarding.

[@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats]

The new year is starting out good with a Bernie Casey reference. But does his gargoyles turn to stone like the Disney ones?

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Heck no. Bernie was way too powerful to let a silly thing like the sun stop him from doing anything.

[@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats]

@AtomicSnackBar Good man- er, gargoyle. They bred 'em tough back then.

[@rexevans5477]

this is a fun, experimental even, video that is especially important for me as in two days I will be turning 18! also I said this on your 1960s toy commercials video, but, this is just a list of things to appear in a king kong tv show.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Oh, well very good then. Happy early birthday, my T-Rexian friend. But the question is, is 18 the same in humans years as it is in T-Rex years?

[@rexevans5477]

@@AtomicSnackBar it used to be different as T.rexes only lived til 30 but thanks to thinks like dinosaur vaccines and us no longer killing each other for who gets to eat lunch it is no just slighltly longer than human. so yes 18 in T.rexian years is the same as in human years.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ rexevans5477 - Let me be one of the first to wish you a Happy 18th Birthday! Now, what does that make you legal to do...? Hm...

[@rexevans5477]

@@tonysantiago255 the main thing I'm looking forward to is scratchers. they look satisfying.

[@wonyankeesays5661]

Actually got rock em sock em and evil knieval,,played with some of the others as they were cast offs when i did

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Ah, the Stunt Cycle. I would say that is probably the most famous toy of the 1970s. I can't think of another that is quite so iconic.

[@chrisbridges4885]

Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure I had a couple of them. One of them was the rocket car that jumped “Snake River Canyon “

[@wonyankeesays5661]

@@AtomicSnackBar the first hand held electronic games are quite memorable,,basketball,,football and Battlestar Galactica by mattell

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@wonyankeesays5661 Speaking of Battlestar, I just started watching the boxset the other day. I'm quite impressed with it so far.

[@jerryrichardson2799]

Thanks for another funny show.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Most certainly. And thanks for watching it, Jerry.

[@TitularHeroine]

Hey, Sterling, great episode! I really dig how many of these entries are depicted in their commercials as immense, city-threatening gargantuas. G6od stuff. Those playsets absolutely rock too! I nearly gagged at the bug anecdote -- and NOT in a good way. And I, unlile King Zor, have not really been known to turn around or go backwards when my tongue touches something. If your mind is gutter-bound I'm referring to the limited-edition holday dinner-flavored sodas we get this time of year. Allegedly. I guess cranberry sauce sounds all right.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Hold the phone. Top the presses. Put the chickens in the car. Holiday dinner-flavored sodas? You mean like turkey and dressing flavored cola? Or Wild Turkey and soda? Similar sounding, totally different.

[@tonysantiago255]

Gibblet juice.

[@TitularHeroine]

​@@AtomicSnackBar Inspired connection you drew there! But unfortunately the former. You nailed it exactly.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@TitularHeroine I'm not a soda person, so it could just be me, but that sounds pretty not good.

[@richardborczynski4955]

I didn't have king zor but I had the dart gun I found in a goodwill when I was like 6 or 7 in the 1970s. Great shirt. Mask lucadors mexican horror/action movies

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That's kind of neat in and of itself. Did it have any of the darts? I've touched on Luchador movies a bit, the Batwoman & Santo and Blue Demon vs the Monsters, but I would like to dig into the genre even more.

[@richardborczynski4955]

@AtomicSnackBar no darts but darts from other guns fit into it. Literally wore the thing out.

[@andersonrearickiii6392]

I actually had a Mr. Machine but my sister almost chocked on his nose, so my parents whisked him away. I also had a Robot Commando but my robot’s head hood which hid his missiles was not transparent but red. Also had the AstroBase. And of course I had the Rocken Sockem

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Sounds like you had a great toy box. I think I would have been okay losing Mr. Machine if there was a Robot Commando to take his place. What was your favorite of the bunch? Thanks for stopping by, Anderson.

[@andersonrearickiii6392]

@ They were all imagination boosters, but I especially loved my Robot Commando. Like so many kids of the 60s, I had a huge armymen collection and I’d array them against my gigantic rolling menace. Or I had him chase my little sister down the hall throwing balls all the way. My wife looked into finding me one on eBay but those which are out there are way too costly!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@andersonrearickiii6392 I did the very same thing with the Imperial Godzilla toy when I was a lad in the '80s. The scale was way off, but it was still really fun. Speaking of costs, I recently looked into that Lost in Space playset. Even just the miniatures alone are pricey.

[@jennifertochi6253]

You had me at Great Garloo and Bernie Casey. Sterling you amaze me at your knowledge once again. Give me Saucer man instead of those guns.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

A little Bernie Casey makes everything a bit better. That's science, right there.

[@jennifertochi6253]

@AtomicSnackBar Also leopard print on your robot and robot holder.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@jennifertochi6253 True indeed, my good lady. True indeed.

[@jayducharme]

That was a fun nostalgic trip. I had Robot Commando, King Zor and Rock 'em Sock 'em. King Zor was my favorite, probably because I had it during the big dinosaur craze of the '60s. It had wheels with flat spots on them so that it rocked back and forth as it moved. It would roll forward silently until its tail was it with a dart. At that point it would stop, begin growling and back up. It would turn toward the side on which it was hit and fire a marble out of its back. Pretty amazing action for a kid back then.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Most definitely. I grew up in the '80s, and I would have been impressed with King Zor as well. Heck, there was a little Laser Tag competitor called Laser Combat. It came with a little robot that rolled around wildly and you shot at it. That blew my mind with how cool it was, and it was lower tech than Zor. Thanks, Jay.

[@AlexDraco]

5:58 : "Stars Above, this planet is populated by psychopaths! Even their children are really mass-killers in training! There's no way we will share our advanced technology with these murderous barbarians. Let's go and never return." Well done, Billy. You just entirely ruined our first, and perhaps only chance at First Contact with an advanced alien species.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I know, right? Humans are the worst. That's why I generally just hang out with killer robots. I mean, normal robots.

[@creech54]

I think the Marx RC "Frankenstein" has the same inner mechanism and RC controls as "Garloo".

[@AtomicSnackBar]

You know, if this one does well enough to warrant a sequel, that would be a great one to squeeze in. I think he's sci-fi enough to count.

[@creech54]

@@AtomicSnackBar "Frankenstein" is fiction and it involves science, so close enough. 😁

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@creech54 I agree. And I've actually debated doing an episode or two on my favorite Frankensteins. Both man and monster.

[@TitularHeroine]

​@@AtomicSnackBar What's that Rodney Dangerfield joke? "When I die they're gonna donate my body to science fiction." Maybe the esteemed Mr. Dangerfield's brain ended up in a jar somewhere...

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@TitularHeroine I haven't heard that one, but it might be my favorite new joke.

[@bobwire9214]

Very well done. I was just like that kid seven years old in '61 and I had a Garloo. Haven't heard anyone else mention him before. He was that much fun but I always thought the length of the control cable was way too short. Fun video.

[@ChrisCooling]

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots was 1964. Kids were asking Santa for them that Christmas in newspapers

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I thought so too. But I wanted to cover my bases, just to be on the safe side. Thanks for confirming, Chris.

[@ChrisCooling]

@@AtomicSnackBar hard to believe you don't have more than 10K subs...I like your videos and the whole schtick

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@ChrisCooling I do appreciate that, good sir. I certainly try.

[@lorensims4846]

We had REAL robots in those days! My friend who lived across the street had the Lost in Space Switch 'N' Go set. I had a robot, also from Marx, called Mr. Mercury (I never saw ads for this one). It had a lot of the functionality of that monster robot you showed first, but the controls were simpler. You couldn't steer him, but he could walk (well, he scooted his feet), could bend over, raise and lower his arms and pick up things. As real and capable a robot I than I ever saw for many, many years. EVERYTHING ran on size D batteries in those days. We did get the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots when they were introduced. And I begged for and got Mousetrap when that was introduced. I argue that we Sputnik era kids were LATE baby boomers. The big kids, the early boomers, played cowboys and Indians. We played secret agents and astronauts.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I would absolutely love to get my hands on one of those Lost in Space Switch 'n' go playsets. But wowzer, those go for a pretty penny these days. Even just the parts. That Mr. Mercury is pretty neat himself. I wasn't familiar with that one. But I imagine quite a few toys came and went without commercials or big ad campaigns. I also recall some D battery toys from my youth, but not a whole lot. Funnily, I had Mouse Trap as well. But I don't think I played the game a single time. I just liked putting it together.

[@wonyankeesays5661]

Yayyyy

[@tommydarbe1524]

I had Robot Commando growing up. Destroyed leggo cities with it😅, in my imagination anyway.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Oh man, that sounds like a good time right there. Heck, I'd like to do that this weekend.

[@Driven2Beers]

The only toy here I've ever heard of was the Rock em Sock em Robots. My friend had one, and we'd play until our thumbs ached. BTW, nice Bernie Casey reference. _Gargoyles,_ _Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,_ (the original) and the last story from _Trilogy of Terror_ each kept me sleeping with the lights on for weeks after!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I've probably mentioned a bunch of times before, but I am a real sucker for 1970s made-for-TV movies. They just have a charm and a vibe that is totally their own.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ AtomicSnackBar - And he just mentioned 3 great classic 70s made for TV movies there. You've done so many videos now and my memory continues to slip away. Did you ever do a Kolchak the Nightstalker tribute? I hope you're taking notes. Sure fire nostalgia views.

[@Driven2Beers]

@@AtomicSnackBar Only been a couple months since I've joined, but maybe I should catch up with some more of your 70s sci-fi and horror movie reviews (TV or not). For instance, the first two stories in _Trilogy of Terror_ were also quite good. Two nice surprise endings.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@tonysantiago255 I sure haven't. The last I checked, the footage wasn't readily available. I should check again, though. I should really dig more into Kolchak. As it is, I've only talked about Mr. R.I.N.G.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@Driven2Beers I don't have a ton of '70s content, it's been really hit or miss for the channel, but I've been trying to work more of it in.

[@DisheveledByDawn]

Not Scifi but that corded remote controls gave me a flashback for a pair of ‘57 Chevys that had as a kid.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I didn't have many remote controlled toys as a kid. But my favorite was Deadeye from Starriors.

[@subraxas]

3:04 - I will unfortunately have to correct you on this one. By that point in time, 'Ideal' had already been around, and successful, for a long, loooong time. After all, they were the inventors of a 'teddy bear' proper. Quoting: " Morris and Rose Michtom founded the ""Ideal Novelty and Toy Company"" in Brooklyn when they invented the Teddy bear in 1903. Rose had made the original ""Teddy's Bear"" for their children. Morris and Rose sent a bear to the then-President Theodore ""Teddy"" Roosevelt, as well as asking permission to use his name for the bear. Roosevelt ""adopted"" the bear and had it even present in his campaign and on display at White House functions. " Furthermore, for several decades the number one schtick of Ideal's was a production of a wide variety of dolls for girls. They started with them during the 'interwar' years (for example, their 'Betsy Wetsy' debuted in 1934 and was then produced for over 50 years [!!!!!]) and after the WWII, during the Baby Boom era (the post-war era is when they also went international), they were the #1 in the US on the doll's market for some two and a half decades.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

No, you misunderstood. What I said was that it was the first big hit for Marvin Glass and Associates. And it would go on to become the mascot for Ideal. Two separate statements.

[@subraxas]

@@AtomicSnackBar Oh, OK then. I thought that you were referring to the toymaker company.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@subraxas It's all gravy.

[@danf321]

And BTW, I watch your videos with a REAL Martini👍. Nothing against yours, but your videos are a perfect cozy up to a real Gin Martini..,shaken not stirred.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Heck yeah. You know how to do it. And those are probably a whole lot healthier than the Innsmouth Martinis I'm always drinking.

[@robinlarge1630]

Billy's machine gun was the dog's bollocks! ... ..I would've been king sh☆t up our street with that gun back in the 70's😁😁😁

[@AtomicSnackBar]

So the dog's bollocks is a good thing? I wouldn't have guessed that.

[@robinlarge1630]

@AtomicSnackBar yes! Or ' the mutts nuts!!! ' 😂😂😂😂

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@robinlarge1630 Now you're just messing with me.

[@robinlarge1630]

@AtomicSnackBar honest! ' the dogs bollocks ' means that something is the best! Great video again! 👍🏻😁🇬🇧

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@robinlarge1630 Well, very good then. And a strange piece of a dog's anatomy right back atacha, my friend.

[@Incognito1Bandito]

I am one of those cats 🐈

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Well, I wasn't going to tell anybody. But since the Bandito Cat is out of the bag.

[@FeverDreamlandTheater]

Excellent collection of 60s toys Rob. The price on these adjusted for inflation shows they were pricey for the time, but they did seem all kinds of awesome. King Zor is my favorite, seems like there's a whole lot going on there. Great Garloo is great as well...basically, leopard print monster goodness cranked up to 1000. That Lost in Space set though truly is amazing too. Heck it's all good. We had those Rock em Sock em Robots! They were still around in the 80's and are still around today. Again, good stuff man. Have a good one! 🤖🤖🤖

[@AtomicSnackBar]

As a kid, I probably would have gravitated towards Garloo and then King Zor. But as an adult, I think if I could have anything here, other than the Lost in Space set, it would be the Robot Commando or the Astro Base. Thanks, buddy. And I'm glad your Monsters episode did well.

[@juxapostion]

Here be some cooooool shit.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Yes, siree. Thank you much.

[@Madmax-rz5hz]

"Mr machine ran for about $12"... what, was that some kind of upgrade? I've only seen him walking so far

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Well, hot dog. Good one, my friend.

[@Madmax-rz5hz]

@AtomicSnackBar dad jokes...actually grandad jokes now...

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@Madmax-rz5hz Those are some of my favorites.

[@Gappasaurus]

Hate to break it to you, but i’m actually two llamas and a vicuña in a trench coat. And that’s not all, spaceman! They each get one day off per week, and a part-timer alpaca covers for them. Guess that puts me in an entirely different demographic 😄 Odd that the Great Garloo has re-emerged in the pop culture scene recently: a weird figure by Nacelle in a gorilla-looking stance with several decos, a couple S7 ReAction figures, a vinyl kewpie-looking figure, a Funko soda can figure, and even a Pop! Not sure what brought this on, but i ain’t mad at it 😆 Any chance we may get future installments on this topic? I hear Big Loo was disappointed he didn’t make the cut, and trust me, you don’t want a 36-inch, bullet-headed robot with Joker-like features mad at you 😱 Fun fact, a prototype for Big Loo’s intended bride-to-be named “Charlene” was recently discovered and sold at auction for $21K 😳 But the _most_ shocking part is that it’s basically just Loo with all his non-green parts now colored pink, which somehow makes it even more unsettling 😅

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I say, "Pish and posh." That's exactly the kind of nonsense backstory a giant bird-lizard in a bowler hat would try and spread on the internet. I see through your games, Gappa. You have to get up pretty late in the evening to pull the llama hat over this guy's eyes. It is interesting, this Garloo-mania that is ravaging the country. I'm not really sure what brought it on either. Where's all the Robot Commando merch? Or King Zor? I guess it really is all about people loving a sharp dressed monster.

[@Gappasaurus]

@ Drats, foiled again! 😤 Like Cardinal Richelieu once said, “Curse you Inspector Dim, you are too clever for us naughty people!” 😞 The Garloo-mania is indeed real, i guess there’s just no denying the overwhelming appeal of a leopard-print singlet 😅

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@Gappasaurus I thought so too, but my local library disagreed.

[@Gappasaurus]

@ Yeah, see that’s why i always play it safe and wear a kilt to the library 😉

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@Gappasaurus But the problem with that, kilts are traditionally worn on your lower half.

[@TheCommonGardenTater1]

Spiffing Shirt Mr. Martini. I had a Rock-Em Sock-Em in the UK when I was about 9 or 10 I recall, it was great fun, but always issues with the over energetic play leading to parts breaking. I moved on to Action man, and that was it, I was cast as a World Super Hero in my own back yard. This was an epic showcase full of products that stimulated a child's mind, especially the Machine Gun that shot REAL small plastic pellets that my Cat did not like one bit..wonder why? Anyhooooo. Happy New year to all fellow Atomic Snack Bar patrons: Say hi to T.S. for me and let him know that the Uuuuuuuulaaaaaaaaaaaaah's are visiting him when he's sleeping. Be Blessed All.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Too bad you never had an Action Man vs the Rock'em Sock'em Robots battle. Though I would imagine some kid, somewhere, made that happen. And I'm sure it would have saved your poor cat a bit of stress.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ TheCommonGardenTater 1 - Happy Uuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllaaaaaah right back acha buddy. Our poor cats took a lot of unintended abuse from us kids. My 2 older brothers and I shared a toy canon that we led all around the back yard one Christmas. It had a plastic ball that you would stuff it in the barrel with a long padded stick. Inside was a spring and when you pulled a cord at the rear of the gun, the cannonball with go flying through the air causing any unsuspecting kittens to go scattering in terror. Good times.

[@TheCommonGardenTater1]

​@@tonysantiago255 Howdy T. S. You can never express to the youth of today what magic existed for real in "Them Ole days" eh! A puddle, mud and a stick was all we needed to allow us to have a "Harry Potter Wand" and an alchemists cauldron to make mischief with. Foo... I ache for those Days, and am so sad for those who will never experience it. Let's be selfish and keep all of them memory gems to ourselves eh?

[@tonysantiago255]

@ TheCommonGardenTater 1 - I don't know if you got the Dark Shadows 60s series in England or if it was before your time, but I remember finding a knarled stick in the backyard and turning it into Barnabas Collins' walking stick. I used gold paint, which it kept absorbing being it was porous ( I was 10. What did I know?) and it had a perfect curve that I carved into a wolf's head. Artistic imagination and a lot of time on our hands during Summer break.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@tonysantiago255 This is one of my favorite comments this weekend.

[@Minikin1]

Howdy! Meow, meow, meow, meow! (You agreed not to talk about that) Meow! (Happy New Year!)

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I didn't name names. But I guess now the Cat's out of the bag . . . elegant long coat.

[@Minikin1]

@@AtomicSnackBar Bag was too stuffy, super happy with the upgrade to the long coat.

[@w.adammandelbaum1805]

Great Garloo was known as Great Garlic in Italy. Mr. Machine and Mr. Peanut hooked up and became Mr.Vending Machine. Zor touched his tongue to a Barbie Doll and wound up with a zor on his lip. Switch and Go was designed by Ed Wood for obvious reasons. Rock em Sock em Robots had glass jaws in honor of the designer. Billy who saw flying saucers and clown dog spacemen and shot toy guns at them,was officially diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1970, and recently passed away in his padded room. Robot Commando originally was known as Robot tightly whitey, but decided to go commando. The space weapon toys are in current use by Russia, cause they've run out of their real stuff. There were other toys in the 60s just for girls, but that ain't for KZbin. Over to you RS.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Gosh darn it, man. I was going to make the commando joke. Reading a long, I was thinking, "There's no way he'll go there before I do." And sure enough, in my face, the Robot Commando's junk as he was eating green berets for breakfast. And here I thought Mr. Machine's kid with Mr. Peanut was Mr. Potato Head.

[@w.adammandelbaum1805]

@AtomicSnackBar great minds stink alike RS. We can share credit for the commando joke.🤗 Pleasure doing silliness with you.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@w.adammandelbaum1805 Far enough. I accept your terms. The day is ours, Mandelbaum.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ w.adammandelbaum1805 - Well, brush my britches and call me Sally. If those toys for little girls in the 60s are unsuitable for general consumption on KZbin, where might a curious yellow fellow find such... whatever they are ? Too Blue for KZbin.

[@Madmax-rz5hz]

What about the awesome Johnny Seven gun? We even had those in England

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That was definitely an awesome toy. And I'd count that as sci-fi.

[@garfieldsmith332]

Thanks for a great trip down memory lane. I thought Robot Commando was the coolest toy made. Wanted one but would never find one under the Christmas Tree. With duties and taxes and markup. They were about $80 dollars in Canada. Only a few big toy or department stores had them. My brother did have a Great Garloo but that cost $40 in Canada. The Marx, Remco, Mattel, Kenner, and Topper toys were all very pricey back then. A couple of things about all those wonderful battery toys; they were Noisy as hell and ate batteries like one ate potato chips. At lease we got to see them in action at the toy store.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

That would be high even today. But in the early 60s, 80 bucks would have been a VERY expensive toy. And I know what you mean about those battery operated toys. When I was a wee lad, my parents got me one of those little battery operated four-wheelers. Had to charge the thing all night long, and once charged, I think the battery lasted about 20 minutes before it went dead. I ended up getting so little use out of it.

[@garfieldsmith332]

@@AtomicSnackBar While going to college I worked all summer and the Christmas season (nights and weekends). At Christmas I was in the toy department, specifically the battery toys sections. All day long all those battery toys making noises and flashing lights, dozens of them. Especially all those tin robot toys from Japan. What a racket.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

​@@garfieldsmith332 The battery toys of the night. What music they make.

[@mixedhairless]

👏

[@AtomicSnackBar]

Thank you much.

[@tonysantiago255]

Man! $20 bucks? 23 bucks? I wouldn't have even dared to consider to think to ask for a toy that expensive! Only kids whose parents were Doctors, Dentists, or Lawyers would get one of those for Christmas. Or Chanukah. Marvin Glass was a nom de plume for Forrest Tucker. Wow! I had the same dream that Billy had as a kid! While in bed one night, A flying saucer glided silently past my window. No alien puppet ever came to the window. Not that I remember anyway. But apparently, the Greys wipe your mind after abduction. Your cousin's hygiene sounds disgusting. Hopefully you weren't doing a sleepover. Filler-diller. Personal stories are a big part of what makes the Comments section rock. Three cats in a trenchcoat?! Dang you Sterling! I thought you promised not to give me away. Especially on the days I have to take the bottom spot. Top cat gets to wear the straw hat AND the bowtie. Brian Donlevy: Da Man!

[@AtomicSnackBar]

I didn't mention you by name, but now everyone knows your secret, Santiago. And also why you have such strong opinions on Tom and Jerry cartoons. Granted, I share those opinions, but I'm certainly not three cats in a trenchcoat. Three capybara and a meerkat, on the other hand, I have no comment about those allegations.

[@TheCommonGardenTater1]

Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Sssssssssssssssssssssssssss Howdy Bud. Guess you were abducted by the Greys and never knew until you found out that you could listen to Cedar Tree's private conversations! Yours sincerely, Benny, "Tom Cat's friend". :)

[@garfieldsmith332]

Brain Donlevy was a great Quatermass.

[@tonysantiago255]

@ garfieldsmith - I saw Enemy from Space by sheer chance when I found the DVD at a thrift store 20 something years ago. I had no idea that it part of a series or who Bernard Quartermass was. I became a massive Brian Donlevy fan after that. I love the disagreements about who was the best Quatermass. Yeah... Nigel Neale was 100% WRONG. Brian Donlevy for the Win! A real American Man's man. No BS taken from anyone.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

@@garfieldsmith332 This is definitely the Team Donlevy corner of the Snack Bar.

[@destructarr]

Those 60s toys are cool, but not as cool as 70s and 80s toys. I think, all things considered, the 80s toys are the best. If I were buying toys in the 60s, I'd have bought the Marx Playsets and the Ideal Justice League and Batman sets.

[@AtomicSnackBar]

1980s toys are definitely the ones I'm most familiar with it. My hope was to make this a series and get to the '80s. But with the numbers on this one, I may just have to call it.