Toy Adverts you loved/hated?

[AGXStarseed]

Growing up, what toy adverts/commercials did you like and which ones did you hate. This can include the toy itself if you want.
(E.G, you liked the advert for a toy, but hated the toy when you go it)

I'll throw one out for starters:

I remember seeing this advert as a kid and feeling hyped as all hell; I used to love Hot Wheels so seeing McDonalds giving away pull-backs in their Happy Meals definitely got me excited. Both me and my brother eventually did go to McDonalds and each got the third set with the lorry and the ramp so I was very satisfied.
We had the cars for a good few months but eventually the pullback on mine gave out and my brother accidentally broke his by stepping on it. We kept the trucks and the ramps though for the rest of our Hot Wheels set; having a good laugh when we attached the ramp to our main set and kept trying to make the cars land back on the track after launching from the ramp at top speed.
We eventually got rid of the Hot Wheels set as I got older - ramp, truck and all. It was kind of upsetting, but I'd outgrown it.



What about you guys?

 

[Judge]

LOL. So many to recall. Loved them all...

Original Hasbro GI Joe Astronaut TV Commercial 1967-69 Retro Toy Ad Mission Splashdown Space Capsule

1967 Aurora HO Slot Car TV Commercial

 

[Crossbreed]

I can't find the commercial, but Zorr was a styrofoam glider in the form of a bald eagle. You launched it like a kite and then released the string during its flight. It was supposed to glide back down to you, but I imagine they got lost pretty easily.

(I don't remember them being available very long.)​

 

[tlc]

Didn't really get into toy commercials as a kid. The best toy advertising for me is when the catalog stores like Sears would send out their Wish Books before Christmas.

There was this one commercial I liked, McDonalds Happy Meal from late 70s or early 80s. They showed these little plastic airplanes, I already had one. This girl takes hers and says "Mom, watch" and starts zooming it all around.

Commercials for toys at Meijer when I was a kid, didn't like. They'd sing "have a merry Meijer Chrisssssstmassss" in such a sad key it'd make me cry.

 

[Mia]

Spirograph

 

[Progster]

I've never liked ads, I didn't generally like them when I was a kid, either - too noisy, talk too fast in an over-excited voice about a product that I have no enthusiasm for what so ever. If I wanted a toy, it was usually because I saw another kid playing with it, a Rubik's cube, for example. As a kid I wanted books, puzzles, things to do because I got bored easily.

 

[Mr Allen]

 

[AGXStarseed]

Here's Doug walker reviewing a load of adverts. How many of these do you remember?

Commercial Specials (1-7)

Commercial Special (8)

 

[Aeolienne]

Did you notice that Mattell proclaimed itself to be "the world's number one in toys" whereas our Waddington's was merely "Britain's number one name in games"? Ain't we modest...

This commercial for Kinder Surprise Eggs used to do my head in because I couldn't tell what on earth Humpty Dumpty was saying. Still can't, although at least now I can tell it's not German.

 

[Mr Allen]

Did you notice that Mattell proclaimed itself to be "the world's number one in toys" whereas our Waddington's was merely "Britain's number one name in games"? Ain't we modest...

This commercial for Kinder Surprise Eggs used to do my head in because I couldn't tell what on earth Humpty Dumpty was saying. Still can't, although at least now I can tell it's not German.

As I recall the Kinder Surprise got banned a few years back because they said the toys were dangerous to younger kids.

 

[Theta.G]

Honestly don't remember which i liked or not.
Nerf gun commercials stick out in memory but that's because my child brain wasn't quite developed enough yet to realize what they were doing.
Actually...

Spoiler

With everything i know now about the mind it would be interesting to find that old commercial and dissect what exploits were used

hahaha dear lord... woah. What are ethics?

 

[Aeolienne]

As I recall the Kinder Surprise got banned a few years back because they said the toys were dangerous to younger kids.

In the US, yes, but not in the UK yet despite some efforts to have them banned.

 

[Cher_Ami]

Not exactly a specific toy, but the trampoline scenes were funny to me.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Honestly don't remember which i liked or not.
Nerf gun commercials stick out in memory but that's because my child brain wasn't quite developed enough yet to realize what they were doing.
Actually...

Spoiler

With everything i know now about the mind it would be interesting to find that old commercial and dissect what exploits were used

hahaha dear lord... woah. What are ethics?

Yeah, I remember a lot of the Nerf adverts - although I can't find any specific ones on YouTube that I remember watching as the ones I watched had the tagline "feel the power" at the end of the advert.