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Check out these unreal 80s toys. Everyone who grew up or lived through the 1980s will be able to remember most of these awesome toys and epic games.
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Did you know that Silly Putty was originally marketed to adults? Read on for more interesting tidbits about this fun and magical stuff!
Visst blir man nostalgisk när man tänker på hur det var att vara barn på 1980- och 1990-talet? Så här kommer vi ihåg hur det var att växa upp under årtiondena då man gav bort godiskaktusar, bytte bokmärken och åkte i bakluckan på bilen.
Sixties girls had the Easy Bake Oven. Eighties kids had Teddy Ruxpin, and the poor moms of 1998 got their first grays trying to land a Furby for their '90s kids. While we often focus on differences from generation to generation, we all get that same, bubbly feeling recalling the toys, beauty products, and other household staples we loved growing up. This walk down memory lane will do you one better, because you can still buy everything here today!
Once upon a time, Happy Meal toys are what drove people to McDonald's. If they were something good, you were there. A lot. People also got multiples of each one and never took them out of the wrapper, hoping one day they'd be worth something. I think it's finally become "one day." These are the toys you should remember, and how much they're worth today. I think my family literally collected at least 20 of these dalmatians, which is only 1/5 of them! There were actually 102 different ones, and totally one of my top 3 ever. All of them: $187 McDonald's Changeables were the first Transformers in my life. Who knew fast food items could be so COOL?! On sale for a couple dollars each Disney Masterpiece collection were little figurines from the biggest movies that came in mini VHS boxes. Sweet Pocahontas came with a brush so her hair didn't get all nappy. $5 average per toy When it was Barbie time, I was a happy girl. For some reason, I still won't really let my mom throw any of them out. $2 a piece Let's not forget the other half of Barbie week: HOT WHEELS week! I'm pretty sure it's where my brother got the coolest of his collection. Trying to be sold for $10, probably another one worth about $2 I totally forgot about these things! The "Fry Kids!" Just little figurines that look like pompoms, but I loved 'em. Older ones going for $10 Oh yes, Furbies made their way to McDonald's with even creepier eyes and barely moving toes and ears. If you want 81 of them, it's $480. For Halloween, you got a sweet trick-or-treeting bucket! SCORE! And those McNugget buddies were basically a baby made by a dress-up doll and Mr. Potato Head. BUCKETS: $10 BUDDIES: $6 each When Muppets: Treasure Island came out, we got the neatest bathtime toys. You betta believe Kermit shot his water cannon at Miss Piggy. $2 each What better way to celebrate the Mighty Ducks than to have your own puck that rolled around on regular hard floors?! Pretty sure we still own a couple of these, too. $2 each I'm not sure why anyone would ever buy the regular version when you could just shoot these into the sky. Oh, that's right. The real ones had glitter. $30 for the entire set Tamagotchi hit the drive thru with locket keychains filled with figures of the creatures you raised on the real technologically advanced keyrings. $3 each Can't fill a court without a full team! So of course you wanted to get all the pieces of the Space Jam puzzle, who all did fancy tricks! $10 for all 8 When I saw/remembered these, I geeked out. The Tiny Toons flip-cars raced along and switched drivers whenever yours was sucking. Again about $2 each Mulan tops! It wasn't just Mulan, but any top that was of this kind was the ish. All you had to do was swipe it on the floor a couple times; You didn't have to worry about balance. $4 new/in the wrapper And of course, the Ty Teenie Beanies! Not only did you have to collect bags of the original ones, but now these, that were pretty crappy and made of felt, to be honest. Sorry, but only $2-5 each. Considering each one is only worth about $2, and that's if people are buying them from eBay, you should probably just throw them out if you're saving them. It's been at least 15 years since most of these came out and they're worth about the same or a dollar more. Yeah, that's pretty disappointing... But back to happy! That was a blast from the past, right?! love, elizabethany PS FYI: It is currently Barbie/HEXBug [?] time! Tweet
The mini-pearls are always asking me what life was like in the olden days when I was little. Ah yes, the olden days. Well, we didn't have cartoons 24-7 on the television. We watched them after school and on Saturday mornings. In order to research a paper for school, we either consulted our trusty set of Encyclopedias that took up two shelves of the living room bookcases or we went to the library and looked-up books - by hand with a card catalogue. (never mind) We had to roll-up our car windows by hand crank. All of our food was cooked on the stove, until we got our first microwave that was bigger than our regular oven! We played records for entertainment on our disco studio record player - oh yes we did. It had colored lights that blinked to the beat; so cool. So, they want to know what some of my favorite things were. Well, I loved my real Cabbage Patch doll. A doll made out of panty hose with a hand-painted face, butt-cheeks and a silly name. What was my doll's name? Bonnie Blue. No plastic doll for me and paying the several hundred dollar price tag for the Xavier Roberts signed original was not in the cards for my family, so my mom made mine. Bonnie Blue really was cute and you could not tell the difference between her and the real ones. My mom is good. I think she (the doll, not my mom) is still in a closet somewhere at my mom and dad's. I also had a thing for the Muppets. Kermit, Rolf and Miss Piggy were my furry friends! I even had the Miss Piggy paper doll set. Yes, I did. My name is Krissy and I had a Miss Piggy paper doll set. I loved it. I miss it. Things were much simpler then. One thing that I cannot get the mini-pearls to understand is car travel in the olden days of my childhood. We only had a radio, our voices (we were a Griswold-esque singing bunch), car bingo and our imaginations. This seems to go way over their little heads. "But Mom, what did you do in the car?" My kids are under the impression that one must be doing something all the time. Doing something means watching or playing something that involves a screen and a computer chip. I really showed them! Last December when I purchased a new car, I intentionally chose one without a tv. You know what? It hasn't been all that bad! They know not to complain anymore and have accepted the fact that they will have to have actual conversations when they are in the car with me or sing. We have a lot of conversations. Thanks to the black hole that is Pinterest, I found a picture of the little handheld water ring toss game that my brother and I used to entertain ourselves in the car back in the olden days. Yes, those were the days. Happy Friday dear ones! Krissy
Space hopper, orange vinyl ball with handles, made in Great Britain between 1970 and 1979.
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Something altogether different from those mmmmmarshmallow sweets we used to love tucking into, The Flumps were a kids' TV show produced by David...
My collection of vintage Charmkins by Hasbro ^^ I believe this is all of them, the doubles are mostly color variations.
As I write this list, I realized all of these items were things found in my Christmas stocking at one point or another. But hands down, we’re pretty sure you can’t escape childhood without owning all 5 of these items! See if you agree and share your own top 5 after the jump!1. Slinky: It doesn’t matter how old you are, slinky will always be cool. Want extra fun? Search for Giant Slinky on You Tube and check out the super-sized versions in action.
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