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| weepydebacho | | posted 12-Oct-2002 9:54am |
I don't remember many of these, but I was very young. I do remember Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy because my mom had them. |
| dora | | posted 12-Oct-2002 10:41am |
Pogo and Rubik were more a 1970's thing I guess...but I do remember them...along with a lot of other stuff....  |
they    | | posted 12-Oct-2002 11:05am |
All but 3..
Cherry Merry Muffins
Deely Bobbers
Monchhichis
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| Cain | | posted 12-Oct-2002 11:14am |
From the list my favourites were She-ra, My little pony and pound puppies. And Thundercats on TV. Yay for the 80's!! |
| juliw | | posted 12-Oct-2002 11:24am |
A whold bunch of them. By the 1980's, I didn't play with toys. I was born in 1954. |
| confetti | | posted 12-Oct-2002 12:09pm |
I was born in 1987, so I was more in time for Beanie Babies than this stuff But I did have some Cabbage Patch Kids and Raggedy Ann dolls (my Little Ponies go beside the point). What's odd is that I remember the Care Bears, Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake as being cartoons, not actual toys. |
LindaH    | | posted 12-Oct-2002 12:42pm |
I worked in a toy department in the early 90's. Sometimes kids would take those wacky wallwalkers out of the packages. We had to bring them back to storage, where our teenaged employees would throw them at the tall ceiling. They stuck. |
| kaleb777 | | posted 12-Oct-2002 12:45pm |
Almost all of these, not because I ever saw any, but because I remember the friggin TV commercials for them. |
| Matt | | posted 12-Oct-2002 1:14pm |
There are only two I dont know:
Cherry Merry Muffins
Deely Bobbers
And I can think of a few that are not on the list:
MASK
Army Ants
Dinoriders
C.O.P.S
Darkstar
Robotech
Visionaries
there are others, but I'll leave it at that for now. |
Iseult  | | posted 12-Oct-2002 1:14pm |
I'm not an elighties child (was born in '86), but I know most of those things. |
| dora | | posted 12-Oct-2002 2:17pm |
I'm the original 1980's child...born in 1979! I'm the original late 1970's child  |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 12-Oct-2002 2:51pm |
Teddy Ruxpin always gave me the creeps! |
| olivekrylon | | posted 12-Oct-2002 4:10pm |
i was born in 1980 & i can remember almost all of them. nintendo is my favorite. |
| tyrangela | | posted 12-Oct-2002 5:41pm |
i love toys!!! |
| joachim | | posted 12-Oct-2002 11:41pm |
I remembered most of them but I thought I'd know them all. Ah, hubris. I distinctly remember Jem. She had her own TV show! She was truly outrageous! No, truly, she truly was truly outrageous! |
| joachim | | (reply to Cain) posted 12-Oct-2002 11:42pm |
The Thundercats rocked so hard it made third Earth shake. And that Cheetara... Grrrrrr, baby! |
| Irene007 | | posted 13-Oct-2002 12:00am |
Cabbage Patch Kids
Care Bears
My Little Pony
Nintendo
Pogo Balls
Pound Puppies
Rainbow Brite
Rubik's Cube
Strawberry Shortcake
Transformers
My kids were born in that period but I remember many more of the toys that I did not mark. I only checked the ones I know my children had (I should know, I picked them up all the time!!) |
| Irene007 | | (reply to they) posted 13-Oct-2002 12:00am |
I don't remember any of those! |
| skrku | | posted 13-Oct-2002 1:34am |
wow, i'm old |
| anonymous | | (reply to Irene007) posted 13-Oct-2002 11:44am |
You sound like my mother! |
| sonikJ | | posted 13-Oct-2002 12:31pm |
Remember TinkerToys? How about Lite Brite? And of course Spirograph! |
| they | | (reply to Irene007) posted 13-Oct-2002 1:11pm |
The ones I listed are the only three I don't remember. |
| jettles | | posted 13-Oct-2002 1:56pm |
i remember many of them but GI Joe is from the 60's because i had one at about 7, 8 or 9 yo. and raggedy ann is older as well. |
| spidertea | | (reply to sonikJ) posted 13-Oct-2002 7:54pm |
Oh-those were great toys! |
| bcollins | | posted 13-Oct-2002 10:57pm |
Why was G.I. Joe included, but not Barbie? |
| mikehunt696 | | posted 13-Oct-2002 11:00pm |
I remember a lot of these, but the only one I ever owned was a Pound Puppy that I got one Christmas. He was sooooo soft! |
Strider  | | posted 14-Oct-2002 12:20am |
I. Cabbage Patch Kids
II. Care Bears
III. GI Joe
IV. He-Man
V. Hulk Hogan Action Dolls
VI. Jem and the Holograms
VII. My Little Pony
VIII. New Kids On the Block Dolls
IX. Nintendo
X. Popples
XI. Raggedy Ann
XII. Rainbow Brite
XIII. Rubik's Cube
XIV. She-Ra
XV. Slip n' Slide
XVI. Smurfs
XVII. Strawberry Shortcake
XVIII. Teddy Ruxpin
XIX. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
XX. Thundercats
XXI. Transformers
XXII. Wuzzles ( I still have my bumblelion stuffed animal) |
| spidertea | | (reply to bcollins) posted 14-Oct-2002 3:49am |
Because I hate Barbie and just typing her name gives me shivers... |
| Dino | | posted 14-Oct-2002 7:24am |
"By the power of greyskull... " *makes explosion type noises* |
| lily333 | | posted 14-Oct-2002 8:51am |
I remember almost all of them. I was born in 1966 and my daughter was born in 1987 so we both played with some of these. |
| Irene007 | | (reply to anonymous) posted 14-Oct-2002 9:15am |
I gather that you never picked up you toys either? "Go to your room right now and pick up that mess!!" |
| Irene007 | | (reply to they) posted 14-Oct-2002 9:16am |
I meant that I don't remember those either - never even heard of them. |
| Lex | | posted 14-Oct-2002 12:04pm |
I'm very suprised that only 3 people remember Deely Boppers (not Bobbers) They were the antennae that sit on your head. |
| Deadsy03 | | posted 14-Oct-2002 12:55pm |
When i was little i always used to play on my slip and slide. |
| Glassa | | posted 14-Oct-2002 1:51pm |
I loved so many of these. Especially Transformers. I was a tom-boy. I wasn't into dolls much.
Born in 1974, so I really am an 80's kid. I miss Reagan |
| cuteasabutton | | posted 14-Oct-2002 7:23pm |
*sings* "Monchichi, Monchichi, so soft and cuddily" |
| bcollins | | (reply to spidertea) posted 15-Oct-2002 12:24am |
Poor Barbie, so neglected and forgotten! |
| Zang | | posted 15-Oct-2002 11:39am |
Almost all of them. I was aged 17 to 27 in the 1980s, so I wasn't playing with very many of them, but I remember the ads on TV. I played with G.I Joes when I was a kid, they've been around since the 1960s. I did play with Nintendo, Rubik's Cube and Transformers in the 1980's though. I even played a Nintendo game based on Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. |
| Zang | | (reply to dora) posted 15-Oct-2002 11:44am |
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| Kristal_Rose | | posted 15-Oct-2002 1:19pm |
That was a weird era. Toys in the 60's were far cooler.
Kerplunk, wheelo, yoyo's, twister, don't break the ice, cootie, hula-hoop, click-clacks, sand castle dripping, spin-art, creepy crawlies, dunking birds, radiometers, model rockets, sizzlers, erector sets, etc etc etc.
They encouraged science and physical activity more than a cartoon existence back then. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 15-Oct-2002 1:22pm |
 Yeah, that's how I recall most of these too. Songs like 'Hungry hungry hippos' are still etched in memory. |
| Kristal_Rose | | posted 15-Oct-2002 1:23pm |
Waterwiggle was around in 68, slip&slide may not have arrived till 72.
I had a pong game back in 74. |
| russell2rx | | posted 15-Oct-2002 2:06pm |
I remember most of these accept Wacky WallWalker, Moon Dreamers, Jem and the Holograms, Go Bots, and Deely Bobbers. I probably should though I think I had every toy made in the 1980's. |
| mandy | | (reply to bcollins) posted 15-Oct-2002 11:04pm |
POOR BARBIE! That dog has everything! |
| dora | | (reply to Zang) posted 15-Oct-2002 11:10pm |
Funny.I remember my cousin having one,and he grew up in the 70's....maybe he had bought one when I was too young to remember (like 1981/2) and I always thought he had it since the 70's.
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| wolfchik9 | | posted 16-Oct-2002 1:21am |
I could go on and on... "Have you snuggled your wuzzle today?"
Shrinky Dinks
Slinky
Hula hoops
Chinese jumpropes (really long rubber band)
My Buddy & Kid Sister
Mr. Potato Head, Potato Head Kids
Girl Talk games
Easy Bake Oven and Make it Bake it Oven
Lite Brite
Magnadoodle
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| bcollins | | (reply to mandy) posted 16-Oct-2002 2:12am |
What's the matter? Did she steal Ken away from you, or Midge? |
| kaleb777 |
Those poor brainwashed kids! |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 16-Oct-2002 3:46am |
Yep, they haven't considered releasing cartoons and toys separately for decades now. Cool toys like like slinkys would suck as cartoon characters. |
| Wicksy | | posted 16-Oct-2002 10:15am |
Great survey |
| kaleb777 |
Those metal slinkys can be burnt (at least the ones sold in Australia. They are high in magnesium. I remember mucking around with fragments of slinky me and friends cut off. Remember silly putty? I had some glow in the dark silly putty that I used to freak out a friend who was tripping. |
| Zang | | (reply to dora) posted 16-Oct-2002 4:03pm |
Although it wasn't marketed outside of Hungary, some did leak out. So it is possible your cousin got one in the 70s, but if he did, he probably didn't buy it in a regular store. |
| spidertea | | (reply to wolfchik9) posted 16-Oct-2002 7:56pm |
Those were great toys too! |
| spidertea | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 16-Oct-2002 7:56pm |
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| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 16-Oct-2002 11:31pm |
I never thought. cool. Yep, never know when you're going to need glow-in-the-dark silly putty to freak a tripping pal. I dig material-property toys, also gear stuff. |
| pitufo | | posted 17-Oct-2002 12:45am |
Great survey-
The name Wuzzle is so familiar but what is it?
Remember Bouncin Babies and Alphie? Oh, did anybody have Nosy Bear? I carried a bingo bear around with me for about three years straight. |
| pitufo | | (reply to sonikJ) posted 17-Oct-2002 12:57am |
LITE BRITE!
I love lite brite. Remember Pretenders? And Rock Tumbler?
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| dora | | (reply to Zang) posted 17-Oct-2002 1:21am |
Illegal traffic of Rubik ! |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to pitufo) posted 17-Oct-2002 3:14am |
Lite bright, making things in the night. What delight making things with light bright.
Did you end up as a pixel artist too?
And then there were the viewmasters which led to becoming a stereographer. And all the gear toys which led to becoming a mechanic. I think preschool toys have an immense amount to do with what we become as adults and parents should choose toys wisely. |
| kaleb777 |
Toys for adults. There should be more of them. What's gear stuff? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 17-Oct-2002 3:06pm |
Anything with gears, especially clear plastic wind-up toys toys with large visible gears. By the time I was 7 I had destroyed many toys and knew how things like the centrifugal governor for the phonograph in a 'farmer says..' 'point and say' worked, and had moved on to repairing our heirloom cockoo-clock and making my own toys. |
| Zang | | (reply to dora) posted 17-Oct-2002 3:39pm |
Yeah, black market cubes! |
| kaleb777 |
I set fire to a chemistry set. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 19-Oct-2002 3:55am |
I can tell you which chemicals will burn in what color. Unfortunately green is just about the only intense color one can get without resorting to burning rather toxic compounds. I had the anarchist cookbook when i was a kid, never tried any of the recipes though. Fortunately the rumour was floating around that the book had flaws designed to eradicate terrorist threats. I don't think I'd want to mess with anything more serious than matchhead bombs or lighter-fluid tennisball cannons. I was into model rocketry as a kid. That was great fun.
I used to make vinegar and baking soda bombs as a kid. |
| ROCKMAN | | posted 19-Oct-2002 9:22am |
Man i remembered alot of these as i read through them!Barbie was popular back then too. |
| kaleb777 |
We used to call matchead bombs 'bolt bombs'. The old vinegar and baking soda bomb huh. There's the frozen orange cannon too. This text is probably being read by some NSA or ASIO wanker who's getting a hard on. Better change subject. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 19-Oct-2002 10:26pm |
bolt bombs? you didn't stuff the pipe with bolts too, did you? Yeah, probably. I don't think eradicating the stories of our youth is what will improve society. We probably had ethics that aren't passed along now, like yeah, you could hurt someone, but don't consider it, have fun blowing up an ant nest instead. Removing the options doesn't make better people. |
| kaleb777 |
Bolt because you get a nut, place the matchhead inside it and screw two bolts in at either side of the nut until they touch the match head. Throwing this at a wall will make the whole lot fragment. Of course if you turn the bolts too hard you will kill yourself so even as kids we were relctant to try it. Kids these days seem to have no "what bad thing could happen next" inhibitor. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to spidertea) posted 20-Oct-2002 7:28pm |
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| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to mandy) posted 20-Oct-2002 7:30pm |
Check out the link I gave spidertea. There is even an SM Barby and you can also get a Barby SM cellar as well!  |
| spidertea |
The link didn't work.  |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to spidertea) posted 20-Oct-2002 8:28pm |
That's strange. It worked when I put it in a little while ago, but it's not working now. I wonder why? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 20-Oct-2002 10:44pm |
My cousin, a young girl at the time, suggesed making them with pipes, threaded endcaps, and just the tips of blue-tip matches. Idle bus chat with folks I'd run into in later years involved new configurations of neutron excitation that had me gritting my teeth, hoping such fellows never tire of video games. But then that was also the week I realised what nanotech had in store in upcoming years. |
| spidertea |
Evil gnomes! |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to spidertea) posted 21-Oct-2002 1:48am |
Or Evil Barbie! |
| spidertea |
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| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to spidertea) posted 21-Oct-2002 12:20pm |
Thought you'd like that! |
| Biggles | | posted 21-Oct-2002 3:34pm |
A scarily high number considering I was born at the end of 1983. |
| kaleb777 |
You love your nanotech stuff don't you? I haven't heard much on that front lately. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 21-Oct-2002 8:48pm |
genetic molecules are the alpha and omega of eternity. It's a delight that I can not even file it under a branch of science; it encompasses all of them: biology, AI programming, archetypal theater art, kinetic architecture, energy waveform particle chemistry physics, medical, communications, electronics, interface design, geology, you name it. |
| kaleb777 |
The program for life is a fractal. Look at a fern leaf. It's a fractal. Fractals are everywhere. DNA is a coded mathematical plan of something to be built. Look up protein synthesis for a glimpse into the face of God. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 22-Oct-2002 4:11pm |
For 7of9 on Star-Trek Voyager, it was the omega particle. It only goes as far as matter though, there's so much more. |
| kaleb777 |
Hasn't 7of9 got great bewbs? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 22-Oct-2002 4:24pm |
I suppose so. Slinky legs, faces, hair, mannerisms, were what I always looked for. She did look sweet in lavendar on her home borg dream planet as Anika. |
| kaleb777 |
I've always seen the Federation as a capitalist free society and the Borg as socialists. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 22-Oct-2002 4:29pm |
Yeah, I suppose so. I often worried that the spirit connection I was promoting resembled borg queen objectives, even if I talked like janeway. |
| kaleb777 |
That chick's got balls! Mind links are Borg. I prefer individuality. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 22-Oct-2002 9:03pm |
That's my conclusion inrecent weeks. Spirit warned me that those spiriht awakenings I was casting were actually killing people in a sense, and it took a drastic change in world view to concur. I could see doing her as theater work. That show had great acting. It blew me away one night to see 7of9 appear on a talk show as a giggly nymphette. |
| Wicksy | | (reply to spidertea) posted 23-Oct-2002 5:00am |
can I have your email address.......please? marcusjfleet@yahoo.co.uk |
| magbast | | posted 23-Oct-2002 4:32pm |
this is a smurfy survey, i smurf it!! |
| kaleb777 |
Science fiction actors have to be good. They often must change character due to the story, and they have to act against a green screen or someone with a mask. I wish I had of seen 7of9 giggling! |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 23-Oct-2002 9:45pm |
and squiggling in her chair. Yep, you missed out.
Quite a few sci-fi actors do suck. It might be more technically demanding, but often actors with a convincing emotional range and character depth don't end up doing sci-fi. Too many are limited to fighter-jock roles. |
| cgaines20 | | posted 24-Oct-2002 11:58am |
I love all these toys when i was little |
| kaleb777 |
Merryl Streep could play anything. If she played an Australian women with a convincing accent - she can play an alien. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 24-Oct-2002 5:01pm |
I've heard that name a million times but am not sure what she does. |
| kaleb777 |
Put here name in a search engine. She's a great actor. |
| tapmysweetness | | posted 26-Oct-2002 8:55pm |
mr potato head!! |
| Stunch | | posted 27-Oct-2002 5:23am |
Cool list of toys there. |
| btrswtbutterfly |
When I was little I was a big fan of Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles. |
| autumnlight | | posted 4-Nov-2002 11:21am |
OH MY GOD! Jem and the holograms!!! Moondreamers!!!! So many memories!
Does anyone else remember the Smoggies? It was my fave 80's cartoon! |
