Because I can't sit here and watch Bolt for the 8,000th time, let's take a trip down memory lane!
Because I can't sit here and watch Bolt for the 8,000th time, let's take a trip down memory lane!
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Butterfly hair clips all over the dance floor lol
Glitter Lip Smackers (specifically blue raspberry with that violet micro glitter)
Polly Pockets
Street Sharks
Animorphs
Tamagotchi
The word "radical" lmao
Curly shoe laces.
Ahh real monsters.
Angry beavers.
I had a non skip CD player. (Top of the line.)
Does anyone remember those toys from McDonald's where it's like a Walkman thing. And you'd get like a cassette to put in it with like 3 songs on it. I had destinys child, *NSYNC, and brittney spears.
The store "Limited Too", the CD player that was wired to a cassette so you could play cds in the car, audio cassettes with read along books (I kept all of those for our kids to use!). Also cremesavers and surge, not together though! ?
When video stores rented both VHS and Betamax tapes
Pom Poms on the front of my roller skates
Moonlight skate and hoping you get asked
Lining up quarters on the arcade game for next up
When the family car seated 6 easily and the sedan was the size of a small boat
Ginormous satellite dishes that turned and made noise when changing the channel
Could only make calls between 7pm-7am because it was free then but not free from 7am-7pm.
My big Nokia phone that wouldn't break if you ran over it.
SNAKES was my favourite game and I spent hours playing it.
Every time someone rang the home phone my internet would be cut off
Dial up tone
MSN
Omg these are bringing me back!!! Chinese jump rope was the best!!!
Some of these tv shoes listed I totally forgot about!! What a great post!!!
ETA my 4 year old was watching home alone and they have a VCR in the movie. My son says mom what's that thing in the tv?!? It was a tv with the VCR attached lol my husband and I were cracking up lol
^ Are the Ctarl-Ctarl race as fearless as they tell everyone?
Tell me where the Galactic Leyline is!
I was merely out of my caregiver's tentacles and beginning training to be an Illuminate when word reached us from Earth about the Magna Carta being signed, and the many victories of Genghis Khan impressed even my incredibly impressive life-giver.
Floppy discs
Trousers with a skirt attached
Polly pocket
Bubble back pack you had to inflate
Jelly bean shoes as we called them
Flashing Ariel you could get for the old mobile phones and if yountook the Ariel off you had no signal haha
Pogo sticks
Moonboots
Looney Toons dressed as "gangsters".
For some reason girls would show off by making a
"shirt bra". They'd take the bottom of their tee, flip it up, pull it down through the collar, and voila.
Color Me Badd
I love some of these ? they're making me so nostalgic
-original Polly Pocket (the one that actually fit in your pocket)
-Out of This World tv show
-Family Matters
-TGIF tv shows for that matter (boy meets world, etc)
-hyper color shirts
-bell sleeves with ruffles on the end
-jellies
-corded landline phones
-rotary phones
-this is your brain commercials with the frying eggs
-after school specials on TV
-board game commercials
-the wave bang hairdo
*My "tricked out" bicycle:
You were so cool if you ran over a can with your bicycle and it made that noise. And girl, if you had a banana seat with those fringes on the handles, you were IT! ?. Those colored plastic things on the spokes of your tires were pretty cool too! ?
*Did anyone jump rope (double dutch) at recess in Grade School?
(Eta: I haven't read the comments yet. I'll be back if something comes to mind)
* Lite Brite (The toy)
* Teddy Ruxpin
* Stretch Armstrong(I use to play with my little brothers)
* Atari
* I LOVED New Kids on the Block
* When you thought Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was scary. ?
* disposable cameras where you had to get the film developed
* the Slinky
* When kids actually played outside because they were no such thing as a computer.
* "The Muppet Babies"
* "Alf"
* "Ghostbusters"
* Keds (the shoes)
* VHS
* spandex biker shorts
* "Just say NO"
* My Little Buddy (toy)
* all the "Rocky" movies
* "Crocodile Dundee"
* "Honey I Shrunk the Kids"
* "E.T."
* When you would act up in public and your mom would tell you she's going to bust your butt when you got home... and she actually did it!!!
* getting Chicken Pox! (my mom would rub me down with calamine lotion and put me in the dark room. I got to play Atari for a few days straight until it cleared up)
* Saturday morning cartoons
* Sitting at the table as a family to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
@Klugo I love my childhood! That list is awesome.
I'll come back to add.
Madeleine
Saturday morning cartoons
Mood rings
Lanyard
Reebok high top sneakers
L.A. Gear sneakers
Fanny packs
Jogging suits/wind breakers
Hair net spray can
Moon shoes
Battleship
Rock em sock em boppers
Hair barrettes/ bobos/ ribbons
Punky Brewster
Lamb chops
Camp inowana
Ace of Base
Quantum Leap
Disastrous snow storms, every other week?
"I'm too sexy" Right said Fred ?
Budweiser "Waaasuuup!" Commercials
Beanie Babies
Battery Testers
Warnings to "Be kind please rewind."
Giant pull down maps in class
The Macerena
Beepers
Talkboy (toy)
Nintendo 64
Cheers
National Anthem before the tv went off
Passing notes
"Hey, yeah i wanna shoop baby"?
On the last day of school everyone signing your shirt because you probably didn't buy a yearbook
Love connection lol
Mtv Singled Out/Next/Room Raiders
Tether ball and beating ppl with moves like popcorn, around the world etc
Wax lips
Giving letters to your friends and writing w/b on the front
Mudd jeans
Pj sparkles
Glitter batons
Getting a bag of brach's candy at the store
Mentos commercial
Hide n seek(eeny meeny miney mo)
"Talk to the hand"✋
Rotary phones
TVs with dials to adjust the volume and change the channel. I was the remote.
No microwaves
Record players
8 tracks
All cars had roll down Windows
The bionic woman and 6 million dollar man (the shows and the dolls)
Love Boat and Fantasy Island
Weebles
Kiss dolls
The original Barbie dream house
Seeing Grease at the movie theater
Playing pong on Atari
Polly Pockets
Tamagotchi
Mall Madness
Guess Who
Slap Bracelet
Betty Spaghetti
My Password Journal
Legends of the hidden temple
Double dare and double dare 2000 on Nickelodeon! That was my s*** back in the day!
Reading comics in the newspaper.
Getting movie times from the newspaper.
Just missing the channel you were looking for on the TV guide and having to wait for it to scroll alllll the way back around again on the tv. Then sometimes just saying eff it and getting out the TV guide book.
My younger sisters and I are about 10 years apart, they don't remember not having cell phones or computers. Playing outside all day, until it was dark and the street lights came on. And you had no cell phone for your parents to call you on.
*TV shows that weren't trashy reality shows like today's
-Silver Spoons
-Diff'rent Strokes
-The Snorks
-The Smurfs
-Punky Brewster
-Today's Special
-Little House on the Prairie
-Facts of Life
-Golden Girls
-Mama's Family
-Designing Women
-Blossom
-Good Morning Miss Bliss (later named Saved by the Bell)
-ThunderCats
-Mork and Mindy
-Alf
-Growing Pains
-Full House
-Family Matters
*Toys!
-Atari!!!!!!!!
-Cabbage Patch
-Rainbow Brite
-Glo Worm
-Pound Puppies
-she-ra
-Strawberry Shortcake
-Care Bears
-Etch-a-sketch
-Polly Pocket
-Quints
-Skip-it
-My Buddy
-Fisher Price Little People
-Garbage Pail Kids trading cards
-Moon Shoes
-Pillow Pals
-marbles
-Army Men
-G.I. Joe
-TMNT
*Movies
-Mannequin
-Sixteen Candles
-Pretty in Pink
-Breakfast Club
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off
-Teen Wolf
-ET
-Can't Buy me Love
-Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
-Uncle Buck
-Home Alone
-Revenge of the Nerds
-Stand and Deliver
-Caddyshack
-The Goonies
-Stand by Me
-Adventures in Babysitting
-Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
-Back to the Future
-Gremlins
-Howard the Duck
-The Karate Kid
-Terminator
-A Christmas Story
-Ghostbusters
-Poltergeist
-Nightmare on Elm Street
-Friday the 13th
-Halloween
-Pet Sematary
*Lisa Frank
*The Outsiders (book)
I could go on for days. What a beautiful childhood I had. Doors didn't have to be locked at night and I could ride my bike for hours without my parents worrying about my safety. I can't say the same for my kids.
No cable
He-man
She-Ra
Thundercats
Mork and Mindy suspenders
GI Joe
Saturday Kung Fu movies
Jordache jeans
Gloria Vanderbilt jeans
Velcro on sneakers instead of shoelaces
Mr. Rogers neighborhood
Happy Days
Silly Putty
Daily newspaper cartoons
Dear Abby
"One Moment in Time"
Sitting by the radio with your cassette tape in and ready to hit Play Record at the same time when your song came on. And being so mad when the dj would start talking before it was over.
Casey's top 40. "Here's your request and dedication"
Hipster trousers.
Peddle pushers.
Skirts over trousers.
Massive wedge shoes spice girl style.
Velvet chokers.
Ying yang necklace.
Polly in my pocket.
Salivanian families (sp)
Ra ra and puff ball skirts
Making a Magic Roundabout Dougal from the inside of a toilet roll
Philip Scofield in a cupboard with a gofer
I'm old and English :-)
Rainbow Brite
Sharon, Lois and Bram(skinnamarinkydinkydink)
Jenny Jones/Ricky lake
Picture Page
Reading rainbow
Rescue 911
David the gnome& family
Cinnaburst
Soda shoes you wore with bell bottoms and a smiley face back pack
Super market sweep
Before a cordless house phone you had that extremely long phone cord that went around the house
The world book encyclopedias
Choosing a background for those pictures you get done at the mall
Gumby
Scam(to make out)
When Jtt and Devon sawa were the finest thing
Down down baby down by the rollercoaster..
Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack..
Apple sticks you make me sick
Highlights magazine
Bug juice camp
Ghost writer
Small wonder
Figure it Out
Legends of the hidden temple
Book it(get all gold stars and you'll get a personal size pizza)
D.A.R.E
View masters
The chicken machine at the front of the grocery store
Lil miss magic hair doll
MASH game lol
"I put my hand up on your hip when I dip you dip we dip"?
Lucas candy
Eureekas castle
Heathcliff and the gang
Heads up seven up
Mother may I
Red light green light
Mickeysmousercise
"I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight" ? lol
JNCO'S ?? my favorites of all time lol.
Betty boop everything.
Genuine posters ?
Hit clips!
Playing The Oregon Trail computer game at school.
Legends of the Hidden Temple.
Jelly Sandals.
Bell bottoms.
French Toast Crunch cereal (before it came back in 2014).
Kenan and Kell.
Clarissa explains it all.
Going to book fairs at school and begging your parents for money the night before.
Having to ask for permission to sharpen your pencil and making so much noise with the manual sharpener that was attached to the wall.
Playing 7 up at school.
The movie Matilda.
Those school pictures with the laser backgrounds lol.
Fruit and pudding in a single-serve can
Fashion Plates
Michael Jackson dolls
My Little Pony
Pacman
Leg warmers
Stirrup pants
Shoulder pads
Jellies
Alphabets cereal
Sega Genesis
Disney Channel's So Weird
Being able to go outside and ride my bike without Mom having to worry.
Atlas stuffed in the passenger car door pocket and being the navigation for the driver
Remembering friends phone numbers
Hit clips, (my sister and I were obbsesed with those lol) view master, Polly pocket, troll dolls, and tamagotchi
Oohh I remember Skip-Its! (I just saw the last of your post lol). I haven't seen those in years!
I also remember vehicles with 8 tracks ?
I remember when (in my country) we only had 1 tv channel and television use to sign off at 12 in the night. Only the colorful lines on the tv until morning ?
Walkmans, tamagotchi, rotary phones, atari, darkwing duck, gargoyles, tale spin, gummi bears, duck tales..
Atari, M.C Hammer pants (parachute pants), when cell phones came out and the internet was introduced to the world (we've come a long, long way?) and to add to that one, when encyclopedias were sold door to door. Coming home from school and watching The Golden Girls, Mama's Family, Sanford and Son, Saturday morning cartoons when Mickey Mouse was a real cartoon not this clubhouse crap and MTV played actual videos. I've got so many more, probably older ones too but those are the ones that came to mind ?
(These aren't necessarily things a younger person wouldn't understand, just things I loved growing up).
Eta sea monkeys and jumping beans!!
Playing outdoors. You best come in when you hear your parent called for you lest you wanted a full-out neighborhood search party looking for you.
@Exc1 & @ hwyatt omg u stop it that was mine and my sisters favorite level also we played it and even tho we beat that level we'd just play it over and over and now I miss it.
Having to find a blank tape to record my shows on the VCR ? in the days before on demand and DVRs lol
Television stations going off at midnight, or whatever time it was.
And Bolt is always good.
A vcr, gigapet, furby, beanie babies, spice girls, Backstreet Boys, Hanson, n64, msn messenger.
Getting the AOL cds in the mail
Giga Pets
Lisa Frank EVERYTHING ?
Fighting with friends over who was which Spice Girl during recess ?
Playing with yo-yos for fun
Pogs
Blow up chairs and couches
Glittery perfumes
punky brewster
Duck Hunt
Care Bears
fraggle rock
Strawberry Shortcake
Pound Puppies
rat tail haircut- yup I had one lol
Baby Jessica- fell in the well
Garbage Pail Kids
Cabbage Patch kids- loved them
New Kids On The Block
Pillow pets the square ones
Double dare
Pee-wee’s Playhouse
MR T- I pity the fool
My buddy and kid sister
Nick At Night
Trapper Keeper
Slap bracelet
erasable pens
Saved by the bell everyday after school!!!
Scrunchies
Two different colored scrunched socks
The box!!!
The show "Hey Dude"
Get in Shape, Girl
Strawberry Shortcake (making a comeback lately)
Popples
Poochie
Rainbow Brite
Omg exc, that's my favorite level too!!! I didn't think there would be anyone that played that game much less love the mine cart level!
Donkey king country was my favorite. The level in the mine kart, oh man - that was the BESSTTT!
Donkey Kong Country!!!
For Super Nintendo, i was always the s*** at that game. My kids play the one for Wii...not the same.
Tv shows....
Clarissa explains it all
Gladiators
Salute your shorts
Wild n crazy kids
And side ponytails with overalls
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