How about:

* Inch Worm

* Lite Brite ("makin' things with lite, what a ? making things with lite brite")

* Operation (what did that kid say when he took out that organ? "Blah, blah, blah"

I can't believe I forgot to mention Rainbow Bright, Punky Brewster and ET dolls. I loved Punky Brewster.

There is a rusty safety hazard formerly known as our swingset in the back yard.
I had a Strawberry Shortcake board game, and a friends dog ate the Sour Grapes playing piece. I remember being awfully upset about that...

Anyone remember SeaWees? When looking for them (because I couldnt remember the name!), I came across this site. http://dreamfollow.com/lilypad/eighties.html

I remember Serendipity books, too. What about the Sweet Pickles series? (I loved em!)

Clove gum. Been craving it lately and cannot find it anywhere. That or Black Jack gum.

Also, Jelly shoes - fun and cool lookin.
A Chinese jump rope was a blast too.

Anyone remember the diet candy called AIDS?

How about "Who shot J.R?"

Does anyone else remember going to the movies with Dad and coming home with Mom? :lol:

Naugles (I think that was how it was spelled). It was like a cross between Taco Bell & Del Taco, but better!

Oh geez....those nasty carmel squares! :eek: They were wrapped in wax paper in that box.... My mom "enjoyed" them....:p
And "Sucarel" (sp?) those weird tabletop bottles of sugar substitute....they had that pointy top. I have an antique booth.....and I sell the occasional Sucarel bottle if I stumble across one....the shape is so distinctive....brings back memories to lots of people. :)

Cuban lunch. I haven't seenone of those for years.

I just saw one in a used game store the other day...

Who remembers ColecoVision?

Yeah, I remember. I was big into He-Man at the time, and I bought the Colecovision game believing it would work on Atari like every other oddball shaped cartridge, only to have it be this tiny little thing. I didn't actually play it for years, ended up giving it to a cousin who had a Colecovision.

I remember the little dial joysticks and the number pads on the controllers, though. The He-Man game even came with a little plastic sheet you could slide into your keypad to customize it.

I don't know why this thread reminded me of it but does anyone remember the popcorn that was different colors. It was green red and blue I think. This was late 80's possibly early 90s.

I was never much of a doll person, but one of the few that I did have was Mrs. Beasley. So ugly!

I had a Lemon Twist ankle toy swingy thing.

I loved to watch HR Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, the Bugaloos, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, etc. I was a TV junkie.

I still have some of my Charlies Angels trading cards that came with bubble gum. Also, Monkees cards!

One of my favorite possessions was a Magic Window. Man, I loved that thing. I was totally hypnotized by it.
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Dairy Queen Tokens included in the Full Meal Deal so you could buy desert afterwards.

Those Dairy Queen tokens were great.
What about etch-a-sketch?

was just playing with etch-a-sketch over easter in the north of iceland. they are not dead.

this thread made me remember the old hypercolour t-shirts that would eventually turn vomit brown

I had a pair of hypercolor socks. Those were cool. Not.

do you even listen to yourself talk?

Remember the old names for our stores?

Saveway

Lucky's

Thrifty

Sav-on (And Osco)

And horror movies had these weird monsters, like Hellraiser, Jason, Freddy, and Michael from Halloween. These days, they're mostly seriel killer films, and the monsters that are made aren't milked to death.

I remember going to see a double feature of Explorers and Footloose at the drive-in in our Datsun hatchback. I fell asleep five minutes into Footloose.

Anybody else have a subscription to Ranger Rick? Oh, and anybody remember playing Flashlight Tag?

it was AYDS and i use to eat em like candy

did anyone have a Major Matt Mason?

I had a Major Matt Mason, with the Space Sled and Back Pack.

Best damn toy I ever had, even when the wire in the posable arms and legs broke.

better than the Smash Up Derby cars. anybody remember those?

1965
Me holding the 'Hugnik' mouse.
My sister loved that robot, I did too.
I can't remember who made it.
I looked around on the net a bit and couldn't find it.




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My sister had a couple of cabbage patch kids, as well as a cassette with cabbage patch kids music. I also remember garbage pail kids trading cards (spoof of cabbage patch kids). She had some of those too. I had a Rubiks Cube, as well as Pyramix (sp?).

my brother and i were sky king fans when we were little. we could be skydivers off the edge of the couch in the livingroom. it was orange and made of vinyl. sometimes we would take breaks from skydiving to bury general douglas macarthur again, who was apparently quite dead inside one of the orange cushions.

Oh..yes,
the glorious tunnels we would make,
by draping blankets over all the tv-tray tables,
and chairs in the basement.

Simon, anyone?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ginalSimon.jpg

Oh, yes, simon! I had one of those.

Rubik's cube
Gremlin's
The Wonder Years
Donkey Kong
Boom Boxes
Flash Dance
Knight Rider

paddle pool!

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water painting the sides of houses...

mood rings
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hey it does resize your avatar picture.....wheeeeee

Things I miss - Clear Pepsi and Hubba Bubba (I think) Soda. At any rate - it was radioactive pink and tasted just like Bubble Gum.
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Oh! And Hungry Hungry Hippos

clear pepsi was soo wrong...

If you guys want an amusing and bittersweet trip down memory lane, of what U.S. consumerism life was like, growing up in the mid '70s to late '80s, I highly recommend you getting your hands on a copy of this book...

Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80s (from Afros to Zotz)

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(The image may be too small for you to make it out, but that's a flaming disco ball. LOL.)

amazon.com: Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80S (from Afros to Zotz) - Editors of Ben is Dead Magazine

Although this book is out of print, you can get a used copy in pretty good condition at a reasonable price. I've had my own copy of this book for several years now, and I've perused it many, many times. (Once, while eating a bowl of good ol' Quisp cereal, which I happened upon in a grocery store, a few years ago.)

I was talking to this young girl the other day, and she has no idea what a pager was!
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And for those who had a Nintendo growing up, who can remember this song:

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Anyone remember Original New York Seltzer? I remembered this today when enjoying a diet Hansen's Black Cherry soda, as the black cherry flavor was my favorite of the Original New York Seltzers. I also really fancied those unique glass bottles they came in. I have fond memories of saving up our seltzer bottles as a kid and turning them in for nickels on a family trip to Oregon (we lived in WA at the time, where there is no bottle bill). Obviously, this is before they started using different barcodes on products for states with deposits, before the machines, back when they still guessed how many bottles you had based on how full the bag was.

20 inch bike with high rise handle bars,banana seat and of course a racing slick.
western flyer bike from western auto
double your pleasure, double your fun............with _____,_____,_____gum.
Carters little liver pills. ex: He has more money than Carter has little pills.

double, mint, chewing gum?

How about Certs? "Two, Two, Two mints in One!"


Those bikes with the banana seats and the sissy bars? They were called Mustangs.


Remember Brylcreme? A little dab 'll do you...

And the '70's rejoinder was "the wet head is dead" but what was the product?


Now, I'm wondering if anybody remembers Resdan Dandruff Shampoo? Song went something like: "Resdan, Resdan, Rah Rah Rah, Dandruff, Dandruff, boo, boo, boo..." Showed in the mid '70's. Can't find anything on Utube.