Tag: toy commercials
Don’t Blow Your Top
Don’t Blow Your Top came out in 1972, and this is one of those wonderfully simple toy ideas that probably…
Chatty Cathy
Chatty Cathy was one of the dolls that made kids stop and stare back in the early 1960s. Introduced by…
Did you have Shark Pack?
I felt that changing the discs to make it do different maneuvers meant you might as well have pushed it…
Who had a Secret Sam?
With all it could do, there were still many other toys I wanted more. I remember seeing the commercials and…
Speedline Race Cars: The Hot Wheels Rival
Many of you asked about these when I posted the Hot Wheels advertisement. So now I have to ask: which…
Suzy Cute and Louis Armstrong: Yes, This Really Happened
The Suzy Cute doll commercial is one of those 1960s toy ads that makes you stop and say, “Wait, is…
Whenever I saw the Barbie Cut ’n Curl commercial as a kid, I always wondered if it really worked as smoothly as it looked on TV.
The idea was great: give Barbie a haircut, style her hair, curl it, and somehow keep the fun going without…
The Swing Wing: The Toy That Looked Like a Neck Injury Waiting to Happen
The Swing Wing was a wonderfully weird 1960s toy introduced by Transogram Games in 1965. It was worn on your…
When Tippee-Toes Tiptoed Into Trouble
Leave it to the early 1980s to give us a controversy over a baby doll’s bare bottom. Mattel’s Tippee-Toes was…