Have these iconic toys gotten better or worse over time? Let’s talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. They say that you don’t stop playing because you grow up. You grow up because you stop playing. Oh. But maybe the real reason we stopped playing is because the games we used to like when we were kids suck now. Well, we’re gonna find out because we’ve got the versions that we used to play with of a classic toy, and then we’ve got the new version. We’re going to compare them. Let’s bring in the first one. Okay, boys, up first, you have two versions of the classic Mr. Potato Head toy. On Rhett’s side is the original Mr. Potato Head from the 1950s, which we bought for $135 on eBay. And on Link’s side is the one you could buy at a store today for $7.99. $8 for Mr. Potato Head. I had a Mr. Potato Head. Yeah, and our, I will say our Mr, I definitely had a Mr. Potato Head in the eighties. But it didn’t look like this. It looked more like that. Like by that time he was Mr. Potato Body, but it started as Mr. Potato Head. And let me just explain to you guys. It wasn’t just about the potato head. Whoa. Look at the inside of this thing. They have all these other vegetables. Look at how it’s organized. They want you to use, they give you the styrofoam. But this was actually supposed to be. I don’t think, I don’t think that comes out, does it? Why are you trying to pull that out? Because I’m gonna make one with a freaking real potato. Well, I think what you’re just pulling, you don’t need to pull all this out. All you need to pull out is, is the body. Is the body. That’s what I’m trying to do. There. That’s all I was trying to do. And so you use a real potato, my potato over here. It has a big old trap door and the trap door has gotten bigger. Back when I got it, the trap door was just in his butt. I’m gonna do this right. Even though, on the back of this thing, this dumb little kid thought it was fun, funny to put all the stuff in the wrong place. Look, there’s a ear on top of his head, isn’t that funny? I’m having fun over here. I don’t know why I had one of these. It says ages two and up. I was definitely a lot older than two when I played with my Mr. Potato Man. Look at me. Look at this guy. Already, he’s just so like rolling his eyes at everybody. I mean like. He’s awesome, dude. Oh, he’s still rolling his eyes. He loves his little stash. And then you can still eat the potato. He has a little mouth. You can do this mouth. I love, I love how it’s all organized inside of this thing. Maybe I’ll do a little bit, I’ll do it a little bit closer. Look how cute the little cowboy hat is. Put a little cowboy hat on the side of his head. I think this is just so much better. It’s so much. Than what even what we had as a kid and, and it doesn’t just stop with that Link. Glasses. What? Any fruit works. Are you serious? Yeah. Give some, gimme some eyeballs. Gimme some eyeballs. Here’s an eyeball. This right here. Gimme the other eyeball. There you go. Put a glasses on. If we don’t watch out, we’re about to make a veggie tale. Yep. Uhhuh didn’t work. And then you got noses that can go anywhere. Is that a nose? It is a nose. And then what is this? I know it’s a nose. And then, you can put ears, you can make a nose, an ear, and you can make another nose, another ear. I mean, look at that. This is so much more fun, so much more creative, and then. So much, so much more utilizational. And once you have attached yourself to it, then you can eat it as a family. And if you have a new one. Oh yes, arms. I mean you can use the new stuff. Look at this. On an actual, so even though they give you this tater, you don’t need to use that. You can still recapture the magic of, well, this wasn’t our childhood. Look at the little cucumber with a hat. Our parents’ childhood. Look at that. And that’s just his head. Oh, we gave him arms and then he is got more arms. So, uh, I think maybe you ruined the illusion. So let’s go get rid of those. So he’s got a really big head and these little arms down there. I think his head is too big. Think, think we need, we see. Yeah. What we need to do is. And if you had another one. Oh, and look now that looks like a mouth. Yeah. And if you had another one, you could have another, another little guy or a girl. Whatever you want. Lookie there. Look at, look at this poor fool. I don’t think there is any. He’s surprised. Contest here, one is using real food, one is using the same dag gum potato, that’s not even a real potato over and over again. And as I pointed out, it’s not Mr. Potato Head, it’s Mr. Potato Body, which is confusing for children everywhere. Good point. So we’re going with old and wise. Next up, we have Simon originally released in 1978. Today’s cost $21.99 versus Simon Optics, which was released in 2017 and cost $78.99. Oh, so a little more expensive now. This is a newer version, but it’s essentially this, it’s been unchanged for the most part since the seventies, since I had one of these in my room. I’m sure you had one of these in your room, right? No, I never had one. Just sitting there playing. But we have one now for some reason. He is very musically minded. I think he’s gonna be good at this. Now, what if I hum a different song like… Oh, I started too early. I really just wanna try. That’s so much fun, isn’t it? I want to try this one. He’s having fun. So let’s throw these on. There’s hours in my room just banging on little buttons. Okay. Oh, we look cool. Okay. Yeah, that one’s over. Feel a little bit jealous. Okay, so, we need to look at each other, we read the instructions, to sync these together. We’re gonna be playing at the same time. Okay. And then you change it from green to red, is that, say, is this red? Yep. Now you hit the power. And now we’re gonna sync up. Yeah. Takes 15 seconds apparently to fully sink. Stay completely locked in. Talk like a robot, please. Okay. Oh, here we go. Hold on. I’m already gone. I’m gone. You’re playing by yourself. Uh, how close are we supposed to be? Don’t, I don’t know. I don’t know. Let’s just play a game. We gotta get really close again. We will sync again. Yes. I did it right man. I, I, my mine abandoned me. Okay? You did exactly what I did the first time. You got it wrong on the first one because you’re looking at me and you did what? You did the same side. You have to do what’s in front of your eyes, not what’s in front of my eyes. I’m just playing on my own now. Oh. I won. Okay. This is the interesting thing that started happening. It started being able to do two at the same time, but the problem is, is you can barely tell what’s happening. Yeah. Like, do two, it was doing two at second. It’ll do two in a. Yeah, so what he wanted you to do there was to go boom, boom, boom, and then go across. So it’s other things. Whoa. Other things start happening. I bet you if we could do it better, we’d be better at it. Well, we look great. We look great though. I like it. I like the level of concentration that it seemed like we had add. I don’t know, man. To me, this feels like it’s trying to get in on the VR craze, but not really fully delivering. There were sync issues with it. It didn’t, it wasn’t always responsive. Well, this is 2016. You know, you, there was no VR craze. You know that you’re hitting a button when you hit a button. Yeah, I’d like to know that I’m hitting a button. We couldn’t figure out how to make this work. So I think once again, we are going old and wise. Hey, you should cozy up this holiday season right next to the Mythical Yule Log video. You know how there’s, there’s like these videos that you can watch a fireplace for hours on end on your television, or just some like nice holiday festive thing. I tried it last year. It was, it was snowing on my television. Oh, well, we created our own this year. You can catch it, uh, overall on the Good Mythical More channel, uh, or Tuesdays during our holiday marathons on Mythical 24/7. Mythical Yule Log. Next up, we have the Lite Brite from 1967, which costs us 45 bucks on eBay. That’s sick. The Lite Brite Touch, which debuted in 2023 and costs $27.99. Now here’s the thing about the Lite Brite. I’m whoops, I’m gonna grab your. To turn it on you gotta plug it in. I’m gonna grab your stuff so we can show the uh. And to turn it off, you gotta unplug it, which is why it started a lot of fires. But that, hey, when we were back, kids back in the eighties, look at that. You had to turn things off to not burn your house down. Okay? We didn’t have auto off. Nope. Nothing was auto off. Except when the house burned down and then everything turned off. This right here, they’ve kept, they’ve kept some of the ethos of Lite Brite in terms of, well, the different letters of the different colors. Of course, it came with all these templates. Yep. It would just be like a decoration in your house. It takes a little discipline. It takes some time. I know you kids don’t have that anymore. You gotta sit down with this thing and you gotta spend some sweet time with it. Now mine over here, Lite Brite Touch, there’s there everything is contained in this thing, and you can, you can create, you can play or you can animate. I’m just gonna, I’m gonna create a little something here. Each time you press these buttons, it changes six different colors in this thing. Then it turns back off, so. My template is slightly off, so I’m having. Your template is off. Yeah, like, you know, it’s not completely lined up ’cause it’s kind of old, so I’m kind of having to infer a couple of things. Oh yeah. I’m doing something good here. Rhett, show ’em what you got. Oh, move your hand. That. That is beautiful. Now if you had given me the time that I needed, I would have three flowers in a little grassy plane and I would’ve probably put a sun in the corner. And it took me one eighth of the time it took you. And check out what I made. Well, that doesn’t really look good. Turn the, take the lights. Turn the lights off. What? Light, light off. Light off entirely. What? Keep going. You can’t. There we go. You’re getting closer. There you go. I don’t know. What is that? Can you tell what that is? No. There’s not enough pixels. What if I turn it this way? What, what if I turn it this way? Did you follow a template? Uh, of sorts. I think it really works the best this way, this way. Oh, okay, well. See what. Boo? Yeah, yeah, we don’t, no one likes that. No one likes your toy. The thing is, is that you can actually make something that is discernible, that doesn’t require you to hold it up next to your body in order to tell your friends what it is. Yeah, that was tough. That was tough. You know, like, my friends will know that this is a flower field. When they just walk into my room. And how do I do another mode? This, this, this was such an opportunity, people at Lite Brite, but they know that kids’ attention spans have just been brain rotted to no end at this point. So they gave them a pixel board that basically is like a hundred pixels and no more. You could only make so many things with that. You could have essentially done this and given them a little thing to like turn it off. But look, there’s a visualizer. It’s stupid. That’s cool. Things have gotten worse. Very obviously things have gotten worse. Yeah, and that was before I drew a balls on my on it. And if your kid leaves this thing on and it burns down your house, it’s a really important life lesson. Yes, so I don’t know if it’s ’cause we’re old farts, but we are definitely passionately in favor of the old and wise. Finally, we have the original Bop It from 1996, which we paid $23.97 for on eBay versus a current day Bop It Extreme for $27.99. They’re still going at it. Would you like to play, friend? I would like to tell a little story because this reminds me of my mom. Oh, she used to Bop It with you. She gave me a Bop It when I went over to college. Oh, remember that? Just in case you get bored. Yeah. I mean, what is, what is little Linky gonna do off in college? How’s he gonna have fun? Every time you Bop It, think of me. This is what, this is what they do in college. They Bop It, son. We played this in college? You just pulled everything. Pull it. Pass it. Twist it. Twist it. Twist it. Bop it. I bopped it. Okay, well. That’s pretty good though. It’s not always that reliable apparently. But it’s, it’s nice, it’s very. You have a different technique. It’s very handhold. You hold it like a microphone. I like to hold it in a place where it just. Well, this is where the hand goes, and then you do the stuff with this one. But not necessarily when you. You did this and when it said pull it, you went like this. You just like pulled everything. Yeah, always pull it. That’ll never, you’ll never go wrong. Now this one right here, there’s a whole new option. Same voice. Solo. Pass it. Party. Yeah. One-on-one. That’s when you both hold it at the same time. We don’t wanna do that. Solo. Pass it. Spin it. Oh. Is that, see, it’s a whole new thing. We didn’t know about a spin. And they also have flick. And now you try. Bop it to start. Flick it. Twist it. Spin it. Bop it. Pull it. Flick it. Oh, you’re out. You did better than me. I didn’t do anything wrong. That was good. Our brains are growing. Can’t you see it? I didn’t do anything. Are, are our skulls gonna need to grow? Are we gonna need, I think we’re gonna need to drill a hole in our head. This is to prepare us for anything that we need to twist, spin, pull, or flick in the future. Solo classic. Twist it. Bop it. Twist it. Flick it. Pull it. Spin it. Flick it. Spin it. Oh. Oh, that was, you were doing so good. My brain’s getting too big for my skull. Drill a hole in it. Bop it. Pull it. Twist it. Close your mouth. Bop it. Twist it. You can’t do it with your mouth closed. Flick it. Pass it. Flick it’s my favorite. Pull it. Twist it. You’re out. Hey, we are getting smarter by the second. I just said, okay. This might be the first time by the second dark that we go with the new thing because it’s got two whole new options, which just. I’m going sleep. Reaching new parts of your brain, and there is this mode where you’re holding onto it at the same time, which we don’t really understand, but it does sound interesting. Yep. It feels like the only reason we would hold onto this old one is if we were just holding onto nostalgia, and that’s not what we do. No. We are objective. So you want me just to forget my mom? Yeah, uhhuh. Alright, so for once we are going, new surprise. Yes, sorry Link’s mom, we’ll be mailing this to you in a care package. Bop It is doing the good, the good work. Yeah. Are kids still willing to play with this? I think this is, I think this is good for growing brains everywhere. Or maybe, um, even in elderly communities. Yes. Uh, take that to your nearest retirement home and they will, uh, be very appreciative, I’m sure. Yeah. There’s nothing like bopping old people. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. My name is Ayumi. My name is Aya. My name is Jasmine. And we’re from Malaysia. And we just graduated from high school. And it’s time to spin the wheel of Mythical. Congratulations. All the way in Malaysia. They get Good Mythical Morning. I’m flattered. Good Mythical Malaysia. You know what? I think it’s about time we got rid of… this thing. You know the old teeth? Oh God. Yeah, yeah. Think it’s about time. 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