I remember the jingle from the "Quints" commercial ... now the thought of having quints just makes me want to lock myself in a closet and cry. I also remember the Cherry Merry Muffin jingle. One of my friends (a 6'4" 35 year-old police officer) frequently sings the "Skip It" theme song for some reason.
I'm pretty sure I had that Little Mermaid video game. I still have a ton of My Little Ponies ... and my sister (born 1987) had the one where you wound up a button its chest and its tail would spin around, and of course she got it tangled in her own hair a bunch of times. We definitely had the McDonald's Barbie figurines. My sister had the Dear Diary and sold it to me for $5, and she also had the EZ Bake Oven.
I wanted an American Girl doll so bad. No way we could afford one. My mom ran a lot of card parties for our church, and one year she got the company to donate an Addy doll. I put all my raffle tickets in for her and I was so disappointed when someone else won.
We had the Pretty Pretty Princess game and used to put all the jewels on our brother (1989) and make him walk around the house in them. Our dad was not happy, lol.
I TOTALLY forgot about Fashion Plates!!! And I think we also had Fashion Faces.
Post by sunshine608 on Mar 14, 2014 9:19:31 GMT -5
I had a fair number of those and even forgot about some of them. I remember wanting Mall Madness with all my heart but I never got it
The pocket diary ( #45) I have is in my old room at my parents and the alarm on it still beeps everyday some almost 16(!) years later ( even if the timing is now way off).
I actually had an American Doll, but cried for days and days to my parents about the Barbie Powerwheels (oh no, no, no, no too dangerous!!) and the E-Z-Bake Oven (too much sugar, also, too dangerous). Le sigh.
Also, Girl Talk? Best game ever. I would LOVE to play that one today.
I'm surprised there's no Rainbow Bright Doll on this list. She was pretty awesome.
Oh man, Tamagotchis... My mom wouldn't let me have one and everyone else in my class had at least 4, so I decided to make my own tamagotchi using my calculator. I would type in different numbers to feed it, put it to sleep, play with it, etc. Loser, party of 1
I am a 70s baby and thus too old for most of these, but I had fashion plates, skip it, my little pony, beanie babies, troll dolls, and an easy bake oven. I really loved fashion plates.
American Girl dolls came out when I was past doll age, and when my BFF's little sister got one, I remember being totally jealous and thinking "damn, all the good stuff comes out when I'm too old for it."
Post by hurricanedrunk on Mar 15, 2014 6:40:26 GMT -5
This is a glorious list! I had a lot of these (My Pretty Ballerina, trolls, and my poor barbies having 5 babies at a time) to name a few. Most of them I remember as I think friends/relatives had them if I didn't.
I loved Polly Pocket, I wish I still had those. I had that ballerina doll, I loved it sooooo much. The Barbie happy meal toys were the best prize ever when I was a kid.
Fashion plates were one of my favorite things ever. I bought my bff's dd something similar for her birthday once.
Furbies!! Tomagochies!! Doodle Bears! I forgot about a lot of these!
Aww power wheels too! I saw a BMW look alike one at Walmart and told H that I could fit into it and that Hilo and I would have a blast driving up and down our road. H just gave me the look haha.