She-ra, He-man, Rainbow Bright, Teenage mutant ninja turtles, Attari, The Police, Dark Chrystal, Gremlins, friendship charms, Omnibot < ,neon attire...men wearing make up.. Aaah those were the days.
And the high chance of having a job when we grew up, that wasn't even invented yet,... I'm proof of that!
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Rainbow Bright! I also loved Smurfs, Glow Worms, and well Sessame Street in the 80s. I don't think I liked Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles till the 90s, it was scary till then. (I turned four the first month of 1990)
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I learned my colors from Cyndi Lauper's hair in different videos. Seriously. When I was 18 months old. I LOVED Cyndi Lauper. When I wanted to hear "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", I said, "Fun!", and "She-Bop" was "Bop!"
I was also a fan of the album Thriller, Graceland by Paul Simon, and "California Girls" as performed by David Lee Roth. I collected those little Smurf figurines (well, I begged my daddy for them whenever I saw them and he gave in), and my sisters tried to get me to play the Smurfs game without cheating.
My sister drew a full-size portrait of Annie Lennox on her bedroom wall. My other sister had Souxie and the Banshees posters all over her walls. The Christmas I was two and a half, they both chipped in and got me embroidered jeans, a ski sweater, and matching leg-warmers, which I then insisted they help me put on (removing my dress in front of the company to do so. )
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Yeah, I only remember bits. I do remember Suxie and the Banshees, my brother named his cat Souxie in 1989, I remember really ugly hair and the braces my cousin had, that had neon pink things on her teeth. I associate roller skating in school gymnasiums with the 80s, and wearing pink and orange together, and really really bad blush on cheeks. But I didn't have style, or much taste at that point.
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I can't believe some of you are younger than my baby brother (three years younger than me, he was born in '86.) Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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I remember many a 6-year-old birthday party at the roller rink, skating to the Cure, the Eurythmics, and "Time After Time". That was the popular party that year, I guess.
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My husband missed the 80's by 3 days-- he was born Dec. 28 of '79. But since all his early memories are of the 80's (and I have pictures of him and his sibs in tank tops and short shorts in garish colors ), I think he counts. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Yeah, like Soux indians. I'm probably just a teeny bit older than your brother, but right about the same age, also born in 86.
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He was deffinitely an 80's child! Marlozahn was born The April of 79 and he, of course, grew up in the 80's.
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I was definately an 80's child and I can remember EVERYTHING you have all posted. But I also remember Sabre Rider and the Star Sheriffs, speed racer, My Little Pony had astonishingly evil villains, and I CANNOT believe everyone forgot the American Hero GI JOE! I think I must have seen EVERY single episode of GI Joe at least until that oddity GI Joe Extreme showed up, then I just stopped. I still remember TONS of the lessons they gave me at the end of all their episodes, like never getting close to train tracks when the lights and sirens are activated. Opt for fresh fruit instead of candy at the grocery store. Its unfortunate I have NO idea what role models will exist for my kids when they are born. Being a kid in the 80's was rocking solid. But being an adult was an unfortunate situation Being a kid in the 00's is horrible, cartoons all suck and they try to be clever and crass rather than actually teaching our kids anything other than naked butts are funny, and nasal high pitches voices are apparently the norm.
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Yeah, I think the cartoons and children's culture of the late 80s was better than post say 92.
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What about the Mon Chi-Chi's or the Snorkles? Pound Puppies and the Smurfs? Chips? Knight Rider? anyone? Oh, and the Dukes of Freaking Hazard. Come on People. And how can we forget the music? Twisted Sister anyone? Ratt? Motley Crew? How about Madonna, Adam Ant, Men at Work, Devo, Ton Loc, Young MC, Bowie, Dire Straits, Run DMC? Man the 80's freaking rocked.
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I was born in 1981, but I think I only qualify as a semi-80s child. I remember a lot of commercials for the stuff everyone's mentioned, but I didn't actually have access to most of it myself. My mom didn't believe in getting me toys (we couldn't afford it), and my TV-watching was severely limited by my dad's monopoly on our family's only TV - lots of news, baseball, and football, none of which I cared about. So I was greatly enamored of My Little Pony and She-Ra, etc, but I don't recall ever seeing their shows, and I definitely never had the toys (but I did have Jem rain boots once). What can I say, I was deprived.
But no one's mentioned the Gummi Bears cartoon yet! Or the Pound Puppies! I loved those!!
Edit: Okay, so Beatnix mentioned Pound Puppies while I was typing.
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quote:Originally posted by Avadaru: He-man and She-ra were my favorites. I had all the action figures.
Anyone remember Jem and the Holograms? (I think that's what it was called.)
That show had such catchy music but my mother would not let me watch it when I lived with her as she thought it was evil, but it was cool. I loved synergy. I slept through most of the 80s and hated Reagan and if I watch sitcoms and movies from then I cringe. I hate baby boom and fatal attraction and freaking two men and a baby!
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I've still got a basement full of Pound Puppies, Care Bears and My Little Ponys. When are those 80's Childred ever going to come back and get them?
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YOu could make a killing off them now. All the 80's stuff is coming back huge. my kids love the Care Bear and own about all of them and the cousins. We watch and play with Strawberry shortcake and rainbow bright toys. Ninja Turltes are coming back. It's like the producers and manufacturers realized the new stuff sucks and they needed to get back to the classics
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My mom bought me My little ponies to bribe me to go to kindergarten... you could imagine how many I ended up with. Posts: 1417 | Registered: Aug 1999
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I can't believe some of you are younger than my baby brother (three years younger than me, he was born in '86.)
How do you think those of us born in 1970 (or earlier) feel? Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
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Born in '83! Did anyone else have skating rink's where they played disco duck all the time and the limbo stick? Or those Kool-Aid like drinks in the grenade shaped plastic containers with a foil top?
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Not nearly as far as Corwin, at it wasn't so much a feature of the society but of my particular family. I remember people talking about Ninja Turtles but they were never a feature of my childhood. Rollerskating was a part of it, although a very minor part. I think I went once.
My TV was Blue Peter and Thunderbirds reruns. Other children had the '80s and '90s, although a British version , but the closest I got was Alanna The First Adventure . (oh, and Starlight Express, but since that was a flop everywhere but in London, it's not really part of the culture you are all talking about!)
In a way, I never really woke up until the millenium when it comes to popular culture, so I guess you could say I am actually a "child" of the '00s along with all the five year olds .
This means that whenever anyone shares notes on their childhood I have to sit quietly and listen.
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I think I'm going to paint my bedroom at my parents house to be My Little Ponies, I'm moving out in less than a year, and it'll seem nostalgic in a while. It's currently lavender with ugly flower border.
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quote:Or those Kool-Aid like drinks in the grenade shaped plastic containers with a foil top?
They still make those, and they're delicious.
I remember being eight years old, and at my birthday party. Everybody was playing with my He-man toys (most of the people there I'm still friends with) and my She-Ra toys were with them. My friends wanted to know why I had girl toys. An excellent question, as I had no sister. Up till then, I didn't know toys were gender-specific. After all, She-Ra came with a horse, which was way cool. She wasn't a doll or anything, she was an action figure.
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I remember Jem. God help me, I remember Jem.
I was born in 1985.
I have a Rainbow Brite quilt that my parents gave me when I was 3. I still have it. In fact, my parents video taped me opening it.
::mom holds up quilt::
3 year old nathan: WAINBOW BWIIIIIIITE!! Dad: Yes Nathan, Rainbow Brite! 3 year old nathan: WAINBOW BWIIIIIIITE! Dad: *chuckle* Yes, it sure is! 3 year old Nathan: I wish _I_ had one!
I remember She-Ra and He-Man. I remember Transformers and Ninja Turtles.
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quote:Anyone remember Jem and the Holograms? (I think that's what it was called.)
Was anyone else really annoyed by the fact that Barbie's clothes were too small to fit on that Amazon named Jem?
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hehe, im an '83 model. we had the original Atari system. ah Centepede, what a great game... for its time!
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Man this thread makes me feel old.... 1973...
I've got Jem and Rainbow Brite and Thundercats and Fraggles all on my Netflix queue. My elder daughter absolutely cannot STAND Fraggles, so the younger one and I teasingly terrorize her by singing. I almost made the theme song my ringtone....
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Material Girl Chernobyl "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Blade Runner glasnost PC's Falklands War "Just say no" "Read my lips" "Make my day" Challenger Bloom County Cosby Show Cheers C-64 Iran-Contra hip-hop The Human League Terminator Reaganomics R.E.M. Falklands War KAL 007 People Power Miami Vice Tiananmen Square VCRs IRAs karaoke
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My mom always says Challenger was scariest disaster she's ever watched on tv, it was the day my dad went back to work, when I was 6 days old, she was sitting in front of the tv nursing me and watching the take off when it happened.
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Ooh...I remember seeing that happen. I was five, and very disgruntled that Muppet Babies was being interrupted - until it happened, that is. Then I was horrified. Posts: 952 | Registered: Jun 2005
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