80s Kids Will Love This Walk Down Memory Lane Because You're About To Remember These 55 Forgotten Things Marketed To Children Back Then
Recollections of the '80s continue to live on even as the world becomes more advanced.
The 1980s had a way of making even the most ordinary things feel unforgettable. For kids growing up then, the decade was packed with toys, snacks, TV shows, and ads that somehow stuck in your head for life.
This roundup taps straight into that nostalgia, from school supplies and cereal mascots to fast-food giveaways and Saturday morning favorites. If you were a kid in the '80s, chances are at least a few of these will hit instantly.
Get ready for a serious walk down memory lane.
1. Reruns of Paddington
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4. These Chuck E. Cheese hats
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5. Cabbage Patch Kids–themed cardboard puzzles
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6. Potato Head Kids
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7. The random Wizard of Oz book
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8. Cabbage Patch Kids beauty products
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The 'This is your brain on drugs' and the 'I learned it from watching you!'
That era knew how to make a slogan stick.
10. This Hanna-Barbera logo
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11. This exact Pyrex casserole dish
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12. The Fisher-Price skates
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13. James and the Giant Peach with this soothing, minimalist cover
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14. The Cynthia Blair books that all had food-related titles
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15. Toys 'R' Us signs that looked like this
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16. Flintstones Vitamins' infectious 'We are Flintstones kids, 10 million strong and growing' jingle
Some jingles never really left.
17. Those plastic smock and face mask Halloween costumes
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18. Fireball Island, which was the most excitingly designed board game ever
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19. This Crock-Pot with flowers that every mom owned
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20. And the top of Toys 'R' Us's shelves being stocked with even more toys
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21. Batman cereal
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22. That one Garfield sitting-down stuffed animal
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23. These McDonald's glasses
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24. The Disney Channel Magazine
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25. Pricey 1-900 numbers that let you talk to your favorite cartoon characters
Kids really did pay to hear cartoon voices back then.
And if you’re thinking picture-day awkwardness, this is like those school photos where everyone hit an awkward phase.
26. The delightful What Do Smurfs Do All Day?
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27. Smurf Chef Boyardee pasta
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28. The Fisher-Price cash register
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29. The Mac Tonight Happy Meal toys
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30. TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes
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31. The Fisher-Price record player
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32. Trapper Keepers
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33. Nickelodeon's Mr. Wizard's World
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34. The 'Little Professor' calculator
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35. The We Are the World cover that featured a group photo of all the celebs who sang on the title track
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36. The traumatizing Webster episode where he accidentally burned down his family's apartment
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37. These weird flashes that you needed to put on the camera
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38. Cinnamon Toast Crunch having three bakers instead of just the one on the right
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39. Shrinky Dinks
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40. McGruff the Crime Dog PSAs
Those public service spots were impossible to ignore.
41. General Foods International Coffee
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42. Morris the Cat from the 9Lives cat food commercials
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43. These pencil sharpeners
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44. Toy china tea sets that were made out of real porcelain
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45. ABC's claymation 'After These Messages' intros and outros
Commercial breaks had their own little charm.
46. These Mr. Coffee makers
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47. Snow and ski gloves that were always a blend of garish colors
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48. Character-themed picture refills for your Lite-Brite
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49. Large floppy disks that were actually floppy and that you could not touch the center hole of
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50. Baskin-Robbins baseball helmet sundaes
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51. The Back to the Future Part II futuristic sunglasses
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52. Madballs, which seriously hurt if you got hit by one
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53. Scratch-and-sniff stickers
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54. The cube that Evie used to talk to her dad, Troy, on Out of This World
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55. The oh-so-magical intro to the Disney Sunday Movie
That ending feels like pure Saturday night nostalgia.
Obviously, our lifestyle today is not the same as it was during the 1980s, with fashion sense being an exception. But we have lists like this one, which take us back to the days of reminiscing about the good old times.
Did you recall having anything listed in the collection above? Leave your replies in the comments below.
What a time capsule.
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