Safari
So was this anyone else’s elementary school “treat” that the teacher let you play with if you were good?
We had a yellow GeoSafari in elementary school and we all LOVED it, haha.
Beanie Babies
Man, this brings back a lot of memories.
Back when Beanie Babies were a huge thing, I (read: my dad) had a huge collection of them and we were super serious about collecting and preserving them and seeing if we could find any rare ones. We had hangtag protectors, we had display cases for some of them, and when McDonald’s had the Teenie Beanie Babies going on, we would go there as often as possible to get all the Teenies.
Hell, we had catalogs that detailed all the rare Beanies, mentioned pricings for different conditions and different generation tags, and talked about all the rare and different versions of some of the Beanies that had been produced. I would read that catalog every morning when I was at my dad’s house on the weekends.
I remember I always wanted a Caw, but they were like $300 back in the day and I never got one, haha.
Baby Tamagotchis?!?!?!?!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NOSTALGIA
I remember when Tamagotchis were a thing, yo. I think they came out in 1997 in the US. My friend Emily and I needed them, haha. I think either my mom or dad bought me mine from JC Penny. Mine was the “yellow w/ orange” color, Emily’s was the “purple w/ magenta” color.
We took them everywhere.
I eventually amassed at least nine digital pets during elementary school—I had a few Tamagotchis, I had this one bear Tamagotchi knockoff, I had a Dinkie Dino (my favorite), and a whole bunch of others.
Sadly, I lost the giant keychain of them on the airplane back from California. ‘Twas a sad day. I wish I still had all of those, they were great.
Ah, Childhood.
Random thoughts lead to this: Things I remember from childhood.
- Tinker Toys
- Legos
- Bob Ross
- Reading Rainbow
- Lite-Brite
- Easy Bake Oven
- Sesame Street
- Lisa Frank
- Those Barbie car things that you could drive (I ALWAYS wanted one!)
- Oregon Trail
- Geo Safari
- Spirograph
- Creepy Crawlers
- Tamagotchi
- The Neverending Story
- Baywatch
- Pete’s Dragon
- Early Edition
- Walker: Texas Ranger
- Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Goosebumps
- Ring Pops
- Yo-Yos
- The Magic Schoolbus
- Motherfucking TALESPIN
- Those pill capsules with the foam animals in them
Anyone else remember any of these? Childhood was freaking great.
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