1. Rainbow Brite - this was one of my favorite dolls. I even had Starlite (the unicorn) to go with her! Do you also remember the Sprites that velcroed to her hand?
2. Shrinky Dinks - I loved these - do you remember these? You colored a larger version (generally with colored pencils) and then Mom baked them in the oven and they got smaller and hard so that they could stand up on their little pedestal. My favorite were the Smurf ones.
3. Adjustable Roller Skates - I remember having ones that had blue wheels and my brother and I would take turns putting these on (with your tennis shoes on too, of course). I guess at least it took much longer to outgrow the skates!
4. Popples - I guess we could call these the prior "pillow pets" - when you got your Popple into a ball, heck, it made a pretty good pillow! I actually had the little white one from this picture; my brother had an orange on and one that looked like a soccer ball when you balled it up!
5. Peaches N Cream Barbie - I loved Barbies in general; but I had a peach room when I was little so as you can imagine, I was pretty excited by a peaches Barbie!
6. Muppet Babies - Loved owning these dolls, but especially loved the show! Here is a baby Animal!
8. Super Mario Bros - the original! Ah, the Nintendo. Think of how advanced graphics we thought this had at the time. I remember the "warps" that you could find to make the game shorter and how teenie Mario would get when you lost your "power up mushroom" :)
What exciting toys of the 80's were your favorites?
you forgot my little pony and strawberry shortcake! I would love to get my hands on some choose your own adventure books to read with Spencer now. I actually tried to write one of those in middle school. I love this post! Thanks for bringing back memories
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