"You may remember the anecdote I mentioned before wherein there is always a toy that you had as a kid that really looked good on the box, but when you got it home and played with it, it was not quite what you thought it was. So it went for me, when I was 7 and my parents bought me a Voice Control Kennedy Airport. Now, you imagine you are 7. You can read, but you are awfully impressionable. Look at the box to the left and tell me what you think this thing would have done. For me, it was obvious, you spoke into the mike, and somehow controlled the planes....right? I mean, it IS voice control, right???!!!" From an in-depth Remco Voice Control Kennedy Airport page. Buy a "new-old" original one here.
"Voice Control Kennedy Airport" TV Commercial.mov
"Voice Control Kennedy Airport" TV Commercial.m4v

In Italy in the '70 we had the sea Monkeys. From the advertise on the magazines they looked like a strange kind of fishes with human head (and face)! The slogan was "You will astonish your friends". I bought and received a little box with a stinking dust and a single sheet with instructions. Nothing done, naturally. I astonished my friends, but for my stupidity.
Bye bye
Posted by: carcavallo | April 03, 2005 at 01:08 PM
Hey! But you know better than me what I am talking about: http://www.seamonkeyworship.com
Bye!
Posted by: carcavallo | April 03, 2005 at 01:21 PM
Remember walkie-talkies?
I remember buying a really cool looking walkie-talkies in the USA (I'm from England) when I was about 10, in about 1973 & they never worked.
Things like that never worked...I seem to remember I had toy telephones/intercom that were equally pathetic.
Posted by: Peter (in London) | January 25, 2007 at 03:52 PM
Apparently, they're still having a tough time moving them:
http://www.jackbergsales.com/toys/voicecontrolkennedyairport.htm
Posted by: Shushmuckle | February 04, 2007 at 07:05 AM
Can anyone confirm or deny that the Remco Airport Set was first issued in 1965 ('68 for the one above), without the eletronic stuff???
Thanks!
Christian
Posted by: Christian Bryan | November 11, 2009 at 11:02 PM