80s Toys

[coily2]

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.

[sambino5]

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

[callmetootie]

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

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[Lynn]

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.

[LaverneShirley]

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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[Cokies]

Garbage Pail Kids. Nuff' said.

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[JoPol_wannabe]

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

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[BlairW_1]

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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[lesliem14]

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!!

[#1_Nancy_McKeon]

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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[LaverneShirley]

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

[Graveyard]

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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[callmetootie]

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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[Lynn]

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.

[MARFAR104]

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.