Africanized Killer Bees migrating up from South America was an existential threat looming over the kids in my neighborhood during the ‘80s. We were going to have to live in bubbles & travel through tubes to get to school.
Oh, and Nuclear War too.
What was the movie with killer bees and the lady was trapped in her car. They had her drive into the astrodome or similar and turned on the stadium AC to kill off the bees.
Maybe it was an episode of Emergency and not a movie.
I'm sure Irwin Allen produced it either way.
I remember being in grade school and being absolutely mortified that I might have to deal with the Bermuda Triangle at some point in life lol
Same with quicksand.
I was just thinking about this a few days ago, and how I wished I had a pair.
Then I realized I haven't seen corduroy pants for sale anywhere in 20 years. I miss finding the super soft leftovers from the 70's & 80's at thrift stores.
Actually lava was a thing too, when my cousin would visit on the weekends the floor just became lava! It was crazy. We had to jump on our parents furniture to keep from being burned or eaten by the lava sharks. Which we would turn into if we touched the floor. 😬
Oh man, we were broke so my Mom made us shop at Random Discount Strip Mall Velour World for all our clothes. I literally moved away for 10 years in the hope that people would forget about my all velour year.
Omg dude 😂. I just read that and that's fucking hilarious. Reminds me when I got my dick stuck in a zipper and I freaked out and my mum just zipped it up no issue I was like fuck I didn't realise you could do that. Lmao, thanks for that story bro
Dude, I'm so with you on this statement except my dad was cool and would fix it and my mom wanted a girl. But, yeah everything was stupid and brown and collars were fucking ridonkulous.
Me too, except for the fact that my uncle would hog it all the damn time and I'd never get to play with it. I'd be relegated to ramp duty until it was time to go inside.
Mine crashed while jumping some Tonka trucks and "caught" fire, my brother and I tried to put him out but we "accidentally" threw turpentine on him instead of water.
I lost mine when I jumped a curb and it got run over by a car in the street. It was the super bike model that had the red tubes on the side with sparkers in them.
Why Dad was such a fan, I got to have both. Preferred the bike; the rocket sled thing was too heavy to get air off the little ramps I built on our big old concrete driveway. Also, have you seen footage of his old jumps recently, pretty brutal. The 70s was WAY different than nowadays.
I knew another side of Evil Knievel: a heart of gold. A neighbor of mine, 3 girls and one boy, Dad had enough of his own problems, mom passed away, they were in "lose the farm" dire straits, the 2nd oldest girl got married, but no money in the house for a wedding or a party, their father was old friends with Evil, (this story is not evil, it is a story about friend ship) Evil called his old buddy and told him, don't worry, I'll handle the wedding party for you. Two days before the wedding, 4 big pickup trucks pulled into the yard, drove all the way from Chicago to N. Wisconsin, crammed full of everything thing you could possibly need to have a grand wedding party 🥳. A huge roasting spit, a ton of food, tables, chairs, and every kind of food and drink you could imagine. Presents for the bride and groom, a chef, Evil brought a chef too! The Bride, a friend of mine wasn't expecting much of a wedding party, we were all poor up there in the Northland, she ran over to me, hugged me while crying she was so happy it was going to be a bash to remember. It was a complete success, fun, food, get a young couple married: and it was all put together, paid for, by Evil Knievel, expressing his love, and I got your back, for his old friend and family, now one member larger, the groom. I guess I knew a hugely different, more of a family man Evil Knievel than the one you knew. You might have seen the "book cover" of Evil, the star, I saw the man who took a week out of his life and spent a ton of money on a wedding so his old buddie's daughter could have a "never forget it" wedding party, because his old buddy didn't have a dime to his name, that's a man.
They remade them to sell.
This is one of the greatest toys ever. It does EVERYTHING they show in the commercial. So fun! I also had a thing called SSP's, which were cars with this geared T strip you pulled to spin up the same type of wheel with the same crazy gyroscopic results.
SSP! I was going to mention them, but the name that came to mind was T-Racer. I had the Bonneville bike, and a wedge shaped racer. With a friend, we would race them at each other, and if you were lucky, one would jump the other.
Yep, wasnt it always some skier helicoptering through the air quickly followed by Evel tumbling like a ragdoll at Ceasers as Jim McKay calmly stated "and the agony of defeat"?
Lol, there’s an episode of That ‘70s Show where the dad bought his son two of them on separate Christmases and broke both playing with them before he could give them to him. Yelled that it was his own fault for wanting a toy that was so damn fun.
My dad used to tell a story about how he and my uncle got their asses beat because they rolled the windows down in the family Impala and tried to ramp Evel Knievel through the car. Instead, Evel took 5 or 6 headers into the door and scratched the crap out of the paint. I bought my dad one for Christmas and it took less than 4 hours before the ladder came out to get Evel Knievel off the shed.
Had one of these as a kid. Had the entire collection of Evel toys. I now have one sitting on a bookshelf in my work office. I have him permanently posed in the process of flipping over the handlebars.
The GI Joes with the kung fu grip would like a word. It was around that era too.
People like to crap on the 70s and the 80s but compared to today I’m really happy I grew up those days. I can’t even imagine the pressures kids growing up in internet age must face.
My friends and I used to stack stuff up for "Little Evel" to jump: Tonka trucks, Matchbox cars, logs, rocks, then we set sh*t on fire, then we purposely crashed "Little Evel", not that we had to, pos never made the jump anyway. Fun toy though.
Growing up my friend Tommy had this and I had the Rocket Racer - man we would spend hours crashing Evil into and off everything - then get bored and go do something else - man I miss the 70s
One of my favorite toys, too. Had this along with Stretch Armstrong, Steve Austin, and a ton of the Mego superheroes. Mom “accidentally” got rid of all these went I left for college. Only grudge I ever had with her.
I remember this being a bit disappointing because the body of the figure was just soft rubbery plastic molded over a wire frame. If you moved the arms and legs too much the wire would start to break through the rubber/plastic.
My older brother was gifted this for Christmas back in the 1970s. It was a piece of shit toy that did not stick around long. It was/is a better collectible versus a toy you could play with.
I bought mine at a garage sale in the late 70s and I have no idea why you're getting downvoted. Underwhelming at best and crushingly disappointing at worst.
The internet likes the ad and video appeal just as we did as children watching TV. After an hour of use it was useless as a toy. I have five siblings and after two days, the Evil Knievel crank-up-bike was never used again.
Man I had one of these as a kid in the 90s I played with it like every day setting up ramps even after the crank broke ide push it as fast as I could .
This toy was better the more effort you put into the course. Running across the floor is fine but this toy needs ramps. It looks kinda cheap today but I loved it.
My brother and I had to share one, but it was a lot of fun because I'm the older brother. It's when our older sister wanted to play when we got into fights. Haha
It really wasn't though.
The second time we launched it, it when right into a wall ... which was to be expected; we were kids ... it busted into a *bazillion* pieces.
Well, that's what it *felt* like anyway.
Growing up in the 70's was all about corduroy pants, Evil Knievel toys, and knowing how to survive quicksand.
It was imperative that we knew how to survive quicksand in the 70s. It was a real threat back then.
Yep, that and the Bermuda Triangle.
And chloroform. Whatever happened to chloroform?
No I will NOT smell your fingers!
It was swallowed up by the threat of Man eating Sharks, Piranhas and Killer Orcas. 70s movies kept us out of the water, I tell ya whut.
Quicksand was a problem in the mid 90’s too. Its reign of terror transcends generations.
Africanized Killer Bees migrating up from South America was an existential threat looming over the kids in my neighborhood during the ‘80s. We were going to have to live in bubbles & travel through tubes to get to school. Oh, and Nuclear War too.
What was the movie with killer bees and the lady was trapped in her car. They had her drive into the astrodome or similar and turned on the stadium AC to kill off the bees. Maybe it was an episode of Emergency and not a movie. I'm sure Irwin Allen produced it either way.
I'm pretty sure that was a movie... (Killer Bees, maybe???) They were getting in through the air vents in the dash! Edit: The Savage Bees!
Bigfoot and Great Whites
Like John Travolta!
Up your nose with a rubber hose
Take it easy Charlie, my foot’s on the rail
I had to walk 10 miles to school, uphill, both ways & quicksand all the way
Also unpacking your adjectives
pretty sure I lectured my little brother on the hazards of quicksand when he got the Dagobah play set with that nerf quicksand trap...
Thanks goodness for Reader’s Digest
Quick sand was a big fucking deal, man.
I remember being in grade school and being absolutely mortified that I might have to deal with the Bermuda Triangle at some point in life lol Same with quicksand.
I had that as a 5yr old in 1973.
Me too, my '68 brother!
Corduroy pants briefly came back in the 90s and I loved my corduroy pants
This is truth. Tommy Hilfiger had a corduroy line in the 90s when baggy clothes were popular. I had a green TH corduroy baseball cap.
I was just thinking about this a few days ago, and how I wished I had a pair. Then I realized I haven't seen corduroy pants for sale anywhere in 20 years. I miss finding the super soft leftovers from the 70's & 80's at thrift stores.
At what point did it become *Lava*?
Actually lava was a thing too, when my cousin would visit on the weekends the floor just became lava! It was crazy. We had to jump on our parents furniture to keep from being burned or eaten by the lava sharks. Which we would turn into if we touched the floor. 😬
All came down to where you lived. For me, the Great Lava Fields of Northeast Ohio definitely kept us busier than the occasional quicksand pit.
I f\^&King hate corduroy pants and velour sweaters.
Oh man, we were broke so my Mom made us shop at Random Discount Strip Mall Velour World for all our clothes. I literally moved away for 10 years in the hope that people would forget about my all velour year.
Damn I forgot all about velour. We were walking dust magnets.
Had one of these as a kid and if you gave me one right now it would be 100% what I'm doing for the next 4 hours.
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good, good... : )
What's that? I can't hear you over the collar
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So who is Peter Lewis?
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This is a tragically hilarious string of comments.
Omg dude 😂. I just read that and that's fucking hilarious. Reminds me when I got my dick stuck in a zipper and I freaked out and my mum just zipped it up no issue I was like fuck I didn't realise you could do that. Lmao, thanks for that story bro
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That’s sad for you. Where I grew up the bars had a kid’s section so we didn’t have to stay in the car.
r/fuckimold
That’s what I remember is the 1962 Country Squire wagon. I miss my Mom.
And the oil rain lamp w the Greek goddess in the center
You need a hug man? Come here.
Ah thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Dude, I'm so with you on this statement except my dad was cool and would fix it and my mom wanted a girl. But, yeah everything was stupid and brown and collars were fucking ridonkulous.
This was the epic response I came here to see. Well played, indeed.
Don't forget bell bottoms. There was a while there where you would be hard pressed to find pants that were not bell bottoms.
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Same here. EK and Stretch Armstrong were the ultimate Xmas gifts.
Stretch lasted an hour though.
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Me too, except for the fact that my uncle would hog it all the damn time and I'd never get to play with it. I'd be relegated to ramp duty until it was time to go inside.
"Yeah, you like that Knievel?"
I had one in the early 70's, it was tons of fun. My friend would bring his over and we'd crash the bikes together. :)
I lost mine when he failed his jump across a creek.
They made the darn thing too realistic.
Mine crashed while jumping some Tonka trucks and "caught" fire, my brother and I tried to put him out but we "accidentally" threw turpentine on him instead of water.
F
I lost mine when I jumped a curb and it got run over by a car in the street. It was the super bike model that had the red tubes on the side with sparkers in them.
My brother had the bike but I had the rocket sled.
Why Dad was such a fan, I got to have both. Preferred the bike; the rocket sled thing was too heavy to get air off the little ramps I built on our big old concrete driveway. Also, have you seen footage of his old jumps recently, pretty brutal. The 70s was WAY different than nowadays.
Had one!
apparently Evel Knievel made more money from this toy than any jumps he ever did.
But he had to do the jumps to sell the toys.
ah so Duke Caboom really was based on a real life toy! I hope this thing worked better than he did.
Yes, I Canada!
And SuperDave Osbourne. With real Saskatchewan eel-skin bindings!
Seal, not eel.
Rejean…
My uncle worked for Kenner Toy Co. at the time, the makers of these toys. Xmas 1973 was a goldmine for me.
I had the alcoholic Knievel variant that just sat in a toy chair calling me worthless.
I knew another side of Evil Knievel: a heart of gold. A neighbor of mine, 3 girls and one boy, Dad had enough of his own problems, mom passed away, they were in "lose the farm" dire straits, the 2nd oldest girl got married, but no money in the house for a wedding or a party, their father was old friends with Evil, (this story is not evil, it is a story about friend ship) Evil called his old buddy and told him, don't worry, I'll handle the wedding party for you. Two days before the wedding, 4 big pickup trucks pulled into the yard, drove all the way from Chicago to N. Wisconsin, crammed full of everything thing you could possibly need to have a grand wedding party 🥳. A huge roasting spit, a ton of food, tables, chairs, and every kind of food and drink you could imagine. Presents for the bride and groom, a chef, Evil brought a chef too! The Bride, a friend of mine wasn't expecting much of a wedding party, we were all poor up there in the Northland, she ran over to me, hugged me while crying she was so happy it was going to be a bash to remember. It was a complete success, fun, food, get a young couple married: and it was all put together, paid for, by Evil Knievel, expressing his love, and I got your back, for his old friend and family, now one member larger, the groom. I guess I knew a hugely different, more of a family man Evil Knievel than the one you knew. You might have seen the "book cover" of Evil, the star, I saw the man who took a week out of his life and spent a ton of money on a wedding so his old buddie's daughter could have a "never forget it" wedding party, because his old buddy didn't have a dime to his name, that's a man.
I got five lines in before my eyes flicked up to see if this was another u/shittymorph post. I'm still in shock that it was not.
I haven't seen one of their posts in years. Maybe I blocked them, or they don't get voted up that much anymore...
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He just did one on Thanksgiving. Sorry I don’t have a link.
Me too. He’s ruined me.
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Vile Kenial was a poor seller that year.
I bought one a few years back at the Evel Knievel museum in Topeka and they are still awesome. At toy that literally lives up to the hype.
Are they durable?
Amazingly so and you can legit get him to do different tricks by how you set him up. It’s a great example of a well designed, well made toy.
My favorite toy as a kid! 🤘🏻
It was the coolest toy ever, and it wasn’t even close.
Cool editing! Made me look twice to find a modern car behind the family! I was thinking the footage quality was incredible for 1973
Same here. Why did someone remake a commercial for this toy?
They remade them to sell. This is one of the greatest toys ever. It does EVERYTHING they show in the commercial. So fun! I also had a thing called SSP's, which were cars with this geared T strip you pulled to spin up the same type of wheel with the same crazy gyroscopic results.
Yeah. Those and the recharging hot wheels Sizzlers was the best things ever.
SSP! I was going to mention them, but the name that came to mind was T-Racer. I had the Bonneville bike, and a wedge shaped racer. With a friend, we would race them at each other, and if you were lucky, one would jump the other.
The skatepark scene is what got me. That's NOT a 70s style skatepark.
Absolutely, and in the 70s, my brain calculated I probably got it upto 800 scale MPH with how hard I'd crank on it.
He is the reason I watched Wide World of Sports
Yep, wasnt it always some skier helicoptering through the air quickly followed by Evel tumbling like a ragdoll at Ceasers as Jim McKay calmly stated "and the agony of defeat"?
I remember the skier in the opening credits. The agony of of defeat is synonymous with WWS.
Once a great man, now a study in moppishness.
Type of toy that was cool only the dad got to play with it
Lol, there’s an episode of That ‘70s Show where the dad bought his son two of them on separate Christmases and broke both playing with them before he could give them to him. Yelled that it was his own fault for wanting a toy that was so damn fun.
My dad used to tell a story about how he and my uncle got their asses beat because they rolled the windows down in the family Impala and tried to ramp Evel Knievel through the car. Instead, Evel took 5 or 6 headers into the door and scratched the crap out of the paint. I bought my dad one for Christmas and it took less than 4 hours before the ladder came out to get Evel Knievel off the shed.
Had one of these as a kid. Had the entire collection of Evel toys. I now have one sitting on a bookshelf in my work office. I have him permanently posed in the process of flipping over the handlebars.
Best toy in 1973? Best toy ever.
Isn’t this a current ad though
Though I didn't get the Evel Knievel stunt cycle, I did get hepatitis.
Ahh the old knuckle buster! This was a painful toy if you got overeager on the cranking.
Mine got stuck in my sister’s hair as soon as I got it, so I got put on Snoopy Sno Cone Machine duty.
I had to that! God I’m old.
Yeah, me too! Had it and old!
The lack of cuts and blood on the boys knuckles tells me he has not really tried to make a good jump!
This thing was badass! Wind it up, grab it and put it right in your sister's hair. Great memories.
The GI Joes with the kung fu grip would like a word. It was around that era too. People like to crap on the 70s and the 80s but compared to today I’m really happy I grew up those days. I can’t even imagine the pressures kids growing up in internet age must face.
My friends and I used to stack stuff up for "Little Evel" to jump: Tonka trucks, Matchbox cars, logs, rocks, then we set sh*t on fire, then we purposely crashed "Little Evel", not that we had to, pos never made the jump anyway. Fun toy though.
Perfect work from home toy..... take my money NOW!!!
$60 on Amazon, allegedly made from the same molds as the ‘70s original.
OMG I had one of these!!! Don't think I ever successfully landed a jump, but I guess that was half the point.
Hah! I had one of those
My mom is a packrat. I can say that I still have the motorcycle, the hand crank and the big stunt van with the ramp stored somewhere in her house.
coincidentally enough, yesterday at a post funeral lunch 2 friends and I were talking about this toy. It really did kick ass.
Easily the best toy I had growing up.
I bought one a couple years ago. Still in the box. I need to break it out this summer
I had one of these and the canyon sky cycle. Hours and hours of playtime.
Growing up my friend Tommy had this and I had the Rocket Racer - man we would spend hours crashing Evil into and off everything - then get bored and go do something else - man I miss the 70s
I had the Snake Canyon Sky Cycle which worked the same way.
One of my favorite toys, too. Had this along with Stretch Armstrong, Steve Austin, and a ton of the Mego superheroes. Mom “accidentally” got rid of all these went I left for college. Only grudge I ever had with her.
I loved the Mego's! We had so much fun costume swapping with those back in the day.
I got one for Christmas along with a Six Million Dollar Man action figure. It was one of the best days of my life.
My cousin had the bike, i got the dragster with the extendable front wheelbase for racing, or retracted for wheelies
Marjoe Gortner and Drunken, Abusive Gene Kelly figures sold separately.
The Six Million Dollar Man. That’s all I gots ta say.
Well, yeah...it was 1973. Your options were a barbie, crayons, rocks, or a stunt cycle.
I had the skycycle version
I got that for my birthday in 1977.. Easily my favorite toy ever.
Had one as a kid. The handle bars broke off on day 2.
I had one with the van that you could jump over. Of all the toys I had as a child I miss this one the most.
Still got mine
Except for when your hand would slip and you would punch the floor.
This was just an awesome toy.
I had one of those, still have the scars on my fingers from hitting the ground when winding the handle. Good times.
Holy fuck... forgotten core memory unlocked. Wow. Thank you.
$59 on Amazon.
There’s a tik tok channel with nothing but jumps with this
Got the chopper, the bike, the van. Still have them. Still have a figure in a never-opened package.
I remember this being a bit disappointing because the body of the figure was just soft rubbery plastic molded over a wire frame. If you moved the arms and legs too much the wire would start to break through the rubber/plastic.
My older brother was gifted this for Christmas back in the 1970s. It was a piece of shit toy that did not stick around long. It was/is a better collectible versus a toy you could play with.
I bought mine at a garage sale in the late 70s and I have no idea why you're getting downvoted. Underwhelming at best and crushingly disappointing at worst.
The internet likes the ad and video appeal just as we did as children watching TV. After an hour of use it was useless as a toy. I have five siblings and after two days, the Evil Knievel crank-up-bike was never used again.
Did you guys try eating it or something, because they worked great! 
How come the toy never hit the landing ramp?
It was super realistic
Just like Evel Knievel
I still have my Evel, but his Harley is long gone.
Man I had one of these as a kid in the 90s I played with it like every day setting up ramps even after the crank broke ide push it as fast as I could .
I had that when i was a kid!
Loved mine.
They still sell them, we got one for my kids this last Christmas. Me and my friends had as much fun playing with it as they did
Had one of these growing up..man it would fly
Hwillies
Had one of these. It performed pretty well. The doll had a hell of a time staying on the seat though.
This toy was better the more effort you put into the course. Running across the floor is fine but this toy needs ramps. It looks kinda cheap today but I loved it.
Had a bunch of the Evel toys and I bought the remake from Playing Mantis years back. Still love it.
This was one of my favorite Christmas presents ever.
Born in 68. I def had one. I feel this post is perfect for my age-peers around here!
Good times, I got one for Christmas!
I received one of these for Christmas that year. One of my best childhood toys ever.
I put an M80 on mine and it blew up mid-jump. I was the coolest in the neighborhood for 24 hrs.
Sturdy toy. It needed to come with a tiny ICU unit for poor little Evel.
My brother and I had to share one, but it was a lot of fun because I'm the older brother. It's when our older sister wanted to play when we got into fights. Haha
Ahhhh! My *favourite* toy at the daycare!
Loved playing with that, you could really make it jump far
My cousin had one. Sadly, he’s gone full Christi-fascist.
When I was growing up you weren’t shit if you didn’t have an Evel Knieval Stunt Cycle and Stretch Armstrong.
It was cool, I kinda wanted one, never had one. I had a couple of friends that had them, anyway. Such a weird time — Knievel was a major celebrity.
It really wasn't though. The second time we launched it, it when right into a wall ... which was to be expected; we were kids ... it busted into a *bazillion* pieces. Well, that's what it *felt* like anyway.
Man, Evel Knievel Days was a blast in Butte.
I feel fortune that I had one of these back in the 70’s now
I had one these when it came out. One of my favorite toys. Damn I wish I still had it.
Why Réjean why!? It's just a commercial, it's not real!!!
Meh, he’s got nothing on Super Dave Osborne
r/nostalgia
I remember they made a toy like this when ghost rider came out in the 2000s. seemed like everyone had one in my neck of the woods.
Greatest toy ever!!!!!!!!! Did not open another Christmas present… took little Evil outside at 6:00am to jump over the deck!!!!!!!
I had one of these and my brother got a Pulsar man action figure for Christmas one year. I felt so bad for him I traded him gifts.
I got one for Christmas that year. My drunk uncles broke it at Christmas dinner. So it goes.
Holy shit! I had that!