TV/Movie Theme Toy Cars from the 80s

Today we take a look at the die cast toy line from Ertl based on tv show and movies from the 80s. From Matt Huston, to Blade Runner, to The A-Team, to Riptide, Knight Rider, Blues Brothers and more!

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[opuscrap]

My favorite toy and movie cars were made by Corgi in the 70's. They did a great series of Batman vehicles & I still have my Corgi James Bond cars. :)

[ciscodeer]

I remember Ertl for making farm toys, but this is incredible

[stylincarrie]

I totally collect die cast cars from TV shows/movies just like these! I have most of the ones you showed here.
-Corgi, made in the UK, made a lot of cool ones too starting with the Batmobile and James Bond's Aston Martin in 1966. They did all the Bond cars plus Starsky & Hutch, Kojack, Vegas, Charlie's Angels, Buck Rogers, Batman Spiderman (Spidey on a motorcycle and a helicopter!!!) You could totally do another show like this on Corgi cars.
-The WAS a Magnum line on "Rough Wheels" I have one, but not the Ferrari. Also a line from the Dallas TV show (Majorette), TJ Hooker (Fleetwood) and probably a bunch more I don't know about yet.
-You missed Simon and Simon, they had a couple cars from Ertl.
-Most of these are pretty affordable, Airwolf, Blade Runner and Fall guy are the more expensive ones, about $50+, most of the others are about $30 on a card
P.S....I Loved Riptide! 2 cool guys, a nerd a robot, a houseboat, helicopter, corvette and a pretty girl who needed help every week...An awesome formula for a show in the 80s.

[clobberonline]

Sport Billy and his amazing bag !!LOL classic !!!

[treyjohnson]

Love how the logos are prominent on the cars

[clf]

Sport billy flew about in a clock, seem to remember he was quite big in the United Kingdom during a world cup year (1986?), also remember his image being on the advertising boards at the Scottish cup final one year. Also you've missed Corgi toys out, I remember having the pink charlies angels van... As a young boy owning a pink van in the 80's.. It never got played with outdoors!

[williammitchell]

Jodie drove the Trans Am in the Fall Guy. Universal got some cars from the train derailment

[jeffreycoogan]

@That Junkman Although there were TV shows which were developed in order to capitalize on the success of NBC's ''The A-Team''. Such as ABC's ''The Renegades'', (which only lasted 6 episodes). ''Airwolf'' 1984-1987, was actually made to capitalize on the success of action techno-thriller movies like ''Firefox 1982'' and ''Blue Thunder 1983'' And it was (Jan-Michael Vincent) who was the star of ''Airwolf''. Ernest Borgnine was the co-star.

[bradleygood]

Junkman, I must apologize for my fifty year old memory. I remembered today that the white truck I thought was Jesse's from the Duke Of Hazzrd was actually not. It was an Ertl vehicle but it was from Hardee's. It was part of an Ernie and the Road Runner car set. Does anyone remember those commercials? The Road Runner had a Corvette race car number 90 and Ernie was his mechanic. And they loved Hardee's roast beef. Anyhow I thought it was Jesse's truck because as a kid I used it for his truck. Sorry if this caused anyone confusion.

[worstxbplayertylerteehc]

I remember sport billy he put small things in his bag and it grew full size.

[wopjohn]

OMG OMG OMG
Could you imagine a Riptide/A TEAM crossover???!!

[MarkCappis]

Thanks for the video! Some of my random memories:

- Had the Dukes of Hazzard play set. One of my earliest memories of Christmas.
- I remember seeing the Riptide car in my local toy store and thinking, "Huh. They made a Riptide car." Then I was distracted by the new Masters of the Universe figures.
- Last time I visited my folks, found the bucket of my old toy cars. And darn it, my A-Team van still looks as good as new.

[adamn.]

I had a Dukes of Hazard set with the General, a vehicle ramp, and a few obstacles to crash into! Ertl was still making vehicles from the screen into the early 90s! My brother had a Batmobile and Penguin's duck from Batman Returns!

[gott]

One vehicle I'm sad that no toy company ever produced-- that yellow 1981 Corvette from the movie "The Junkman"!

[jasoncoburn]

Riptide was awesome. Not sure when the toys came out, but the 3rd season Perry King’s character drove a S-10 Blazer that had a removable top

[captlazer]

Ertl for being in the middle of Iowa made some cool stuff. Wish they made larger scaled Blade Runner.

[katenunyabizness]

Ertl also made some very nice airplanes.

Then Hot Wheels had cars from that awesome movie Mega Force. Cars that they still use the molds of today.

[tombutler]

Can honestly say I’ve never ever seen those Blade Runner cars before 😮😍

[kaidzaack]

I had a Police car from the “Dick Tracey” Movie…also Ertl…

[williamrandall]

I have the Airwolf 3 pack and it's sealed.