Current Events > Toys that only 80's/90's kids will remember

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So many memories!

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Tickle me elmo

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ledbowman posted...

Reminds me of the Garbage Pale Kids cards.

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Fun fact about Tamagotchis. They are apparently back, since I saw them being sold at a Barnes and Noble when I was in Illinois two weeks ago.

To the topic:

Mighty Max
Polly Pocket
Stretch Armstrong
Lite Brite
Skip-It
Perfection
Crossfire
Tech-Decks *Though, I saw these in Illinois too*
Pogs
Cabbage Patch Kids
Troll Dolls
Knex
Yakbak
Tiger Electronics Games
Talkboy
Dr Dreadful
Creepy Crawlers
Those yellow and orange Flintstone-like plastic cars everyone had

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Sayoria posted...

Fun fact about Tamagotchis. They are apparently back, since I saw them being sold at a Barnes and Noble when I was in Illinois two weeks ago.

Wow really? That's kinda cool. Have they updated it at all? Seems like it would be an easy app to create instead of selling them physically
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https://i.imgur.com/WFHrXzN.png

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WaterLink posted...

Wow really? That's kinda cool. Have they updated it at all? Seems like it would be an easy app to create instead of selling them physically

They looks classic. I shoulda grabbed one for the hell of it.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/toys-games-original-tamagotchi/32578212?ean=0045557427986

Even selling them online for 20 dollars right now. Can literally scroll the images and see a crazy amount of designs.

I'll be in the city tomorrow to escort my mother for her second vaccine. There's a Barnes and Noble in the area. If I remember, I'll check and see if they have them at this one too.

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Dorfmann_ posted...

I had the Smithsonian version.

I wonder what the maximum lifespan of a Tamagotchi is? Maybe someone out there has one that can legally drink.

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No Transformer love in here?
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WingsOfGood posted...

@bobbaaay

They tried to revive this line a few years ago in japan. Didn't go too well.

These look so goofy but cool at the same time.

spanky1 posted...

No Transformer love in here?

My mother sold all of my Transformers and GI Joes. I had literally all of them.

Its been almost thirty years and I still havent forgiven her. Hurts worse than when she threw out the baseball cards Id saved. That was just money.


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SquirtleSkwad posted...

Damn this post took me for a nostalgic ride.

Lol I knew I would get somebody

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

And the best part of it all! There's a counter on this ball!

Also, thanks for putting this in my head the rest of the day
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I'm amazed at how many of these I remember.

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divot1338 posted...

My mother sold all of my Transformers and GI Joes. I had literally all of them.

Its been almost thirty years and I still havent forgiven her. Hurts worse than when she threw out the baseball cards Id saved. That was just money.

I've got my own traumatic parent vs transformer story to tell but its too epic to type up on mobile. Will tag you when I get home and post later.
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StarDestroyer posted...

not to nitpick, but I think the original of these came out in the 60s; there was an old set of those metal plates in the basement of my grandparents' house when I was little, and I'm their oldest grandchild, so they almost certainly belonged to my Mom's brother...

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Questionmarktarius posted...

also, I had this exact one...the badguys were so cool, and the good guys weren't too bad either
don't remember what the toy line was called

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Oeoeo23 posted...

also, I had this exact one...the badguys were so cool, and the good guys weren't too bad either
don't remember what the toy line was called

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K0SzFIf4A

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Anybody remember this bad boy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScmLeMY3XoI

Anyway, on to my traumatic Transformers childhood experience. @divot1338

Me and my brother saved up our meager allowances week after week, and we blew it all on the most awesome Transformer we ever owned, Generation 2 Megatron. In TANK FORM. Observe:

https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/6/6c/G2Megatron_toy.jpg/800px-G2Megatron_toy.jpg

Clearly the best Transformer ever. We loved it. Played with all the time, proudly displayed it first amongst all our other Transformers (we were big on Transformers in case you can't tell).

Then one day, whilst my brother and I were chilling in our room together, we hear this stomping coming from up the stairs. The door bursts open, and my dad is there, furious.

"Which one is it?" he growls, teeth clenched. And we know he's talking about Megatron. Shaking, we point to him on the shelf. Our dad proceeds to grab Megatron, put him on the ground, and SMASH him into a hundred pieces. Me and my brother are literally sobbing as we watch him destroy our favorite toy that we saved up our allowance for.

When finished, he just leaves and we pick up the pieces. To this day, we never knew why he did that. We have two theories:

1) Our dad was super stressed with work at the time, and money was tight, and he didn't like the idea of us kids spending money on a toy. He could have come home from work one day, our mom let it slip that we bought this toy, and he went into a rage and destroyed it. What doesn't make sense is he's the one who gave us our allowances. What did he expect us to spend it on, the power bill?

2) Our household was a Jehovah's Witness one, and they're super strict about violence, guns, war toys, things like that, or at least they were back in the early 90s. He could have come home--again, stressed and generally pissed off from work--but in this theory all the religion stressors added to the rage too (in the JW religion, they will punish the parent with taking away privledges if their children don't act right, and my sisters were sluttin' it up at the time, thus putting stress on my dad), and then when he heard we bought a tank toy it set him off, ironically showing us the most violent display we'd seen in our short lives thus far.

Anyway, that was the day my dad went from being a father figure to an enemy to be avoided and lied to. To this day my brother and I still bring it up sometimes.
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Old NoiseTank posted...

I'm pretty sure I had all of these. I guess my parents took me to McDonald's a little too often...

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Pogs and Army Men

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Dorfmann_ posted...

I wanted the Technodrome so bad as a kid.

But my jerk-ass parents never got it for me.
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Looking up the Super Soaker I discovered that they brought it back almost exactly the same last year.

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Buzz Killjoy posted...

I had the Laser Tag stuff. My dad gave one of his old briefcases that I added the styrofoam insert from inside the original packaging.




Then I could walk around like a typical ten year old with a briefcase just in case a laser tag fight broke out.


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Tired-Insomniac posted...

I had so much fun with this thing as a kid

Holy shit, I forgot about this. I sorta miss it lol

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

I had so much fun with this thing as a kid

So far this is the only thing to stump me. I must have been too old for it.

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Buzz Killjoy posted...

POWER XTREME!

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Deep diving on this one.

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spanky1 posted...

Clearly the best Transformer ever. We loved it. Played with all the time, proudly displayed it first amongst all our other Transformers (we were big on Transformers in case you can't tell).

Thats pretty wild. I dont know what the fuck he meant by that.

Maybe false idol?

My parents only ever freaked about D&D.

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

I had so much fun with this thing as a kid

That Fisher Price castle is probably the greatest toy in this topic. I still have mine somewhere I think.

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StarDestroyer posted...

I remember the first time I realized the concept of "build quality". Doc Piranoid's figurine, that villain the giant hook, was tough, dense, and weighty. Very large for a kids toy, and unlike a lot of my toys over the years, it never broke or showed much wear. That plastic must've been nintendium.

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