VINTAGE 1964 (TOY) TIME BOMB COMMERCIAL WITH STUBBY KAY

After the toy makers decided there were enough child snipers in training, from all of the realistic metal & plastic guns they manufactured, they then decided to start a "training camp" for children to learn how to toss a TIME BOMB before it explodes.
Children learn from their toys.
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[@jappyhoy]

My dad is the first boy shouting time bomb :-)

[@jappyhoy]

He was 7 years old.

[@denang501]

Tanya Benedict Damn, That's so cool!

[@jappyhoy]

Dylan Gutowski yea he was 7

[@jappyhoy]

Kemphchtz my dad was born in 58. my dad was 7-10 here I’ll have to ask him. I am 37. I was born when my dad was 21. It’s my dad. No worries. I’m glad I look young. I’m near 40 :-)

[@ronfrey5327]

@@jappyhoy I have one of these still in the box I just let it go off on purpose and it still makes you jump.. Im 57 and I still dont know what I wanna be when I grow up...

[@choptanktuxent2]

I got this one Christmas back in that era....

[@pennyrobinson9772]

Oh, THAT Stubby Kay!!! /I know him best from the musical Guys & Dolls, as "Nicely Nicely", who sings "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat".

[@markrich4587]

My Christmas gift from Santa when I was 8, (1968) while playing Christmas night my older sister slammed that hard plastic "bomb" into my front tooth (accidentally of course) so she wouldn't be holding it when it went off. Broke half my front tooth - spent Christmas night at the dentist's office, ended up with the ugliest, biggest capped tooth imaginable. The crown looks a lot better now but I still teach my sister to this day (even bought one off Ebay a couple years ago for her) The Time bomb was thrown away by my mom the same night.

[@dianecormier9687]

Guess I wasn't the only one who lost half a tooth!

[@zuzugirl2]

Holy Cow! 50 years of this commercial! Ole Ole everyone!

[@JeevesReturns]

I had one. The problem was the hard plastic. Don’t play it on a hard surface (sidewalk) because it cracks if it hits too hard.

[@Sheri451]

I really believe I knew someone that had one of those. When I was around five, a friend gave me one of those and it scared me to death. This was in 1969.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally seen on "SHENANIGANS!", sponsored by Milton Bradley on ABC's Satuday morning schedule in 1964 and '65. "Kenny the Cop" was announcer Kenny Williams (later the announcer for Heatter-Quigley's "THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES").

[@RandomButtonPusher]

More fun than the medicine ball in gym class for developing reflexes and hand/eye coordination. As for the influence on kids to be violent, I grew up in this era and had toy guns, read war/western/super-hero comics and watched TV and movies of the same, and somehow I managed to not only not becoming a killing machine but in fact became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement, to the consternation of a stable, WW-II veteran father. I think there are a variety of factors involved in violence, and despite my own experience, I would not completely discount the effect of the current hyper-violent first-person killing/shooting computer games on susceptible minds (and as a retired educator, I've seen plenty of those).

[@briannotafan3368]

i still rember chaseing my wamo super ball down my street

[@HughMacEachern]

TIME BOMB!

[@scootergreen3]

This was so much fun!

[@randysager3523]

The one dislike is from someone that didn't have much of a childhood.

[@bigomamma]

I wish I had 13 thumbs, to give you 13 thumbs up!

[@llazyiest]

An innocent childhood game. I had it in 1st grade and can remember getting hit in the face many times with the hard plastic ticking time bomb. Probably improved my catching tho Ha. I also had the giant air bazooka that was so loud it damaged kids ears when they had it on their shoulder to shoot. The golden age of childhood and the USA. Blissfully before the advent of video games to let kids experience exploding people.

[@chrisranz2714]

Wow this is so disturbing but awesome at the same time.ll 👍👍👍😜

[@adamgh0]

This evolved into "Hot Potato" and "Splash Out" in the 90's.

[@williammaass7812]

I had one too. I had few toys but some relative was nice enough to get me this off my christmas list. Not too complicated so a 1st or 2nd grader could play it. Basically ramped up, Hot Potato game. Means some thing different to today's viewers with all the horrors we have gone through. Those were not there in the early 60s for 99.99% of Americans until and idiot racist murderer planted that bomb in a southern baptist church killing at least one child and others. In a town of 32000 , kankakee il, we walked when and where we wanted to. No worries.

[@briannotafan3368]

they took it off the market and sold toy m16s in 1969

[@doloreshuntoon7698]

Time bomb!

[@glennromano9620]

I had a red one.

[@arealmench]

It's just another version of musical chairs or hot potato.

[@petemarr824]

Luckily it never made it over here in England.. The thought of TIME BOMB!!! a game where you throw hard plastic at someone.. hmmm.. no thanks lol

[@jeffreyslott3883]

Oh please, "children learn from their toys". What does that supposed to mean? I doubt even .001 percent of kids who played with this TOY ever learned anything beyond the fact that it was probably a cheap thrill. Violence in our society doesn't come from toys, it doesn't come from video games, it doesn't come from comic books, it doesn't come from television, or rock-and-roll, or movies, or whatever has been scapegoated for the past century. Why not point the finger to inadequate funding for the sciences and arts in our schools, or poverty, or hypocritical politicians and businessmen whose priorities are the ever accumulation of power and money and that our culture has long, and still, holds up as individuals worthy of our votes and money?

[@rcd2066]

Exactly when did you get your degree in child psychology? Children do learn the lessons a person will need in life, from their toys. You are absolutely correct in your statements about the inadequate funding in the sciences & arts, and the statements about poverty, businessmen, politicians. The violent toys, violent comic books & violent TV programs help to imprint the notion that violence is the correct way to settle a problem. A youngster who has a loving family would probably ignore the hidden ideas that a Kung Fu kick is an appropriate way to settle a problem. The problem is when a youngster comes from a family that has both parents working two jobs. The chances are the child will not have the guidance that he needs in his developing years. The first few years of a child's life can make or break their vision of the world. Have you ever heard of indoctrination? A constant barrage of ideas will change a person's mind. If a child is allowed to "murder" his friends with a toy gun, and is exposed to countless hours of violence, he may view that as the normal way to exist in society. Granted, like I said before, if a child has a stable family life the problem will probably be negated.

[@jeffreyslott3883]

Read the book called "Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence" written by Gerard Jones. This will better supply you with the facts, and evidence supporting those facts, on which I base my statements; better because the details supporting my opinions can't all be conveyed within the constraints of a comment section on KZbin.

[@rcd2066]

Jeffrey Slott There are multiple thousands of books written every year. Just because some guy writes a book, it doesn't automatically make his statements are 100% true. Scientific research that has been "cross examined" by the peers of the researcher is the true source of facts. In the Library of Congress there are millions of books that have polar opposite views on the same subject (millions might be an overstatement.)

[@jeffreyslott3883]

TV TOY MEMORIES True, but the fact that there are "thousands of books written every year" doesn't invalidate my personal source. I don't have the space here to supply you with the sources behind my source, so for whether "scientific research" confirms Mr Jones' conclusions, you'll just have to locate the book at your own convenience (if you feel the time and energy worth it) and read for yourself.

[@randysager3523]

+Jeffrey Slott That is Liberals for you. This game did not make mad bombers out of children that played this game.

[@cmendoza9255]

If you shout loud enough at the bomb it wont go off..... I think children were more easily amused back in the day, and this would never be sold nowadays. Its crazy that no one had any ideas about toys being offensive or dangerous back then. No one cared.

[@petersteman6557]

Allauha Akbar!

[@pennyrobinson9772]

Yeah they could sell it now as JIHAD!!!

[@capnhands]

must be popular in the Middle East