A post for anyone who ever wanted a giant Swatch watch hanging in their bedroom as a kid.
1. Garfield pencil huggers that were actually really impractical:
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3. And Mrs. Grossman's stickers, which always had a cute minimal design:
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4. This Hanna-Barbera logo:
Hanna-Barbera
5. Serendipity books, which had oh-so-'70s-looking covers:
6. Bruce Coville books with their very late-'80s-looking covers:
7. Garbage Pail Kids cards, which came wrapped in waxy packaging:
8. Puffy fabric paints that you would use to decorate T-shirts:
9. Play tents that would easily fall apart if you moved wrong:
10. This exact casserole dish that every '80s mom owned:
11. The F.H.E. logo that appeared before a whole bunch of your favorite VHS tapes:
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
12. Wildlife Treasury and the box that you always pinched your fingers on:
13. The ALF puppets you could get at Burger King:
14. Nerds cereal that tasted like pure sugar:
15. The "Right to Say No!" commercial that played all the time during cartoons:
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16. Trace and color coloring books (which were kinda lame):
17. Chef Boyardee Tic Tac Toe's pasta:
18. Tupperware sippy cups that gave a little bit of a plastic flavor to anything you drank out of them:
20. Bracelet pens, which dried out super quickly:
21. These change purses that fell apart super quickly:
22. Animalia, which featured some AMAZING illustrations:
23. These McDonald's glasses that randomly appeared in your family's kitchen and were faded as heck:
24. And McDonald's disposable cups that looked like this:
25. The Fraggle Rock Happy Meal toys that were all sorts of amazing:
26. Pictionary Junior, which you really never ended up playing right:
27. The oh-so-cool Fisher-Price Little People Zoo play set:
28. Nickelodeon's Noozles cartoon series (which was an afternoon staple):
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29. Wacky Winders kite spool that tried to make kite spools cool:
30. Jerry O'Connell as a kid with superpowers on My Secret Identity:
31. The Munsters Today, which was a very random reboot of the original The Munsters TV series from the '60s:
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32. The bitchy Tootsie Roll Pop owl:
Tootsie Roll Pop
33. The bendable hand keychain that would start falling apart within a month:
34. These weird flashes that you would need to put on the camera:
35. And real cameras that were made just for kids:
36. Halogen pendant lights that looked so chic but got so hot that you could cook a pizza under them:
37. Kitchen glassware...
38. ...and ceramic containers that came in that country (?) goose design:
39. Chuck E. Cheese, when he looked like this:
40. General Foods International Coffee, which you thought was the fanciest coffee ever:
41. Novelty telephones in the shape of high-heeled pumps, which you also thought were fancy:
42. The utterly delightful Ralph S. Mouse adaptations that aired on ABC Weekend Specials:
43. The Muzzy commercial that ran all the time:
44. Olan Mills photos that looked like this:
45. Pencil grips that supposedly made it easier to write:
46. Giggles cookies, which had faces that creeped you out a little:
47. Pencil sharpeners that looked like this:
48. Spirograph sets that came in this packaging:
49. Morris the Cat from the 9Lives cat food commercials:
50. The Ewoks cartoon series:
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51. Cassette tape storage drawers, which were so much fun to organize:
52. Metal lunch boxes that would also start rusting kinda quick:
53. Triangle highlighters that looked so futuristic:
54. Stores that looked so futuristic 'cause they had a Memphis Group design aesthetic:
55. The pop artsy and catchy Whatchamacallit commercial:
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56. Sports bloopers VHS tapes that — for some reason — every family owned:
57. The Nerf Air Hockey table set, which was never like a real air hockey table:
58. Puffy stickers that never stuck right to ANYTHING:
59. Herself the Elf books and toys:
60. Giant Swatch Watches wall clocks, which were design goals:
61. Toothpaste toppers:
62. Metal 3D pin art toys, which always smelled like a bag of nickels:
63. Ice Capades that featured your favorite cartoon characters:
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64. The Fisher-Price McDonald's Drive-Thru play set, which was just something you NEEDED: