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| Smurfs. While this show seemed perfectly reasonable as a 4 year old, once I grew a few more brain cells I began to realize the disparity between it and anything resembling real life (the whole one girl to ninety-nine men was just the tip of the iceberg). But I continued to faithfully watch for more years that I�ll admit to�. maybe I was attracted to the appeal of a world were everyone had their own special role in life and things were always �smurfy�. Or maybe I just wanted to live in a mushroom� |
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| Operation never lasted long in our house. Immediately upon opening we would lose 62 percent of the pieces, forcing us to improvise with Legos and toothpicks. After 17 minutes the batteries would die (never to be replaced) and soon the game itself would become a faint memory on a closet floor, the few remaining parts (including the nose, which seemed to have a magical way of unscrewing itself) banished to the infamous �Toy Graveyard*�. |
| * 4 or 5 Lite Brite bulbs (which always confused us as we didn�t HAVE a Lite Brite) * The �spare ribs� and �bread basket� from the above mentioned �Operation� * Lego body parts; customarily 3 heads, 4 assorted arms, and 1 lonely hand. * 458 mismatched Barbie shoes * One smashed Hot Wheel * Strawberry Shortcake�s hat * One Garbage Pail Kid trading card * 2 die * 14 of those little peg people from �Life�. * That one white plastic cow that we NEVER played with but didn�t get rid of simply because it had always been around. |
| *Any box where all small parts go to die. Ours was a cigar box that had the lid pushed in so far that you had to perform several minutes of surgery on it with a butter knife to get it open. Once opened it usually contained the following: |
| Transformers---More Than Meets The Eye! Transformers were COOL, and Optimus Prime was the coolest of them all. |
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| �By the power of Greyskull! I have the power!� Sitting in front of the t.v. eating Life and wearing my footie pajamas; I felt a thrill each time at those words. |
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| He-Man and Battlecat |
| Cameo by She-Ra! |
| Click here to visit a fun He-Man/She-ra site |
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| This was my favorite, and the one I still have...somewhere... |
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| A little sampling of the toys I loved as a kid..... |
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| Gotta respect the Fisher Price A-Frame! |
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| Just good ol' boys... |
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| I wanted an Etch-A-Sketch Animator SO BAD one Christmas....I never did get it. |
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| I used to have a set of these Care Bears. I always kinda wondered about the "grip" hands...were they suppoed to hold something? Was I missing part of the toy? |
| The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure series rocked! I remember this one (I don't think I made the best choices...). I think most of these are out of print now, but darn it, I want another chance! |