# Wow My favorite toy from the 70s in on Youtube! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049 "2011-07-22T23:55:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/1 "2011-07-22T23:55:27Z")
**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. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OenG77q_ys) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/2 "2011-07-23T00:01:40Z")
Moving thread from In My Humble Opinion to Marvelously Perfect Toys I Must Share. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/3 "2011-07-23T00:19:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/4 "2011-07-23T00:28:25Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > 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](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767234/) only mentions a Charmin commercial as a stockboy. ---
**Author:** ![cardinal\_fang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal_fang/32/15316_2.png) [@cardinal\_fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardinal_fang)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/5 "2011-07-23T02:07:58Z")
Yo **Icerigger** , I’m real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Mattel had the [best 70s toy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQQo5S5yd0) OF ALL TIME! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/6 "2011-07-23T02:55:02Z")
> [@cardinal\_fang](#): > > Yo **Icerigger** , I’m real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Mattel had the [best 70s toy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQQo5S5yd0) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/7 "2011-07-23T04:11:38Z")
[hijack] > [@runner pat](#): > > …but [Adam’s] IMDB bio only mentions a Charmin commercial as a stockboy. 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] ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/8 "2011-07-23T04:17:02Z")
> [@cardinal\_fang](#): > > Yo **Icerigger** , I’m real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Mattel had the [best 70s toy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQQo5S5yd0) OF ALL TIME! 🙂 I love the oh-so-convenient “spoiler” on the back of the car to give the hook something to grab onto. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/9 "2011-07-23T06:53:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/10 "2011-07-23T10:33:13Z")
> [@cardinal\_fang](#): > > Yo **Icerigger** , I’m real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Mattel had the [best 70s toy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQQo5S5yd0) OF ALL TIME! 🙂 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](http://www.vertibird.biz/Vertibird_Sets_For_Sale_-_R.html) (center page) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/11 "2011-07-23T10:40:28Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > 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](http://www.vertibird.biz/Vertibird_Sets_For_Sale_-_R.html) > > (center page) 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! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/12 "2011-07-23T13:30:32Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/13 "2011-07-25T12:36:20Z")
Kids, _phah_, we had Major Matt Mason. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/14 "2011-07-26T05:59:28Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > 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. And we LIKED IT! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/15 "2011-07-26T06:47:09Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > 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. Well, I asked him. He says [no](http://twitter.com/#!/donttrythis/status/95743298265825282). Should we believe him? ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-my-favorite-toy-from-the-70s-in-on-youtube/590049/16 "2011-07-26T20:58:57Z")
> [@cardinal\_fang](#): > > Yo **Icerigger** , I’m real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Mattel had the [best 70s toy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQQo5S5yd0) OF ALL TIME! 🙂 Vertibird Rules. That is all.