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100 Years of Toys turns a century of play into a fast, funny history lesson, testing everything from footballs and crayons to Lincoln Logs, yo-yos, Play-Doh, Slinky, Barbie, and modern video games. The video moves year by year through iconic toys, showing how each one changed the way kids played, built, imagined, and competed.
Along the way, the hosts try the toys for themselves: building a house with Lincoln Logs, spinning tops, stretching Silly Putty, riding a Slinky, stacking rings, playing Twister, and even comparing classics like Matchbox cars, Hot Wheels, Nerf football, Tamagotchi, and Transformers. It blends comedy commentary, toy nostalgia, and educational history, with plenty of reactions to what still feels fun today.
If you love toy history, nostalgic childhood favorites, comedy commentary, or satisfying retro playthroughs, this is an easy watch from start to finish. It also works well for viewers searching for vintage toys, classic toys, 20th century toy evolution, and pop culture history.
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Along the way, the hosts try the toys for themselves: building a house with Lincoln Logs, spinning tops, stretching Silly Putty, riding a Slinky, stacking rings, playing Twister, and even comparing classics like Matchbox cars, Hot Wheels, Nerf football, Tamagotchi, and Transformers. It blends comedy commentary, toy nostalgia, and educational history, with plenty of reactions to what still feels fun today.
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00:00In front of me, I have 100 years of toys, and we will be playing with every single one of
00:04them to see which generation had the most fun.
00:06So let's do this.
00:07In 1874, two guys wanted to modify the rugby ball to make it look more like a watermelon,
00:12and so they invented this thing called the football, which has a leather casing and then inflated pig bladders on
00:18the inside of this.
00:19Is it still pig bladder?
00:20I don't think anymore they do it. There's like human, like PETA and stuff, reached out to the NFL.
00:25They were like, hey, can we just make something else?
00:27So I think nowadays it's no longer pig bladder, but nonetheless, it still retains its shape, and it has like
00:32a cowhide now on it instead.
00:34So let's see if we have some fun with this.
00:36True American pastime.
00:40Are you a big football guy?
00:42No, I have actually no idea how to throw.
00:43Oh, really?
00:44I've never had, like, I've tried so much. I know that you have to hold it like in the back
00:50half and obviously add some.
00:52Three fingers on the laces.
00:54Yeah.
00:54Yeah, like that.
00:55Dude, yeah, I, three fingers on the laces, and then how do you give it some spin? You just do
00:59that.
00:59You kind of like click your wrist at the top of this.
01:01Yeah, there we go.
01:03That's pretty solid.
01:04And then of course you get your...
01:07In 1903 and kids were playing with crayons, so crayons are made of basically the same thing that's in like
01:12a candle, like the wax, and you could actually light up a crayon.
01:15Don't do this, and it could become a candle. So you could use it to like burn and...
01:20Oh, right.
01:21To create light and...
01:22And like the wick is essentially like the paper wrapping.
01:26Yeah, so...
01:26So it would like slow it down and...
01:28Right, it effectively works. We actually did that in the life hacks video.
01:31Yeah, it's been proven. But still, don't do it because it's a fire hazard.
01:34You could even write the Declaration of Independence in crayon.
01:39Imagine if it was written in crayon.
01:41How much more... We'd be a much better country.
01:42Yeah, I would care to read it.
01:44I would read that for sure. I would read maybe a lot of different...
01:47The Bible should be written in crayon too, get more people incentivized to be religious.
01:51Yeah, think about that, monks.
01:52So in 1916, we have the Lincoln Logs, and contrary to popular belief, Lincoln Logs were not used or invented
01:59by President Abraham Lincoln, despite the namesake.
02:02So this is actually the original Lincoln Logs.
02:05Oh, yeah. It says it on the box.
02:06I mean, I've had some decent childhood memories with Lincoln Logs.
02:09Like, I actually had like a white bucket full of just Lincoln Logs.
02:14I remember it pretty vividly.
02:16Alright, so what happens with these is you just basically put these into these like so, and then they click
02:23in, and now you got a little structure that's...
02:27I don't know.
02:28Oh, maybe that's what the flat ones are for. Otherwise, these...
02:30Oh, okay.
02:31Yeah, that's a much better idea.
02:33I think that what it's supposed to do...
02:37Oh!
02:38Is that.
02:39That makes sense.
02:40So like, the flat one gives space for the round one to like...
02:45Yep.
02:45...level.
02:47Okay.
02:48So it's still preventing some rollover, but then we have the...
02:51And we could do something like this, and we could build a little like...
02:54Oh, now you're thinking like Frank Lloyd.
02:56Oh, yeah, yeah.
02:57So that's smart.
02:58That's it.
02:58That's it.
02:59We need length.
03:00Yeah.
03:00How do we get to length?
03:01Man, I mean...
03:03Kids back then had to like be actual engineers and architects for the...
03:07To make sense of this.
03:08Oh look, a little window.
03:09Okay, we got something going on.
03:10It just starts taking form.
03:12And look, we have a door.
03:13Oh, yeah, yeah.
03:13This is what I'm saying.
03:14We're gonna have to put a little caution tape here so you don't trip over, but I think that's...
03:17It keeps the snow out.
03:19Look at that.
03:20We're actually almost done too, which is crazy.
03:22Wait, wait, wait.
03:23But what's stopping us...
03:25Oh man, that's okay.
03:26We can fix it.
03:27I mean, that's a house.
03:28That's shelter.
03:29Would you live in this house?
03:31I mean, if I was stranded in the middle of the woods?
03:33It's like a little decoration.
03:34It's like a little gingerbread house.
03:36That's cute.
03:36Day up.
03:38Okay.
03:40Oh, that's actually really nice.
03:42And voila.
03:42This is what in 1916 kids were doing.
03:45We did it in like five minutes.
03:47We just built an entire house.
03:48Functional.
03:49I mean...
03:50With all the amenities and creature comforts that you'd expect in a modern house.
03:53But we're using like ancient technology.
03:56This is so much better than Legos.
03:57I think I could have survived back then as a kid.
04:00Yeah, absolutely.
04:01All right.
04:06That was just a gust of wind.
04:09Yeah.
04:10Blew it all down.
04:11In 1920, the Duncan's yo-yo became popular.
04:13But this toy was actually around since 500 BC in China.
04:17But the yo-yo as we all know it today.
04:19The Limelight Duncan, which is the classic.
04:21Came out roughly a hundred years ago.
04:23So the same like the donut like company made this?
04:26Yeah, like Duncan.
04:29Oh.
04:30No, I'm walking the dog.
04:32Oh, okay.
04:32That's...
04:32I'm walking the dog.
04:34Woo!
04:34And that's like around the world.
04:36Yeah, yeah.
04:36And then rock the cradle.
04:37You do like this, right?
04:38And then you have people like, oh, look at that.
04:40Just try to bring it up and down.
04:43Wow.
04:44That's like some professional yo-yo.
04:46Oh, look.
04:46I mean, we got the light show and everything.
04:49Yo-yo's not bad.
04:50I think they still hold some fun to this day.
04:52The very next year in 1921, the start of the Roaring Twenties.
04:56And we have the Raggedy Ann doll.
04:58So Raggedy Ann is actually based off of Raggedy Andy, which was a book.
05:03It was called the Raggedy Andy stories.
05:06And then Raggedy Ann was basically what they turned it into a doll.
05:09I guess they didn't want like a guy doll.
05:10And so then this super creepy thing was brought to life and girls played with this around the globe.
05:17And by globe, I mean the United States because I doubt that they were playing with this outside of the
05:20US.
05:20Yeah, I think they would have thought this was like cursed in any other country.
05:24Right?
05:25Oh, yeah.
05:26We got to always kind of spring some life into it.
05:28Yeah, no, she's sturdy.
05:30So she's got, I mean, the hair is the string hair.
05:33How do you play with dolls?
05:34How does it actually go?
05:35Because I think you just, if you just have one doll.
05:37I get if you have two dolls, you like do this whole thing where they're talking to each other.
05:40But you can't even like, you know, brush her hair because she's raggedy.
05:43It's not like a Barbie doll where you could like accessorize her.
05:45Yeah, that's definitely like raggedy qualities.
05:48She kind of looks like Wendy.
05:50Oh, yeah, Wendy Williams.
05:52Yeah.
05:52I think it's less creepy than those like human looking babies.
05:56Like there's something kind of uneasy about that or it's like, this is more like playful, imaginary.
06:04But then when you have like those bald babies that you can like get those.
06:07It's like hyper realistic.
06:09Yeah.
06:09I like the fact that this is a doll.
06:11Yeah.
06:11This is like definitely a kid's toy, not like a mother training toy kit.
06:16But we do need those too.
06:17You need to condition women to one.
06:19Let's actually, I feel like she belongs.
06:21It's nice on the shelf here.
06:22So she'll chill out now the rest of the video.
06:24So in 1930, we had the introduction of stacking rings.
06:27Now this was mainly for babies and toddlers to teach them about balance and coordination skills.
06:32But a lot of kids ended up playing with it.
06:33And then they built out like really big sets of rings as well.
06:36So people were like, hibachi chefs even do this.
06:38Like with the onion, how they stack it up.
06:40It all started here.
06:41This is it.
06:42The Genesis.
06:43That's like a, it's on easy mode.
06:46Okay.
06:46Let's say who's a smarter baby.
06:47So let's time how long it takes for us to do it.
06:51So mix them up.
06:51So I can't look.
06:52I'll close my eyes.
06:53And then you tell me when I can open them.
06:55Just have them like in front of me just so I could like easily start.
06:58Oh yeah.
06:58I'll give you that.
06:59All right.
07:00And then when you say go, I open my eyes.
07:03Okay.
07:03Uh, yeah.
07:04And then when I say stop, click stop.
07:06All right.
07:06Go.
07:08You took one.
07:09Oh no, I'm done.
07:10Yeah, that works.
07:11Wait, you didn't even stop it.
07:12Oh.
07:12Wait, there's only five?
07:14There's this one.
07:14You took one.
07:15I knew you took one.
07:16You sabotaged me.
07:17The fact that I recognized it.
07:19I was operating on such a high plane.
07:20All right.
07:21You don't even get an attempt now because you cheated.
07:24You're like Barry Bonds.
07:25You're done.
07:25My goof there.
07:26Oh, look.
07:27Now in the 1930s, Play-Doh was technically invented as a wallpaper cleaner.
07:32So it wasn't actually a freeform play modeling compound until 1956 when they ultimately found
07:39out another use for it and then filed a patent for what we now know as Play-Doh.
07:42Let's make like the American flag with Play-Doh.
07:44All right.
07:45Good idea.
07:46This smells good, by the way.
07:47Yeah, no, it's an iconic smell.
07:49Oh my.
07:50I low-key want to bite this.
07:52I know I shouldn't because I don't want to get demonetized, but.
07:54Get a close-up.
07:55Red, white, and blue.
07:56So this guy's all America.
07:58Oh, how about his buttons?
07:59Let's make yellow like the stars.
08:03Yeah.
08:04Okay.
08:04Yeah.
08:05We are playing with dough.
08:06We're giving him life.
08:08Oh, yeah.
08:09Let me give him a little amputation.
08:12And voila.
08:13There we go.
08:14Doesn't look good.
08:15With Play-Doh, we just made an American.
08:19There we go.
08:20I mean, he's Italian-American, so that makes sense.
08:24Wow.
08:24What an inclusive snowman.
08:26An Italian-
08:28In 1939, we then got the viewfinder, which was invented by two men, Harold and William.
08:34Of course.
08:35They don't have last names.
08:36And the reels basically offer like scenic attractions and experiences.
08:40So you put in one of these reels into here, and then you can keep flipping it and see stuff.
08:45Nowadays, they have VR and AR enabled like viewfinders, so it's leveled up a bit.
08:50But this is the original one.
08:53A rover.
08:53Oh my gosh.
08:54I see Neil Armstrong.
08:56I see Lance Armstrong.
08:58What's he doing here?
08:59Oh, look at that.
09:00You guys can kind of see.
09:02The technology is insane that you can see that.
09:05And look here.
09:05You guys have the experience as well.
09:07You can see the staged moon landing.
09:08Yeah.
09:09There it is.
09:10Okay.
09:11Viewfinder.
09:12My mind would be blown.
09:13If I was in the 1930s and then I saw this with my own two eyes, I would think it's
09:18witchcraft.
09:18So model airplanes became a thing in 1848, but they weren't popularized as toys until 1940.
09:25And it actually got a lot of people into aircraft, which I guess is good for like the airline industry
09:30and aviation.
09:31It's good to have a couple pilots, people interested in flying these really important things.
09:34So we bought some model airplanes and we have a fleet of some elite airlines like Spirit Airline.
09:42The biggest in the country.
09:43American Airlines over here.
09:44I'm surprised a Spirit plane hasn't gone down, you know, just like...
09:48And let's say this goes down.
09:50You just send the American Airlines the next flight going out in the same direction and then everything should be
09:54completely fine.
09:55Yeah, those are the boi- like the Boeings.
09:57Like it's in the name.
09:58They're like bounce technology, like boing.
10:01Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:02In 1943, the kids were playing with silly putties.
10:05This was before Play-Doh was actually a toy.
10:07And so the first like moldable clay thing was actually silly putty.
10:11And this actually had a purpose to be stretched and broken and like thrown at people.
10:15Whatever you wanted to do with it.
10:16You can't even really- like if you break it, does it even go back together nicely?
10:19Oh, it does stretch.
10:20It's kind of fun.
10:21Oh, it has like a gum consistency.
10:24Oh my gosh, look how- let's see how far it can go.
10:26They say it can bounce, too.
10:29Oh!
10:29Oh, it does bounce.
10:30Oh, that's fun.
10:31You can do a little bouncing bean.
10:32Wait, let's give it an optimal roundness so we can see if it actually could be used as a ball.
10:36And I think you can use it as an eraser, too.
10:39It might have- oh, okay, it contains asbestos and-
10:43So seven?
10:45Yeah, that's like- yeah, that's asbestos with latex and rubber.
10:50In 1945, at the end of World War II, we finally got our hands on the official national toy of
10:55the United States, which is the slinky.
10:58This is what kids used to do for fun.
10:59But I mean- and nothing beats putting a slinky down the stairs.
11:02Yeah, if you got stairs, all you want to do is just- I don't know if these stairs are
11:07too-
11:07You have to like give it a jump start, like kind of fling it.
11:10Alright, so give it a go. Let's see how this goes.
11:12Yeah, you gotta- you have to like- you have to basically teach it where you want it to
11:16go, what you want it to do.
11:17It's like a- it's like a dog. Okay. So you gotta-
11:19So walk it, baby.
11:24In 1947, kids were playing with these things called the Tonka trucks.
11:27These were originally made of steel and their big appeal is that they're apparently indestructible.
11:32What they're also good for is that this specific Tonka truck can just actually clear things out.
11:37So if you're cleaning up a mess, let's say you have like a bunch of Legos for some reason around.
11:43You just do demolition.
11:45Yeah, you just clean it up.
11:46Yeah. Well, let's see.
11:47They- they don't make toys like this anymore.
11:51Nothing. Nothing at all.
11:55Cool little toy.
11:56Now if you've ever seen Toy Story, then you're probably familiar with Mr. Potato Head.
12:00But actually, this was popular before then.
12:02In 1949 was the first time that the commercial for Mr. Potato Head hit the televisions of America.
12:07And what's interesting is that this was the first commercial ever to cater to a kid audience rather than adults.
12:13So even other toy commercials from like the 20s and 30s, they were catering to the adults to purchase it.
12:19But this is like directly was created for kids, so.
12:23Such a fun, harmless toy.
12:24Like a potato head.
12:26He's so cute.
12:27I already like him like that.
12:28He looks like Sambucha now.
12:30He does.
12:31Look at that green hat and everything.
12:32There he is right now.
12:33Looks a little deformed, but we still love him.
12:35Yeah.
12:35And they still give him a smile if you don't put- if you don't give him a mouth.
12:39Really good sight with the glasses.
12:41And then of course, we'll give him one of these funny noses.
12:44Hold the glasses up a bit more.
12:46I think we did pretty good.
12:47Is he good if I have to say so myself?
12:50I think that's one for one.
12:51In 1949, the world was changed because a Danish company invented this thing called Legos.
12:57Which honestly, this is the most popular toy.
12:59It's almost an understatement to say it's iconic.
13:02It's a construction block toy.
13:06And if you haven't heard of these, you can just build whatever you want.
13:09And they've made movies out of it with Chris Pratt as the lead.
13:12They've made like Lego worlds in like every major city.
13:16And then this continues to be like one of the best-selling toys of all time.
13:19Yeah.
13:19Now what?
13:20Lego Fortnite?
13:21I think we try to build a better house than we did with Lincoln Logs.
13:29Oh, that's-
13:31Oh!
13:33Look at that.
13:34Look at this house.
13:35It's just a solid block of just- oh my gosh.
13:38Oh wait, what if we made it into a mobile home?
13:41Oh man.
13:42Abraham Lincoln, eat your heart out.
13:45You wish you could have produced something-
13:48Look how-
13:49With your touch-
13:49It's a mobile home.
13:51Isn't that awesome?
13:52Oh, let me step on a Lego.
13:54Let me see if it actually hurts.
13:55I don't believe people who say it hurts.
13:57This has casualties.
13:58I'm just gonna step on it as if-
14:02Like I don't know that it's here.
14:04That's-
14:04That's so risky.
14:09I think everyone's lying.
14:10I don't think it actually hurts.
14:12Oh!
14:13Oh, it was in the middle of your foot.
14:14Oh, it depends on the location.
14:16Yeah, yeah.
14:16If you step on this like right on the middle of your foot-
14:19Yeah, where it's like tender.
14:20You're like done.
14:21This next toy was actually first invented in 1600, but the jump rope that we know today is from 1950.
14:27The reason why it got popular is because it's basically a type of toy that's also an exercise equipment piece.
14:33So it kind of doubles as that so you can get in a workout.
14:36And then also have some fun.
14:38And I know some people are like insane with this.
14:41Yeah, they just like-
14:42Yeah, I don't even-
14:43But when I see that, it defeats the purpose.
14:45You're not using as much-
14:46True, like you want to make it difficult for yourself and make it a whole body thing because like that's
14:52how you get the most out of it.
14:53That's-
14:54Doing little tippy taps is like cheating.
14:56You could do like the double, like to-
14:58I guess it's more to like help with like tempo.
15:02Yeah, to time it.
15:03Yeah, but then like they do like-
15:04Oh, I know.
15:05Some people are insane.
15:06Yeah, I don't even-
15:07I don't like-
15:07I don't know what this-
15:08With doing that like-
15:10That's just giving yourself a break.
15:11That's like cheating.
15:12Yeah, yeah.
15:13I'm working out.
15:13Kids were using this as toys in 1958.
15:16Yeah, look at that.
15:16That's a-
15:17I don't think kids jump rope anymore.
15:19In 1950, before Barbie, we had little people.
15:23Which-
15:23That's-
15:24Isn't that offensive nowadays?
15:25Can you call them that anymore?
15:27So little people itself is a different toy in general, but this is the themed one for Barbie.
15:31Oh, interesting.
15:32Oh, so this is a collab.
15:34This is a collab, yeah.
15:35Alright, so now we're gonna rank these professions based on how much money they make.
15:39Coming in as dead last-
15:41It's disrespectful.
15:42Is the ballerina.
15:44Unless you're-
15:45Or the scuba diver.
15:46The marine biologist.
15:47Whatever she is.
15:48Alright, let's just-
15:50In academia or in the arts, they're not paid enough.
15:53After that, I would say the culinary woman.
15:59I think she's a chef, pastry chef perhaps.
16:02I don't think she's doing super, super well for herself.
16:04Yeah.
16:04She got kicked out of the-
16:05She got kicked in the first round at the Great British Bake Off.
16:09Yeah.
16:09Assuming she's not a professional soccer player.
16:11No, even the professional ones, remember that they were advocating to get paid more-
16:16So a woman's soccer player gets paid less than a flight attendant, who is now here.
16:24Possibly.
16:25She might be sponsored, very true.
16:27Yeah.
16:27I know astronauts don't get a ton of money.
16:30Contrary to popular belief, they make like, you know-
16:32It's a government job also.
16:34Yeah, you work for the government.
16:35So you're not making a lot of money anyway.
16:37But who is making a lot of money is your vet, who's making probably more than these five professions
16:43right here, and then I think the classic physician, your MD, is going to be making the most.
16:48So if you're a girl watching this and you want to be inspired by these little people, this is probably
16:53what you should be looking at.
16:54This is the most useful information if we're keeping it real.
16:56In 1951, kids were playing with color forms, and it's like this flexible vinyl material.
17:02I don't know what you can do with it.
17:03I don't know what kids are playing with, but we're going to check it out.
17:06Oh, no, yeah.
17:06This is like a sticker book.
17:08So you kind of make your own little scenarios.
17:10Here's our canvas.
17:11A lot of stickers.
17:12Got, uh, what?
17:13What is this?
17:13French fries.
17:14A big stick of butter.
17:16Devious.
17:17You got to have a person, right?
17:20So we have our farmer, Joe and Joanne.
17:23So here's, I don't know, Joe has liver failure because Joe is yellow.
17:28That's a beer liver failure.
17:29And we can't forget the little kid, JoJo, Joe Jr.
17:35This is for Joanne because this was her nickname in college.
17:40Joe has a shovel because he just actually ended up burying in the farm something near and dear to him
17:50that he didn't think he'd ever have to bury at this point in his life.
17:54And it was his daughter.
17:55Oh, who now lays dead.
17:57And interestingly, and this is just a fact of life, the rats have already started to eat her decaying body
18:04because that's just how that goes.
18:07The wife realizes that she's actually culpable in this murder as it turns out because she's the one who made
18:14the food that poisoned and killed the dog.
18:16Oh, and then framed their boy.
18:20So she's actually hiding her face now because everyone's starting to look at her because they're realizing that it was
18:25her who did it.
18:26The son has now gotten a rake because he plans on whacking her with it.
18:32He's waiting for his probation officer to let him out of the house because he's under house arrest right now.
18:39But when the officer isn't looking, he's going to run out and poke her.
18:43But the cow is a snitch and actually hears of Andy's plan or JoJo's plan and alerts the police canine
18:56who...
19:00JoJo.
19:01But then saves, of course, the murderer's wife, which we were all rooting for anyway because the daughter was possessed
19:09by an evil spirit by the Babadook.
19:12And then finally, a pig comes and eats them all because that's the best way to hide all the evidence.
19:19And this pig just figures he's doing God's work by just getting rid of this terrible situation.
19:23Yeah, this family's messed up. They're only good for pig feed now.
19:28In 1953, a lot of boys started taking interest in cars, and so before Hot Wheels came Matchbox Cars,
19:35which I think the name, the origin of it, is that the cars are so finely detailed that they match,
19:39like, the box cars.
19:41Like, they have the same match as the frame of cars.
19:44Oh, yeah, I was kind of thrown off by the name. I had no idea that this was, like, for
19:49cars.
19:49Here, too.
19:51Oh.
19:51This looks like some really old Ford model, maybe.
19:54This looks like a Nini...
19:55Nope, that's a Mitsubishi. They got the little logo there.
19:59We got a fire truck here.
20:00So, between our fleet of 19 cars and then our helicopter and model airplane,
20:05we have, like, a whole, like, I don't know, vehicle inventory built out at our disposal.
20:10In the 1500s, well before fidget spinners, people were playing with spinning tops.
20:14This actually dates back as far as 35th century B.C.
20:18Place your bets.
20:19Three, two, one, go.
20:22Okay, I win game one.
20:24You can't spin out a date, you gotta be...
20:25Wait, wait, I need to get the form right here.
20:27Alright, we'll do best of five. Three, two, one, go.
20:32I'm getting way too much, yeah.
20:35You're trying to do too much, and instead you're sacrificing.
20:37I had the right idea, but I don't have enough chances to be, like, perfecting that form.
20:42Wrap it up, you guys are just kidding.
20:44What if I blow it towards yours?
20:45You can do whatever you need to do.
20:47Just do some, uh, this is like the original Beyblades.
20:50Okay, so, if you're going to three, best of three.
20:53So, final one, best of five, so first of three.
20:56So, two, nothing, three, two, one, go.
20:59It's over, you just don't got...
21:01I don't have the stability.
21:03I bet you one I spin right now with my left hand softly will still out there.
21:06Mine's going...
21:07Oh, I helped you, it gave a little bit of...
21:09No, that's interference right there.
21:11Oh, oh!
21:13Oh, wait, mine's...
21:13Oh, mine's still, okay, mine was at least second.
21:16Oh, okay, okay, I'm fine.
21:17Bad blue's gone, dude, you could spin yellow again, he wouldn't even be blue.
21:211957, and there was the creation of the Frisbee,
21:24which is just this disc, plastic disc, that is shaped like this,
21:27and all you do is throw it, catch it, kind of like a football.
21:30Yeah, it's like throwing a ball without having to be, like, really high up.
21:34Yeah.
21:34Because, like, you can throw it low, and you'll get some distance.
21:36Exactly, and it's used on college campuses, playgrounds,
21:40it was used everywhere in the 50s, and now it became what we know today.
21:43This won't be a good... I mean, it's so windy.
21:45You guys won't be able to tell, but it's, like, really windy outside.
21:50So, let me see if I can get, like, a little bit of a straightening.
21:53You see how it will, like, naturally, if you throw it far enough?
21:56Yeah, I saw it kind of curvy. That's, yeah, it has to do, like, a barrel roll or something.
21:59Yeah, it was actually pretty solid at disc golf.
22:01Like, all you do is, like, let's say this tree, going for the putt.
22:08You ladies okay?
22:09In 1958, Australian school children started using this as an exercise toy,
22:14and this is the hula hoop, and then America got hold of it.
22:16They're like, whoa, this is fun, and then we just turned it into a toy,
22:19and it was sold by Wham-O for $1.89, which, back in the day, is actually a good amount
22:24of money.
22:24Yeah, that's, like, probably, like, 30 bucks or something.
22:28I don't know. That's kind of a lot for a round piece of plastic.
22:30I think everybody knows how to hula hoop. Hopefully.
22:34Yeah, it's a good core exercise, I think.
22:38Oh, shit.
22:42That was so much motion.
22:44I did so much for so little. The pay, like, what is this payoff?
22:50Like, how exaggerated do you have to be? What is that?
22:54Give it a spin. I don't know, we'll see.
22:57Are guys not meant to do it?
22:59Yeah, do we just not have the hips?
23:03So, bring it around town, right?
23:05Yeah, you would think that would, like, be the method.
23:09Okay, here we go.
23:12What was that? Shakira, all right.
23:15Hula hoop, tough exercise, fun toy, but, like, learning curve to learn how to do it.
23:21In 1959, Mattel made the Barbie doll.
23:23This one may look familiar because we played with it in a previous video,
23:26and this was meant to empower little girls to see themselves in the toy.
23:30And we actually saw a movie come out last year by the same name, made by Greta Gerwig,
23:35that ended up grossing $1.5 billion at the box office, which just shows you how powerful this IP is.
23:42Wow.
23:42Other than Lego, this must be the most popular toy out there.
23:45I think every little girl has a Barbie doll.
23:47This one in particular, and pardon my crudeness, is a pregnant one.
23:52Still having nightmares.
23:53You know, in its own right, like, love it or hate it, Barbie is a powerful IP.
23:57And this one is a powerful woman who's pregnant, about to give birth to...
24:011960s, everybody was playing with glow sticks.
24:03If you don't know what these are, they're basically these blank sticks with liquid inside of them,
24:07and then once you give them a snap...
24:09It's like bones cracking.
24:11I love that sound.
24:11All of a sudden the color will reveal itself, and they're glow in the dark.
24:15So you can now go into dark spaces.
24:17Hey, it's like an emergency, like, flare.
24:20I know.
24:20Isn't it crazy that a liquid can do this?
24:22Yeah.
24:23It's, like, tempting to, like, you know, like, slurp it up, but...
24:27I have no idea what kind of chemicals are in that.
24:30Barbie, step aside, because in 1964 the boys started playing with their own dolls.
24:35This one called G.I. Joe.
24:37So he was an action figure.
24:38I think he's, like, meant to be, like, a military-grade man who has weapons and an American eagle.
24:45That is...
24:46A bald eagle flying right there.
24:47That is so badass.
24:48It's so bad.
24:49It's so bad it's good.
24:51Oh.
24:52Oh my god.
24:54Oh my god.
24:54So you can put a handgun on the American bald eagle.
24:57Look at that.
24:58This is a weapon of mass destruction.
25:01That's insane.
25:02Imagine that flying over, like, a war zone.
25:04Just...
25:05It's like a little, like, turret in the sky you can just use.
25:08Oh, and he could fly himself.
25:11Oh no!
25:11We could actually make the G.I. Joe fly.
25:14He was literally blessed right before the eagle let him out.
25:20What?
25:20We're not a country anymore.
25:21Unless I see this again.
25:24Well, they just could fly together just across anywhere and just, you know, wreak havoc.
25:29Oh.
25:29This is a...
25:30This is extreme.
25:31In 1965, we had a simple invention, but a toy that kids loved, and that was the barrel of monkeys.
25:38And it's exactly what it sounds like.
25:39It's a barrel of monkeys.
25:43More like a bucket.
25:44Yeah, I guess it's...
25:44It originally came in a barrel.
25:46Yeah.
25:46I think they wanted to be conscious of, like, their waste.
25:49So your barrel of monkeys can get as big as you need them to be, and if you want to
25:52connect
25:52with somebody else's barrel of monkeys, back in the day, before they had phone numbers to exchange,
25:57they just basically hooked up.
25:59This is the old, like, hook up.
26:00That's where the term comes from.
26:02Hook up?
26:02You talk about hooking up.
26:03That's fun.
26:04It's a good toy.
26:05Very simple concept.
26:06Simple premise.
26:07Young people can play with it.
26:08Old people can play with it, too.
26:10In 1968, the board game Twister was born, and this thing was an absolute craze.
26:14Families and friends were playing this around the world because it was a combination of
26:18skill and flexibility.
26:20Okay, so first spin.
26:22What do we got?
26:23Well, whose turn is it?
26:23Your spin.
26:25You have right foot green.
26:27Alright.
26:28Right foot green.
26:29Alright.
26:30Simple enough.
26:31I have right foot green.
26:34Alright.
26:34Shit, like...
26:35Well, I guess I'll spin for my, like...
26:37Oh, yeah.
26:37When it's my turn, I'll, uh...
26:38What do we got?
26:41That was right hand blue.
26:44I don't know if this is going to work really well for two people, because, like, we could
26:47just really, like...
26:48Right foot yellow.
26:51Left foot red.
26:52Left foot blue.
26:54Left foot blue.
26:54Okay.
26:55Left foot blue.
26:58Okay.
26:58Woo!
26:59Alright.
27:00It's a little slippery.
27:02You're done.
27:06Left foot blue.
27:06Oh, you're going to fall.
27:07You're done.
27:07Yeah, I know.
27:08It's just, like, the slipping because I'm wearing socks.
27:10That's part of it.
27:10I guess it is.
27:11Left foot blue.
27:12That's been fusing.
27:13Yeah.
27:14Oof.
27:15Okay.
27:15I'm, like, balancing.
27:16This is really, uh...
27:17Left hand green.
27:18Alright, that actually...
27:19Wait.
27:20Nope.
27:21Well...
27:22That didn't help, actually.
27:24Left foot green.
27:26Left foot...
27:27Okay.
27:28Is that...
27:28If you move...
27:30Oh, he's done!
27:31Ah!
27:33So, ten years after Matchbox cars, we got ourselves Hot Wheels in 1968.
27:37I think, just from the look of it, Matchbox cars are actually better than Hot Wheels.
27:42They felt a little more, like, substantial.
27:45Yeah, it's a little cheap.
27:46These are a little...
27:47Yeah, a little rinky-dinky.
27:48I guess they're fine.
27:50Ten years later, you couldn't innovate a bit more.
27:52I like the cars that, when you, like, wind them up, and then they go.
27:55Oh, yeah.
27:55They should...
27:56Yeah, why not do that?
27:57Here, you just have to push them.
27:59Yeah, woo, fun.
28:00Manual labor.
28:01Yeah, it doesn't feel like the car is driving.
28:03So, in 1972, actually, a former NFL kicker from the Minnesota Vikings invented the Nerf
28:09Football as a softer alternative, so kids weren't hurting their arms, or just getting
28:13hurt, jamming their fingers.
28:14Wow.
28:14And so, this is how the Nerf Football, which looks like this, it's nice and soft, made
28:18of, like...
28:19What would you call that?
28:20Foam?
28:20Yeah, I guess it's a foam football.
28:22Too easily.
28:23Yeah, it's not a very comfortable catch.
28:25Yeah.
28:25You don't have a lot of feedback when it comes in.
28:27Because leather is, like...
28:29Ow.
28:29That's the Nerf Football.
28:31I'm sure this still exists.
28:32People play with it all the time.
28:33In 1974, and we have another Lego ripoff, it looks like, called Play Mobile.
28:38Although, this one, what it's geared towards is not so much the construction, but the building
28:41out of your social skills and language development.
28:44It's not very obvious, like with Legos, it's like...
28:49There's a very low barrier to entry in terms of just, like...
28:53Whatever you think about, you can create it immediately.
28:55This gives you instructions on how to pitch a tent.
28:58That's how you know this is in tents.
29:00A tent like that?
29:01What was that, honey?
29:02You're asking why I'm so much bigger than you?
29:05Uh...
29:05Yeah, that's a good question.
29:06Is this my son?
29:07Oh, it's my son!
29:10That's...
29:10Oh, no.
29:11I...
29:11Son, everything I said to you back there, I apologize.
29:14I wasn't in the right head space.
29:16I didn't realize that you were my son.
29:17Speaking of which...
29:19Oh, look!
29:19It's our tent!
29:20Fully functional son.
29:21Let's go into the tent together.
29:22Good night.
29:241974, and we have a toy that I wouldn't really qualify as a toy.
29:27I think it's more of a headache or a brain game, and that's the Rubik's Cube.
29:30The original Rubik's Cube was a 3x3 cube in which you can just change up the colors with
29:35the goal of hopefully matching them up.
29:37And there is over 43 quintillion combinations that you could make from this single square.
29:43Wow.
29:44And to think that whatever quintillion amount of combinations you can make, the pros know
29:50how to solve every iteration.
29:52Every single one.
29:53Okay.
29:54Shuffled up and everything.
29:55There you go.
29:56Okay.
29:56So what we're going to do first is we're going to go...
30:02What's the flow chart telling you?
30:04Here.
30:05Here.
30:06Here.
30:07Here.
30:07Oh!
30:08Uh-oh.
30:10You got one face.
30:11I know, I know.
30:12Or two, actually.
30:12Yeah.
30:13Alright.
30:13You're scared.
30:14Then it's going to be...
30:16Here.
30:17Uh...
30:18Voila!
30:20Oh, that's...
30:21This is a solid Rubik's Cube.
30:22That's way better than when I gave it to you.
30:25Yep.
30:25I could say that for sure.
30:27Told you.
30:281976, and kids were playing with Stretch Armstrong.
30:31This is no action figure like you've ever seen before because he is unbreakable.
30:35He is super stretchy.
30:37He's kind of like a combination of putty, silly putty, and then like a G.I. Joe doll.
30:41And now what I want to do is take his arm.
30:45Alright.
30:45I'll take his arm.
30:46And now we just pull.
30:47That's very sturdy.
30:48And you'll see that he is infinitely stretchy.
30:53Tell me everything you know!
30:55Alright.
30:56Uh-huh.
30:56And he's not even phased by any of this.
30:59Take a look at his face while we're...
31:00Oh yeah.
31:01The CIA could not even get to him.
31:03Stretch Armstrong is a beast.
31:05Oh!
31:06He returns back always to his original shape.
31:09So no matter what, after we just mutilated him.
31:12Oh, it looks gross.
31:13He will always return.
31:15Dude, they gotta make him so fleshy?
31:17Back to his original form.
31:20Let's see if you get him caught in a door by accident.
31:23Oh, oops!
31:24Sorry, like Stretch Armstrong got stuck in a door.
31:26Weird stuff going on.
31:28He's...
31:28Oh!
31:29He's like an octopus!
31:33Stretch!
31:34Stretch Armstrong!
31:35Is this what you want?
31:36This is what happens when you don't pay your chiropractor.
31:39In 1980, this toy called the Skip It was invented.
31:42And all you do is put your ankle through here like it's an ankle brace.
31:45And then you skip this around you.
31:46And then you have to kind of hop almost like jump rope when it swings around.
31:49Yeah, I remember commercials for this.
31:51How do you even...
31:52It's like an ankle bracelet.
31:53Oh, I see, I see.
31:54It's like a one-legged jump rope.
31:57Yeah, something like that.
31:59Huh.
31:59It's hard to get going.
32:01Yeah, how do you...
32:04Okay.
32:05Yeah, like...
32:06Just kick it with your left foot a bit, like try to drag it around.
32:09Yeah.
32:10And then try to hop it.
32:13What if I do it like counterclockwise?
32:16Oh.
32:17Oh, you know what?
32:18Oh.
32:19You were trying to do something kind of like...
32:21So that's how you do it.
32:23Crazy there.
32:23Yeah, I think...
32:24Oh, yes, that's it.
32:28What?
32:29What?
32:29You having fun?
32:31Kinda.
32:321984, and we have the now Michael Bay franchised toy Transformers.
32:38And the whole purpose of these is they transform back and forth between cars and robots.
32:43I think this one might be Bumblebee.
32:45Does that sound right?
32:45Yeah.
32:46Yeah, that's Bumblebee, but not in...
32:47What car was he?
32:49Oh, wait, that was quick.
32:50Hold on, wait.
32:50Alright, so you're driving along, everything is cool, and then all of a sudden there is
32:54a, like, apocalyptic attack or something, and you need to become a robot instantly.
32:58Boom!
32:59In 1993, we got ourselves the well-known toy called Beanie Babies, and these are just a bunch
33:04of different animals.
33:05They have some beans at the bottom of them, so you can sit them down, you can play with
33:08them, you can open up their hands, you can use them as dolls, whatever you want.
33:12That's where the beanie comes from, gotcha.
33:13Yeah.
33:13You do whatever, it's a Beanie Babies, it's fun.
33:16Yeah, it's kind of like, you look at it for a little bit, but then you just kind of cherish
33:21the ownership of it.
33:23Yeah.
33:23It's like a very, it's a very consumer, you know, it's a very consumer product, in the
33:29sense that you just own it, just to own it, and just have it, and say you have it.
33:32It's a collector's item, for sure.
33:33Yeah.
33:34Very cute.
33:34This man right here, you may have seen before, we probably beat him up a good amount
33:38in the last video, we're gonna be nice to him today, but this is the Tickle Me Elmo,
33:41which in 1996, first came to the market, it helped to really popularize Sesame Street.
33:46Of course, this ended up being banned, because of a lot of different reasons, mainly, because
33:51of battery malfunctions, and also said some pretty gruesome things.
33:55I actually got it to work this time, so we could listen to what Tickle Me Elmo says,
33:59that makes him so unbelievably bad.
34:01Yeah.
34:01We slapped some sense into him, so now he's cooperating.
34:04Speak!
34:05It's voice activated, right?
34:07Hello, Elmo.
34:09Oh, now you don't wanna talk.
34:10He was talking overnight, I was listening to him.
34:13No, literally at 3am, it started speaking.
34:16I'm not kidding.
34:18Speak!
34:19And now it's a little camera shy, huh?
34:21How convenient.
34:22Oh yeah, now you, huh?
34:24What's up with you now?
34:25He's got a ton of switches.
34:26Elmo wants to play with you!
34:28Oh yeah, what-
34:29Can you pick Elmo up?
34:30Can you pick Elmo up?
34:34Elmo?
34:35Elmo?
34:36Hello?
34:37Elmo?
34:45He wants to play a game, alright.
34:47Alright, alright.
34:50There's one bullet in the chamber!
34:54In 1996, people got their hands on this Japanese toy called Tamagotchi, which was a digital
35:00pet that you could basically take care of.
35:03And it appealed to human nature because they wanted to nurture something that they didn't
35:06actually have stake in, like a pet.
35:08And so this is a digital pet.
35:09And this is my first exposure to video games, honestly.
35:12In 1996, before I, well, I guess I wasn't born at this point, but I feel like I saw a
35:17Tamagotchi
35:18before I saw, like, a console.
35:21And there-
35:23A cute little jingle?
35:24Okay, so there's the main screen.
35:27Okay.
35:27You'll see that you can set the time, so you can actually have it programmed so that you have
35:31to remember to feed it, for instance.
35:33Yup.
35:33And then you just wait right here as it's going, and then eventually it will ping you to take
35:38care of your pet and to do something.
35:40That's right.
35:41So if yours dies, does it, like, respawn?
35:44So if yours dies, it actually explodes.
35:48In 2000s, the Razor Scooter was invented.
35:50It was an alternative to the bicycle because it was more easily foldable and carryable around,
35:55more cumbersome, if you will.
35:57But what's cool about this is that anybody can pretty much pick it up quite easily.
36:00You just put your foot on it, and then you go.
36:03You take off.
36:04And so you would ride this around the neighborhood with your friends, take it where you go.
36:08And then you could just fold it right up.
36:11I mean, is it really smaller than a skateboard?
36:16Yeah, I think you're right.
36:17Like, is this even smaller?
36:18Yeah, nah.
36:19It's height-wise taller than a skateboard.
36:22And then, I mean, even if you push this handle in, it's still going to generally be, like,
36:25as big as a skateboard.
36:27Yeah, you can't even, like, fit that, like, in a backpack.
36:29I see people take out those, like, little mini boards from their backpack,
36:33and then they, like, you know, zoom around campus.
36:36Do you want me to, like, help spin it?
36:39AHHHHH!
36:40In 2016, kids finally got Play Robots.
36:44This one's called the RC Robot.
36:46It's actually only $25 on Amazon, so anybody can get their hands on a robot nowadays,
36:50which is crazy.
36:51Wow.
36:52Oh.
36:54Hello, buddy.
36:55I'm your new partner, Airlock.
36:57You have a lot of skills.
36:59I can sing and dance.
37:02Yo-ho, my friends.
37:03Come on.
37:05Let's rock and roll.
37:06Music.
37:08Oh!
37:09Oh!
37:11What the heck?
37:13Don't look at me.
37:14Don't look at me.
37:15Yay!
37:19No more music from you.
37:21All right, so now I'm controlling him.
37:24Backwards.
37:25Oh, cool.
37:25Wait, he could dance.
37:26Oh, give some of your dance moves.
37:28Let's see.
37:29Is it a Chinese man?
37:31Yeah, it's a Chinese man.
37:32Okay, you don't have to-
37:33It's authentically a made-in-China product.
37:36I kind of like that it's made-in-China and it has a Chinese man voice.
37:38Let's see if he's gonna commit.
37:40Ooh.
37:42Okay.
37:42Wow, he knows the boundaries.
37:43He's actually smart.
37:44Oh!
37:46I loved this thing.
37:48On to 2018, and we have Red Dead Redemption 2 made by Rockstar Games, and many people consider
37:52it to be the greatest graphical game of all time.
37:55Like, absolutely beautiful, almost realistic, and so here's some gameplay of that.
37:59So, I personally have never even played Red Dead Redemption 2 before, but, I mean, this
38:02is, like, stunning.
38:04Like, look at the animals in the distance over here.
38:06Even the horse, like, the details of the tail.
38:09This is at 4K as well.
38:11And this is 2018, so imagine what GTA 6 is gonna look like.
38:14Here's some scene just, like, riding.
38:16I don't know.
38:17Is that Arizona, maybe?
38:18Just, like, outlaw out west.
38:21Oh, my God.
38:21This really is crazy.
38:22Even the galloping of the horse, like, the timing of the sound of the hoofs on the ground.
38:26What's amazing about this game, too, is, like, the way that light and shadows emerge.
38:30Oh, look at that.
38:31It's, like, that's the way a horse would be climbing up a mountain.
38:34So, kids nowadays have it super good with video games.
38:37I mean, they've been around since the 50s with, like, Tennis for Two, but I think this
38:40is the prominent game of 2010s.
38:43Anything like PC or some of these high-gen consoles.
38:45And finally, sticking on the theme of video games into the 2020s, and we have Unrecorded.
38:50This is an unreleased game that's coming out, I believe, in 2024 this year for PC.
38:54And it just shows you a POV of a tactical police officer going through different things.
38:58And this is actually gameplay.
38:59Like, this isn't, like, footage from a video camera.
39:04Like, down to the graffiti on the wall.
39:05I mean, it's basically indiscernible from reality, which is kind of crazy.
39:09So, kids have gone from playing with balls and yo-yos and slinkies to just basically living life.
39:16To which that, I'd say, just go outside.
39:19I think that's the point of this video.
39:21Anyways, guys, thank you so much for watching.
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39:27Peace.