I thought that this would be a fun topic to start since we have been talking about 80s nostalgia quite a bit lately.

What was your favorite toy of the 80s? There were so many old toys I had then that I don't think they make anymore. My faves were:

- My original Star Wars toys (OK, late 70s, but close enough)
- My sit and spin that I was saving forever and ever since I loved it so but my stupid brother sold it to one of these yuppie toys of yesteryear stores for $5. Sorry, just a little bitter about that one!
- Strawberry Shortcake dolls
- My Little Pony
- As a tomboy, I had a few kewl boy toys too, like my Stomper Truck collection
- I had alot of He-Man Action Figures
- My A-Team punching bag
- And I was probably a little old to be collecting these when they came out, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I had several shoeboxes full of Garbage Pail Kids.

Cabbage Patch Kids and kid sister I had all kinds of toys but those two was my favorite toya of all times.

My Pet Monster
The Alf Doll
Mr. T Action Figure
Garbage Pail Kids Doll

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Andrew Carden

Some of my favorite toys were:
-Cabbage Patch Kids
-My Little Pony
-Strawberry Shortcake kids. I loved Strawberry Shortcake. I had all the dolls, sheets, a bike and I was even Strawberry Shortcake for Halloween.
-Pound Puppies
-Care Bears
-Fischer Price record player (I kept it and it still works after all those years of use!)
-Legos, but I didn’t have very many so I was always jealous of the boy next door who had a huge collection.


coily2: I wish I still had my sit and spin too. My sister and I used to both get on it at the same time and spin as fast as we could to try to make each other fall off. A classic.

Well, I grew up in the 90's, but I had a lot of hand-me-downs from my sister, who was born in '83.

-Quints (Possibly 90s, I dunno, I just know I loved 'em to death!)
-The Strawberry Shortcake matching game where you spin the spinny thing and get a card with a Strawberry Shortcake character... anyone know what I'm talkin' about?
-My Little Ponies
-My Fisher Price record player
-My Snoopy slushi maker (I think that was 90s)
-Any McDonalds toys. I loved those plastic Barbie doll toys. They were the coolest.

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Shirley: Well, Laverne is sort of childish
Laverne: Childish? Childish? Coming from a grown woman who throws tea parties for her stuffed cat?
Shirley: At least I don't sew L's on everything I wear!
Laverne: Well that would be pretty stupid considering your name's Shirley!

Michael: At what time was I born, Mother?
Mrs. Darling: Why, you were born at two o'clock in the nighttime, Dearest
Michael: Oh Mother, I hope I didn't wake you!

Garbage Pail Kids. Nuff' said.

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"It was just like Saturday Night Fever, only it was a Friday."

My Little Ponies
Matchbox cars
Cabbage Patch dolls
Pee Wee Herman doll
Fisher Price record player ( I have some Mcdonalds records I used to play on that)
layzer tag guns
Lite Brite
Play doh
Legos
Lincoln logs
Strawberry shortcake doll

[This message has been edited by JoPol_wannabe (edited 05-12-2001).]

OMg, I think I had all the Strawberry Shortcake kid nostalgia ever made! And, I LOVED My Little Pony, so I had a lot of that, but I'm probably gonna have to give it all up to my -3 and 6/7 week old sister...

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I loved my toys!! I was born in 80 so there is a closet full of 80s toys. Let's see:
Cabbage Patch Kids
My Little Ponies
Legos
Care Bears
Roller Skates
Strawberry Shortcake Bike (This was the one with training wheels and it had a basket!)
Pound Puppies
Popples

I can't think of anymore, but I probably could go through that closet and find some more of my favorites!!

Let's see I had a lot of stuff too.

1. All the Strawberry Shortcake Dolls
2. Alf
3. Teddy Ruxpin
4. Candy Land Game
5. Care Bears
6. Cricket
7. Creepy Crawlers
8. Etch a Sketch
9. Easy Bake Oven (lol)
10. Ghost Busters <<MY Brother had a lot of those.
11. Muppet Babies
12. My Buddy
13. My Little Pony
14. Pee Wee Herman <<Another thing my brother was in to.
15. Snap Bracelets < I really liked those.
16. Snoopy Snow Cone Machine <LOL I remember getting that.
17. Rainbow Brite <<One of my Favorites when I was little

Not too bad for being born in '85 ,huh? lol I had a lot of stuff when I was growing up.

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Jinny:"Oh, they always call. They want to know me, they want to be a part of my life. They want to share."
Magda: "But if they didn't? "
Jinny: I would breathe a great big sigh of relief unless of course I liked him then i would just hunt him down and slash his tires.

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Oh I LOVED rainbow brite and teddy ruxpin and cricket! And lite brites! We played with those in science the other day!

Did anyone have the Strawberry Shortcake doll that when you squeezed her belly her breath would smell like strawberries? I totally had all of the Star Wars toys (too bad I didn't keep them) and He-Man.

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"Nat, Cool it! Nice girls don't throw trees!"

I totally had all of the Star Wars toys (too bad I didn't keep them)

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Speaking of Star Wars toys, I actually found my old Hoth Wampa doll in it's original box under my bed!


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Andrew Carden

Originally posted by LaverneShirley:
-The Strawberry Shortcake matching game where you spin the spinny thing and get a card with a Strawberry Shortcake character... anyone know what I'm talkin' about?



I know what you're talking about. I had that game. The little character cards fit in the spinner and you used a little strawberry to try and stop the spinner on the character you wanted. I completely forgot about that game until just now.

Lesliem - I bet we had the same strawberry shortcake bike.

I WAS A MOM IN THE 80'S. MY SON HAD A LOT OF TRANDFORMER'S. ALSO A LOT OF THE DUKE'S OF HAZZARD STUFF AND ALL THE WWF TOYS!MY DAUGHTER HAD BARBIE'S, OF COURSE.

My faves were: (in vague order of most favorite to least)
1.) My Little Ponies
2.) Transformers (more than meets the eye!)
3.) Pound Puppies
4.) Lite Brite
5.) Hot Wheels cars (I also had those cool little cities they could drive around)
6.) Hungry Hungry Hippoes
7.) A train set I had, which was contained in one of those little portable things like the Hot Wheels cities were.
8.) I had ALF trading cards that I absolutely LOVED, and I have no idea where they went! I have almost everything from my childhood in my house, but that is the one thing I cannot find! I must have lost them.
9.) A Smurf board game we had, you stuck these cards into this big Smurf in the middle, then you would touch him and he'd spin around and spit a card out at you.
10.) Legos
11.) McDonald's Toys (where many of my Legos came from!)
12.) I can't remember it's name, but it was this oven thing, and you had these wire frames of things like animals or rainbows, and you filled them with these little pieces of plastic, then you cooked them in the oven, and you had a suncatcher. Does anyone know what this was called?
13.) Care Bears
14.) This Ghostbusters gun thingy I had.
15.) Cabbage Patch Kids
16.) A Nightrider car and track I had. The car talked, plus it could ride up the side of walls on its track.
17.) My remote-controlled Moster Truck (which my Dad also loved, and it was fun to chase my dog around with it)
18.) This battery operated train engine I had that made a really loud whistle, also fun to bother my dog with. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

That's all I can think of for now.


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I didn't have too many 80's toys but I rode my brother's He-man tricycle and played with My Little Pony and Cabbage Patch Kids. I have a My Little Pony puzzle and Strawberry Shortcake books (both actually my sister's. My brother and sister still have their Popples and Pound Puppies sheets (not on their beds) http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif.

I'm not sure what it was but it was this stretchy thingy of this brown horse and this green reactangle thingy and they both were made out of clay..they were the best...but then my dad threw it away as I grew older....does anyone know what it was called?

ooo man i wanna go dig out my old 80's right now~

lite bright
omg me and my older bro had like everything ghostbusters
teenage mutin*sp turtles(this was 80's right?) me and my bro also played with these all the time in my dads slippers..lil random but thats ok it was the 80's!
garbage pail kids
my little pony!!!
creepy crawlers!!
tansformers
LEGOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg a couple weeks ago me and my bro actully hada convo. and we pulled out our legos it was great fun~
easy bake oven(my friend still had a new one sorta, but ice cream we tried it a couple years ago and found out it wasnt so ESAY)
mcdoanlds toys, like the tape recorder thing
care bares!(gotta go practice my care bear stare...)

Originally posted by Jo's the bomb:
I'm not sure what it was but it was this stretchy thingy of this brown horse and this green reactangle thingy and they both were made out of clay..they were the best...but then my dad threw it away as I grew older....does anyone know what it was called?

The Green rectangle thing was called Gumby. I don't remember the horse's name.

There were so many, the ones I can think of are anything WWF, like Thumb Wrestlers and Wrestling Buddies. And I'd have to go with Teddy Ruxpin and My Buddy also.

Great topic by the way!

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh:
The Green rectangle thing was called Gumby. I don't remember the horse's name.



Pokey was the horse's name.