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I remember ads for the Super Spin Car Wash like it was yesterday. I always wanted that thing but I never got it for Christmas.

I do, however, remember enjoying Street Sharks. Jawsome.

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An addition to the list:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Rh6K0f0D8

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I loved my super spin car wash. I also had that fisher price parking garage with the elevator and the yellow and green super soakers. I remember the thin ice game, the never ending story, rockos modern life. What a flashback. Good collection.

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JAWESOME.

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I came here to rave about the Super Spin Car Wash alone. Man that thing was awesome...

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I always begged my parents for that car wash, I never got it though =\

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Wait.. I know this one... something about the ashtray, right?

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We all reminisce fondly about Transformers, Dragon Ball Z (HOLY f**kING s**t BEST MORNING SHOW EVER) , Thundercats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pinky & The Brain, the list is infinite.

So help me god when I think about the current youth, years from now, reminiscing fondly about the 'awesome' shows of their childhood, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber etc. It makes me almost want to cry. I feel so sorry for them.

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Yeah, I feel sorry for them. We had all the great Nickelodian cartoons and now they have s**t like Hannah Montana and iCarly.

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MY CHILDHOOD IS BETTER THAN YOURS BECAUSE I WAS A KID THEN AND WASN'T WHEN YOURS WAS AND ALL I REMEMBER IS THE GOOD STUFF ABOUT IT

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You really think our generation was any better?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PbuVXCyaumw/Svxlctm6SRI/AAAAAAAAA4g/PPHgGXUVZY8/s400/127.jpg

You're just remembering what you want. Now get off my lawn!

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We had plenty of those in our era, too. The thing about those though is that everyone forgets them almost immediately, so they'll never show up on any lists. Kids from our era will instead remember crappy online games like maple story probably.

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Can you say Aaron Carter?

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Um - there were multiple generations of stuff there...

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Whose childhood included both Spirograph and Magic Eye? Those things were like 15 years apart, minimum.

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I was going to reply with a bunch of 1980's and 1990's pop icons, but after New Kids on the Block, I couldn't think of any. I even tried googling it, but music was music and tv was tv, with the exception of mtv when it used to play music there wasn't much crossover.

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OMG TOMY WATERFULS

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No if only 'the chive' would stop plastering their bloody watermarks on everything, they're the ebaums of jpegs.

Example of 'the chive' watermark placed OVER the punchline of a joke: http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/random-funny-morning-23e-18.jpg?w=500&h=374

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but without out a bunch of ads... how will I know what to buy?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?

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and He-Man

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Thundercats? Silverhawk? Gremlins? There is a lot more that can be on the list. Still very good, however.

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Green plastic army men.

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f**king magic eye is broken :(

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I broke my wookie...

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No Optimus Prime figurine.

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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4263376142_ca69ac1cab_b.jpg

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No GI Joe? Those rubber bands always broke...

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It wasn't cleared by Lucas.

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Lion Voltron? Matchbox cars? Mini-Arcade? Atari 2600? LaserTag? Hello?

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:D let him go for super hit your friend in the face action!

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Invisible Ink Game Book & Quiz - "Hours and hours of 'By-Yourself Enjoyment'"

... say "I" if you found a way to have hours and hours of "by-yourself enjoyment" without the book.

I.

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I remember when my friend decked me in the face with my stretch armstrong. f**ker was solid. :|

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Gatorgum - It works!

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I always preferred big league chew.

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dude whenever i think about that stuff my mouth instantly waters...pavlov's gatorgum

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Yep, I saw the picture and my mouth puckered up

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They more or less still make this stuff, it's called Quench now. I don't know if it's exactly the same, but it's very similar to what I remember Gatorgum tasting like

http://quenchgum.com/index2.html

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I miss it so much

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We used to record Judas Priest albums backwards and then put them into him.

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I've got one, & he makes the creepiest movements & sounds when you put batteries in him ::shudder::

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My buddy! My buddy.....My buBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

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Teddy Ruxpin is a lot more scary when you rip his eyes out and then you press his cassette case in so it slows the speed and makes him sound like a demon from hell.

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I never had a Teddy Ruxpin, but I did have one of those 2-XL robots. I would lay in my floor for hours listening to the stories he told while watching his "mouth" light up with the words and pressing the buttons in order to choose how the story progressed. Such an awesome toy for a kid.

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Where was Michael Jordan?

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What does fifth element have to with this?

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I am the terror that flaps in the night!

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I am the headache in the criminal mind!

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The Ultimate Warrior plushie should totally spout gibberish when you squeeze it, Hoak Ho-gaaaan!

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Heh, my exact response once I saw the wrestling buddies was "Holy s**t!"

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my Jake the Snake wrestling buddy turned out to be an alcoholic.

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Anyone else used to drag your mattresses into the living room and have epic tag-team wrestling matches with your best friend and your wrestling buddy, complete with cake-pan headshots and bodyslams through cardboard boxes?

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Holy s**t Mickey Ice Pops

Holy s**t kool-aid bursts.

Holy s**t Tomy Waterfuls.

HOLY f**kING s**t SUPER SPIN CAR WASH

WTF STREET SHARKS

LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! *Head explodes*

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I'm sure your mom would appreciate it if you just stayed down in the basement.

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Why not just drink slightly flat Sprite?

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ok, if you remember everything:
wth is #17 girl on a seat with handlebars?
i'm from europe and never ever seen that.

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i want to see a return of crystal pepsi, possibly only to remember what it tasted like.

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Please...

Green Monkeys all the way!

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Doesn't matter the team, nobody could ever figure out the f**king Shrine of the Silver Monkey.

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I always rooted for the Silver Snakes!!!

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That show got even better when I watched reruns while in college. The kids on it were such inept retards. Kirk Fogg clearly hated every minute of it but put on a good face for the camera.

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Do you remember Dr Dreadful's food lab?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSO3VyXS3PA

I had a few of those.

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and crossfire

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Dominoes.... are you referring to Domino Rally? With the Domino Dealer (the thing that set them up)? That thing was legit.

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Alf pogs! Remember Alf? He's back...in pog form.

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Being a parent, I now understand why I never got it.

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I got it. I had a couple hundred of the matchbox cars (my treat for going shopping with mom and NOT running around like a maniac).

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I'm right there with you man, plus I had so many matchbox cars that could have (and still can) use a car wash

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It was the talkboy for me.

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So many memories with that car-wash, including fighting over it lol and I remember me and my brother decided that the only way the cars could change colors like that was magic lol good times :]

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Don't feel bad, I was already and adult when these came out.

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The Ewok Adventure was nothing BUT memorable because

a. it was borne of Star Wars

and

b. it was amazingly bad.

But you know what?
We were kids and we ate it like ice cream on a hot day.

I remember the whole list. And I STILL have that Fisher Price Little People Parking Garage.

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what better way to end a great set of pictures.

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I almost cried.. Then I saw boobs.

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People should start saying this when there aren't actually any boobs, because everyone will be like "Wait, what?!? I missed the boobs??", then go back and check.

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those aren't boobs that's skee ball

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Nostalgia - it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.

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Totally, man, that sucked.

- Sent from my iPhone 24, embedded inside my brain on a chip. All hail Overlord Jobs, King Of Everything.

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Remember the little flavor pills you could add, and the fizzy ones, and the ones that changed the colors? Awesome.

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I just about buried the whole article because of this...

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Seriously. Putting Kool Aid there is like replacing the Transformers with Gobots.

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Mondo was the way to go.

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Remember Orbitz drink? It was sweet flavored water with disgusting balls of gel. It felt so weird when you drank it.

http://www.womansday.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/orbitz-soft-drink/578448-1-eng-US/Orbitz-soft-Drink.jpg

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I came here looking for this comment...

and to @wolfman: I almost did too.

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I'm pretty sure that there is something very similar around right now. All you need is kids and a hot day.

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All you need is a cat.

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More appropriate would be the entertech battery-powered water guns: http://www.ilovethe80s.com/toys_toys_entertechwaterguns.htm

You know, the ones that looked just like real guns that got kids shot by the cops. I had the original water hawk, and later a AK centerfire that was painted crazy colors to prevent all the kid-shootings. When the super soakers first came out, we made fun of the kid who had one because it looked ridiculous. But since he had like twice the range of our entertech guns, I guess he got the last laugh.

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I always wanted to fill one of those suckers with lighter fluid, Ripley style. Never got the chance to do it as a kid.

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Everyone had a super soaker 50 but once in a while some cool kid comes to a water fight with a 200. Nothing beats water balloons though.

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you made fart noises while f**king your sister and RECORDED it?

where are these invaluable tapes?

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"Hey good lookin'! We'll be back to pick you up later!

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Hhhhiiiii kiiiiddsss wweeee'rree hhoommee eeeaaarrrlllyyy!

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The real value of the Talkboy was to actually record your voice on the slow mode and play it back at regular speed. This gave you the infamous "chipmunk voice" which provided my brother, my friends and myself with hours of entertainment. I think I still have some of those tapes. I remember playing one back a few years ago and still laughing today at all my childhood antics.

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That was never a good movie.

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THANK YOU. I was waiting for a shoutout to harry and the hendersons!

i loved the scene when john lithgow was tempting the bigfoot with filet o fishes. cinema gold haha

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My mom would always bring it up later on, but I do somehow actually remember it being on, and it came on when I was like, 4.

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I DO, I DO !!!
With Desi Arnaz, Jr. and that other cat that did Into the Woods on Broadway and later some pharmaceutical commercial to help you quit smoking.

I LOVED CURSOR.
Loved that show.

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I loved the sears catalogs, but every christmas I spent most of the gift-searching in the special Disney Adventure holiday issue, where they'd have a 'wishlist' page for you to check boxes of the items you wanted from their million sponsors. I never got a single thing out of those lists, though.

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You can thank Tipper Gore for that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

It was all downhill from there. Suddenly all toys needed to not have sharp edges or anything remotely cool about them and every piece of media needed to have a label so lazy parents could pretend they actually gave a s**t what their kids were watching or listening to.

My parents actually listened to the music my sister and I got into, and even though they didn't approve of a lot of the content they decided the best thing was to talk to us about that and let us make our own decisions about what we wanted to expose ourselves to (outside of pornography, though once I was in high-school and had a computer in my room I feel it was somewhat of an open secret).

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The Christmas Sears catalog was amazing. I can even remember the smell of it.

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I can see why they were taken off the market though... what a colossally misusable toy; my brother and I would go on opposite sides of the house and chuck them over the roof at each other.

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I thought they were called Jarts? Or maybe they were re-marketed for the 80's. Anyway, I am way older than most here, and I remember my brothers tossing those rather large projectiles at each other back in the 60's.
And yes, one landed on my younger brother's foot and went through his shoe, another grazed the top of my older brother's head. We cleaned up and never told our mom--but my brothers did tone down the dart wars after that.

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They were called 'Yarts' in my neck of the woods (Yard Darts). Fun for kids, but were apparently more fun for adults who drank too much. My dad and uncles would play this after putting back a few too many at family barbecues.

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