FOR STAR TREK DAY: THE FUNNIEST STAR TREK TV AD EVER?

 

Courtesy of You Tube, Shaun Edmonds and Canadian TV.

Is there a better one readers for Star Trek Day today?

Star Wars: A New Hope TV Spot 1976

 

Oh what joy!

When did you first see a New Hope?

PREDATOR V ALIEN! WHO WAS SCARIER?

We can't have a Predators week without mentioning Predator the movie! Here's the original trailer from, yes, 1987! Its that long ago!

And for those of you who collected the action figures back in the day - it was 7 years before any were released -  here's an old 1993 TV ad with Predator's new foe, ALIEN!

and perhaps the one ALIEN toy I would love to find in any condition is the 18 inch Kenner. A thing of legend and like those Mars Attacks cards decades earlier, this lofty beast was just too darn scary for Parents and some kids!

Its official, ALIEN was way scarier than Predator, so c'mon, forget about my tie, man!*

Here's the 18 incher's TV ad that says it all!

Did you or do you have any Predator or ALIEN toys or games or kits readers?

* This post is dedicated to the late great Carl Weathers, who played Colonel Al Dillon in Predator, who sadly passed away this year.

Vintage "Space" Themed TV Advertisements

I stumbled across these on YouTube.

Thought they might be of interest.

What do you think?

Mark R.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCchngIDMi8

Big Top Space Guide Commercial with Eddie Bracken

www.youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5QMczMMBos

Sugar Jets Commercial # 1

www.youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-u1gaIwkkQ

also

Sugar Jets Commercial # 2 with Willy Ley

www.youtube.com

ZEROIDS TV COMMERCIAL 1968

THE MILKY BAR KID IN SPACE 1981

 

I loved Milky Bars as a kid.

I don't recall this 1981 ad though. Maybe its because I was older then. You remember it?

Do you like Milky Bars or white chocolate readers?

KEV'S DURACELL AD ROBOTS

Hi,

Managed to get these courtesy of ebay. Two of the original filming miniatures from a 1984 Duracell ad. They are in great shape for their age.

No other battery looks like it,

Kevin

See the original advert here:

https://youtu.be/F8rBEEW-y-c

ACTION MAN TV

 Yesterday saw a lot of Action man action on TV.

First there was an Ebay advert which features a vintage figure being sent in the post. Is this the Action Sailor?

Later on, much later came Xtro.

This 80's alien gorefest features an Action Man throughout. I can't find a piccy of it but it eventually grows to full size to terrorise some poor victim.

What is that? Action Soldier?

Lots More Old TV Ads

Hi

         Here are some more collections of old TV toy commercials. First up, Topper Toys, with a selection of Secret Sam items that includes a cane, pipe, and baseball bat that all shoot. A remote control truck. Tigers soldiers and remote control tank. Silly Safari game. Various dolls.

Topper Toys Television Commercials The The 1960s - YouTube

     This Marx collection includes the Bop-A-Bear game. A double-barrelled big game gun fires rubber tipped darts at a battery powered bump-and-go bear - he growls when hit. Totally nuts. Missile firing robots. A child-sized ride-on Batmobile (did they do an adult-sized version ?), playsets including the Cape Kennedy set. At the end there is a shot of a Flintstones train set, but we only see the box.

By MARX! A Tribute to Marx Toys (with commercials and fun facts) - YouTube

     Then almost an hour of old TV ads. The Steve Canyon toys look amazing - and expensive given the dates. But what would they go for today ? The Screaming Mee Mee-e rifle and pistol, trumpeter Louis Armstrong in a commercial for the Suzy Cute doll, American Flyer model railway with landscaped sections that clip together, Slot Cars, and a Roy Rogers Quick Shooter Hat which contains a concealed Derringer pistol. Near the end is a walking Billy Blastoff.

CLASSIC TV TOY COMMERCIALS 1950/60s 60 minutes - YouTube

Happy New Year!

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Old Toys 1930's Onwards

Here are some more TV commercials from the 1960s, this collection being devoted entirely to space toys. Wow.

HQ Classic Space Toys- Remco, Ideal, Mattel Billy Blastoff and more! - YouTube

This video is actually a collection of still photos of toys and boxes, from the 1930s onwards. Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Robby the Robot, Dan Dare, and more general toys. The space helicopter is a little bizarre. No idea what the 1950s War of the Worlds box contained. Top class photographs.

What do you like?

Vintage Space Toys from the 1930s to 1960s HD - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

ANGLIA TELEVISION: OH WHAT A KNIGHT!

 I recall Survival starting after this? 

What about you?

ITS ALMOST TOO MUCH: ATV

 What followed this in your world?

LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION

By popular demand! What came on after this intro for you?

THAMES TELEVISION

 What do you remember coming after this intro UK readers?

CHARLY SAYS ..... I DON'T REMEMBER THEM ALL!

 Do you?

I COULDN'T RESIST! CALL THE COASTGUARD!

Yes, its that Sixties couple picnicking on the cliff edge!

Joe and Petunia! Remember them?

REMEMBER NIMBLE BREAD?

Do you recall this Nimble Bread TV ad from 1969? I was 8 at the time and scoffed loads of bread, usually white and maybe called Wonder Loaf, I'm not sure. Anyways, my Mum or my Sisters are Nimble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzPhUaVDRpg

You know the ad now,  she flies like a bird because the diet loaf is so thin its lighter than air. I seem to remember the slices actually tearing to shreds when I tried to butter them back then! I don't think they were made for butter!

Hot Air Balloons seem to have been a big deal back then, a novelty. I've never flown in one and hardly ever see them now. You?

I remember the song 'I can't let Maggie go', which in my mind has morphed with 'Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried any more' from The Faces' Maggie May, so I had to look it up.

I can't Let Maggie go was by The Honeybus and has a wiki page no less!

I asked Paul in NZ if he remembered Nimble.

From Paul: It does not not ring any bells, so if it was ever sold in NZ it was not advertised on TV. 

On You Tube there is a whole series of Nimble ads, from across several decades, so it is clearly a well known British brand. 

Watched a few, and got a real shock. One of the ads features Juilet Harmer, who played Georgina Jones in the series Adam Adamant Lives (1966-67) - which I have on DVD. 

She is even driving a Mini in the ad, a car which also featured in Adam Adamant - remember that? - , although the ad is dated 1965. Great fun.

Paul A.

Nimble Bread Advert 1965 Juliet Harmer - YouTube 

More Old TV Ads

Hi Woodsy

Here is another batch of old TV toy commercials. Some have been included in other videos, but some are new to me.

There is a set of three navy frogmen which dive and surface with the aid of baking powder, and a Lionel ad featuring an Atlas rocket with Mercury space capsule on a railway wagon - or should I say railroad car - which can be launched into space, the capsule descending by parachute.

The is also a cherry-picker, so the astronaut can reach the capsule.

Vintage Classic TV Toy Commercials #4 Great Garloo, Whirlybird, Sub-Hunt, Big Bruiser and More! - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Remco Ads

Hi Woodsy

Here is a batch of three old Remco TV ads. First up is a Flying Fox Airlines prop-jet (the American term for a turbo-prop), which is a Lockheed Electra. With working engines, landing gear, lights and sounds, all operated from a child-sized instrument panel. Then the Whirlybird Rescue Corps helicopter, which is a Piasecki H-21 Workhorse (Shawnee in the US Army), complete with troops and vehicles. The real H-21 could carry a light vehicle, but not a 30 ton Sherman tank. Finally, Mr Kelly's Automatic Car Wash, which really washes toy cars. All these are battery powered. Wow.

REMCO TOY COMMERCIALS 1959 - YouTube

Paul Adams from New Zealand

THE TOUGH GET GOING!

More Ideal 6x6 High Risers!

This time on the telly!

You Tube has these ace old 80's TV ads for the hill-climbing behemoths. Wow!

Hercules and Mammoth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPFoMrelM8

The Power Cruiser - its massive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCusuHZ1RRA

and Crunch Canyon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU7Vbj88GLs

Talk about mega!

Eighties kids really had ATV's coming out their ears!

Where there any toy ATV's in the Sixties and Seventies?