Prop-shots This was one of my favorite toys when I was a kid I can’t believe some one had a copy of the commercial. Very powerful fliers we had a blast shooting them into trees and watching them shred the leaves. They really did fly far and at close rage a very good weapon. If the prop hit you it would cause a nasty bruise, we would hunt each other with them. Most of them ended up on the neighbor’s roofs when out flights veered off course. Great memories.
Moving thread from In My Humble Opinion to Marvelously Perfect Toys I Must Share.
Please please please tell me the red-headed kid at 0:22 is Adam “MythBuster” Savage! He started out as a child actor, you know.
It looks like him but is IMDB bio only mentions a Charmin commercial as a stockboy.
Yo Icerigger, I’m real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Mattel had the best 70s toy OF ALL TIME! 
My brother got one of those for Christmas in '75, and it was just as cool as it looks. Somewhere I have a picture of his Vertibird set up in our extremely pristine and barren basement, with my dad at the controls.
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That’s the first place I checked. But, IMDB doesn’t list commercials and user-written bios aren’t necessarily complete. That’s why I posted to the SDMB. ‘Cuz if a Doper somewhere in the world doesn’t know it, then it ain’t worth knowin’. 
Would be hilarious if it was Adam, tho.[/hijack]
I love the oh-so-convenient “spoiler” on the back of the car to give the hook something to grab onto.
I’m a few years older. We bought these balsa wood planes that used a rubber band to power the propeller. Wind it up and it flew much like the toy you had.
Yeah the Vertibird was way cool as well, my brother had the police version as well as this ultra cool Vertibird coast guard rescue ship.
http://www.vertibird.biz/Vertibird_Sets_For_Sale_-_R.html
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When I was living in Texas in the early 70s me and a friend found one of these in a rich kid’s garbage. We played with it for weeks. Neato!
Older, my ass. I work part time at an Ace Hardware and we sell those. They’re right next to the register.
Granted, I don’t know anywhere else around here that sells 'em, but we do! $2.13! (the ones without the propeller are $1.79). We are also close to the beach. Those things can go a looong way when they have an ocean tail wind. Of course, they break after a couple of flights, but they are still cool as hell.
Kids, phah, we had Major Matt Mason.
And we LIKED IT!
Well, I asked him. He says no. Should we believe him?
Vertibird Rules.
That is all.