What toys/phases/trends do you remember from your era?

Question

What toys/phases/trends do you remember from the 90's or any other era you grew up in?

When did you grow up and what were the fads?

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Answer 1

As a 90's child I remember:

1) Fresh Prince of Bel Air

2) Live and Kicking

3) Having a huge fringe some point in your child hood

4) The craze of Yo-Yo's and Tamagotchi's

5) Pokemon Cards

6) Playing/collecting pogs

7) Watching the original postman pat, fireman sam, power rangers and ninja turtles

8) BN buiscuits

9) knowing the macerena by heart

10) Bum bags

11) watching and reading Goosebumps

12) Plastic cartoon lunch boxes

13) Having a weird alien in gooey stuff in a plastic pod and thought if you put 2 together back to back they would have a baby

14) The queen's nose

15) Beanie Babies

16) Stick on earings, on corner of your eyes too

17) Owning a piece of clothing that was lime green or bright orange

18) Plastic money pots they you wore around your neck

19) A hair band with your name on it

20) Owning a ferby

21) Wondering why smurfette was the only girl smurf

22) Play days

23) Spice Girls

24) Saying "Talk to the hand"

25) Teletubbies

26) having knee high socks

27) Watching movies like the Lion King, Jungle Book and the Little Mermaid

28) Running through sprinklers was so much fun

29) Sitting in the front seat made you feel "big"

30) Having a slinky

31) Play games like hop skotch, hide and seek and hula hoops.

32) Build tree houses

33) Decisions were made by say "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"

34) Playing the nintendo

35) Rollerblading

36) Overalls/Dungarees

37) Mr. Bean was hilarious

38) Getting up on a saturday morning to watch cartoons

39) Renting VHS tapes and not DVD's

That's all i can think of. God, the 90's were so cool lol!

Answer 2

I grew up in the 70's and 80's and I remember Pippa dolls, Baby Alive (it really ate and drank and weed) Spirographs, Rolf Harris' stylophone, the tennis game you had to plug into your telly and then you got this black and white screen with a line down the middle and 2 little sticks for bats and a square dot for a ball, and a bit later St Clives ZX81 :)

I also remember in the playground we went through a phase of cutting the legs off our mums' tights, sticking tennis balls down the end and playing this chanting game where you had to stand with your back against a wall and hit the ball off different places without going wrong or hurting yourself. We also used to play what we called French elastic.

Can I just say the best toy of the seventies was definitely my brothers' Evil Kenival on a stunt bike 'cos it really did work.

Answer 3

Super Nintendo. Pokemon. Trading/Battle Cards. Blue's Clues. Barney. N Sync. Backstreet Boys. Britney Spears.

Answer 4

Being a child of the 90's (yes, a young squirt I am), I remember;

1) Absolutely horrid creatures of all sorts that seemed to be spewed from the mind of a deranged psychopath.

2) All things Nickoleon... f**t goo, that creepy bubbly foam paste, etc.

3) Pokemon

...the 90's were a bad era for children's toys

Answer 5

When I was in first grade, the hot toy for Christmas was the Nintendo with that Mike Tyson boxing game, Knockout I think it was called. I can remember sitting in a circle at school after we got back from vacation and every other kid saying that was what they got for Christmas.

That's the one that sticks out most in my mind!  that was 1988.

*Holy c**p that was 20 yrs ago I feel old now.

Answer 6

Gi Joe american Hero!

Tears for fears

Loud coloured shirts

Answer 7

I grew up in the 1950s; Slinky, Hula Hoop, Ginny dolls, Mme Alexander dolls, Betsy McCall doll, Barbie, Bozo the Clown inflatable toy, Flexy Flyer sleds on wheels, Bongo Board, candy cigarettes and cigars, Pez, Motown 45s, Schwinn bikes, licorice pipes (lots of candy smoke themes!) rubber faced plush toys, and my favorite of all, plastic horses.

Answer 8

Power Rangers; =]

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Answer 9

Rock em sock em robots and the electric football game...