Children of the 80's

[msjones21]

Do you remember?

~The McD.L.T.
~The 7-up Christmas promo where you would get the Santa Clause poster at the grocery store and stick a cotton ball on each corresponding bubble to make Santa's beard
~Sticker books
~Lights Alive
~The Neverending Story
~The TBS sitcom Rocky Road
~Razzles (when they were way bigger than they are now)
~When Patch was on Days of Our Lives
~Plastic charm necklaces
~Skidz
~Before the era of rollerblades we all had the groovy skates from Sears
~Sit 'n Spins
~When McDonalds gave out Gremlins movie promo read-a-long albums with Happy Meals (real vinyl records ya'll)
~Fraggle Rock
~When every single Michael Jackson video premier on MTV was an excuse for your parents or older siblings to leave work early
~Colorforms
~When Legos came in four or five basic shapes
~Mr. Sketch scented markers in art class
~Capsula
~The 800 pg. Sears Wishbook
~He Man

 

[Mrs K 2004]

~Rainbow Bright
~Punky Brewster
~Slap Bracelets
~Transformers
~Mr. T and the A Team

There's a bunch more I just can't think of them!!

 

[msjones21]

Slap bracelets were da bomb! In fifth grade I had about twenty of them. My favorite was the neon pink spandex covered one.

 

[secretdawn]

FRAGGLEROCK RULES!

Don't forget:

Rainbow Bright
Smurfs
Care Bears (they're back baby)
She-Rah (He-man was alright too i guess...)
Transformers
Cabbage Patch Kids
Jem
Barbie and the Rockers
and my favorite...tightrolling.

 

[catch22]

zoobaz pants
The California Raisins!

 

[msjones21]

~Body Glove
~bubble skirts
~You Can't Do that on Television
~County Seat Jeans

 

[SelfProtect]

AND

~Blossom (tv sitcom)

 

[SelfProtect]

~ Jordache Jeans
~ The solid Nike Tennis shoes where the nike stripe came in all different collors (Blue, Marroon, Black...)

I wasn't a Christian back then I also remember

~ The jack daniels iron on t-shirts

 

[Kokopelli]

The original atari system
The Reagan era
Original pac-man on the Atari system
Video games that consided of a block that went "bleep" and "blip"
E.T.
The Pac Man cartoon
The incident in Libya with Kadafi
The days when the Soviet Union was the "Enemy"
Berlin Wall
When airbags were only found in luxury cars
Nightrider and Airwolf

Now I feel old.

 

[Kokopelli]

A time when just about every movie staring Eddie Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg had the frequent use of the "f-bomb"
A time when Coca-cola tried to defile the product with a "new recipe"
Crystal-clear pepsi
Microwaveable milkshakes
When Folgers' X-mas Commercial (the one where the brother comes home on X-mas day and fixes a pot of Folgers) was new.
When happy meals came in a plastic container resembling a boat, train, etc.
When Michael Jackson didn't look like a Realian.

 

[Stanfi]

Gee you people are old!!

- Rubic's Cube.
- "Where's the beef?" Wendy's commercial.
- Hair Bands.
- Break Dancing.
- Intelevision
- Uno
- Parachute Pants.
- Commodore 64
- "Party Lines" on your home phone system
- 3D Glasses.
- The Dukes of Hazzard -- Can we say "Yeeeee Haaaawwww!!!"
- Miami Vice and those Don Johnson sunglasses everyone had to have.

 

[stray bullet]

looking at this topic...

monochrome computer monitors!
and speaking of color.. hypercolor t-shirts.

 

[fishstix]

-when soft drinks were available only in glass bottles, not cans (in this province anyway) even in the machines.

 

[Injured Soldier]

I answered this in the friendship court, but here I'll repeat some and share more scary memories:

Stand by Me
Fraggle Rock (there is an awesome punk version of this theme song available on the net)
MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice
Hypercolour t-shirts, and the pink tshirts that inspired companies to design a shirt with more colour.
"River Raid" on the Atari 2600
C64 1541 disk drive (I was the first person I knew to own one of these! I was probably more popular during this time of my life than I ever was again)
The C64 games I most remember: Last Ninja and Pirates.
Mikhail Gorbachev's purple birthmark on his forehead
The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher
You can't do that on Television was awesome, I forgot all about that! Thanks for the remind msjones!
Wham **shudder**
New Kids on the Block
I remember those Happy Meal containers too, thanks for the remind Kokopelli!
Mullets
Cyndi Lauper
Star Wars toys (I'm bitter about this, I always wanted to be Bobba Fett, but I also got to chose last, and everyone else wanted to be Bobba Fett)
That Star Wars spoof, Spaceballs (1987 it was)
MacGyver
The Goonies
Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue in Neighbours
The video for the Robert Palmer song "Addicted to Love"
Poison and Stryper and David Lee Roth's sad solo career
Ghostbusters
Young Einstein (a very funny yet very 80s Australian Yahoo Serious comedy that I saw for a friend's birthday in year 4)
Apple IIE's at school, with the monochrome green monitors
Labyrinth
Ferris Bueller's Day Off!!

 

[Kaylynn]

Do you remember?

~The McD.L.T.
~The 7-up Christmas promo where you would get the Santa Clause poster at the grocery store and stick a cotton ball on each corresponding bubble to make Santa's beard
~Sticker books <=Yes
~Lights Alive
~The Neverending Story <=Yes
~The TBS sitcom Rocky Road
~Razzles (when they were way bigger than they are now)
~When Patch was on Days of Our Lives
~Plastic charm necklaces
~Skidz
~Before the era of rollerblades we all had the groovy skates from Sears
~Sit 'n Spins
~When McDonalds gave out Gremlins movie promo read-a-long albums with Happy Meals (real vinyl records ya'll)
~Fraggle Rock
~When every single Michael Jackson video premier on MTV was an excuse for your parents or older siblings to leave work early
~Colorforms
~When Legos came in four or five basic shapes
~Mr. Sketch scented markers in art class <=Yes
~Capsula
~The 800 pg. Sears Wishbook
~He Man

 

[hayleyvictoria]

It's sad I found this picture of myself as a little girl (7 or 8) sitting on my bed with all my stuffed animals and dolls - pound puppy, rainbow brite, my little ponies, cabbage patch kid, and carebear - all the 80s standards all in a row!

btw - my brother said he found fraggle rock on digital cable at like 6am one morning! I told him to tape me some ...we used to watch them in French too!

...fun times!

 

[Kokopelli]

@Injured Soldier

I forgot about Gorbachev and the Ghostbusters. I remember as kid I wanted the a replica of the packs, but they didn't have them. It wasn't untill they made the cartoon, Real Ghostbusters, that they had toys of the equipment. By that time, I was told old to play with them and had discovered the wonderful world of legos and computers.

 

[Injured Soldier]

I forgot about Gorbachev and the Ghostbusters.

Good to know I'm not the only one old enough to forget stuff.

I remember as kid I wanted the a replica of the packs, but they didn't have them. It wasn't untill they made the cartoon, Real Ghostbusters, that they had toys of the equipment. By that time, I was told old to play with them......

....at least that's what you told your friend's, right? I actually have a little brother 6 and a half years younger than me, who was just the right age when Real Ghostbusters came out and he got a pack. I used to sneak into his room, put on the pack and sling the plasma gun over my shoulder, and softly whisper to myself "Who ya gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!!". That was my therapy for having to put up with high school.

Kinda makes you wonder, why was the cartoon version of Ghostbusters called the Real Ghostbusters? I saw a friend the other day who had never seen the movie too, talk about a deprived childhood!

 

[fishstix]

I didn't actually see the movies until I was older. They're not really kids' movies as there is a lot of sexual innuendo and scenes that could be pretty scary for kids.

 

[KeilCoppes]

For the sci-fi set:
- Battlestar Galactica
- Logan's Run
- The Man from Atlantis
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Gil Gerard & Erin Grey)
- Star Trek movies
- Superman movies

(plus lots of reruns of old Godzilla and Kung Fu movies I used to watch with my Dad!)

For Breetai and other anime fans...
- Robotech at 6:30 in the morning before school (Minmei must die!)
- Pole Position
- Battle of the Planets
- Spectrum