Batteries Not Included - a collection of vintage toy commercials

From Archive.org's wonderful Classic TV archive, an hour long video of old toy commercials.

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I want Sonar Sub Hunt!
Melinda9

Well, that was an interesting trip to the Twilight Zone. The only one of those toys that I had was Creepy Crawlers – probably my all time favorite toy along with Creeple People. I could bake those things all day, and then you could sell them at school.
GrymRpr

HA! Bill Mumy @ 28:07
- Adrian
  
  Two of the Remco ads featured Patty Duke.
technogeekagain

Yeah, I remember some of these ads…
Preston Sturges

“He’s heading for Deadwood!”

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Patsy Cline

God I feel old. Too many of these I remember.
What a strange world we’ve grown up in.
sdnative1958

Holy cow, let’s see – I had Potato Head, Creepy Crawlers, Robot Commando (LOVED THAT THING!) Major Matt, Vrooom, American Flyer train and Zeriods. Wish I still had some of these – can’t imagine what happened to them. Probably a combination of blowing them up/setting them on fire/seeing what they would do in the washing machine.

Shout out to Billy Mumy there, in which there was a very unusual self-referential tagline for the time period!
fergus1948

‘Gaylord comes with a bone of his own.’

Hhhnn hhhnn hnnn hhhn

(And I especially loved the opening shot of a female loading a film projector. “So simple a WOMAN can load it!”)